shawn thomas about the plight we been shocked when they walked in the door and just they all of them and saying is just let us see your son if he's ok and i said i'm holding him in my arms he is so ok you can take a look and they're saying give me your child and that's when they took away no paper not so ever they've been providing and they just walked off the door was any reason given behind the nine eleven call from the hospital after you took your own child to another hospital for a second opinion i mean have they given you any reason whatsoever. they say that his and them urgency that he's almost dying then the needs medical treatment that he needs that needs to get back to the hospital immediately. they do believe there is. no you was fine he was laughing he was eating he was a normal child a normal baby to go home and he was released from birth from the other hospital we took him to the doctor released to be do statements so the parents are basically good to go home with their baby and the b.b.c. from their arms very interesting now taking a step back facebook and social networ

i'm shawn thomas glad to have you with us. u.s. law enforcement officials say rochelle warned the f.b.i. two years ago that one of the boston bombings last.

possible outbreak of the new flu strain of more of the virus and the panic as well as talk to shawn thomas are joining us here on the program our strong good to see you before we get to the hype or the panic whatever you want to call it what about the measures that are being taken right now they're pretty serious well certainly locally they are in fact there is evidence of a localized type or panic specifically regarding the h seven n nine strain of the flu virus if you look at what's happening in china twenty thousand birds slaughtered from one market there from a place where the birds tested positive live birds tested positive in hong kong the stock market shares dropped particularly in relation to chinese airline companies because they want to restrict travel vietnam bans poultry imports from china japan puts health posters up at points of entry from people coming from china taiwan raises the quarantine level alert and us in canada they decide that they're going to move to develop vaccines specifically for the h seven n nine virus just to be on the ready now all of these moves are local

well i'm joined by shawn thomas. he's in the studio with me and has been reflecting on what has happened here another concern he mentioned there in that report was the wind because it's not just the explosion because devastation is a huge amount of toxins now in the air it's very windy in west. and it's believed that the wind could blow around to the north and to great area ninety sort more fully familiar with the joke for the niam so what sort of impact could that have on an area. such as west well let's play out a scenario if you will on this ongoing disaster as because we've we've had the explosion in the fire we've had that disaster now we have this possible and hydrous ammonia cloud that could have escaped from the plant these toxic fumes that they're worried about are they've been talking about having a very strong southerly wind south wind and then around seven o'clock in the morning local time very expecting that based on having meteorologists on seeing that wind shifting around and then basically blowing bac

ok we can go back on thomas now who joins us on the line shawn thomas not the correspondent who that many gays in texas show me just been can you hear us say yes i can we just been hearing from the fireman there from texas he was one of the first on the scene he's been describing the devastation that took place but he also mentioned just as you did a few minutes ago about. local communities trying to rally to help. coming out with blankets except for that many new people as we know most seriously injured have been taken to hospitals in taste and and also my cow but when you experience those hospitals do have the facilities because it's such a tragedy today. well not really if you actually look at west texas itself is a town of a larger than three thousand people total living in that actual community where the devastation took place so any hospital or medical facility there would certainly not be able to cope with such devastation. out to the south which is where waco is and it's a whole there's a little bit of respite care but that town which is considered the largest city in the are

will thomas talked to another person will. >> hi, shawn. we spoke with the principal of barnsley elementary school before his plane was leaving for boston. one of his daughters has type 1 diabetes and that's what propelled him to run for money. >> tonight principal winter and his wife are thankful he made it back home. >> i don't really know why these events happened and you know just sickened and saddened by it. >> andrew winter -- reflecting on the attack. and how lucky he feels crossing the finish line 20 minutes before the explosion shins. >> we saw dozens of ambulances on one street, dozens of police cars on another street. just a lot going on. a and it really put a damper on the experience. >> his wife is still rattled and spoke with us outside their home to shield their twin 8-year-old girls from knowing about what happened in boston where their dad was raising money for juvenile diabetes research. >> i don't know that they need to know. i think that they're eight and they know daddy is cool and he's running a marathon which is amazi

remarks not only from the president, but the boston mare thor, thomas menino, governor of massachusetts, deval patrick. we'll hear from cardinal shawnl also hear from religious leaders, local religious leaders as well as this service begins. it is a time of healing in boston, in massachusetts, indeed in the country as we await the start of this service. chris cuomo is over there at the cathedral getting ready to watch and to listen as all of us are. chris? >> that's right, wolf. as we wait for this to begin, at the same time there is a massive government investigation going on, trying to figure out who did this and why. 30 government agencies, thousands of people working here and abroad. we are taking two different angles on how the investigation is progressing. first we're going to go to joe johns who has the latest on what we're hearing from the head of homeland security. joe? >> chris, this is an ongoing story that started sometime yesterday, and it's a question of whether authorities are going to release pictures that they've obtained and they deem important, including of a couple individuals. and what we know is there is ongoin