the screens and terror inside the midnight premier of the latest batman film warrant the reaction to the reaction happening on scale, the hail of bullets fired by the rampaging gunman. gunman. reporter: he tossed a smoke grenade and started firing at the crowd. all i could think is if i stand up he is going to shoot. that s what he was doing. i was trying to think how i was going to get my kids out of there. reporter: movie goers were confused and thought the fire was coming to the action packed movie. i see a guy next, a gentlemen sitting next to me getting shot. i realize this is not like part of the movie. there is a gunman, he is shooting everyone. reporter: he was wearing a gas mask and bullet proof vest. the casings were on my forehead and burning. reporter: the suspect, james holmes, 24, was arrested as he left the theater. he was apprehendd with three weapons in the car. reporter: according to a police officials, holmes said he was the joker, a sup
his hair was dyed orange or red and said i am a joker. he started shooting at people who like he, had purchased tickets to one of the summer s most anticipated films. i never saw dead bodies, bodies period covered in blood. reporter: among the 71 people shot, the youngest receiving medical treatment was a 3-month-old baby, among the 12 people killed the youngest was 12 years old. one of the dead was jessica, an aspiring sports caster who unbelievably survived another shooting last month at a mall in toronto. she wrote in her blog, every second of every day is a gift. in san diego, where holmes grew up, his stunned parents asked for privacy and said their hearts go out to the victims. neighbors remember james as a cute kid. i refer to him as jimmy even though i know he changed his names to james when he grew up. reporter: the seemingly happy high school soccer player, held as the only suspect in one of the deadliest massacres in american history. he was a member of t
caught. how surveillance video led investigators straight to an ex-girlfriend. don t take it out on the dog. a flood of rain at rush hour leave new yorkers swimming for the subway. the story to make you feel better about your own commute. imagine seeing this in your neighborhood. it s a cattle stampede! find out what drove them down a street in suburbia. and a speed demon goes for the record on what looks like a gurney. how fast he went on this thing will blow your mind. next time go head first. it s time to get our show started. nick has our first video of the day. got this story from koat. this is security video from a guy s house pointing toward the driveway area. you see a woman believed to be vicky black. it s believed she threw to the dog baa lowny stuffed with rat poison. oh, no. what? apparently the man that lived at this house broke up with this woman, vicky black, and in an alleged attempt to get back at him, she tried to poison his b
that broke but deeing up a 10-inch main that s almost just as old. what they ve been doing today is prepping everything. they ve been going and installing a temporary water line that s above ground. you see this pipe going down president street on the west side. that s to get water to the businesses and the buildings on the west side of the stleet haven t had water all day. there s a royal farm there is, a restaurant there. there s a 7/11. they ve been closed all day. they managed to get water back into the bank of america building. part of the issue is when they open up the street they gift other utility as chance to get in and do some work. there s bge crews out their utilities seeing if they need to do work. ltz, the big issue for the next three weeks is traffic. traffic all over this city down from lombard to baltimore street. everything is being directed around this intersection where the break occurred. there will be a lot of delays not only for motorists buts will the
shooting. he was around a pool table and watching them play pool and seemed a little weird and different and strange or something. didn t seem normal but he didn t cause problems. reporter: since he was knew, workers held onto the credit card so they could run a tab and the police used it to track him down hours later. the phone number was identified, troopers were able to talk with the suspect. he was convinced to give himself up. he gave himself up after 7:00 this morning. abc2 news, abc2 news. garrett had returned to carroll county after spending time in seattle and investigators are said to be looking in to the possibility he may have encountered the alleged shooter in washington state. look at this, a 3 alarm fire has kept firefighters busy most of the day after flames and smoke gutted this apartment building. we have learned that the fire caused more than a billion dollars in damages , the fire started in fair land on castle boulevard. it left 70 people withou