we re talking about. this is the site of the sex e second explosion. the mailbox here and right back it was placed near the mailbox. you can see the scarring, some sort of explosion caused the dark scarring on the surface. this photo is of the very site of where i m told the lord & taylor video if my memory of boston is right, they had what they believed to be a very good static view of this and enhancement of that video from the department store. and i m told from boston tv station video then used to go back through and make further refinements in the analysis. from that i was told they had a breakthrough in identification of a suspect. i want to be very careful about this because people get very sensitive when you say these things. i was told by one of these sources who is a law enforcement official that this was a dark-skinned male. the official used some other words i m not going to repeat them. because of the sensitivity people will take offense even at saying that. i m just s
a turning point in the investigation, a significant development, this source said they hope to have much more information later in the day. and additional second source, someone briefed on the progress to the investigation overnight told me that they had identified clearly identified an individual suspect, that identification was based on enhanced video analysis. largely of video obtained from the lord & taylor department store, just a few steps from us here, a short distance away, and very, very close, just across the street from the site of the second explosion on monday near the finish line of the boston marathon. based on that video analysis, i m also told some video provided by a boston television station also was used in the ticktock if you will, the framing and timing that they said they enhanced that, clearly identified a suspect placing, dropping a black bag with what they believe to be the second explosive device at the scene and the investigation was going from there. i wa
explosive devices at that location of the second explosion. i repeatedly asked whether this person was in custody, i could not get further answers. but i did get from this source a clear indication that the authorities believe they have identified this individual and that that is now the focus of the investigation. i was told to expect more information to be released publicly later today, but i can tell you, wolf, from both of these sources a significant shift. last night they were saying that they had done a good job with the forensics, a very good job of reconstructing how this happened and the type of explosion, but they were quite frustrated as to the question of who. now i am told based largely on the video analysis that came from closed-circuit cameras from the lord & taylor department store that one of these sources made a clear identification of a potential suspect and calling this substantial progress, hopefully a breakthrough they believe in this investigation. that store i
5:00 p.m. eastern with the fbi, local police, the governor, the mayor and others. they ll tell us what they can at that time. in the meantime, your breaking news. i was told by one source this morning a boston law enforcement source that they believe they had a breakthrough of significant progress in the investigation. this source declined to be much more specific just said as the analysis continued, and we know the analysis was centered on video analysis, all the camera stuff turned in by local television stations, individuals, video and still photos. i was told there was a much better mood this morning and what they believe to be significant progress in the investigation, a turning point. that s how a boston law enforcement source described it to me. i spoke to a second source briefed on and based on my ranks with that source, i can t identify that source any further, but a reliable source someone getting detailed briefings on the progress in the investigation, that source said the
breakthrough came from video analysis right up the street here of a department store later identified as the lord & taylor department store, which is very close to the site of the second explosion. you were just a block away from there. and i m told because of that video and i m also told video given by a boston tv station was helpful into corroborate that and match things up, timing, sequencing, framing if you will. but largely from the department store surveillance video that they actually got what they were looking for, wolf, which was an individual coming in and placing. and then walking away. that s what they had been looking for. let me focus in on the place of that. video enhancement technology improved dramatically allows them to go in and make a facial identification. i was told they had clearly identified one suspect. forgive me, i went to ask additional questions of anyone else involved and i was told by the person briefed this morning they had been told of one suspe