welcome back, everyone, to aurora, colorado. i m randi kaye. let me get you caught up now on the latest details from here in aurora. we are learning more about the victims this morning. a few names have trickled out in the last few minutes, in fact. but coming up at 10:00 a.m., we expect police to release the full list of victims in this shooting. here at the theater, people have gathered to remember those. there was a vigil last night. much of their makeshift memorial is still here. officials have also set up a grief counseling for folks here for anyone who needs help, who just nds to talk about what happened in their community. we also have a new image to show you this morning. take a look at this with me. it comes from the adult sex website, adultfriendfinder. police believe that this is james holmes, the suspect in the shooting. but investigators haven t been able to confirm that yet. sources did say that holmes had died his hair red before the attack. police and federal
instead of this apartment. now what happens is the collection of evidence. authorities here want to go through his belongings and his computers and that sort of thing trying to find any kind of evidence that would help him explain how he prepared and what led to this massacre in aurora, colorado, so all of that work continues. we re seeing the local firefighters that were here starting to clean up the hoses that were brought in as a precaution, but all of the investigators and bomb technicians are still here. they say there still is several more hours of work to do inside that apartment and the material that they want to get out. they also want to begin assessing just exactly what james holmes put in there. they weren t exactly sure what kind of materials he had been using and they want to use a robot with cameras and now they can really get a sense of what they were up against. this could have been an incredibly tragic and more deadly situation with someone unsuspecting just
times. too often after a shooting like this the killer s name becomes well known and months, years later the killer s name is recalled but the victims names are not. i think that s wrong. i want to focus on the hour ahead in the 70 people shot or wounded last night. including the 12 of whom have died. now, we don t know many of the names of the dead, but police now do. just before air time they announced that they expect the notifications to begin tonight. it is a brutal job after a brutal 24 hours. our cops went through a lot. as i told you this morning, they rushed people out of that theater, into police cars. i ve heard some compelling stories. one of the things we are working on is how we re going to deal with our own trauma. an emotional police chief dan oates with another rough night ahead of him. we do not want to speculate on victim s identities of course, the last thing we want is for someone s namly to hear that kind of speculation. do know one who s life was c
trapped to kill. plus, stories of heroism among the gunfire, and chilling tales of survival. i was just thinking, we ve got to get out. just a few millimeters in or sent meters in, and i don t think i would have left the theater. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. right now, explosives experts in aurora, colorado, are putting themselves in harm s way. they are trying to make sure the apartment left booby trapped by the suspect in the colorado shootings is finally saved. a few hours ago, we watched as crews carefully placeded a robot in the apartment and then waited for it to set off an explosion to take out the triggering devices for the many bombs and accelerants left inside. the suspect, 24-year-old james holmes, will be spending tonight in a county jail in suburban denver. he s scheduled to appear in court monday morning. a couple of hours ago, police disclosed holmes received
times. too often after a shooting like this the killer s name becomes well known and months, years later the killer s name is recalled but the victims names are not. i think that s wrong. i want to focus on the hour ahead in the 70 people shot or wounded last night. including the 12 of whom have died. now, we don t know many of the names of the dead, but police now do. just before air time they announced that they expect the notifications to begin tonight. it is a brutal job after a brutal 24 hours. our cops went through a lot. as i told you this morning, they rushed people out of that theater, into police cars. i ve heard some compelling stories. one of the things we are working on is how we re going to deal with our own trauma. an emotional police chief dan oates with another rough night ahead of him. we do not want to speculate on victim s identities of course, the last thing we want is for someone s namly to hear that kind of speculation. we do know one who s life wa