fbi and the joint terrorism task force are running down any possibility could be a nexus to terrorism even though it does not appear any at all right now. i think the unanswered questions, there is no way they could have answered them by today or now, what was the motive for this gunman and where did he get such a large amount of wreps weapons and explosives in the apt and whether or not, we ll find out whether or not there are any indicators in the previous days and weeks, any other incidents at school, anything that, you know, why did he drop out of school? were there any incidents involving his mental stability the all of that has to be brought in here. on balance as a layman but chairman of the homeland security committee i was extremely impressed by chief oates the grasp of dei will at that and amount of detail he gave out without giving away anything that could jeopardize the case. alisyn: congressman king, we learned 30 minutes from now
and i hope that as a consequence of today s events, as you leave here, you spend a little time thinking about the incredible blessings that god has given us. jeremy jojola of our affiliate kusa joins us from the scene of the suspect s apartment. we have been hearing reports that the apartment is apparently rigged elaborately with explosive devices. can you give us more information on that? reporter: the police department is not going into specific detail on exactly how this apartment is boobytrapped. those are the words they are using. chief oates with the aurora police department says it is quite sophisticated, the way this apartment is rigged with some sort of either explosive or incendiary device. they have told us they have taken numerous photos inside the apartment from the outside, obviously, and at this point, i think it s safe to assume that
together how this unfolded. i want to bring in ed lavandara who is in the parking lot and talking to a lot of people who were in the room and saw the gunman, and who heard the explosions, and what have you learned? well, suzanne, we are right now waiting to give you an update, and we are waiting on a briefing from the law enforcement officials here in aurora, colorado, and we are several hundred yards away from the movie theater, and we anticipate it will happen here shortly. we were talking earlier with one of the witnesses, this gentleman here, chris raw moes wmos, who inside of the movie theater and we were cut short, but chris account of what transpired last night is so poignant and we wanted to bring him back, because we were cut short. for viewers who were not watching a little while ago, you are in the middle of the theater basically and with your sister. and two best friends, yes. and we are a short ways into the movie and what do you see? on the front right
life is very fragile indeed to quote the president. welcome back to our breaking news here. we have a lot more new details emerging here with regard to that mass shooting. that absolute tragedy that unfolded inside the movie theater in aurora, colorado. a gunman opened fire during a packed midnight screening of the batman movie, the dark knight rises. new numbers as far as injures. 12 dead. 59 wounded and the scene, as you can see, absolute chaos as the gunman entered the theater through an exit door not long after the movie started. tossed two devices to distract the crowd and then opened fire. we learned just this past hour how heavily armed he was. there is pretty significant evidence that he used the ar-15 in the theater. the shotgun within the theater and a .40 caliber glock. the magnitude of the horror unfolded as police rushed to the scene. we got another person outside shot in the leg, female. i got people running out of the theater. get us gas masks for the
overnight at the showing of the dark knight rises that happened in aurora, colorado. a suburb of denver. dozens of police and firefighters are on the scene right now. our affiliate is following the story, everyone following the story now. we have reports of multiple deaths. we are working to confirm that. we know it was a multiple shooting of the dark knight rises. aurora, colorado is about nine miles east of denver. local hospitals reporting patients are on the scene. they have been told to prepare for as many as 20. we were listening in just now as they were talking to some local folk there s who witnessed this horrific scene inside. they said they were hearing noises, but the dark knight is one of those movies where there is a lot of shooting, so they weren t sure if it was the movie. there were reports of smoke, perhaps an explosion and one witness was just telling us that he did see some people hunched over apparently who had been shot. we are trying to get as many