barbara starr at the pentagon. our thanks to you. >> you know, in the investigative capacity, looking at what they know, the familiar, but dealing with this event, yesterday so much about the unknown. we're joined now by dr. albert pendleton, orthopedic surgeon doing his residency in boston. you came from down south. thank you so much for the good work you did yesterday. tell us about the experience of being here to help out with marathon-type problems and dealing with this urgency? >> we're actually really well set up for this. for this situation, because we literally had like a field hospital right on site. i mean you couldn't have had a larger group of physicians in one spot, you know. basically probably had 50 physicians, 50 nurses, 50 athletic trainers all ready to go. so as soon as everything happened, you could see from the footage, people pulling down the barricade, you know, i helped some people get back to the medical tent and then they told all the doctors to go back out there. we went out there and ther

pentagon, keeping a close eye on the disaster in the little town of west. >> good morning, chris, john. we know 21 members of the texas national guard on the way to the scene. their expertise? monitoring air quality. everything you both just said, they need to monitor the air quality for the people there, the emergency responders. that will be their main job. additionally, texas national guard, search and rescue, extraction team on alert at this hour and could go in the coming hours later today. all of this is part of the texas national guard's activated by texas governor rick perry. it's a state effort. texas national guard, one of the best equipped in the country, very capable. they like to look after their own business. but in addition clearly, the pentagon, everyone in washington, monitoring the situation, in case there is an additional need for federal help. the pentagon will be available we are told to respond to that in a real sign of all of the tragedy this week, just a couple of days ago. the texas national guard issued a statement of support for the massachusetts national gua

. >>> new this morning, developments from the pentagon over that surprising intelligence assessment of north korea's potential nuclear capabilities. our pentagon correspondent chris lawrence joins us and chris, it really seems like the obama administration is attempting to do some damage control over a surprising release of sensitive information. >> john, the assessment that was released was only one line. and that's all we reported, one line. the amount of clarifications and denials we've been getting from u.s. officials, number paragraphs. the latest coming just this morning from a u.s. official who is traveling in korea, who says he does not believe that north korea has put all the components together to be able to put a nuclear warhead on a missile and fire it and accurately aim it. this comes after late last night the director of national intelligence said, look, this assessment is just one military assessment. it doesn't mean that other intelligence agencies like the cia have come to the same conclusion. bottom line, what we know from the assessment says that it believes that nor

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container, building pressure, which caused the container to explode, and an explosive expert explains to pentagon correspondent chris lawrence. >> of course in a crowd like this, it was so tightly packed with people, those people took the brunt of the explosion, and all the projectiles. >> reporter: a pressure cooker with part of a homemade bomb inside an suv that fizzles in times square in 2010, planted by admitted lone wolf terrorist faisal shahzad now in prison. in boston, authorities are convinced they'll solve the case. but as of now, have no clue who's behind it. >> at this time there are no claims of responsibility. the range of suspects and motives remains wide open. >> and of course these photographs that they're collecting showing evidence they've collected from the blast field also raise so many interesting questions, for example, was there an instruction manual involved? does this person keep themselves? or did someone show them what to do? and again they're asking for the public's help to help solve this matter. what was the motive? why? why did they do it? chris? >> that's a good qu

barbara starr at the pentagon. our thanks to you. >> sure. >> this morning we're also following developments out of kaufman county, texas, a procession, and a solemn salute held there last night as the woddies of mike and cynthia mclelland were taken to a local funeral home. a public memorial for the couple is set for thursday. the funeral will be held friday morning. meantime, we are learning new information about the crime scene as investigators are combing through evidence in the couple's shooting death. >> also an interim district attorney randy fernandez has been named to lead the 06s while governor rick perry begins the process of finding a permanent replacement. our george howell is live in kaufman county, texas. what's the latest this morning? >> john, good morning. when we talk about kaufman county, texas, we're talking about a close-knit community where neighbors know one another. in fact a lot of people they knew the mclellands, and they want answers in this case. but with no new leads coming from invest

defense secretary chuck hagel said if syria uses chemical weapons it would cross a red line and the pentagon had a plan in place to deal with it. >>> the secretary of state in brussels this morning. meeting with russia's foreign minister and other nato diplomats. john kerry is also meeting separately with the foreign minister of russia. we could find out later if the two talked about the accused boston bombers, and their roots in russia's republic of chechnya. back in the u.s., president and first lady plan to attend their second big memorial service in two weeks. on thursday the obamas head to baylor university in waco, texas. services will be there for victims of that massive fertilizer plant explosion in the nearby town of west, texas. 14 people were killed. the first couple attended services last week for boston bombing victims. >>> the flight delays you were so worried about that we warned you about, they're happening. up to 90 minutes. and even longer if the weather is bad. thousands of air traffic controllers are getting furloughed because of forced budget cuts in washington. passenge

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don't use those it's really not clear what can change the status quo at this point an advisor for the pentagon who visited guantanamo last week came back and said that he predicted the ongoing strike would lead to death so a long time muslim advisor at guantanamo who goes by the name zack who goes only by his first name for security reasons he said quote there will be more than one death and then he added that the detainee called wanted to die out of hunger and thirst behind covered camors end of quote and the question many now ask is what if someone really dies in this hunger strike will it change something in washington i'm going to. still to come rising violence in iraq the country's suffering of its bloodiest chapters since u.s. troops pulled out with ethnic clashes in bombings leaving more than one hundred dead more on that after this short break stay with us. the international in the very heart of moscow. nineteen minutes past the hour now the mother of the two boston marathon bombing suspects claims she's seen video proving her son tamar line was still alive after being detained police

keep in mind if it weren't for those for your request we wouldn't even know about the extent of the pentagon story ramped up online surveillance or perhaps the most honest in this recent revelation though you know it's a vocal about the dangers implication of such but how soon when the worst of the bill is going to be practiced entirely in secret but i guess that's the obama administration's m.o. violate our rights first hot either violations of the law second. amidst a last week's barrage of violence and trapping all eyes were on them one such story from the associated press is official twitter account one o seven pm on april twenty third twenty following the story news breaking explosions in the white house and brought obama is injured cult thousands of real and some of them in. minutes later the report was false when he. had been hacked and it quickly redaction the story but not quickly enough for the sake of checking this out. top suddenly plummeted in just two minutes of the tweet crowd just as quickly as news to bunt this reveals just how integrated social media has become with the ico

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don't use those it's really not clear what can change the status quo at this point an advisor for the pentagon who visited guantanamo last week came back and said that he predicted the ongoing strike would lead to death so a long time muslim advisor at guantanamo who goes by the name zack who goes only by his first name for security reasons he said quote there will be more than one death and then he added that the detainees called wanted to die out of hunger and thirst behind covered camors end of quote and the question many now ask is what if someone really are is in this hunger strike will it change something in washington i'm going to. underscore so we're bringing you our in-depth coverage of the developing crisis gone tunnel going head to our web site for a full timeline of events. meantime coming up here on the scene just a couple of minutes we'll look at the brothers believed to be behind the boston bombings and the way that portrayed in the global media do stay with us for the back after the break. the international airport in the very heart of moscow. this is also you coming to life fo

got to confront about that you also asked about the two point three trillion dollars missing from the pentagon that he announced on the day before nine eleven of course was forgot about completely after the event when you get on multiple aid missions to gaza after leaving office i mean a boat that you're on actually got and you ended up in an israeli jail why is this sort of radical action necessary. i'm glad you're almost the question in the way that you posed it it is necessary. kerry because the situation has come so far so i'm hinged that ever in the every day affairs of a us government now we cannot assume that the bill of rights of quizes to us we can that's why it was so important for me to participate in the liberty fest that recently took place in atlanta because this idea this cherished notion of liberty is literally at risk and. well george bush pinned everything all of the rolling of the war machine was because of september eleventh and then after george w. bush broke obama says that you know we have to kill people all over the planet because of september eleventh and so if we don'

military with the cia i mean there's a whole division at the pentagon that was set up just to liaise with hollywood movies to give them access to the technology and it's all you know it's all kind of . you know it's it's celebration of of sort of war and warriors and you know i don't i don't know anyone in that community in the special ops community or the cia that things anything highly of zero dark thirty which is interesting but the raid itself i mean we know that there was this dog that was you know belgian malinois and we know what kind of guns they supposedly had and we know sort of everything that's been leaked we know very little about the thousands of other raids that happened that year in afghanistan or elsewhere around the world who were the targets of those rates who were who was being killed almost everything john brennan said in the aftermath of the killing of osama bin laden turned out to be false as you point out he didn't use his wife as a human shield he wasn't reaching for a gun this was the killing of an unarmed man in the middle of the night who had just been sle

don't use those it's really not clear what can change the status quo at this point an advisor for the pentagon who visited guantanamo last week came back and said that he predicted the ongoing strike would lead to death so a long time muslim advisor ed. on top of my name zack was only by his first name for security reasons he said quote there will be more than one death and then he added that the detainees called wanted to die otto hunger and thirst behind covered cameras and followed and the question many now ask is what if someone really dies in this hunger strike will it change something in washington i'm going to. bring in your in-depth coverage of the developing crisis agung tanabe as you can always have told website home for a full timeline of the vote step and in the meantime coming out here on all scene just a couple of minutes we'll look at the brothers believed to be behind the boston bombings and the way that trade in the global media after the break. the international airport in the very heart of moscow. watching r.t. live from moscow great to have you with us millions of russians

keep in mind if it weren't for those for your request we wouldn't even know about the extent of the pentagon already ramped up on line surveillance with none the wiser what's perhaps the most ironic in this recent revelation. you know even so vocal about the dangers implication of cispa passing when the worst of the bill has already been practiced entirely in secret but i guess that's the obama administration's imo violate our rights first codified those violations into law second. amidst last week's barrage of violence and tragedy all eyes are on the media for breaking news one such story from the associated press is official twitter account one o seven pm on april twenty third tweeted the following disturbing news said bricky two explosions in the white house and brock obama is injured while thousands of retreats instantly followed only find out minutes later that the report was completely false and he revealed that their account had been hacked in the quick redact of the story but not quickly enough for the economy to take a hit check this out the dow jones which was up suddenly plummeted

some reason don't use those it's really not clear what the status quo at this point an adviser for the pentagon visited guantanamo last week came back and said that he predicted gun going strike would lead to death so a long time muslim advisor at guantanamo who goes by the name zack who goes only by his first name for security reasons he said quote there will be more than one death and then he added that the. detainees called wanted to die out of hunger and thirst behind covered cameras and of court and the best of many now ask is what if someone really dies in this hunger strike will it change something in washington i'm going to check them. still to come rising violence in iraq the country suffering one of its bloodiest chapters in the u.s. troops left with ethnic clashes and bombings even more than one hundred dead one this after a short break. the international in the very heart of moscow. mother of the two boston marathon bombing suspects claims she's seen video proving her son tamra one was still alive after being detained but instead the eldest brother was run over by his younger siblin

well i think that they're trying to the wire the white house and the pentagon are trying very hard to retain their strategic domination in afghanistan they see afghanistan as strategically key they want to bring down the number of troops but they want to find a way to have afghans do the fighting against the forces that have resisted the occupation there and so they've poured this money and they have tried to buy military commanders local governors and military commanders of all different kinds and you can see that this is this is not succeeding this isn't and this is the way of occupation all hours of the general afghan public think about this the general left afghan public that aren't on the receiving end of some of this money well i think that there's great anger about this and the fact that as i mentioned before even some were telling the statistics in the country virtually every other indices of power is among the worst in the entire world despite the fact that really what will end up to be over a trillion dollars will be spent by the united states on the war and the people who a

nuclear test in february but while the many fear that further war games could provoke the ongoing the pentagon insists they're absolutely necessary. to come here and look at a part of the u.s. to tubman to live by its own rules the republic of texas is next. the movie world war z z being for zombie which stars brad pitt as one hundred seventy five million dollar budget has been recalled by paramount executives not because this is probably yet another stupid violent zombie movie but because the chinese might get offended according to the wrap dot com china was supposed to take the blame for starting the evil zombie apocalypse this time but china becoming the largest foreign market for american movies made artistic integrity fly out the window to protect the bottom dollar as is tradition and hollywood this is not the first time that there has been pro-choice and he censorship in hollywood the remake of red dawn which was originally a cold war era minstrel show against russians was supposed to show a chinese invasion of america this time however they have changed it to north koreans who can't eve