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Shootings before this incident in this state. this is a large massive shooting that took the lives of 12 people, 70 people injured. couple hundred inside that theater. so, theres a sense of connection to what happened here. a sense that can be felt across the country. >> miguel almaguer, it is good to have you here. thank you very much. and jonathan blunk was one of the 12 victims who lost his life on friday. he leaves behind two young children. my conversation with their mother after the brea...

Considered to be a lapse. so he really needs to be here, not just for political reasons, but out of a sense that people throughout the united states are traumatized by this. and they need his presence. >> jonathan, thank you. i also want to bring in two reporters who have been covering the tragedy here in aurora. marly slauson and denver post reporter curtis lee. mary, how important do you think it is for the families to have the president here? >> its a symbol of national outpouring, of support...

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...

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...

those who lost their lives and those who survived and how this has changed those lives forever. we will start in aurora at the apartment where cops say the madness began. adam housely is live. he just moved within 50-yards of the apartment. adam? >> they let us move about five minutes guy. the best vantage we had so far today. they took small samples of explosives.s to g they are going to allow people back into the sur rounding apartment complexes within the hour. the windows have been...

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...