when he told her to call someone to get the money she called the police who tracked him down and arrested him. he is charged with first degree kidnapping and extortion. one year after the deadly bombings ripped through boston, americans take back the marathon.รง there s the line. he s across! look at that right there. that is the winner, he s 38 years old, meb keflezighi, crossing the finish line in 2 hours, 8 minutes and 36 seconds, a personal best. how does anybody do that, beyond me. great job. he s the first american to win the marathon in three decades. he is an immigrant from eritrea and wore the names of those who died in the bombings last year written on his shirt. this is beyond running. it is for boston, for the united states, and for the world. we are resilient. we never gave up. also crossing the finish
traffic happening to the patient s room. not people coming to stay two hours, but coming to stay for two minutes. reporter: some of the visitors didn t even know the woman s last name. in addition to the drugs, police seized cash and drug paraphernalia from her room and they say she also put heroin in her iv drip. law enforcement officials in boston reported no security threats other than some unattended bags during the marathon. a million people enjoyed the sunshine while they cheered on the tens of thousands of runners. on the course were many who suffered injuries in the blast. one is heather abbott who ran the last half mile with the woman who saved her life. we re not going to let anything stop us. boston has its marathon back. meb keflezighi was the top male finisher. the first american to win since 1983 and rita jeptoo won for the second straight year. she s from kenya.
boston is still glowing this morning after the 118th running of the boston marathon. more than 35,000 participants were on the course, hundreds of thousands more spectators lined the streets for 26.2 miles to celebrate the city and the spirit. this, of course, a year after the bombings at the finish line. this time, it was an american who topped the field of elite male runners for the first time since 1983. it was 38-year-old meb keflezighi, who said afterwards he had one thought on the course, boston strong. that, my friends, is boston strong. look at that picture. kenya s rita jeptoo was the female winner, a repeat winner. she won last year as well. they were joined by thousands of survivors, families and friends, who all crossed the finish line. i ve got to give a shout-out to kevin white, a guy i profiled last year and again yesterday.
managed to slip past security. so many questions still there. oh, yeah. meanwhile, officials in yemen are testing the dna of some 65 suspected al qaeda militants killed in a series of huge and unprecedented assaults that appeared to be targeting high-level terrorists. yemeni officials tell cnn that the operation is a joint effort with the united states, which blames al qaeda in the arabian peninsula for a string of recent terror plots. boston took back the finish line. over 35,000 marathoners running monday under spectacular blue skies and extremely tight security. last year explosions injured 360 people. the first american male won since 1963. 38-year-old meb keflezighi says he kept thinking boston strong. kenyan s rita jeptoo was the female winner. it was a wonderful day. you were there. bloodshed in a salt lake city courtroom.
they stopped running and started helping people. they were running again under the watchful eye of 4,000 cops. why is it so important for you to run again this year? we didn t finish out what we set out to do. an american won and an american will win the boston marathon. his name is meb keflezighi. he s 38 and was born in the african country of eritrea and became a u.s. citizen in 1998 and wore the names of the four people who died in the attacks on his official runner s bib. some of the survivors returned to the finish line including jeff bowman from this iconic shot in those horrible moments after he lost his legs and was rescued by a stranger in a cowboy hat. there he was pounding fists with his rescuer and now friend carlos. heather abbott, who lost her lower left leg was here, too. she put on a prosthetic leg