colorado, this morning after a mass shooting at a batman movie premiere. so far, 12 dead. and 38 injured. as a community searching for answers. a special edition of cnn newsroom starts right now. hello, everyone. i m in for carol costello. we welcome viewers from around the world watching on cnn international. a night at the movies turned into a night of terror for moviegoers in colorado after a gunman opens up a rampage. and here is the latest of what we know. gunshots erupted just outside of denver in an aurora, colorado, theater during an early morning screening of the dark knight rises. that is the new batman movie. 12 people are dead, 28 more wounded. a 3-month-old baby is among the wounded. police have a suspect in custody, a young man. a witness saw that man burst into the theater. somebody kicked in the emergency exit and started throwing gas grenade sais and started shooting people at random. was it movie theater number nine? number nine, which is the one
overnight at the showing of the dark knight rises that happened in aurora, colorado. a suburb of denver. dozens of police and firefighters are on the scene right now. our affiliate is following the story, everyone following the story now. we have reports of multiple deaths. we are working to confirm that. we know it was a multiple shooting of the dark knight rises. aurora, colorado is about nine miles east of denver. local hospitals reporting patients are on the scene. they have been told to prepare for as many as 20. we were listening in just now as they were talking to some local folk there s who witnessed this horrific scene inside. they said they were hearing noises, but the dark knight is one of those movies where there is a lot of shooting, so they weren t sure if it was the movie. there were reports of smoke, perhaps an explosion and one witness was just telling us that he did see some people hunched over apparently who had been shot. we are trying to get as many
nine, at this movie theater, movie center. and then they had absolute chaos as some of the people realized they were being choked by the gas and he started opening fire. according to witnesses, very calmly walked up the stairs and just seemed to randomly be picking people out of the audience and shooting at them. we have quentin caldwell, a witness joining us by phone. thanks for talking to me. tell me where you were in the movie theater complex, 16 screens. we were in theater eight, ajas ent to where the incident happened. me and my wife go to the super hero premieres and decided to go this one night. there were many theaters in which the movie was being shown. gentlemyes, there are 16 then this one. you re watching the movie, how many minutes were you in before you noticed something wrong? we were 15 minutes in and there was a chase fire where there was gunfire on screen. right then out of nowhere on the right side we hear a very distinct pop pop pop pop. and my w
the only thing is if you take a kid out of his loving home and put him in with a foster situation, i mean, that s that s going to make the kid nervous. there s a possibility he might wind up eating more. this is why since we ve discussed this, it s a very complicated situation. foster system in this country is obviously overburdened. not sure that s the right answer. not sure what the answer is in this case. let s do some headlines for you now. a father from new jersey under arrest at this hour, accused of throwing his 2-year-old daughter off a bridge into a creek while she was still strapped into her car seat. the horrific murder happened last week after arthur morgan had a court-appointed visit with his daughter. he reportedly turned up at the home of his friends all the way in san diego on thanksgiving, said nothing about his daughter and even played with their kids. but now he s been apprehended. meanwhile, the brits withdrawing some of their diplomats in tehran after irani
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