we saw crews yesterday starting to clean up copely square, the crime scene where the bombings happened. copely square is expected to open in the next couple of days through a five-phase plan. also you see the signs, boston strong, everywhere you go today at 2:50 p.m., the same time the first bomb went off a week ago, there will be a moment of silence throughout the state of massachusetts. that will be followed by a ringing of the bells here in boston and elsewhere. john? all right, pamela brown here in boston for us this morning. thank you very much. i want to bring in peter brookes to help us walk through the next step in the investigation. peter is a former cia analyst and former deputy assistant secretary. there are some reports this morning that investigators are beginning to communicate with dzhokhar tsarnaev, the suspect in the hospital right now, perhaps by writing if this communication is happening,
adopted city. one possibility, the new york times reporting that his citizenship was delayed perhaps because of the fbi investigation. a lot of questions. thank you. john, back to you. so, the crime scene stretches from behind me in boston all the way to russia s northern caucasus. nick paton walsh just spoke to the suspect s aunt and he is live for us in dagestan what are you learning for us? reporter: interesting conversation with the aunt, particularly about the six months with tamerlan tsarnaev and the time he spent here last year. she said he arrived around about march before his father turned up and said he was surprised about how in america he had become a pretty devout muslim, a woman w man who wouldn t look a woman he wasn t related to in the eye.
. he ate where he ate. i slept like a few feet away from him. i ve had class where he had class. like, with a terrorist. reporter: she knew him. brittany says she hung out with him a few times at an off campus house called russia house. the place where some of the international students would get together and hang out. and i got to tell you, the students are saying despite what is out there and being reported about the older brother feeling isolated and not having any american friends, all the students here are telling us, it was the opposite with dzhokhar. that he was a fully assimilated, average american student. john? he really seemed to be part of the campus life there. chris lawrence in dartmouth, massachusetts. again the question, what brought the suspect from dartmouth back to the boston area and ultimately that shoot-out with police. all right, chris, our thanks to you. this is what s happening today in boston in the aftermath of the boston marathon bombings. the survivin
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the heart was resuscitated over the next 45 minutes or so. by a very aggressive effort by first responders and by our people in the emergency department to the point of restoration of rhythm and pulse. reporter: some of the victims who lost their lives during last week s marathon bombing are being remembered today. krystle campbell, the second victim, is being laid to rest at 11:00 this morning. tonight a memorial service will be held for lingzi lu at boston university s campus. john? pamela, i was at a bar last night, everyone in the bar was talking about their own stories about how they were going by some of the makeshift shrines and temporary memorials set up around town. what is your sense of how the city is coping? you see those memorials all over the place, john. it does appear there are signs that life is starting to return back to normal here in boston.