his sister is also a pleasure to babysit. she is adorable and they are great kids. last night, there was a candle-light vigil held in martin s honor. people packed a park. it was supposed to be at the church, but they had to move it to the park because there was such an outpouring of affection. 100 of 183 people taken to the hospital have been released. that is wonderful news. we know president obama set to visit boston tomorrow. he will speak at an interfaith service. now, we have been talking about this investigation for a while. we have this new exclusive information, could be very important. we want to bring in fran townsend. former assistant to george w. bush for homeland security and counterterrorism. fran, the news is this. i will hold this up. this is the lid to a pressure cooker. we know a pressure cooker was used in this. one of the explosive devices.
in one photo, you can see a cluster of bbs, pellets, melted together during the heat of the explosion. we know the second bomb was also in a metal container, although investigators are not saying what kind yet. the investigation is moving quickly. but information will come when it comes. the third person whose life was taken in the attacks. a chinese grad student studying at boston university. not releasing her name. respecting her family s wishes, they want it kept quiet. fran townsend, cnn national security analyst, homeland security adviser to george w. bush, as assistant to the president. broke the news a short while ago of the key finding now from investigators from the crime scene behind us, they found the lid of the pressure cooker use as a bomb nearby on a rooftop. what more you can tell us? investigators will go very chin rately over all the
assistant to george w. bush. she s been working the phones since this incident began. fran, i understand you have some new, important information. good morning, john and chris. yes. you know, among the pictures we have now found that the one that you d like most to see this morning isn t in there. yesterday, at the boston press conference the u.s. secret service official stood up at the conference and said that fragments had been found, both embedded in walls in the surrounding buildings, and on rooftops. cnn learned this morning from a federal law enforcement official that on one rooftop in the area, they found the lid to the pressure cooker. that s a tremendous break for investigators. there s all kinds of information. the lid is likely to contain sort of trace elements that they ll be able to know better about the explosives, they may be able to find, as we discussed earlier this morning, latent fingerprints. there s all that s a treasure trove of information for investigators a