We just got a bit more information about the final break in this case, how and who found the suspect. According to the Boston Police Commissioner, a man in a house in Watertown came out of his house for the first time this afternoon after authorities said people could safely come out of their homes. He saw blood on the cover of his boat (perhaps a tarp or a winter shrink wrap). He approached the boat and looked in and saw a man covered in blood inside the boat. He rushed back into the house and called the police.

Key point is that the witness/tipster made actual eye contact with the suspect, and one would imagine vice versa. So not just that he saw something that looked odd or different. He saw the man himself.

[ed.note: I originally embedded this tweet because it was from a senior editor at The New York Times. Less clear to me now it’s legit because the provenance isn’t clear to me. So caution. Here is a verified photo from the AP wire … The authenticity of this photo has now been confirmed.]

WOW. Photo of suspect on ground. twitter.com/Hossenator/sta…“

— carolynryan (@carolynryan) April 20, 2013

President Obama to speak momentarily on the capture of the Boston Marathon bombings suspect. Watch.

Justice Department confirms to TPM’s Sahil Kapur that it will “invoke the public safety exception to Miranda in order to question the suspect extensively about other potential explosive devices or accomplices and to gain critical intelligence.”

Amazing video of what appears to be the final firefight in Watertown some time before Dzokhar Tsarnaev, some time before he was taken into custody. After the jump … Read More

Friends say bombing suspect switched from UMass Boston to UMass Dartmouth for the better parties.

After the jump, a transcript of the President’s comments, delivered just under two hours ago, on the events of the day … (Video excerpt here.) Read More

Rupert Murdoch defends the New York Post’s horrendous coverage and those photos of the young Moroccan immigrant kid.

There were a number of journalistic goofs this week — the big one being the numerous erroneous reports of an arrest on Wednesday that never happened. The Post thing actually wasn’t a journalistic failing, it was an ethical one. They’re different.

There’s something I’ve been thinking about since we saw those shaky images on Thursday afternoon. David Remnick’s piece captures a part of it in a phrase: “the toxic combination of high-minded zealotry and the curdled disappointments of young men.” Read More

If you’re interested in finding out a lot of new details about the firefight early Friday morning and then the brief one late friday afternoon in Watertown, watch and read this.