some of the bomb technicians can get out of the sun and go through the plan here. there are a number of federal agencies here, local agencies, fire trucks, ambulances, the entire area has been evacuated. five apartment buildings have been evacuated. we are by the nearest apartment that was not evacuated. everybody is trying to see what is going on down the street. we have seen a number of firefighters go in the first apartment lower right. they have gone in and out of that apartment through the window. that is not james holmes apartment, but that s how they are entering the apartment complex. they are trying to figure out where to start. that was a big issue yesterday. it continues today. you have a number of devices, and that s how it appears. you have a ton of bottles filled with liquid interconnected with wires and trip wires all over the place. they say it seems to be a mess of stuff inside including balloons filled with some sort of powder. the idea is maybe it is gun p
me and he gave me the opportunity to live, he would have done it for anyone that day. as the country and the world tries to make sense of the tragedy in colorado. good day, everyone. it is noon here in the east, 9:00 a.m. out west. i m alex witt. we are now approaching 33 hours since those tragic and still inexplicable moments in a crowded theater. imagine every seat side by side, every row front to back filled at a suburban mall in the heart of colorado. moments when actual gun fire broke the sell of fictional violence on the big screen and in that time, 33 hours, we have learned enough to frighten and sadden us for a lifetime. but practically speaking we have learned rather little. in fact, at this hour police remain mystified by booby-traps carefully arranged inside the suspect s apartment. officials say removing the trip wire may include a detonation, a blast and fire. we ll have more on that remarkable and developing situation in a moment. but back at the shooting scen
before we went to break we did get the confirmation that that door to james holmes apartment was set to kill, a quote from the police officer. set to kill whoever opened it and you spoke to the lady who almost opened the door the night of this event. and cassidy carson, we ve been successful in defeating the first threat and the traps were set to kill those entering first in the apartment. if that s in fact true they may have found that entry point to get bomb technicians inside to get potentially the bomb robots inside. and part of the issue, it s not just one or two bombs to kill whoever opened the door, there are a number of devices intertwined with wire, bottles they say the size of coke bottles filled with a liquid that looks like water and we don t know what it is, balloons with powder inside, potentially gun powder and bullets laying around and other pieces of stuff, basically, that could become schrapnel if this was to go up. so this apartment is booby trapped from f
her au, in the neck and the abdomen. and we also know the names of five other people, most recently besize little veronica, a member of the military here, petty officer third class john larimer. just 27 years old, came late last year to buckley air force base. the others, mckayla medic, 23 years old. it s been an agonizing week for her family. they waited almost 24 hours to get confirmation their daughter was killed. matt mcquinn who was trying to shield his girlfriend when he was shot. she is listed in stable condition. 27-year-old alex sullivan who was celebrating his birthday with friends going into that movie theater. and jessica ghawi who s just 24 years old and whose brother over the last day has spoken so eloquently about her and trying to keep her name out there and saying, i don t want this just to be about james holmes, i don t want this just to be about him. but we do know that he is not talking. there s no motive that is known. the associated press has been able t
before we went to break we did get the confirmation that that door to james holmes apartment was set to kill, a quote from the police officer. set to kill whoever opened it and you spoke to the lady who almost opened the door the night of this event. and cassidy carson, we ve been successful in defeating the first threat and the traps were set to kill those entering first in the apartment. if that s in fact true they may have found that entry point to get bomb technicians inside to get potentially the bomb robots inside. and part of the issue, it s not just one or two bombs to kill whoever opened the door, there are a number of devices intertwined with wire, bottles they say the size of coke bottles filled with a liquid that looks like water and we don t know what it is, balloons with powder inside, potentially gun powder and bullets laying around and other pieces of stuff, basically, that could become schrapnel if this was to go