understanding their responsibility to make this is a safer nation. thank you so much. senator dick durbin, good to have you on. the president says law enforcement didn t drop the ball on the boston terror investigation. we will ask a senior member of the homeland security committee. peter king is next. our visionary cloud infrastructure, and dedicated support, free you to focus on what matters. centurylink. your link to what s next.
the latest developments in the boston terror investigation. the death certificate for suspect tamerlan tsarnaev says he died of gunshot wounds and blunt trauma to the head and torso. that s according to the owner of the funeral home where tsarnaev s body is being held. a search is under way for a burial site for tsarnaev. so far no cemetery in the area has provided one. last hour i spoke to the funeral homeowner who is actually still holding the body. basically most of them have declined to do this i think basically for some fear of reprisal. as i have told someone, at the immediate moment you may feel that but later on when things calm down, people are going to resent you because you didn t do it. we re having a problem locating a burial spot. we ll find something on monday. i said if i have to go to higher authorities, this is a bad situation. my view is that we have to do
transfer weapons to hezbollah or other terrorist groups. an israeli defense official tells cnn, quote, we will do whatever is necessary to stop the transfer of weapons from syria to terrorist organizations. i m randi kaye, reporting from boston, thanks so much for watching this morning. cnn newsroom continues with fredricka whitfield. good morning, everyone. families are desperately trying to get away from a raging wildfire in california. firefighters have been working around the clock but there could be some relief today. and new evidence is surfacing in the boston terror investigation. details straight ahead on that. plus, there s a growing dilemma about where to bury suspect tamerlan tsarnaev s body. and if you thought growing marijuana was an easy way to make money, think again. we ll have more on the difficult science of cultivating pot later on in this hour. all right. we begin in california where people forced out of their homes are nervously watching a raging
not glue yet. pony stark. and teabiscuit. that s it for the lead. we now turn you over to wolf blitzer in the situation room. happening now, big flames are racing dangerously close to thousands of california homes. we ll get a live update from the fire zone. plus, new evidence that the bombs set off in boston were truly homemade. and after boston, the kentucky derby fans will face new limits when they back into churchill downs tomorrow. wolf blitzer is off today. i m jim acosta. you re in the situation room. we begin with a new discovery in the boston terror investigation. authorities now appear to have evidence that the bombs were made at tamerlan tsarnaev s apartment where he lived with his wife and young child.
with water because there is simply so much smoke. but you see these mobile homes on fire. there you get a better shot right there of what s going on. take a look at this. dramatic wildfires out of control. they got to do something to contain these fires because they re increasingly getting closer and closer to other residential areas as well. look at the smoke, look at the flames. don t see a whole lot of effort underway to deal with that because it s so dangerous to get in. smoke so intense right now. we ll continue to update you on what s going on with the wildfires out in california. let s get you up to speed on the boston terror investigation. the fbi has recovered the laptop that the bombing suspect, dzhokhar tsarnaev, left in his dorm room. it s not clear how or when the investigators got it. three of dzhokhar s college buddies, they are accused of removing that laptop from the suspect s room along with a backpack and vaseline. the 19-year-olds were arrested