macro data just to make sure and as you point out to the families to reassure that we re looking in the right area and that we can actually rule out this rhetoric in the north going to pakistan and so on. and michael, i think sometimes, a pair of fresh is you notice things that you don t know this before especially since the first were under so much pressure. go ahead, rob. that s particularly true for underwater data. when you receive sonar data, it comes as a waterfall display to the untrained eye. it looks like a black and white tv that s fizzing away. and you need somebody to go over that again because the analyst that s looking at it first is looking at it in ray hurry. you want to make sure somebody else takes a look at it in a more relaxed setting to make sure nothing is being missed. then you can rule that area out
they originally received 18 patients and released 11. of the 7 that remain he says that. so patients are going to have to come to term withs with the fact that they have life long injuries. we heard from brandon axel rod he and his wife of less than a month were here at the movies with their best friend josh. take a listen. it was right after the opening action scene. it was quiet and the canister of whatever going across the theater and then the fizzing of it and then the shooting. the gun going off. josh helped me protect my wife and he got shot. and governor, the trauma surgeon, dr. bob snyder also said that now that the adrenaline is gone reality is is starting to set in with some of these patients.
wedding anniversary on sunday. but for the living, victims continue to recover in multiple hospitals around the area. 11 remain in critical condition, we re told, as families and friends continue to deal with tragedy. a hospital spokesperson at the medical center of aurora says they are still assisting seven patients down from 18. three on the trauma floor and four in the intensive care unit. one of the shooting victims is recounting the incident. it was right after the opening action scene. it was quiet and the canister of whatever going across the theater, and then the fizzing of it, and then the shooting. the gun going off. josh helped me protect my wife
suspect s apartment now, just moments ago, a controlled detonation of sorts. you heard the boom there. all we understand is that police actually yelled fire in the hole three times after placing some sort of wiring through the window by way of bomb experts that were in a bucket that were lifted to that third floor level. they placed some sort of wiring in there and we understand from our security analysts who we spoke to last hour who was explained to us that a device would then be shot into the window when they felt like we had a good point of view. so you heard the boom there. still unclear from the police department whether this was mission accomplished. we don t know if they actually hit their target. we hope to hear more details and we are hearing from former assistant director of the fbi tom fuentes. you ve had familiarity with scenes like this involving the detonation of bombs, explosive, et cetera and you just told us in the last 15 minutes how remarkable, you thoug
that loud pop you re hearing there, this is the bomb squad carrying out a controlled detonation at the apartment complex where the suspect lived this as they slowly work to enter the booby trapped apartment of the suspect james holmes and a police spokesman made this announcement. it s been successful in disabling a second triggering device. although not certain, we are hopeful that we have eliminated the remaining major threat. however, we will not know this until we enter the apartment. we ll bring in ed eleven dara just outside that complex. now all the teams that they have here at the apartment complex which is that red brick building, now those teams that are on the ground because of that detonation, they used a water shot, which is like a water bottle that detonated and that allowed them to kind of get control of all the trip wires and various jars and things they were seeing believed had explosive materials that could detonate and cause serious injury if not kill