heather abbott, who lost part of her leg in the attack, will run the last half mile with the woman whoound her on the ground and helped save her life. >> i can only imagine that it's going to feel very invigorating and sort of like a sense of closure. >> reporter: along the marathon route, anywhere from 500,000 to 1 million spectators are expected. security is unprecedented. underground in a high-tech

. >> reporter: it's the same story for heather abbott, another survivor. >> i learned that i'm much stronger and more resilient and stronger than i ever imagined.

. >> and boston bombing survivor heather abbott lost part of her leg in the attack and told me why she decided to make the trip back to boston for the race this year. >> if i didn't go, i would feel as though i was telling myself i couldn't, and i want to be there. >> we'll have more of my interview with heather at the half our. >> as the nation remembers the victims and survivors in boston, a year later. prosecutors are building a case against the surviving suspect. richelle carey is here with that part of the story. it was a year ago that the bombing happened. justice is running its course. the prosecution and defence were the only suspect. it could be one of the most closely watched cases of the year. dzhokhar tsarnaev, who has shot the night he was captured, has been held in the federal prison in massachusetts, without bail. the manhunt and shoot-out led to the death of his older brother tamerlan tsarnaev. investigators believed tamerlan tsarnaev shot and killed tom, an mit police officer days after the bombing. he's charmed in connection with collier's death. when dzhokhar tsarnae

i have a sense this is just the beginning for heather abbott, an amazing woman who's been generous enough for sharing it, poppy. what a wonderful story, indeed. thank heather from all of us. thanks to poppy harlow for that report from boston. remember, you can always follow us on twitter, certainly tweet the show @cnnsitroom. be sure to join us tomorrow in "the situation room." you can watch us live, dvr the show so you won't miss a minute. that's it. thanks very much for watching. i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room." "erin burnett outfront" starts right now. >>> next, a tropical storm hitting the search area for missing malaysian airlines flight 370. also the bluefin-21's drone to surface. did it find the plane? and how did a 16-year-old boy survive a five-hour flight from california to hawaii in the plane's landing gear? we're going to show you how he did it. and breaking news on the south korean ferry disaster. the company that owns the ferry issuing a new statement tonight. we are live at the search scene. let's go "outfront."

heather abbott is an incredible woman.eft leg last year during the marathon bombing. and the last year that she has been recovering, it's been astounding to watch her progress. not only is she walking again, she's running again. she ran this weekend on saturday in a tribute race, and she's going to run the last half mile of the marathon tomorrow. >> this year for me, it's like a new starting point. it's a day where i'm going to do the things i was supposed to do last year and didn't get to. it's sort of a celebration i think for me of all i've been able to accomplish this year. and a time to start new memories. >> one of the things heather has done is year she's helped other amputees. she's got certified as a peer counselor. he sunss what it's like to go through this. she said that really helped her as well in her own recovery. boston strong indeed. and then our piece on heather as she crosses the finish line. you'll see our full story on heather abbott tomorrow night on "the situation room." brianna. >> poppy harlow, than

we met a victim last week named heather abbott, and she has an extrordanaire story, and will be told at 8:00 on the john siegenthaler program. so make sure you tune in at 8:00 and meet heather. because she was standing outside the restaurant waiting to have lunch. she had come to boston as she always does to be at the red sox game here at fenway. she was about to go into the forum when the second backpack exploded. and she was catapulted through the open door and into the restaurant. now 12 months down the road she is thriving. she has four prosthetic legs including one that has an arched foot on it allowing her to wear her favorite 4-inch heels. soen -- but she, i think, still has a long way to go. there are moments that sadness crosses her face. but in her case she has a terrific support network, great family and friends who are there for her. >> and these children are the boston chorus. we talked to a reporter from the boston globe, and he said for the people of the city this will end after today. that it has been one long continuous year, but in order for boston to get back to nor

the city paid a very emotional tribute to the victims and the survivors of that bombing, and heather abbott is one of those lucky survivors. john terrett tells her story. [ explosion ] >> the second explosion went off so quickly yo i really didn't he a chance to say anything. the next thing i knew the explosion had catapulted me through the front door of the restaurant. nice exi was in excruciating pa. >> one woman came to her aid, and a friend used a belt as a tourniquet. heather was carried to an ambulance, but no one could go with her, even the friend who had been by her side. >> i knew i needed to get to the hospital quickly. i told her to just let me go. >> the injuries to heather's left foot was devastating. >> the last time i saw my foot it was all intact the last time i put it inside my shoe, and i never looked at it again. >> after three surgeries to try to save her foot heather followed doctors' recommendati recommendations to amputate. >> they painted a pretty bleak picture. i didn't expect that i would keep it. >> heather was fitted for her first prosthetic leg two months after

that's what heather abbott, a survivor does when she talks about her four prosthetics, a waterproof oneeels. >> i do have some options when it comes to legs. >> you have a sense of humor about this. >> it helps me to laugh about it some times. ♪ ♪ >> of course there was more than joking today. there was music, and moving sentiments about all of the beauty that the bombing unleashed. >> we would never wish the devastation and pain well have experienced on any of you. however we do wish that all of you at some point in your lives feel as loved as we have felt over this last year. thousand gathered today at the finish line of the marathon for a moment of silence at the exact time that the bombs went off. and there was one clear message -- that the courage and compassion we saw in the rinse to the attack way outweighed the destructive impulses of the attackers themselves. a man whose body was riddled with shrapnel says the attack changed his view of the world and made hemim a better man. >> the bomb was one second of the worst. and endless second of the best. >> there were two alleged bad g

one of them was heather abbott, who ran the last half-mile with the woman who saved her life. >> not going to let anything stop us. and boston has its marathon back. >> it was really emotionally-charged. but only my second marathon. >> meb keflezighi was the top finisher. on the women's side, rita jeptoo of kenya won for the second-straight year. >>> the trial of a an alleged gang member ended abruptly when gunfire. he was shot several times in the chest and later died at the hospital. terrified jurors and spectators crawled under benches and tables. >>> cyclone developing off the australian coast, generating rough seas and poor visibility, has grounded ten planes searching for malaysia airlines flight 370. they have been searching an area of the indian ocean about the size of west virginia. the u.s. navy's bluefin-21 robotic submarine has covered nearly two-thirds of its search zone. but 46 days into that search, there is still no sign of the missing jetliner. >>> the death toll has climbed above 100 in the south korean ferry disaster, as crews battle poor weather conditions to sear

heather abbott, who lost her lower left leg, was here too. on a prosthetic blade and ran the last half mile alongside a woman who helped save her life that day. and then there was celeste corcoran, who lost both legs while waiting to see her sister cross the finish line. after an agonizing year during which we saw her comforted by a marine double amputee -- >> you're going to be more independent, you know, than you ever were. >> reporter: -- she was back today, not only to witness her sister finish but to finish right alongside her. >> i just had to see her cross. >> reporter: it's worth noting heroism came in many forms today. >> boston strong! way to go! >> reporter: there were an estimated 1 million spectators, double the average, including this guy, who we watched cheering runners nonstop for hours. >> thank you. great job. great job, runners! way to go, guys! you did it! you did it! way to go! >> reporter: as for natalie and joe stavis -- >> congratulations. >> reporter: -- they finally completed some personal business, crossing that fin

. >> reporter: it's the same story for heather abbott, another survivor. >> i learned that i'm much stronger and more resilient and stronger than i ever imagined. >> reporter: under enormous security, survivors, first responders and dignitaries will walk the finish line for a moment of silence, at 2:49 p.m., the exact time the first bomb went off. >> it's a tough day for survivors. one year anniversary of the loss of a loved one. change of a life forever. it's also, i feel, a big step in the healing process. >> reporter: people around the country are also paying tribute. these runners raced in a month-long relay from los angeles to boston to raise money for the wounded. the runners traveled 10 to 20 miles. then, passed the baton to runners in another city. >> it's really cool to actually handle the baton, everyone's handled from california to here so far. >> reporter: as for the boston marathon, now 118 years old. they'll run it next monday, with a new rally cry. we run together. >> last year just can't be the final word. we need to go out and really celebrate running as a great lifetime spo

that second blast also took the lower left leg of heather abbott who in the past year has learned to walk, even run again. she now has four prosthetics including a water-proof one and one for high heels. >> before this happened, did you know how you were this tough? >> no. i think if someone told me this was going to happen to me, i would have been devastated. i had no idea i had it in me. >> reporter: so much strength over the past year. jeff bauman rescued by a complete stranger in a cowboy hat. now he and his fiance are expecting their first baby in july. roseann sdoia sprawled on the street, now dating the firefighter who held her hand in the ambulance on her way to the hospital. jarrod clowery, whose body was littered with shrapnel one year ago told me today the attack had changed his view of the world. >> the bomb is only one split second. of the worst. you know, but it's followed by endless seconds of the best leading up to today. >> reporter: coming up this monday, another big display of boston strong. the 118th running of the boston marathon. they're expecting 9,000 more run

heather abbott, who lost her lower left leg was here, too.prosthetic leg and ran the last half mile alongside a woman who helped to save her life that day. >> we're not going to let anything stop us and boston has its marathon back. >> reporter: as the day wore on this were a few wobbly finishers but not natalie and joe. they finally crossed the finish line they couldn't cross last year. >> i think we took it back. >> reporter: all in all a great day for my hometown of boston. dan harris, abc news, boston. >>> another big step for a michigan girl attacked by a pet raccoon when she was just 3 months old. 11-year-old charlotte left a suburban detroit hospital following reconstructive surgery to repair her disfigured face. this time doctors crafted an ear from rib cartilage and will attach it in june. charlotte and her family are looking forward to the day when she can wear earrings in both of those ears. >> she's a special girl with special circumstances. not that all kids aren't special. but she has a special circumstance and that puts her in

heather abbott, who lost part of her leg in the attack, will run the last half mile with the woman whoound her on the ground and helped save her life. >> i can only imagine that it's going to feel very invigorating and sort of like a sense of closure. >> reporter: along the marathon route, anywhere from 500,000 to 1 million spectators are expected. security is unprecedented. underground in a high-tech control room, officials are monitoring feeds from 100 cameras. >> anything of trouble and any person that's, you know, presenting a concern to us may be monitored very quickly. >> reporter: in addition, some 4,000 police officers are out on patrol, 500 of them undercover. >> it's important to note, i think, that this race goes through eight towns including boston, so that means you need a lot of coordination and a lot of communication. >> reporter: boston police got an early test last tuesday when a man left a backpack containing a rice cooker and confetti near the finish line. it turned out to be a hoax, but it brought back painful memories of last year. >> to the land of the free and th

heather abbott, who lost the lower part of her left leg when the second bomb went off, will run the last half mile alongside a woman who found her on the ground and helped save her life. do you have a sense of what that will feel like for you? >> i can only imagine that's going to feel invigorating and sort of like a sense of closure. >> reporter: david, i think it's safe to say, there are two top priorities when it comes to the 118th running of the boston marathon. first, safety. and second, making sure that the world knows that even though boston got knocked down last year, it's back up and stronger than ever. back to you. >> dan harris tonight. we're all rooting for boston. i want to bring in cecily tynan, chief meteorologist of our station wpvi. marathon runner yourself. you say it is shaping up to be a great day tomorrow. >> it will be a beautiful day tomorrow. let's fly in over the route tonight. winds tomorrow out of the south. slight tail winds. marathon runners like that. at 10:00 a.m., when the elite men start, 51 degrees. by noon, when all the runners are on the course, temper

heather abbott, who lost her lower left leg, was here, too,she put on a prosthetic leg and she ran the last half mile alongside a woman who helped save her life that day. >> we're not going to let anybody stop us. boston has its marathon back. >> reporter: as the day wore on, there were quite justifiably a few wobbly finishers. but not natalie and joe, they finally crossed the finish line they couldn't cross last year. >> reporter: i think it's safe to say you guys took the marathon back. >> i think we took it back. >> reporter: yes, they did. and president obama weighing in saying all of today's runners showed the world the true meaning of boston strong. i couldn't agree more, diane. all in all, a very, very good day in my hometown. >> great to have them taking their day back. thank you so much. >>> now, next to the incredible story of the runaway. the young man whose odyssey seem impossible to be true. josing -- he says he uniqusneak to a plane. hiding in the dangerous compartment where they store the wheels for more than five hours. is it true? how did he survive? abc's david kerley

her name is heather abbott. i spent time with her before she headed over to the red sox game.ee her to believe what she's gone through. that's us today her walking on her prosthetics. she has four prosthetic legs, most are very human looking legs, very cosmetic looking legs which she believes everyone who goes through an amputation should have because she says that's helped her to feel like herself again. we have video to show you. this woman is incredible. not only can she walk and run, she can walk on four-inch stiletto heels, believe it or not, a year after losing part of her left leg in those bombings. she ran over the weekend in a tribute race. and she's going to join a woman named erin who found her laying on the ground in front of the forum restaurant last year after the bombing and who helped save her. erin is running the marathon, heather will join her for the last half mile tomorrow. just a huge accomplishment in such little time. i asked her if her strength ever surprises her. and what she told me is i acc t accepted pretty early on what happened to me but i knew i

her name is heather abbott. she lost part of her left leg last year during the marathon bombing. the last year that she's been recovering, it's been astounding to watch her progress. he is not only walking again but running again. she's going to run the last half mile of the marathon, alongside a woman named erin who found her after the bombs sploided and helped save her. she's going to cross the finish line along with her. and then to heather, it was very important to feel as much like her old self as she could. part of that was wearing pretty high heels. so she's walking on her prosthetic leg in four inch high heels. she told me she accepted early on what happened to her and realized how hard she was going to have to work to recover and get back to the place she wanted to be. she has certainly put in that hard work. i want to listen to what she told me when i asked what marathon monday is going to mean for her. >> this year for , it's like a new starting point. it's a day where i'm going to do the things i was supposed to do last year and didn't get to. it's sort of a celebrati

. >>> and tomorrow we'll speak to an athlete, heather abbott about surviving the attack of the bostonmarathon. >>> tomorrow night is your deadline for filing can income tax. our tonya moseley has more from seattle. >> when jane lighty and peteie petersen moved in together, people had all sorts of assumptions. >> first came the question about room plates. >> then are you sisters? >> then that evolved to partner. that sounds like the coul cowboy partner or business partner. >> in december 6th, 2012, litey and peterson were the first to get a washington marriage license. >> i say wife but it's getting easier. >> filing taxes this year they didn't have to split their assets thanks to the defense of marriage act a supreme court ruling which allows gay married couples to file federal taxes together. >> the down side of that is that we were bumped up into a higher category for paying taxes which really kind of threw us. >> washington doesn't collect state taxes. gay married couples don't have to worry about that. the process however has become a headache in other places. the laws are differe

as for heather abbott, over the past year, she's met everyone from michelle obama to beyonce, while learningo walk again, even run. in fact, she has four prosthetics, including a waterproof one and one for high heels. >> i do. i do have some options when it comes to legs. >> reporter: it's amazing to me that you actually have a sense of humor about this and in an awesome way. >> i think you have to. i think it helps other people feel more comfortable with it, and it helps me to laugh about it sometimes. >> reporter: she is an impressive woman in many ways, and next week on marathon monday, not only is she going to be out here cheering on the runners, she's actually going to run the last half mile alongside a woman who helped save her life one year ago today. robin, back to you. >> dan, i know, as a boston native, dan, you must be just so proud this morning. >> reporter: absolutely. absolutely. >> and abc news -- thank you, dan -- will be live beginning at 2:35 eastern this afternoon for the procession to the marathon finish line and the moment of size at 2:49. >> so moving to see the whole c

and then we have heather abbott who's a woman from rhode island, a spectator who was hurt. get a real sense of what this was really like to go through, and they have certainly more authority to tell it than anybody else does. >> you all lived it as you were covering it and it was playing out there in the city. do you think there are things that people will learn from this book, small details and stories and nuggets that maybe get lost in the bigger overall story? >> absolutely so. one of the greats advantages that we had was a little bit more time to go back and revisit some of these sources and spend more time with them and go deeper into their stories and so throughout the book, there's, i think, new insights, new context and we also are bringing it together as a whole as we couldn't do last year as the events were so fragmented as they were playing out. >> what do you think of the legal side of this, the pursuit of justice, the things that are still yet to be undertaken with respect to this case that may in some way and may not provide closure for all of those who were i

. >>> and those to make it for the race is bombing survivor heather abbott. she was in a restaurant last year throwing her to the ground in the explosion, and tearing off her leg. she will be wearing a prosthetic to cross the line with aaron chatham, and she became friends with him after patriot player matt chatham carried h her to safety. >> how are you, this morning? >> fantastic. thank you. >> i have read your story and brought the tears and then cheering you and so there you r and tell me about the day, and when you will get into the race. >> i am really excited about today. i am about to head over to the restaurant to meet a group of my friends, including those who were with me last year, and hang out with the joe andruzzi foundation folks and wait for them to come through, and waiting for aaron chatham to round the corner on comm avenue and hereford street. and i will run the last mile with her. >> and i have read how torn you are, and you have accomplished something, and erin is going to be there with you by her side, and this is following in the foots

let's talk about heather abbott, and the difficult choice that she was forced to make after being injuredheather went to the marathon every year with her friends. she was injured badly by the second explosion that day. she got to the hospital and the surgeons were actually able to save her foot, save her leg. she woke up tuesday and thought she was one of the lucky ones but over the course of that week her condition did deteriorate and she was ultimately forced to make an unimaginable decision, whether to keep the leg and go forward in a compromised way or to actually choose amputation and forge a new path for herself. that's ultimately what she did do. >> and there's so many of these five characters, these heartbreaking stories. scott, what about the marathon director, legendary dave. >> a big public figure here in boston and new england. he put on the boston marathon for years and years. we wanted to include his perspective because this is such a special day in boston. it's such a celebration, at the city and running and nobody em bodies them more. we thousand dollght including i him wo

heather abbott, who lost the lower part of her left leg when the second bomb went off, will run the lastlongside a woman, a complete stranger at the time, who found her on the ground and helped save her life. >> do you have a sense of what that's going to feel like for you? >> i can only imagine that it's going to feel very invigorating and sort of like a sense of closure. you know, having her at that event last year in a much different position, knowing that i can run again, partly because she helped me. >> reporter: i think it's safe to say there are two top priorities for the 118th running of the boston marathon. one, safety, of course. two, showing the world that even though boston got knocked down last year, this year it is back up and stronger than ever. dan harris, abc news, at the finish line of the boston marathon. >>> panic last night at an easter sunday service in southwest florida. a car crashed into a ft. myers church, breaking through a wall and slamming into a row of pews. about 20 people were injured, some of them pinned under that car. the church was filled with 200 peop

joining me now is heather abbott. thank you for being here. does it seem like a year? >> some respects it does. some ways it feels like yesterday, but it happened last year. gerri: tell me what happened to you on that day? >> i was struck from shrapnel from the second bomb and it damaged mostly my heel and my left foot and ultimately i had to have my left leg amputated below the knee. gerri: and so you have come back from that by having a very positive attitude, tell us about that? >> yeah, i guess pretty early on, i accepted the fact they couldn't change what happened, and focused on how i could recover and try to get my life back to as normal as possible. gerri: now, you weren't running, you were there to watch, right? >> right. gerri: and got help from a former patriots linebacker, tell me about that? >> i landed inside a restaurant on the ground, and no one knew if there was going to be a third bomb or what happened happen next. gerri: that's super scary. >> it was scary. people were running to the exit of the restaurant to try to get away from where it was and i c

. >> you highlight the lives that were changed forever after this bombing, one of them being heather abbottne who reads about her story, you have so much sympathy for what she lived through this, young beautiful woman, lived a carefree live. she was waiting in a line for a restaurant with her friends when the bombing happened. she was faced with the hardest decision you ever have to make and that is to amputate both of her legs. >> it's amazing to see her strength and her spirit through all this. i think you hit on one of the most interesting parts, is a lot of times these cases are not black and white. it's more of a gray area, she woke up very happy and relieved to find that she still had her foot and her leg intact. and it was only after days and days of -- counter intuitively, she would have a better life without her foot than with her damaged foot. that's one of the many stories we tried to bring to light in this book and go deep in a way that no one else has been able to do yet. >> that's what a book can do is provide -- jenna, you also write about -- was on the scene and fought back

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it was so nice to cross that finish >> catherine: heather abbott running withdouble amputee celeste corcoranded a little help, but she too made it to the finish line, return to >> reporter:a year later -- the boston strong slogan still resonates with bay area residents. >> reporter:that's why many runners hit the streets in san francisco -- today -- to show support for the victims of the boston marathon bombings. >> pam: kron4's terisa estacio reports from the ferry building the center piece of the 49- the project took a total of bandera grass because it's >> pam: the cause of a recent mudslide on moraga avenue in piedmont is still under investigation >> pam: this was the seen a few days ago when water, possibly from a private drainage line saturated the hillside causing a mudslide on moraga near maxwelton road. city officials tell kron4 the possibility of wet weather in the forecast could cause the hill to destabilize again >>"something else happens" >> reporter:in the meantime a black haz-mat tarp has been set up at the bottom of the hill to prevent any mud from reaching the roadway should

examples like heather abbott and other people we can name that have used this year to almost like a phoenixhomas, one of the more poignant aspects of the day will revolve around the memory of young martin richard. eight years of age. because, again, everyone -- it's a family day here. it's a holiday. school is out, so people bring their children to the marathon. they have for years, to watch the runners go by for hours. and it's a festive atmosphere. always has been. and that young boy martin richard, eight years of age, at the finish line lost his life. his sister jane who is eight this year lost her leg. his father lost his hearing in one year. his mother lost vision in one eye. that's just one of the poignant memories that will fill up the days. and the richard family from dorchester, massachusetts, have given such dignity to the event and throughout the year carried themselves with such dignity. all the while carrying the burden of the loss of a child. something that none of us can comprehend. >> the finish is just one of the places people are going to kong regate. what about the rest o

boston marathon bombings that being roed the nation, the memories are vivid for survivors like heather abbottman resources manager who lost her left leg in the blast that killed three and injured 264 others. >> when i woke up from surgery, i did still have my foot, but it was in pretty bad shape. it was either going to be live my life in a wheelchair in pain with the possibility of walking once in a while or get back to my regular life and have a prosthetic leg. >> reporter: before the bombings, 35-year-old mark was a driver for a roofing company. >> i knew my leg was gone. i knew that right when i woke up. in the ambulance, i knew i was missing a leg. >> reporter: while heather and mark were in the hospital uncertain of what their futures would look like, a group of emerson college students were in their dorm after the bombings, brainstorming what they could do to help the survivors and their families. nick reynolds, chris dobbins and lane brenner are the trio behind the original boston strong campaign. >> our goal for the first week was to sell 110 t-shirts. by the end of the first week, we