minnesota republican congresswoman michele bachmann and four gop house colleagues are leading the charge. congresswoman bachmann today expanding her charges while, at the same time, oddly claiming she's not doing exactly what she's doing. as we've reported, bachmann and the others have asked the inspectors general of five security agencies to look into what bachmann calls the possible deep penetration of the u.s. government by muslim extremists. perhaps the most shocking of all, they're implying this woman, in particular, huma abedin, secretary of state hillary clinton's chief executive, may somehow be working on behalf of the muslim brotherhood and they're questioning how she got a security clearance. after our report last night, we really thought this story might be over. we thought it might be over yesterday. miss bachmann received an extraordinary public scolding from john mccain on the senate floor. she was also condemned by other members of her own party. even her former campaign manager ed rollins said she ought to be ashamed of herself. it turns out congresswoman bachmann is not backing down. instead, it seems today, she's actually doubling down. what she isn't doing, neither she nor her four colleagues, is coming on this program to back up her allegations. we asked them all, they all said no. now, remember, when last we saw the congresswoman, she was refusing to answer our questions yesterday. moving as fast as possible away from our reporter dana bash. >> hey, congresswoman, how are you? >> sorry, i can't right now. >> i just need to ask you about -- senator mccain was on the senate floor and he said what you're doing going after huma -- can you do an interview with us later? >> yes, i can. >> all right, thank you. >> she said she'd get back to dana when she had more time but guess what, she never did. today congresswoman found time to go on glenn beck's program and spoke once again about her suspicions of huma abedin. now listen closely because she actually ups the ante. leveling entire new charges against huma abedin's family. >> she is the chief aide to the secretary of state. and we quoted from a document, and this has been well reported all across arab media, that her late father, who's now deceased, was a part of the muslim brotherhood. her brother was a part of the muslim brotherhood. her mother was a part of what's called the muslim sisterhood. it would be -- we have requirements to get a high-level security clearance. one thing that the government looks at are your associations and, in particular, your family associations. and this applies to everyone. it would be the same that is true with me. if my family members were associated with hamas, a terrorist organization, that alone could be sufficient to disqualify me from getting a security clearance. so all we did is ask, did the federal government look into her family associations before she got a high-level security -- >> okay, so let's talk about what she just said. what she said about huma abedin and that statement there and her family goes beyond prior allegations. today, as you just heard, congresswoman bachmann said flat out that huma abedin's father was part of the muslim brotherhood and so was her brother. in the past, bachmann in writing didn't attempt to directly link her father to the muslim brotherhood. she claimed that an organization he started decades ago allegedly had the support of another guy who had another organization that might have had the support of another org, the muslim brotherhood. as for her allegations against her mother and brother, in the letter she sent to congressman ellison after he demanded she back up her insinuations, congresswoman bachmann only cited three items. all, by the way, are from blogs in the arab world with second or third hand information at best. now, that insinuates a lot. doesn't prove anything. which is why john mccain, in part, said what he said yesterday. >> these allegations about huma abedin and the report from which they are drawn are nothing less but an unwarranted and unfounded attack on an honorable citizen, a dedicated american and a loyal public servant. >> as we mentioned, plenty of other republicans have condemned ms. bachmann's line of inquiry. senator lindsey graham. marco rubio. speaker john boehner calling the allegations, quote, pretty dangerous. congresswoman bachmann seems unfazed and not only did she increase her allegations against huma aberdeen's family, today talking to glenn beck, she tried to say she wasn't really casting suspicion about abedin. >> that's all we're saying. we did not infer she's working on behalf of the muslim brotherhood or she's working on behalf of the muslim brotherhood. our point was regarding the security clearance. and did she have to go through the same sort of process that anyone else has to go through. did they check the boxes? because if the state department breaks american law to bring a terrorist into the white house, a member of a terrorist organization, it certainly is conceivable maybe they looked the other way on issuing this security clearance. that's all we're doing is asking a question. >> that's all we're doing, asking a question. keeping them honest that is just nonsense and you know it. if she wasn't alleging huma abedin wasn't somehow sympathetic to the muslim brotherhood, she wouldn't have brought her up in her allegations. why would she even have included her? she wouldn't be raising questions about her vetting for a security clearance if she didn't have these suspicions. which she has no information at all about. she has no information about what security clearance she has or how she was vetted. in fact, the words she has used to describe abedin and the reason she's concerned about her background and her allegiances is because in bachmann's own words, quote, her position provides her with access to the secretary, meaning secretary of state clinton, and puts her in position to influence policy making. she's concerned about her influencing policy. to pretend today she's simply making a point or asking questions about security clearance and not questioning abedin's loyalty, that would be laughable if it wasn't so serious. if peoples lives, careers and futures weren't at stake here. of course bachmann and others are doing more than singling out abedin. they're also alleging the fbi removed information about the threat from its own training material under pressure from muslim groups aligned with or directly from the muslim brotherhood. we contacted the fbi about the changes they made to some of their training material. after some controversy, some reporters brought up the details of things that were in some of these training materials. a small amount of the training materials. the fbi did change their training materials. the fbi said the information they changed was changed because it was either factually incorrect or offensive to muslims. quote from the fbi, because we called them. our review of fbi counterterrorism training materials was not influenced by the muslim brotherhood or any other outside entity. we initiated an internal review after recognizing that some of our materials did not meet the fbi standards of professionalism. again, though congresswoman bachmann is alleging deep penetration of the entire government, not just the fbi, but at the end of the day, she and the other four lawmakers have targeted one person, huma abedin and may be throwing a chill into many more good public servants who happen to be muslim. together these five congress people only represent about 4 million americans, but they speak with the force of the powerful house intelligence committee. they say they only want an investigation. as one my predecessors in news put it the line between investigating and persecuting is a very fine one. you can decide whether the congresswoman from minnesota has stepped over it. today ms. bachmann also took sharper aim at congressman ellison. he is also muslim. today, she accused him of having, and i quote, a long record of being associated with the muslim brotherhood. joining us now is minnesota congressman keith ellison. congresswoman bachmann was on glenn beck's radio show and had some things to say on a wide variety of topics but on you as well. i just want to play a little bit of what she said. >> he has a long record of being associated with care and muslim brotherhood. care is an unindicted co-conspirator as stated in the largest terrorist financing case in the united states of america. so he came out and essentially wanted to shut down the inspectors general from even looking into any of the questions that we were asking. so he wanted to shut it down. >> let me ask you just on two things. one, she's saying you have a long record of being associated with the muslim brotherhood. is that true? >> no. that's not true. >> do you support the muslim brotherhood? >> i don't support any organization that -- i support american institutions. i don't know enough about them. what i know about them is that in egypt one of their candidates has ascended to the presidency. i've never met that person. but i do think the united states should have a foreign policy where we talk to foreign leaders of all kinds. but no, i don't have any -- i don't have any muslim brotherhood connections that she's talking about. >> when she says you are trying to shut down their investigation, what do you make of that? >> i'm absolutely to the trying to shut down their investigation. what i'm trying to do is to raise a concern about unfounded allegations of disloyalty. specifically with regard to huma abedin and a few other people she mentioned. but, i mean, if she has legitimate evidence, she should go forward. all i did was ask her to put up the proof. >> we called the inspectors general involved here. two of the five agencies, the department of homeland security and the state department told us they had no plans to investigate. both were clear a request like this is outside the inspectors general mandate. saying they look at the effectiveness of programs. they look for waste, fraud, abuse. wouldn't members of congress and/or their staffs know that? >> yes, members of congress would know that very well. but you have to ask yourself, you know, why did she make this so public? why did she seem to be seeking public attention for these allegations she was making. if she really had actionable intelligence, why wouldn't she go to the agencies that investigate these things? i think the answer is clear that she wanted attention. that was her goal all along. >> it's about politics, it's about fund-raising, it's about attention? >> yeah, but it's also about -- it is about those things, but it is also about marginalizing and alienating a certain group of americans who she does not view are american enough. >> because it does seem like basically she's painting with a very broad brush muslims in this country. i mean, you suddenly now are associated with the muslim brotherhood. huma abedin's father is part of the muslim brotherhood, even though there's no direct evidence of this. and as we talked about, you know, she's raising questions about huma abedin herself. it does seem she's sort of using the term muslim brotherhood interchangeably with the term muslim. >> right. one of the things that compelled me to step forward on this issue is i believe huma abedin is going to be fine. she has an impeccable reputation. she's going to be okay. what about some midlevel person whose name may be mohammed or ahmed or may just be a muslim but who's doing a good job and is a loyal american. is her kind of allegation going to have such a chilling effect that a person like that is going to come under suspicion? these are the things that make me worry. >> in the interview, she talks about the fbi saying, quote, the fbi who are supposed to be trained in radical islam, elements have been purged of their training materials so they're no longer being taught what radical islam is in order to be able to identify it ahead of time. is that your understanding of what happened? because, according to the fbi, they removed documents and some presentations that they said stereotyped islam or were factually inaccurate in their training materials. >> on the training material issue, they had a whole host of materials that were simply inaccurate and, in many cases, biased. and they tried to improve their training presentation, which i think is good an we applaud it. the fact of the matter is, when law enforcement is trying to improve how it does law enforcement, we should applaud that. apparently she wanted to keep in the bias inaccurate material so that people who would be trained on improper material and perhaps engage in profiling or whatever else because of it. but, you know, it's just one of those situations where if good people will stand up and say "this is wrong" we can put a stop to it. i'm glad that the story has gotten a lot of attention because we need a reminder every once in a while, you know, that this is a country of laws and not individual persons and that proof is needed, not just allegations. i mean this is why i'm glad this story has got an little bit ofg appreciate your time tonight. >> thank you, sir. >> let us know what you think. we're on facebook. we're talking about this on twitter. @andersoncooper. keeping them honest tonight. how a loophole got into a law that you supposed to keep the folks that work on capitol hill that work for you about cashing in on inside information about the companies they regulate. that's next. ñu syou know, i've helped a lot off people save a lot of money. but today...( sfx: loud noise of large metal object hitting the ground) things have been a little strange. 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no more legalized insider trading, right? not exactly. cnn's dana bash and a producer have done some digging into the law. they discovered not just a lingering loophole but how it got there. she's keeping them honest. >> let me sign this bill. >> reporter: this was memorable because it was so rare. president obama signing a bipartisan law congress passed swiftly and overwhelmingly. to make sure there's no insider trading in congress. lawmakers crowed about restoring trust in government. >> if there was any chance of fact of using information for personal profit, we were not going to allow it. >> we've tried to focus at the specific task at hand, that closing loopholes to ensure that members of the congress play by the exact same rules as everyone else. >> reporter: but keeping them honest, cnn has learned that not all the loopholes were closed. here's why. the key to making sure lawmakers don't profit off secret information they learn on the job is based on a new rule. financial transactions over $1,000 must be reported in 45 days. >> so that the public could have more real-time understanding of what their members and what senior staff and other high government officials were doing with their finances. what kinds of trades were they making. >> reporter: on the senate side of the capitol, the ethics committee decided the new rule must apply to lawmakers and their spouses and children. but over here on the house side, the ethics committee told its members something completely different, that spouses and children do not have to report their stock trades in a timely way. >> i'm obviously deeply concerned about that. >> reporter: all of this was news to the senators who sponsored the legislation neatly to say when we brought it to their attention, they were not happy. >> let's say i find out information and i tell my wife and she trades on it, what's the difference? we need to have that level of transparency. >> reporter: specifically says that members of congress do not have to have their spouse or their children file. >> i think it's wrong and i think it's unfortunate because the reality is the whole point of this legislation is we should play by the exact same rules as every other american citizen. and when all of america looks at washington, they know it's broken. >> reporter: the fact that the house and the senate can have different interpretations of the same law that each passed, doesn't that speak to the fact that washington's broken? >> yes, and i have concerns. >> reporter: after we told senator scott brown about this, he fired off a letter to follow republicans in the house saying it's, quote, deeply troubling that members, spouses and children are not requires to regularly disclose stock trades. the house interpretation leaves a loophole and the appearance of an ongoing double standard brown said in the letter. all this raised a big question. how did the loophole happen? when we started asking questions, all signs pointed to the opposite house majority leader eric canter which wrote and controlled the legislation that became law. it turns out cantor's staff changed the original bill without most in congress, even the senate sponsors, realizing it. at first cantor's office insisted the changes didn't alter the intent of the trading ban. finally, cantor's office sent us this statement, which acknowledged that there is a problem. and because of cnn's reporting, they're trying to figure out how to fix it. it was not the intention of the house to differ with the senate passed bill with respect to application to spouses and dependent children said canonto spokesman, doug heye. since new information has been brought to our attention with respect to this discrepancy, we're reviewing our actions >> do we have any specifically how or why that the house changed this? >> well, to answer your first question, the why, that was obviously something that deirdra walsh, who i should say, really uncovered this. the question we were asking. okay, now that you admit you changed it, why did you do it? the answer we got was cantor's office and broader republican leadership that was working on the legislative language consulted the house ethics counsel's office and they were told this is the best way to write the language. they insist there was nothing sinister here. they weren't trying to pull one over. they weren't try to find this loophole and it just happened. and that answers your second question. does this happen? the former congressman can answer this better than i can. especially in cases like this. wherthere's such a pr push or a sense that for members of congress they have to do something very fast, things fall through the cracks. loopholes happen. that's what happened in this situation. >> congressman, is there a bigger issue here at play, having to do with resistance, to transparency? >> there is indeed. if you look at what happened just last week, the republican majority in the house of representatives refused to pass a disclose act. simple piece of legislation that would have said the large donors to these super packs and the campaign attack ads, we have to find out who they are. they didn't pass that. we don't seem to be able to get candidate mitt romney to disclose his tax returns. i really think we ran into heavy resistance on the stock act from the republican side. there's a pattern here. the pattn seems to be we don't have to tell you what's going on. we're somehow exempt from this. and, you know, the paradox here is that existing prior law to the stock act required disclosure from spouses every year. what they did is weaken existing law and carve out a loophole that was already there in the process of passing the stock act. i think it's disingenuous of them to say, oh, it's just incidental. i think it was willful, intentional and part of a longer pattern that's quite troubling. >> shouldn't point fingers just at one side here. even in the white house we just saw an example where the president was talking about executive privilege on documents related to fast and furious for the justice department. that raised a lot of questions about desire for transparency on all sides. dana bash, appreciate your great reporting, your producer as well. congressman baird, thank you so much. we'll continue to follow it. take a look at this airport security video that was released today. the guy looks like an ordinary tourist, right? shorts, t-shirt, backpack. bulgarian authorities say he is the suicide bomber who blew up ape bus carrying israeli tourists and wait until you hear what other clues they turned up. a driver's license, we'll tell you what state in the united states that's from. a bizarre story. a billionaire and his wife seemed to have it all. now one of them is dead. tonight the mystery of who was behind that deadly bus bombing in bulgaria is deepening. bulgarian authorities believe this man hid the bomb in the backpack before he boarded the bus with tourists. five tourists died along with the driver and the suspect the bomber. dozens more were injured. the attack is adding new fuel to already escalating tensions between israel and iran even as the story and the plot thickens. here is tom foreman. >> reporter: investigators say this is the man who set off the bomb. captured here on an airport security camera in the town of burgas, wearing a hat and carrying a backpack, seemingly wandering around aimlessly. conflicting reports say he arrived in the country one to five weeks ago and he mingled with tourists who just arrived from tel aviv right before explosives went off in the luggage compartment. beyond that, much seems uncertain. it is not apparent if he acted alone or with help. authorities say he used a fake michigan driver's license for travel with a louisiana address. this picture obtained by abc news showed a man with long hair, just like in the surveillance video. in israel, the prime minister is making it clear what he thinks, this was an agent of israel's old enemy, iran. >> this attack was part of a global campaign of terror carried out by iran and hezbollah. this terror campaign has reached a dozen countries on five continents. the world's leading powers should make it clear that iran is the country that stands behind this terror campaign. iran must be exposed by the international community as the premier terrorist supporting state that it is. >> reporter: tension between israel and iran has been growing for decades. recently has escalated sharply with allegations of everything from harassment to spy hits to mass murder. when israeli diplomats came under attack earlier this year, israel quickly blamed iran. when iranian nuclear scientists were assassinated in 2010, the government there immediately said it was the work of the super secret israeli spy agency mossad. iran hanged one of those suspected spies earlier this year. and israel broke up what it called an iranian terror network just months ago. western suspicions that iran is secretly trying to build a nuclear weapon are only making all of this worse. even as iran furiously denies that it had anything to do with the attack in bulgaria, the accusations just as furiously continue. tom foreman, cnn, washington. well eva and hans seemed to have lived a charmed life. her mysterious death has exposed how far they'd fallen and the toll that drugs and addiction had taken on this couple. 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[ female announcer ] the travelocity guarantee. from the price to the room to the trip you'll never roam alone. in crime and punishment family and friends of eva rausing are waiting for answers, ten days after she was found dead in the london mansion she shared with her husband, hans kristian rausing, the son of one of the world's richest men. london police did charge him with preventing the lawful and decent burial of his wife. her body was badly decomposed when it was discovered. mr. rausing is in rehab. cause of death has not been determined yet. among the questions tonight, how their life of enormous privilege and promise it once held, how it came to this. >> reporter: eva rausing and her billionaire husband hans kristian were fixtures on the london social scene. he is heir to the tetra pack food giant fortune. she was the trustee to one of prince charles charitable foundations. all that an ended in 2008 after she was caught attempting to smuggle crack cocaine into the american embassy in london. she was given a warning and charges were dropped. the problems with drugs didn't end there. last week, her parents flew into the uk to identify her body. nothing in eva rausing's early upbringing gave any hint of the tumult to come. born into comfort, her parents live in a million dollar property in south carolina and split their time between that and a home in barbados. her friends say she was introduced to drugs very early on. >> she had been introduced to drugs at an early age. 16 or something at university. she got married. she seemed to be very happy. he was, when i met him, far more -- he wasn't reclusive, he was far more difficult to talk to. he had a nice personality. he was a nice person. but she was the one who did all the talking. she was vivacious. >> reporter: the couple came to london to escape the taxes in the tetra pak heir's native sweden but they grew increasingly reclusive. in this rare footage of eva and hans kristian out in public, they are almost unrecognizable. gaunt. disheveled. disoriented. filmed in may, police say this was the last time she was seen alive. >> physically, there was a difference obviously because her health -- well, her health had always suffered and not necessarily through drugs but she had a heart condition. i mean, i think she had a pacemaker. but with him it was far more visible. >> reporter: eva and hans kristian rausing first met in a drug rehab facility over 21 years ago. as she detailed in her own blog, sobriety remained a constant struggle. but it was a struggle that paralleled her philanthropy. eva rausing helped found the addiction prevention charity mental uk. >> she gave a great deal of money to us over the years. we received about 600,000 pounds over about seven years to get the charity established and operational. >> reporter: often in these kind of situations, people say, well, they didn't really know what they were gettg into, but it sounds like eva understood only too well. >> there's a difference between knowing that something's harmful and being able to do something about it. one of the other people on the board kind of said, well, our starting position is that we all hate drugs and we all think drugs are a bad thing. most people actually agree with that. and she, like i said, said, woel, woe well, no, that's not really my position. if only it was as straight forward as that. my problem is i actually love drugs. >> reporter: british police are still treating her death as unexplained. there is no denying the havoc the couple's addiction wreaked on both their lives. one source told us eva rausing's family went so far as to employ an ex-special forces private security contingent to disrupt her procurement of drugs. in a written statement, the family said, eva and hans kristian were a devoted and loving couple. they bravely battled their demons and supported each other. and eva will be a devastating loss to our beloved son, hans kristian. >> eva rausing's body, how did the police find it? >> well, they actually pulled over her husband, hans rausing, because they saw he was driving erratically. when they stopped him, they said although they couldn't smell any alcohol on his breath, his pupils were very dilated, so they searched the car and found a crack pipe and various drug p paraphernalia, as they say, which led them to go and do a search of the house. when they came into the house, they said the stench of decomposition was so strong that it led police officers up to the second floor, to the room where her body was. and they subsequently found it under bin liners and random clothing wrapped in plastic tarp we understand. >> it's such a horrific, bizarre story. he was initially arrested on suspicion of murder but he wasn't charged with anything. now authorities can't even question him. why not? >> he went into alcohol withdrawal pretty immediately. and now they've released him on conditional bail but that conditional bail is to a psychiatric facility. he can't leave that facility without a nurse accompanying him. and so that actually hinders the authorities ability to question him. good morning, everyone. welcome to "early start." breaking news now to report out of colorado, the town of aurora, about nine miles east of denver, there's been a multiple shooting at a movie theater. a late-night showing of "the dark knight rises." this happened at the century 16 theater. the town of aurora, about nine miles east of denver. there are reports that multiple people have been killed at this shooting. as of now, cnn is not able to confirm the deaths. we are looking into it now we are told police and firefighters are racing to the scene at this moment. >> we don't have a lot of details. here's what we can tell you again. i will reiterate some of the information john gave you. it's the century 16 movie theater. this is nine miles from denver. it's about a 20-minute drive there. it was last night's showing. i guess it's popular, right? the movie is premiering. so they're doing all these late-night showing. exact lit details of what happened, we're unaware. we're trying to figure that out for you. we know there were multiple people shot. we know there are people dead, though we cannot confirm that number. we do know that police are present now trying to figure out all of the details of what happened. we have no idea how the shooting started. we don't know if it started inside or outside. we can tell you that a lot of people have been shot and that there are some people dead. >> this is a live picture now outside the movie theater in aurora, colorado. the century 16 mvie theater. we can tell you "the dark knight rises" one of the most anticipated films of the summer. these theaters have been packed for this movie. if there was a shooting there, no shortage of people, too many targets to even speak of now. these live pictures -- >> take a look at the police presence on the scene at this hour. >> too many lights to count. o many on hand to count now. a huge scene there. >> this is a developing story. we have our affiliate working on details for us to try to understand what happened. whether this was an incident that began outside and went inside, maybe it started on the inside and trickled outside. nine miles from denver. it was a real late-night showing which is happening across the country. these late showings of "the dark knight" we have so little right now. sadly we are getting reports that people have died. we cannot confirm the number yet and that a lot of people have been injured. >> the word we keep on hearing is multiple. this has been all over the police scanners around aurora, near denver, in colorado. you can see the sirens there. you can see the police presence outside the movie theater, the century 16 movie theater in aurora, colorado where we have had reports now of multiple shootings. there are multiple shootings, we can confirm that. reports of multiple deaths. we are working at this moment to confirm that. >> it says aurora, colorado. east alameda avenue in aurora. i suspect a lot of young people stayed up to attend. >> these lines have been going around the block for people to get into the theaters. people bought the tickets weeks ago. one of the most anticipated films of the year. everyone knew it would be mobbed and packed houses all night overnight. >> again, we want to let you know this has been a shooting that has happened, nine miles from denver, century movie theater. it's about a 20-minute drive from denver. it was last night's showing of "the dark knight" multiple injuries, folks. there are some deaths as well. we are aggressively working to confirm the numbers for you. we know multiple people were shot there. we knows there quite a police presence on the scene. if you take a look right now at your screen, you can see that they are all over the place trying to get details of what exactly happened. >> our affiliate kausa is reporting multiple people shot. we can confirm that. no word of how many deaths. the police presence enormous. scanners going haywire now, the police scanners near that area near aurora. it looks, i have to say, fairly calm there outside at this point. police standing around. there's no sign of mass panic, at least from what we're looking at. pictures can sometimes be deceiving. >> john, we just got sound from a witness on the scene. let's listen to that. >> she said that when she turned around, all she saw was the guy slowly making his way up the stairs and just firing at people. just picking random people. >> all right. so, let's wrap this up for you again here. there are reports of a shooting that happened at century 16 movie theater. this is in colorado. nine miles from denver. it's about a 20-minute drive from denver. it was last night's showing of "the dark knight." there are multiple injuries here. we have heard there are some deaths. we cannot confirm that for you at this hour. >> our affiliate 9 news says a hospital was alerted to a mass casualty incident at 1:15 a.m., three patients in critical condition, already transferred to the hospital. the hospital told to prepare for up to 20 more patients. that is from our affiliate right now on the ground there in aurora, colorado. hospitals waiting for as many as 20 patients from this multiple shooting at the century 16 movie theater. >> not sure exactly what time that showing took place. you pointed out something important. it doesn't seem to be a chaotic ene. there is a lot of police presence, a lot of ambulances probably at the scene as well, but not necessarily a chaotic scene. we do know that, as you just said, the hospital is awaiting to see how many people were injured. we do know that some people have died here, though we have no idea what that number is. can we put up that map again of exactly where this is? century 16 movie theater. it is nine miles from denver. it was late last night at "the dark knight sh" showing. you would imagine overnight people would be lined up. we don't know if the shooting began inside and then moved outside. we're trying to get as many details for you as possible. the swedish medical center there says that the hospital was alerted to a mass casualty incident at 1:15 in the morning their time. >> that would have been about an hour and a half ago to give you a sense of when that was. about an hour and a half ago in aurora, colorado. there are some tweets coming in now, twitter feed reports from the scene of this incident. people saying they're putting us in a bus to a nearby high school now. presumably that's somebody there on the scene. this person, caitlin says please pray for my friend alex. another tweet, oh, god. i don't know what to do. this must have been terrifying. >> horrific. >> in this theater, again, for this late-night showing of "the dark knight rises." we don't know how it all started. we are trying to gather details for you. back at swedish medical center they say they received three patients in critical condition that have been transported to that hospital. they're saying they're prepared to receive up to 20 more patients. again, we don't know the details. we don't know the extent of their injuries. we have no idea what condition they're in. what we can tell you, it's the aurora century 16 movie theaters. that local hospital has been alerted. we're not sure of another local hospital. there is quite a police presence at the scene. maybe some ambulances. it's hard to see, because it's pretty dark. this showing was at 1:15 in the morning their time. we do know that the early reports are there are a lot of injuries and there are some people dead here. maybe that tweet, john, was along those lines. worried about somebody that this young lady was with there. >> we want to take another look at this twitter stream coming from the scene. we think around midnight local time in colorado. you can see this tweet from someone named caitlin. shots fired in the theater. shots fired in the theater. that happened. you can see the time stamp there, 12:02 a.m. mountain time. that would be 2:00 a.m. eastern now. now more than two and a half hours ago. the first indication that there was an incident at the century 16 movie theater in aurora, colorado where, again, just to repeat, we're hearing there were multiple casualties, multiple shootings at this movie theater. we are hearing reports of multiple deaths. we are working to confirm that now. our affiliate in the area says the local hospital has already received three patients in critical condition and they've been told to prepare for up to 20 more. that's according to our affiliate. obviously they're expecting, you know, a lot of pain. >> our affiliate there kusa is covering the story. let's listen in. >> personnel from all over the metro area when you think adams county, prima village police are here. you know, obviously aurora and arapahoe. there's, you know, probably as many cops as there are people that were at the theater. >> this is too fresh of a scene. we're waiting for an exact word as to how many people have been injured and how many people have been killed. you have not heard word out there, correct? >> i have not heard any word. i mean, i'm standing here with these firefighters and an ambulance, it seems like a waiting game now. they're waiting for work what to do next. >> what are those first responders like? are they like all the rest of us? it's hard to believe this happened her >> i think so. i think -- but they train for this kind of thing. it almost feels like one of those training scenes you've been to, where they are waiting. you know, a lot of guys i talked to don't know what is going on on the other side. they were just called out to the scene, so they may not know the full extent of what happened inside the theater. i just turned around and looked at the mall, it appears they're inside the mall across the street here searching. i can see officers inside the mall going slowly up the escalators. there's a couple of officers outside watching the door closely, kind of hunkered down behind an suv. this is a fresh scene. they're looking everywhere. i haven't heard out here if anyone has been caught. did they catch anyone? >> we have not heard that or if they're still searching. you can explain to me -- i'm looking at the movie theater main entrance with the neon lights. is the movie theater connected to the mall or a separate building? >> you know, i even come to this theater and i'm not sure if it's connected. i don't think it is. i think it is across the parking lot. it's in the parking lot of the mall. when i say across the street from the village, across the big parking lot. there is a road that goes through, but mostly like a mall road, not a city street. that's what separates the mall proper from that theater. so it's all kind of connected, just not connected as, yoknow, through a hallway or something like that. >> all right. nicole, thanks so much. >> you're welcome. >> we'll check in with you in a bit and hang tight with the firefighters. again, as i mentioned, we have pretty much everybody coming in. around 12:45 or so in theater nine, century 16 right there at the town center of aurora, the movie "the dark knight rises" the midnight premiere. there were noises. and people thought because of the loudness of the action film there might be something involved with the show because it was a shooting going on. there was somebody in that theater, and they were shooting and people were shot by one man. there's also reports of smoke. so we don't know if there was some kind of explosion as well. there are people, we are hearing, don't have a number, who have died. we have quite a few who were injured and taken to the swedish we know and also to denver health medical center. matt fleaner is out there and probably can fill us in with more. >> reporter: we are at gateway high school south of the century 16 theater. we are seeing multiple witnesses coming here to gateway to be debriefed by police officers. actually it is a scene that's breaking. i want to put you on with a witness, and if you want to talk to this witness. his name is hayden miller. he was inside theater 16 at the time. i'll hand the phone over to him right now. >> how is it going? >> hi, there. what was -- what theater were you in tonight? >> i was in theater 16, the 12:15 showing. >> what did you hear? >> we heard anywhere from 10 to 20 shots. like little explosions going on. shortly after that people were screaming. they came on the p.a. system and pulled the fire alarm and said everybody needed to get out. and as soon as we got out, people were running around, screamin screaming. >> okay. did you -- what were your thoughts when this was all going on? were you like is this part of the movie? what's going on? should i leave the theater or stay here?