attack in syria. watch this. kids are dying and you re to blame. kids are dying and you re the oblame. dozens of protesters observed a moment of silence for the innocent victims. it is believed that bashar al assad s regime launched a poisonous gas attack while many were sleeping. reports vary, with some saying more than 1,300 people are killed. you have to see the pictures in fact, don t see the pictures. but just know many of them were children. remember the red line put down by the president a year ago last summer and at least two times now syria has crossed it. it happened at the same time that a team was there to investigate a previous attack site. al gore comparing critics of global warming to racists. the sit down interview with the washington post, gore was asked why he s optimistic his claims will be accepted as fact.
street journal. it reports federal prosecutors and the fbi are look into the firm u.s. investigation services cut corners in clearing snowden for hire. the government wants travelers to keep their eyes and ears open this weekend. an uptick in chatter indicates that al qaeda is up to something. in response to the terror threat, the obama administration is shutting two embassies and consulates tomorrow. and it s a really big area. cnn s tom foreman is looking at the region that s covered. reporter: victor, brianna, just look at this map, and you can see what the problem is. there s just so much territory to talk about, places like algeria, libya, sudan, not south sudan, even though we ve highlighted here. all of this area where maybe an attack may come. how do you guard so much with potential targets? what about a place like yemen? this is a likely target because intelligence chatter has heard it talked about as a potential attack site. there have been u.s. drone strikes. all of t
reporter: that medal, the collier medal, will be given to a student every year for someone who displays the same dedication of values as sean collier did. eric, thank you very much. today the area around the attack site opened to the public. traffic resumed along boston s boylston street right where the bombs went off near the finish line. it s far from business as usual. shops are boarded up, windows blown out. a handful of roses sits at the first bomb site where crews repaired the broken concrete and people continue to wander by and pay respects today. one of our producers said everybody wants to be on boylston street today. both parents of the two bombing suspects plan to travel to the united states from russia soon. that s what the father tells us. now we re learning cops could arrest the mother if she sets foot on u.s. soil. no relief in sight for the rain
us to the press conference when that occurs from the fbi. but, in the meantime. let s bring in chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge with details on the federal investigation into the boston terror attack catherine. one of the new elements we had today through an investigative source is that you have got the video. you have got the still images and there is this third track through social media what he we were told is is that a radius of about a mile was put down over the attack site and it essentially vacuums up all the social media messages facebook, twitter, instagram,f that 24 hours before and then 24 hours after the attack and 30,000 messages were accumulated. the messages that met melt a certain investigating tore criteria. messes that seemed out of place or seemed to be coded in some way were then further annualized. and that this was providing new leads as well for the fbi. that s one of the interesting developments today in terms of the sort
to catherine to what people in washington are staying about what s going on in boston or what we might or might not hear out of fbi officials shortly. catherine? today we heard from both the secretary of homeland security, janet napolitano, and attorney general eric holder. neither provided details on the case except to say every federal resource available is being given to boston as it is requested. we have new information on the kind of evidence being analyzed. have two tracks of the video and the still images but fox news is told there s a third track having to do with social media. basically a one-mile radius was put of the attack site 24 hours before and 24 hours afterward, and all the social media, facebook, twitter, instagram, is sucked up and analyzed. fox news said there were some