Op-Ed: Premier Christy Clark, the goalie and the red light

 

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Vancouver - A 4,000 plus word feature on B.C. Premier Christy Clark, her son and bid to keep her job was published by the Vancouver Sun Saturday. It was written by Jonathan Fowlie and it's a good read if you've the time to absorb the entire thing.

The section that's garnered the controversy in Fowlie's account of Clark is where the premier runs a red light. It's done at the urging of her son, Hamish, whom she is driving to his goalie camp session at an ungodly early time (been there, done that with my goalie). It reads as an odd moment and behind it all there's a note of her being calculated, considering the presence of Fowlie in the car - how could she not consider the news reporter in the car? - and going with that which is most likely to translate into votes.

Her wheels were turning as much as those of the car, she was looking for an angle. Like "how should I handle this? Do what Hamish wants? But he'll write about it. Will it look cool to the public? It's 5:15 in the a.m., no cars! Yeah, it'll play as a maverick." The thing is, it doesn't play as a maverick, or whatever else she may have been looking for, that is unless she wanted it to play as calculated, that and mildly irresponsible. But here's the exert, you be the judge:

At times, [Clark and Hamish] seem more like sidekicks — siblings even — than they do mother and son. And especially so the morning when the two were on their way to Hamish’s goalie clinic.

“Let’s see you go through this red light,” Hamish challenged as they pulled up that morning, at 5:15 a.m., to an abandoned Vancouver intersection.

“I might. Don’t test me,” Clark replies.

“Yeah. Go ahead.”

“Should I?”

“There’s no one.”

“Would you go through? You shouldn’t because that would be breaking the law,” she says.

And with that the car has already sailed underneath the stale red stoplight and through the empty intersection.

“You always do that,” says Hamish.

Clark was asked about the moment on the campaign trail Saturday but deftly deflected the question and got on to what she wanted to talk about. Whether she'll be pinned down to comment fully on it in the days ahead is anybody's guess. Something notable about the incident was her chutzpah. She's doing it, going for it. Playing safe would have been "no, no, it's against the law, we'll wait a few seconds for the green light." She's brazenly calculating, let's put it that way.

It reminds me of one of the commercials the Liberals have out. She sits at a table with others, delivering no substance - even where she criticizes the NDP's lack of substance, despite their producing volumes of policy, she delivers no substance - as she talks about how we want our children to stay in British Columbia. No one around her seems engaged but she flies on.

There's a young female next to her who seems uncomfortable, perhaps with the camera, but Clark barrels on, either ignoring or not sensing the girl's energy, talking about how parents love their kids and want them to stay in B.C. In saying that she displays a firm grasp of the obvious and it's a banal, trite moment, it's much ado about nothing. She'd have done better to consider the girl and react to her, maybe ask her a question about how she felt about jobs and keeping kids in B.C., respond to her answer.

But the wheels are turning, she's pitching, barreling through the red light looking for votes on the other side, delivering words she thinks people will want to hear. But I don't think they want platitudes and I think the lack of substance, the inability to look at what's around her and respond naturally to it, instead of caluculating the best response, instead of charging through, will cause voters to present her with something that, this time, she can't ignore.

A red light.

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FAA says air travel system to be normal Sunday night

 

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(Reuters) - The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said on Saturday it had suspended all employee furloughs and that it expects the U.S. air travel system to return to normal by Sunday evening Eastern Time.

The suspension follows passage on Friday of a bill allowing the agency to shift money within its budget to halt furloughs of air-traffic controllers that started April 21.

The furloughs, prompted by automatic budget cuts, caused thousands of flight delays and hundreds of cancellations throughout the week. The FAA said in a statement on Saturday that it expects staffing to return to normal levels over the next 24 hours.

Airports around the country were reporting that flights were arriving and departing on time at 1 p.m. EDT, with the exception of San Francisco, where arrivals were delayed 44 minutes on average because of construction, the FAA said.

Earlier on Saturday, President Barack Obama chided Republicans in his weekly radio address for approving a plan to ease air-traffic delays while leaving untouched budget cuts that affect children and the elderly.

Congressman Bill Shuster, chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and a Republican from Pennsylvania, said the FAA could have complied with the automatic budget cuts, known as sequester, in a way that avoided inconveniencing travelers.

(Reporting by Alwyn Scott; Editing by Sandra Maler)

Landing gear from 9/11 plane found wedged between N.Y. buildings

 

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A piece of landing gear from a plane that hit the World Trade Center September 11, 2001 was found Friday by surveyors. For over 11 years it sat perfectly wedged between two buildings, passersby none the wiser that American history was tucked nearby.

It's not known from which of the two planes that hit the Twin Towers, the American Airlines plane or United Airlines plane, the landing gear part comes from. New York police spokesperson Paul Browne said there is a Boeing identification number on the piece. It was found in an extremely narrow alley, about 18 inches wide, between the back of a luxury apartment building and the building at 51 Park Place, the future site of a mosque.

Debris from 9/11 still found

It is not the first time debris has been found in the area since the clean-up was officially over but this may be the biggest piece of a plane found since. Police said they will look in the alley around the debris to see what else might be found.

The piece of the plane, about 5 feet by 4 feet and 17 inches high, has not been removed because it is in a very tight spot and police are not yet sure how it will be removed. There's no word as yet on where it will be taken once it is removed. “The odds of this being wedged between there is amazing,” Browne said. “It had to have fallen just the right way to make it into that space.”

The building at 51 Park Place has a Muslim prayer space in it and is undergoing renovations to become a mosque. There were protesters that did not want a mosque so close to the place where Islamic extremists had done so much damage. Nearly 3,000 were killed when Islamic terrorists hijacked the two planes and steered them into the two World Trade Center buildings.

One World Trade Center

The debris was found three blocks from the site of the former Twin Towers. Construction continues there on One World Trade Center, a 104-story building that will be the tallest building in the Western hemisphere. The 16-acre site will see a total of eight buildings, including the National September 11 Memorial and Museum and a Performing Arts Center.

Most buildings have a planned completion date either later this year or in 2014.

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Obama says Planned Parenthood is ‘not going anywhere’

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President Barack Obama on Friday defended Planned Parenthood, the largest source of reproductive health care which also provides abortions, against its opponents and warned critics that the organization remains steadfast.

"Planned Parenthood is not going anywhere," Obama said at the organization's annual national conference in Washington, D.C. "It’s not going anywhere today. It’s not going anywhere tomorrow."
The organization has long been a target of abortion opponents, who in recent years have fought to cut off federal funding to the organization even though that funding by law cannot be spent on abortions, which make up an estimated 3 percent of the organization's budget.
The president on Friday lauded the organization's work “providing quality healthcare to women all across America." "We are truly grateful to you.”
He noted that 1 in 5 women in America have sought services from Planned Parenthood, which is the primary source for health care for many women. When politicians attempt to turn Planned Parenthood into "a punching bag," Obama said, they are shutting out women who need health care and communities who may need health care services the most.
Obama used his appearance to champion his health care law, which he said promotes many of the same principles as Planned Parenthood. Obama said his law supports health care for women including by allowing young women to be covered by their parents' health care insurance plans and preventing women with pre-existing conditions from being denied coverage.
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus recently targeted the organization with a scathing op-ed for conservative news site Red State accusing Planned Parenthood and Democrats of supporting infanticide. Priebus wrote that testimony from a Planned Parenthood lobbyist in Florida indicated the organization supports the killing of infants.
Planned Parenthood later released a statement on the lobbyist's testimony, saying, "As a trusted health care provider, Planned Parenthood strongly condemns any physician who does not follow the law or endangers a woman's or child's health. And while HB 1129 addresses a situation that is extremely unlikely and highly unusual, if the scenario presented by the legislation should happen, of course a Planned Parenthood doctor would provide appropriate care to both the woman and the infant."
The president's appearance at the conference comes at a time when infanticide has been in the national news due to the murder trial of former abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell. Gosnell, of Philadelphia, is charged with murder in the death of a woman in 2009 during an abortion procedure and in the deaths of four babies.

Obama and predecessors mark opening of George W. Bush library

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DALLAS—President Barack Obama praised his predecessor George W. Bush as a “good man” who should be commended for his resolve in trying to keep the country safe after the 9/11 attacks, and for his foresight in leading the fight for immigration reform.
Obama’s remarks came as he and the other four living presidents along with dozens of state, federal and foreign dignitaries gathered here to mark the opening of the George W. Bush Presidential Library on the campus of Southern Methodist University.
Obama, who has been a fierce critic of Bush’s handling of the country, and his colleagues followed the tradition of past presidential library ceremonies by putting political differences aside. Obama praised what he called Bush’s “compassion,” “generosity” and “personality,” and said, “To know the man is to like the man.”
Remarking on the rare gathering of all five presidents, Obama spoke of the “exclusive club” that he shares with Bush as well as Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter—who were also in attendance. But, he said, “it’s more like a support group.”
He recalled finding a letter in his desk from George W. Bush upon arriving in the Oval Office in 2009 offering his successor advice.
“He knew I would come to learn what he had learned,” Obama said. “Being president above all is a humbling job. There are moments when you make mistakes. There are times when you wish you could turn back the clock.”
But, Obama noted, “We love this country and we do our best.”
Obama’s remarks came after former Clinton and Carter offered similar praise of Bush. Among other things, they touted Bush’s efforts to stop the spread of AIDS in Africa.
But Clinton’s remarks seemed more like a roast of his successor, as he spoke warmly of Bush and talked about how close he had gotten to the Bush family after he defeated George H.W. Bush. He joked of being “the black sheep son” and said his mother had told him not to speak too long at the event, turning to acknowledge former first lady Barbara Bush, who giggled in response.
He also praised George W. Bush’s recently discovered artistic skills as a painter, saying Barbara Bush had shared portraits her son had painted of animals. “I thought they were great,” Clinton said, adding that he had considered asking Bush to paint his portrait.
Clinton said he had hesitated, however, after seeing Bush’s self-portraits in the bathroom. “At my age, I think I should keep my suit,” Clinton said, as Bush laughed wildly.
A bittersweet moment came when George H.W. Bush briefly addressed the crowd, thanking them for coming. The elder Bush was hospitalized in December, and the family worried he might not make it to see his son unveil his presidential library.
From the podium later, George W. Bush praised his father for “teaching him how to be a president, but first teaching him how to be a man,” and said it was the first time in history that father-and-son presidents had attended the opening of each other’s libraries.
Addressing the crowd of more than 8,000 supporters and former staffers, Bush repeatedly became emotional as he thanked those who had turned out to mark the library’s opening. At one point he joked, “There was a time in my life when I wasn’t likely to be found in a library, much less founding one.”
In praising his ex-staffers, Bush said, “History is going to show I served with great people.” He then gave a shout-out to former Vice President Dick Cheney, who is barely mentioned in the library’s exhibits, telling him, “I’m proud to call you a friend.”
In brief remarks, Bush recalled the goals that led him while in office.
“In democracy, the purpose of public office is not to fulfill personal ambition,” he said, echoing a line that he’s used throughout his career. “Elected officials must serve a cause greater than themselves. The political winds blow left and right, polls rise and fall, supporters come and go. But in the end, leaders are defined by the convictions they held.”
At the end of his speech, Bush audibly choked up. With tears in his eyes, he returned to this seat, where he smiled and threw three fingers in the air in the shape of a ”W.”

Beyoncé’s Grimacegate: Pop Star Bans Independent Photographers From Shooting World Tour

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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(Al Pereira, WireImage)It's hard to forget the less-than-flattering images of Beyoncé that circulated around the Internet after the 2013 Super Bowl. The contorted grimace and unseemly scowl of the usually perfectly coiffed pop star were captured during her halftime performance and posted online ad nauseum.

After Buzzfeed ran the images, Beyoncé's publicist requested that the website take down the unflattering pics, but Buzzfeed instead added fuel to the fire, posting a story with the headline, "The 'Unflattering' Photos Beyoncé’s Publicist Doesn’t Want You to See." Not surprisingly, the story and the images made their way around the world, and soon Photoshopped pictures of Beyoncé making her look like a Star Wars character, a lobster lady, an Olympic weightlifter, and the Incredible Hulk were popping up everywhere.
This time around, Beyoncé isn't taking any chances. The star has reportedly instituted a ban on independent professional photographers to shoot her ongoing Mrs. Carter World Tour, according to the New York Post and The Guardian. Instead, news outlets are being given a link to a website featuring pre-approved photos of Beyoncé taken by ONE photographer.
This may end up working against the star, as news outlets compete to run original images and may end up using amateur photos taken from the crowd--with bad lighting. Oh, the horror!

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Boston bombings suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev captured

 

AP Photo: Julio Cortez. Boston bombing suspect captured: Joseph Eli Libby, 20, of Boston, carries a flag near a makeshift memorial near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, April 19.

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Boston celebrated Friday night and Saturday morning after law enforcement officials found Dzhokhar Tsarnaev hiding in a boat in the backyard of a house in Watertown, Mass.

WATERTOWN, Mass. — For just a few minutes, it seemed like the dragnet that had shut down a metropolitan area of millions while legions of police went house to house looking for the suspected Boston Marathon bomber had failed.
Weary officials lifted a daylong order that had kept residents in their homes, saying it was fruitless to keep an entire city locked down. Then one man emerged from his home and noticed blood on the pleasure boat parked in his backyard. He lifted the tarp and found the wounded 19-year-old college student known the world over as Suspect No. 2.
Soon after that, the 24-hour drama that paralyzed a city and transfixed a nation was over.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's capture touched off raucous celebrations in and around Boston, with chants of "USA, USA" as residents flooded the streets in relief and jubilation after four tense days since twin explosions ripped through the marathon's crowd at the finish line, killing three people and wounding more than 180.

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The 19-year-old — whose older brother and alleged accomplice was killed earlier that morning in a wild shootout in suburban Boston — was hospitalized in serious condition Saturday, unable to be questioned to determine his motives. U.S. officials said a special interrogation team for high-value suspects would question him without reading him his Miranda rights, invoking a rare public safety exception triggered by the need to protect police and the public from immediate danger.
Gallery: Manhunt for Boston bomber wraps up in Watertown, Mass.   
President Barack Obama said there are many unanswered questions about the Boston bombings, including whether the two men had help from others. He urged people not to rush judgment about their motivations.
Dzhokhar and his brother, 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, were identified by authorities and relatives as ethnic Chechens from southern Russia who had been in the U.S. for about a decade and were believed to be living in Cambridge, just outside Boston. Tamerlan Tsarnaev died early in the day from gunshot wounds and a possible blast injury. He was run over by his younger brother in a car as he lay wounded, according to investigators.
During a long night of violence Thursday and into Friday, the brothers killed an MIT police officer, severely wounded another lawman during a gun battle and hurled explosives at police in a desperate getaway attempt, authorities said.
Late Friday, less than an hour after authorities lifted the lockdown, they tracked down the younger man holed up in the boat, weakened by a gunshot wound after fleeing on foot from the overnight shootout with police that left 200 spent rounds behind.
The resident who spotted Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in his boat in his Watertown yard called police, who tried to talk the suspect into getting out of the boat, said Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis.
"He was not communicative," Davis said.
Instead, he said, there was an exchange of gunfire — the final volley of one of the biggest manhunts in American history.

AP Photo: Robert Ray. Boston bombing suspect captured: A still frame from video shows Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in an ambulance after he was captured in Watertown, Mass., on Friday.

Watertown residents who had been told in the morning to stay inside behind locked doors poured out of their homes and lined the streets to cheer police vehicles as they rolled away from the scene.
Celebratory bells rang from a church tower. Teenagers waved American flags. Drivers honked. Every time an emergency vehicle went by, people cheered loudly.
"They finally caught the jerk," said nurse Cindy Boyle. "It was scary. It was tense."
Police said three other people were taken into custody for questioning at an off-campus housing complex at the University of the Massachusetts at Dartmouth where the younger man may have lived.
"Tonight, our family applauds the entire law enforcement community for a job well done, and trust that our justice system will now do its job," said the family of 8-year-old Martin Richard, who died in the bombing.
The FBI was swamped with tips — 300,000 per minute — after the release of the surveillance-camera photos, but what role those played in the overnight clash was unclear. State Police spokesman Dave Procopio said police realized they were dealing with the bombing suspects based on what the two men told a carjacking victim during their night of crime.
The search by thousands of law enforcement officers all but shut down the Boston area for much of the day. Officials halted all mass transit, including Amtrak trains to New York, advised businesses not to open, and warned close to 1 million people in the entire city and some of its suburbs to unlock their doors only for uniformed police.
Around midday, the suspects' uncle, Ruslan Tsarni of Montgomery Village, Md., pleaded on television: "Dzhokhar, if you are alive, turn yourself in and ask for forgiveness."
Until the younger man's capture, it was looking like a grim day for police. As night fell, they announced that they were scaling back the hunt and lifting the stay-indoors order across the region because they had come up empty-handed.
But then the break came and within a couple of hours, the search was over. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was captured about a mile from the site of the shootout that killed his brother.
A neighbor described how heavily armed police stormed by her window not long after the lockdown was lifted — the rapid report of gunshots left her huddled on the bathroom floor on top of her young son.
"I was just waiting for bullets to just start flying everywhere," Deanna Finn said.

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When at last the gunfire died away and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was taken from the neighborhood in an ambulance, an officer gave Finn a cheery thumbs-up.
"To see the look on his face, he was very, very happy, so that made me very, very happy," she said.
Authorities said the man dubbed Suspect No. 1 — the one in sunglasses and a dark baseball cap in the surveillance-camera pictures — was Tamerlan Tsarnaev, while Suspect No. 2, the one in a white baseball cap worn backward, was his younger brother.
Chechnya, where the brothers grew up, has been the scene of two wars between Russian forces and separatists since 1994, in which tens of thousands were killed in heavy Russian bombing. That spawned an Islamic insurgency that has carried out deadly bombings in Russia and the region, although not in the West.
The older brother had strong political views about the United States, said Albrecht Ammon, 18, a downstairs-apartment neighbor in Cambridge. Ammon quoted Tsarnaev as saying that the U.S. uses the Bible as "an excuse for invading other countries."
Also, the FBI interviewed the older brother at the request of a foreign government in 2011, and nothing derogatory was found, according to a federal law enforcement official who was not authorized to discuss the case publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
The official did not identify the foreign country or say why it made the request.
Exactly how the long night of crime began was unclear. But police said the brothers carjacked a man in a Mercedes-Benz in Cambridge, just across the Charles River from Boston, then released him unharmed at a gas station.
They also shot to death a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer, 26-year-old Sean Collier, while he was responding to a report of a disturbance, investigators said.
The search for the Mercedes led to a chase that ended in Watertown, where authorities said the suspects threw explosive devices from the car and exchanged gunfire with police. A transit police officer, 33-year-old Richard Donohue, was shot and critically wounded, authorities said.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev ran over his already wounded brother as he fled, according to two law enforcement officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the investigation. At some point, he abandoned his car and ran away on foot.
The brothers had built an arsenal of pipe bombs, grenades and improvised explosive devices and used some of the weapons in trying to make their getaway, said Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger, D-Md., a member of the House Intelligence Committee.
Watertown resident Kayla Dipaolo said she was woken up overnight by gunfire and a large explosion that sounded "like it was right next to my head ... and shook the whole house."
"It was very scary," she said. "There are two bullet holes in the side of my house, and by the front door there is another."
Tamerlan Tsarnaev had studied accounting as a part-time student at Bunker Hill Community College in Boston for three semesters from 2006 to 2008, the school said.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was registered as a student at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Students said he was on campus this week after the Boston Marathon bombing. The campus closed down Friday along with colleges around the Boston area.
The men's father, Anzor Tsarnaev, said in a telephone interview with AP from the Russian city of Makhachkala that his younger son, Dzhokhar, is "a true angel." He said his son was studying medicine.
"He is such an intelligent boy," the father said. "We expected him to come on holidays here."
A man who said he knew Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Krystle Campbell, the 29-year-old restaurant manager killed in Monday's bombing, said he was glad Dzhokhar had survived.
"I didn't want to lose more than one friend," Marvin Salazar said.
"Why Jahar?" he asked, using Tsarnaev's nickname. "I want to know answers. That's the most important thing. And I think I speak for almost all America. Why the Boston Marathon? Why this year? Why Jahar?"
Two years ago, the city of Cambridge awarded Dzhokhar Tsarnaev a $2,500 scholarship. At the time, he was a senior at Cambridge Rindge & Latin School, a highly regarded public school whose alumni include Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and NBA Hall of Famer Patrick Ewing.
Tsarni, the men's uncle, said the brothers traveled here together from Russia. He called his nephews "losers" and said they had struggled to settle in the U.S. and ended up "thereby just hating everyone."

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Sullivan and Associated Press writers Stephen Braun, Jack Gillum and Pete Yost reported from Washington. Associated Press writers Mike Hill, Katie Zezima, Pat Eaton-Robb and Steve LeBlanc in Boston, Rodrique Ngowi in Watertown, Mass. and Jeff Donn in Cambridge, Mass., contributed to this report.

Marathon bombing suspect in custody, police answering questions

 

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The second suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings was taken into custody by the Boston Police Department shortly after 8:30 p.m. EST. "Tonight, we think of all the wounded, still struggling to recover," President Obama said.

This is a developing story. Please check back soon for continued updates.
President Barack Obama spoke after the arrest of the Boston Marathon bombing suspect, saying, "We've closed an important chapter in this tragedy. Whatever hateful agenda drove these men will not prevail." 
Nineteen-year-old college student Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the second suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, has been taken into custody. He was found in the back yard of a Watertown, Mass., home where he was hiding inside a boat.
In a news conference after Tsarnaev's arrest, authorities thanked and praised law enforcement and the members of the public for their participation in the investigation.
Gallery: Manhunt for Boston bomber wraps up in Watertown, Mass.    
The Boston Globe reports that Tsarnaev is on his way to the Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, the same hospital where a transit police officer is recovering from a gunshot wound inflicted in a firefight with the suspect and his now-deceased brother Thursday night.
Police employed several "flash bangs," emitting loud sounds and bright flash, as a way to disorient and distract Tsarnaev as he hid under a tarp over the boat.
Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis said the man living at the house at which the boat was stored, walked out and spotted blood around the boat. Davis said the man lifted a tarp and saw the suspect covered in blood. At this point, the resident called authorities.
Heavy police activity, including emergency and military vehicles, sped toward the Watertown area where the shots were heard and three people were taken into custody in New Bedford earlier Friday evening.
Minutes after officials held a news conference lifting the stay-indoors ban, citizens received alerts to remain inside. Now, cheers and applause have erupted from residents near the scene where Tsaernaev was taken into custody.

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"Everyone wants him alive," said Kathleen Paolillo, a 27-year-old teacher who lives in Watertown.
Boston Mayor Tom Menino tweeted "We got him," along with a photo of the police commissioner speaking to him.
During a long night of violence Thursday into Friday, the brothers killed an MIT police officer, severely wounded another lawman and hurled explosives at police in a car chase and gun battle, authorities said.
The suspects were identified by law enforcement officials and family members as Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, ethnic Chechen brothers who had lived in Dagestan, which neighbors Chechnya in southern Russia. They had been in the U.S. for about a decade, an uncle said, and were believed to be living in Cambridge, Mass.

Bing Maps. Boston Marathon bombing manhunt: Suspect is believed to be hiding in a boat in the backyard of a house at 67 Franklin St, Watertown.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev, a 26-year-old who had been known to the FBI as Suspect No. 1 and was seen in surveillance footage of the marathon in a black baseball cap, was killed overnight, officials said. His younger brother, who had been dubbed Suspect No. 2 and was seen wearing a white, backward baseball cap in the images from Monday's deadly bombing — escaped and was on the run.
Their uncle in Maryland, Ruslan Tsarni, pleaded on live television: "Dzhokhar, if you are alive, turn yourself in and ask for forgiveness."
Authorities in Boston suspended all mass transit and warned close to 1 million people in the entire city and some of its suburbs to stay indoors as the hunt for Suspect No. 2 went on. Businesses were asked not to open. People waiting at bus and subway stops were told to go home. The Red Sox and Bruins postponed their games.
From Watertown to Cambridge, police SWAT teams, sharpshooters and FBI agents surrounded various buildings as police helicopters buzzed overhead and armored vehicles rumbled through the streets. Authorities also searched trains.
"We believe this man to be a terrorist," said Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis. "We believe this to be a man who's come here to kill people."
The bombings on Monday killed three people and wounded more than 180 others, tearing off limbs in a spray of shrapnel and instantly raising the specter of another terrorist attack on U.S. soil.
Chechnya was the scene of two wars between Russian forces and separatists since 1994, in which tens of thousands were killed in heavy Russian bombing. That spawned an Islamic insurgency that has carried out deadly bombings in Russia and the region, although not in the West.
Investigators in the Boston case have shed no light on the motive for the bombing and have said it is unclear whether it was the work of domestic or international terrorists or someone else entirely with an unknown agenda.
The endgame — at least for Suspect No. 1 — came just hours after the FBI released photos and video of the two young men at the marathon's finish line and appealed to the public for help in identifying and capturing them.
State Police spokesman Dave Procopio said police realized they were dealing with the bombing suspects based on what the two men told a carjacking victim during their getaway attempt overnight.

Boston bombing: What we know

 

AP: Matt Rourke. Boston bombing suspects: Police in tactical gear conduct a search for a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings.

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Two bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring more than 180. Here's a look at the latest details of the investigation.

Editor's note: Updates to this story are ongoing, check back for more details.

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Latest developments: Police killed one Boston Marathon bombing suspect in an overnight shootout and searched house-to-house for his brother on Friday, with much of the city and surrounding communities under virtual lockdown.
During the bloody and dramatic night a university police officer was killed, a transit police officer was wounded and the suspects carjacked a vehicle before leading police on a chase that resulted in one of them being shot dead.
The man still on the loose was identified as Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, and the dead suspect was his brother, Tamerlan Tsarneav, 26, authorities said. The brothers were from the Russian region near Chechnya, which has been plagued by an Islamic insurgency stemming from separatist wars. They had been in the United States for several years, officials said.
The men's uncle told The Associated Press that the brothers lived together near Boston and have been in the United States for about a decade.

AP: Federal Bureau of Investigation. This photo released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation shows a suspect that officials identified as Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, being sought by police in the Boston Marathon bombings Monday

After the shootout, authorities launched a manhunt for Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev in the Boston suburb of Watertown. Heavily-armed police are conducting a house-to-house search inside a 20-block area.
The developments came after the FBI on Thursday released photos and video of two suspects in the bombing and appealed to the public for help in identifying them. The younger suspect was seen in video wearing a white hat and setting down a backpack at the site of the second explosion at Forum Restaurant.
The suspects: Tamerlan  and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were described by law enforcement officials as brothers from the Russian region near Chechnya.
An uncle, Ruslan Tsarni of Montgomery Village, Md., told The Associated Press that the men lived together near Boston and have been in the United States for about a decade.
In May of 2011, Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, then a senior at a prestigious high school, was awarded a $2,500 scholarship from the city of Cambridge, Mass., to pursue higher education.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's page on the Russian social networking site Vkontakte says he attended Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, graduating in 2011, the year he won the scholarship, which was celebrated with a reception at City Hall, according to a news release issued at the time. Before moving to the United States, he attended School No. 1 in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, a predominantly Muslim republic in Russia's North Caucasus that has become an epicenter of the Islamic insurgency that spilled over from Chechnya. On the site, he describes himself as speaking Chechen as well as English and Russian. His world view is described as "Islam" and he says his personal goal is "career and money."
According to the website spotcrime.com, Tamerlan was arrested for domestic violence in July 2009, after assaulting his girlfriend.
He was an amateur boxer, listed as a competitor in a National Golden Gloves competition in 2009.
Boston on lockdown: In Boston and its western suburbs, authorities suspended mass transit and urged people to stay indoors as they searched for Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev. 
Authorities urged residents in Watertown, Newton, Arlington, Waltham, Belmont, Cambridge and all of Boston to stay indoors. All mass transit — including buses, subways, trolleys, commuter rail and boats — was shut down, and businesses were asked not to open Friday. People waiting at bus and subway stops are being instructed to return home. Schools, including Harvard and MIT, were closed on Friday. Taxi service in the City of Boston was also suspended.
The FAA shut down airspace over the Boston manhunt area, Reuters reported.
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The victims: Three people were killed: 8-year-old Martin Richard, 29-year-old Krystle Campbell and Boston University graduate student Lu Lingzi of China. Storylines are emerging from those injured.
Hospital update: At least 10 Boston area hospitals treated more than 180 patients, and seven were still in critical condition Thursday. Dozens of patients have been released. Officials expect all of their patients to survive. 

• Boston Medical Center: Trauma surgery chief, Dr. Peter Burke, said that the hospital treated 23 people. A 5-year-old boy who was in critical condition is now doing well and is expected to recover. One person is still in critical condition.
• Massachusetts General Hospital: All but 11 of the 31 people sent there have been released. Four were still in critical condition.
• Boston Children's Hospital: Ten patients were sent there, three remain. A 2-year-old boy with a head injury is in good condition; a 10-year-old boy with multiple leg injuries is in critical condition and a 9-year-old girl with a leg injury also is in critical condition.

Memorial: President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney were among those who attended a Boston interfaith healing service on Thursday.    
After rumors emerged that members of the Westboro Baptist Church were going to protest the funerals of those killed in the bombings, hundreds of Bostonians formed a human wall to keep them out. Boston Magazine reported that the group congregated near a community vigil to show support for victims and families impacted by the bombings.

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