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Joining me from london, duncan. what has been the reaction in europe in the streets and the press? it has been on the front page of most of the newspapers here and leading tv coverage. the batman premiere was cancelled. here the queen sent a message to president obama extending her heart felt sympathy. she said my thoughts and prayers are with the family who was killed. back to the newspapers and lots of coverage of what one calls a massacre including profiles of holmes and his alleged victims. as happens there is explanation and analysis of gun ownership in america. in the french daily they explain to readers second amendment ....
suspect s apartment now, just moments ago, a controlled detonation of sorts. you heard the boom there. all we understand is that police actually yelled fire in the hole three times after placing some sort of wiring through the window by way of bomb experts that were in a bucket that were lifted to that third floor level. they placed some sort of wiring in there and we understand from our security analysts who we spoke to last hour who was explained to us that a device would then be shot into the window when they felt like we had a good point of view. so you heard the boom there. still unclear from the police department whether this was mission accomplished. we don t know if they actually hit their target. we hope to hear more details and we are hearing from former assistant director of the fbi tom fuentes. you ve had familiarity with scenes like this involving the detonation of bombs, explosive, et cetera and you just told us in the last 15 minutes how remarkable, you ....
not the suspect whose name we will tell you and we will tell you what we know about him coming up. but the 71 people he s accused of attempting to kill. 12 who have died. we know only one so far by name, this woman, jessica ghawi, a journalist and blogger who also went by the name of jessica redfield. she narrowly escaped a shooting last month in toronto. she was 24 years old. i ll talk to her brother shortly tonight in the hour ahead. she s the only fatality identified so far. we would tell you more of their names, more of who they were, because we think it s important tonight to focus on the victims in this. yes, we ll tell you about the shooter and, yes, we ll talk about how he got access to weapons. all those kinds of debates perhaps can wait at least for though hour. we want to focus on the victims and those who have survived. there were military personnel as well in the theater, in theater number nine, at the century 16 complex last night. one sailor s unaccounted ....
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 ....