web site read it, apologized to his family for fueling, quote: online witch hunts and dangerous speculation. in a statement, the students family says the whole experience has changed our lives forever. we hope it will change yours, too. bash to wum of our other top stories tonight. the use of weapons in syrian s civil war. not yet ready to escalate our involvement there. even after the white house informed lawmakers about intelligence suggesting that the syrian government may have used chemical agents sara ran. president obama has warned that use of a chemical weapon would be a tragic mistake for which there will be consequences jennifer griffin griffin at her post at the pentagon tonight. what are they saying there about the crossing of the red line. one senior u.s. official put it, shep, intelligence assessments do not automatically trigger policy decisions. the use of sara ran gas is not a, quote: automatic trigger according to this official there are many considerations. this wa
something of that nature. the online al qaeda manuals use standard timers and something far less sophisticated than what we saw in boston, shep. shepard: we are learning more about the warnings from russia regarding the older of the two brothers? that s right. in 2011. same year al qaeda linked suicide bomber from a group known as caucus imrit killed 37 at moscow s international airport. pushed both the fbi and cia to investigate the older brother tamerlan s extremist ties. the fbi and cia say they found no evidence of terrorist activities one year before his trip to russia. lawmakers briefed on the incident say the fbi went back to the russians at least three times for more information. fox news was first to report that investigators are exploring potential links between tamerlan and caucus elm rit whose leader is is described as the usama bin laden of the region, shep. shepard: catherine, today, the russian president vladimir putin says he hopes the boston bombings will lead
wednesday. carl cameron live at the george w. bush center at the smu university in dallas. hey, karl. hi, shep, for a brief moment today, perhaps several hours, there was no controversy about george w. bush s 8 years in office. in fact, there was expressed admiration from democrats and republicans, not just from across the country, not just from former presidents but dignitaries across the world who came to watch the dedication of this library. from the controversial contested 2,000 recount through the 9/11 attacks. the invasion of iraq and afghanistan, the ongoing controversies over the bush tax cuts and what that means to the nation s deficit all of that set aside for admiration and respect for george w. bush s service. great deal of talk about his character, underpinnings of his principles how he guided for eight years in the white house. at the end of it, he was clearly touched as his optimism shown through and he got a little bit choked up about his years in
why? i thought that america was going to protect us, our kids. it s going to be safe. it happened. [crying] america took my kids away from me. only america. she said she is now unsure whether she will come to the united states but her husband, the father of both the alleged bombers told us today, shep, that he does plan to travel. he plans to leave russia tomorrow and hopes to be in boston itself by saturday. shep. she had a bagful of theories for us today. the most outlandish of those theories was her claim that boston cops actually captured her eldest son alive. listen. what have you done with my son? he was alive. why did they need to kill
neighbors, too. [ applause ] we are americans, too. and we stand with you and we do not forget and we will be there each after the cameras leave. shepard: the president spoke about it two hours ago at a memorial service for victims of last week s disaster. that blast killed 14 people and injured hundreds more. doug mckelway on scene in waco, texas tonight with more. doug? shep, you know, many people had the sense that this terrible tragedy, despite its shear magnitude was overshadowed by events in boston last week. well, if that was the case, then this memorial service today did a lot to overcome that 10,000 people packed this auditorium at baylor university this afternoon. a procession of literally hundreds of fire trucks from all across the state of texas and beyond paid their respects to some real heros. and the grieving families that they left behind. each of whom recorded a videotaped eulogy, listen