linked to this. this entire thing started snowballing. i want to get to don lemon because, don, we re trying so hard to piece together exactly who these men were and what kinds of people they were. i knew we had an opportunity to speak to another suspect. actually, my photojournalist who was with me got to speak to them. also gave us other details about the search that is going on right now. you can probably hear the helicopter that s going overhead in orbit around us. there s still a very heavy police presence and they appear to be honing in on this triangular area, this rectangular area where we are. again, we don t want to give away too much information about that. but, listen, we told you earlier about tamerlan and his friend we spoke to who calls him sar because of tsarnaev. they re shortly contracted the last name to make it more americanized.
boy. he expected them to come here on holidays. according to ap they spoke to the father that the younger son who is on the run, police may be honing on now in watertown, massachusetts may have been a medical student in the united states. his father said he was expecting him to come home on the holidays. one other thing i would like to note after all the hours of coverage this morning, much was made of the first initial shots we re seeing on the screen of the base ball caps on the suspected terrorists now how they were trying to americanize themselves. now they have been up to the country for ten years they were technically americanized. i think much discussion in the coming days, what will we call these terrorists? will we call them domestic terrorists? or will we still call them foreign terrorists? martha? martha: good point. as you just mentioned, his father who is in, in russia, is now talking about his
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we ve all failed him because nothing has happened to get his children back. reporter: it is an international nightmare that began with a most american of love stories. in 1995 michael shannon was a computer specialist in chicago when his best friend invited him to a company softball game. the company was the engineering giant bechtel, and on that softball field he met a bechtel employee, nermeen khalifa, and fell in love. she was in your eyes american. americanized. yeah. i didn t find out until three months after we were dating that her father was born in cairo. reporter: her egyptian father was an extremely wealthy and powerful businessman who made sure his daughters, including nermeen, were born u.s. citizens. it wasn t long before michael shannon and nermeen khalifa were married. and michael found out just how wealthy the khalifa family was. for a while was it a good
reporter: it is an international nightmare that began with a most american of love stories. in 1995 michael shannon was a computer specialist in chicago when his best friend invited him to a company softball game. the company was the engineering giant bechtel, and on that softball field he met a bechtel employee, nermeen khalifa, and fell in love. she was in your eyes american. americanized. yeah. i didn t find out until three months after we were dating that her father was born in cairo. reporter: her egyptian father was an extremely wealthy and powerful businessman who made sure his daughters, including nermeen, were born u.s. citizens. it wasn t long before michael shannon and nermeen khalifa were married. and michael found out just how wealthy the khalifa family was. for a while was it a good marriage? fun?