welcome back to cnn s continuing coverage. i m jake tapper. this is erin burnett. we re here in boston where the city took a moment today to pause to heal. there was a memorial service that just ended within the last hour. it was to honor those killed and wounded in monday s twin bombings. president obama was there. he offered words of comfort to the families of the three people killed in the attack and the dozens wounded. he also tried to provide reassurance to those wounded. and he had praise for the city of boston. you showed us, boston, that in the face of evil, americans will lift up what s good. in the face of cruelty, we will choose compassion. in the face of those who would
of course they re trying to sit me down because i m bleeding. i said i ve got a job to do. there s people hurt more than me. reporter: fredricka whitfield, cnn, atlanta. we re going to go right now to a man who was one of those first responders, his name is chris. he s actually not a professional first responder. he s a teacher. his mother works at the nursing home and he went right to the nursing home to help out. thanks so much for joining us. what did you see when this happened? i was actually 20 miles away when it actually happened. by the time i got there it was just it was total chaos would be the best way to say it. i mean, there were people everywhere. we had people getting out getting people out of the nursing home on wheelchairs taking them down a couple blocks away to a staging area and then again to a triage area. just really trying, you know, everybody was very helpful trying to get as many people out as quickly as possible.
no, there s been no determination as to whether to release those photos. those photos were widely circulated yesterday. they showed two young men, both of them carrying bags. one is a backpack, the other is sort of a sling shoulder bag. but now after speaking to an intelligence source, i am told that in fact investigators are dialing back on those two individuals. they were clearly wanted or of interest because of where they were standing, how they were standing, the size of the bags. but right now it looks like those two individuals are sort of falling farther down on the list of people who need to be identified. there s been a lot of reporting about who these two individuals might be. and cnn has actually reached out to some people who know these two individuals. so right now looks like those two are falling down the list. there s still a lot of other suspects. that s one of the things, jake and erin, we ve been talking about is investigators have to rule things out. there are so m
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bombings or the texas explosion, vitd cnn s impact your world. there are ways you can help as we know so many people are trying to do. they care, they feel so far away, but there s a lot you can do. a lot of things people have been worried about in the west, texas, area was the air quality. people were talking about the fumes and smell and fear. so we re going to have the very latest on that and how significant that ammonia in the air could be after this. the last word that i had was that the chemical in the air aspect of it was not a significant concern. apparently that s been somewhat contained or under control.