the scruggsle for life. thanks so much. deb feyerick. see you at 10:00. . >> a might of anticipation turns instantly tragic. >> gunshot after gunshot. >> there's hundreds of people just running around. >> a masked gunman on a rampage of terror. >> he's at the exit firing away. >> 70 people dead or wounded. >> i have seven down. >> the fight for survival. >> we looked up and then there was another car and then there was another car and then there was another police car and another police car. >> the effort to heal. >> we will remember you, we will honor you by celebrating life. >> the victims remember. >> maybe if i was there, she'd still be here.

>> hello, everyone. i'm don lemon. one week ago in aurora, colorado, changed the lives of so many in an instant. tonight, what happened inside theater 9 and what was behind the shooting rampage that left so many people dead and wound. and we learned he had been see goingin ing a psychiatrist and mailed a package of his plan but it wasn't delivered in time. now, the people we don't want you to forget. i have been reporting on this tragedy in aurora, coloro and i will report along with my colleague, drew griffin, a search for answers in aurora. >> batman, comic book legend, lucrative franchise, blockbuster

film star. for clinton caldwell, ""the dark knight rises"" was more than a movie,it was a life-long obsession. >> it sounds like you were really anxious to see this movie. you were a fan. >> definitely. i've been a comic collector 20 plus years. one of my favorite story lines was going to be the plot of this movie. >> when did you buy your ticket? >> three weeks in advance. >> three weeks. >> yes. >> right when i bout it, i put a picture up on my facebook saying 7-20-2012, are you ready? we are. >> across the country, thousands of other fans are ready, too, lining up early for the july 20 release, ready in rare form. >> want to say it was like 10:30 or 10:40, something like that. >> billy and her husband, david, were afraid they weren't early enough. >> we're going to the theater and it's already like half full of people. we're like, oh, darn, it's still crowded. we weren't early.

>> the couple settled into seats in the middle of century 16's theater 9 for the 12:05 show. >> it was packed. it was crazy. >> corbin dates almost didn't get a seat at all. >> the only area that was available was the very first row, nobody was sitting there and a few seats on the very end in the second row. >> next door in theater 8, the dark night rises was also playing and the place was buzzing. >> right when we walked in, you could hear the crowd, anticipate, feel the floor shaking a little bit, walking in there, yes, awesome. >> corbin dates washed the last seats fill in, in theater 9. >> i remember seeing a guy walk into the theater and he sat in this very first row to the far right seat. i didn't think nothing of it. just looked like a regular average person. >> alone? >> alone. >> red hair? >> looked like he had red hair, yes. >> then datas saw the man leave

the theater. >> i looked over and saw him get up and he was walking towards the emergency exit door and opened the emergency door and he proched his foot in between. >> at the same time, dates left his own seat rushing to meet a friend in the lobby as the lights dimmed in both theaters. >> as soon as we see the movie start, me and david are squeezing each other's hands because we're so excited. >> the movie starts. >> yeah. everybody goes nuts. >> collapse. >> we all imagine ourselves as batman because he's anonymous, a man in a mask. he could have been anyone else. >> what caldwell, dates and billy and david fail didn't know was outside theater 9 another anonymous man in a mask was preparing for the worst mass shooting in american history. police say 24-year-old james holmes put on full tactical gear, including a helmet, gas

mask, and a vest like this, arming himself with three guns and hundreds of rounds of am mission. 20 minutes after the movie started, dates saw that same emergency exit door open again. >> the way this person swung into the door, it seemed like this person was probably act like a villain, swing into the door, walk in dressed all in black, a black cap, black gas mask, body armor, weapon wrapped around his neck which i thought was fake. >> me and my husband at the time both thought it was someone pulling a prank. i hear this -- from down on my right. i see this canister go all the way up, afternoon over the screen and land about four or five rows below me. my first thought was oh, it's some kind of fireworks. >> come come to find out it contained a toxic gas, hard for

us to breathe. >> smoke filled the dark theater as fear swept through the so sold-out crowd and then it got even worse. >> i realized people were screaming a terror of stream. >> you were hearing shots? sn>> constant. >> in rhythm? >> yes. exactly the way you did it. >> the masked man calmly aimed and fired, as terrified movie fans dove for cover. >> he shot off about six or seven. i hear people panicking, and we got down. i couldn't see any -- i didn't want to look. >> came down with his gun in my face. >> i told my friends, you got to get down on the floor. >> i saw four, maybe five people limping, wounded. >> those who could, scrambled for safety beneath a hail of bullets. >> as we're bear crawling, we can hear the clips of the rounds

falling to the ground. some of them rolled up under the first row and they were burning our skin as we were crawling through. >> next door in theater 8, clinton caldwell heard something strange. >> all of a sudden we heard a very distinct papandreou papandreou. the theater kind of jumped a little bit even i did. and my wife grabbed my arm, that was pay too loud. that was real. >> the gunman's weapons were so powerful, bullets were bursting through the wall. >> all of a sudden we hear people gasping an a young lady being held by a couple and ho holding her cheek like this. >> the shooter with three guns on him and a fourth in a car was only beginning his deadly rampage. i

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also in trouble. >> pierce, pierce, man, i'm shot. i'm shot. >> i said, many, too. stay down. then he shot me a second time. >> on the floor, corbin dates was just trying to keep cool. >> people in front of me were freaking out, my friend behind me was freaking out, i'm thinking, we need to stay quiet. >> you're like within five, 10 feet of this guy. >> i thought he was going to kill me. >> o'farrill was even closer than that. >> he was standing literally directly above me. i could feel his boot right next to my head. i had my face down on the ground and i just stayed as still as i possibly could and i prayed and i prayed. >> it was a straight line shot, picking everybody out from one aisle to the next. >> josh newman was sure he was going to die. clear in the gunman's sites and then a miracle, the semi-automatic weapon jammed. >> if that gun did not jam, i am

certain i probably would not be here. >> the shooter switched weapons and calmly continued firing. >> very methodical. he never once said a word. i never heard a single word out of him. >> on the floor, billy fail felt something behind her. >> i reached behind me, it's this little boy sitting right next to me. so he's literally, he's clinging to me, you know, i can feel he's terrified. >> at 12:39, word went out to local police. >> 315 and 314, shooting at septemb century theaters. 14300 east alameda avenue. they're saying somebody is shooting in the ah torrium. >> they arrived within 90 seconds. >> they're saying hundreds of people are running around and at

least one person that's been shot. >> at least at some point, the shooting stopped and dates and his friend ran. >> not hearing any more gunshots. i told jenny we need to get out of here now. >> reporter: david fail pushed his buy, jenny toward the door. >> he's pushing people and going, go, go, move. it, move it. he said he felt the little boy grab his hand so he was pulling both of us out of the theater. >> on the upper part of the auditorium, there were bodies hanging over the chairs. >> i crawled over someone and he wasn't moving. it was a guy in a white shirt and he was just laying there on his side. >> as i was running out to the door, a cop was coming in with a shotgun. >> cops would soon see the first signs of carnage. >> we have a guy shot. >> we have another person outside shot in the leg, a

female. i have people running out of the theater shot in row 9. >> i have another victim on the northside of the north parking lot. >> outside the theater, the desperate hunt for tekiller. >> we have a suspect. we have rifles, gas mask. hold that position, hold your suspect. >> the suspect surrendered without offering any resistance. his hair was died red. he told police, i am the joker. in theater 9, dozens of men, women and children lay dead or wound and urgently needed help. >> seven down. i have a child victim and need rescue at the back door theater now. >> as soon as we're out, i look behind me and there's a guy right behind me holding the side of his neck and there's blood all over his face all over him. that's the moment i'm really freaking out. >> in the parking lot, the

struggle to save lives. >> i need as many ambulances as we can to the dillard's lot. i want my fire trucks there also and i'll start bringing them in to triage people and get them out. >> clinton caldwell. >> we get outside, that's when we saw the totality of everything, how bad it really was. >> what did you see? >> there was a young lady, the first one i saw in a pink shirt, she was peppered with blood and wounds all the way down her left side. >> shotgun. >> that's what i immediately assumed was a shotgun. ambulances were still showing up. >> but not, it seems, fast enough, given the number of casualties. >> i've got one ambulance here. where are my ambulances at? >> dozens of wounded all at once overwhelmed emergency responders. cops on the scene decided to improvise. >> method row ro, do i have per to take these people in cars? i have a whole bunch of people shot out here and no rescue.

>> yes. get them them in cars. >> the doctor was expecting a lot of victims. >> they started coming out of a police car and that's when something triggered, uh-oh, this will be different. >> they pulled the first victim from the car. then. >> all of a sudden we looked up and then there was another car and another police car and another police car. within about 15 or 20 minutes we had nine critical patients here on our doorstep. >> there was a patient in this room. >> across town at aurora medical center, the doctor faced a similar scene. >> there was a casualty with a gentleman in the hallway had a large tourniquet on his leg. i walked to hallway and noticed multiple other patients. >> the injuries were diverse and severe. >> a lot of them had internal bleeding. those are the ones very scary for us and that sets our gunshot

victims apart from anyone else we see. >> victims talking one minute, unresponsive the next. >> there was shotgun blast wounds and injuries from high caliber, obviously a powerful high velocity weapon. >> at six area hospitals, teams of er professionals kept nearly all the shooting victims alive. >> everyone that came to this hospital survived. >> at university hospital, 22 of 23 patients made it. that says, sasson, is what turned the aurora massae into the aurora miracle. >> i got very emotional when i saw my patients, some of these patients, they're so resilient and so strong. i guess i just needed to see them walking and talking because the last picture i have in my head is on a stretcher critically injured, getting rolled up to an operating room.

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just before midnight, inside the third floor apartment building at 1690 para street, music suddenly began to play. loud music. downstairs, caitlin fonzie wasn't quite asleep yet. >> we heard the loud tech any music coming from the upstairs apartment. it's really odd. it's usually quiet up there, we never heard anything. >> music so loud, it was annoying and caitlin decided to go up fairs and stop it. it -- upstairs and stop it. it was coming from behind the door of james holmes apartment. >> i went upstairs and realized it was possibly unlocked. i thought about going in there, i had my hand on the door handle and just yelling at them to turn it down. i decided not to do that. i just had a trepidation.

a little voice told me, no, let the cops handle it. >> it was a good thing she didn't get inside, a very good thing. make no mistake, okay, this apartment was designed, i say, based on everything i've seen, to kill whoever entered it. >> police say holmes had left behind a vicious booby-trap. more than 30ome mate explosives, 10 gallons of gasoline, all connected through a spaghetti network of cables, triggered to explode by the first person who would enter the apartment door. >> if a neighbor or unassuming pedestrian walked in that door or god forbid a first responder, they would have sustained significant injuries and/or lost their life. >> by that time, police say james holmes was on his way to theater 9. it was part of a meticulous, methodical dance of death police say was orchestrated by the

suspect. he was armed to the teeth, elaborate elaborately prepared to kill and commit as much death and possible. >> this is your meat and mo tai toe toes denver. >> it was a shotgun like this one, and two handguns and ready for mayhem. >> the suspect was dressed all in black, wearing a ballistic helmet, tactical ballistic dr s dress -- vest, and leggings and groin protector and black gloves. >> the combat gear, ammo bags bought from a company with a few strokes of a keyboard from tactical gear for about $300. purchases with clear aforethought, planning to kill. >> what he was wearing was designed if he encountered some resistance inside that theater,

it would offer some measure of protection so he could keep going with his mission to keep shooting people, to keep shooting the patrons in there. >> tom fuentes is a cnn consultant who spent decades at the fbi. >> it was very methodically planned. he was very meticulous in the gear he assembled and equipment and firepower and ammunition and weapons. >> he only had one thing in min mind. >> to actually kill as many people as he could possibly kill in one shooting spree inside that theater. >> and all of it, every gun, every round of ammunition, to pre-detective gear, all perfectly legal. >> you have nothing that would have come up in his background, you could hire 100 detectives to do his background and not find one reason to deny him the ability to buy a lawful firearm. >> this is your glock .22. >> not only did he buy the weapons illegally, over the internet with a few strokes of the keyboard, he also bought

thousands of rounds of ammunition and so-called extras, extra magazines to hold all the bullets, as well as his protective gear. when the day broke, after the horrific killing spree, law enforcement returned to the armed on para street. we've all seen the pictures by now, a policeman perched at the end of a fire department ladder and breaking in and sending in a ro bat. >> i've never seen anything like what the pictures show us what was in there. >> it took 36 hours to dismantle the bobby traps and remove the danger from the homemade bombs e exploding, which were then driven to a secure location where police say this is what james holmes had planned for police or firefighters or even for a neighbor complaining about music, anyone who would open his apartment door and enter. >> we are hopeful we have

eliminated the major threats. >> not really kill the people rebound anybody close to it, the damage done, people reported the entire third floor would have gone up in smoke. >> now the question is why. just who is he and what could have triggered this deadly rampage? ♪ why not make lunch more than just lunch? with two times the points on dining in restaurants, you may find yourself asking why not, a lot. chase sapphire preferred. there's more to enjoy.

the james holmes, who looked very disoriented at his first court appearance is far different from the all american boy tom remembers growing up next door. >> a very nice family, very good neighborhood, very typical american family. >> his house is just a few feet away from where the holmes family lives in suburban, san diego. holmes' mother is a nurse, his father a scientist. >> the last time you saw him, that was not the same person demeanor that you saw in that courtroom on monday? >> definitely not. totally different. >> but who really knew him? no close friends have emerged and his family isn't talking. if there were warning signs years ago, no one saw them. as a child, he was known as

"jimmy" to his classmates at cas castroville erm elementary school. >> the way i knew him, he was at the much to his class. a very good student. >> so many years later they all remember jimmy well. >> man, he would finish his tests before i would, pretty much the rest of the class except for one or two other students. >> in the fifth grade, but put together a class website and he collaborated-he had computer skills back then, a young kid. >> paul was his fifth grade teacher. >> when i saw the photo of him with the black hair, i did not recognize him as the boy that i knew, almost parry potter like with oval glasses. >> an image that haunts him today. >> that's really disturbing, to

be so close to something like that bothers you to your essence, particularly as a teacher, you're thinking, this is one of my kids. you also think, could i have done anything? did i see anything? did i miss anything? could i have done anything to have prevented this? did i do anything to cause this? you know, the answer is no. >> by high school, the family was living in san diego at west view high, holmes excelled and made the junior varsity soccer team. after high school in 2006, he attended a rigorous boot camp in neurobiology at this institute. this video something him giving a presentation is in stark contrast to the images after the shooting. >> hello. i'm james. >> apparently not all was well. his supervisor at the institute told the "los angeles times" holmes was socially inept and incredibly uncommunicative and wasn't a particularly good student. still, later in college, at the

university of california riverside, he stood out, at least academically. >> his academic credential coming in and while he was here puts him at the top of the top. a very rigorous major that includes a heavily involved sciences, physics to chemistry, biology, anatomy, physiologigy, psychological aspects how the neural systems work, one of our most rigorous majors. >> even with all his academic achievements after graduating college, he apparently couldn't find a job right away. >> was he trying to get a job, do you know? >> when he graduated from uc, riverside, he'd come home, tried to look for a job. a job very hard to come by because of the economic downturn. >> in 2011, though, james holmes appeared to rebound. he was one of just six students accepted at the university of colorado's neuroscience graduate program and was awarded a $26,000 grant from the national

institutes of health. . >> the applications to that program are very competitive. we get 10 applications per opening and we take about five or six a year. >> he walked this campus and researched her the last two years and few knew him, least of all campus police who had no trouble. >> nobody brought him to your attention? >> we had no contact with him of a criminal matter as a police department. >> if he had any friends in aurora, no one is talking. one student who worked with him for a few weeks said i worked near him but i wasn't close to him. i don't think anyone was close to him. >> someone who sat with him in a lecture class said, i can't remember him uttering a single word. schools officials told everyone not to talk to reporters unless cleared in advance. one big unanswered questions,

was holmes amassing that arsenal by accepting packages of ammunition sent to the school itself. >> if it came in by way of u.p.s. or fedex, nobody would even know about it. there are thousands of packages that come into this institution everyday. >> the university says a package from holmes was delivered to the school monday after the shooting. it was sent to a psychiatrist hochls was s holmes was seeing, dr. lynn fenton also the university's director of mental student health services. she said in that package, holmes wrote about killing people. fenton did not respond an e-mail or phone calls. in may, according to this class schedule. holmes was supposed to give a presentation on microrna biomarkers, a topic that explores genetics and mental illness. on june 7th, he took the required oral exams and did poorly. three days later, he told the

university he was withdrawing and didn't give a reason. holmes access to secure areas of the school was immediately remo removed. he applied online june 25th to this private gun range a half hour from his apartment. the owner followed up on the application and listened to a voice message on the other end that he describes as weird. almost like the person leaving the message was drunk. he told cnn guttural, freakish, maybe drunk, just weird and bizarre, it was james holmes' message. holmes was also recently on this website posting a picture in red hair. it is a sex site, adult friend finder.com. still on the outside, james holmes appeared normal. jackie mitchell, a neighbor, remembers having a beer with holmes at this local bar. it was just four days before the shootin shooting. >> i mean, just intelligent

looking guy. i mean, i don't -- you don't know what a killer looks like, it didn't look like him. >> few answers of what became of the james holmes who showed so much promise a dozen years ago. >> i would like to know what happened in that 13 or 14 year period that led to this. it's obviously not the kid we went to school with. it's a real tragedy what happened and what took place. a tragedy for his family and all the victims' families. it's a horrible thing this happened. i wonder how this could happen and why. >> a question aurora is asking. coming up, a shattered community tries to recover from the tragedy. >> we will remember. this is new york state. we built the first railway and the first trade route to the west. we built the tallest skyscrapers, the greatest empires.

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>> wow. look around. isn't it amazing the outpouring of support for the victims, their families and our community. >> it was a massive prayer vigil, time for hugs, tears and prayer prayers. >> we weep with you today but we weep because we have hope that tomorrow is going to be brighter. you are aurora. we are aurora. we grieve together. >> the main purpose, to help the shattered community find a way back. >> while our hearts are broken, our community is not. we will take this experience and use it to strengthen our commitment to each other. our aurora will be a model city on how to absorb and overcome a terrible and unexpected tranngt.

>> oaurora, colorado, 10 miles east of denver. before, it was striving to be a model of resilience, it was a model of diversity, a rich mosaic of different cultures. half of the 325,000 residents are minorities. >> i cover aurora public school districts. it's one of the school districtses with the highest number of languages spoken in the entire country. 150. >> there's a big nepalese community and korean and big african community. >> local reporter, adam goldstein grew up in aurora. >> i think you can't find a place as american as this city, just in terms of the diversity. >> when you grew up, was it as diverse? >> my recollections start as a little kid growing up across the

street from a palestinian family and my father is jewish. they were my best friends growing up. it wasn't until i was older that i thought, this is a situation that's probably unique to aurora and probably unique to the united states. >> and from this unique place came a unique response to the tragedy. hours after the shooting, gordan ghawi, brother of jessica ghawi, victim, raised an uncommon idea, keep the shooter's name out of the media. >> i want my sister's name out but i don't want the air-time saturated with this shooter's name. i don't want him to get his 10 seconds on television and the victims' names remembered rather than this coward. >> it was an idea quickly embraced by th media.

>> i refuse to say his name. [ applause [ applause ] >> at my house, we're just going to call him suspect a. >> it was a message that resonated across the nation. after meeting with the survivors and victims' families, even president obama agreed not to mention the shooter's name. >> that vow also hit home with a community all too familiar with tragedy. in the shadow of aurora just 20 miles away. >> i am in full support of this idea of not naming the shooter's name and not putting attention on the shooter. >> craig scott is a survivor of the columbine shooting 13 years ago. two of the 13 people who died in

that tragedy were scott's friends, shot right in front of him. another was his sister, 17-year-old rachel scott, murdered while sitting on the grass near the school entrance. >> it would have definitely helped me to hear the names of the shooters at columbine less, to see them less on the media, see them less on the front pages of newspapers, holding their guns. >> it's a move that may erase a killer's name, but it can't erase the pain. one thing that can help, scott says, is spreading kindness. it's why his family created a foundation called "rachel's challenge" to try to prevent more school violence. what helps most of ul, he says, remember the lives of the victims. >> micayla medek.

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on the bottom of a dirt hill, across from that darkened theater, 12 crosses stand, to memorialize those who were tragically lost last week. 12 lives, 12 futures, 12 names that must be remembered instead of that one name everyone wants to forget. we will remember them. alex sullivan. >> this is him. his name is alex sullivan. today is his birthday! >> before we knew for sure who had lived and who had died, alex sullivan was one of the first names we heard. >> if you find my son, call me. >> in the hours after the shooting, his father desperat y

ly searched for his missing 27-year-old son. >> i'm crying because i know he's hurt. i know he's hurt so i've got to get to him and find out where he is. >> alex never made it out of the theater. he had gone there friday night with a group of friends. it was two days before his first wedding anniversary and the night of his 27th birthday. he tweeted, oh, man, one hour until the movie. it's going to be the best birthday ever. >> i always saw him as bigger than life. if you want to count a rich man by the people that know him and call him friend, he was the wealthiest man i ever met. yea yeah. >> veronica moser-sullivan. she was the smallest victim of this very big tragedy. you have no doubt seen her picture, an adorable 6-year-old finding delight in a drippy ice-cream cone. >> just a vibrant 6-year-old, excited, just learned how to swim. just a great little girl, excited about life.

>> she loved to read and play dress-up. jessica was at the theater for girl's night with her friend and mom. still in the hospital, devastated by the loss of her adorable daughter. her father's reaction to the shocking loss, she is the last girl i will ever love. alexander j. boik, everyone called him a.j., 18 years old. he, too, was just getting his life started. family and friends who posted this video on facebook said he always brought a smile and quick wit to every occasion. a.j. dreamed of becoming an art teacher. he was supposed to start art school in the fall. micayla medek. she also had dreams. three years away from a college degree, the 23-year-old said on her facebook page, i am a simple independent girl who's just trying to get her life together while still having fun.

john larimer. >> he was an outstanding shipmate, a valued member of our navy team. and an extremely dedicated sailor. >> larimer already had his future mapped out. a 27-year-old petty officer in the neighbor, the fourth generation of a military family going back to his great-grandfath great-grandfather, who served in world war i. jesse childress, another military man, air force staff sergeant. friends say childress worked hard by day but liked toave fun at night. >> if 24r wasthere was a flag f team he was there to do it and went bowling every tuesday 98. >> on wednesday night he mixed pleasure and he went to the movie with air force buddies and they say he was fatally wounded when he dove in front of a family friend. it wa't the only act of

heroism that night. alex teves, the 24-year-old arizona native is described as being all about life. it's not surprising to those close to him that he would lose his life to save othanother. that night, he lost his life blocking a bullet from his girlfriend, amanda. she said there's no doubt he saved her life. >> i wouldn't be here without him. >> friends say he's also a hero by day. alex had just graduated from the university of denver with a masters in counseling. he had a passion for sports and an even bigger for passion for working with children. >> he would take time, mentor kids in the community who didn't have dads and were really hurting. >> matt mcquinn, the 27-year-old ohio native, and his girlfriend, samantha yowlered a been dating for two years. his heroic act will be remembered by her forever. as the attack in the theater began, he threw himself in front

of samantha. >> it's not surprising to me his first thought would be her. that's what a man does, he protects his loved ones. i'm very proud of him. i'm going to miss him. >> jonathan blunk. >> he laid against me and told me what to do and saved my life. >> she says her bit of has always been a her follow. at age 26, blunk had already served five years in the navy and hoped one day to become a navy seal. those close to him remember his spontaneity and love for his 4-year-old daughter and 2-year-old son. gordon cowden. he also left behind two children that night. their memories will be of a

51-year-old man one called a true texas gentleman that loved life and his family, and a world traveler with a keen sense of humor. becca wingo, a hard working single mother. wingo juggled the challenge of working while raising two young daughters. after 11 years in the air force, the 32-year-old was back at the school studying to help foster children and friends say she did it with a smile that lit up the room. jessica ghawi. her smile has become familiar to me. she was the first name we heard when she was the first victim identified. her boyfriend remembers. >> i guess like a firecracker, yeah, she was exploding with personality and charisma and happiness. >> an aspiring sportscaster, 24-year-old ghawi used the name, "redfield" on the air. it was her fiery red hair and electric personality that made those close to her know she would be a star one day.

>> i have no doubt in my mind she would have done it and been someone the whole world would have known for a different reason. >> but jessica, like 11 others, will now be remembered because the unimaginable happened. for those left behind, there is mourning, a fight to find meaning and a search for some kind of peace, a search that drove jessica ghawi to write words that turned out to be prophetic, words in hindsight have so much more meaning, words she wrote after surviving another deadly shooting in a toronto mall one month earlier. >> that was a reminder we don't know when or where our time on earth will end, when or where we will breathe our last breath. i say every moment we have to live our life is a blessing, every second day is a gift. i know i sure