i think i said where did you get a pipe bomb from. and he said cyrus. reporter: and cyrus is the firefighter he claimed was his brother but is actually just a friend. right. he said cyrus had some sort of federal license, he was allowed to have pyrotechnical equipment, gunpowder, these sort of things, and cyrus had given him this to hold. reporter: but why did he tell you about the pipe bomb? i don t know why he would approach me with that. reporter: you must have thought that was very strange. i was shocked and thought it was very strange. reporter: now the man thought to be a hero is behind bars and a neighborhood wonders what it will learn next. gary tuchman, cnn, west, texas. it is such a bizarre story. all of us who spent time with bryce are really kind of just shocked by it. i should point out in conversations i had with him after we got off the air, he did tell me that cyrus reed was not his actual biological brother but they were so close, he considered him hi
which abree eks to a month ago, and this gentleman says that tamerlan tsarnaev visited with him maybe three times over the past couple of years. so it was more than one visit here, we know. the conversations were very innocuous and they never discussed chechnya, never discussed any radicalized feelings about islam or anything like that. again, establishing no connection between the man who lives here and the boston marathon bombings at this point. interesting. he s a former chechen rebel, they met at the chechen society yet he says they didn t talk about chechnya. i don t know. we ll see what s on the computer i guess. let s bring in susan candiotti in boston. what do we know about this note dzhokhar tsarnaev allegedly scrawled inside the boat where he was found during the watertown manhunt? it was first broken by john miller this morning on cbs. reporter: hi, anderson. yes, apparently he thought he was going to die when he wrote this note. remember, we know that he was weak from a
was on your business card? it s sad. you ve seen it. he s married. he is. he s taken. but you know, he tenderly squeezed my arm at the end of that interview. oh, my god. really. yes. yes. really. tenderly squeezed your arm. tenderly. do you know what that looks like? something like this. know what he was doing? move out of my way, i got to go, thanks, bye. speaking of which, bye. all right. bye. oh, isha. serious stuff ahead. [ man ] on december 17, 1903, the wright brothers became the first in flight. [ goodall ] i think the most amazing thing
they can to help you. down by the bakery, they were refusing to take any money. they re giving away food. over at the drugstore, stopping in there earlier, the pharmacy collecting clothes for people. people are cooking a barbecue right across the street from us right now. it s kind of amazing spirit. it is. welcome to west. that s what i ll tell you. reed spoke at a memorial service for the victims in west, texas. what he said at that memorial is also under scrutiny tonight as are a lot of the things about bryce reed. gary tuchman now reports. reporter: when president obama came to west, texas for a memorial service after the fertilizer plant explosion, bryce reed gave an emotional speech. reed, an ems worker for the town of west, a man many regarded as a first responder hero that night, talked about one of the volunteer firefighters killed. cyrus reed. i would like you all to learn from my brother. don t be afraid to hurt but even in the face of incredible adversity, i dare
reporter: a big problem, though. although they shared a last name, cyrus reed was not bryce reed s brother. before that, bryce reed talked live with anderson on ac 360. your house is gone. yeah. i mean, you know, the pressure from the blast actually blew the doors off the hinges. my daughter s room has glass fragments imbedded in the wall. it s gone. reporter: after anderson talked to bryce reed, i spent some time with him, too. one of the things he told me, he reiterated that his house was gone. well, this is his house. back then, the doors were damaged, some of the windows were blown out, but this house was never gone. reed also told us there was more to the explosion than meets the eye. he said he personally witnessed dozens of dead bodies, even though 14 people died. and he added for good measure that pope francis called the fire station to personally express condolences, and that he took the call. bryce reed s stories attracted plenty of attention.