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the opposition says at least 96 people were killed today as battles raged in damascus and other hot spots. dutch journalist sandra van horn is in the capital. >> reporter: a wider area of central damascus it was life almost as usual. now the last three hours a new development has been fierce fighting in the southern suburbs of damascus. i can hear heavy shelling and gun fire and it's been going on with an intensity that i didn't see before in the nine days that i'm in damascus right now. >> the rebels are making gains in other parts of syria. they've seized key towns along the furcal...

learn how to do it? >> and talk to me about the levels of this sort of investigation and a very methodical approach to making a discovery that this apartment was indeed booby trapped, as we saw bomb authorities do and then try to defeat what they call the first threat which was a trip wire in that unit before even going about this sort of controlled detonation of sorts or this use of this device to try to target a particular mechanism inside. what would be next? >> well, probably repeat the same procedure. i'm assuming they have a direct video feed out of the inside of that apartment...

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. st...

newsroom. let's get you up to speed now on what's happening here in aurora. a community still in deep shock today. the mayor of aurora talked to reporters a few minutes ago. he's been meeting with victims of yesterday's horrific movie theater shooting. this is the mayor. >> one of the people i met with this morning at the hospital was somebody who was hit with buckshot in his back, broken rib, punctured lung, broken coar bone. came out his back at the base of his neck. he is doing well right now, believe it or not. that's because he got to the hospital and because the doctors and nur...

Will be sentenced to death or life in prison. gentlemen, thank you very much. so we also have "the new york times" reporting that vice president joe biden is said to be considering challenging hillary clinton for the democratic nomination. "times" columnist maureen dodd announced a biden run would fulfill a death bed wish from his son beau. he tried to make his father promise to run orring that the white house should not revert to the clintons. they would be better off with the biden values. later write, joe knows what beau wants. some are doubtful of a biden run and that includes former oba...