As people across Massachusetts prepare to honour victims of the Boston Marathon bombing one week ago, doctors are reporting that the badly injured still in hospital are making significant improvements.
Trauma surgeons at Boston Medical Center told reporters on Monday that 15 people hurt in the attack were admitted to their hospital in critical condition, but that number is down to just one.
"Nearly all are using walking the halls with physiotherapists," said Dr. Peter Burke, adding they are using walkers to strengthen muscles before they are fitted with prosthetics.
Five of the injured had to undergo amputations below the knee, with another two above the knee.
The briefing came a week after the attack, and to mark the day, communities across Massachusetts plan to observe a moment of silence. People have been asked to pause at 2:50 p.m. ET, the time the two bombs went off within 10 seconds of each other near the marathon finish line in downtown Boston.
Last Monday's bombing killed three people, including an eight-year-old boy, and wounded more than 170.
The suspects were identified as two ethnic Chechen brothers from southern Russia who had been in the U.S. for about a decade — 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his 26-year-old brother, Tamerlan.
The older brother died early Friday after a gunfight with police in the Boston suburb of Watertown, while his younger brother remains in hospital, unable to speak due to a gunshot wound to the throat.
The city's police commissioner says the suspects had such a large cache of weapons that they were probably planning other attacks. Authorities found many unexploded homemade bombs at the scene of the gunbattle in the Boston suburb of Watertown early Friday, along with more than 250 rounds of ammunition.
Katherine Russell Tsarnaev, wife of killed Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, exits a car at the home of her parents in North Kingstown, R.I. on Sunday. Federal authorities have asked to speak with her, and her lawyer said he is discussing with them how to proceed. (Katie Zezima/Associated Press) The stockpile was "as dangerous as it gets in urban policing," Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis said. "We have reason to believe, based upon the evidence that was found at that scene — the explosions, the explosive ordnance that was unexploded and the firepower that they had — that they were going to attack other individuals," he told CBS.
Investigators have not offered a motive for the marathon attack.
The brothers are suspected of killing an MIT campus police officer in Cambridge, Mass., during a getaway attempt Thursday night. They were soon cornered in a residential neighbourhood of Watertown as officers tracked them in a stolen vehicle's GPS. Police say the suspects fired guns and hurled explosives at police before the younger brother escaped in a car.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was captured Friday night after a homeowner notified police to say he had discovered the suspect in the backyard of a house in Watertown, under the tarp of a boat.
Sleepy Watertown shocked, proud after marathon bomber arrest
Sen. Dan Coats, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's throat wound raised questions about whether he will ever be able to talk again.
The wound "doesn't mean he can't communicate, but right now I think he's in a condition where we can't get any information from him at all," Coats told ABC.
Writing out answers, reports say
It wasn't clear whether Tsarnaev was shot by police or wounded himself.
Tsarnaev is awake and sporadically responding in writing to questions, according to ABC News and NBC News."We're told that investigators have been talking to him. He has been writing out his answers," NBC correspondent Chris Pollone told CBC News on Monday.
In the final standoff with police, shots were fired from the boat, but investigators have not determined where the gunfire was aimed, Davis said.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, left, a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, was captured Friday night. His brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, a second suspect, died during a shootout with police earlier in the day. (Robin Young/The Lowell Sun/Associated Press) Tsarnaev could be charged any day. The most serious charge available to federal prosecutors would be the use of a weapon of mass destruction to kill people, which carries a possible death sentence. Massachusetts does not have the death penalty.
U.S. officials said an elite interrogation team would question Tsarnaev, a college student, without reading him his Miranda rights, which guarantees the right to remain silent and the right to an attorney. Such an exception is allowed on a limited basis when the public may be in immediate danger, such as instances in which bombs are planted and ready to go off.
The federal public defender's office in Massachusetts said it has agreed to represent Tsarnaev once he is charged.
In an interview with The Associated Press, the parents of Tamerlan Tsarnaev insisted Sunday that he came to the southern Russian regions of Dagestan and Chechnya from January to July last year to visit relatives and had nothing to do with the Islamic militants operating in the volatile region. His father said his son slept much of the time.
Investigators work Saturday near the location in Watertown, Mass., where on the previous night a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings was arrested. (Katie Zezima/Associated Press) When the two suspects were identified, the FBI said it reviewed its records and found that in early 2011, a foreign government — which law enforcement officials confirmed was Russia — had asked for information about Tamerlan Tsarnaev. The FBI said it was told that Tsarnaev was a "follower of radical Islam" and was preparing to travel to this foreign country to join unspecified underground groups.
The FBI said that it responded by interviewing Tsarnaev and family members but found no terrorism activity.
No link to Caucasus groups
No evidence has emerged since to link Tsarnaev to militant groups in Russia's Caucasus. The Caucasus Emirate, which Russia and the U.S. consider a terrorist organization, on Sunday denied involvement in the Boston attack.
Chechnya has been the scene of two wars between Russian forces and separatists since 1994. That spawned an Islamic insurgency that has spread throughout Russia's Caucasus, with the worst of the violence now in Dagestan.
Despite the violence, Anzor Tsarnaev said Sunday that his son did not want to leave and had thoughts on how he could go into business. But the father said he encouraged him to go back to the United States and try to get citizenship.
In interviews with officials and those who knew the Tsarnaevs, a picture has emerged of the older brother as someone embittered toward the U.S., increasingly vehement in his Muslim faith and influential over his younger brother.
The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was tracing the suspects' weapons to try to determine how they were obtained. Neither of the brothers had permission to carry a gun.
Also Sunday, Boston churches opened their doors to remember the dead and ease the grief of the living.
Boston's historic Trinity Church could not host services Sunday because it was within the crime scene, but the congregation was invited to worship at the Temple Israel synagogue instead.
"So where is God when the terrorists do their work?" Trinity's Rev. Samuel T. Lloyd III asked. "God is there, holding us and sustaining us. God is in the pain the victims are suffering, and the healing that will go on. God is with us as we try still to build a just world, a world where there will not be terrorists doing their terrible damage."
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick asked residents to observe a moment of silence Monday at the time the first of two bombs exploded. The one-minute tribute is scheduled for 2:50 p.m., exactly a week after the attacks.
Canadians to observe moment of silence
A walk to show solidarity with the people of Boston is planned for Monday afternoon in Ottawa. It is being organized by members of the city's running community, who will walk from Parliament Hill to the U.S. Embassy, wearing blue and gold, the official colours of the Boston Marathon.
Organizers say there will be moment of silence led by U.S. Ambassador David Jacobson at the embassy.
In New York on Sunday, thousands of runners donned "I Run for Boston" bibs during a short run in Central Park, one of a number of races held around the world in support of the bombing victims.
Thousands of London Marathon runners offered their own tributes. Sunday's race began after a moment of silence, and many competitors wore black armbands and ribbons as a sign of solidarity.
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