after columbine and they said, look, that s protected flow speech under the first amendment and, also, the acts of independent third parties of nonemployees of companies rarely are found to be tort-related. so the case against warner will fail. the case against the doctors could have some teeth because of the fact that the doctors have a duty to monitor prescriptions now adays. colorado they recognize the prescription monitoring. if it is found the doctor was not monitoring this guy there could be a suit against him but you are looking a possibly $1 million policy. neil: kelly, here is m problem with this argument. doctors, yes, it is possible. but no doctor assumes that screwing up the medication for a patient will lead he or she to go on a campaign as is the case here. i do see the whole thing of warner bros. to be pointless because a lot of people see movies like this and do not go on a shooting spree.
or not there is a case with that. and 15 minutes for a door to be propped open, no, worst case scenario will a kid sneak in? neil: we don t know whether it was propped open that long or how itas propped open. but ladies, i thank you both. and now to mike tobin in colorado and latest on the investigation right now. mike? reporter: background checks for people looking to buy guns in colorado are now up over 40 percent. the denver post reported instructor whose give less sons you need before you get a concealed carry permit have renewed interest. we set a camera by a local gun store and the owner said handguns and ak-47 s are hopping off the shelf. the customers are citing two motivation: one is personal protection. the other is a desire to buy guns before new restrictions go if place spawned by this massacre.
back the rhetoric ever so briefly following the tragedy in colorado. the republic presidential candidate held a small business round table at a fund raisener california and governor romney told business owners what he plans to do for them should he win the election. here listen. my priority is jobs. and i know that to get jobs, i have to encourage entrepreneurs and innovators to start businesses, grow businesses. keep more of their capital so they can invest in businesses, doing those things will create more jobs. shepard: governor went on to claim that president obama s only plan to fix the economy is to raise taxes. as for what the president had to say today. mike emanuel is following him in reno, nevada. mike, today the president had a chance to tout his record as commander and chief to a pretty important group of veterans. shep, that s right. the veterans of foreign wars or vfw convention here in reno. president obama took some swipes at mitt romney. didn t mention him by nam
was up and walking again. appeared outside the colorado courthouse today hoping to catch a glimpse of the suspect. i want to do go to the courthouse and sees a much as i can if i can get in, if i can just see this guy for how much hurt he has done to this whole state, this whole nation i don t think he is hurting yet and i think he needs to. shepard: you can see she made it inside. the teen is set to undergo surgery. for now, part of that bullet is still lodged in her chin. trace gallagher live with more. trace, a lot of kids in that theater but a will the of pregnant moms, too. yeah, shep. a lot of heros went to great lengths to save them. brooks was sitting next to a mom and her two kids when the shooting happened. he got on top of the kids and the mom and started pushing them toward the exit and then he got shot in the leg. and he said he had two choices. he could either fall down or keep pushing. and he chose the latter. listen.
detector tests. the latest test went well. investigators aren t talking about any of this. they have classified the case now as an abduction. 8-year-old elizabeth collins and her cousin, 10-year-old lyric cook morsi, disappeared more than a week ago. their bikes turned up near a lake near iowa. fbi spokesman said over the weekend investigators believe the girls are alive. today the chief deputy said only we certainly would like to think that. lyric s parents apparently quit cooperating with investigators all together late last week. but today the mother said she agreed to another polygraph test. she and her estranged husband have both served prison time on drug charges. officials have not named any suspects in this case. we re learning more about the victims of the movie theater massacre in colorado. and we re hearing remarkable tales of survival amid the slaughter. that s ahead along with greta van susteren s eyewitness account inside the courtroom today.