by the suspect, hence the instruction everyone stay in your homes if you can because officers are going door-to-door right now. chris lawrence is at the campus of the university of massachusetts in dartmouth. actually had been registered there as a student. at this hour the campus is closed and controlled evacuation, those are the words. a controlled evacuation on the campus is underway. chris, what are you learning? you know, wolf, we re standing here basically surrounded by police. not only university of mass dartmouth police, but state police as well as well as local officials. and we re seeing just literally dozens and hundreds of students streaming off of the campus. we ve had a chance to talk to a few of them. one of the students said basically they got an e-mail earlier saying that the campus was on lockdown. then their r.a. started coming to their door door by door saying look, you ve got to go,
overly alarmed when they hear a big boom. cnn has now confirmed and i want to relay this to our viewers that this 19-year-old suspect sdar car tsarnaev was in fact a naturalized u.s. citizen. he received his u.s. citizenship september of last year. his older brother, tomar tsarnaev 26 years old now dead killed in a shootout with police, he was also a naturalized u.s. citizen. apparently both, chris, had claimed asylum as a result they got green cards and eventually became u.s. citizens. horrible irony that a place decided to protect them and give them a chance at a new life they decided to turn against. now, that does seem to be reading into motive, but the more we understand even placing aside that investigators and authorities believe that they are the bombers, that they told a hostage that they had last night that they were the bombers, online the activity of the suspect that they re pursuing right now does suggest an interest in extremism. so the pictures becoming much
brothers from a predominantly muslim region in russia. they have gone to school here, they ve said they re grateful to be here and love the country. right now a door-to-door search is underway in the boston suburb of watertown as police look for the younger brother 19 years old believed to be extremely dangerous, possibly armed with explosives, wolf. and that is 26-year-old brother, the older brother, died after a shootout with police. we re told he was wearing explosives and a triggering device when he died. this dramatically intensifies overnight. police say the suspects shot and killed an m.i.t. police officer, 26-year-old sean collier. they then carjacked a man at gunpoint. police chased down the suspects in the stolen car. that s when the shootout happened. right now all the boston area schools are closed. businesses are closed. public transportation shut down. wolf almost wasn t able to get here when he landed at logan airport coming back. so why? abundance of caution, explos
when they say they re 60%, 70% through with what they re trying to accomplish, when they say what they re doing in the neighborhoods and a controlled explosion, i think it s basically telling everybody they re there, they re making everybody safe, they re going to resolve this, they re working through the public safety issues. and i think that, again, it s an example of each agency of a task force brings to the table their expertise. so, yes, you ve got the federal investigators off trying to cover leads all over the world and resolve issues on the subjects of the case. but then you also have the police doing their responsibility of local public safety and making sure these neighborhoods are safe and they re going to get these apartments and other physical locations secured. and if they do go ahead with that controlled explosion, if you will, they ve got to be really careful. it s a good thing, tom and chris, that they notify everyone that they re going to be doing this to make sure
more full of this man. yeah. there s some activity going on in cambridge right now. brooke is on the scene for us. what are you seeing and hearing. hey, wolf, you re exactly right. we have zoomed in to see the firefighters there they go. actually, i m moving closer down norfolk. that is the street. i would say just about a football field and a half from where you see those firefighters down norfolk is where we believe is that apartment complex where these two guys who d been living here in cambridge. i have been here for several hours this morning, and what we just learned in that news conference from police jives with this tremendous law enforcement presence. you know, we have additional ambulances on standby, possibly in the case that there could be injuries with this controlled explosion. but we saw firefighters pulling out the hose, we re sort of waiting for possibly signaling