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Going on before 2011 that came to the attention of the russians. was that via the internet? were there phone calls? you know, the russians have that part of the world, chechnya and dagestan covered pretty tightly for intelligence purposes. so something happened in 2011 or before 2011, and then he traveled there in 2012. did he have contacts there? were there people here that radicalized him? was it the digital jihad of the internet? a lot of questions out there. all right, peter brookes, former cia analyst, our appreciation. thanks for coming in this morning. thanks. we ll talk to you again soon. zoraida? 38 minutes past the hour. floodwaters, cresting rivers and sandbags are the big news this morning in middle america. millions of people are feeling the effects of last week s really heavy rain. a number of river towns under flood watches or warnings this morning with more rain sadly in the forecast. i feel terrible saying that. cnn s jim spellman is in one of those towns. he s ....
thanks for having me. new this morning, there is shock from the aunt of the accused boston bombers. nick paton walsh spoke to her earlier about the six months that suspect number one, tamerlan tsarnaev spent in dagestan last year. she says she was surprised that tsarnaev became devoutly muslim while living in the u.s., not in russia, but while living in the u.s. she also said he would not look a woman directly in the eye if she was not related to him. she expressed disbelief that he was allegedly involved in the attacks at all. runners and spectators in other races around the world are showing solidarity with the people of boston. there were hundreds of extra police officers assigned to the london marathon where runners wore black ribbons to remember the bombing victims. you saw support in everything from spectator signs to runners hairstyles. organizers donated money for every single runner who crossed ....
Adopted city. one possibility, the new york times reporting that his citizenship was delayed perhaps because of the fbi investigation. a lot of questions. thank you. john, back to you. so, the crime scene stretches from behind me in boston all the way to russia s northern caucasus. nick paton walsh just spoke to the suspect s aunt and he is live for us in dagestan what are you learning for us? reporter: interesting conversation with the aunt, particularly about the six months with tamerlan tsarnaev and the time he spent here last year. she said he arrived around about march before his father turned up and said he was surprised about how in america he had become a pretty devout muslim, a woman w man who wouldn t look a woman he wasn t related to in the eye. ....
She said his family fled chechnya before the second chechen war. also disbelief from her that her relatives could have been involved. is there a connection between this gunfight involving militant and police in dagestan and one of the boston bombers? the youtube page of deceased brother tamerlan tsarnaev suggest there s might be. he put up a link to a video , te video was removed but cnn found it, and it shows this man, abu dejan the name used by an islamist militant, and russian forces hit his hideout last december. an armored car brought in to kill as many as six militants ....
That would have been in a formative time for tamerlan, he d have been about 11 or 12 and fled as refugees to dagestan and only later did they go to the united states. john? all right, nick paton walsh. putting the pieces together in dagestan this morning. our thanks to you. in our next half hour, did the fbi miss some major signs in this investigation? we re going to get perspective from terrorism analyst peter brookes. also dzhokhar tsarnaev was spotted all over his college campus in the days after the bombings. cnn s chris lawrence will join us with what his classmates atom mass dartmouth have to say right now. zoraida? meantime into the crater. we are live next in the town of west, texas, where investigators hope a search inside the site of that explosion at a fertilizer plant will provide some clues as to what happened there. when our little girl was born, we got a subaru. it s where she said her first word. (little girl) no! saw her first day of school. ....