boston marathon bombings was killed in a shootout with a massachusetts transit police at about 6:45 this morning, boston time authorities identified the remaining suspect as 19-year-old, dzhokhar tsarnaev, a chechen immigrant and student who has been attending boston area schools for the past few years. right now we re awaiting an update from the massachusetts state troopers and the boston police department. we ve been waiting for that for nearly an hour now. as soon as that breaks we ll bring it back to watertown, massachusetts. for the time-being we want to go back to washington, d.c. bret baier is standing by. we know these two suspects have been in and around the boston area for the last several years according to the latest reports but we know anything where they have traveled during that time? jenna, that s a great question. that is something that the fbi is looking at very closely. we confirmed very early this morning. that dzhokhar tsarnaev, the man you re looking at there, s
dzhokhar tsarnaev with the gray hoodie. they identified him, they knew they were onto the guy because he was there at the 711. then as the pursuit took place, some of the police officers made a visual confirmation. they said it was both dzhokhar tsarnaev and his brother tamerlan, so they knew they were in hot pursuit at that point. then, finally, after tamerlan was pronounced dead they made a visual confirmation that that indeed was the black hat, the individual previously known as suspect number one, the name now identified as tamerlan tsarnaev, his brother previously known as suspect number two is still at large. there should be one other point that i got from dave with the state police that should be relayed. we talk about the fact that it s still a volatile situation with the unexploded bombs that are in the street in watertown behind me. there is a reason that the bombs are still there, still volatile, still unexploded, the eod teams
like any other community there are thai coffee shops and a really diverse community that is mixed in. very urban at the same time there are businesses and homes all mixed in in one community. you don t necessarily get a truly suburban feel there is a very urban feel here in watertown. the cambridge area of course that is where harvard is, that s where possibly the suspects have this strong tie to the cambridge area. a well-known college community as well. austin brighton is a neighborhood where there are a tremendous amount of young people. a lot of kids graduate from colleges in massachusetts and are staying here to get their first jobs, that is a young part of town, an area where you might get your first apartment after graduating from school. a the hro of great restaurants and a lot of great restaurants and a great place for 20-somethings to congregate that neighborhood. over the river is newton, one of the wealth year communities in boston, one of the most expensive high schools
the teen world watching right now we need more time. you re doing great, he tells the community, but we need more time. we need you to stay indoors as we continue this investigation. one of the things i want to mention as well as we continue our coverage on fox is that the city of boston and some of the surrounding areas that include watertown and cambridge and the like have been on a virtual lockdown. there are people on the streets as our bill hemmer has reported to us, especially in the downtown areas, but in many areas like watertown the streets are quiet as the public is listening to police telling them to stay inside. one other thing we should mention there has been flight restrictions over this area, over this community, over boston this morning and we just learned that amtrak is suspending all service between new york and boston indefinitely right now. so a great deal of precaution being us used, jon, right now as basically the latest and greatest information is that we
tsarnaev immigrants from chechnya, as of this moment tamerlan is dead. the hunt goes on for his brother. incredible police presence on the streets of watertown, massachusetts. more in just a moment. i don t like to golf.