they used a thermal imaging camera. the crowd chanting boston, boston, walking down the street. moving through the neighborhood, using a bullhorn. a lot of people have a lot of pent-up fear, anger, defiance, and pride. we are seeing that tonight and no doubt will see that all throughout the night here in a lot of different communities in boston. the police saying he was bleeding, most likely they say from the shoot-out last night. again, blood was seen on the boat, by a local, a neighbor, who quickly alerted law enforcement. at 8:40 eastern, applause on the scene as we heard moments ago. and moments later, this tweet from the boston police department, suspect in custody. officers sweeping the area. stand by for further info. president obama will speak a minute or so from now. the suspect is taken alive, now in the hospital in serious condition. the exact meaning of that unclear. let s go to jessica yellin who
ambulance being led up to beth israel by about ten motorcycle officers. so there was a caravan of cars and motorcycles leading an ambulance into the area around beth israel. now of course we have been told the suspect has been brought to beth israel, to the hospital here, and there is a tremendous police presence here right now. as you re talking, we can show that picture we showed earlier of the suspect in the back of an ambulance. again, not a very clear picture. but it is the picture that we have of the suspect actually, that s the suspect being apprehended, laying face up on the ground as law enforcement secures the suspect. you see some of his stomach there. there s also a shot later of that s the shot of them taking him to the ambulance. we don t have any information on the level of his condition. we ve been told it was serious. the injuries we believe sustained, i talked to the police commissioner in boston a short time ago. he believes those injuries were
collect intelligence, and to protect our citizens. we will determine what happened. we will investigate any associations that these terrorists may have had. and we ll continue to do whatever we have to do to keep our people safe. one thing we do know is that whatever hateful agenda drove these men to such heinous acts will not, cannot prevail. whatever they thought they could ultimately achieve, they ve already failed. they failed because the people of boston refused to be intimidated. they failed because as americans, we refuse to be terrorized. they failed because we will not waiver from the character and the compassion and the values that define us as a country. nor will we break the bonds that hold us together as americans. that american spirit includes staying true to the unity and diversity that makes us strong
commissioner. you can account at this point for the suspect s whereabouts from the time of the shoot-out in the early morning hours in watertown in which his brother was killed to how he ended up in the boat at this point? do you know the steps along the way at this point? it s hard to tell exactly where he went. we found some blood in a place where he might have spent time in the middle of the night. at some point he made his way about a half mile, maybe little farther, to the location of the boat. was just outside our perimeter. so it was not searched during the search. he holed up there until he was discovered. and at this point, in terms of the involvement of anybody else either in the planning of the bombing, subsequent to after the bombing, do you have any information or anything you can say of whether you feel these two acted alone? that s an ongoing investigation that s being led by the fbi. i can t comment on that. but i did say today that i feel that the community of bo
think back to a number of somali youth who ended up going to somalia. if memory serves me, the first suicide bombing in somalia several years ago was actually an american. yeah. i mean, i think, you know, the the kind of conventional wisdom is that americans would never engage in suicide operations, as you point out, anderson. there s now been three cases of american committing suicide in somalia. once you have americans committing suicide overseas in a way kind of a big barrier is breached. we saw british citizens conduct suicide operations overseas, and then we saw them attack in london in 2005. and i think one of the questions for investigators here is the extent to which these two brothers went into this knowing that they would die. you know, in a way, they were able to extend this series of attacks by not conducting a conventional suicide operation. in a sense like the mumbai attacks where the attackers went in knowing that eventually they would die. but spreading out the whol