they acted on their own to defend islam from attack. at least those are the initial indications. cnn has learned that marathon bombing suspect dzhokhar tsarnaev is now communicating with investigators. a government official tells our jake tapper that tsarnaev has told law enforcement that his older brother tamerlan was the driving force behind last monday s attack. he also said that no foreign terror groups were involved and he indicated that their motivation was to defend islam. tsarnaev wounded and unable to talk in a hospital bed, he is charged with using a weapon of mass destruction and malicious destruction of property. those are counts that could bring him the death penalty. meantime this morning, there is some good news. residents and people who work on boylston street which is just behind me right there, those people who live and work there, they will be allowed back in today. it could be a few more days or at least a day before the general public is allowed to go back, or that
indications, and if trained specialists from the fbi were not able to see anything, i m, you know, i m sure you can understand how people who are merely acquainted with these individuals, seeing them sporadically at prayers, would not see, you know, anything of this nature, as well. reporter: mosque officials say dzhokhar tsarnaev never came to the mosque without his older brother. friends and acquaintances tell cnn tamerlan tsarnaev was the leader between the two brothers. one friend saying dzhokhar was, quote, definitely the follower in this situation. john pinto co-owns a brazilian restaurant in the tsarnaev s neighborhood. in recent months he saw the brothers come in. sometimes sitting down. sometimes getting chicken and lamb for take-out. pinto says tamerlan tsarnaev always walked in front of his younger brother, swaggering, looking serious and tough. one of the commands. like he s say okay, let s go, we
ralizeraliz radicalized. if trained fbi cannot see anything. you can understand how people merely acquainted with these individuals seeing them sporadically at prayers, would not see anything of this nature as well. reporter: mosque officials said dzhokhar never came to the most without his older brother. he said tamerlan was the leader, and saying dzhokhar was the follower. john owns a restaurant in the cz tsarnaev restaurant. he said tamerlan always walked in front of his brother, swaggering, looking tough. he s like the one that s in command. he s like, let s go, we do this, we do this, whatever.
and with that: you re history. instead of looking behind. delta is looking beyond. 80 thousand of us investing billions. in everything from the best experiences below. to the finest comforts above. we re not simply saluting history. we re making it. welcome back to early start, fun, live from boston this morning. we re all waking up to new details in the investigation into alleged boston bomber dzhokhar tsarnaev. from the hospital he conveyed that his older brother, tamerlan is the mastermind, now we re learning signs that tamerlan might have become radicalized.
reporter: january 18, friday play prayers at the mosque in cambridge, a mosque leader is giving a service, extolling the virtues of the prophet muhammad and martin luther king. according to witnesses, it was too much for tamerlan. some people say you cannot make a compare between a prophet and nonmuslim. some people referred to the person giving the sermon as a hypocrite. the disruption was clear sky lags of mosque etiquette. bee people explained that to tamerlan tsarnaev holding him to back off. it was the second time he objected to something said at a sermon. we pressed him. were there any red flags that tamerlan tsarnaev had-cad