600 firefighters. now, to boston, the surviving bomber says he and his brothers were planning a fourth attack susan, what have you learned? this is coming to us from a law enforcement official with knowledge of the investigation. it gives new meaning to the term homemade bomb. the bombs were put together with volatile shrapnel, including bbs where he lived with his wife and child. now, tamerlan s younger brother, dzhokhar, told the fbi this during his initial investigation. originally, they were planning to make the attack on fourth of july and make it a suicide attack.
this is coming to us from a law enforcement official with knowledge of the investigation. it gives new meaning to the term homemade bomb. the bombs were put together with volatile shrapnel, including bbs where he lived with his wife and child. it gives new meaning to the term homemade bomb. the suspect dzhokhar tsarnaev says the bombs were put tole with bbs right there in tamerlan s apartment where he lives with his wife and child. now, tamerlan s younger brother, dzhokhar, told the fbi this during his initial interrogation that the bombs were ready to go earlier than expected. originally, they were planning to make the attack on fourth of july and make it a suicide attack during a huge day of celebration. and instead, they chose the boston marathon, and according to dzhokhar, and this is really amazing, that
happen to notice back pack that happens to be open with fireworks are empty of their powder. anybody can call b.s. on this one. they went there. supposedly they didn t see the photos on tv. later in the affidavit, it said they leave dzhokhar s dorm room an go back to one of their apartment. then they watch the news. they bring up in the back pack there were vasline. somehow the college kids knew vaseline is used in homemade bomb. i don t think anyone outside of somebody involved in making a bomb or bomb investigation would know that. i certainly don t know a soul that would know that. i don t know anybody in law enforcement that i associate with, that would know that. they knew that, they made that
who is the publicity director for the association college. he told me to keep watching me e-mail two weeks ago today. a little bit after 6:00 he called me. he s like, how you doing? i m line fine. he s like, did you get your e-mail. check it again. i checked it again. nothing. then the e-mail popped up. invitation to the white house. i think i blew out his eardrum. well, you are standing in front of the white house. it s a beautiful shot. we appreciate you taking time to join us today. ted kerry, thanks so much. thank you. and hello to everyone at mcc. see you tomorrow. take care. thank you. earlier today faisal shahzad was sentenced to life in prison for attempting to set off a car bomb. describing himself as a muslim shoulder, he pleaded guilty in june to terrorism and weapons charges. he was arrested two days after he pack ad homemade bomb in the back of an suv and left it
twists each time. so there is a tremendous amount of evidence. how soon it is going to be they find these people, the investigation is so broad at this point. they are going to proceed with deliberate haste. they are not going to be in a hurry to jump to conclusions. when they put this case together they obviously want to have a mistake free investigation as much as possible. they should have a lot to go on fairly quick but they won t do it in a rush sort of fashion. gregg: it s being described as amateurish. fortunately it did not activate properly. home made bombs can be extremely lethal, one only needs to recall timothy mcveigh homemade bomb parked outside the murrow building in oklahoma city devastating this country with a