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Myself that its really hard to make the detonators work and electronics. you need practice. if you do this stuff on your own, yes. if you do this as a job, work with your hands, yes, but i dont think neither of these two men did. but on the other hand, theres no explosives expert will tell you need hands-on practice for a very long time, especially when youre making these things go off under pressure like a gun fight, or youre placing bombs. you just cant count on people -- >> youve actually mad...

Went down to huntsville, alabama. the atf put me through a course and let me observe it and there were explosives experts from afghanistan and iraq, american soldiers that came and knew their explosives, but in order to learn the homemade devices they had to go in to a course that was several weeks long. they just had to. they were creating their own detonators, but its not something they could read from a manual and actually make these things go off. they had to sit through the instruction. the...

Prepoled at that you start to understand why these injuries were so grave. a lot of the wide net for this investigation, were going to go to cnns barbara starr. shes live at the pentagon keeping track of which way the investigation goes on the forensic level. barbara, thank you for joining us. whats the latest? >> well, chris, john, what we know is youre making a war zone analogy. it is very apt in this case. u.s. military sent the navy explosive ordnance team to help with detonation and looking...

Theres significant amount of just stuff inside this apartment and the idea is to defuse the situation and try to secure as much of that as possible for evidence so its a delicate organization as you mentioned, jon and continues to go on. and we will tcontinue to keep you updated. >> jon: so far so good in the attempt to defuse the situation. and the suspect left a myriad of devices that authorities found baffling, but so far put some of the best bomb minds on it. the task force of explosives exp...

al asads brother-in-law, his defense minister and security adviser. that kind of blow is this? >> it not only speaks to those individuals. we should cry no tears for their departure. assad now has to look around "360" degrees and try to determine where his weak points are. hes probably going to see that it is very, very weak in a number of places. so my suggestion is, and its not based on any intelligence right now. but if youre looking -- if past is prologue, we can see assad to get o...

i tell mike what i can spend. i do my best to make that work. were driving safely. and sue saved money on brakes. now thats personal pricing. good morning, everyone. im gary tuchman in for randi caye. its 5:00 in the aurora, colorado. for those of you just joining us, i would like to quickly get you up to speed. were learning more about the victims in the shooting. this is one of the victims, 23-year-old micayla medek. and alex sullivan. this is miss he facebook page. just moments ag...

he lived alone, kept to himself. but james holmes was also a one-time ph.d. canned tate and an honor student. more on the man now in custody. plus -- >> i personally have never seen anything like whathe pictures show us is in there. >> trip wires, gas canisters, booby-traps. an apartment so dangerous law enforcement still cant get inside. well take you live to the suspects building. its saturday, july 21st. good morning, everyone. im gary tuchman. a little over 24 hours ago the nation ...

trapped to kill. plus, stories of heroism among the gunfire, and chilling tales of survival. >> i was just thinking, weve got to get out. >> just a few millimeters in or sent meters in, and i dont think i would have left the theater. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." right now, explosives experts in aurora, colorado, are putting themselves in harms way. they are trying to make sure the apartment...

should be able to get married. >> truly historic and potentially watershed moment as president obama comes out, formally, publicly, enthusiastically in support of gay marriage and with the election less than six months away the political implications are enormous. well look at all of the potential fallout. reactions from both sides of this issue pouring in right now into "the situation room." we will hear what influential groups and individuals are saying about the presidents new posit...

. they stand accused of plotting the dets of nearly 3,000 americans. khalid sheikh mohammed and four other suspects facing arraignment today in guantanamo bay. chris lawrence is there for us. it seems like these men are doing everything they can just to drag all of this out further. >> reporter: yeah, don. and the arraignment was just about over and there was another outburst in the courtroom, just literally a few minutes ago. we were watching the court proceedings. everything seemed...