yet these families inspire us by the strength they draw, not something from within themselves and some other family members to get through these difficult moments. gregg: you have been listening to a live news conference the scene of the worst shooting in american history. modern day with so many victims. a great many survivors but some of them still in critical condition. you heard from the f.b.i. an official who said the threat has not been completely eliminated from inside the suspect s apartment there are still apparently incendiary and explosive devices there. they need to be terribly careful. it was an extremely dangerous situation, he said. if anybody had opened doot door and stepped inside they would likely have lost their lives if not had been horribly injured. what we also learn from dan oates who is the chief of police there was a high volume of
just a second. i want to what the chief said yesterday, this case will be tried inside a court. i have to be very careful with my responses. i do not wanted to jeopardize a future prosecution. sir, you said the items inside was accelerants and how are you sure they are what you say they are? again, i m not going elaborate on this. we have done field tests but we are sending the evidence back to quantico. they will make a definitive conclusion as to what those are. what would happen if a neighbor opened that door instead of you guys? that is very good question. it was an extremely dangerous environment. if a neighbor, assuming a pedestrian would have walked in that door or first responder
might not have been with us right now. i talked to her about it a couple of hours ago. you put your hand on the door and tried the knob? i did. i did put my hand on the door and try the knob. it did seem like it was unlocked. but something told me it probably wasn t a good idea for me to go in there. so i just went back downstairs and called the nonemergency police number. did you think about opening it a crack? i definitely did think about opening it just to yell in there, peek my head in and say hey, knock off. but like i said, something told me not to. and subsequently you found out that that door had been wired, trip wired with a booby trap? yes. that s terrifying, but i m also very grateful that i have that instinct. she s about to celebrate her birthday and says this one will be truly significant. also with us now, shale jackson, who is 18 years old. he was in the front row of theater 9 that night.
the weapons, to get the ammunition. he planned how he was going to do it, when he was going to do it, why he was going to do it. there is a couple of things that are in common here, heather, that i think about. in the movie theater, he initially set off some sort of a smoke device. that s kind of a herding mechanism where by people see that smoke, they go away from it. so it makes him it let s him have the advantage of herding people into his kill zone. so he drove them into his line of fire. the second thing i look at is we ve heard the music started playing very, very loudly in his apartment, which was unusual for him in and that young lady went up, luckily didn t open the door. but that s also a herding mechanism. he herd somebody somebody toward that apartment to open the door and kill more people that way. what is strange, though, is that subsequent to the shooting in his capture outside the theater, he tells police immediately the
like it was unlocked. i put my hand on the door handle and peering my head in there. something stopped me from doing that, a thought or intuition. heather: kaitlin how do you feel today watching what is going on in that apartment knowing that he had it booby-trapped. if you had opened that door, what could have possibly happened next? i guess after seeing some of the reports the police say it was intended to kill someone. that is incredibly scary but it makes me incredibly thankful for that instinct. heather: did you ever have occasion to run into james holmes, did you ever meet him or pass him in the hallway? i didn t even know he it was in building. i saw him in the area. he looked like a student like anybody else. heather: after the shooting occurred at the movie theater,