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To civil libertieliberties?" its going to be hard to find a difference between obama and romney in a lot of ways. guantanamo, indefinite detention, warrantless wiretapping, drone strikes in particular. id like to see a pretty rous debate over that tomorrow night. >> okay. peter, thank you so much. jonathan and ed, have a great sunday. >> thanks, richard. before we go, we want to update you on the break news out of wisconsin. police say a dunman opened fire at a day spa earlier today killing th...

Describing to us? >> i do not know how long theyve been having the marital problems. you know, its -- the restraining order was filed in the court system -- or theres a hearing for the court system on the 18th. thats just a few days ago that this has been going on in the court system. it was actually filed on october 8th. the restraining order was granted on the 18th. so its pretty recent its been in the court system. >> were also getting reports about the search for some sort of improvised expl...

Uh-huh. uh-huh. well get to that. first, at least one victim of the colorado shooting was in the courtroom as the charges were read. she was actually in a wheelchair with bandages on her leg and arm. >> as for the suspect he is sporting the clownish red hair and speaking very little. abcs brandi hitt is in colorado. >> reporter: james holmes looked the same as he did last week in court, at times dazed and confused with bright orange hair. only this time, cameras were not allowed inside. as the...

Of first-degree murder when there were 24 victims. >> explain this. >> there are 12 victims. whats interesting they charged him under two theories. one either it was premeditated. or two he acted with extreme indifference to life. so both theories per victim. i got to tell you that says a lot. if as a prosecutor you can prosecute on two theories, that means to me at least insanity defense is just not going to happen. its a no-go. rarely successful anyway. if you can get past premeditation -- or ...

That includes a spike in the use of improviseed explosive device. this comes as some in congress complain the pentagon is withholding software this could protect our troops from ied attacks. mike emmanuel has that story. >> with improvised explosive devices, the single greatest threat to the u.s. military and its mission in afghanistan, technology to detect the danger has become a critical tool. research shows software has improved the successful clearing of ieds by 12% and now a member of the h...

>> and im john berman. and the economy taking the back seat for a moment to foreign policy when it comes to the presidential campaign. >> well talk about mitt romneys trip overseas and president obamas brand-new ad. plus were getting an idea of what the opening ceremony of the 2012 olympics will actually look like. but first, exclusive new details about the apartment of james holmes, the suspected colorado shooter. a law enforcement official has described to cnn video taken from in...

jim spellman. hes standing outside the theater. we can see the neon sign behind you. lets talk first about this video. i know its black and white. what more can you tell us? >> yeah, police describe this whole apartment as being designed to kill. all rigged up to a trip wire at the front door. it took them almost two days before they could figure out how to dismantle this safely, ult the matly using water to render inoperable this control box. fortunately there wasnt a timer to it beca...

Obviously, we can understand why. tell us a little about those explosive charges that we just heard. what were they likely doing inside of that apartment? >> what youre watching is a precise surgical operation designed to minimize the damage to the crime scene and to increase the safety of the officers on the scene. the small detonation devices are designed to focus energy towards another device and try to minimize the damage. its important to remember, that a lot has been said about the crime s...

>> he has all sorts of stuff inside. when you have these type of homemade bombs from covering them in the past whether it be overseas or in the middle east or here, what a lot of these bomb makers do is they have something to set it off and they have all sorts of chrapnal, bullets, things that shred and become projectiles as something is set off. from what we are told, thats the scene in this apartment. again he has balloons with powder inside. that could be gun powder. there are other items tha...

And thats how it appears. you have a ton of bottles filled with liquid interconnected with wires and trip wires all over the place. they say it seems to be a mess of stuff inside including balloons filled with some sort of powder. the idea is maybe it is gun powder set to go off if somebody was to trip something in the apartment. one of the theories is they are putting a small explosive device of their own inside and let it go off and see what happens. it will give them a starting point. thats t...