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 co

they've never seen anything like this 14-year-old in augusta, but terrell brown tells us how slow play almost derailed him from his fast track. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> axelrod: good evening. i'm jim axelrod with the west coast edition of the broadcast. the campaign for tougher gun control laws moved ahead on multiple fronts today, both inside and outside the white house. with a week of crucial senate debate just ahead, those pushing for new laws made their appeals on the most personal of terms. senior white house correspondent bill plante begins our coverage. ( applause ). >> reporter: supporters of tighter gun control demonstrated across the country today, part of a strategy to keep up the pressure on congress as debate dpins in the senate. linda brundage was in lansing, michigan. >> listen, listen to the 90% of people who want common gun sense. >> reporter: the demonstrations came after a week of lobbying on capitol hill by parents of some of the children who died in newtown, connecticut, last december. francine wheeler, whose six-year-old son,

terrell brown is in boston tonight. terrell, what's going on now? >> reporter: scott, you get the sense as you stand here that police still aren't taking any chances. i've been watching and talking to a security guard that's across the street here. by the way, many of the local businesses along the stretch where we are are closed at this hour. that security guard was told by police to continue checking the trash cans that are nearby at least on this site. he has been pacing up and down the street. one of those trash cans it looks like right now actually being removed across the street. this happening at this very moment. as we take a look here, guys, they have been focusing on these trash cans along this block for some time now. as i mentioned before, police telling security here to look into these trash cans over and over and over again. don't stop. so i've been watching the security guard pace the block here looking at the trash cans along the street. it is these types of measures that are being taken right now. again, as police are telling folks

terrell brown follows the cresting waters across nine states. inside the oyster war on one of america's most scenic coastlines. john black stone with environmentalists taking sides against each other. and meet the young innovator who's working to develop new sources of sustainable energy under her bed. >> as human beings, we are scientists because we're curious. we question. that's what science captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> axelrod: good evening. i'm jim axelrod. the federallationave administration is ordering all its air traffic controllers back to work. the f.a.a. says control towers will be fully staffed again by tomorrow night. this follows a rough week on runways across the country. more than 5,000 delays and hundreds of cancellations. 15,000 air traffic controllers had been furloughed after mandatory federal budget cuts known as the sequester, and there simply weren't enough of them to handle the volume. as carter evans reports, congress' solution to this problem may create plenty of others. >> reporter: it

terrell brown reports. >> reporter: the city of fargo has built a wall of sandbags along jim lapine's home. more than 130 bracing for floodwaters. >> i've lived on the river for 40 year, and this will be the fifth time we've put sandbags in 40 years. >> reporter: the city endured the worst ever flood in 2009. there's been a major flood ever since. 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 1:00 and 2:00, there were six inches going in my basement windows over here, and it's nonstop. >> reporter: it's also been a spring of record rainfall that's caused flooding in ten states including tennessee over the weekend. in fargo, jim lapine's farm has become part of a flood zone and the city wants him to move. >> 50 weeks of the year this is just a wonderful spot. we have wildlife, privacy, and nature. >> reporter: despite the looming nature, lapine says he's staying put. terrell brown, cbs news. >>> meteorologist jeff berardelli of our miami station wfor is tracking the flood-producin

in terrell brown's report you heard jonathan elias, a reporter for our station in boston, wbz. he was right there on boylston street as the bombs went off. can you tell us what you saw? >> reporter: scott, we were not more than 30 feet away from when this blast went off. let me set the scene as what was happening. we were four hours into the third and final wave so the crowd as far as spectators began to slowly thin. i guess that would be the only silver lining in any of this because they were ten deep and all of a sudden coming across the finish line we were watching and videotaping folks, high fiving and cheering them on and all of a sudden a blast went off. it shook us and we were looking right at where it went off so i saw the plume of smoke come up off the sidewalk. we froze not realizing what it was. we thought maybe -- you know, we have old infrastructure in boston, perhaps it was underground gas, something. the next second another bomb up the street further went off. we knew exactly what was going on then. we reacted by running towards the scene and there was a photogra

terrell brown, cbs news, boston. >> pelley: the spirit of boston.t's the cbs evening news for tonight. for all of us at cbs news all around the world, i'm scott pelley in boston. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> i'm derek mcginty. breaking news. ooh letter to a u.s. senator tested positive for a deadly poison. also. >>> this was a heinous and cowardly act. >> searching for a suspect after a terror attack at the bostonmarathon. >> the force of the united states is working hard to locate those responsible. >> and using the explosives to look for clues. >> if this bomb had multiple metallic fragments in them. >>> first, breaking news tonight. the u.s. senate says somebody sent a poisoned envelope to one of its members, roger wicker. it went testing this afternoon at the off site mail facility where it tested positive for the deadly poison ricin. they retested it twice and it came up positive each time. that envelope has been sent to

federal prosecutors will likely charge him before he recovers, jeff. >> jeff: terrell brown, thank you. >> joining us now from washington is justice and homeland security correspondent bob orr. bob, with the suspect in the hospital, in this condition, where does that leave investigators? >> it's not clear, jeff, if or when dzhokhar tsarnaev will be able to talk to investigators, we have to say prosecutors really don't need his statement to build a criminal case because they have video evidence of him planting one of the bombs and also police to testify that they saw him take place in two shoot-outs with officers? watertown, massachusetts. but besides all that the fbi really does want to talk to him about the plot, how the bombs were built and how the brothers initially escaped detection. >> jeff: what do we know about its brother's possible terror connection if any? >> well, so far the fbi can't find any evidence that the brothers had any coconspirators in this attack or any connections at all to aar lr ter rohr group, either foreign or domesque. of course they are still looking but fr

have a team of correspondents covering every angle of the attack and we will begin tonight with terrell brown in boston. >> reporter: the explosion went off at the most crowded points of the race. 12 seconds later there was a second explosion just a couple blocks away. >> it's so terrifying. it's so scary. and it was so loud. >> i just walked away, 15 feet away, 20 feet and, you know, a bomb went off. and it knocked me to the ground and then, you know, everybody started running, panicking. >> reporter: jonathan elias from cbs boston station wbz was nearby. >> there are body parts. people have been blown apart. >> reporter: police rushed to assist victims tangled in debris and broken glass, some missing limbs. bloody spectators were carried into the medical tent that had been set up to care for fatigued runners. >> there was some bad-looking people and i'm praying for all of them. we are all trying to put pressure on all the wounds for everybody, tourniquets and whatever we could do. it was chaos. >> reporter: runners were directed away from the chaos and people were ordered to stay clear of t

have a team of correspondents ndvering every angle of this attack and we'll begin tonight with terrell brown in boston. >> reporter: scott, boston police have sealed off the streets here in the city of boston, and many of the people that you see walk around, we've seen runners here, we see spectators as well, many people standing around just searching for answers, still at this point. police vehicles driving up and down the streets here. we've seen swat teams and also hving around, helicopters hovering around overhead. we're actually three blocks away right now from where the initial peneosion, that first explosion happened. ( explosion ) ( screams ) >> reporter: the explosion went off at the most crowded thet of the race, 12 seconds later, there was a second explosion just a couple blocks away. >> it's so terrifying. it's so scary. and it was so loud. >> i just walked away teen feet away, 20 feet, and a bomb went off. and it knocked me to the ground. and then, you know, everybody started running, panicking. >> reporter: jonathan elias from cbs boston station wbz was nearby. >> run over ther

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terrell brown, cbs news, boston. >> the spirit of boston, that's the cbs evening news for tonight. all of us at cbs news all around the world, i'm scott pelley in boston. good night. captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >>> this is kpix5 news. >>> there's no way to describe it. it's absolutely horrific. >> from boston, back to the bay area, with stories of terror. >> that was pretty scary. there were people dropping to the ground praying. >> tonight the renewed promises to keep people here safe. >> we have to do what we have to do, keep everybody secure. >> good evening, i'm elizabeth cook. >> i'm allen martin, crude but deadly. that's how investigators were describing the bombs that went off to the boston marathon. we learned learned today those devices were put in pressure cookers. 3 people died in the attacks, 2 young women and an 8-year-old boy. 170 more people were wounded. so far there's been no claim of responsibility and there are no suspects but the fbi says someone out there knows something. >> the person who did this is someone's friend, neighbor, cowo

terrell brown says flooding is affecting parts of ten states tonight.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."

they've never seen anything like this 14-year-old in augusta but terrell brown tells us how slow playhis fast track. captioning sponsored by cbs

terrell brown follows the cresting waters across nine states.e oyster war on one of america's most scenic coastlines. john black stone with environmentalists taking sides against each other. and meet the young innovator who's working to develop new sources of sustainable energy under her bed. >> as human beings, we are scientists because we're curious. we question. that's what science captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> axelrod: good evening. i'm jim axelrod. the

terrell brown picks up that part of the story. reporter: when lillian campbell picked up the newspaper, she had to think twice about today's headline: "nightmare's end." is this the nightmare over for you? >> no, the nightmare will never ve over. this will never end for me or the family. >> reporter: her granddaughter, krystal campbell, was killed in the marathon bombings. she lived here for two years, s,king care of her 79-year-old grandmother who is on a respirator. >> thank you. k> reporter: family members have come from far and wide for her l.neral. >> a grandmother is not supposed to bury their young children. i shouldn't be going to her wake. she should be coming to mine. >> reporter: the youngest victim was eight-year-old martin richard, remembered by members of his soccer team as cheerful and fun-loving. >> i used to play football with ndm, and he used to always bring the funniness to the game. >> reporter: his alleged killer now in custody, richard's father released a statement: and law enforcement lost one of its own. 26

terrell brown is our cbs news correspondent. he's on the ground there in watertown where we have been receiving these press briefings from time to time. >> reporter: we're waiting, scott. no definite time on when we'll hear that briefing and get more information but as you stand here you understand tha it a city where we arre in watertown. it is just an area and a community that is on edge. there are tense moments here basically because wow w you and what also bob was talking about not too long ago, so many residents here have never seen anything like this before. i landed here at boston logan not too long ago and just moving through the airport, just an incredible security presence. i mean, boston police state police, national guard, not just in the terminal but outside, all vehicles coming into the terminal, many vehicles stopped, they are searched. on the way over here, on the drive to this location where we are right now in watertown three separate sections, not too far away from one another and my vehicle searched, bags in

terrell brown is here with that story. good morning. >> reporter: good morning.nish his third run in the boston marathon when the first explosion went off and literally knocked him off his feet. as the first bomb exploded near the finish line one runner is seen falling to the ground. legs buckled by the blast. the runner is 78-year-old bill iffrig. >> shock waves just hit my whole body and my legs just started jittering around. i knew i was going down. >> reporter: a veteran of 45 marathons. iffrig traveled from his home in washington state to run the boston marathon for a third time. >> i was just approaching the last straightaway to the finish line. i had a good day. i was feeling really good. >> reporter: fewer than 20 feet from the finish line when the explosion forced him down. iffrig says his injuries were minor. >> didn't feel any severe pain. as i rolled over i seen a scratch on my leg. nothing too bad. i laid there just momentarily. >> iffrig was surrounded by first responders and helped up by marathon officials as wounded were taken away from the scene,

terrell brown takes a look at a piece of an airplane found just blocks away. >> reporter: hidden away in this block in manhattan is a deadly piece of metal. officials have confirmed the wreckage is from a boeing 767, the same model as both of the hijacked planes that hit the towers nearly 12 years ago. >> the assumption is it's one of the landing gear. >> reporter: workers discovered wedged between two buildings at the site of a planned mosque that's been the source of controversy in recent years. as investigators work to confirm the piece of wreckage is from 911 the medical examiner will begin a search for human remains, a reminder that many people have never been found. >> there are thousands who have never recovered anything, never had a funeral. >> jim richards lost his son and all these years later, he says officials still haven't done enough. >> when they're finding landing gear between buildings, mistakes were made. >> reporter: ray kelly says given how small the space is, it's not surprising nobody found it sooner. for "cbs this morning," terrell brown, new york. >>> it's time

terrell brown is in boston for us tonight. terrell, what do you see? >> reporter: scott, we're just outside of the perimeter that police have set up and still even as night has fallen here it's very much an active scene. we have seen state police, boston police, swat teams moving about here. even national guard troops brought in by the school bus load to work on securing this crime scene. of course over the next couple of days. what was interesting is that we're on the outside of that perimeter and there's a line of trash cans about four or five of them that local businesses here, they've been closed since that initial explosion, there's been a security guard that was instructed by police to look in each one of those trash cans. so we watched him pace back and forth throughout the course of many hours and then while we were on the air tonight, scott, we actually saw police move in and take those trash cans off the street. it appeared to be out of an abundance of caution. we also know that investigators and bomb protection uniforms are walking the stree

terrell brown spoke to that man. >> reporter: at the first bomb explosion near the finish line, one runners seen falling to the ground. legs buckled by the blast. the runner is 78-year-old bill efrin. >> shocked when it just hit my whole body. and my legs just started gittering around. i knew i was going down. >> reporter: a veteran of 45 marathons. efrin traveled from his home of washington state, to run the marathon for the third time. >> i was just approaching the last straightaway to the finish line. and i had had a good day. and i was feeling really good. >> reporter: fewer than 20 feet from the finish line when the explosion forced him down. he says his injuries were minor. >> didn't feel any severe pain. but as i rolled over, i seen a little scratch in my leg. but nothing too bad. so i laid there, just momentarily. >> reporter: efrig was immediately surrounded by first responders, then helped up by marathon officials remember as the wounded were taken away from the scene in the remaining runners forced from completing the race, efrig walked another half mile to meet his wife at thei

we begin with terrell brown in boston. he's outside the hospital where the accused is being held. terrell, good morning. >> reporter: anthony and norah, good morning to you. and to our viewers in the west. the last we heard, he's in critical but stable condition. under heavy guard. and he's awake and communicating with he isinvestigators in writing. investigators spent sunday combing the neighborhood where dzhokhar tsarnaev was captured. a helicopter found him lying inside a boat in a watertown backyard friday night. after an hour-long standoff, agents launched stun grenades. >> we have movement in the boat. he just sat up. >> reporter: tsarnaev suffered a gunshot wound to the throat which some investigators believe may have been self-inflicted. the end of his time on the run began earlier when he and his older brother tamerlan car jacked an suv. inside the owner left a cellphone. >> we were able to ping that phone and figure out it was heading to watertown. >> reporter: tamerlan tsarnaev died after being shot at several times and being run over. george mcmasters told 60 minutes if

we have more from terrell brown. >> reporter: dzhokhar tsavraev is communicating with investigators mostly in writing, saying he and his brothers acted alone. court documents allege how he and his brothers allegedly carried out the deadly attack. as dzhokhar tsavraev lay seriously wounded in the hospital, the judge asked if he could afford a lawyer. he uttered just one word. no. the judge said i find the defendant alert, mentally competent, and lucid. the fbi is still trying to establish a clear motive behind last monday's marathon bombing. law enforcement says that it appears dzhokhar and his older brother tamerlan was by i ideology. chilling new details in a ten-page fbi affidavit. a few minutes after the surveillance video captured the brothers at the marathon they split up according to court documents. tarrer lan heads to the finish line as his younger brother blends in with the crowd. dzhokhar places his backpack on the ground. at 2:50 the first bomb explodes. according to the affidavit, virtually every head turns, stares in that direction in apparent bewilderment and alarm, dzhokhar

she has released a statement througher this lawyers and terrell brown is in boston. reporter: norah, charlie, good morning to you both. katharine russell tsarnaev last saw her husband just hours before he was killed in a fire fight with police. now she's holed up at her parents' house 90 miles north of husband was and according to involved in something like this. >> the reports about her husband and brother-in-law came as an absolute shock. >> reporter: now hounded by the media, the 24-year-old home health aid is trying to find answers to the questions the rest of the world is about the man she married in 2010, the daughter of her 3-year-old daughter. >> they are trying to come to terms with the struggles and deep threats. >> reporter: raised a christian she met tsarnaev at a nightclub in 2007. at the time shea was a communications student. she dropped out of school and married tamerlan. he was often violent with katharine and wasn't arrested for assaulting her in 2009. katharine and her two sisters grew up on a quiet cul-de-sac in roye. her mother, a nurse and her f

terrell brown is looking into that and joins us from boston. good morn, terrell. >> reporter: good morning to you. dzhokhar tsarnaev is in this hospital. he is under tight security here as investigators try to figure out who these two men are and why they did it. in a matter of seconds, a race to the finish line became a fight for survival. but the events leading up to the marathon bombings began 11 years ago when the tsarnaev family who are ethnic chechnyans moved to cambridge. dzhokhar tsarnaev seen here wearing the white cap backward sought asylum in 2002 and became an american citizen on september 11 last year. he was premed an education funded partially by the scholarship given by the city of boston. larry larry who taughthim. they side why didn't you call and identify him. i said no way not at this kid. >> reporter: but why? >> there's nothing that would suggest any of this. politics religion nothing. >> reporter: people who knew his older brother tamerlan tsarnaev said he came as no surprise. becoming the new england golden glove heavywei

terrell brown, new york. >> and the days of tax-free shopping online may soon be over. bill early next month, and supporters say it eliminates an unfair advantage for web retailers, some opponents like ebay, believe it hurts small businesses that sell online. >> these are very small businesses that employ less than 10 or 20 people for them to take the amount of time and effort necessary to comply with all of the laws and, more importantly, to deal with the enforcement of those laws puts them at a real disadvantage to their larger competitors. >> cbs news contributor and analyst mellody hobson is with us. >> good morning. >> what does the bill do, who are the winners and losers? >> right now if you are an online retailer and you don't have a presence in the state you don't have to charge taxes from the people who buy things from you and the law actually says the consumer is responsible for declaring those taxes on their state income tax form. but, of course no one does this. so what the law does it levels the playing field. so if you are an online retailer, you don't hav

terrell brown is in augusta with a look at how scott came from behind yesterday. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. adam scott started the day behind the pack. he was in third place, a stroke off the lead. then in a rain-soaked final round, he birdied on the 18th hole. that forced a sudden-death playoff with the winner of the 2009 masters, angel cabrera. >> a beautiful putt. >> above the hole. >> reporter: after angel cabrera missed his putt on the second playoff hole, it all came down to this. >> there it is! adam scott! >> reporter: with a 12-foot birdie, adam scott became the winner of golf's premier prize. he's the first australian to win the masters. and at 32, he finally has his first major championship. >> i certainly will look forward to sharing this great honor with all of australia when i get home. >> this right here. >> reporter: scott's victory also erased some of the bittersweet memories from last year's british open. he was leading until an epic collapse in the final round. >> for adam, it would have been hard for him to lose again becau