tom foreman, cnn, washington. >> that's the hope for investigators. our thanks to tom foreman.y'll get some media, they'll find something that will lead to who did this and why. a lot of unanswered questions. i can't do a lot of reporting when i'm on tvgs. i'm going to get back out there and see what we can figure out, come back on later with it. over to you now, erin. >> thank you, chris. that's the thing. got to go out and find that nvgs. as news has come in about yesterday's horrific bombing, many turns to social media to show their support for the victims. wearing race t-shirt, simple words of kindness, social media was where the nation and the world came together. [ male announcer ] does your prescription medication give you the burden of constipation? turn to senokot-s tablets. senokot-s has a natural vegetable laxative ingredient plus the comfort of a stool softener for gentle, overnight relief of occasional constipation. go to senokot-s.com for savings. >>> want to show you the reaction that you all had and that's the reaction you saw on social media. people have been u

tom foreman is at the magic wall. tom, tell us where these explosions, these bombings occurred. >> let's look at the layout, this is massachusetts.

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tom foreman, cnn. >> hey, that's it for us. the situation in the north korea crisis starts now. >> we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. this is a "situation room" special to report north korean crisis. we're following breaking news. a chilling new claim about the ability to launch a nuclear attack even as his regime threatens war. >> we begin now with some breaking news. war could break out at any moment. there may, repeat, may be new reason to fear that it's threats of a nuclear attack are much more serious than we thought. it's a stunning new development. even as kim jung un could order one missile to launch literally at any time. let's bring in our pentagon correspondent. >> officials just told me they were completely caught off guard that this revelation was put out there in an open hearing. the holy grail has always been able to take a nuclear bomb, which we know they have, and making it small enough to fit on the end of a missile. this assess. suggests they may learne

cnn's tom foreman has been taking a look at that history. tom, what are you seeing? saying throughout the entire program, this goes back a long time, this pattern. in 1993 is when they tested their first midrange missile that could go as far as japan and it really excited the world community with concern. over the next few years, things kept improving, and then by 1995, they were testing more missiles. these missiles included cruise missiles capable of going 100 miles out to strike ships at sea. they flew a missile all the way over japan and were backing away from the world's nuclear agencies that keep track of nuclear programs. that also excited concern. of course, by 2003, by this point, more developments. we found out, in fact, they did have a nuclear program, which they denied for a period of time and on and on it progressed, wolf. here's the thing, throughout that process, there was a constant push-pull. there would be fears, alarm around the world, and often what followed were deals, concessions, that gave them food or gave them fuel or gave them new technology

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>> yeah, tom foreman, tom fuentes, thanks very much for that analysis. the fbi agent in charge says this investigation is in its infancy right now. up next, video from the crucial moments while the marathon was understood way, before the attack. what investigators are looking for in every image. we'll assess for you, and you may have seen the video, a man blown off his feet when the bombs went off. he's telling his dramatic story. ♪ (train horn) vo: wherever our trains go, the economy comes to life. norfolk southern. one line, infinite possibilities. how old is the oldest person you've known? we gave people a sticker and had them show us. we learned a lot of us have known someone who's lived well into their 90s. and that's a great thing. but even though we're living longer, one thing that hasn't changed: the official retirement age. ♪ the question is how do you make sure you have the money you need to enjoy all of these years. ♪ over our secure network, verizon innovators are building a world of medical treatment data in the cloud. so doctors can make a

tom foreman is back. tom, you've been looking at north korea's arsenal. what are you seeing?wolf, almost all of the experts say that barring something really unforeseen, this is not a case of north korea likely going fu clear. they don't really expect that. the fear beyond that, though, is that somehow, through a series of unforeseen events, we stumble into what is a more conventional war, and we see more of their traditional military power. in those massive parades of north korean military might, the display may seem impressive. more than 1 million troops under arms, row after row of missiles, tanks and other weaponry. at global city.org, john pike, a skilled military analyst, sees something else. >> it would look pretty good to people who didn't know anything about military equipment. you know, i mean, all the rockets are the same. but if you look at it closely, you basically see, this is a lot of old clunky stuff. >> reporter: when we asked pike's team to look over some photos of north korea's military, they quickly pointed out problems. old soviet style tanks still using

tom foreman is over at the magic wall with the demonstration. tom? >> wolf, it largely is that size is a big difference. one of the first bombs dropped in the united states called little boy. that was the nickname. but it was huge. look at that. four-plus tons of weight that had to be dropped there. this is the challenge that is facing the north koreans. we largely believe that if they have developed a nuclear weapon up to this point, it's probably a crude one like this and it will weigh a lot. this is the big challenge, because the musudan missile, that we're talking about on the east coast there, only has a payload of about 2.5 tons. it simply cannot carry one of these nuclear weapons. the challenge then becomes somehow making it smaller. so let's talk a little bit about the nature, the architecture of nuclear weapons and how they would do that. the core of a nuclear bomb, like the one we talked about in world war ii, is not very big. about the size of a shot putt, maybe 10, 15 pounds of plutonium. but to make it blow up, you have to compress it su

tom foreman is in the virtual studio. this missile that north korea moved to the east coast, what kind of missile are we talking about? and what is the range? >> jake this is the type of missile that we're talking about. it is called the musadon. it can trace the development back to a russian submarine missile. there is also an iranian version. there is no fins or guidance system on it. yet, it's infective. this is one of the reasons why. you see it in parades in north korea time and again. you see it this way, on the back of a truck. it is a highly mobile missile system. once it is fueled up, it can be moved around fairly quickly and set up and fired within a matter of minutes from any location. that's one of the things that makes it dangerous. plus, it can pack quite a wa wallop. carrying a 2 1/2 ton payload which can be a warhead of just that size if you have two stages on it which makes it a little bit more unreliable. it can travel out 2500 miles. can it reach california? no. can it reach alaska? maybe a tiny part. k

our tom foreman is out front. have been looking through this, how are investigators trying to look through the origin of the bomb parts which show parts of serial numbers but not in full. it's tantalizing, but not all the information. >> well, one of the keys to the way they're going to track this town, erin, and you mentioned just a minute ago, pictures, we said yesterday that pictures are going to be key to all of this and today they have been very excited about this particular picture which was taken not far from where you're standing today erin. there's a package in front of a railing that has people behind it. coupled with another video coming from a camera on top of a lord & taylor's across the street. let me jump from around behind that camera and show you the point of view if you were up there looking down. see where that mailbox is? that's where the bombing took place. let's get our model and talk about the payment of everything. you are right over in this area, this has been cnn's position right over here

for "out front," tom foreman, washington. >> it's a big question.s one after 9/11 this country had to address. now we have to address it again. "out front," matt welch, and ari fleischer. you've been in the middle of this controversy before, obviously. as we all know. 48% of people, according to "the washington post" after the boston bombings worry the government is going to too far. and 41% are afraid our government will not go far enough. if they had more ability to watch over people, they could have stopped these guys from killing and injuring these people to begin with. >> erin, there's a forever strain between liberty and security in our country. and that particularly gets tested at a time when something like boston or after september 11th. i'm reminded of one of the most beautiful sayings i ever heard at cambridge university in massachusetts. laws are the restraints that make us free, which is an amazing paradox, if you think a restraint can make us free. that's what civil society is. when times are tense and there's a security risk to our cou

let's go back to tom foreman, and spider marx for more on this. >> there's a tremendous amount of power in the young man's hands. let's talk about this nuclear capability first. what do we think they have right now? >> tom, we think they have eight bombs. they probably have the material for 12. but we don't think these are weaponized. they haven't been married up with a missile capability to launch at some place else. >> as long as they're not able to be delivered well, they're not weaponized. >> correct. >> they have a tremendous amount of rockets and missiles. talk about this. >> the korean people army was trained by the soviets and the chinese communists so they rely on volumes of artillery fire. so they have a massive amount of artillery and surface to surface missiles. we'd see those at the beginning of the conflict. >> a lot has been buried since the military conflict. >> right. >> when the cease-fire was signed back in '53, 1953, is where a lot of the units remain today. >> and beyond that, there is this question of the sheer number of people that they have. for really quite smal

tom foreman joins us from washington, d.c., with more on this operation. tom, explain to us exactly, where did this all go down? >> this all happened mainly around toronto and montreal. you can see canada in here. what i've highlighted here are really the train routes run by the ia train system up there, an intercity -- typically the police up there release much less information than we're used to here. it doesn't mean they don't have the background of all of this. they just don't talk very much. the real target here apparently was train activity in and around the largest city here toronto, and if you zoom in, you can see it's a rail yard here, one of the main ones here, for via up there. these suspects apparently scouted out these locations, watched the comings and goings of trains, looked at the security system here, and had a real target of trying to hit this system. why would that matter so much? well, because via carries more than 4 million people on trips every year up there in canada, and for a long time, jake, there's been talk about the idea that t

cnn's tom foreman and cnn contributor retired u.s.rmy general spider marks take a closer look. >> wolf, the cornerstone of everything we've been talking about for the past couple of weeks is the north korean army. general, walk us through the force of this army. >> this is an army that has over about 1 million folks under arms, very large reserve component. mandatory service, from a couple of years up to ten years. >> a large force, particularly large if we think about the size of the area involved. look at this map of the united states. that's where north korea would fit, roughly in the same space as mississippi. so, as militaries go, this is a very massive force for a small country. >> but a very paranoid leadership. >> let's talk about the breakdown of that. the if you talk about the leadership, what is the number one quality required of the top officers in this military? >> loyalty to the communist party and the leader right here, kim jong-un. >> the number one quality. what about the special forces? >> very large special forces,

cnn's tom foreman is there with retired u.s. army general james "spider" marks. >> all eyes are on the east coast of north korea. why, general, would they do this missile placement there? >> the east coast is closer to the united states presence in the region, and its allies. they didn't put it on the west coast because they're not trying to threaten china. >> let's bring in the model of the type of missile we're talking about. this is really designed to be used by soviet submarines. the iranians have a version of this. let's talk about it, because one of the real keys is the mobility. why does that matter so very much? >> this is a mobile missile system. it can launch from any location. all it needs is a piece of level terrain. >> let's talk about the capability of this, as well. fairly big and a lot of different ways which it can be presented. >> this is about 40 to 60 feet length, a payload of 2 1/2 tons. but what's important is the warhead. we do not anticipate that it has a nuclear warhead at all. we think it's high explosi

cnn's tom foreman and cnn contributor retired u.s.ral spider marks take a closer look. >> wolf, the cornerstone of everything we've been talking about for the past couple of weeks is the north korean army. general, walk us through the force of this army. >> this is an army that has over about 1 million folks under arms, very large reserve component. mandatory service, from a couple of years up to ten years. >> a large force, particularly large if we think about the size of the area involved. look at this map of the united states. that's where north korea would fit, roughly in the same space as mississippi. so as militaries go, this is a very massive force for a small country. >> but a very paranoid leadership. >> let's talk about the breakdown of that. the if you talk about the leadership, what is the number one quality required of the top officers in this military? >> loyalty to the communist party and the leader right here, kim jong-un. >> the number one quality. what about the special forces? >> very large special forces, very well

for "outfront," tom foreman, washington. >>> still to come, president obama versus the nra. the gun lobby already won? >>> plus, an american businessman found dead in singapore. police say it was suicide. his family says it doesn't add up. >>> should overweight people pay more to fly? one airline under pressure says, yes. >>> welcome back to the second half of "outfront." we start with stories we care about focusing on our own reporting from the front lines. well, america's role in mali could be expanding. in a visit today, senator john mccain said the united states will assist the french and coalition militaries to provide them with the equipment, training and technology needed to rid mali of terrorists linked to al qaeda. now whether that makes sense depends on how you define equipment saying if equipment is like binoculars and those in the wrong hands would not be a problem. >>> the pentagon is refusing to award purple hearts to victims of the 2009 ft. hood shooting. the reason, the pentagon says they were not the victims of an international terrorist attack. in a defense

tom foreman is in the virtual studio with a look at the police work that could crack the case wide opent least. tom? >> certainly, jake. what they're really looking for, what is missing is a link between that and activity in this crowd. today tremendous emphasis on images like this one from a local tv station showing that pack sitting in front of a railing with people behind it. we've had a lot of talk about that. much of the focus today on another set of images or video captured by a security camera on a lord & taylor store across the street. this is the nearest camera to the scene of that second explosion where that package was. let me bring in my model here and show you what i'm talking about. this the model. i'll rotate it so you can see. lord & taylor is right here, this yellow building. you can see the two explosions. look at the detail. that camera we've been talking about all day is that it right there. that little blue marker shows where it is. there is the explosion right across the street. so they would have a very clear line of sight if that is the camera we're talking about

thanks very much, tom foreman. the secretary of state john kerry, he's on the korean peninsula right now, delivering a verbal shot across the border directed right at kim jong-un. let's bring in our chief international correspondent, christiane amanpour, she's the anchor of amanpour on cnn international. also joining us, fareed zakaria, the anchor of cnn's fareed zakaria gps. guys, listen to what secretary kerry said in seoul earlier today. >> we will defend our allies. we will stand with south korea, japan and others against these threats, and we will defend ourselves. and kim jong-un needs to understand, as i think he probably does, what the outcome of a conflict would be. >> kerry certainly spoke tough. but president obama has actually ordered that some of the military exercise scheduled in the region be canceled. so christiane, what is the message that the obama administration is trying to send right now, and will it work? >> well, listen, they've been sending this message from the beginning of this conflict. i

for "outfront," tom foreman, washington. >> "outfront" tonight, a former cia analyst who spearheaded t the -- operations team. seth jones is the associate director of the international security and defense policy center. great to have you with us. you've been out there looking for people. i just wanted to throw up a graphic. six major lists. you have tide list with more than 700,000 names. you have another terrorist screening database with 423,000 names. tsarnaev was said to be on that list. then there's a select d list with 14,000 names. a no fly list with 10,000 names and the kill list, we don't know exactly how many names are on that. does it make sense to have all of these lists? >> so, look, i think most of these lists are to be used as references. they're not generating leads, open investigations. it depends on how they're used. they can be useful just as a resource for some organizations, but again, i'm not exactly sure how all of those databases interact at this point. >> and i guess that's a big point. let's talk about the tide list in particular. the big one. 700,000 names.

>> tom foreman, thank you.mith, the associate director of the national center for media forensics, expert at analyzing video and counterterrorism deputy is back. good to have both of you. let me start with you, jeff smith. when you look at this video, let me ask you one of the things we've talked about that was excluded when the fbi was talking about it was does any discussion at all of these men's physical attributes, their race, their ethnicity, their weight, their height, why do you think that is? >> i think there's a lot of factors that investigators can look at, in particular with this video. you have to keep in mind that there's very likely other images, other videos and obviously other pieces of evidence that investigators are looking to, but in this particular video, the features aren't necessarily good enough to say ethnicity or race or details like that, but certainly, if the need arises, the persons' height could be ascertained at least relatively close to their height, and if suspects are brought in

cnn's tom foreman has a closer look. thermal images to tell us how it works, tom. >> you know, wolf, these are really an extraordinary testament to the tenacity and the technology that officers brought to bear in this search for the suspects out here, particularly the final suspect. bear in mind what was going on all day yesterday. what they were doing was create ago cordon off around watertown, not let him slip away. 7:00, wasn't sure he was there or not. as they shut down the restriction that kept people inside, a man walked out, saw the boat tarp was torn, saw blood on it, saw a person inside and everything changed. we zoom into the neighborhood because that's what hundreds of police officers did, rushing in to set up a line of defense around it while they rushed people away. then, wolf, they brought in the technology. going to demonstrate what we are talking about with this small model. they brought in a thermal imaging helicopter. it can look to the ground and measure anything that's hot down there and see anything

tom foreman puts into perspecti perspective. >> reporter: in the massive parades, the display may seem million troops under arms, row after row of missile l, tanks and other weaponry. but at globalsecurity.org, a killed military analyst sees something else. >> it would look pretty good to people who didn't know anything about military equipment. all these rockets are the same. but if you look at it closely, you basically see this is a lot of old, clanky stuff. >> reporter: when we asked him to look over photos, they quickly pointed out problems. old soviet-style tanks still using technology from the 1980s or even further back. anti-aircraft guns that lack any connected radar or computer targeting. boats not suitable for the high seas. almost antique equipment for communications. much of it appears to have been updated, but look at a north korean. war room compared to one in the south. >> we're talking about very simple systems. >> reporter: there is that greatest asset of the north, the massive number of troops both k active and reserve they run into the millions. retired army general

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troops and assets in those areas. >> tom foreman, thank you. only a handful of americans have ever set foot inside north korea. former governor bill richardson is one of them. he's been there several times and now joins me. thanks for joining us. as we just mentioned the north koreans have moved missile components to their east coast likely for a test launch that could pass over japan. how are president obama and the administration trying to cool down this situation right now? >> well, they're doing i believe a good job. first dialing down some of the military maneuvers, the rhetoric and response to the north korean very angry rhetoric. but the reality is, jake, that the north koreans have really not done anything. they had those missile launchers before the underground tests but despite the ratcheting up and the threats and the activity, they really haven't done much. if they shoot this missile it's very serious. another sign is the industrial park in kasong. this is on the border with south korea. i noticed the north koreans are not letting t

. >> let's go to tom foreman right now.loser look at these images, the video and still photos that the fbi has released. >> wolf, i've been listening to your conversation over here. this is the actual sequence of this video, with these fellows turning the corner here, and then it picks up in the middle sequence of these shots. you see them start working further along the way here. as you see that, you realize they're in the middle of that walk. you see the woman with the bright green bag down there, that's the middle of it. as they come up this way, it joins into the last part of the sequence where you see them walking away from us. i've counted up here based on the sidewalk blocks, we're seeing about 50 feet or so of ground being covered. because there's some overlap in the various shots and where they're going. a couple of things we noticed, probably worth noting in all of this. for example, if you look down at the time stamp, all of this is taking place approximately 12 1/2 minutes before the first bomb blast went off. w

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tom foreman is here to tell us more about the incident and the event itself. tom? >> sure, jake. as you know, this is not just any big sporting event. for the world's runners, this is the big sporting event of the year. it's extraordinary. the route starts out here in hopkinton. it gets more and more dense as it works its way into boston. as we move toward the finish line, i'll stop it part way in here so you see landmarks, which i know john over here is well acquainted with. as you move in, you're going past fenway park over here, the massachusetts institute of technology over in here, boston college, boston university. so lot of places passing here. right now what police have been telling runners to do, this is mass ave cutting right through here. they're telling the runners on this side of mass ave to keep going toward boston common. the rest of them they want to come back toward kenmore square. let's move into the finish line and talk about what was happening there. we were talking about the crowds that were in there. s best we can map this out, this is where the finish line

i want to bring in tom foreman to break the pictures down for us.t we're looking at. >> this is the first image that we have. this is a thermal imaging picture of the boat right here that was taken at about 19 minutes past 7:00. so 19 after the homeowner spotted blood here and said he saw someone inside here. you can't tell much from this. they're looking for heat signatures. might be something up in here, but you really can't tell. but this picture, look at this very clear sign here of a strong heat signature coming from in this area. as you think about the size of a boat, that's pretty big. they knew at this time he was moving around in the boat. so as you complain chur you cap there is trailing heat. so there is a sense he's moving inside the boat even though by now they're around the point where they have either had a gun battle him or about to have the gun battle with him. we move on and then we have these images which are also amazing of then extending a robotic arm in here, tearing away some of the fabric covering the boat. remember, a tear i

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cnn's tom foreman has been taking a look at that history. tom, what are you seeing?e been saying throughout the entire program, this goes back a long time, this pattern. in 1993 is when they tested their first midrange missile that could go as far as japan and it really excited the world community with concern. over the next few years, things kept improving, and then by 1995, they were testing more missiles. these missiles included cruise missiles capable of going 100 miles out to strike ships at sea. they flew a missile all the way over japan and were backing away from the world's nuclear agencies that keep track of nuclear programs. that also excited concern. of course, by 2003, by this point, more developments. we found out, in fact, they did have a nuclear program, which they denied for a period of time and on and on it progressed, wolf. here's the thing, throughout that process, there was a constant push-pull. there would be fears, alarm around the world, and often what followed were deals, concessions, that gave them food or gave them fuel or gave them new tech

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the tom foreman is in our studio.ied north korea's military for several years. >> wolf, despite the global implications that would follow, if north and south korea went to full anwar, the truth is, the korean peninsula would really bear the prunt of all of this. that's where most of the fighting would take place. we know the dmz between the south and north is so heavily fortified, that neither side can just charge in and go across that land to attack the other. if the north wanted to set this up and make it happen, what do they do? >> tom, the very first thing we're going to see is large concentrations of artillery and missile fire from the north to targets in the south. seoul is just south of the dmz. what's interesting is the firing positions are on the north slope of the mountains. that define the dmz. very difficult for the coalition forces if the south to see those pieces before they're activated. >> so while that firing is occurring from these mountains down here, what else is going on from the north? >> the nor

. >> tom foreman tells us what police will be looking for to answer those questions. >> one of the mysteries that they happen so late in the sporting event. only about 6,000 remained. had long passed and left. and that's when these explosions happen. they're trying to find anyway to see a connection between the people who were along this course before the explosions and the time they happened. if they can find that, that's a lead. that's something they can follow and then maybe they can solve some of the mysteries of these attacks. >> and now thanks to tom for that report. witnesses say there was a very heavy security presence during the marathon. >> and those behind the attacks found a crack big enough to cause very serious damage. >> i think atlanta and the olympics was probably the most prominent in terms of the most successful terrorist or malicious attack. but securing something like a marathon is incredibly difficult. to try to protect it all the way along the route is impossible. >> what does it tell you about choosing this particular venue, the time of day, where the bombs were place

then tom foreman, he thought the best use of the news apparatus is to drop backpack. >> if you look atline of the backpack this is a fairly substantial pack here. that's a fairly substantial backpack. >> yeah tom, we on earth call those backpacks, and that's what they are shaped like. now do you want to say something useful? and finally we would like to tip our hat to the fbi agent who cracked the whole case. richard deloriay because -- there has got to be at least two brains in that head. i'm done talking now. >> michael: thank you for joining us here in "the war room." before we go, we have to say a sad good-bye to folk singer richie habens. he is best known for his spiring performance of motherless child captured in the wood stock film. it immortalized future generates of activists. good night and good-bye richie havens. ♪ freedom freedom, freedom ♪ ♪ sometimes i feel like a motherless child ♪ young turks is that we're honest. they know that i'm not bs'ing them with some hidden agenda, actually supporting one party or the other. when the democrats are wrong, they know that i'm going

our tom foreman explauns. >> the stunning images are a testament to the tenacity and the technology that to bear in this chase. let's remember that the authorities have been closing in all day on this neighborhood setting up a net so this man could not escape. somebody looked in his backyard in his boat and saw a body. thousands of officers put up a kor don and then they called in the technology. a thermal imaging helicopter. that's a device that will fly around and look down at the ground with a special camera that reads any kind of heat signatur signatures. what did uz that mean? even the heat of a body will show up. this is what they saw in the boat. there was indeed someone in the boat as the witness had suggested and he was moving around. a gunfight broke out. he was hit at least two more times. they threw flash-bang grenades in there. then everything got quiet. that was a moment at which they brought in more technology. essentially a robotic arm which reached in and started tearing away at the fabric and trying to get a better look in the boat even as they were calling out with a b

here's cnn's tom foreman. >> reporter: they established a capture net for this suspect and enlisted theof 4.5 million people. they figured out where they thought he would be in one of these six towns here, about 300,000 people living there. they said to everyone, lock your doors, clear the streets. they focused on watertown in particular. again, keep your doors locked. they flooded the zone with police officers and started cutting off all access in and out of this area. how did they do that? they asked 5,500 taxi drivers around boston, stay away. they shut down subways and buses, asking businesses to close. fenway park canceled the ball game. other places said, workers, don't come in, we're not going to operate today. they shut down schools, harvard, m.i.t., all shut down. beyond that they put pressure on the trains. look, you can see what's happening around watertown here. they effectively put up a capture net and started squeezing and the belief this was caught in the middle of it all. let's put this all away and zoom into where he was found. that's the real proof in this game. they s