was. imagine a midnight showing of batman. a few minutes after the movie began the surround sound extraordinarily loud the witnesses say inside. a exit door pushed open in front of the theater. a man walks in tossing canisters. the canisters releasing smoke. a lot of people thought it was related to the movie an act or a prank. then the shots began firing out. those in the back of theater say could see people in the front begin flooding to the exits, making it easier for the gunman to spray them with bullets, picking them off as they moved toward the door. it happened into theater 9 of a 16-theater complex. the scene was so chaotic, so many injured people outside, police squad cars were taking veck timms to the hospital. we now know that at least six victims were taken to children s hospital. the youngest, three months old has now been released. a 6-year-old we know was also shot and wounded. listen to someone who was inside the theater when it happened. play this. pretty i
apprehended james holmes in the parking lot and later searched his apartment that we just told you about. we have reaction pouring in from around the country right now. we just heard from the president. the president says the tragedy reminds us how we are united as an american family. the next hour we expect to hear from governor mitt romney in new hampshire. he is quick to speak on this. just a few moments from now, we are going to speak to an eyewitness. that is coming out. first, trace gallagher has breaking details for us. reporter: when 24-year-old james holmes was arrested, he told authorities there were explosives inside his apartment. at first they thought they were not. i want to go back to the first shot. that is a brewing situation, because the authorities are telling us that it is, in fact, booby-trapped. they are just not sure how. they don t know if it s gas bombs or wired. you can see the fire department right now. they have evacuated the rest of the building a
booby-trapped at this time. they are right now trying to work to disarm some flammable or explosive material that is inside that apartment. there is a live look for you right now as they continue to work to do this. police say the gunman wore a bulletproof vest. also a gas mask as he detonated gas canisters and opened fire on a crowded theater early this morning in colorado. cell phone video shows the chaos is terrified moviegoers come out of the movie plots. here now, are the sites and sounds of this nightmare. there are explosions behind me and i thought it was just a normal practical joke. there are people shot right now. there are people running out of fear that her shot. guys come running in, running through the theaters and the exit and he is like, don t go out in the lobby. someone is shooting people out there. one of my friends got scammed by a bullet on the neck. he is okay. he was at the hospital. another one of my friends just got a bullet slammed him in hi
martha maccallum today jaime: the suspect is in custody. police identify him as james holmes. witness reports say he entered the theater wear aghast mask, set off tear goose and opened fire. the look at chilling video taken by someone inside the theater as people are seen running for their lives. leave from here. leave from here. [shouting]. [inaudible conversations] somebody has been shot. who got shot? there is blood out there. jaime: blood right there, heard on this video. just some of the horror that we ve seen, those of us covering this through the night. we re getting reports from some of the people inside that they played dead as the bullets were flying. just moments ago, police breaking through the window of the suspect s apartment building, very, very carefully, using a crane to break through the glass, afraid to go through the front door no doesn t after the gunman allegedly warned police there were explosives inside. gregg: here is a timeline how all of thi
leads anybody to terrorize their fellow human beings like this cht . it is now just 14 hours from when all eyes shifted to the tragedy in aurora, colorado. one of the deadliest mass shootings in u.s. history. the details remain influx, but here s the latest this hour. 71 shot. 12 died. the rest were injured. now, the tragic shooting in colorado has stunned the nation an the political world today. it happened just after the start of a midnight premier of the new bat man movie, the dark knight rises. a heavily armed gunman bursting into the theatre through an exit door and here s how witnesses describe what happened next. he threw one gas like, one tear gas thing. landed in the road. hit the girl right in front of us. then it exploded. then he threw another one. i think that went to the right of us. and did you see him starting to shoot people at that point? he waited, he looked like, he looked so calm when he did it. it was scary. he waited for the bombs both to