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of aurora is talking to people a lot about this weekend. don, back to you. >> okay. ed, before we -- before i let you go, i want you to talk about more about the people who are there and about the booby trapped apartment. they said yesterday that they thought that all of the explosives were out of the apartment, but are the people that you are speaking to, are they comfortable going back into their homes at some point? >> they have been. in fact, all of the buildings around here in the...

apartment. >> we spoke last week, moved closer. were 90 feet or so from the front of the complex. go across the street, this is the complex where everything has been focused since early, early yesterday morning. if you look through the window, youll see one of the investigators inside. there are atf agents, f.b.i. agents, and the aurora police department. they put up black plastic over the windows. you can see where they knocked the windows out throughout the day. thats part of the way...

apartment. >> we spoke last week, moved closer. were 90 feet or so from the front of the complex. go across the street, this is the complex where everything has been focused since early, early yesterday morning. if you look through the window, youll see one of the investigators inside. there are atf agents, f.b.i. agents, and the aurora police department. they put up black plastic over the windows. you can see where they knocked the windows out throughout the day. thats part of the way...

the local authorities and federal authorities used to get around the booby traps, the meant went through the window. you saw at that video, them working through the video and they used robots to go inside instead of a person at risk and they used water not only to surround explosives, but used a water blast to short out that main control panel. ultimately, there was a point where the situation was deemed safe enough where people could go inside and gather up some of the rigged explosiv...

inside of his apartment that he used to set up and explode and cause a fire, until thats totally clean, theyre not going to let people back in. yesterday, there was one explosion in particular, three we heard, one loud one, one in particular that disarmed everything. take a listen. >> it was that water bomb, basically, in laymens terms that took out a circuit board in the kitchen. were told everything was tied to that circuit board. it was an intricate setup. while the setup was intric...

tens of thousands on weapons and gear. and analysts are weighing in before his first court appearance tomorrow morning. "fox & friends" starts right about now. >> good morning, everybody, thanks for waking up early with us, and joining us, steve doocy is in for dave briggs on vacation and eric bolling for clayton morris on vacation. >> its a someone that everyone is watching. >> alisyn: were beginning with new details the death trap inside james holmes apartment. dozens of sophisticate...

that was one of a series of controlled detonations this afternoon meant to disable the devices inside that apartment. >> make no mistake, okay, this apartment was designed, i say, based on everything ive seen, to kill whoever entered it. okay? and who was most likely to enter that location after he planned and executed this horrific crime? was going to be a police officer. okay? so make no mistake about it. what was going on there and if you think were angry, we sure as hell are angry....

that was one of a series of controlled detonations this afternoon meant to disable the devices inside that apartment. >> make no mistake, okay, this apartment was designed, i say, based on everything ive seen, to kill whoever entered it. okay? and who was most likely to enter that location after he planned and executed this horrific crime? was going to be a police officer. okay? so make no mistake about it. what was going on there and if you think were angry, we sure as hell are angry....

on a day we have learned new and critical details on what happened just after midnight on a friday in a crowded theater in a suburban american city. within the hour, we heard from the aurora police chief and he described how his officers identified james holmes as the suspect and not a s.w.a.t. officer despite all of his ballistic gear. >> there was one particular piece of equipment that he had on him that was out of place. i am so proud of my officers that they spotted that right away...

police saying it was set up to kill or seriously injury whom ever entered. i spoke with police chief daniel oats earlier about effort to preserve the evidence. >> that was extremely high priority over the last two days, we wanted the evidence in that, inside that apartment and weve taken custody of the computer, the potential that we might get evidence out that have computer is, well, its very important to us, but, every ounce of evidence will just help us hold this person accountable....