mailbox, much busier than the other locations would lead you to believe they circled back after seeing something in the investigation, also to make clear, chris, we re saying we know fran has a federal source saying an arrest has been made. i have a boston law enforcement source saying that operation was under way, heading toward an arrest. as always there is some conflicting information about this. and one of our justice producers is saying there is not an arrest yet, apprehension, an arrest, miranda rights being processed, these can all mean different things to different people in the cloud of this. but i am told by a boston law enforcement source that they believe that they have the suspect. with anderson cooper here now, word of an arrest here and the boston marathon attacks. we have heard the u.s. federal marshals have taken the suspect to the courthouse that would be obvious procedure in a federal investigation. we believe it all started with videotape they were analyzi
after. that may be disclosed over time. it depend house got image was. we haven t seen an image of the front, so it depends on how good the image is and those people are tracing back, is he actually could learn a lot, if there is no images of him at south station, our train station, or logan airport, he got in a car, you check the tools and you check so this is what has been happening and this is sort of how it unfolds in real time, that that individual now may still be out there, there is a lot of people that are getting much closer, though. all right. and we re going to take a quick break now. as you can see, everybody has one device in their hands, we re reporting was he go, trying to figure out more information to leave right now for a break. we believe there has been substantial progress made in the investigation. that s the word from authorities. they believe that someone has been identified from videotape, who they believe is responsible for placing a bomb and then exiting
went out to all law enforcement talking about pressure cookers as a possible improvised explosive device, and the makeup of them. you know, we have seen also other journalists that mention this. so we talk about domestic, international, transnational, it is really too early to tell because it is not something that has not been on the fbi s radar before, because you can take anything for the most part, guys, and put together an improvised explosive device. yeah. deb feyerick is standing by, some information she s been getting. what are you hearing? well, anderson, we want to confirm, wrap up sort of a couple of loose ends. the fbi is staunchly denight that anyone has been arrested. a statement now being posted says there has been no arrest. and they warned members of the media that we have to be careful in our reporting because in their words there are unintended
expecting now. let me know if you hear anything. to be clear, if there is no arrest, if there is no one in custody. and multiple sources are telling a variety of our reporters that seems to be the case. and, in fact, no name of a suspect. we don t know. they might have an internal name they re not going to disclose because they have some information that is going to lead them in the next 48 hours. what would they be doing right now? what are the different avenues to identifying someone that they pick out from a piece of video? okay, so, they might have a picture of this person already through either public sources or through other investigatory sources, got to be careful here. we don t know if this person has under have surveillance, if they were part of part of a group that they re already looking for. a known quantity. a university or a college or someone they can make the facial identification which would then give you a name. if they don t have that, if this i
hours, or we ll need your help finding him or he s long gone. it is extraordinary, just the omnipresence of cell phone cameras, how it has changed everything. and it appears aided in this investigation. that s what they knew. when they came out on monday, tuesday was just particularly sort of desperate is the wrong word. just asking people to come forward. there had been a lot of concern yesterday afternoon that they were learning more about the device itself, devices themselves, that they didn t have they weren t very far along on any kind of suspect. whether or not they had information then they weren t giving out or the break was made subsequent to that afternoon press conference, we don t know. right, exactly. by the time i finally went to sleep at about midnight, i had had a conference with someone in boston police who sort of implied that this was going to be a long haul and everyone should get some sleep. 30 different government agencies involved, one very easily c