day. and maine will get nailed and a possibility of six to eight inches in a few spots, as far as like the other issues, once the cold air starts wrapping in behind this, we start the lake effect snow, erie to buffalo, to syracuse, to watertown, getting some snow, too. this will be the end of it today. but it is a snow day for sure. central new york just got nailed, about one to two pete in most of the region. a lot of folks digging out while kids are playing around them. 28 inches. thank you, bill. two and a half feet. joe biden says he doesn t need president obama s backing in the election. it is not needed even if he is one of the last democratic candidates standing. when asked about a political report that obama said that former, the former vice president quote doesn t really have it when it comes to connecting with voters biden replied quote, he may have said
those years as a police chief in bran ford, connecticut. he says he was reluctant to be interviewed, because he, like other critics of what happened on this street, still believe police responded heroically. in a situation like this, it almost becomes a war zone. and things that occur in the very dynamic moments of a situation like the one that was unfolding in boston and watertown are not necessarily no matter how hard our police work, what they are trained to do. reporter: de carlo tells us what several experts who wouldn t go on camera also told us. they believe police do not receive enough firearms training, and that local and state forces do not train together enough. the shooting has not dimmed the praise for police who put themselves in harm s way. it s underneath my son s bedroom. reporter: but at laurel and dexter streets, each bullet hole is a reminder of just how close those heroes came to causing a
victims and their families. today the one fund said payments will be made at the end of june. still a lot of questions and work to be done in the investigation into the bombings. the widow of the suspect, tamerl tamerlan tsarnaev, katherine russell is said to be speaking to investigators. and we learn more about tamerlan and his brother dzhokhar, and the shootout with police. 300 rounds were fired, almost all coming from police. cnn has learned the tsarnaevs had bombs. they had only one gun between them, a pistol. drew griffin has more on what happened that night. reporter: this is all police knew at the time. officer down. reporter: an m.i.t. officer had been shot and killed. hours earlier, the fbi had released these pictures of suspected bombers. tensions were high all across this city. when this alert went out. shots fired at watertown. shots fired at watertown. all officers, use caution.
reporter: get to watertown. police raced to the intersection of laurel and dexter streets to face what amounted to chaos. they have explosives! some type of grenades. they re in between houses down here. loud explosions! loud explosions! loud explosions! shots fired! the tsarnaev brothers were in the middle of the street, firing bult bullets, throwing their home-made bombs and in return facing a massive barrage of police bullets. two local law enforcement sources tell cnn, the tsarnaevs had just one gun between them. and when the older brother, tamerlan, was tackled by police, that one gun was empty. it was the moment his younger brother tried to make a run for it in a stolen suv. there was a lot of gunfire at that point. that was probably the highest point in gunfire.
tragedy. and drew griffin joins me now. and it is important to look at what happened, not to criticize police, but to understand, and help for the next time in a situation like this. because that contagion shooting really is an issue. it is an issue. it s under investigation. and like you said, not to lay blame on anybody, but, you know, god forbid, somebody in those houses was struck, and somebody in those houses was killed. it would be bad for their family, obviously. but also very bad for the officer who shot it. now, the middlesex county district attorney s office and state police are investigating the shooting of officer donahue. unclear if they re investigating the shooting of the homes. but there was a third shooting that night, even scarier. we are learned that a boston suv, unmarked suv, racing to watertown, was fired upon, and hit by state troopers. as it was racing to the scene. we have a statement from the massachusetts state police, while it s still under investigation