there are questions about what russell knew. reporter: immediately after the bombings, catherine russell slipped from public view, disappearing with her small child, into the suburban rhode island home of her parents. appearing only when summoned for a traffic ticket. she was living as a ghost, rarely seen and never heard. she s trying to get her life back together and trying to remain out of public view. she s trying to figure out who she is and how to raise a daughter whose father was a mass murderer. and that s got to be a challenging task for her and her family. reporter: there was always the lingering question, too, about what she knew about her husband and brother-in-law s plot to plant pressure cooker bombs at the boston marathons. bombs investigators believe were at least partially made on the kitchen table of the apartment she shared with tamerlin tsarnaev. catherine russell has never been
public view. she s trying to figure out who she is and figure out how to raise a daughter whose father was a mass murderer. and that s got to be a challenging task for her and her family. reporter: there was always the lingering question, too, of what she did know about her husband and brother-in-law s alleged plot to plant pressure cooker bombs at the boston marathon, bombs investigators believe were at least partially made on the kitchen table of the tiny apartment she shared with tamerlan tsarnaev. katherine russell has never been charged in connection with the bombings. federal prosecutors will not say if russell is a suspect, a witness or simply a noninvolved widow. fo former federal prosecutor, david zlotnik says regardless of what she did or did not know, it is smart for russell to remain silent. unless she aided and abetted that is, she went out and purchased some item, knowing he might use it to create a bomb or help him in some way in scoping out the marathon, gave
or just go to e-trade and save it. boom. we have new pictures and new details this hour about the devices that were detonated in yesterday s attack at the boston marathon. we did not have them at the top of the hour, but we have them now. this is what is left from one of the bombs investigators recovered. according to a homeland security document, definitively one of the bombs consisted of a pressure cooker concealed in a backpack. here is a picture of what may be the backpack. they are saying while the second device was housed in a metal container, there s insufficient
the bombs investigators recovered. according to a homeland security document, definitively one of the bombs consisted of a pressure cooker concealed in a backpack. here is a picture of what may be the backpack. they are saying while the second device was housed in a metal container, there s insufficient evidence to determine if it was also a pressure cooker. the fusing system for the two devices are unknown at this time. this also appears unclear if what you are looking at in this picture is the pressure cooker device as it seems or maybe it s the we re not quite sure it was a pressure cooker device, but this is what they are showing us of what is left over from the bombs. we learned over the last hour, they each contained tiny nails. nails that are smaller than the ones you would use to hang a picture, more like brads or fine
we have new pictures and new details this hour about the devices that were detonated in yesterday s attack at the boston marathon. we did not have them at the top of the hour, but we have them now. this is what is left from one of the bombs investigators recovered. according to a homeland security document, definitively one of the bombs consisted of a pressure cooker concealed in a backpack. here is a picture of what may be the backpack. they are saying while the second device was housed in a metal container, there s insufficient evidence to determine if it was also a pressure cooker. the fusing system for the two devices are unknown at this time. this also appears unclear if what you are looking at in this picture is the pressure cooker device as it seems or maybe it s the we re not quite sure it was