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Foolish copycats out there. we know that mr. holmes is apparently a highly intelligent individual burr where does one get all of this information to be able to booby trap and rig this apartment the way he has. pardon me, according to some reports from our mike tobin out there on the ground that this guy holmes spent two months planning to massacre. >> sure as a medical ph.d. student he has a vast understanding of chemistry. combine that with publications on the internet, such as the anarchists c...

Who are on the scene right now at that apartment, what are they facing? >> well, what you have is -- heres an individual who obviously did a lot of preop rational surveillance, preplanning, massing of weapons, showing a tactical expertise of coming in and throwing a canister of gas to further develop the panic, then develop his targets. and now he has taken the other steps to try to booby trap his apartment. again, heres a guy who has a sophisticated level of understanding about firearms, explos...

The situation here, but certainly it appears that theres more than one fusing mechanism, perhaps more than one booby trap, so every time they analyze a particular device, they decide that they can get a tool to shoot at that fusing mechanism in place, they do that. then they have to go back and look at what else has been disrupted in that immediate area? and maybe they can see other fusing mechanisms, maybe they can see other explosives more clearly and identify them better. its just a very pain...

Mass homicide. he may have been practicing with these weapons. he may have been posting on the internet and using an alias or anonymous identity. he may have been communicating with other people. kind of telling them what he intended to do. i think we will see warning signs. when they are identified people will look at that and, oh, my gosh, i saw that but i didnt realize it was a warning sign. i didnt realize that could have been indicative when all the warning signs are put together of someone...

Robot that was driven by one of the adams county bomb techs. and we -- once we got rid of that first booby trap, which was really a wire across the front door, we then had to neutralize a hyperbolic mixture and some fuel. once that was disrupted, the technicians did just a marvelous job. they went to the next ied filled with an unknown substance and they had to attack a triggering mechanism and they did that very, very skillfully. we then saw multiple containers with excelerants. i want to re-em...

Perpetrating it. somebody again with a certain level of tremendous sophistication. if hes able to set up this kind of complex booby trap inside his apartment, and also it would seem to make common sense that you get people who are essentially sitting ducks. theyre in a movie theater. he knew on opening night of this big movie that it was going to be sold out and he could just randomly open fire and essentially impose maximum damage, right? >> this is the thing that we have always sat back and wo...

Disarm this highly sophisticated booby trap apartment there. >> again, i think the highest threat comes from the multiple layers that one can expect from this type of a booby trapped apartment and as well as any unknown chemicals that might be or shrapnel that may be attached to devices, again, the explosions not just the threat, its what may be sparked during the the explosion. >> indeed. captain peter moreno, thank you very much for sharing your insight and im sure well have you on stand by fo...

the victims. heartbreaking stories from their families are hitting home with all of us. well share some of those stories throughout the morning. lets get right to our poppy harleararlo harlow, though. she is at holmes apartment, at that apartment complex for us this morning. poppy, what is the activity taking place there this hour? >> reporter: good morning, randi. its really picking up. what you see behind me, if you can make out those busted windows on the third floor of that complex...

from a navy notification team. alex sullivans 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....

that loud pop youre hearing there, this is the bomb squad carrying out a controlled detonation at the apartment complex where the suspect lived this as they slowly work to enter the booby trapped apartment of the suspect james holmes and a police spokesman made this announcement. >> its been successful in disabling a second triggering device. although not certain, we are hopeful that we have eliminated the remaining major threat. however, we will not know this until we enter the apartm...