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Police dan oates describes how they identified james holmes as a suspect and not a s.w.a.t. officer even though he wore ballistic gear. >> there was one particular piece of equipment he had on him that was out of place. i am so proud of my officers that they spotted that right away and challenged him. i can't tell you. in that chaos, it is quite reasonable that an officer might have confused him for a s.w.a.t. officer or a heavily armed officer who was responding to the scene. kudos to my two cops who grabbed this guy and that sharp observation that they made immediately to suspect him as bein...

she did not deserve to die this way. ♪ >> he was a wonderful young man. what a terrible, terrible loss this is for anyone who knew him. ♪ >> i was blessed only for 25 years, but i was blessed. the lat est now on the investigation and a search for a motive in the case. police here in aurora say they have removed all hazards from james holmes' apartment and some of the evacuated neighbors were allow allowed to return home last night, but not before police carefully detonated some of those explosives. one neighbor said she nearly entered the apartment early friday morning when large...

apartment. >> we spoke last week, moved closer. we're 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, you'll 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. that's part of the way they had a chance to look inside assess the situation. we know about the explosions. you can see...

because the fire did not occur, investigators were able to comb through the place and last night we saw them bringing out potential evidence including a computer tower. police have said these attacks were planned for months. and, they will be scouring that computer for further confirmation. across this grieving community, memorials and vigils are now a daily occurrence. remembering the 12 dead, praying for the scores of wounded. president obama is visiting aurora, today, where he will meet with the victims' families, to grieve and, perhaps, offer words of comfort to the nation. jon s...

want -- i don't know right now. >> reporter: there was one report, i have also not seen confirmed and i wanted to clear it up with you, there was a report that he told your officers that he had taken ambienn or some kind of prescription drug before the shooting. you can comment? >> no. vimade it clear to the media -- i hate to disappoint you, but any admissions he has made to us, that will be presented in the court process. that's not for discussion at this time. our highest priority is that he be convicted of these horrible crimes and that's our agenda. we will prepare the material ...