tamerlan tsarnaev died, and dzhokar tsarnaev was in a boat. he wrote on a piece of paper in the boat, he said that the reason for the bombs was to get back at the united states for killing muslims around the world >> so if they are going to go for the death penalty, how likely is tsarnaev likely to receive the death penalty if convicted? >> this is just the attorney general making a statement today. the federal authorities in this country reinstated the death penalty 25, 26 years ago, something like that. in that time, attorneys general have authored the authorities to pursue the death penalty in 500 cases. but of those 500, only three have been executed. and the last to be executed under these rules was 10 years ago. >> appreciate it. thank you. we're learning more tonight about what republicans may be thinking when it comes to immigration policy. they are circulating a blueprint of what they're suspecting at their annual retreat. libby casey is here, and i can't wait to hear this. what are the republicans considering in. >> well, tony, they'

police shot and killed tamerlan tsarnaev during the manhunt. dzhokhar has pleaded innocent.ogy this morning from school officials in utah for throwing away student lunches because their parents owed money on their food accounts. it's a story we told you about yesterday morning on kron four. the salt lake city school district says it was a mistake it threw out 32 elementary students lunches. it happened *after cafeteria workers already gave them the food. parents say the move was humiliating and demoralizing. a district spokesperson says the lunches were thrown out because they could not be served to another student. the students affecte were later given fruit and milk. the assembly has passed a bill that would allow patients who lose their individual health insurance under the affordable care act to continue seeing a provider who is treating them for specific conditions the bill would apply to people receiving specific treatments whose policies are canceled between dec. 1 of last year and march 31 of this year. that pool could be as high as 900,000. the bill is urgent and wo

tsarnaev and his brother tamerlan were seen on surveillance before the blasts. they were carried pressure cooker bombs. in court documents prosecutors ces cesar scesasay say tsarnaev acted in a cruel manner. tamerlan tsarnaev was killed along with an m.i.t. officer. he surrendered later. joe hart was seriously wounded and surrendered hours later hiding in a suburb in a boat. inside the boat police found an alleged confession n which he said the attacks were in response to u.s. military action in muslim countries. boston's mayor supports to decision and honors the victims of the attack. >> today my thoughts are with the families of richard, lindsey lu, krystle campbell, shaun collier, and the brave survivors whose lives have been forever changed by the events of april 15th, 2013. >> reporter: tsarnaev has pleaded not guilty. # no trial date has been set. adriana diaz, cbs news. >>> well, new evidence suggests the u.s. economy continues to improve. # it grew 3.2% from october to december of last year. anthony mason takes a look at the numbers. >> the u.s. economy m

tamerlan tsarnaev was killed along with an m.i.t. police officer. johar was seriously wounded and surrendered hiding in a boat in a suburban boston backyard. inside the boat, police found an alleged confession in which tsarnaev said the attacks were in response to u.s. military action in muslim countries. boston's mayor said he supports the attorney general's decision and honored the victims of the attack. >> today my thoughts and prayers are with the families of martin richard, lindsey lou, krystle cambell, sean collier and the brave survivors whose lives have been forever changed by the events of april 15, 2013. >> reporter: tsarnaev has pleaded not guilty. no trial date has been set. adriana diaz, kpix 5. >> with the death penalty now a factor it's possible the attorneys could seek a plea deal for a life sentence. a pretrial conference is scheduled for february 12. >>> amanda knox faces a fight of extradition after she was convicted of murder. she was sentenced to 28.5 years in prison in italy. she and her prior boyfriend are accused of stabbing k

this mosque is where boston bomber tamerlan tsarnaev came to pray. the imam here didn't know tamerlan he says, but he told us the mosque is now watched by police, and the men who worship here sometimes just disappear. they joined terrorist groups or are snatched by police. jana's son rasheed a suspect in a terrorist bombing in 2012 is among the missing. and where is he now? "i don't know," she says. "there is a rumor he is alive, but i don't know for sure." jana took us to where she said men in masks drove off with her son. and they were shooting as they were running? all of these mothers have sons who are missing. they accuse president putin of sending young muslim men to the ghoul lack. it is from this anger that black widows are made. while the russian government denies it is responsible for the disappearance of people in dagestan, human rights groups say there is no other explanation. some of the detainees are never seen again, but others end up in jail after having confessed to terrorism. and who, but the government, the groups say, could arrange

by the time it was all over, tamerlan tsarnaev was dead including four others including an eight-year-old boy and m.i.t. police officer. in court papers, prosecutors say dzhokar tsarnaev knowingly created a grave risk of death and acted in a heinous, cruel, and depraved manner. at the scene of his capture, inside a boat where he had been hiding, police found an alleged confession scrawled by tsarnaev. sources say he claimed credit for the attacks, justifying them as revenge for the death of innocent muslims. >> pelley: so, bob, given the development today, what happens in the case next? >> reporter: immediately, scott, there's a pretrial conference set for february 12. and the government said today it's prepared to move forward. we have to know that tsarnaev so far has pleaded not guilty. prosecutor says he's shown no remorse at all. i have to tell you, scott, with the death penalty now on the table, it is possible his attorneys could seek some kind of deal for a life sentence. >> pelley: bob orr in our washington newsroom. bob, thanks very much. good news on the economy today. the econom

investigators identified the suspects as two brothers -- tamerlan tsarnaev and dzhokhar tsarnaev. during a manhunt, which would shut down the city of boston, an mit police officer was killed, a transit police officer was wounded, and tamerlan died during a shootout. dzhokhar was arrested and pleaded not guilty to involvement in the bombings. more tragedy in may when a tornado in oklahoma left a path of destruction in the city of moore, which killed 20 people. winds topped 200 miles per hour. homes, businesses, and even an elementary school were destroyed. the damage was estimated at $2 billion. detroit became the largest american city in history to declare bankruptcy when it filed in july. the city racked up a debt of $20 billion. the royal family welcomed a new member in july. the duke and duchess of cambridge had their first child -- a boy named george. the future king was born at london's st mary's hospital. and that's a look at some of the biggest headlines of 2013. for "teen kids news," i'm david lee miller, "fox news channel in the classroom." >> most of us think of school su

the desperate search for jokhar and tamerlan tsarnaev. virtually shut down metropolitan boston. >> they got him. >> never seen anything like this. >> we do have confirmed fatalities. >> a look at what the victims saw inside navy yard building 197. >> he aimed his gun. >> a teacher, he got shot in the chest. >> a tsa officer is not going to go home to their family. >> it is nothing short of amazing that we had 123 people walk away from this. >> are you happy that the military deposed president morsi yesterday? >> yes. >> opponents and supporters of egypt's ousted president firing guns and fireworks. >> our nation has lost its greatest son. >> we will never see the likes of nelson mandela again. >> this fight of syria's chemical weapons is not a game, it is serious, it should be enforced. it is important to the world that this be enforced, the agreement we came out of geneva with. >> terrorists are holding a dozen hostages inside the west gate mall. >> we, the jury, find george zimmerman not guilty. >> trayvon martin was an innocent kid wal

tamerlan tsarnaev was killed along with an m.i.t. police officer. nside a boat he was hiding in, there was an alleged confession which said it was in response to military action in muslim countries. boston's mayor supports the decision and honors the victims of the attack. >> today my thoughts and prayers are with the family of martin richard, lynsey lou, krystle cambell, sean collier and those whose live have been changed. >> reporter: tsarnaev pled not guilty. no trial date is set. adriana diaz, cbs news. >> with the death penalty now a factor it's possible that tsarnaev's attorneys could seek a plea deal for a life sentence. a pretrial conference is scheduled for february 12. >>> salt lake city school district apologizing now for taking food away from hungry elementary school children this week. 30 students lost their school lunches because there was no money in their lunch accounts. children as you might imagine very upset some crying and shared foods with their friends. >> she told me that her -- her best friend was crying because she didn't get

tamerlan tsarnaev was killed in a shootout with the police, but left behind was dzhokhar.h him? back to my lawyers mark o'mara, joey jackson, both join me again live. the decision belongs to the u.s. attorney eric holder. the deadline is for tomorrow for mr. holder to decide whether or not the feds will go after a death penalty. there is so much emotion in this case. >> oh, yes. >> this tsarnaev fella is not some guy from a state you've never been to who committed a crime you never heard of. this is an alleged terrorist. and this is the boston marathon. does all of that emotion factor into this? >> definitely. partly a political decision as well as a rational one. d.o.j. has a procedure in place where they have to look at certain criteria to determine whether or not death should be sought. prior criminal record, the age, whether or not he was under the influence of somebody else, whether or not it was premeditated, obviously this was. so holder's going to look at this and try and decide whether or not it fits the criteria. i think overall it does. and i think there's no re

tourism is very real in that part of russia, and this group was fingered in this connection to tamerlan tsarnaev's not publicly known whether this was where he got the training to put together those two very viable pressure cooker bombs in boston. this is a very active region, but the russians, if you will, based on my experience, have a take no prisoners approach, and this is what we have seen in the weeks leading up to the olympics. but the caveat, if you will, is what we heard from congressman rogers, which is that the russians in his opinion are not fully sharing the information that they have, and this, unfortunately, seems very reminiscent of the situation we had over the boston bombers, where many people faulted the fbi for not taking the russians' claims that he was a follower of radical islam seriousliness. >> that they might not share after that, very frightening. thank you very much. >>> the fbi has now joined the search for the wall street reporter who is missing, david bird. he vanished january 11th while taking a walk near his home in new jersey. his family says time is a huge fact

whom russian law enforcement is pursing, are these the kinds of people that boston bomber tam t tamerlan tsarnaevile he was in dagestan? >> he met with one recruiter and, you know, he was, i think, exploring joining him. but you know, that's the process that -- my thinking that in the months that he was here, two things happened. the two people that he knew, that we few that he knew, from canada and fidel were both killed and we also know that he was having trouble passing the muster. so he went back home and when he went back home there were red flags that were missed in homeland security in our committee in the next few weeks, we have to be issuing a report and our review of the boston marathon bombings where we will ex mo explore the good practices but also looking at lapses and trying to move forward to see where we can improve. the inability to share information, not only country to country but within our own domestic law enforcement unit, present the real security risks. >> congressman william keating, democrat from massachusetts and member of the house homeland security committee, thank yo

tamerlan tsarnaev posted pictures of him on his youtube channel, and he went to the region, although it's not publicly known whether he trained with the group. the state department is taking the unusual step of warning americans the games are an attractive target for americans and just in the last few minutes, the pentagon is confirming it's moving two ships to the black sea to be available for evacuations or other contingencies. >> thank you. >> another day of serious violence in ukraine. anti-government protesters clashed with police in kiev. that followed a night of vicious street battles after the gove sweeping anti-protest law. ukraine has been in turmoil since the cancellation of an economic treaty with the european union in november. >>> president obama says marijuana is not more dangerous than alcohol. but he does not necessarily want his two children to follow in his footsteps of teenage pot use. it's just the latest mixed message from an administration that still considers marijuana illegal, but encourages states to go their own way. chief white house correspondent ed henry

the torch had been scheduled to run through the streets of the capital city there, the place tamerlan tsarnaevnizers invited a few thousand spectators into a soccer stadium to watch the torch do laps around the heavily guarded field. islamic militants in dagestan threatened to attack the winter games and a british threat assessment now concludes that a terror attack before or during the sochi games is very likely. >> i would say that the security threat to the olympics, this particular olympics, are the greatest i think i've ever seen because of the proximity of the terrorists to the olympic village. >> i cannot give them 100% guarantee. the fact is, these are going to be very much threatened olympics, probably more than any we've had in our past, more than greece, certainly more than london and china. >> we're joined now by nbc terrorism analyst evan coleman. let's start with the bbc report. it says the terror group from the kcaucus region. >> one thing we have to put this in context is it's not just groups in the caucasus we have to worry about. a video was issued in the run up to sochi thre

russian authorities initially when would information from the fbi that one of the accused bombers, tamerlan tsarnaev may have had contacts with militants. >> charlie and clarissa, the venue is so spread out. it's a big area to secure. >> what other targets might they be looking at? >> not just the games themselves but transit zones, restaurants. these athletes and visitors will travel great distances. if the militants can hit any of those targets where westerners congress re ga congregate, that would abe big win for them. these soft targets are almost impossible to determine. >> thank you very much. >>> new jersey governor chris christie will be sworn in for his second term. the possible presidential candidate has canceled tonight's inauguration party because of the weather. christie is also under a cloud of scrutiny. >>> a new usa today poll shows 58% of americans do not believe the governor is telling the whole story in the george washington bridge scandal. elaine quijano is in new york city with what we'll hear from christie later today. >> reporter: good morning, charlie and clarissa and our vie

as you recall the russians warped the fbi that tamiflu was tamerlan tsarnaev believer in radical islam and fbi did not react quickly enough on the tip. jon: everybody wonders what it mines when the olympics start next month? >> reporter: teams are starting to arrive in sochi amid what is very heaviesability security. the nation's top counterterrorism official testified publicly but we heard privately from intelligence officials in this case it shows seems the most vulnerable sights will be outside the russian security perimeter. >> the biggest issue from my perspective is not games themselves, venues themselves. the greater threat is to softer targets in the greater sochi area and in the outskirts beyond sochi where there is a substantial potential for a terrorist attack. >> reporter: and short time from now we do expect to get more questions at the state department briefing over whether there will be specific warnings, partnership, for americans travel together games next week, jon. jon: let's hope the russians and really everyone else can wrap their arms around the security problem t

tsarnaev's brother tamerlan died in a shootout with police. >>> an appeals court in italy upheld a guilty verdict against an american student amanda knox and her ex-boyfriend for the 2007 murder of knox's british roommate. knox was sentenced to 28 1/2 years in prison. she was in seattle during the court proceedings. knox said she was frightened and sattened by this unjust -- saddened by this unjust verdict. if today's guilty verdict is upheld by italy's supreme court, knox could face extradition proceedings, but the supreme court is not likely to hear this case until next year. >>> a twitter battle between the metro and our investigative reporter russ ptacek is getting a whole lot of attention in the twitterverse. it started out as a simple story about metro's speaker system. >> but when metro denied any consistent problem, it refused an interview, that's when tweets went flying and russ is here with more on the war of words. >> i spent a day riding the metro all over d.c. using of line. we're still analyzing the recordings, but about half the time the announcements were difficult to unde

prosecutors claim tsarnaev and his older brother planted the two bombs in backpacks. the brother tamerlan died in the police shootout. t the. >>> the family of a girl is holding a vigil. she disappeared in 1989 while walking home from school. tonight her family and brother will lead a vigil in her honor. it will follow the exact path that eileen took the evening she was abducted of the dublin police are still actively working this case. there's a $95,000 reward. >>> a critical blood shortage here in the bay area, and it's blamed in part on the severe the weather back east. what's the problem? blood donors are staying home back east because it's too cold. they import their inventory why out of state. and the blood center is seeing a 20% increase in need for donations this month alone. >>> the park service held a panel and open house on a proposed dog management plan this morning. it's the last public forum on a 2,000 page forum on where dogs will be allowed. they want to restrict some areas, and some park users say the plan doesn't do enough. >> we know the impact that dogs have this chasi

host: that is the same region tamerlan term -- brothers are from? guest: the tsarnaevthers were ethnic tensions -- chechens. the same basic region. be, what is the inspiration coming out of the north caucuses' islamist mov ement. individuals who get access to the sochi games -- you cannot keep people out. those individuals going to choose to cause trouble, cooperate with international terrorist organizations because they're inspired by what the islamist insurgency is calling for? will there be open warfare around sochi? of course not. host: our guest is with the wilson center. you can get more information by logging onto wilsoncenter.org. it's my pleasure to talk with you. here in america and we have the same terror. we don't know when or where they're going to strike or if they're going to strike. same there will be this problem as it is around the world. have an islamic sitting in our presidency now and we don't know when he's what to open his hand and give us his real kenyan birth right. and it we will find out will come. as his grandmother said on the interview whe

tsarnaev is facing 30 charges. he is pleading not guilty to all of them. he allegedly helped his brother, tamerlanarry out the bombings that killed three and injured 260 others and killed an m.i.t. police officer three days later. federal prosecutors call his actions cruel and depraved and say he has shown no remorse. susan candiotti joins me live. this is a state that abolished the death penalty three decades ago. how is this decision going over in a place that is so emotional about what happened? >> it is tough. first of all, the governor issued a statement saying he favors this decision. he supports it. again, they took a poll last fall showing that most of the people in the state of massachusetts favor a life sentence if tsarnaev is found guilty as opposed to the death sentence. >> this is specifically geared to him. ? >> exactly. the mayor of boston who is personally opposed to the death penalty says he supports this decision and here is why. >> i think what he did to a lot of people that day, specially the ones that he killed, i think he deserves it. i prefer the death penalty, because i pre