well, and we are keeping an eye on that women s olympic soccer happening right now in london. hello, everyone, i m fredricka whitfield in for suzanne malveaux, and we are taking you around the world in 60 minutes. this is the scene in aleppo, syria, today. intense fighting between the rebel forces and government troops. the military is sending 2,000 more troops in an effort to retake the city. meanwhile, turkey announced, it is closing the border with syria, and thousands have fled across the border to escape the violence. the al qaeda-linked group known as the islamic state of iraq is claiming responsibility for the attack that killed and wounded hundreds of people this week alo alone. the group posted the claims online describing the attacks as a start of new state of jihad. monday was the deadliest day of the year. 103 people died in bombings and shootings throughout the country, and most of those targeted were shiite muslims. a spectacular view in southern japan. one of
involving the colorado theater massacre. a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation tells cnn police and the fbi have discovered a package in the university of colorado mail room that appears to have been mailed by the suspected shooter, james holmes. cnn s ed lavandera is in aurora for us. ed, what do we know about this package? reporter: well, we re still trying to gather information on what exactly is inside that package, wolf. but as you mentioned that law enforcement official telling cnn that on monday police and fbi discovered a package that was apparent apparently sent by james holmes, the 24-year-old suspected gunman. now it s unclear obviously if this package was indeed sent by him, it was clearly sent before he was taken into custody. it arrived at some point on monday at the university mail room. we ve also been told by hospital officials over the last couple of days this is something we ve been monitoring for some time that there were two packages t