appeared to be the pipe bomb, the wires and a plastic food storage container containing nails. so the two law enforcement officers immediately moved the crowd down the hill, and as they were getting the crowd out of the way and further down below, the device detonated, killing one woman, and then later a journalist had a heart attack running to the scene. but the fact that a trained two trained bomb techs actually saw a look at that device under the lid of the knapsack and immediately went to work to get the people out of harm s way gave them a great indication of how it was set up, how it was put together even before it exploded. so that was huge. and the fbi was able to trace later, but it took months to track down the roofing nails that were used because they were able to determine what company made those nails, and then because of a unique glitch in the company s equipment, there was a batch made that had a slight deformity that made that
nails. so the two law enforcement officers immediately moved the crowd down the hill, and as they were getting the crowd out of the way and further down below, the device detonated, killing one woman, and then later a journalist had a heart attack running to the scene. but the fact that a trained two trained bomb techs actually saw a look at that device under the lid of the knapsack and immediately went to work to get the people out of harm s way gave them a great indication of how it was set up, how it was put together even before it exploded. so that was huge. and the fbi was able to trace later, but it took months to track down the roofing nails that were used because they were able to determine what company made those nails, and then because of a unique glitch in the company s equipment, there was a batch made that had a slight deformity that made that unique. they were able to match those nails to a particular batch sold
interest who has been sending letters on a regular basis to the senate. that is all we know about that situation now. jenna: is there any indication at all that this is connected, the ricin letters, to what happened in boston? no. but you raise a good point. we, are the united state of america. we have some of the best law enforcement officers and professionals who provide security. and we have to make sure that we continue to do our jobs every day and that this does not affect what we re doing or be, we need to be concerned. we need to make sure we protect lives. we have to provide security but let our professionals do the job that is extremely important we continue on with our lives. we have a lot to do over here in congress right now. jenna: we know that. you guys are certainly busy. congressman, i would like to ask you a little bit what you learned about the boston terror attack. sure. jenna: we had a detective, a former detective on our show earlier today, a former bomb techs,
are toyed to a particular group. jenna: those are questions we have yet to have answers too. maybe when the president steps up to the microphone in a minute or so we might get a little more information. the police commissioner in boston is calling this a the most complex crime scene we ve ever seen in the history of our department. the atf is bringing in explosive specialists. what will be the specific roll of the atf in this investigation? welshing the atf and fbi principle plea along with the state police and likely boston police bomb techs as well, the fbi and the atf developed a wealth of expertise during the war in iraq. almost every ied that they can recover component parts from were brought back and analyzed by fbi and atf to determine how the devices were manufactured, what type of fingerprints signatures would be on those that could identify the bomb makers. they ll try to identify exactly the type of device and see whether or not there is a signature to that tee vice that w
there. now part of that the defunctry part of that is i m not confident about what the extended capabilities are here, how many other devices there could be. i don t know what you ve reported so far, i ve missed some of it. two of the bombs that went off they believe were detonated by, let s say, the bad guys. a third explosion that went off was detonated by bomb techs, they found another device, they exploded it themselves. we re hearing there may be a fourth device that they are working on dismantling that s developing information. we do hear that the death toll is rising and expected to do so. one of the things that we got as an indication from this explosion, the white smoke. that is usually an indication of a more crude device, nonplastic explosives. it is a distinction of a difference in that plastic zmroesives have much higher blast capabilities, can take people out in a much bigger range. these white smoke bombs, more