pennsylvania. i m pamela brown in washington. you are live in the cnn newsroom on this saturday. heartbreaking scene has been unfolding all night in the south korea kran capital. 146 people died in a nightclub district. many others are injured tonight. some of the video we re getting in is graphic. it appears the people got trapped in a crowd and panicked because they couldn t breathe. this is all still under investigation and the causes of death have not been confirmed. these images give you an idea of just how packed the neighborhood was at the time. let s get right to cnn will ripley live in seoul where it s 6:00 a.m. people out celebrating halloween. what happened here? reporter: it was horrible, pamela, to see them wheeling out the bodies. they were covered in sheets.
popular nightclub district. investigators are trying to piece together how this tragedy happened. south korea s president is ordering authorities to rapidly identify the victims for the sake of frantic families. and thousands of emergency workers have been on the scene, and so is our will ripley live from seoul. will, tell us what s known about the victims. reporter: so we ve just learned in the last few minutes, pamela, that the majority of these victims, at least 146 dead, 150 injured, and we re expecting more updates on the number of dead that could get closer to 150 potentially. they are majority south korean, but there are 15 foreigners who were injured and two foreigners who were killed but we don t know their nationalities yet. i have been talking to people out here from all over claiming that they had friends, including americans, who are missing. and so the reason why you have
you take this personally. this one, i did. i m thinking to myself, is he that smart? is he that smart? now, forbes, was out here, somewhere. friday night, dark now. it was warm in fort collins, a tall-ish town, remember. in the old town bar district, young people gathered around favorite watering holes. plenty of young women, carefree, drinking, celebrating a weekend, unaware. but, worried. this time, the police were watching, because they were very worried. we have the surveillance set up over the weekend. we were not going to let him out of our sights. so, we had teams, that were rotating, while we waited. we can actually make an arrest. all weekend, surveillance teams followed him, as he cruised the nightclub district. he had a bottle of whisky he was carrying around him all night. he didn t go into any bars. he just walked around. he was trolling?
someone thought she would be dead by now. someone had fled into the night. some, killing women. and this one, deep in a coma, in the threshold of death, is the only chance to catch them, before he does it again. what happened here was spawned in a dark corner of the human condition. but the terrifying flaw forcing us to admit, yes, virginia, there is a bogeyman. and against him where the only weapons they had. the power of one family. a determined cop. and one remarkable gift, in the face of evil. here s where it began, three months in the icu. this is the nightclub district,
a college town, remember. in the old town bar district young people gathered around favorite watering holes. plenty of young women, carefree, drinking, celebrating a weekend, unaware. unworried. but this time the police were watching because they were very worried. we had the surveillance set up on him over the weekend. we were not going to let him out of our sights. so we had teams that were rotating while we were waiting so we could actually make an arrest. reporter: all weekend surveillance teams followed forbes as he cruised the nightclub district. he had a bottle of whiskey he d been carrying around with him all night. he didn t go into any of the bars. he basically just walked around and he was trolling. trolling. yeah. that s a good way to put it. reporter: late at night the undercover cops spotted travis following a young woman walking home alone. so without revealing the surveillance team one of the cops approached him, and travis gave him a fake name, called him