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some public comments in a few minutes and we will have that for you live of course on cnn. the president is going to speak not long before a citywide gathering of people here in aurora. they will pray, they will honor the people killed, and they will be together. at the scene where the people of aurora are beginning to gather right now. take us there. what is expected to happen where you are later? >> reporter: well, in about 90 minutes, this prayer vigil will begin. we're already beginning to see people gather in this rather large square. if you look behind me, you can see there are...

With the first explosive device. we are now hearing police say they do believe they did disarm the first trip wire. that was the key one, john. they want to be able to find an entry point, to find a starting point. if they did get that right. if they did get that right, that potentially could allow the bomb robot or the bomb technicians in to start the tedious process of basically disarming the entire booby-trapped apartment. you mentioned it is a mash of stuff. 24r* is stuff everywhere. wires, bottles, balloons, bullets. it is a mess in there. if anything was to go off it could cause signific...

Dump where some will be burned, some will be exploded. still this has been a long, hot day for the atf agents, f.b.i., as they've been working to basically dismantle a myriad of booby traps that were designed for maximum deadly force. bomb technicians surgically remove and detonate devices inside suspected gunman james holmes' apartment, a space booby trapped from top to bottom with devices designed to kill. >> this trip wire was set up to detonate when somebody entered that apartment and it was set up to kill that person. >> authorities tried not to compromise evidence. 4-year-old james holme...

Treading carefully inside the apartment of shooting suspect james holmes, making sure to successfully disarm each and every single device after they were forced to use a controlled explosion just to get their way inside. that blast disabling only some of the traps, now one of the biggest concerns that remains, deactivating what's left of more than 30 makeshift explosives set up inside the apartment. kevin barry is with us, he's a retired new york police department bomb technician who now works with the international association of bomb technicians and investigators. thank you for being with us...

And their purpose is to support and preserve the evidence inside the apartment, including and probably most importantly, the explosive and/or incendiary improvised devices found in the apartment. public safety is obviously paramount throughout the operation. my hat is off to the professionals from the aurora fire department who kept us safe really throughout the dynamic operations that occurred at paris street for the last three days. a robot, bomb technicians and dynamic explosive disruption tools were used to render safe multiple booby traps and incendiary devices. we had to make entry with ...