brianna keilar is covering that angle for us. she joins us now from the white house. good morning, brianna. good morning to you, john and chris. yes, president obama was briefed overnight by his homeland security adviser, lisa monaco. she will brief him again this morning, along with attorney general holder, and fbi director robert mueller. we have learned that he s coming to boston tomorrow. he will speak during that interfaith memorial service at the cathedral of the holy cross in boston. what is, of course, going to be an emotional event, as he strikes that consoler in chief tone that we ve seen him, unfortunately, do on so many occasions where we ve seen tragedy. we sue a little bit of this yesterday. he was talking about people who ran the marathon, and even after finishing such a grueling race, they went on to donate blood in the wake of those bombings. we, of course, as well are looking to the president when it comes to where this investigation that is being led by the fbi is
with part of a homemade bomb inside an suv that fizzles in times square in 2010, planted by admitted lone wolf terrorist faisal shaz add now in prison. in boston, authorities are convinced they ll solve the case. but as of now, have no clue whose behind it. at this time there are no claims of responsibility. the range of suspects and motives remains wide open. so even though there have been more than 2,000 tips so far. it s not enough. the fbi needs the public s help to try to solve this. chris and john, back to you. thank you, susan. that part of the investigation still moving forward. coming up in the next half hour of early start we re going to talk about the pictures, images the investigators are poring through. we re going to talk to tom fuentes, former fbi assistant director, now a cnn contributor.
serial numbers, and this will help as agents try to reconstruct this bomb at their lab in quantico, virginia and trace each and every item to try and track who purchased these things, where, and when. authorities really need the public s help to try to solve this. we are asking anyone who may have heard someone speak about the marathon in any way that indicated he or she may target the event to call us. someone knows who did this. so even though they have more than 2,000 tips so far, they still don t have a clue as to who is behind this terrible terrorist attack. brooke and john? all right, susan candiotti here in boston, thanks again. the detail in those photos so specific. so specific, the details of the pressure cooker, they re
the readings today, right at the beginning, followed by david cameron, the current british prime minister. who said today, we are all thatcherites today. well, i m not sure that everybody here in the uk would agree with that. she was a fairly divided character, as you know. the funeral now continues. it will go on for another 20, 25 minutes or so, and then the party here will move on to mansion house. john and chris. all right, our thanks to you becky anderson in london for us this morning. covering these funeral services, the pomp and pageantry going on at st. paul s cathedral. one type of memorial there. a very different one here in boston where we are live part of cnn s continuing coverage of the boston marathon attack. there is progress. even though it s just a couple of days since this happened. it is what s called a frantic investigation. 30 agencies on it. you are looking at pictures of what they believe to be a pressure cooker bomb.
the boston marathon bombing. a lovely, lovely tribute. and i can tell you, it mattered. welcome back to this special edition of early start, everyone. i m john berman. and i m chris cuomo. the picture behind us right now kind of tells the story. armored humvees. we know who they are, right? we know that we have the national guard here. they re providing support to some 30 agencies conducting what s called a frantic investigation. we re going to start this half hour with the new developments in the boston marathon attack. newly released photos showing the remains of one of the detonated devices. wires, batteries, what appears to be a circuit board that would have been used in a timing device to detonate it. reports from a government official who did not want to be identified, that s where the photos came, released them to make it clear that there is progress going along. the big image of the morning, a mangled pressure cooker. why did they use it? we ll take you through what it mean