0 point" this morning. i'm christine romans. continuing live team coverage of the aftermath of the boston marathon bombings, continues right now with wolf blitzer in boston. >> thanks very much, christine. before the sun rises, boston tries to vanquish the nightmare. city workers scrub away blood stains and remove bricks, marred by last week's bombing. boyleston street inches toward a new sense of normalcy. good morning, i'm wolf blitzer, reporting live from here in boston. there have been several major developments coming out of the boston this morning. let's get you caught up right now on all of them. this morning, boylston street, right behind me, reopens, the epicenter, reopening to pedestrians but not vehicles. and not yet. insult to injury, the families of those wounded in the attacks are outraged. they are demanding the two terror suspects be moved from the same hospital where the alleged victims are now recovering. and next stop in the investigation, dagestan. u.s. officials arrive in the russian republic to interview the parents of the accused killer. let's take a look at the reopening of boylston street in the heart of boston. crews worked to replace bricks and repair the damaged sidewalks at locations where bombs exploded, and we're on the scene, it seems like life in the boylston street area is getting back to normal. >> well there, is a huge sense of relief and they are repairing bricks and mortar, but the memories will be harder to repair. this is the memorial -- this stuff was all along boyleston street, wolf, and they brought it all here, to copley square in order to have people -- have a place to basically gather. i want to show you, this is the folks from the starbucks, right down the way, they brought an apron here, all of the colleagues sign it, forgive, but never forget. also, a lot of t-shirts along here as well. this one in particular, we pray, we love, literally people giving the shirts off their back. one of the more touching things we saw today, this is shoes everywhere, boston strong obviously everywhere here, really lovely sign with the shoes hanging off of it, and hats. the number of hats that people left here as well is quite impressive. one other thing, and a lot of dolls, a little stuffed animals and tons of flowers obviously. this one quite sweet. there is volunteers as well managing all of this. this baseball in memory of martin. love brandon age 2. and below it, a little band that says believe in boston. really sweet to see this sitting on the bench by itself. i want to talk to two folks who work on the street. amanda and mary. >> yes. >> you have been off the last week, one, what's it like to have boylston street back open again? >> it feels overwhelming mostly. it will be a while before anything really feels normal again. nice to have everything back open and back in business. >> reporter: what's the last week been like for you? >> it's been a struggle, but we all came together and supported each other, our company has been fantastic. our boss has been unbelievable in bringing us all together, getting us through it. >> reporter: i didn't realize and appreciate is boston -- bostonians are tough people. i mean, people want to get back to normal here. does it feel like normal yet? >> not yet. i think it's going to be a while before anything feels normal again. but we're getting one step closer today by opening everything back up. >> reporter: how big a deal is it to have boyleston reopen? how major a piece of the city is this? >> it means a lot. this is the bustling area of the city, the hub of everything, and it's important that it's opening up and everyone can come here to remember what happened. >> reporter: okay. thank you very much. have a lovely day at work. glad are you all back. >> thank you. >> reporter: i want to show you one thing over here as well. this wall, goes all the way along. see the t-shirts along the barriers they have set up here and this is -- it's funny, i walk around this, everybody scatters and runs away, but this is quite lovely as well. all the tennis shoes people have left. literally the shoes off their feet for this pretty impressive to see all the way around, wolf. if we could come -- let's go all the way over here, right to the center of the memorial. because this is sort of a -- the centerpiece of it. three crosses with those who have died. krystle camp bet, lingzi lu, and martin richard. this is where people come to reflect to try to get beyond the terrible day nine days ago. >> the folks you are talking to, they are relieved that boylston street, such a powerful symbolic part of this city finally back to normal? >> a lot of relief. it's nearly palpable, nice to see traffic going up and down boyleston, cross traffic. with boylston shut, you can't get across the city. it makes it a night player, but beyond that, the city doesn't feel normal and now the buses, the sirens, just feels like a normal city again. starting to come back. >> really pleased to hear that. miguel, thank you. also learning more about the possible charges against the suspected boston marathon bomber, dzhokhar tsavraev, including the lack of state murder charges, ashleigh banfield joins us now. you spoke with the sussex county district attorney. what did he tell you about pending charges? >> reporter: well, he certainly told me that while many were wondering there would be a state prosecution alongside the federal prosecution, we know that some of the charges outlines against the man who is recovering behind me in this hospital, there will not be a state-level prosecution with regard to bombings, that doesn't necessarily apply to the m.i.t. officer, sean collier, who is remembered today by colleagues, that's another county over the river. middlesex county prosecutors may, in fact, go after crimes again dzhokhar tsavraev in their own right there is a murder there, and there is a number of crimes to prosecut s prosecute potentially. according to the d.a. here in this county, they are considering that. but at this point, this county won't go after the three murders that happened here and the explosive devices, but the feds are well equipped to handle that. here is what the d.a. told us on camera yesterday, the decision to make that plan. go ahead and assist the prosecutor this is d.a. dan conley. >> for the boston marathon bombings, i would say almost certainly not. those murder charges will more than likely, almost certainly be subsumed in the federal indictments in the months to come. >> reporter: the district attorney went on to say, they reserve the right to re-invigorate essentially if other investigative bits of information lead to additional charges that could be charged at the state level. a bit arcane, but it means that if there are perhaps coconspirators that come to light, different kinds of weapons charges that could be charged well at the state level, they could enter into the game at that point. but now leaving this to the feds. one thing extraordinarily interesting that the d.a. told us exclusively at cnn, dzhokhar tsavraev, as he continues to improve, his condition has been fair actually quite some time believe it or not. there is the problem. there are other victim family members who are not the least bit happy that he is being treated at the same facility that the alleged victims of him are being treated. and there is this consternation according to the d.a. this is the thought, perhaps in the next few days, getting him out of here, potentially moving him to another hospital. have a listen to what the d.a. tells us about that. >> i don't have any direction communication with the united states attorney on this, but i have been told that there is some concern that this defendant is being treated at the same hospital where victims are at, so that's natural, you can see how victims would be upset. before releasing the defendant to federal custody and the prison system, perhaps they will release them to other hospitals where victim families are not located. >> key be moved to another hospital in the area before he ends up incarcerated. >> we have a lot of good hospitals in the area, and not every one is treating victims, so that's a possible i think. >> reporter: district attorney conley says the timing of the movement of the defendant is solely up to the doctors, to determine if he's well enough to be transported there is the possibility he could leap frog another facility and taken straight to an incarceration facility. when i asked where will they be holding him until he stands trial for this? which could be somewhere between 12 and 18 months from now, he suggested high likelihood, the mci clinic. massachusetts correctional clinic in pluymouth, they don't have the kind of facility to look at someone in critical condition, but they do have the possibility to treat him. one more thing to tell you, wolf. when i asked the d.a. if he was prosecuting this case, given the amount of evidence and the quality of the evidence, that he knows of just this far, how strong a case is it? he thought it was incredibly strong and would absolutely lead to a conviction. >> good stuff, ashley. thank you very much, ashleigh banfield reporting for us. we appreciate it. the massachusetts boat owner who discovered dzhokhar tsavraev in his backyard is telling his story. david henneberry told our affiliate wtvb that everything happened when he went outside to fix something on his boat. >> no indication of anything. i know people say there was blood on the boat, saw blood and went in? not -- >> reporter: not true. >> not true. >> reporter: the word is you saw the boat, pulled back the wrappi wrapping, saw a body, it moved and you called 911. >> no. >> reporter: he went to the garage and grabbed a step ladder. >> got three steps up the ladder, rolled it up and i could see through the shrink-wrap. i didn't expect to see anything, and i look in the boat over here, and look on the floor, and i see blood. and. >> reporter: a lot of blood? >> a good amount of blood and my eyes went to the other side of the engine box, the engine box in the middle. it was a body. >> reporter: at that moment, what did you do? what were you thinking at that moment? >> oh, my god. >> reporter: he couldn't see suspect number two's face. glad he couldn't see his face. >> i took three steps up the ladder, i don't remember stepping off down the ladder. >> reporter: and you run in the house. >> yeah. >> reporter: immediately call 911. people are calling you a national hero. >> incidental hero. i -- i wasn't out on the prowl, i was out to see my boat, and i stumbled across this. >> henneberry says he's glad to bring closure to the victims' families. according to comments from this unsung hero, at least until now. meanwhile, the united states wants to question the bombing suspect's parents at their home in southern russia. a delegation from the u.s. embassy in moscow arrived in dagestan earlier this morning. the suspect's mother said she believes her sons were framed. a u.s. official says the russian government is cooperating in the investigation. from u.s. senators are defending the fbi, saying they don't believe the agency dropped ball on the investigation on tamerlan tsavraev. agents questioned him back in 2011 at russia's request and didn't find anything. crime and justice correspondent joe johns joins us from washington. working the story for us. a lot of people wondering if the fbi, in fact, did miss something. >> that's true, wolf. and the u.s. government gets thousands of tips from foreign governments to check people out. but in the case of tamerlan tsavraev, the question being asked now is whether the feds had enough information to do more than they did in the two years before the boston bombing. tamerlan tsavraev first hit the fbi's radar when the russian government said they should check him out. >> the russian government sent a letter, we think this guy has become radicalized, you should watch him. >> reporter: he was a follower of radical islam and a strong believer that he had changed drastically since 2010 as he prepared to leave the united states for travel to the country's region to join unspecified underground groups. the fbi says it checked u.s. government data basses, telephone communications, online activity, and also actually interviewed tamerlan tsavraev and family members. but the fbi said it did not find any terrorism activity so it gave that information to russia and asked for, but did not receive more specific or additional info. case closed. >> because additional information didn't come in, then the fbi says for our purposes under our system and with all the records and investigation we're allowed to do here, it hasn't risen to the level to warrant further investigation or full-time surveillance. >> reporter: a federal law enforce official agrees, tamerlan, not on a terror watchlist or any no-fly list. no alarm bells when tsavraev came back to the u.s. >> by the time he return, the matter had been closed. >> reporter: it's not clear if the department of homeland security, charged with monitoring travel, even knew tsavraev was on the fbi's radar. talking to each other was supposed to be a lesson from 9/11. >> we are trying to make all of the information available was shared if it wasn't, then there may be somebody who dropped the ball. >> reporter: and that's the takeaway. much of the concern right now in washington, is about 9/11 and if the national security system has to relearn those lessons, wolf. >> and the lessons are going to be studies and studied and studied to make sure they aren't repeated. joe johns in washington. the suspect's uncle says that tamerlan tsavraev was brainwashed by a friend at cambridge, what does that mean for the investigation? 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>> look, wolf, they have an extraordinary amount of information. this is the sort of information that will go to the very top. why? because of, of course, they want to know all of the connections of the suspects, and they want to know, were there other coconspirators, as part of that inquiry, they want to identify misha,an how he fit into the brother's lives. did he inspire, direct them, what role if any, did misha play in terms of how they became radicalized and began to think, and did he -- does misha have any connection to islamist and radicals overseas? >> that's a key point if, in fact there, was a misha, was he acting alone or connected to some groups? excellent questions for investigators to look at. they have also been taking a look at some of the comments, some of statements, some of the occasions co indications from sdpldzhokhar tsavraev. he said he never had any contact with terrorist groups and that both of the brothers were radicalized over the internet. here is the question. are federal investigators skeptical of anything this guy says? >> they will be skeptical of everything they say. this is out of jihadist playbook, if you will, these alleged grievances, defending belief in islam, objection to u.s. troop presence in iraq and afghanistan, you recall, wolf, there was a time when bin laden objected to western troop presence in the arabian peninsula. particularly in the kingdom of saudi arabia. they were removed and continued al qaeda and bin laden to launch acts. some of this is just propaganda, what you usually hear from captured suspects. but this self-radicalized part, it will be interesting, we know investigators are looking at what sorts of things on the internet? was it the i spire magazine put out by "inspire," did he listen to anwar al awlaki, the now-dead cleric, whose lectures are well published and distributed and were listened to someone like nadal hasan, the ft. hood shooter? those are the sorts of things that investigators will look at and it was about how they thought and who their contacts were, which remains very important. >> tsavraev also told investigators in the hospital room that the wars in iraq and afghanistan were the motivators behind these attacks at the boston marathon, what does that say to the investigators? >> wolf, i'm not sure it says much. there is nothing that dzhokhar can say to justify the horrific attacks and nobody will much care, even if what he's saying is true. but as we have said, investigators will be very skeptical of any excuse he gives or proffers. investigators frankly are much more interested in what the facts are. what did he look at? what actually influenced his thinking, and who did he deal with? where did he obtain explosives? very, very fact oriented for investigators. prosecutors don't have to prove a motive. whether or not jo har says motive, the military actions in iraq and afghanistan, whatever motive doesn't matter. they used a weapon of mass destruction to kill americans and proving that is really what the investigators will remain focused on. >> fran townsend, national security analyst, thank you very much for that analysis. still adhere, authorities clear an elvis impersonator of sending letters laced with ricin to president obama. what paul kevin curtis is saying about his arrest. a lot more news from boston and the world, when we come back. but i wondered what a customer thought? 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