Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev apologized today during his federal sentencing hearing. “I would like to now apologize to the victims and the survivors,” he said. “I am sorry for the lives that I have taken.”

“If there is any lingering doubt, I did it along with my brother,” he said, referring to the bombing. “I ask Allah to have mercy on me, my brother and my family.”

A CNN news alert on today’s Tsarnaev statement on the Boston bombing