communication we know was ecchangesed between catherine russell and tamerlan tsarnaev. reporter: what we were told is she was the working mom remember they had a 3-year-old daughter. the initial accounts is she was working as a home health care aide around the clock. tamerlan tsarnaev was the stay-at-home dad caring for their 3-year-old daughter. that did seem like a bit of a stretch to match that image with his activities planning the boston marathon bombing. so i think there s a lot of questions about the accuracy of that account and what exactly tamerlan tsarnaev was doing both before the bombing and after the bombing. we ve had very little information on that, very little information about how much he saw his daughter, how much he communicated with his wife. there s some reason to believe they were separated at the time. so i think we re going to just have to wait and see on that
aren t breathing a word. we got a little bit of detail from them earlier in the week, that as you said, she was cooperating with the fbi, but we don t yet know if she s actually sat down and spoken to the fbi. hard to say, because the fbi won t confirm or deny that either. it looks like she is still trying to inform her attorneys of what she might have known but nothing yet from the fbi other than to say that they want to get more information from her, poppy. and she s been described by some as an all-american girl. she worked according to her lawyers seven day ace week as a home health care aide. we don t know that much about her. you ve had a chance to talk to some of the neighbors there at her family home, not where she lived before but what have they been able to tell you? reporter: they said she s very normal. in high school she was well liked, she was smart, she was dependable. i talked to her boss who was the owner of a doughnut shop down
sophisticated and cheap. the brothers could have built the two bombs for a couple hundred dollars or even less. incredible. and a lot of the other explosives they found of the similar nature were to the pressure cooker that you describe. is there any indication of how much money they did have at this point, david? well, it doesn t look like they had a lot. the oldest brother, tamerlan, had worked delivering pizzas but more recently he was a stay at home dad taking care of his daughter while his wife was the breadwinner. according to her attorney, she was working at the 80 hours a week as a home health care aide. tamerlan did have a car, a 14-year-old honda worth about $4,000. now the younger brother, 19-year-old dzhokhar, it s hard to get a clear picture of. one person who knows said he like to talk big about fancy cars, soccer and girls. but in reality, he was a student at the university of massachusetts and dartmouth, the
well, it doesn t look like they had a lot. the oldest brother, tamerlan, had worked delivering pizzas but more recently he was a stay at home dad taking care of his daughter while his wife was the breadwinner. according to her attorney, she was working at the 80 hours a week as a home health care aide. tamerlan did have a car, a 14-year-old honda worth about $4,000. now the younger brother, 19-year-old dzhokhar, it s hard to get a clear picture of. one person who knows said he like to talk big about fancy cars, soccer and girls. but in reality, he was a student at the university of massachusetts and dartmouth, the school won t tell us if he was getting financial aid. the school says tuition and fees and everything runs about $21,000 a year and about two-thirds of the students there are getting some kind of assistance. the one extravagance we found out about almost everyone we talked to who knows dzhokhar says he likes to smoke marijuana
statement about that? reporter: the massachusetts department of health and human services did release a statement to cnn this morning. both dzhokhar tsarnaev and tamerlan tsarnaev received benefits through their parents when their younger. tamerlan received benefits until 2012 when the family became ineligible. they re referring to tamerlan tsarnaev and katy russell. katy russell was the one who was working full-time. we hear she was working up to 75, 80 hours a week as a home health care aide. as we know now, her income made her ineligible as of last year. do we know why tamerlan tsarnaev could not find a job? this is a guy who seems perfectly capable. do we know why he wasn t