good morning to you. and welcome to early start. i m zoraida sambolin in new york. and i m john berman live in boston this morning. it is wednesday, april 24th. it is 5:00 a.m. in the east. while you were sleeping, the proud, resilient people of this uniquely american city began taking back boylston street. boylston street is reopening this morning. i just went for a walk on it. meanwhile, there are new developments with the suspected terrorist who is charged with shutting it down with a pair of bombs on marathon monday. here is the latest. dzhokhar tsarnaev s condition upgraded from serious to fair this morning. there are reports he could be transported out of beth israel deaconess medical center soon. a news official tells cnn s jessica yellin there is no hard evidence the tsarnaev brothers had any accomplices or any connections to extremists. there is another new development this morning.
lovely to see it back up and operating. just beyond that bus you can see one set of flashing lights down that way. that s where the finish line is just beyond that is the first bombing site. we do have some pictures from very early this morning, as they were repairing all of the damage done by those bombs. replacing the bricks, replacing the cement. and the glass at this one at the first bombing site may be the most touching of all, it just says boston strong, walking down that way. it is a little eerie. a little awed. and you know, everybody s feeling a little sensitive about it this morning. but it is very, very nice to be back on boylston street. john? it is certainly nice. miguel, i saw windows boarded up as high as the fourth floor there. but i also saw flowers laying on the ground there near where they were resurfacing the sidewalk. what were you learning this morning, miguel, about a possible motive in these attacks?
according to the surviving suspect dzhokhar tsarnaev. and we re now hearing from the watertown man who discovered tsarnaev hiding in his boat in his backyard. cnn s miguel marquez is here in boston on boylston street. again, which is open for business this morning. miguel? john, we are actually at the memorial that was so painstakingly moved and stuck here in copley skwak from other parts of boylston street. and this down here, we re at dartmouth and boylston. you can see traffic flowing up boylston for the first time in nine days. right down the way where you see those flashing lights, that s the finish line of the race. right beyond that is where the bombing sites are. we have some video, and you know police, bostonians being very sensitive about shooting this, about even going live from boylston this morning. the video shows them repairing the sidewalk, getting rid of all aspects, and reminder of what happened there on the store window that was blown out, it just says boston stron
this is basically the start. this is a new beginning for both of you. i can t see any hope right now. yes, right now. i m telling you, with all my heart, you are going to be more independent than you ever were. celeste is keeping her spirits high. she s even talking about running the boston marathon next year. if you want to find out how you can help the survivors of the boston aks at that, you can go to our website at cnn.com/impact. we always have direct links and ways we can help, including several victims personal fund pages that you can donate to. zoraida? i think it s remarkable how many of them said they look forward to running in the future or running that particular marathon. i guess it s a way of healing for them, right? that s right. as everyone says, 118th boston marathon next year will be the greatest ever. yes, indeed. thank you, john. meantime in canada, new developments this morning in the alleged terrorist plot to attack a passenger train running
we are understanding more from a federal source saying that, you know, mr. tsarnaev is still talking to investigators, is saying that it was the wars in iraq and afghanistan that motivated his brother and he to carry out this bomb plot. they re also saying that there was no communication, there was no radicalization, there was no there was no anything with any outside group, that they watched videos online like those from anwar al awlaki, the radical cleric that the u.s. killed in a drone strike in yemen about a year and a half ago. and that they may have used inspire magazine, also, an al qaeda offshoot magazine in english, to learn how to make the bomb. so it sounds like everything is leading investigators to the conclusion that these were sort of self-radicalized individuals. but obviously all of that needs to be confirmed. which they are clearly trying to do around the world right now. john? all right, miguel marquez joining us from an open for business boylston street this m