we re getting new pictures and details as we speak including more from the survivors and heartbreaking stories about the victims. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we re going live to the scene of the shooting in just a moment. but first a quick rundown of what happened on this horrible day. the shooting started after midnight about 12:38 a.m. in theater 9 of the century aurora 16 multiplex. aurora s a suburb of denver. about 15 minutes into the midnight showing of the new batman movie the dark knight rise rises, a lone gunman came in near the screen. when he came in, i thought he was some kind of prop or thee tri kal guy. he let off a canister of gas and it exploded. everybody thought it was a prop, but then he shot up in the air and everybody started to panic at that point. when he went straight from the air, he came down with his gun in my face. he was about three feet away from me at that point. in that instant i honestly didn t know what to do. i was
here in abbottabad, pakistan. they entered the compound and were fired upon. they had to breach several walls and doors to get to where osama bin laden was. at no point during the course of this operation did osama bin laden indicate that he was prepared to surrender. this is an organization known obviously for suicide bombing, ieds, booby trapping buildings and our forces, no signal from him that he was prepared to surrender, acted completely appropriately, and i don t think anybody is going to second guess their judgment. well, i mean, i must say i think certainly in this country you re right, but i m sure you ve seen the website that in other countries, for those who might be sympathetic with what they believed bin laden to be, that the fact that he was unarmed and which i m going to assume that your non-answer is that he was unarmed in the sense that he wasn t holding a weapon, and obviously he could have had