has agreed to stay open 24 hours a day for this weekend, people may feel fine now and they may have a problem tomorrow. they may have a problem next week. they may have a problem several months down the line but they should seek some counseling or resources if they have been victims. that is to be expected. if there are financial issues that should not stop them. they should contact us for financial resources. so we want to make sure we are getting out whatever, whatever our victims in this case need. so with that i will turn it over to the special agent. good afternoon. i just want to re-emphasize what chief oates has already talked about. we ve had a very tightly integrated investigative response. the fbi currently has approximately 100 folks on scene closely integrated with the aurora police department as do other federal agencies. so the atf as well is here in force with more than 25
we will all come together. we ll survive this but there s no way around it. it s tough. you can t have that many people die and that many more people be injured in an absolutely senseless situation and not see it as anything but tough. with that i would like to introduce police chief done oates. dan oates. thank you, mr. mayor. also joining me, us here today besides the mayor and governor, the united states attorney john walsh, district of colorado. mr. jimmy cohn, special agent in charge of. bi in colorado. and chairman chambers the district attorney for the 18th judicial district. i will give you a briefing. i will ask district attorney chambers to make some comments and mr. yakon from
so i looked at her and we just leave, and we have to get out of there, and we go to our car. somehow we were able to get to our car and leave the parking lot. but it was just even after that we just saw cops everywhere, everywhere. and we still didn t know what was going on. i asked the cop what was happening and he said that there was still someone that wasn t detained, and at that point in time i had feared for my own life. before that i was worried, i wanted to help everyone else, i wanted to be there for everyone else. but at that point in time i wanted to get out of there. i feared for my own life. reporter: so much heartbreak across colorado. more breaking news now out of colorado. adam housley is live on the scene. what can you tell us there? reporter: well, we will owe come back here to the scene in a moment. everything in this area is shut down. we ll talk about that momentarily. first of all we going to show you video. we might even have live video at some poi
of the bad man movie the dark knight rises he was wearing a gas mask and bulletproof vest. it was 12:00am mountain time. the batman premiere had begun. 20 minutes later chaos started. the suspect allegedly throwing a gas canister inside the theater. between 12:20 and 12:30 witnesses say the first shots were fired, and it may have lasted for up to 15 minutes. at 12:39 police were notified of this massacre. innocent people were lying lifeless inside. now we ve been hearing witness accounts all day on the horror in this theater. but this next woman best describes how most people are feeling. we go out, we see the cop with his gun across his chest. we go out and the first thing we see is a 13, 14-year-old girl with a bullet wound in her leg, and her stomach, and probably her chest, and i think she was right there about to die. and we see everyone surrounded her, everyone was screaming, everyone is screaming, crying around there, and wee-wee didn t know what was going on whats