>> jeff: tonight missed si information new questions about whether the u.s. failed to track the boston bombing suspects. don dahler has the latest. rising rivers in the heartland. terrell brown says flooding is affecting parts of ten states tonight. in bangladesh following a factory collapse that killed hundreds, the owner is arrested trying to leave the country. kelly cobiella reports. and magalie laguerre-wilkinson tells us how an unconventional program is saving the lives of family pets. >> it was a relief for us that we were able to get some help for our dog. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news."

>> jeff: good evening, everyone, i'm jeff glor. two weeks ago tomorrow two bombs shattered a scenic celebration at the boston marathon. the investigation lead to two suspects. one to you dead, the other in jail. but it's also leading to more questions about the suspects, their family, and how much was known beforehand. we begin with don dahler in boston. >> reporter: the parents of the marathon bombing suspects remain in russia. their father aznor tsarnaev is in an undisclosed hospital being treated for high blood pressure. their mother says she's concerned she will be arrested if she set foot in the u.s. her concern stems in part from a secret recording russian intelligence made of zubeidat tsarnaev talking with her older son tamerlan in 2011 during which time the term "jihad" was used. russian intelligence officers asked both the f.b.i. and c.i.a. to investigate her son's, extremist tendencies that same year. but when the f.b.i. found tsarnaev had no terrorist ties, u.s. officials took no further

action. >> it's a failure to share information and missing obvious warning signs. we're going back to the pre- 9/11. >> reporter: republican senator lindsey game said on "face the nation" a u.s. counter-terrorism task force received another tip about tamerlan tsarnaev when he returned to russia nine months okay saying the signs were ignored. >> when somebody in the database like this begins to openly interact with islamic web site an fbi agent should knock on the door and said you told us you wanted to be an olympic boxer, you love this country, what the hell is going on here, we're watching you. >> reporter: former director of terrorist studies at west point says there are simply too many signs about too many people. >> they call it a watch list but it's really a database so you have a database with about 500,000 names in it. and his record is all about russian related terrorism. a database is not a crystal ball. >> reporter: as boston continues to resume normal life, hundreds of runners turned out for an annual mini-marathon.

race director mark connell says proceeds will be donated to the one fund boston for bomb attack victims. >> you can live life being concerned with what might happen or you can live life. and we've decided to live life. >> reporter: and jeff, there are those in congress including the chairman of the house intelligence committee mike rogers who say russia needs to cooperate more fully in the investigation. one question they want answered is given the complexities of the bombs used, did tamerlan tsarnaev receive bomb making lessons during his six month trip in russia? >> jeff: don dahler, thank you. air travel began returning to normal this weekend after congress passed legislation putting furloughed air-traffic controllers back to work. the delays were the most visible consequences of mandatory budget cuts. but as margaret brennan tells us tonight there is more fallout to come. >> reporter: travelers breathed a sigh of relief as air-traffic controllers returned to work. north carolina native margie satinsky traveled through new york today. >> i'm delighted.

i sat on the runway for a couple of hours a couple days ago. >> reporter: with the f.a.a. crisis over, other budget cuts are looming outside the airline industry. this week federal jobless benefits in states like california, new hampshire and ohio will be slashed by double digits. those cuts will take money out of the pockets of the newly unemployed. in his weekly address president obama warned that unless congress agrees to find new ways to tax and spend, the painful budget cuts will continue. >> and we can't just keep putting band-aids on every cut. >> reporter: the white house says many of those cuts will impact the vulnerable, like low income women and children who get meals through federal programs. groups that don't have the type of muscle to lobby for relief says sarah binder with the brookings institution. she's tracking the fallout. >> clinics that are paid by medicare that are affected by sequestration who are saying we

have long lines, we're turning away patients. patients have to travel. i believe they are going to try to organize to try to put that type of bipartisan pressure on congress. >> reporter: any bending on capitol hill won't come until at least next month. congress left washington this weekend for a nine day break. negotiations are likely to go on through the fall. jeff. >> jeff: margaret, thank you. cbs news learned this president obama will nominate charlotte, north carolina mayor anthony foxx to be secretary of transportation. foxx has served as mayor since 2009 and has led efforts to improve the city's transit system. if confirmed he would succeed outgoing secretary ray lahood. a mississippi man has a court date tomorrow to face charges he sent poison letters to the president and others. james dutschke who is 41 is accused of sending ricin laced letters to the president, u.s. senator roger wicker of mississippi and judge sadie holland. dutschke was arrested saturday

at his home in tupelo. new york city's medical examiners office plans to resume everyone searching for human remains in lower manhattan on tuesday. last week workers two blocks from ground zero discovered a rusted piece of landing gear wedged between two buildings. boeing confirms the áu;ted wreckage is from a 767, the type of plane used in the attacks. fingers are still crossed in fargo, north dakota tonight. but it appears the surging red river will crest this week at a lower level than expected. though still 19-feet above the point where the water overflows its banks. in all, flooding in ten states has people head higher ground and terrell brown has more tonight. >> reporter: the city of fargo has built a wall of sandbags around jim lepine's home. one of more than 130 bracing for floodwaters. >> i've lived on the river 40 years and this will be the fifth time we've put sandbags in 40 years. >> reporter: the city endured its worst ever flood when the

red river crested just above 40 feet in 2009. there's been a major flood every year since. meteorologist jeff beradelli says it is the spring thaw. >> we basically had around one to two feet of snow that melted in a few days and this wasn't light fluffy snow t was very hard, high moisture content snow pack. >> reporter: in north dakota that melting snow is turning into rushing water. those living along the mouse river in logan had little warning. >> between the hours of one and two, we were within six inches going in my basement windows over here and it's just nonstop. >> reporter: it's also been a spring of record rainfall that's caused flooding in parts of ten states including tennessee over the weekend. >> so far in the month of april we've seen double the amount of rainfall than we typically see in the ohio valley. in fargo jim lepine's home has become part of the flood zone and the city wants him to move. >> 50-weeks a year this is the most wonderful spot. we have wildlife.

we have privacy. we have nature. >> reporter: despite the looming flood nature may deliver, lepine says he's staying put. terrell brown, cbs news, new york. >> jeff: officials in bangladesh have arrested the owner of the factory building that collapsed last week as he tried to flee the country. at least 377 people were killed and many still trapped. rescue efforts were disrupted today when part of the wreckage caught fire, kelly cobiella has more. >> reporter: crews at the disaster site were moving from rescue to recovery today when they heard voices in the rubble. four more garment workers were pulled out alive. crews were trying to reach another survivor when the debris inside caught fire. they went back for her once it was out but she had died. nurul islam is with the fire brigade. >> we've evacuated many people dead and alive, he said, but in some cases it is not possible. the death toll is now close to 400. several hundred more are still missing.

the building owner was flown back to the capitol today under arrest. police say they found mohammed sohel rana trying to cross into india. he's accused of building the eight story structure on soggy, sandy ground, adding three floors without permits. and claiming his building was safe despite cracks that appeared last tuesday. one company, a bank, told its workers to stay out. but five clothing factories ordered their employees back in. wednesday morning the building crumbled. garment workers have clashed with police for three days demanding safer conditions. since 2006 hundreds have died in workplace fires. yet factory and building owners are rarely held accountable. today when the crowd learned the owner was under arrest they cheered. this person's daughter is missing. "we'll kill him just like he killed our children," she said. >> reporter: hundreds of families now wait for answers, and justice.

kelly cobiella cbs news, london. >> jeff: senator john mccain said today an international force should get ready to intervene in syria's civil war. he says the action is needed to prevent chemical weapons from falling into the hands of islamic extremists. the obama administration said last week that syria's government appears to have used chemical weapons. the white house had previously said the use of chemical weapons would represent a red line. clarissa ward has reported extensively from inside syria. she joins us now. clarissa what are syrians saying about this red line? >> reporter: well, syrians who support the opposition have been saying for months now that they believe that the regime has been using chemical weapons in attacks against them am but at the same time even with this growing tide of intelligence from britain, from france, from israel and now from the u.s. which appears to support their claim, they don't really expect to see any fundamental shift in u.s. policy inside

syria which of course up until this point has favored a really hands-off approach. and the problem there is that if ordinary syrian citizens are drawing that conclusion you can be pretty sure that president assad is making similar calculations when he's working out just how far can push that red line. >> jeff: so there is frustration from inside syria about u.s. policy. what would syrians like to see happen now? >> reporter: well, that really depends who you talk to. if you talk to the rebels they will tell you we need heavy weapons. we need anti-aircraft weapons. we need anti-tank weapons. but if you talk to a lot of ordinary syrian civilians they will tell you we just want the no-fly zone. we just want an end to the terror and devastation that assad's air force has raked on our population. >> jeff: clarissa ward, thank you. >> thank you. >> jeff: later surprising numbers about government spending and the u.s. economy. a program to help financially strapped families feed their pets. and business brainstorming from the internet generation. those stories when the "cbs evening news" continues.

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they turned to a non-profit for help to feed their dog, because food stamps cannot be used to buy pet food. launched in february, pet food stamps has received over 160,000 applications from needy families across the country. mark okon is the founder. >> there are many social programs set up to help people but very few designed to help pets. hundreds of thousands of pets a year are put to sleep simply because the owners can't feed them. >> reporter: okon says dog and cat owners on public assistance are eligible. he's partnered with a company called pet flow to provide free delivery. >> it was a relief for us that we were able to get some help for our dog. that because we couldn't provide for her somebody else could. >> reporter: while marissa is grateful for the free pet food there is an even more valuable benefit. >> we wanted our child to be

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