0 where the father of these two suspects lives, that is where they come from and we have news this morning an exclusive interview with the father of these two men, cnn s nick payton walsh caught up with anzor tsarnaev. tell us about the reaction of the father of the two suspects? he has been driving occasionally past his house behind me, two occasions, he stopped, a woman got out of his car, first questioned the answer is obscured on microphone i asked him if he thought his sons were involved in boston, his response was never, ever. let s hear what else he had to say. so during that conversation, he made it clear to me that he will be going to the united states very soon. he also said that he had a meeting with russian special services. he made it absolutely clear he was in pain, defiantly disbelief in his son s role in anything to do with the boston attacks and clearly was very frustrated, very angry at the attention he was facing. let s hear exactly what it was he had to say. i m w
0 that s all we have time for right now. i m gloria borger. thanks for joining us. the news continues next right here on cnn. captions by vitac www.vitac.com i m don lemon, live in boston. live pictures from a city that is begik to recover from a week of tragedy and being under a virtual lockdown. residents and toir riss finally venturing out bringing the vibrant city back to life. this is happening even though we are reminded of the tragic events. the vigil is set to begin for a police officer killed in the line of duty. we re going to take you there live. this is the boat where the 19-year-old hid from officers during a day long manhunt. investigators are on the scene, they re scouring it for evidence. i have so much the tell you about i almost don t know where to begin tonight. new details, a lot of them you ll only see on cnn. they re coming in from everyone this ordeal unfolded, from watertown, from boston, from the college campus ap and from the police who zeroed in and
0 much. thank you all for starting your morning with us. that s right, we have a lot more news, much more ahead on cnn saturday morning which starts right now. good morning, everyone i m john berman live in boston. and i m christine romans. cnn s special coverage of the boston marathon bombing continues now. there s been jubilation and relief over the arrest of the suspect and maybe a little giddiness left over from last night. [ cheers and applause ] look at that, boston erupts in celebration after police capture 19-year-old dzhokhar tsarnaev. is he in the hospital this morning. it shows the bloodied teen in a boat where he d likely been hiding for hours. he was wounded friday morning in a shoot-out with police that killed his brother and he may have been hit in last night s shoot-out. tsarnaev refused to surrender until the last volley of gunfire. we have movement in the boat. he just sat up. he is moving, he s flailing about. the suspect now hospitalized at boston s
chasing the police into this neighborhood where, where they finally caught this suspect. so what you re seeing now is, basically all of these officers kind of surrounding this area and, and later engaging the suspect. and so we were watching from a vantage point in the parking lot. but prior to that you can see that we were able to get as close as we could to the crime scene when the authorities told us that we were probably going to get hurt. due to the fact that there were some shots fired and that we were too close to the gunfire. you get a feel of how close you are. can you take us through what you saw moments after he was arrested? they would never confirm he was arrested. even though you could hear it on the scanner. we saw police kind of shaking hands. high fiving, there was some applause up on the hill. at that point we knew it was over. so that was, and now, everybody is leaving this area. it s just a mass exdouse of fbi agents, police cars, police officers and e
tsarnaev. we ll get the news conference shortly. we re also standing by to speak with the father of these two suspects. he is in dagestan right now. that s part of russia. we hope to connect with him on the phone. we ve had some problems, technical problems. we hope to speak with the father anzor tsarnaev shortly. luis vasquez knew both of the suspects going back to high school. he posted a local blog and he says they never showed any sign either one of them of wanting to hurt anyone. luis is here with us right now. thanks very much. tell us about these two brothers. give us first of all the nature of your relationship that you had over the years with them. i knew the older brother just from the passing. my wife was a good friend of his sister s, so just through there, through him being a protective big brother i got to know him. really got to personalize with him in a way many people didn t get to. what was he like.