'CAPTURED!!!' Boston police announce Marathon bombing suspect in custody

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" height="234" id="ep_1832" width="416"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><param name="movie" value="http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/apps/cvp/3.0/swf/cnn_embed_2x_container.swf?site=cnn&profile=desktop&context=embedwww&videoId=us/2013/04/19/ac-dzhokar-tsarnev-captured.cnn&contentId=us/2013/04/19/ac-dzhokar-tsarnev-captured.cnn" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#000000" /><embed src="http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/apps/cvp/3.0/swf/cnn_embed_2x_container.swf?site=cnn&profile=desktop&context=embedwww&videoId=us/2013/04/19/ac-dzhokar-tsarnev-captured.cnn&contentId=us/2013/04/19/ac-dzhokar-tsarnev-captured.cnn" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" bgcolor="#000000" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="416" wmode="transparent" height="234"></embed></object><br /><div class="cnn_strylftcntnt" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: left; float: left; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="cnn_strylctcntr" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 166px;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">STORY HIGHLIGHTS</strong></div><ul class="cnn_bulletbin cnnStryHghLght" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 9px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.e/img/3.0/global/red_bull.gif); background-position: 0px 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 9px 7px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="color: #ca0002; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">NEW:</b> 58 people remain hospitalized from Monday's bombings, according to a CNN tally</li><li style="background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.e/img/3.0/global/red_bull.gif); background-position: 0px 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 9px 7px; vertical-align: baseline;">"CAPTURED!!! The hunt is over" police tweet after second suspect is in custody</li><li style="background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.e/img/3.0/global/red_bull.gif); background-position: 0px 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 9px 7px; vertical-align: baseline;">Investigators find ''significant amount of homemade explosives,'' a police official says</li><li style="background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.e/img/3.0/global/red_bull.gif); background-position: 0px 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 9px 7px; vertical-align: baseline;">Slain suspect was wearing explosives when he died, source tells CNN</li></ul></div></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"></span><br /><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">(CNN)</strong> -- The second suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings was taken into custody Friday night, bringing to an end a massive manhunt in the tense Massachusetts capital worried by warnings the man was possibly armed with explosives.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph2" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">After announcing the arrest on Twitter, Boston police tweeted: "CAPTURED!!! The hunt is over. The search is done. The terror is over. And justice has won. Suspect in custody."</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph3" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">Authorities confirmed the man in custody is 19-year-old Dzhokar Tsarnaev, who escaped an overnight shootout with police that left his older brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev -- the other man wanted in the bombings -- dead.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph4" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">The younger Tsarnaev was in serious condition, Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis said at a news conference. He was being treated at Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, hospital spokeswoman Kelly Lawman said.</div><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8896966065785019252" name="em1" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"></span><br /><div class="cnn_strylftcntnt cnn_strylftcexpbx" id="expand15" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: left; float: left; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 27px 0px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="clickToPlay" id="clickToPlayvideoContainerexpand15" style="background-image: url(http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.e/img/3.0/video/416_player_Click_to_play_off.png); border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; height: 42px; left: 45px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 27px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 136px; zoom: 1;"></div><img alt="" border="0" class="box-image" height="120" src="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/130419223840-ac-obama-remarks-boston-bombing-arrest-00012704-story-body.jpg" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="214" /><cite class="expCaption" style="background-color: black; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; bottom: 0px; height: 20px; left: 10px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.85; padding: 0px; position: absolute; width: 214px;"><span style="border: 0px; color: white; display: block; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; left: 4px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: 2px; vertical-align: baseline;">Obama: 'We refuse to be terrorized'</span></cite></div><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8896966065785019252" name="em2" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"></span><br /><div class="cnn_strylftcntnt cnn_strylftcexpbx" id="expand25" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: left; float: left; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 27px 0px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="clickToPlay" id="clickToPlayvideoContainerexpand25" style="background-image: url(http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.e/img/3.0/video/416_player_Click_to_play_off.png); border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; height: 42px; left: 45px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 27px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 136px; zoom: 1;"></div><img alt="" border="0" class="box-image" height="120" src="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/130419213037-piers-sot-todd-boston-suspect-boat-video-00002402-story-body.jpg" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="214" /><cite class="expCaption" style="background-color: black; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; bottom: 0px; height: 20px; left: 10px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.85; padding: 0px; position: absolute; width: 214px;"><span style="border: 0px; color: white; display: block; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; left: 4px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: 2px; vertical-align: baseline;">See the boat in which Boston suspect hid</span></cite></div><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8896966065785019252" name="em3" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"></span><br /><div class="cnn_strylftcntnt cnn_strylftcexpbx" id="expand35" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: left; float: left; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 27px 0px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="clickToPlay" id="clickToPlayvideoContainerexpand35" style="background-image: url(http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.e/img/3.0/video/416_player_Click_to_play_off.png); border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; height: 42px; left: 45px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 27px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 136px; zoom: 1;"></div><img alt="" border="0" class="box-image" height="120" src="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/130419215109-01-boston-celebrates-0419-story-body.jpg" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="214" /><cite class="expCaption" style="background-color: black; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; bottom: 0px; height: 20px; left: 10px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.85; padding: 0px; position: absolute; width: 214px;"><span style="border: 0px; color: white; display: block; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; left: 4px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: 2px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hear the shootout with bombing suspect</span></cite></div><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8896966065785019252" name="em4" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"></span><br /><div class="cnn_strylftcntnt cnn_strylftcexpbx" id="expand45" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: left; float: left; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 27px 0px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="clickToPlay" id="clickToPlayvideoContainerexpand45" style="background-image: url(http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.e/img/3.0/video/416_player_Click_to_play_off.png); border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; height: 42px; left: 45px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 27px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 136px; zoom: 1;"></div><img alt="" border="0" class="box-image" height="120" src="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/130419214827-piers-sot-boston-marathon-police-news-conference-suspect-caught-00001630-story-body.jpg" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="214" /><cite class="expCaption" style="background-color: black; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; bottom: 0px; height: 20px; left: 10px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.85; padding: 0px; position: absolute; width: 214px;"><span style="border: 0px; color: white; display: block; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; left: 4px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: 2px; vertical-align: baseline;">Officer: We are so grateful to be here</span></cite></div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph5" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tsarnaev was cornered late Friday as he was hiding on a boat in a backyard of Watertown, a suburb of Boston.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph6" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">Police were alerted to his whereabouts by a man who went outside after authorities lifted an order for residents to stay inside during the manhunt. The resident saw blood on a boat in the backyard, Davis said. He then lifted up the tarp covering the boat and "saw a man covered with blood," he said.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph7" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">It was that call that resulted in an arrest less than a week after two bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, shocking the nation and leaving a city on edge.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph8" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">"There was an exchange of gunfire, and I don't know if he was struck," Davis said of the suspect.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph9" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">Authorities, using a bullhorn, had called on the suspect to surrender: "Come out with your hands up.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph10" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tsarnaev, according to authorities, refused to surrender.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph11" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">"We used a robot to pull the tarp off the boat," David Procopio of the Massachusetts State Police said. "We were also watching him with a thermal imaging camera in our helicopter. He was weakened by blood loss -- injured last night most likely,"</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph12" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tsarnaev was taken into custody after authorities rushed the boat, Davis said.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph13" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Closing a chapter</strong></div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph14" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">The standoff and subsequent arrest came just minutes after authorities indicated during a news conference that a manhunt for the suspect appeared to come up empty.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph15" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">Authorities had cast a wide net for the suspect, virtually shutting down Boston and its surroundings after a violent night in which authorities say the brothers allegedly hurled explosives at pursuers, after killing Massachusetts Institute of Technology police Officer Sean Collier and hijacking a car.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph16" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">"We've closed an important chapter in this tragedy," President Barack Obama said in a televised address. Even so, he vowed to seek answers to the motive in the attack and find out whether the suspects received any help to carry out their plot.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph17" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">The government is invoking the public safety exception to question Tsarnaev, meaning in cases of national security a person can be questioned without being read their Miranda rights, a Justice Department official told CNN on condition of anonymity. The official is not authorized to publicly discuss the matter.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph18" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz told reporters the "government has that opportunity right now" to invoke the public safety exemption but stopped short of declaring it would take that step, saying only the suspect was in the hospital.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph19" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">Republican Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham called for Tsarnaev to be held as an enemy combatant.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph20" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">'Glad it's over'</strong></div><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8896966065785019252" name="em5" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"></span><br /><div class="cnn_strylftcntnt cnn_strylftcexpbx" id="expand121" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: left; float: left; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 27px 0px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="clickToPlay" id="clickToPlayvideoContainerexpand121" style="background-image: url(http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.e/img/3.0/video/416_player_Click_to_play_off.png); border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; height: 42px; left: 45px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 27px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 136px; zoom: 1;"></div><img alt="" border="0" class="box-image" height="120" src="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/130419115240-nr-briefing-uncle-bombing-suspects-00000825-story-body.jpg" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="214" /><cite class="expCaption" style="background-color: black; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; bottom: 0px; height: 20px; left: 10px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.85; padding: 0px; position: absolute; width: 214px;"><span style="border: 0px; color: white; display: block; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; left: 4px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: 2px; vertical-align: baseline;">Uncle to 'loser': Turn yourself in</span></cite></div><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8896966065785019252" name="em6" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"></span><br /><div class="cnn_strylftcntnt cnn_strylftcexpbx" id="expand221" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: left; float: left; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 27px 0px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="clickToPlay" id="clickToPlayvideoContainerexpand221" style="background-image: url(http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.e/img/3.0/video/416_player_Click_to_play_off.png); border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; height: 42px; left: 45px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 27px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 136px; zoom: 1;"></div><img alt="" border="0" class="box-image" height="120" src="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/130419034353-watertown-violence-4-story-body.jpg" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="214" /><cite class="expCaption" style="background-color: black; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; bottom: 0px; height: 20px; left: 10px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.85; padding: 0px; position: absolute; width: 214px;"><span style="border: 0px; color: white; display: block; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; left: 4px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: 2px; vertical-align: baseline;">Witness: We heard explosions, gunshots</span></cite></div><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8896966065785019252" name="em7" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"></span><br /><div class="cnn_strylftcntnt cnn_strylftcexpbx" id="expand321" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: left; float: left; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 27px 0px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="clickToPlay" id="clickToPlayvideoContainerexpand321" style="background-image: url(http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.e/img/3.0/video/416_player_Click_to_play_off.png); border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; height: 42px; left: 45px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 27px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 136px; zoom: 1;"></div><img alt="" border="0" class="box-image" height="120" src="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/130419004258-mit-shooting-story-body.jpg" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="214" /><cite class="expCaption" style="background-color: black; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; bottom: 0px; height: 20px; left: 10px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.85; padding: 0px; position: absolute; width: 214px;"><span style="border: 0px; color: white; display: block; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; left: 4px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: 2px; vertical-align: baseline;">Deadly shooting at MIT</span></cite></div><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8896966065785019252" name="em8" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"></span><br /><div class="cnn_strylftcntnt cnn_strylftcexpbx" id="expand421" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: left; float: left; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 27px 0px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="clickToPlay" id="clickToPlayvideoContainerexpand421" style="background-image: url(http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.e/img/3.0/video/416_player_Click_to_play_off.png); border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; height: 42px; left: 45px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 27px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 136px; zoom: 1;"></div><img alt="" border="0" class="box-image" height="120" src="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/130418231306-ac-obama-boston-marathon-memorial-00013515-story-body.jpg" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="214" /><cite class="expCaption" style="background-color: black; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; bottom: 0px; height: 20px; left: 10px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.85; padding: 0px; position: absolute; width: 214px;"><span style="border: 0px; color: white; display: block; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; left: 4px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: 2px; vertical-align: baseline;">Honoring the Boston bombing victims</span></cite></div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph21" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">Word of the arrest spread quickly in suburban Watertown, where residents took to the streets to cheer the news that suspect had been arrested.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph22" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Thank you. Thank you. It was our pleasure," members of the Boston SWAT team said over a loudspeaker.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph23" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mary Sullivan was walking her black Labrador earlier Friday night when gunshots rang out in her neighborhood.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph24" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">"I'm glad it's over," she said. "The city and the people have gone through so much pain over these irrational decisions of these young men."</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph25" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Bombing connection</strong></div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph26" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">The manhunt began late Thursday just hours after the FBI released photos of the two suspects in the marathon bombings.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph27" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Investigators are recovering a significant amount of homemade explosives" from the scene of the shootout,<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></strong>Procopio told CNN.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph28" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">It was not immediately clear what explosives were recovered, but the discovery followed a tense night in which authorities say the brothers allegedly hurled a homemade grenade and five pipe bombs at pursuers after killing an officer and hijacking a car.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph29" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">, </strong>was wearing explosives and a triggering device when he died, a source briefed on the investigation told CNN on condition of anonymity.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph30" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">The manhunt brought Boston to a near standstill. The Boston Red Sox announced they were postponing Friday night's game against the Kansas City Royals "to support efforts of law enforcement officers." NHL's Boston Bruins also postponed its game against the Pittsburgh Penguins.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph31" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">The city's subway, bus, Amtrak train and Greyhound and regional Bolt Bus services were shut down. Taxi service across the city also was suspended for a time during the manhunt. Every Boston area school was closed.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph32" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">Boston's public transit authority sent city buses to Watertown to evacuate residents while bomb experts combed the surroundings for possible explosives.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph33" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">Initially, authorities said the brothers started their rampage by robbing a convenience store. By late Friday, the Middlesex District Attorney's office backtracked on the allegation, saying an investigation determined that the robbery at a 7-Eleven was unrelated.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph34" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Officer killed</strong></div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph35" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">The violent hours leading up to the capture began in Cambridge, across the Charles River from Boston, MIT officer Collier was shot and killed while he sat in his car on Thursday night, the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office said in a statement.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph36" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">The two suspects, according to authorities, then hijacked a vehicle at gunpoint in Cambridge, telling the driver that they were the marathon bombers, a law enforcement source told CNN.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph37" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">At some point, apparently at a gas station, that source said, the driver escaped.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph38" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">Police, who were tracking the vehicle using its built-in GPS system, picked up the chase in Watertown. The pursuit went into a residential neighborhood, with the suspects throwing explosives at police.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph39" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">A shootout erupted and ultimately one bomber -- later identified as Tamerlan Tsarnaev -- got out of the car. Police shot him, and his brother ran over him as he drove away, according to the law enforcement source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph40" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">Richard H. Donohue Jr., 33, a three-year veteran of the transit system police force, was shot and wounded in the incident and taken to a hospital, a transit police spokesman said Friday. The officer's condition was not immediately known.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph41" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">Another 15 police officers were treated for minor injuries sustained during the explosions and shootout, Jennifer Kovalich, a spokeswoman for St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, said.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph42" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Suspects background</strong></div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph43" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">Police believe the brothers are the same men pictured in images released Thursday by the FBI as suspects in the marathon bombing that killed three people and wounded dozens on Monday.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph44" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">At least 58 people remained hospitalized, including three in critical condition, according to a CNN count.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph45" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">The men are shown in the images walking together near the marathon finish line.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph46" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">The first suspect -- apparently Tamerlan Tsarnaev, according to authorities -- appears in the images wearing a dark hat, sunglasses and a backpack. The second suspect, wearing a white cap, police said, is the one who remained at large throughout Friday until he was taken into custody Friday night.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph47" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">But the mother of the Tsarnaev brothers refused to believe they were involved in the marathon bombings and subsequent shootout.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph48" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">"It's impossible for them to do such things. I am really telling you that this is a setup," Zubeidat Tsarnaeva told state-run Russia Today from Dagestan.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph49" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">"My son would never keep it in secret. ...If there is anyone who would know it would be me. He wouldn't hide it. But there was never a word."</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph50" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">The brothers came from the Russian Caucasus region and moved to Kazakhstan at a young age before coming to the United States several years ago.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph51" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">"My youngest was raised from 8 years in America. My oldest was really properly raised in our house. Nobody talked about terrorism," their mother said.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph52" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">The suspects' parents recently returned to Dagestan in the Caucasus region after living in the United States for about 10 years because they were "nostalgic," the father, Anzor Tsarnaev, told Russian state-run Zvezda TV.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph53" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">He accused someone of framing his sons. "I don't know who exactly did it. But someone did."</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph54" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">A federal official told CNN that Dzhokar Tsarnaev came to the U.S. as a tourist with his family in the early 2000s and later asked for asylum. He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2012. Tamerlan Tsarnaev was not a naturalized citizen, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. He came "a few years later" and was lawfully in the United States as a green-card holder.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph55" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tamerlan Tsarnaev had studied at Bunker Hill Community College and wanted to become an engineer, according to those who knew him. He then took a year off to train as a boxer.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph56" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">'I don't understand them'</strong></div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph57" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">The official said that a posting on a social media site in the elder brother's name included the comments: "I don't have a single American friend. I don't understand them."</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph58" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dzhokar Tsarnaev attended Cambridge Rindge & Latin, a public high school, said Eric Mercado, who graduated a year behind the suspect. Mercado said Tsarnaev had worked at Harvard University as a lifeguard.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph59" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">"We hung out; we partied; we were good high school friends," Mercado told CNN.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph60" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">"We're all, like, in shock. We don't really understand. There were no telltale signs of any kind of malicious behavior from Dzhokar. It's all coming as a shock, really."</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph61" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mercado said he lived a block away from the suspect and did not know his older brother.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph62" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dzhokar Tsarnaev is currently registered as a student at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, which ordered its campus evacuated on Friday. The school is located 65 miles south of Cambridge, just west of New Bedford.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph63" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">Larry Aaronson, Dzhokar Tsarnaev's neighbor and a former teacher at the high school Tsarnaev attended, called him a "wonderful kid."</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph64" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">"He was so grateful to be here, he was compassionate, he was caring, he was jovial," Aaronson told CNN.</div></div>

Marathon bombing suspect 'CAPTURED!!!' Boston police announce Marathon bombing suspect in custody

STORY HIGHLIGHTS NEW:  58 people remain hospitalized from Monday's bombings, according to a CNN tally "CAPTURED!!! The hunt is over...

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Fox Renews Glee for Season 5, Then Renews It Again for Season 6

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><img src="http://static.tvtome.com/images/genie_images/news_hub/uploaded/TimSpotnews136639814769/glee.jpg" /><br /><br /><div style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 0px 0px;">One of the higher-profile television shows whose future has surprisingly remained up in the air—until today, anyway—is Fox's <i>Glee</i>. Despite being one of the network's most talked-about programs and making it rain with its side business of selling songs on iTunes (Fox says it's sold more than 53 million <i>Glee</i> songs online and another 13 million <i>Glee</i> albums), <i>Glee</i> entered mid-April without any official word of a renewal. Even the bumbling crime caper <i>The Following</i> <a href="http://www.tv.com/news/fox-renews-four-the-following-new-girl-the-mindy-project-and-raising-hope-136242732350/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #333333; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">got renewed</a>. </div><div style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 0px 0px;">Well, the question of <i>Glee</i>'s future was answered in spectacular Ryan Murphy-esque fashion when Fox ordered a fifth season of the musical comedy. AND a sixth season. That's right, after pussyfooting about the decision for months, Fox suddenly decided the show was worth another 44 episodes. </div><div style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 0px 0px;">In all likelihood, the decision to renew was already made by Fox, and the delay in the announcement had more to do with the <i>Glee</i> team negotiating for a bigger pickup. And given the way the general public thinks <i>Glee</i> is tumbling down in quality, it's a risky move on Fox's part. But hey, ITUNES DOWNLOADS.</div></div>

Glee Fox Renews Glee for Season 5, Then Renews It Again for Season 6

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Manhunt for Boston bombers, Key developments in Boston bombings investigation

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><img alt="An officer carries a child away from an area where a suspect was hiding on Franklin Street on Friday, April 19, in Watertown, Massachusetts. After a car chase and shootout with police, one suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was shot and killed by police early Friday, and his brother and second suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was taken into custody Friday night. The two men are suspects in the bombings at the Boston Marathon on April 15, that killed three people and wounded at least 170. " src="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/130419224204-79-boston-manhunt-horizontal-gallery.jpg" /><br /><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.952941); color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;">An officer carries a child away from an area where a suspect was hiding on Franklin Street on Friday, April 19, in Watertown, Massachusetts. After a car chase and shootout with police, one suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was shot and killed by police early Friday, and his brother and second suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was taken into custody Friday night. The two men are suspects in the bombings at the Boston Marathon on April 15, that killed three people and wounded at least 170.</span><br /><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.952941); color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;"><br /></span><img alt="Residents flee from an area where a suspect was hiding on Franklin Street on April 19." src="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/130419224207-80-boston-manhunt-horizontal-gallery.jpg" /><img alt="Officers approach an area where a suspect was hiding on April 19." src="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/130419224210-81-boston-manhunt-horizontal-gallery.jpg" /><br /><img alt="People react while watching police respond to reported gunfire on April 19." src="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/130419224305-82-boston-manhunt-horizontal-gallery.jpg" /><br /><img alt="Members of a police SWAT team run to the scene where the suspect was hiding on April 19." src="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/130419203928-73-boston-manhunt-horizontal-gallery.jpg" /><br /><img alt="SWAT team members run toward a police assault on a house as gunfire erupts on April 19." src="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/130419203822-01-manhunt-boston-horizontal-gallery.jpg" /><br /><img alt="Police officers search house to house for the second suspect in a neighborhood of Watertown, Massachusetts, on Friday. " src="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/130419203827-03-manhunt-boston-horizontal-gallery.jpg" /><br /><img alt="SWAT team members move down residential streets as they perform door-to-door searches in Watertown, Massachusetts, on April 19. " src="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/130419191411-68-boston-manhunt-0419-horizontal-gallery.jpg" /><br /><img alt="SWAT team members talk with Watertown, Massachusetts, residents while conducting door-to-door searches on April 19." src="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/130419191146-69-boston-manhunt-0419-horizontal-gallery.jpg" /><br /><img alt="SWAT teams prepare to enter a home as they continue the door-to-door search." src="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/130419190029-66-boston-manhunt-0419-horizontal-gallery.jpg" /><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.952941); color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;">SWAT teams prepare to enter a home as they continue the door-to-door search.</span><br /><img alt="SWAT teams continue the ongoing manhunt in Watertown, Massachusetts." src="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/130419185629-67-boston-manhunt-0419-horizontal-gallery.jpg" /><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.952941); color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;">SWAT teams continue the ongoing manhunt in Watertown, Massachusetts.</span><br /><br /><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">(CNN)</strong> -- The hours since the FBI released images of the two men suspected in this week's Boston Marathon bombings has been rife with new developments in the case. Among them:</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph2" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Overnight dram</strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">a</strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">:</strong></div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph3" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">-- Late Thursday, police respond to a call on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where university police officer Sean Collier, 26, was shot. He died from his injuries. Police believe the bombing suspects were responsible for the shooting.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph4" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">-- Police say the two suspects hijack a car at gunpoint in Cambridge, Massachusetts, taking the driver as a hostage. The suspects tell the driver that they are the Boston marathon bombers, a law enforcement source said</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph5" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">-- The hostage is released at a gas station a short time later.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph6" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">-- The two suspects pulled over to transfer materials into their new car, then threw one grenade and five pipe bombs at police chasing them, one FBI and one Department of Homeland Security official told CNN. Three of those explosives detonated, two did not, the officials said.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph7" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">-- Police, who were tracking the vehicle using its built-in GPS system, pick up the chase in Watertown. The pursuit goes into a residential neighborhood, with the suspects throwing explosives and firing shots at officers, police say.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph8" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">Officers fire back, striking a man later identified as 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev. The man -- who was suspect No. 1 in the images released late Thursday afternoon by the FBI -- was wearing explosives and an explosive trigger when his body was recovered, a source briefed on the investigation tells CNN.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph9" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">-- Authorities later announce that they recovered a pressure-cooker bomb following the pursuit into Watertown, a source briefed on the ongoing investigation said. They also recovered a significant amount of homemade explosives" in Watertown, Massachusetts State Police spokesman David Procopio said.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph10" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Boston area locked down</strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">:</strong></div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph11" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">-- Around 2 a.m., police begin ordering Watertow<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> (CNN)</strong> -- The hours since the FBI released images of the two men suspected in this week's Boston Marathon bombings has been rife with new developments in the case. Among them:</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph2" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Overnight dram</strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">a</strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">:</strong></div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph3" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">-- Late Thursday, police respond to a call on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where university police officer Sean Collier, 26, was shot. He died from his injuries. Police believe the bombing suspects were responsible for the shooting.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph4" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">-- Police say the two suspects hijack a car at gunpoint in Cambridge, Massachusetts, taking the driver as a hostage. The suspects tell the driver that they are the Boston marathon bombers, a law enforcement source said</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph5" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">-- The hostage is released at a gas station a short time later.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph6" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">-- The two suspects pulled over to transfer materials into their new car, then threw one grenade and five pipe bombs at police chasing them, one FBI and one Department of Homeland Security official told CNN. Three of those explosives detonated, two did not, the officials said.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph7" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">-- Police, who were tracking the vehicle using its built-in GPS system, pick up the chase in Watertown. The pursuit goes into a residential neighborhood, with the suspects throwing explosives and firing shots at officers, police say.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph8" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">Officers fire back, striking a man later identified as 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev. The man -- who was suspect No. 1 in the images released late Thursday afternoon by the FBI -- was wearing explosives and an explosive trigger when his body was recovered, a source briefed on the investigation tells CNN.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph9" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">-- Authorities later announce that they recovered a pressure-cooker bomb following the pursuit into Watertown, a source briefed on the ongoing investigation said. They also recovered a significant amount of homemade explosives" in Watertown, Massachusetts State Police spokesman David Procopio said.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph10" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Boston area locked down</strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">:</strong></div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph11" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">-- Around 2 a.m., police begin ordering Watertown residents to turn off their cell phones.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph12" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">-- At least 12 universities and colleges, along with Boston Public Schools and Cambridge Public Schools, announce Friday morning that they will be closed for the day due to police activity.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph13" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">-- Authorities later Friday ask that people in Watertown, Boston and Cambridge -- where the two suspects lived -- not leave their homes, as authorities try to hunt down the remaining suspect.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph14" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">-- The University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth -- where suspect No. 1, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was an enrolled student -- is evacuated. Law enforcement personnel swarm the campus, which is located just west of New Bedford and about 60 miles south of Boston.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph15" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">-- Numerous activities scheduled for Friday night are canceled around Boston -- including Boston Red Sox and Boston Bruins games, as well as a Big Apple Circus show -- due to the ongoing manhunt for the marathon bombing suspect.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph16" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">-- Amtrak train and Greyhound and regional Bolt Bus services were shut down. Taxi service across the city also was suspended for a time during the manhunt.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph17" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">-- Around 6 p.m., Gov. Deval Patrick said that the lockdown had been lifted and that mass transit service had resumed.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph18" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">-- About an hour later at 7:03 p.m., the Boston Police Department tweeted that there are "police operations" on Franklin Street in Watertown. CNN crew at the scene heard gunshots and saw several law enforcement vehicles race toward the scene.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph19" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The suspects:</strong></div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph20" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">-- The Tsarnaev brothers came from the Russian Caucasus region and moved to Kazakhstan at a young age before coming to the United States several years ago. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was 8 years old at the time, their mother Zubeidat Tsarnaeva told state-run Russia Today from Dagestan.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph21" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">-- A federal official told CNN that Dzhokar Tsarnaev came to the U.S. as a tourist with his family in the early 2000s and later asked for asylum. He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2012.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph22" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">-- Dzhokar -- a University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth student -- was one of 45 high school seniors awarded a $2,500 scholarship by the Massachusetts city of Cambridge.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph23" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">-- Tamerlan Tsarnaev was not a naturalized citizen, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. He came "a few years later" and was lawfully in the United States as a green-card holder.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph24" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">-- Tamerlan Tsarnaev studied engineering at Bunker Hill Community College just outside Boston, but had taken the year off to train as a boxer, sources told CNN.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph25" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">-- In 2009, Tamerlan competed in a Golden Gloves match -- heavyweight division -- in Salt Lake City, losing in the first round.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph26" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">-- Dzhokar Tsarnaev's friends expressed shock about his suspected involvement in the bombings, with his Cambridge Rindge and Latin high school classmate Eric Mercado telling CNN "there were no telltale signs of any kind of malicious behavior."</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph27" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">-- Larry Aaronson, Dzhokar Tsarnaev's neighbor and a former teacher at the high school Tsarnaev attended, described him as "caring," "jovial" and "so grateful to be here."</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph28" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">-- The mother of the Tsarnaev brothers refused to believe they were involved in the marathon bombings and subsequent shootout. "It's impossible for them to do such things. I am really telling you that this is a setup," she said.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph11" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">-- Their father, Anzor Tsarnaev, told Russian state-run Zvezda TV, accused someone of framing his sons. "I don't know who exactly did it. But someone did," he said. n residents to turn off their cell phones.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph12" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">-- At least 12 universities and colleges, along with Boston Public Schools and Cambridge Public Schools, announce Friday morning that they will be closed for the day due to police activity.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph13" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">-- Authorities later Friday ask that people in Watertown, Boston and Cambridge -- where the two suspects lived -- not leave their homes, as authorities try to hunt down the remaining suspect.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph14" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">-- The University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth -- where suspect No. 1, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was an enrolled student -- is evacuated. Law enforcement personnel swarm the campus, which is located just west of New Bedford and about 60 miles south of Boston.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph15" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">-- Numerous activities scheduled for Friday night are canceled around Boston -- including Boston Red Sox and Boston Bruins games, as well as a Big Apple Circus show -- due to the ongoing manhunt for the marathon bombing suspect.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph16" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">-- Amtrak train and Greyhound and regional Bolt Bus services were shut down. Taxi service across the city also was suspended for a time during the manhunt.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph17" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">-- Around 6 p.m., Gov. Deval Patrick said that the lockdown had been lifted and that mass transit service had resumed.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph18" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">-- About an hour later at 7:03 p.m., the Boston Police Department tweeted that there are "police operations" on Franklin Street in Watertown. CNN crew at the scene heard gunshots and saw several law enforcement vehicles race toward the scene.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph19" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The suspects:</strong></div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph20" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">-- The Tsarnaev brothers came from the Russian Caucasus region and moved to Kazakhstan at a young age before coming to the United States several years ago. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was 8 years old at the time, their mother Zubeidat Tsarnaeva told state-run Russia Today from Dagestan.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph21" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">-- A federal official told CNN that Dzhokar Tsarnaev came to the U.S. as a tourist with his family in the early 2000s and later asked for asylum. He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2012.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph22" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">-- Dzhokar -- a University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth student -- was one of 45 high school seniors awarded a $2,500 scholarship by the Massachusetts city of Cambridge.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph23" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">-- Tamerlan Tsarnaev was not a naturalized citizen, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. He came "a few years later" and was lawfully in the United States as a green-card holder.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph24" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">-- Tamerlan Tsarnaev studied engineering at Bunker Hill Community College just outside Boston, but had taken the year off to train as a boxer, sources told CNN.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph25" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">-- In 2009, Tamerlan competed in a Golden Gloves match -- heavyweight division -- in Salt Lake City, losing in the first round.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph26" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">-- Dzhokar Tsarnaev's friends expressed shock about his suspected involvement in the bombings, with his Cambridge Rindge and Latin high school classmate Eric Mercado telling CNN "there were no telltale signs of any kind of malicious behavior."</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph27" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">-- Larry Aaronson, Dzhokar Tsarnaev's neighbor and a former teacher at the high school Tsarnaev attended, described him as "caring," "jovial" and "so grateful to be here."</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph28" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">-- The mother of the Tsarnaev brothers refused to believe they were involved in the marathon bombings and subsequent shootout. "It's impossible for them to do such things. I am really telling you that this is a setup," she said.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph29" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">-- Their father, Anzor Tsarnaev, told Russian state-run Zvezda TV, accused someone of framing his sons. "I don't know who exactly did it. But someone did," he said.</div></div>

CNN Manhunt for Boston bombers, Key developments in Boston bombings investigation

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Emerging from the Ruins

Mark yr calendars: Thursday, <b>May 2</b>, is the 2012 Lewis Mumford Lecture on Urbanism, to be given by Professor <b><a href="http://www1.ccny.cuny.edu/prospective/socialsci/psc/faculty/mberman.cfm">Marshall Berman</a></b>. The 9th annual lecture is presented by the Graduate Program in Urban Design, <a href="http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/ssa/">Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture</a> at City College of New York (CCNY), and will be held in the Great Hall of Shepard Hall at CCNY, Convent Hall at 138th Street. It's free, open to the public, and no reservations are necessary. <br /><br /><img alt="berman-mumford.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/berman-mumford.jpg" title="Marshall Berman Mumford lecture poster" /><br /><br />Previous Lewis Mumford Lectures:<br /><br />2012 - <b>Janette Sadik-Khan:</b> "<a href="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/Mumford2012.jpg">It's Not Impossible to Change a City</a>"<br />2011 - <b>Richard Sennett</b>: "<a href="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/event-ccny.jpg">The Edge: Borders and Boundaries in the City</a>" (video <a href="http://www.totalwebcasting.com/view/?id=ccnyssa">archive available</a>)<br />2010 - No lecture<br />2009 - <b>Paul Auster</b>: "<a href="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/PAuster.jpg">City of Words</a>"<br />2008 - <b>David Harvey</b>: "The Right to the City" (audio <a href="http://www1.cuny.edu/mu/podcasts/2008/04/30/cities-for-people-not-profits/">podcast available</a>)<br />2007 - <b>Amartya Sen</b>: "<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmy9o6GRbkLijSzZn3xPVPluvSIIbR0Oti-nL-0EcXVXI4Pbf2Eyk0NA4HM8nMF7MsGGt9yTSjZemFRiOQ5MkE8uFNKtoeFTs3W5BH24l17pdiQuRLKHS6OVZEgBTj7gzlwTyG2XCAHGZc/s1600/sen-lecture.jpg">The Urbanity of Calcutta</a>" (audio <a href="http://www1.cuny.edu/mu/podcasts/2007/04/27/calcutta-cultural-capital-amidst-urban-misery/">podcast available</a>)<br />2006 - <b>Enrique Peñalosa</b>: "A New Urban Paradigm: Building a Just and Sustainable Metropolis"<br />2005 - <b>Mike Davis</b>: "Planet of Slums"<br />2004 - <b>Jane Jacobs</b>

Emerging from the Ruins

Mark yr calendars: Thursday, May 2 , is the 2012 Lewis Mumford Lecture on Urbanism, to be given by Professor Marshall Berman . The 9th annua...

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Nashville

Nashville - have you been watching it? Starring Hayden Panettiere, I tune in every week.<br /><br /> I saw this outfit in Penneys today and thought it was quite Nashville inspired. It looks like something that Scarlett O'Connor might wear. The actress who plays Scarlett is Clare Bowen and I was surprised to discover she is Australian! <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsAE2R2asuWF-Pu8ffz9jC8UYz0Thl-2Eg7uQkxd6RHob4tCUg-baLDfmkWJ2MYg6YGSAUqDfFYjKF_kjhZkYGJV1ROfs5Rzkggx-NDlXzkEa_W_3mwDo-V2EJmx5K6b2fGuS-QMlNgyvi/s640/blogger-image--465556729.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsAE2R2asuWF-Pu8ffz9jC8UYz0Thl-2Eg7uQkxd6RHob4tCUg-baLDfmkWJ2MYg6YGSAUqDfFYjKF_kjhZkYGJV1ROfs5Rzkggx-NDlXzkEa_W_3mwDo-V2EJmx5K6b2fGuS-QMlNgyvi/s640/blogger-image--465556729.jpg" /></a></div> <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeHAbJD1uqJtY3cxelZouAoinn2a4q5X_8YPai3ssYW_Am1tmAd_SCV-jzkUvWcXmEz167VIf4O6HJzqVqVOGe2vFSFGToTE8NTXUPZA2res_Vy9A33u9C4aH01X6eUtuqX2tHZQAJeVai/s640/blogger-image--206227217.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeHAbJD1uqJtY3cxelZouAoinn2a4q5X_8YPai3ssYW_Am1tmAd_SCV-jzkUvWcXmEz167VIf4O6HJzqVqVOGe2vFSFGToTE8NTXUPZA2res_Vy9A33u9C4aH01X6eUtuqX2tHZQAJeVai/s640/blogger-image--206227217.jpg" /></a></div>

Nashville

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Driving home

Passed the monkey :-(<br /><br />Looking into this pub I could see the news about the manhunt for the Boston marathon bomb suspect on the TV.<br /><br />Switched on the TV as soon as I got the door and I have been flicking between CNN (love Anderson Cooper) and Sky News. <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKFxvcKFAIoOxrD8xbqy2W0yxCf1-LnW86g9oZGHgVvfQZxbed28w1u7Py1ihbHQzbUoJHRWzkTw9cTC9q_e7NLdlRhN4RfB33H-niSdpC_NhfPqhX3Ble_m6Tt1dtz4ikXVnGHQOwM5Qe/s640/blogger-image--1837254104.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKFxvcKFAIoOxrD8xbqy2W0yxCf1-LnW86g9oZGHgVvfQZxbed28w1u7Py1ihbHQzbUoJHRWzkTw9cTC9q_e7NLdlRhN4RfB33H-niSdpC_NhfPqhX3Ble_m6Tt1dtz4ikXVnGHQOwM5Qe/s640/blogger-image--1837254104.jpg" /></a></div> <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoxloAINDWE5nmwRFMTNX4BZpuHbgLQ-cYqKnRoSa9RTdSp5gvpGKnByqvPRIkcfH4Cnt9H6WrJmrEePM-JNkt1OdtiE9wWk4Jlcwgitm58OUsWYiqCOfRIgLWvCmCmeCjDg3nZwODScyU/s640/blogger-image-1645185615.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoxloAINDWE5nmwRFMTNX4BZpuHbgLQ-cYqKnRoSa9RTdSp5gvpGKnByqvPRIkcfH4Cnt9H6WrJmrEePM-JNkt1OdtiE9wWk4Jlcwgitm58OUsWYiqCOfRIgLWvCmCmeCjDg3nZwODScyU/s640/blogger-image-1645185615.jpg" /></a></div> <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4mGdKQBgXU1bBPEca68QWQYIQ-rDXXRd-OWgKOQTUUFCbVWb1Dod0EG5O8Sh-Z-ywkNdxECwyRsZkASsRbZq_Rmvha2OIsBCGSW3IuzwUwmD_oQbDQNxQCpXHJ5hYwZV9SgzUjl8SYz-z/s640/blogger-image-1445046348.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4mGdKQBgXU1bBPEca68QWQYIQ-rDXXRd-OWgKOQTUUFCbVWb1Dod0EG5O8Sh-Z-ywkNdxECwyRsZkASsRbZq_Rmvha2OIsBCGSW3IuzwUwmD_oQbDQNxQCpXHJ5hYwZV9SgzUjl8SYz-z/s640/blogger-image-1445046348.jpg" /></a></div>

Driving home

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Digital Librarian, Information & Adult Services - Ferguson Library, Stamford

<strong>Digital Librarian, Information & Adult Services - </strong><strong><strong><span style="color: #48286d;">Ferguson Library</span></strong></strong>, Stamford, offers a challenging and rewarding work environment. Salary range: $ 52,009-63,836. Library service has changed in recent years, so now in addition to providing traditional reference information and maintaining collections, librarians are required to stay on top of evolving information technology. They also work with our diverse community in promoting literacy, teaching computer skills and designing other programs for children, teens and adults. The Digital Librarian will provide leadership and expertise in the identification, assessment, and implementation of emerging technologies that further the Library’s mission and in the development of a next generation digital content. In addition, this position will be responsible for developing and maintaining the Library’s digital media collections. The Digital Librarian will work collaboratively cross departments to plan and implement digitization projects for local history/genealogy materials, as well as other subject areas. For a full job description, please go to <a _fcksavedurl="http://www.fergusonlibrary.org/about-the-library/jobs" href="http://www.fergusonlibrary.org/about-the-library/jobs" target="_blank">http://www.fergusonlibrary.org/about-the-library/jobs</a>.

Digital Librarian, Information & Adult Services - Ferguson Library, Stamford

Digital Librarian, Information & Adult Services - Ferguson Library , Stamford, offers a challenging and rewarding work environment. Sal...

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Library Director - Library of the Chathams, NJ

<strong>Library Director -</strong> <strong><span style="color: #48286d;">Library of the Chathams</span></strong>, NJ. Join us as we write the next chapter in the story of one of New Jersey’s and Morris County’s highly respected public libraries. The Library of The Chathams Board of Trustees is seeking a thoughtful, energetic and capable leader to become the next library director. You will join our team of staff, an experienced and engaged board and a committed group of community volunteers to expand on our tradition of service. The Library of The Chatham’s well maintained and updated facility; in the lively downtown area make it the prime destination for local and area residents all year round. The busy use by residents provides an exciting vitality to the programming and events sponsored by the library. Please visit the library at <a _fcksavedurl="http://www.chatham-library.org" href="http://www.chatham-library.org/" target="_blank">www.chatham-library.org</a>. The Chathams are within an easy commute to New York City by train and car and is situated in beautiful and historic Morris County with easy access to fishing, kayaking, spectacular hiking and biking trails, as well as many cozy downtowns and modern malls. The Chathams and Morris County are also home to many top rated public school districts in New Jersey. Preferred requirements include an MLS or related Masters Degree and experience as a public library administrator. Excellent interpersonal skills are a must, as well as a hands-on work ethic and knowledge of emerging technologies. Starting salary is highly competitive and commensurate with experience, including an excellent benefit package. All applications will receive a quick response and a confidential review. Send cover letter with salary history, resume and references to: <a _fcksavedurl="mailto:librarydirectorsearch@gmail.com" href="mailto:librarydirectorsearch@gmail.com">librarydirectorsearch@gmail.com</a>. For inquiries please contact Alan Burger at Library Development Solutions at <a _fcksavedurl="mailto:ab@librarydevelopment.com" href="mailto:ab@librarydevelopment.com">ab@librarydevelopment.com</a>.

Library Director - Library of the Chathams, NJ

Library Director - Library of the Chathams , NJ. Join us as we write the next chapter in the story of one of New Jersey’s and Morris Coun...

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Man witnesses Boston bombing and Texas explosion

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><img alt="This combination photos shows, left, Amy Berti, in a photo taken by her husband, Joe Bertie in Boston, on Sunday, April 14, 2013, and right, an Associated Press file photo that shows Amy Berti, center, in the same coat, running from the first explosion at the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday, April 15, 2013. A bomb exploded at the finish line of the Boston Marathon seconds after Amy's husband, Joe Berti, finished the race. Two days later, Joe Berti was in his home state of Texas when he saw a fertilizer plant explode near Waco. (AP Photo)" src="http://ksn.newspubli.sh/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/Double_Diaster_Witness__earmstrong@ksn.com_1.jpg" /><br /><br /><div class="thumbnail-caption" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #454545; font-family: istok_webregular; font-size: 0.625rem; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This combination photos shows, left, Amy Berti, in a photo taken by her husband, Joe Bertie in Boston, on Sunday, April 14, 2013, and right, an Associated Press file photo that shows Amy Berti, center, in the same coat, running from the first explosion at the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday, April 15, 2013. A bomb exploded at the finish line of the Boston Marathon seconds after Amy's husband, Joe Berti, finished the race. Two days later, Joe Berti was in his home state of Texas when he saw a fertilizer plant explode near Waco. (AP Photo)</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #454545; font-family: istok_webregular; font-size: 0.875rem; font: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">WEST, Texas (AP) — People keep asking Joe Berti if he’s unlucky.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #454545; font-family: istok_webregular; font-size: 0.875rem; font: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A bomb exploded at the finish line of the Boston Marathon seconds after Berti finished the race. Two days later, he was in his home state of Texas when he saw a fertilizer plant explode near Waco.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #454545; font-family: istok_webregular; font-size: 0.875rem; font: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But the Texas resident says he’s far from unlucky — instead, he’s quite fortunate. Not only did he leave both explosions unscathed, but his wife, who was closer to the bombings in Boston than he was, was also unhurt.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #454545; font-family: istok_webregular; font-size: 0.875rem; font: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Berti and his wife, Amy, agree that being witness to two catastrophes in a 48-hour period is a little crazy. And they are praying for those whose lives were changed forever by the tragedies.</div></div>

Boston bombing Man witnesses Man witnesses Boston bombing and Texas explosion

This combination photos shows, left, Amy Berti, in a photo taken by her husband, Joe Bertie in Boston, on Sunday, April 14, 2013, and right,...

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Boston on lockdown as police hunt suspect(Video)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,47,0" height="270" id="flashObj" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><param name="flashVars" value="videoId=2311395733001&linkBaseURL=http%3A%2F%2Faje.me%2FZBpOzO&playerID=664965303001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAmtVJIFk~,TVGOQ5ZTwJZbyLu770YWZ_LE4OaoU5Nv&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true" /><param name="base" value="http://admin.brightcove.com" /><param name="seamlesstabbing" value="false" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="swLiveConnect" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><embed src="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" flashVars="videoId=2311395733001&linkBaseURL=http%3A%2F%2Faje.me%2FZBpOzO&playerID=664965303001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAmtVJIFk~,TVGOQ5ZTwJZbyLu770YWZ_LE4OaoU5Nv&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true" base="http://admin.brightcove.com" name="flashObj" width="480" height="270" seamlesstabbing="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" swLiveConnect="true" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></embed></object><br /><h2 class="articleSumm" id="ctl00_cphBody_dvSummary" style="background-color: white; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">One marathon-blasts suspect dead and massive manhunt under way for second suspect at large, Massachusetts police say.</h2><div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">The US city of Boston and surrounding area have been locked down amid a massive manhunt for a second suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing, after the first suspect died following a shootout with police.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">"The shelter in place recommendation has been extended throughout the city of Boston," Ed Davis, police commissioner for Boston, said on Friday.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">"We are working very closely with federal authorities in Washington. We are examining all databases, all potential leads," he said.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">"If you see anything suspicious, let us know."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">The huge police operation started after a police officer was killed at the nearby MIT university campus late on Thursday.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Police were conducting a door-to-door, street-by-street search on Friday due to what they called a fluid situation.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">NBC and the Associated Press news agency reported that the suspects were originally from Russian region near Chechnya.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">The <em>New York Times</em> newspaper's website, quoting a US law-enforcement official, identified the surviving suspect as 19-year-old Dzohkar A Tsarnaev of Cambridge. His brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the other suspect, was killed in a gun battle with police overnight.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><strong>Residents warned</strong></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Massachusetts state police warned local residents not to open their doors while the hunt for the second suspect was under way</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">"We believe this to be a terrorist," Davis, Boston police commissioner, said.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">"We believe this to be a man who has come here to kill people. We need to get him in custody."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><a class="InternalLink" href="http://www.fbi.gov/news/updates-on-investigation-into-multiple-explosions-in-boston/updates-on-investigation-into-multiple-explosions-in-boston" style="color: #fb9d04; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The US Federal Bureau of Investigation had earlier released pictures and video </a>of the bombing suspects, enlisting the public's help in identifying two men wearing backpacks and baseball caps in the crowd minutes before bombs exploded near the finish line.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Boston police said on Friday that all transit service by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority "has been suspended until further notice" as a manhunt for a suspect was ongoing.</div><div class="in-article-item document" style="background-color: #eeeeee; clear: left; float: left; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: -50px !important; margin-right: 20px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 20px 10px 10px; width: 200px;"><div class="title" style="background-color: #494949; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: white; display: inline; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 2.3em; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 5px;"><a class="AJCMSLiveBox" href="http://blogs.aljazeera.com/liveblog/topic/boston-marathon-explosion-18691" style="color: #fb9d04; text-decoration: none;">Boston Explosions </a><br /><a class="AJCMSLiveBox" href="http://blogs.aljazeera.com/liveblog/topic/boston-marathon-explosion-18691" style="color: #fb9d04; text-decoration: none;">LIVE BLOG</a></div><a class="AJCMSLiveBox" href="http://blogs.aljazeera.com/liveblog/topic/boston-marathon-explosion-18691" style="color: #fb9d04; text-decoration: none;"> <img border="0" height="128" src="http://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/Images/2013/4/16/201341644818226734_8.jpg" style="border: none;" width="194" /></a><br /><a class="AJCMSLiveBox" href="http://blogs.aljazeera.com/liveblog/topic/boston-marathon-explosion-18691" style="color: #fb9d04; text-decoration: none;">Follow the latest updates</a></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Vehicle traffic was also suspended in and out of Watertown, Boston police said.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">The captured suspect died while in hospital after a firefight with police on Friday.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">"For public safety ... we are asking everyone to shelter in place for the time being," the official said.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Doctors at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre said that police brought a suspect in with injuries at 1:20am local time (0520 GMT).</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">He died shortly from multiple bullet wounds and what appeared to be a blast injury.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Earlier on Thursday evening, a police officer for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was killed at the school's Cambridge campus, prompting a manhunt in a community on edge just days after the Boston Marathon bombing.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">MIT said early on Friday that the university's police had determined that the suspect in the shooting was no longer on campus and it was now safe to resume normal activities.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><strong>Motive unknown</strong></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Massachusetts state police and Cambridge local police said they were assisting in the investigation.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Procopio said the motive for the shooting was not known and the investigation would be led by the Middlesex county district attorney's Office after the death of the officer.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Greg Comcowich, FBI Boston special agent, said the office was referring questions about the shooting to Cambridge and MIT police.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">"I can tell you that we are aware of it however."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">The shots on Thursday night were reported near Building 32, MIT said in an emergency statement warning students to "stay indoors and away from the area."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">MIT police representatives could not be reached immediately for comment.</div></div></div>

Boston on lockdown Boston on lockdown as police hunt suspect(Video)

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Brittney Griner: Playing Above The Rim In The WNBA

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">Most know Brittney Griner as the basketball player changing the women’s game because she can dunk. She did so to much fanfare 18 times as a Baylor University Lady Bear. She also finished her college career as the second all-time scorer in women’s NCAA history, with 3,283 points, and became the top shot-blocker ever, shattering both the men’s and women’s college records, with 748.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">That athletic prowess wrapped up in her impressive 6-foot-8 frame and 7-foot-4 wingspan is why the WNBA has been salivating to get her into their league. As predicted Griner went No. 1 on Monday night in the draft, to the Phoenix Mercury.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><img src="http://b-i.forbesimg.com/christinasettimi/files/2013/04/Brittney-Griner-Jersey-1-199x300.jpg" /><img height="320" src="http://b-i.forbesimg.com/alanaglass/files/2013/04/IMG_0049.jpg" width="240" />Now she and two other highly visible rookies, Elena Delle Donne from Delaware drafted No. 2 to the Chicago Sky, and Skylar Diggins from Notre Dame who went No. 3 to the Tulsa Shock, are expected to breathe new life in the league that is entering its 17th season, trying to re-brand itself with a new logo and an extended $12 million a year television deal with ESPN through 2022.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">But Griner is expected to be a game changer off the court as well. Her idea of femininity — including her love of her longboard (she’s a skater kid who idolizes Tony Hawk), her playfulness on current fashion (her Pinterest account shows her love of on-trend oxfords including a pair with lilac laces and soles, and another two-toned pair in this season’s color mint), her fresh faced look (she has a baby smooth complexion and enviable high cheekbones), her confidence in her ability to be friends with her female competitors (she and Elena Delle Donne swapped encouraging tweets through the NCAA tournament) and to sincerely compete with men (she and Mark Cuban recently caused a stir when he said he would take a chance on her and she said “I’ll hold my own”), and her open acknowledgement that her sexuality is just part of who she is (despite headlines today, <a href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/more/news/20130417/wnba-griner-delle-donne-diggins-sports-sexuality/" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">her interview with SI last night was not a ceremonial coming-out</a>) — is a refreshing twist on the archaic ideals of beauty imposed on female athletes. Accordingly, she is expected to earn coveted endorsements that have typically eluded female team-sport athletes.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">“Brittney is powerful because she is true to herself. She embraces what makes her unique and in doing so, empowers everyone around her to do the same,” said her agent, Lindsay Kagawa Colas.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">“She’s incredibly inspirational and for forward leaning brands that are interested in connecting with consumers emotionally, she has the potential to be very, very compelling.”</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">Nike agrees and just signed her to a multi-year deal. She joins the brand’s current roster of female brand ambassadors, all solo athletes, including tennis stars Serena Williams and <a href="http://www.forbes.com/pictures/mli45imfe/1-maria-sharapova/#gallerycontent" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Maria Sharapova, who earned $27.9 million last year to rank as Forbes’ highest paid female athlete</a>.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">Despite all the hype, expectations and judgments, Griner is incredibly humble and authentic. It showed when she welled-up when her name was called at the draft, even though hell was set to freeze over before she was passed on being called first. Forbes caught up with her the day after the WNBA draft at the league’s offices in New York to talk about her career, that little thing with Cuban, and how she wants to play on and off the court.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">Christina Settimi: It was interesting to see you last night after what everyone, including you, knew what would happen — you were drafted first by the Phoenix Mercury. What did the tears stem from then?</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">Brittney Griner:  I finally got caught up in the moment. I kind of froze, my mouth froze, my mind froze up and I just couldn’t say anything. It was just like when I met Tony Hawk [earlier in the day on the ESPN campus]. I just froze up. It was overwhelming.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">CS: What are you looking forward to most with joining your new team?</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">BG: A new start in a new city. But I don’t want to say a new city like I’m just visiting there. I’m looking forward to a new home. But I also can’t wait to play with Diana Taurasi, Candace Dupree, DeWanna Bonner, Penny Taylor. And Corey Gaines is an awesome coach. So I’m definitely looking forward to meeting up with all of them.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">CS: That was quite a frenzy that surrounded the Mark Cuban situation when he publicly said he would draft you and you responded to him asking when you show up for tryouts. Did you anticipate that at all?</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">BG: No, I didn’t think it was going to be that big. But it was definitely good. It got people talking. People on the NBA side that really don’t talk about the women’s game started talking about it. I’ve had a lot of people respond to say they are going to start watching me. I had a Phoenix fan tweet me today, saying he lived in Phoenix his whole life and never been to a game and now that I’m there, he’s buying tickets. So it got people interested in the league that never had one and that’s awesome.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">CS: But did you anticipate your response to Cuban would have been as scrutinized as it was?</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">BG: Regardless of what I would have said, it would have been scrutinized. If I had declined and said “no, I don’t want to take you up on that offer” people would have said “she’s scared” or “she can’t do it”. And as it was, I said yes, I do want to take you up on that offer and people jumped to the conclusion that I don’t care about the WNBA. I do care about the league. The league is first. Then if the opportunity still is there to present itself in the NBA, I will give it a shot. Either way though, someone was going to have something negative to say. A lot of the fanbase thought I was going to skip the WNBA draft and just focus on Cuban. But no, I was living for this draft. When I started playing basketball the dream was always the WNBA. It wasn’t to make it to the NBA. Our league is what has always been special to me.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">CS: Had you thought about it though, ever playing in the NBA?</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">BG: No, to be honest it never crossed my mind. I’m a fan, I watch. But I never thought about playing there.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">CS: Do you take the constructive criticism that the women’s and men’s games are different?<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 16px; text-transform: uppercase;">PAGE 2 OF 3</span></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">BG: Yes I think they are different, but equal. We shouldn’t compare them. We are our own league. They are their own league. We’re the top female athletes; they are the top men’s athletes.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">CS: Well on that note, the Phoenix Mercury posted a congratulatory video from LeBron James to you on their website. He compared you to Wilt Chamberlain. What do you think of that?</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">BG: That is definitely an honor. But you’re not going to change that. People are going to compare us over to the men’s side. I wish they would compare back to women. You have to take it as a compliment though, especially to be compared to Wilt who is just a great athlete, not just on the men’s side, but in general.</div><br /><aside class="vestpocket" data-position="4" style="border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-top-color: rgb(239, 239, 239); border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 5px; float: left; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px; margin: 8px 30px 1px 0px; overflow: visible; padding-bottom: 20px; position: relative; width: 175px; z-index: 1;"><div class="box article" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(239, 239, 239); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 5px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 20px 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 175px;"><a class="thumb exit_trigger_set" href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/alanaglass/2013/04/16/its-official-brittney-griner-will-be-dunking-in-the-wnba/" style="border: 0px; 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vertical-align: baseline;">It's Official, Brittney Griner Will Be Dunking In The WNBA</a><cite class="box_byline clearfix" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; display: block; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; line-height: 14px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="exit_trigger_set" href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/alanaglass/" style="border: 0px; color: black; display: block; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Alana Glass" class="avatar" src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/870e302eb8fde16bf0b55ae3a6873ef2?s=40&r=pg&d=http%3A%2F%2Fb-i.forbesimg.com%2Fassets%2Fimages%2Favatars%2Fgeneric_profile_image_40.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: block; float: left; height: 20px; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: 3px; vertical-align: baseline; 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font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">CS: So who would you want to be compared to?</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">BG: Lisa Leslie, in her prime, definitely. Although I think she could still get out there and do something and definitely teach me a thing or two.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Elena Delle Donne and Forbes contributor Alana Glass joined the conversation for a moment at this point.</em></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">Alana Glass: Can you comment on your relationship with Elena? I see you two have a huge amount of respect for each other.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">BG: We first met on the All American team and I heard her story before with her decision and how she wanted to stay close to her family and her sister. I already thought she was an amazing person. She proved it on the court night in and night out too. Then getting to meet her dad and mom confirmed it. Watching her play and her career, I tweeted out that she was great. People don’t do that enough. We compete, we go head-to-head, but that doesn’t mean we have to hate each other, or be spiteful and hope one falls or hope somebody doesn’t succeed. You can be friends and still compete and go hard on the court.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">Elena Delle Donne: Right when we met, Brittany was awesome. She makes awkward situations not awkward. We’re sitting in this All American meeting and no one’s talking. She walks in and just hilarious, making jokes, making everyone talk. Right then I loved Brittany. Like she said, I respect her game and what she’s going to do for women’s sports. We’re both confident enough in our own games to support the other. When we both lost in the NCAA tournament, we were able to lift each other. We both understood. She obviously had a little bit of a harder time because Baylor was supposed to win the national championship but I told her she’s the greatest and she’s going to change women’s sports and to keep her head up.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">AG: Did you ever think there are young girls following you on twitter and seeing the nature of your relationship and how you can be competitors but still be kind and respectful and essentially be role models?</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">EDD: I hope girls can see that and not be spiteful towards one another and see that it is ok to be supportive and to want others to be successful with you. Because the more successful that women are in our sport, the more attention we’re going to get.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">BG: I hope it makes them realize you can compete and go at each other’s head but you don’t have to hate each other. On the guy’s side they have that brotherhood and it’s looked at like they’re just butting heads, it’s competitive. But if two female athletes go back and forth it’s a catfight. I’m pretty sure sound effects would be put in on SportsCenter and people would have a field day with it.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">CS: So how do you guys change that?</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">BG: First talking about it and bringing it up. Letting people know that’s not the case and it’s not right. Getting people to stop with all the comparisons including the gender comparisons. As far as the game, playing as hard as we can. We are dominant, we can do anything we put our minds to, anything the guys can do.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">CS: I know you both have Nike deals. Are there any certain brands you want to affiliate yourselves with then that would do that, show better how you really are as women?</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">BG:  We should have the big commercials like the guys. We shouldn’t always be put in that stereotypical feminine role in the commercial, always having to wear pink. There’s nothing wrong with pink but you always see that stereotype with a woman lightly running, doing something gently, in skirts and short shorts. But we can be who we are and not wear pink and not be that typical girl they want us to be. I’ve been told “you don’t really play like a girl” and I wonder, what does that really mean? I play like an athlete. I’m a competitor.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">CS: So how do you want to be known off the court?</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">BG: I want to be known as a strong person off the court — strong in the sense that I know who I am and being comfortable with my body. I went through a lot of scrutiny from the “she’s a man” to “she has large feet, large hands”, “she doesn’t fit the typical girl’s stature”. I want to be known as someone who gave back to the community especially the LGBT community, the younger girls and boys that just walk down the street and get beat up. I hate bullying, as someone who got bullied before. I definitely want to be known to have a strong voice to make a difference there and bring awareness and bring an end to it.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">CS: Do you have any official partnership yet with LGBT?</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">BG: I’ve done work with the It Gets Better Campaign and you’ll see a lot more soon. I’m living that slogan right now and am proof of it.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><br /></div></div>

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Most know Brittney Griner as the basketball player changing the women’s game because she can dunk. She did so to much fanfare 18 times as a ...

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