so would you characterize him as an american kid? absolutely. yeah. definitely. he knew more like slang terms, cool words to use than i did. like there s no language barrier. he was what i might term like a typical cambridge boy. reporter: the suspect s father confirmed to us today that the elder brother spent six months in russia last year. he also had this message for police. translator: they killed one of my sons. i want at least the other son to live so that in the world court we can prove he s innocent if god allows. if you could speak to your son, what would you tell him? translator: that i love him and i can t live without him. ann thompson on those i m sorry. i m about to say we ll go to ann thompson in boston. ann curry on these two suspects in this case, one living in serious condition tonight, one
falling tonight, another break in the manhunt and for the second night in a row, a suburban boston neighborhood was on pins and needles, jarred by something that sure sounded like gunfi gunfire. after 24 hours of firing, police seemed to have the main us is sick cornered. a resident in watertown called to report blood in a backyard leading to a boat where police believed the suspect was hiding. as an ambulance left the area around 9:00 p.m. tonight eastern time. the suspect is in custody. the crowd cheered. in the end, it all came down to ordinary citizens rallying to help the authorities. back to you. on the up side, while there were rumors and fits and starts, this was a kind of rollout experiment for a crowd sourced
step. brian? what an obscene toll of human damage by these two men. anne thompson in the great city of boston tonight. anne, thanks. we also have an update tonight on the corcoran family whose terrible suffering after the bombing moved so many people around the world who heard their story. the mother had both legs amputated, and the frantic effort to help her daughter became one of the sadly enduring images of this tragedy. tonight their family is speaking to natalie morales for the first time. talking about here where it is a very tense situation in watertown reporter: as the nation watched the events unfold over the last 24 hours, kevin corcoran watched, too. at boston medical center. the hospital was on lockdown for much of the day. but kevin s been here since monday, ever since his wife, celeste, and their 17-year-old
it seemed like an insane world of hurt had been brought on that luckily very resilient city. reporter: it is an extraordinarily resilient city, brian. and you know, tonight the president said that boston refused to be intimidated and that is so true. it was a very strange day in this city. i can tell you. i mean, the lockdown turned boston into almost a state of martial law. in the public garden we saw the swan boats were just sitting there. they were floating in the lagoon. nobody was there. they ve been a boston tradition for over 130 years. in the boston common there were more s.w.a.t. teams than people. usually, that s a place where workers and runners go by the
thousands. the freedom trail, which is the red brick line that takes tourists and school children to all the historic sites in this city, connected to the american revolution, no one was walking the freedom trail. it was a very unusual day. and yet, even though people were inconvenienced, even though they were told to stay in their homes, people i talked to, brian, as the lockdown went on, they all said one thing, they didn t want the suspect to be killed when he was captured. they wanted him to be taken alive because more than anything they want answers as to why those two men did what they did to the city of boston, to the boston marathon, and to this country because people don t understand how somebody could leave bombs in a crowd of people on the greatest day in this city and take lives and change lives forever. brian? and yet so oddly, anne, it is suddenly all lifted. it s all gone. one guy dead. one guy in the hospital.