what if malia and sasha had been in the theater. as so many of our kids do every day. michelle and i will be fortunate enough to hug our girls a little tighter. i m sure you ll do the same with your children. for those parents who may not be so lucky, we have to embrace them. ann and i join the president and first lady and all americans nof in offering our deepest condolences for those whose lives were shattered in a few moments. a few moments of evil in colorado. federal and local officials do not know how long it s going to take to get inside that boobytrapped apartment of james holmes. we have the latest from aurora police. they will hold a press conference due to begin in about 30 minutes from now. in the meantime, let s go to jeremy jojola from kusa, who has
according to the denver post the man is 24 years old, the suspect in custody. the incident happened local time at a mall in aurora about ten miles east of the city. kusa our nbc station in denver reports dozens of people have been transported to a nearby hospital. reports say the shooting happened during a late showing of the new batman movie the dark knight rises. according to witnesses there, the shooter wearing all black kicked in the emergency exit door in theater nine, walked to the front of the theater, stood in front of the screen, threw some kind of smoke-producing bomb and began shooting at random. witnesses say he was wearing a gas mask. police say he was carrying a rifle, a knife and a gun. his apartment now is being evacuated and searched by police for explosive devices based on information the suspect gave when he was arrested. police say the man was arrested without incident. he did not resist. he did not put up a fight. in fact, the police chief in aurora, dan oates, c
from denver, colorado. and there are 36 people injured, we are told now, according to police. this just a horrific scene there in aurora, colorado, as people who were just going to a movie screening were told by witnesses that there were children there. this was a pg-13 movie. children there with their families and a gunman stormed the theater and just opened fire. 14 people dead. it is unclear at this time if there were any additional shooters. police continue to gather information there on the scene and we do here as well at msnbc. kusa is our affiliate there that you re looking at live coverage of. we were listening to some of the reporters there giving the eyewitness accounts of what was happening. dozens of police officers, dozens of witnesses streaming
that s how right now we re getting most of our information, our eyewitnesses there on the scene, saying that there were reports at the movie theater right next door that was watching a completely different movie, actually thought that these were just special effects coming from the movie itself. they say it sounded like fireworks. you often hear that when people are witnesses to shootings, that it sounded like fireworks, and then gunshots and gunfire erupted through the walls into the next theater. you can only imagine, when you hear 10 dead, 38 people injured, just how large and long this may have gone on. what we re going to do is listen in now to our affiliate kusa there in denver, colorado, for more on this. let s listen. witness accounts, kyle, this morning, what we re hearing is that there was one shoot yeg involved in this, but you know, again, we get into this dialogue about domestic terrorism,
theater there in aurora. richard, you listen to our reporter from kusa, jace larson, paint a picture, and we all see it. people dress up for first night of this highly anticipated movie, the dark knight rises. they wear costumes, they just do. so i guess it doesn t raise eyebrows until he starts shooting. they say it was a masked gunman, perhaps in a gas mask, who opened fire. and you know, these situations, we understand that this particular release, the final release of the batman series, being shown in imax theaters, per naps 3d and others, so those sorts of experiences aren t necessarily immediately what you might think of, because you are used to such real-like environments when we watch such movies. we re starting to hear from witnesses, one witness saying he saw a guy slowly making his way up the stairs and firing, picking off random people inside that movie theater 9, that century 16 movie theater in aurora town center.