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Time. and we don't have the ability as was demonstrated in the virginia tech shooting to really match the mental health records with an individual applying for weapons. we don't have the ability to see what a person is thinking about before they do this. this happens. the light switch gets flipped and they decide they're going to do this. they plan for it. of course, later on we're going to see lots of signs from his colleagues from the students, the fact that he was about to leave the school. i'm sure as we unravel this story, we're going to see indicators that yep, this guy was planning on d...

Like -- i don't remember the scene that happened, i just remember a gunshot in the movie in the theater, but i didn't see him, i didn't -- i didn't hear anything until last night about him, specifics. >> reporter: so we should let people know who aren't familiar, that it was theater 9 that the main shooting took place, but some of the bullets actually penetrated through the walls. how long did it take before people in your theater recognized or understood what was really going on? >> i would say less than a minute. i was hit -- >> reporter: did you hear the repeated gunfire at that point? >> i...

Somebody with a lot of depth as well. what has shocked so many of us, and obviously there is this tremendous sadness about the 24-year-old losing her life, but she was in toronto and actually, as i understand, has talked a lot about escaping a shooting at a mall there, what, just last year? >> yes. i remember her posting the blog. and the comment i made was, i'm glad you're okay. because at the time she was okay. it was, you know, one of those i guess you had to be there kind of moments. she escaped unharmed, so we were all -- you know, we could read the blog and breathe a sigh of relief, but ...

With so much. we were reporting earlier how one local said it's like the entire community has been kicked in the gut. amber joins me now. she was a witness to the shooting. thank you for joining us. >> yeah. >> community college student, 18 years old. you're out to have, you know, a fun night. tell us when you realized something was terribly wrong. >> well, the movie started at 12:05 and it was maybe about 15, 20 minutes in and it looked like to me someone had thrown a silly string can across the theater. i thought someone was being a punk and being an idiot and smoke ended upcoming out and i ...

Not ambulances, police cars. and they started pulling bodies out of the police cars. >> so they took the victims -- >> the people that were most gravely wounded were shoved into police cars and taken to the hospital. >> this almost sounds like an episode of "e.r." >> i said that, too. she said to me it felt like a dream. she's 33 years old. she's been a practicing physician for a number of years, but she had never seen a trauma like this. she had never seen so many patients with so many gunshot wounds, so many grave, serious wounds coming in essentially all at the same time. within a matter of...