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Again, if you're just waking up with us, a shooting inside a movie theater at a midnight showing of "the dark knight rises" in aurora, colorado, about ten miles east of denver. so far, police telling us 14 dead, 14 dead and at least 50 have been transported to local hospitals, some of them in "extremely critical condition." our initial reports were that ten people have died. we've now learned that four others died on their way to the hospital or upon their arrival at the hospital for a total of 14 dead so far, 50 transported to local hospitals. police chief dan oates in a brief conference call...

Gunman, police say, walked into a movie theater some time after midnight at one of the first showings of the new film "the dark knight rises" dressed in some sort of costume, disguise, and a gas mask, and began opening fire, it looks like randomly. so far, according to police chief dan oates, 14 dead, at least 50 have been transported to area hospitals, some of them in extremely critical condition. so that death toll could rise. again, we've talked about explosives that the suspect is in custody, telling police about a possible explosive in the movie theater and possible explosive at his home....

We were driving, they ran in front of our vehicle and one of them stopped us and said that there was a gunman who was setting off bombs and shooting people. apparently, he had just run into the theaters and was just, you know, shooting people. he wasn't giving anybody a chance to get out. i mean, people were saying that this was a terrorist attack. i'm not sure if that was the case, but it sure sounds like it. >> an eyewitness account from inside the theater, that from our affiliate kusa. police chief dan oates there in aurora, colorado, saying the gunman actually stood in the front of theater...

According to the denver post the man is 24 years old, the suspect in custody. the incident happened local time at a mall in aurora about ten miles east of the city. kusa our nbc station in denver reports dozens of people have been transported to a nearby hospital. reports say the shooting happened during a late showing of the new batman movie "the dark knight rises." according to witnesses there, the shooter wearing all black kicked in the emergency exit door in theater nine, walked to the front of the theater, stood in front of the screen, threw some kind of smoke-producing bomb and began sho...

Representatives, other members of the community. we will all come together. we'll survive this. but there is no way around it. it's tough. you can't have that many people die and that many more people be injured in an absolutely senseless situation and not see it as anything but tough. with that, i would like to introduce police chief dan oates. chief? >> thank you, mr. mayor. also joining me -- us here today besides the mayor and the governor is the united states attorney john walsh for the district of colorado. mr. jimmy cohen, special agent in charge of the fbi in colorado and carol chamber...