more pure and devout norm of islam than anybody else in the family. brian todd, thank you very much. the mother and tamerlan, we have breaking news right now. we are just learning that the russians also asked the united states to check up on the brother s mother. a crucial new development tonight. her name was actually added to a database called t.i.d.e., the terrorist identities data mart environment. her name was added at the same time her son tamerlan s name was also added to that database. obviously, this opens up the investigation even further. i want to go back to nick payson walsh is standing by. you had a chance to speak with the mother. any idea why she made authorities suspicious? reporter: there was, of course, the outstanding arrest
0 public on play may 1. i m looking forward to visiting that library. thank you very much for watching. i m w blitzer in the situation room. erin burnett s outfront starts right now. outfront next. i m erin burnett live in times square where the mayor of new york said today the suspected marathon bombers were headed to stage yet another attack. plus, we have the latest on the investigation. friends of dzhokhar tsarnaev are now being held in federal custody tonight. and the mother of the two alleged bombers, she says the whole thing was staged, there was no attack. the bizarre conspiracy in her own words. let s go outfront. outfront tonight. this was the next target on the boston bomber s hit list. the surviving suspect has told investigators that he and his brother were headed right here to times square in new york city to detonate more explosives before they were stopped. i ll have a lot more on this story from right here in times square. and we have all the other an