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newsroom. lets get you up to speed now on whats happening here in aurora. a community still in deep shock today. the mayor of aurora talked to reporters a few minutes ago. hes been meeting with victims of yesterdays horrific movie theater shooting. this is the mayor. >> one of the people i met with this morning at the hospital was somebody who was hit with buckshot in his back, broken rib, punctured lung, broken coar bone. came out his back at the base of his neck. he is doing well rig...

Black. a ballistic helmet. a groin protector but when ray kelly talked about protecting new york city theaters during "batman," he said this. >> he had a knife, he had a shotgun. he had ak-47-type assault rifle. and he had a nine millimeter handgun, unknown to us at this time. and a knife in his possession. he also had what is considered a grenade. >>trace: the commissioner saying red hair, like the joker, and said he was the joker. police would not talk about that because we asked, did he have ...

Know at least one person was hit inside the adjoining theater. the suspect was dressed all in black. he was wearing a ballistic helmet, a tactical ballistic vest, ballistic leggings, a throat protector and a groin protector and a gas mask and black tactical gloves. we had over 50 detectives respond to the scene including the 150 to 200 police officers and deputies and over 50 victim advocates to work with family members and all our federal partners are here and we deeply, deeply appreciate their...

Fired one shot into the air and then lowered his weapons and began firing on the crowd there. >> we learned a few moments ago from the police chief just how well planned this attack seemed to be. he was wearing in addition to whats being described as a bullet proof vest a throat protector, groin protector, a gas mask, a ballistic helmet. it sounds as if he was in full body armor, if you will. his white hyundai parked right outside the back door there according to the police chief just a few mome...

Neighbors said apparently while the shooter was at the theater there was music in his apartment playing over and over again, the same song playing on repeat. we learned from the university of colorado that he recently dropped out of the medical school there. again he was studying neuroscience to get his ph.d in neuroscience. he got his undergrad degree in neuroscience. neighbors in san diego where he grew up said he seemed like a nice kid. dont they always, alisyn? alisyn: we often hear that. de...

Leeanne gregg there from the mall in colorado. one of the things we also found out moments ago from the news conference from the police chief, just how well planned this attack seemed to be. we heard a lot about what he was wearing during the attack. full body armor. throat protector, groin protector. he was in all black wearing a ballistic helmet as well. 24-year-old james holmes born on december 13, 1987. police say that holmes also booby-trapped his apartment as well. that apartment in a comp...

Black. he was wearing a ballistic helmet, a tactical ballistic vest, ballistic leggings, a throat protector and a groin protector and a gas mask and black tactical gloves. >> he clearly wanted to survive. he clearly wanted to feel and look military in doing this. what does that tell you? >> well, you know, normally mass murderers end up dead at the end of the day. they dont care. theyre fed one life. they want their name in the headlights and ah-hha, ha, i ha done it. and in norway when he mowed...

Handguns. he says 71 people were shot in this horrible bloodbath. 12 of them were killed. 59 people injured. he says he is confident that this was a lone gunman. they are still investigating but at the moment all signs point to him acting alone. he descrid what the gunman was wearing and it was pretty eerie. he said that he had a ballistic helmet. he was dressed all in black. he had tactical ballistic vest, ballistic leggings. throat protector, groin protector, gas mask and black tactical gloves...

It happens all too often and the names have become so familiar. jonesboro, arkansas, virginia tech, columbine, and now aurora, colorado. it happened not far from columbine high school where a sold out crowd had gathered in theater nine for the midnight opening of the batman movie "the dark knight rises." a man named james holmes walked through a door with a bulletproof vest, a gas mask, a throat protector, a groin protector and black gloves. police say he was also carrying three weapons. a rifle...

together how this unfolded. i want to bring in ed lavandara who is in the parking lot and talking to a lot of people who were in the room and saw the gunman, and who heard the explosions, and what have you learned? >> well, suzanne, we are right now waiting to give you an update, and we are waiting on a briefing from the law enforcement officials here in aurora, colorado, and we are several hundred yards away from the movie theater, and we anticipate it will happen here shortly. we wer...