air quickly, you can be perfectly fine. it really depends on how much you breathe in. listen to the press conferences. it seems like they are more dealing with the results of the explosion, not so much the results of the gas inhalation. the debris and the material that exploded. that s right. causing serious physical harm to a lot of people. but not necessarily the gas. not over with by any means. no, it isn t. we don t know how much this gas has dissipated. so the explosion itself, burns some of it up, which is a good thing. and wind can take it away, and certain temperature situations can make it dissipate. we don t know how long the gas hung out for. people were exposed to high concentrations. it can be instantly dangerous. even if not instantly dangerous, it can cause lung irritation, ear, nose, throat, eye irritation. what is the treatment? how do you deal with that?
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