from a navy notification team. alex sullivan s friends called him a gentle giant. the young husband loved to cook. he was celebrating his 27th birthday at the theater where he also worked. he would have celebrated his first wedding anniversary tomorrow. also in the audience, jessica ghawi, the aspiring sports reporter narrowly escaped a mall shooting in canada just last month. now the country is grieving the loss of their lives and the deaths of seven others whose dreams were cut short. somebody shooting in the auditorium. 315 and 314, there is at least one person that s been shot, but they re saying there s hundreds of people just running around. as soon as we heard the first shots, my sister immediately grabbed my arm and wanted to leave as quick as possible. it was terrifying. i just remember thinking, i m not going to die in here. me and my kids, we are not going to die in here, i need to get them out. everyone was kind of in an ethereal state, just puzzled, won
al asad s brother-in-law, his defense minister and security adviser. that kind of blow is this? it not only speaks to those individuals. we should cry no tears for their departure. assad now has to look around 360 degrees and try to determine where his weak points are. he s probably going to see that it is very, very weak in a number of places. so my suggestion is, and it s not based on any intelligence right now. but if you re looking if past is prologue, we can see assad to get out of the country. probably looking for some way to depart. maybe russia is facilitating that maybe through proxies so assad and his family can disappear. then what you ll really see on the ground in damascus is complete chaos in terms of revenge killings. old and new animosities coming out, opposition forces that are galvanized for the departure of assad but have not come together in terms of what they want syria to look like coming forward. so it will be an incredibly chaotic scene as assad
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
some questions. this just a second i want to reemphasize what the chief said yesterday. this case will be tried inside a court. okay? so i have to be very careful with my responses. i do not want to jeopardize a future prosecution. [ question inaudible ] so again i m not going to elaborate on this. we have done some field tests but we are sending that evidence back to the fbi lab at quantico. they will make the definitive conclusion as to what those substances are. can you talk about your personal experience with this? i m sorry. say again sir? [ question inaudible ] a very good question. it was an extremely dangerous environment. if a neighbor or an unassuming pedestrian would have walked in that door, or god forbid a first responder, they would have sustained significant injuries and/or lost their life. agent, will you speak of preserving that crime scene and the delicate process of making sure that you didn t disrupt things you would want to look at down the
newsroom. let s get you up to speed now on what s happening here in aurora. a community still in deep shock today. the mayor of aurora talked to reporters a few minutes ago. he s been meeting with victims of yesterday s horrific movie theater shooting. this is the mayor. one of the people i met with this morning at the hospital was somebody who was hit with buckshot in his back, broken rib, punctured lung, broken coar bone. came out his back at the base of his neck. he is doing well right now, believe it or not. that s because he got to the hospital and because the doctors and nurses at the hospital do the best job that they can do. now about the apartment where the suspect, james holmes, lived. police say it was definitely booby trapped, rigged with trip wires and some sort of explosive devices. there is still no all clear from the apartment. ed lavendara is there live for us. i ll talk with him in a minute. 12 people died almost 6 o others injured when the masked man sp