hi everyone. i'm anderson cooper in boston for our special coverage of the boston bombings investigation. there's a lot to tell you about in the hour ahead. terror suspect dzhokhar tsarnaev is no longer in this city. here's the latest, the wounded 19-year-old was moved from a hospital here in boston to a prison hospital 40 miles away. he's now at federal medical center devens that holds male inmates that need specialized or long-term medical care. the whereabouts of the suspect's parents are now in question. their father was supposed to have been here either today or tomorrow that according to the family. he'd agree to cooperate with the investigation as well, but his wife now tells cnn her husband is delaying his trip indefinitely she says for health reasons. she also says they've left their home in dagestan and gone to another part in russia, exactly where we don't know. 34 of the more than 250 people wounded in last week east's ter attacks are still in the

hospital. one remains in critical condition. at least 14 of the victims had to have amputations. we got word of the transfer from the hospital here in boston to the federal prison detention hospital. the move comes almost a week after he was captured in the manhunt. deborah feyerick is outside the federal facility right now in devens, massachusetts. fill us in on what you've learned about this transfer. >> what we do know is fort devens was put in lockdown yesterday and we got word that dzhokhar tsarnaev was moved here. it's run by the bureau of prisons. they have about 1,000 beds. he was brought here by u.s. marshals, u.s. attorney, fbi, all of them obviously coordinated this to make sure he got here. what's interesting is the fact they moved him. usually -- and i spoke to somebody at the justice department, usually when a prisoner is well enough and they are transported to an official bureau of prisons facility and

i'm told that that's what happened in this case. i tried to press to see if there was any suggestion that the hospital wanted him moved rather sooner than later because of victims that were there but all i got was once the prisoner is ready to be transported, well enough to be transported, that's what happens, anderson. >> all right. and how -- the facility, what do we know about their capabilities there? >> they've got doctors on staff here. this is where people come for both medical care and also mental health care. we were told that they have extensive medical practitioners on hand. clear the circumstances around tsarnaev are a little bit different because he has a team of doctors that are handling him. he had 24-hour care, intensive care while he was at beth israel deacon hospital medical center there. that's clearly because they don't want anything to go wrong. he was in fragile condition when he arrived. he was intubated immediately,

hands restrained, heavily sedated in part to stabilize his body because he did have wounds throughout. and they wanted to make sure that he didn't go into any sort of cardiac arrest. they were keeping him as stable as possible while he healed from his wounds. we're told at the beginning of the week the tube was removed he was breathing on his own, but he was well enough and stable enough in fair condition to now be in the bureau prison system, anderson. >> all right. "boston" magazine getting special attention for the edition on the bombings. it's got a great cover. turned a symbol of running shoes shaped into a heart with the words "we will finish the race." according to "boston" magazine's editor, that picture says perseverance and unity just days from shipping out the may issue. it took a frantic team effort to pull it off. we're joined by the man who led that effort, editor john wilson. first of all, how did you come up with the idea? >> well, it was our art department. we were kicking around a few

ideas. we weren't sure what we were going to do. and we knew we wanted to do something that symbolized race and running and of course the shoes came together and suddenly we had it. >> how did you get the shoes from people in the race? >> that was the most interesting part. once we had a great concept, how do we execute in about three days? we immediately took to social media channels, twitter, facebook and all-out scramble everyone on staff, sales, marketing, editing, reaching out to everyone they knew or might have known in the race. >> we have pictures of behind the scenes you putting it together. everybody told their stories as well. >> all the shoes on the cover we are still photographing those individual pairs of shoes and then interviewed the folks who submitted them. and about 15 of those people and their shoes are in the magazine. and the rest are going on the web. >> to you what's the power of it? hearing this story, seeing the pictures. >> it's interesting, it really helps all of us understand i think how every single individual contributes to the whole. and as hokie as that may sound, i think that symbolizes the movement forward here in the aftermath of the bombing. i think if you remove one shoe

or one pair of shoes from that cover concept, the overall effect it diminishes it to systsome degree. >> there has been this extraordinary sense of kind of unity and defiance here. i've seen it in haiti, i've seen it in new orleans after katrina. kind of wishes life could be like this always in terms of people being together. it really does bring people together in a way. >> no, i think it does. i think you're absolutely right. and i think it was really touching to all of us because everybody had to interview folks. we had so many people submitting shoes. and to hear those stories again and again and again really did understand the city coming together. and people still grieving to be perfectly honest. >> and interesting because everywhere you went, everybody kind of had their own view of this. they all wanted to tell you where they were, what they experienced even if it wasn't something that directly touched them, it impacted them in ways large and small. >> that's exactly right. and boston, you know, we'd like to think of ourselves as a big

small city. it's such a small footprint and so many people take part of this event really didn't have to scratch the surface very far to find everybody has been effected in one level. >> i think there's a lot of people who want to be part of it next year. >> i will say this, if the intention was to in any way undermine the race going forward, it had the exact opposite effect because they -- i think they'll try to get more people to run next year. >> no doubt about it. >> so many people feel the way you do. >> it's a great cover. thanks for being with us. >> appreciate it. >> great to see. gives you a real sense of what it's been like here the last almost two weeks. support for the bombing victims can be seen very clearly on boylston street just behind me. people still leaving flowers, stuffed animals and other gifts at the makeshift memorial. there's also a big support at marathon sports on boylston. the running store was just a few feet from the bombing blast. its employees rushed to help

victims and kind of became a triage area. they have reopened the the staff's wearing t-shirts with the phrase boston strong in solidarity with the victims. customers are lining up to buy the shirts. proceeds are going to benefit one fund boston. great to see that store back open. here's what we're working on this hour, these dogs can literally smell the vapors of a bomb, not just the actual device but the vapor trail of a bomb before it goes off. just like he's trained to do when the suspect stops, the dog stops too then sits down alerting his handler to the bad guy. >> an amazing story of the use of these dogs. we're going to have that for you. plus, forced spending cuts are causing painful delays at airports. if you've been flying lately, you know that. we'll take you to one of the busiest airports in the country straight ahead.

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welcome back. i'm anderson cooper in boston where we continue to follow developments in the marathon bombings, but right now another important story to get you up to date on. thousands of air traffic controllers will head back to work soon. an hour ago the house voted for a bill ending the furloughs that went into effect on sunday. they caused some 3,000 flight delays. the bill gives the faa

permission to move money from another part of the budget to fund the controllers. it's wiggle room in the forced federal spending cuts. the president is expected to sign it later today. travelers from new york to chicago to l.a. have been dealing with flight delays as long as 90 minutes all week since the furloughs went into effect. so the bill's passage is certainly welcome news to a lot of those folks although we don't yet know when the air traffic controllers will be able to go back to work. what are the delays like today, stephanie, at the airport? >> anderson, when you look at the delays here they're actually not that bad right now. beautiful day here. a lot of flights coming in from local areas, maybe arizona or coming in from texas. not too far away. some of the airline employees that i've spoken to said a lot of these delays tend to mount up later in the evening because of the furloughs. they kind of add on top of each other. so that's one thing to keep in mind. overall when you talk to passengers if they know about the furloughs or not, they know if they've been sitting on the tarmac a little longer.

what they're really concerned about is not necessarily being on time. in fact, one passenger we spoke to summed it up the best way. >> i actually dozed off on the runway and woke up and we were still there. i jump on and off these planes like they're cabs. i want to make sure they're safe and there's somebody there making sure we take off and land and we're not running into each other. >> so safety being a major concern obviously here that people want to make sure that these planes are safe, that there are enough eyes on these planes from the air traffic control towers. but moving forward a lot of people also concerned that it was so easy for congress to come together with a result on this one item that effects so many people, but there's still so many other bigger items that are still on the table, anderson. >> yeah, no doubt about it. stephanie elam, appreciate it. from lax. syrian officials saying they don't have chemical weapons and this they did, they wouldn't use them. reacting to british claims that

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and welcome back. you're looking at live pictures at the memorial on boylston street where so many people have stopped throughout the day today and just over the last several days now that boylston street has reopened. one of the numerous people now regarded as a hero of the boston marathon bombings is speaking out, jeff bouman easter fiing ordeal was captured in this now famous photograph showing him in a wheelchair moments after receiving massive injuries from the explosion. he lost both his legs and despite injuries he was able to identify one of the suspected bombers. this morning bauman spoke to weel boston radio station saying his injuries hurt every day.

and he also describes the chilling moment when he was standing next to one of the suspected bombers. >> i was with my girlfriend's roommates and having a great time, you know. we were watching the runners. everyone was having a great time. and just that one guy, you know, he didn't look like he was having a good time. he was right next to me at that point. and he had a bag. and he had his glasses. he had kind of like a sweatshirt type of deal. and it was warm out. it was just an odd guy. it just struck me as odd. that's what i remember and then next thing you know i hear fireworks and i'm on the ground, you know? >> i misspoke, weei the boston radio station, weei interviewing the boston bombing victim jeff bauman who helped authorities identify the suspect.

well, the road to recovery for the dozens of injuried in the bombings will be a little longer for some. at least 14 bombing survivors have had amputations, all of them will have to learn to walk again with prosthetic devices. there have been remarkable advances in prosthetics over the past several years due to the wars in iraq and afghanistan. our chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta takes a look at how learning to walk again with a prosthetic. >> it takes time. about six weeks post-surgery for a new amputee to take this first step. one of the most important things is that this wound around the amputation have to heal completely. this incision line you see over here. after that is done, they actually have to shape the remaining area of the leg. and then actually put something onto sort of shrink those tissues so that the prosthetic can go on. every patient that suffers an amputation goes through tailored therapy to learn how to use their new limb.

peter lost his leg due to complications from diabetes has had his prosthetic leg less than two weeks. signs of progress can be small sometimes, but no hands. he was using one hand earlier. two hands before that. let me show you something else if you come around and take a look. when you actually look specifically at what's happening with his feet over here, he's stepping up with his good leg over here. but look what's happening with the prosthetic. you get this sort of expect what you want the heel-to-toe sort of rock. that doesn't come naturally. something pete really has to practice. surprisingly everyday tasks like making coffee, it's part of therapy as well. he's not holding onto anything right now. he's able to keep his balance on his own. he's trusting his leg, distracted not thinking about that and he's got a lot of balance that he's testing and successfully testing by actually moving around the kitchen here. he's never done this before.

i mean, take a look. it's an uneven surface. he's got to essentially bend his knees. a lot harder than it looks for someone who has a brand new prosthetic device. pretty good, pete. the first month of therapy is all about the basics for lower limb amputees. taking those first steps to learn to live independently. some people say, look, this is going to be sort of a new normal for these patients. but you say it's actually more of just normal. >> once they look back on the situation a year from now, two years from now, you know, that's -- yes, this will be a nightmare and, yes, there is a loss that's permanent, but they have every reason to expect that they're going to be able to go on and live the same happy satisfied lives. >> in fact, thanks to advanced prosthetic technology, most amputees go onto not only live a normal life, but to push themselves even beyond previous

expectations. >> the future is really much brighter than they could probably imagine at this point in time. but i think for the people in boston, they'll also have that experience. >> dr. sanjay gupta, cnn, reporting. >> well, if you want to help those affected by the boston bombings, you can visit or even the explosion in west, texas, visit our website cnn's impact your world. still ahead, for the first time we're going to take you inside to chechnya, the place where the tsarnaev brothers families are originally from. ♪ [ agent smith ] i've found software that intrigues me. it appears it's an agent of good. ge has wired their medical hardware with innovative software to be in many places

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david mattingingly reports on that. >> the tsarnaev brothers arouse no suspicions they were planning deadly violence. and now the mosque leadership has to defend itself against claims it is a haven for radicals. we find there has been some hate mail, sometimes menacing. >> so a lot of the claims made . there have been people coming in and out of this place. we have a congregation of 1,300 people. >> reporter: charles jacobs is a long-time critic of the islamic society of boston. >> they're aiming to transform the youth, particularly the youth, into more and more radical islamist beliefs. >> reporter: he claims they have in detail. claims denied in detail. >> there are several claims with terror and hate speech at that mosque. >> reporter: one listed founder

abdul raham, a man whose public image very different from his activities. he was sentenced in 2004 to 23 years in prison or terrorist fund raising and conspireing to murder the saudi prince. the isb says during his time at the isb he followed all rules and regulations, a defense similar when it comes to the tsarnaev brothers. they never expressed any hint of violent sentiments or behavior. >> i think if we could have done more, we absolutely would have. >> the isb says people who knew the tsarnaevs were immediately instructed to call the fbi. the younger brother rarely attended services here. and the older brother attended only occasionally. and it was his own actions that seemed to dispute the idea of a radical mosque. three months ago tamerlan tsarnaev shouted at a preacher during a service calling him a nonbeliever and a hypocrite when

he praised dr. martin luther king. he was told to be quiet or he would not be welcome. charles jacobs stops short of accusing the mosque of having a hand in tsarnaev's radicalization. is there any evidence that any of these individuals or any of these teachings you've been talking about were influential in radicalizing the bombers? >> we don't know that. they live five blocks away. if you're looking for -- there are many suppositions about what actually radicalized these bombers. >> david mattingly, cnn, boston. >> take a look at makeshift memorial growing on boylston street, the site of the marathon bombings. it's been 11 days sin since terrorists struck this city killing three people and wounding more than 250 others. 34 of the wounded remain hospitalized right now. one in critical condition. 14 of them have had amputations. a wounded bombing suspect, dzhokhar tsarnaev, has been transferred out of the city.

he was moved from a hospital here in boston to a federal medical center devens, it's a prison hospital that's 40 miles away. boston is only one side of the bombing investigation of course. the other side is overseas in russia. authorities are still trying to piece together what tamerlan tsarnaev was doing there for that six-month timeframe. that's where the bombing suspects also traced their roots. they trace them not only to dagestan but also to chechnya. our nick paton walsh went to chechnya today. >> reporter: heading into chechnya you feel the weight of two brutal wars. for an independence moscow would never allow. its ruins rebuilt over the only upside of the kremlin's heavy hand. the tsarnaev family's identity was forged here. we found their hometown, what's left of the family home. in its ruins lie the brutalized past the brothers must have grown up with. tamerlan fled this town when he was about 11 before the second

war began and this street was bombed. it's hard to be a chechen without a tie to your homeland. and these ruins bombed out in the first chechen war are what's left of the family home of the father to the alleged boston bombers. their great uncle remembers a devoutly religious tamerlan from last year but also them as children. >> translator: they were this big, but i didn't see them after that. and they weren't involved in that crazy stuff. >> reporter: i show him tamerlan's picture from online. >> translator: that's him. that's tamerlan probably chblt. he didn't live here so i can't say. >> reporter: americans say he's behind the boston bombings. >> translator: i saw him on tv. they said he was dead. i saw that, there he looks good. but i saw him on tv like this and that's it. >> reporter: since the war in chechen has pushed the violence across the region into dagestan. shootouts like this which killed

abu, a militant whose video tamerlan posted a link to, a commonplace. police call them bandits using jihad as a cover for criminality. militants like him wage against corrupt russian police. this video police say shows them cutting the throat of a policeman in his home. the west sometimes in their rhetorical sites as they train and recruit in the woods chechnya's war began a cycle of violence that doesn't stop, just spreads. >> nick paton walsh joins me now from southern russia. another big development, nick, today was that the parents of the tsarnaev brothers, they've left their home. a, do we know why? and do we know where they've gone? >> i think the key reason was privacy really. they had an awful lot of attention not only from media but also investigators. and of course there is the slipping health of anzor, the

father. he was supposed to travel today or maybe tomorrow to the united states. i understand for the moment his health has deteriorated. and that trip will subsequently be delayed. they've left dagestan, as she told me and gone to another part of russia. she didn't want to disclose where. clearly getting to the united states for them a priority. they just at this point seem to constantly find obstacles preventing them from doing that. anderson. >> have they both been interviewed by russian and american authorities? and is there cooperation between russians and americans? >> it's clear they're both being interrogated at length by both the fbi and fsb. she wouldn't speak much about that investigation but asked about this radical family friend called misha who seems to have helped her and her older son devout islam. in terms of russian-american cooperation there's quite a lot of noise yesterday on the hill suggesting maybe the russians hadn't been as forthcoming as they could be about persons of

interest. and point out it's not really fashionable to defend -- russians do appear on three occasions to have made quite direct warnings to the united states about tamerlan and according to reports last night about the mother as well. i think we'll see a diplomatic spat as both try to not accept blame for dropping the ball, but the russians come forward with an amount of it does provide fuel to american claims they could have provided earlier. anderson. >> yeah, nick paton walsh in russia, appreciate it. as we told you at the top of the hour dzhokhar tsarnaev is now in prison. we'll tell you new details about what the prison is equipped to do to treat his injuries. we'll be right back. with a machine. what? customers didn't like it. so why do banks do it? hello? hello?! if your bank doesn't let you talk to a real person 24/7, you need an ally. hello?

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90 minutes of terror, that's what a boston man says he went through after being carjacked by the bombing suspects. he gave his account exclusively here the other day. the 26-year-old chinese entrepreneur who wants to be identified only by his american nickname, danny, detailed his experience as i said exclusively to "boston globe." the reporter describes one critical moment of the ride. he says and i quote "they stopped in watertown center so dzhokhar could withdraw money from the bank of america atm using danny's card.

danny, shivering from fear but claiming to be cold asked for his jacket. a police car drove by, lights off. danny would get another chance to escape after enduring a seemingly endless ride through boston. listen to the writer. >> they drive around for 90 minutes constantly threatening him and danny's just trying to think how do i stay alive. i don't want to say the wrong thing. at one point he gets a text message from his roommate in chie naez saying where are you, how come you haven't come home. and tamerlan takes an english to chinese app texts back i'm sick, not coming home tonight, i'm with a friend. that seems weird to danny's roommate. there's another text and then a call, they don't answer. there's silence in danny's car. they call again, tamerlan says you answer, if you say a word in chinese because he knows he's speaking in chinese, he might rat them out, i'll kill you and don't be stupid. so danny says answering to someone talking to him in mandarin in english i'm sick, i'm with a friend, i'm sorry, i've got to go.

he's trying to think where can i get out, when is my moment. lucky for danny the car was running low on gas, hay that had to stop at a gas station, double stroke of luck wouldn't accept the card. tamerlan's been on the run all day, he's killed an m.i.t. police officer five hours earlier, he puts his guard down for a second, puts the gun in the driver side pocket of danny's suv and he's got both hands fiddling with the gps and he realizes if i'm going to get out, now is the chance, unbuckle the seat belt and go in one swift motion. >> that's exactly what he did. danny ran to a nearby gas station where 9-1-1 call was made. his iphone and car satellite system eventually helped police track down the stolen vehicle in watertown. that's when the shootout began. he spent almost a week in the same hospital as some of the people he's accused of wounding. but now as he mentioned dzhokhar tsarnaev is in a prison medical center about 40 miles away. i want to bring in our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. you've done some checking on

this facility at the prison. what are the capabilities that th have? ande, the are medical facilities in prisons all over the country, but there are only six facilities like this one. we're talking several hundred inmate patients, six physicians on staff, 60 doctors -- i mean 60 nurses rather. 24-hour care. so this hospital can do quite a bit, but let's talk a bit about what it can't do. it can't do big surgeries. when you look online, they do not have an accredited intensive care unit. and i think that says something about tsarnaev's condition. when he was released as far as we know he was in fair condition. so they obviously felt comfortable sending him to a facility that wasn't as sophisticated as the beth israel but still could give some level of care. >> right. elizabeth, appreciate the update. thank you very much. there's a lot going on throughout the day today. much more coverage from boston ahead. we're also going to get a look at some of the other stories that are making headlines today including why the fertilizer

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14 people died when the plant caught fire and exploded. still no word on exactly what caused the initial fire and the blast. authorities say they don't know how many ammonia nitrate was there because all records burned up in that fire. take a look at russia not far from moscow, a fire broke out at this psychiatric hospital overnight. 41 people were inside the building at the time. 38 of them have died. the fire is out now. russia's official news agency is reporting the fire may have started after an electrical short, but they are still investigating. we have some remarkable news from bangladesh also where building collapse has killed more than 300 people. stunning. rescuers have found at least 50 more people alive in the rubble. that's in addition to 70 who were pulled out earlier. many of them in critical condition. it's going to take hours to dig out those huddled in what used to be the third floor of the garment factory. hundreds more could still be

buried inside. along with growing anger in bangladesh, protesters demanding safer working conditions in the garment industry in bangladesh and want the factory owners arrested. we'll continue to follow that story. the government reports the economy grew at an annual rate of 2.5% in the first quarter, that is an improvement. if you recall the economy just about stalled in the fourth quarter last year growing an anemic 0.04% reading the value of the goods and services the country produces. anthony bourdain wants to blow out every misconception you might have about colombia. that's where he heads for this weekend's "parts unknown." here's anthony bourdain with good advice if you're going to follow him there. >> should you come here? yes, because it's beautiful, yes, because the people are nice, yes, because the food is awesome. this is a country with mountains, jungles, beaches, with a lot of good stuff. what do you need to know? don't talk politics here.

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well, imagine how things might have different if someone or something was able to detect the bombs before they went off at the boston marathon. researchers at auburn university are training bomb sniffing dogs that can detect bomb vapors from far away. the dogs are already used at some airports and on trains.

randi kaye shows us how these dogs are being trained. >> reporter: imagine if the boston bombing suspects had left a trail, a trail of vapors in the air that smelled like a bomb. >> up. >> reporter: vapors that only a specially trained dog could detect. >> stay. stay. >> reporter: a dog like these now being trained at auburn university. researchers here call them vapor wake dogs. the point of a vapor wake dog is to detect the vapor of the bomb, if you will, before it's actually placed somewhere it might explode. >> that's exactly correct. your standard bomb dog, your explosive detector dog is primed on looking at an object, a backpack that's placed somewhere, a vapor wake dog's ability is to detect the odor coming off of that backpack on the back of someone as they carry it.

>> reporter: amazing. >> and to follow that plume of vapor. >> reporter: auburn university professor jim floyd says vapor they can follow a plume or bomb vapor, stretching several football fields. a skill so unique, the university hopes to patent it. this video from the university shows a vapor weight dog in action. once he catches the odor in the air, he never lets up. we did our own experiment at this alabama mall with the help of auburn's k-9 handlers. they give the man in the red shirt a knapsack loaded with explosives inside a pressure cooker. just like the bombers in boston. watch as the dog catches a whiff. and just like he's trained to do, when the suspect stops, the dog stops too. then sits down, alerting his handler to the bad guy. in a crowded mall or on a city street, this technique is

crucial. these dogs can potentially stop a would be bomber before it is too late. you think if you had a vapor wake dog in boston, they might have detected the suspects before they were able to place those backpacks down? >> had one of our dogs been in place on that corner, with those two guys walking there with those backpacks, i think they would have alerted them. >> reporter: their training starts early, even as early as these puppies, which are just about three weeks old. at this time, they're held a lot and socialized and then by the time their formal training starts when they're about a year old, they're used to people and loud noises and don't get spooked so easily. auburn has its own breeding program for bomb-sniffing dogs. they rarely use shepherds and traditional breeds but lean more on labradors and spaniels.

>> we need a dog that fits into the public profile, and the public is just going to walk past, ignore, as if it was a domestic pet. >> reporter: the bomb dogs are being used in airport, on amtrak trains, and by police departments too. what is it about a dog's nose, as compared to ours, that they are able to pick up something like that? >> well, the dogs olfactory system is actually 220 scent cells compared to humans, so that gives you a real comparison. we might be able to smell a woman's perfume walking by, the dog will not only smell the perfume, but the clothes, the material she's wearing, the shower gel she watshed with tha morning. >> reporter: in addition to vapor wake training, these dogs are able to detect explosives in the traditional way. paul shows us by hiding explosives in the tire well of this car. >> good job. the dog, you know, thought he was looking for explosives, he

probably wouldn't do it. >> reporter: what may be a game to these dogs could mean the difference between life and death to the rest of us. good job, my man. >> reporter: randi kaye, cnn, anniston, alabama. >> now i know why dogs are amazing. we have been reporting on the people that have amputations in the wake of the bombings. if there is anyone that can relate, it is a marine sergeant gabe martinez. listen to what he's telling the victims in this tragedy. so, gabe, you lost both your legs in an ied incident in march, afghanistan, thanksgiving, 2010. what are they feeling now that you felt at that time? >> their mind is filled with questions. it is starting anywhere, ranging from what am i going to do now. is my life over? am i ever going to be independent again or just dependent on somebody taking care of me the rest of my life.

and i went through that plethora of questions when i was in the hospital. i had my ups and downs. happy one day, sad the next. it is just right now they're just kind of discovering who they are now. and it is going to be an ongoing process that will take some time but every one of them will pull through. >> i was talking to a couple of veteran amputees earlier this week and they were saying, brooke, it is one thing to overcome the initial couple of hurdles, but you never know out of the blue one day, it is depression that was really tough for them to work through. what could you tell mom and daughter? >> just tell them that those are the days you dig deep. those are the days that you accept who you are, look in that mirror and see i have no legs and i got to accept that and, you know, i told them all that that these legs are a badge of honor for me and should be for them. they really did lose their legs in this country, and everybody is here to support them, not only in boston, but the whole world. and so that's just the days you got to dig deep and just accept who you are and do good things.

>> the advances in prosthetics are so amazing. a lot of people don't know this. but i wrote a book about afghanistan and i came to know a lot of soldiers, army, not marines, and they -- a lot of them lost legs, and are still in the service, still abroad, still serving in afghanistan. it is amazing what this generation of prosthetics alous someone like you to do if you set your mind to it. >> absolutely. that's one thing that i tell all the patients i saw, whatever your passion was, you're going to be able to get back to it. you're going to get new passions, i promise you. i told them that there is a whole spectrum of componentry for different prosthesis that will get you back in action, whether it is doing hair or running a marathon. you'll be able to do it. >> the technology, even here, just being here in boston, somebody was telling me they're working in a lab across the river in cambridge on a bionic ankle. so the technology is incredible. before we let you go, though, talk about hurdles and

overcoming them, we were talking before you came on, you're hoping to be in rio for the olympics. >> i am. paralympic hopeful for track and field. and that's just a -- with the support that i've had through organizations like semper fi fund and americans in general, i've been digging deep, like i said, and pushing forward. so hopefully in 2016 i'll be in rio. >> what is the farthest you've run on these new legs? >> i've done just on my own day to day running between 5 and 10 miles. but that's -- >> that better than you? >> definitely more than me. and probably most of our viewers. >> for right now, my body is conditioned for short distance, fast paced. so -- >> that's what you want to do? short distance? >> and i'll be sucking wind at two miles. >> we'll be rooting for you. we know you'll be there. >> i hope so. >> thank you very much. really an honor to meet you. >> thank you for having me. >> wow. >> definitely rooting for him.

boston loves its sports teams, especially now. we have seen the pride and emotion at fenway at recent games as fans pay tribute to the bombing victims and first responders. since the terror attacks, sports have helped the city recover and return to a sense of normalcy. tonight, the celtics play their first home game since the marathon. they could use a lift from the fans. they trail the new york knicks 2-0 in the nba playoffs. coming up tonight on cnn, we're going to follow the trail of terror from the boston suburbs to war torn caucasus. what influenced the two suspected bombers. we're trying to piece together as much as we know, put it together in one report, "boston bombings, the trail of terror" that's tonight at 10:00 p.m. eastern. that's it for me. thanks very much for watching. i'll be back on "ac 360" at 9:00 eastern. brooke baldwin and jake tapper continue straight ahead. welcnew york state, where cutting taxes for families and businesses is our business.

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hi, everyone. i'm brooke baldwin live in boston on this beautiful friday afternoon. for special live coverage of the investigation into the boston marathon bombings. jake tapper will join me here in just a moment. but after a week spent in the same hospital as many of the victims he's accused of wounding here, dzhokhar tsarnaev is in a new hospital today. this time he's behind bars. so all this happenednd