thursday before the fbi released this video. they say she worked as a home health aide while tamerlan stayed home with the young couple s daughter. very friendly, very smart and very talented. her high school art teacher says she talked a lot about her college degree. are you surprised to find out that she had dropped out? i was surprised. i hadn t seen any indication of a particular interest in a lot of women. she moved to boston for college, met tamerlan and dropped out. attorneys say she converted to islam. chris now joins me live. just to be clear, her attorney says she s doing everything she can to cooperate.
with him, even after the bombings, in a very small apartment in cambridge, massachusetts. investigators want her help as they piece together the alleged boston bomber s plan. the reports of involvement by her husband and brother-in-law came as an absolute shock to them all. as authorities try to determine when and where he may have assembled the bombs, investigators try to figure out what if anything she knows. she is doing everything she can to assist in the on going investigation. they say she last saw tamerlan before she went to work thursday. they say she worked as a home health aide while tamerlan stayed home with the couple s
earlier that russians showed interest in his activities. tamerlan first hit the fbi s radar in 2011 when the russian government told the agency they should check him out. they sent a letter to the fbi and other agencies and said we think this guy has become radical. you need to watch him. was based on information that he was a follower of radical islam and a strong believer that he had changed drastically since 2010 as he prepared to leave the united states for travel to the country s region to join unspecified underground groups. the fbi says it checks u.s. government data bases, telephone communications on line activity and actually interviewed tamerlan and family members. the fbi says it did not find any family activity so it gave that information to russia and asked for but did not receive more
no, we don t, but that will all be part of the investigation. police did find some in the younger brother? yes, a large pyrotechnic is how it was described in the criminal clant. the planning goes back several months. absolutely. you can follow me on twitter @andersoncooper. coming up, what the f.b.i. knew about tamerlan s possible overseas connections. and when they knew it, what was he doing over there? he left his wife, he left his little baby here for six months to go to russia? why? we re trying to figure that out. details on that ahead. a statement from tamerlan s wife and what she s saying and whether or not she s really
understanding, she was living with him, even after the bombings, in a very small apartment in cambridge, massachusetts. investigators want her help as they piece together the alleged boston bomber s plan. the reports of involvement by her husband and brother-in-law came as an absolute shock to them all. as authorities try to determine when and where he may have assembled the bombs, investigators try to figure out what if anything she knows. she is doing everything she can to assist in the on going investigation. they say she last saw tamerlan before she went to work thursday. they say she worked as a home