ready to change your routine? ask your doctor about once-a-day xarelto®. for more information including cost support options, call 1-888-xarelto or visit goxarelto.com. good morning, everyone. i m john berman li in boston this morning. our starting point, a dwig development in the boston bombing investigation. dna belonging to a woman found on part of a pressure cooker bomb, and they are looking more closely at the dead suspect s wife. an american athlete makes history as coming out as gay
his entire outlook on life and was a key impetus to come out. christine romans back in new york with that story and the rest of the other day s top news. that s right, john. it s a brave new world for jason collins. the longtime nba player who just revealed he s gay. in less than 24 hours the 34-year-old collins who played for six teams in a twelve-year career has gone from journeyman to trail blazer. cnn s rachel nichols following developments for us this morning. good morning. there s definitely a feeling in the athletic community that this was coming. whether it was the environment in the country, the people thought this might happen in the nfl. even word of a group of nfl players coming out at the same time to lessen the media burden. maybe the nba. but nobody expected jason collins to be coming out on the cover of sports illustrated. giving you insight into just how much of a surprise this was his twin brother, who also played in the nba at one point said he
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barriers you think for other players? well, the toughest thing jason really had to face making this decision was the fact that there has been no players that have gone before him, he could watch from the sidelines, see what their experience would be like. that s the experience that no player has chosen to cross at this point. now that he has done that, yes, i think it will make it much easy why err for others to come to grips, is this the right time for this. let s be honest and not naive. some players will think differently of him and some fans. miami dolphins receiver mike wallace tweeted yesterday in response to the sports illustrated article. all of the beautiful women in the world, and guys want to mess with other guys, smh, that means shaking my head. i just don t understand it. will it change the dynamic on
possible sort of cause and effect there. now both men shared the fact that their families had moved them to north america. tamerlan to the united states, plotnikov had moved to canada with his parents. both of them were now following this sort of radical branch of islam. the question is, did they share anything else more than that on the ground here? and that s something that is what the investigators are focusing on. there is another connection here, a potential connection with a possible recruiter, according to some local news articles here. a half palestinian mahmoud nidal, known according to these newspaper articles through russian security purposes as a recruiter. possibly, possibly tsarnaev met with him. that s another point that investigators will be looking at, john. still in the blank of that six-month period that tamerlan tsarnaev was overseas in the