pretty sizeable apartment complex and they have cordoned off the wear and evacuated that apartment complex for an undetermined amount of time. have some of the residents of that apartment complex been milling around? have they been asking questions about where they'll retrieve their belongings and pets or anything like that? >> reporter: you know, what's really frightening is we've spoken -- some of my colleagues have spoken to the woman that lives just below james holmes and is obviously one of the people that had been evacuated. she explained to us the night of the shooting that there was loud music emerging from james holmes apartment and that she had gone up there to knock on the door and at one point had called authorities to let them know about that, but they said they were too busy with the shooting and they couldn't spare someone to come over here and do that, but she said the door was unlocked and told us the door was unlocked. obviously, she's very emotional about the fact she easily could have opened up that door and who knows what would have happened

if she had done that. so luckily, for her, she decided not to do that and went back downstairs, but a lot of this area remains cordoned off and remains shut down. at one point, it would allow authorities to come back and james holmes' apartment, that will be shut down for quite some time and i'm not sure whether the surrounding areas will be opened up here in the coming days. obviously, the people whoive around this area are probably antsy to get back into their apartments and they'll be passing on developments about that and how that will change in the coming hours. >> ed lavandera, thank you. we're looking up into the third floor, if we can see that picture again from our affiliate kdvr, and bomb experts in that so-called bucket that has been raised to the third-floor level. it seems they're poking and prodding something. i know it's difficult to know from your vantage point and clearly, still some activity underscoring your point that they're far from over.

it's still a pain staking process and there are still many layers to peel back, so to speak, from the bomb experts' point of view before they can really ascertain whether this scene is safe and ready to go to try and collect some evidence. ed lavandera, keep us posted. go ahead. >> reporter: no, i was just going to say, what they had done earlier, they don't think it is completely safe in there. just about an hour ago we heard a controlled explosive device schfs what they called a -- this water bottle that kind of exploded and that was done to kind of dismantle the trip wires that were set up to one of the major explosive devices that they were the most concerned about. so when they say that major threat has been eliminated, that's what they're talking about. there are still other things in there that they're worried about, but now they feel they can work in better and safer conditions to figure all of that out. >> thanks so much for bringing that to us and clarifying for us, as well. a pretty big picture of what

they're having to deal with in that apartment complex. ed lavandera, appreciate it. we've been hearing from a number of victims who have been released from the hospital over the past 24 hours and they're talking about the horrific scene and talking about the close calls of their loved ones. one survivor was choking back tears today as he described how he, his new wife denise and his best friend josh ducked for cover as bullets sprayed. brandon axelrod says he and his wife were slightly injured by shrapnel when a chair armrest simply exploded. he says their friend josh protected them, but was shot in the arm and leg. listen. >> i'm actually -- i'm really okay. me, my new wife and my best friend josh went to the movie together. it was right after the opening action scene. it was quiet and the canister of

whatever going across the theater and then the fizzing of it and then the shooting and then the gun going off -- josh helped me -- protect my wife and he got shot. it just -- it wasn't expected, but i'm glad he was there with us because the three of us together, you know, we piled on each other and we kept each other safe, and, you know, luck or faith, whatever you want to call it kept us alive and, you know, josh -- while we were hugging each other in the aisle got hit in the arm and at some point because he's so tall and

lanky, he got hit in the leg, as well. he is doing really well. everybody here is taking really good care of him. he had surgery on his arm and his leg, and he's just going through the process of working through the pain and, you know, just what happened to us. i know he's really active, so i know for him it's going to be tough with the rehab and everything he's got to deal with because it's -- it's -- his arm and then his opposite leg. so it's going to be tough, but we -- he has his brother in town. he's from south dakota originally, so he has a good family and he's got us and we're going to get through it together and that's how we're going to deal with it. >> there are many people just like the man that you just heard from who have to be strong for their loved ones who are victims of this very heinous shooting

and doctors like bob snyder who are caring for their family members at aurora medical center and other hospital facilities in that general area. dr. snyder joining me now on the phone. you've been caring for a lot of these victims that have been getting treatment at your hospital, the aurora medical center. what are you seeing in these victims? >> we're seeing pretty much reactions across the board. for the most part, everybody's calm. everybody -- i believe it's starting to sink into them the scope of what happened and exactly what their injuries are and what they've got coming up in the near future and in the future as far as they can see. >> are they starting to talk about it? are they asking questions openly or is it that you notice in some patients that they're very

despondent? >> i would say despondent at this point. the patients that we're able to speak with for the most part, seem grateful is probably how i would describe them. they're interacting with us. nobody is withdrawn and has been shutting any of us out. they're communicating with us and the staff. so far i think we're all encouraged by what we're seeing from our patients. >> you're a trauma surgeon and you're used to emergency response of this caliber. however, this being as widespread as it is, how does it stack up with what we've been experiencing while being a trauma surgeon at this hospital. >> reporter: the experience that we have here, we see it on a pretty regular basis, but as you said, the scope of this, and the large number of people showing up in the e.r. all at once is unlike anything i've had to deal

with since i've been at this hospital. >> do you see in your future and perhaps the future of other medical providers there at the hospital that they, too, would need some assistance trying to grapple with all that they've seen just over this 24-hour period and the real residual effect that comes for an entire community when something of this caliber happens? >> the -- and we have resources here available for the staff that were involved and when the patients show up as quickly as they did. the administration at the hospital was very aware of potential issues that might be coming up. so we know that there are resources available for us. it's hard to speak to the community. it's such a random, senseless act that came out of nowhere. i'd like to think that if people need help or need to talk to somebody that they would either call the hospital or seek out some resources and find somebody to help them deal through this.

>> some victims have been lucky enough to have been released from the hospital, their injuries fairly superficial compared to some that are there for days, if not weeks. what do you see in some of the victims that you're caring for there? do you see that the recovery in hospital will take a matter of weeks or perhaps even longer? >> caller: i would suspect so, but just the injuries of the patients that we have is a pretty broad spectrum as far as injury severity. so there are a couple of the patients that we have that are in the hospital that we are hopefully looking forward to them leaving the hospital in the next day or two. there are some other patients that will probably require additional surgeries. so again, we're encouraged by what we're seeing from the patients today. even our critically ill patients are still stable enough that we're not having to schedule any emergency procedures or surgeries of that nature.

>> dr. bob snyder, thank you so much from aurora medical center, we wish you the best and the best in recovery for the victims that you're treating there as well. >> all right. thank you very much. later on today, roughly 50 minutes from now, police are scheduled to hold a news conference there out of aurora to give us the latest of the overall scope of this investigation and of course, cnn will be bringing that to you live and then later on, our coverage doesn't end. at 8:00 p.m., a special hosted by my colleague cnn's don lemon, a special primetime coverage special of this colorado theater shooting. all right, now that the hazards have been removed possibly from the suspect's apartment, well, what is next? retired fbi agent will tell us. i don't have to use gas. i am probably going to the gas station about once a month. drive around town all the time doing errands and never ever have to fill up gas in the city. i very rarely put gas in my chevy volt.

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known mr. holmes, drew joining us now from boulder. drew, what are you finding and who are you finding? >> caller: you know, it's a very frustrating search -- >> all right. it looks like we'll try to re-establish a connection to drew griffin because that signal is not strong enough for any of us to understand so we'll try again a little bit later. meantime, law enforcement officials say they believe they've eliminated all major threats from holmes' apartment. a short time ago they executed a successful, controlled detonation of sorts there. listen. >> so what might be next in this investigation, just ask retired agent ray lopez. ray with us now. thanks so much. we understand that while there is a level of success in what they've been able to detonate, it doesn't necessarily mean

they've eliminated all threats from that unit. so from your purview, what likely would need to take place next? >> i think -- fredericka, when will, i think the next step would be to ensure that the room and the entire apartment is safe because the principle behind clearing all of this is collecting evidence so they'll have to get forensic people in there and investigators who are not trained technicians and while those people are there, probably the bomb technicians will remain with them to ensure their safety, but directly to your question, i think things like improvised explosives, the chemicals were mixed in the apartment then you will have residual chemicals potentially laying throughout the apartment and those things have to be identified and either collected up and taken out of the apartment for the safety of the other residents, but also for the safety of the investigators. i would forensically examine to see if they were used in the devices he threw in the theater. >> this is delicate and it takes

an awful lot of time and here we are 24 hours after the shooting. police descended upon the apartment complex rather immediately and at this time we are seeing the results of this disruptor being used. in your view, is there an issue of many more hours to go before there is a comfort zone in which they can send a robotic or a human into the unit to try to retrieve evidence. >> right. i think what they're going to do is they'll stay using remote techniques and you mentioned a robot and that's a very good remote technique and they'll have to clear the apartment as well they can using the means. they will want to put a human being and someone with a bomb to get normal access to the building through the front door and clear those of any potential booby traps and clear those people. you still have other concerns in a booby trapped environment you have light switches and drawers that can be booby trapped to hurt people. you will have the bomb teches in

there for a while, even just the forensic collection to ensure the individuals. >> while this activity is happening in the apartment complex. that's what all of us can see, but from your point of view there are other things taking place in an investigative way involving the fbi and atf, et cetera to find out who this person is, what his intent may have been, what people have observed. those kiefrns of interviews are taking place, right? involving, perhaps neighbors, police may have located where they have been displaced to. maybe even by way of computer even though he doesn't have much of a digital footprint by way of facebook or twitter. that he might be able to look at particular destinations that he, james holmes may have gone for information to help plan this attack? >> yes, absolutely. i think one of the key things that the investigators will be looking for will be the computers. sadly, a lot of the information for homemade explosions and

improvised explosives are on the internet. you have all kinds of websites that promote this, i believe, for all of the wrong reasons and people go on there all of the time and once the investigators can get to this, if he had a laptop or desktop computer they can turn it over to investigators to do the forensic examination of computers and they'll have to go in and see which websites he visited and then with the collection of the evidence both from the theater and the devices that he threw and both what they find with the apartment they can almost narrow down the recipes and where these things came from and give them a good fingerprint of what was in his mind when he was developing these ieds and booby traps. >> thanks so much. thanks for peeling back the layers. thank you. >> meantime, in about 40 minutes or so, a scheduled police news conference out of aurora, colorado. we'll, of course, bring that to you as it happens at 4:00 eastern time for that press conference.

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>> all right. more now on the mass ack-ac mas aurora, colorado. the shooting suspect is being

described as withdrawn and not having much of a footprint and they're trying to put together a picture of who james holmes is, drew is joining us again on the phone from boulder. drew, what are you finding? >> reporter: fred, just to pick up on the conversation you had with ray lopez, i think getting to his computer will be key for this because what we are finding on the ground is even those who were physically close to james holmes really didn't know him and they were certainly not talking about limb especially when it comes to the university and the students and the professors who taught him. we've had so many people that we've contacted this. we don't want to talk back out and like one fellow i talked to today, he worked in a lab with james holmes for three months last summer and he said he couldn't say i was close to him and he couldn't say anyone was close to him and he worked somewhat alone and didn't

interact with a lot of people and that is certainly what with we're finding after two days of searching for anybody close to him. a lot of people in colorado just did not know this person at all. >> what brought you to the university of colorado? this is not the campus where james holmes attended, but apparently people who know him are there? >> reporter: yea. you know, you can imagine, some classmates who went to school with him down in aurora, colorado, are now going to the university of colorado, boulder. we were trying to track them down. we did go to a professor's home who taught james holmes, and he was so scared and didn't want to talk to us he sent his wife to the front door saying he couldn't talk to us. we have not gotten a lot of information from the university medical campus other than to say that holmes was in the process of withdrawing from the school. prior to that he had his access

cards taken away. that, we are told, is a matter of procedure and it didn't mean anything, and i should also tell you, fred, that i was on the campus this morning of the medical campus and saw a bomb-sniffing dog going through some of the various buildings that james holmes would have had access to when he went to school there. there didn't seem to be anything, but precautionary and there was some police presence and they were doing some kind of a sweep. i believe it was precautionary and the police the wouldn't give us details on that. >> drew griffin. thank you so much for bringing all of that to us from boulder, colorado. an equally perplexing investigation is taking place in bulgaria and now investigators there are pursuing a new lead. wednesday a suicide bomb detonated on a bus killing five israelis. a man caught on airport security video was the bomber, but now they're looking into the possibility that he had some

help. jonathan mann of cnn international is here to give us a better scope on this. a bizarre investigation. >> immediately it seemed they had some leads and that airport video was a crucial one, and i think we have it. what it shows is a man, you can clearly see he's wearing shorts, and if you can make out his hair it's really long. it's strangely long. some of the people who encountered him say he they thought it was a wig and he had remarkably long hair and that was the suicide bomber with that enormous backpack on his back that may have contained the nearly seven pounds of tnt. there are now other eyewitnesses coming forward saying no, the man who brought the backpack on to the bus had short hair. short hair and spoke english, they say, with a very distinct accent. >> is there a talk of a wig involved here or a different person? >> a wig, a haircut or a different person. it's very unusual for a suicide

bomber working internationally to have aked completely alone. the bomb comes from somewhere, there's money and support. so the possibility of a second accomplice is very real and given what they're saying right now it sounds like they're looking around for basic things. they know who the man in the wig was. they have his fingerprints and the dna from the remains at the scene. the question is whether that was the only bomber involved. >> wow! israelis are saying what? israelis are saying they don't know who that man is, but they know who is behind the bombing. they've been clear from the outset, prime minister netanyahu earlier in the week, and now prime minister ehud barack saying it was hezbollah. i think we have the exact text of his remarks. we know hezbollah is behind the attack. we know he had a fake driver's license from michigan. we know he had a western appearance and not the look of someone from the middle east. so the israelis seem to have moved very far and they have experts in bulgaria, but they

have to have information of their own and other experts aren't quite moving that fast although hezbollah has come up in public discussions. >> michigan driver's license? >> it's a strange detail to emerge from this. they found a driver's license, but it was for someone who purported to be from michigan, though the address on the driver's license was from baton rouge, louisiana. that's not the kind of mistake someone would necessarily make if they had any familiarity with any u.s. driver's licenses and it looked so fake that when the man in the long hair tried to rent a car, the rental office wouldn't give him a car because they said there was something suspect about his driver's license. it's an odd thing. you think about how carefully some people prepare their attacks and we were talking about james holmes, if this really was the work of an international terror organization they would get the identity documents. >> wow! very perplexing. it's one of these strange, loose threads as the israelis, the bulgarians try to figure out

exactly who was behind it. the israelis say they don't worry so much about who the bomber was. they say it's hezbollah and the bulgarians are looking into it. >> john mann, keep us posted because something tells us there will be many layers before we package it out. >> the victims of the colorado shooter are speaking out. one survivor actually played dead after being shot. from his hospital he'll tell us how he survived.

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>>a i very active crime scene in aurora, colorado. top bomb experts are at the book book bookie-trapped of john holmes. they've eliminated a trip wire and an explosive device. they've successfully carried out control, and the house is still not clear of all dangers and that it still could take hours. holmes is in custody accused of opening fire in a packed movie theater. 12 people were killed and 58 others injured. some victims of the deadly shooting rampage in colorado are already speaking out about the terrifying set of moments when the bullets started flying.

david delosier has one man's harrowing story. >> we're having units get into the scene now. there may still be somebody actively shooting. >> and he pulled out a shotgun, and i could see it clear as day and he opened fire on the front rows. i watched two shot. he shot once and it just lit up the theater and then he cocked and shot again. >> reporter: in those successes pierce came face-to-face with a killer. he was no more than 30 feet away from o farrell. >> he seemed very methodical. i never once heard a single word out of him. >> reporter: he said pearce, pearce, i'm shot, man, i'm shot. i said me, too, just stay down. and then he shot me a second time. >> reporter: the gun fire seemed to go on forever. o farrell feared his life would

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>> we'll get back to our continuing coverage of what's taking place in colorado. meantime, whether it's a smartphone or a tablet, many americans usually have some kind of digital gadget glued to their side, but what happens when the power goes out or you're spending time outdoors this summer? our tech expert mark salzman is here via skype from toronto and he's outside. it's beautiful, looking outside, products that use alternative energy. the self-powered radio, the frx-3. >> that's right. from a company called eton,

e-t-o-n and it has extra bells and whistles, yes, it's got am and fm and noaa if you want to know what's going on with the weather and maybe that's why you're using this because bad weather knocked out your power and there are three ways to power this radio and one is a good, old-fashioned hand crank. my kids are having fun with this. good, old-fashioned elbow grease will power the radio and it's got a solar panel on the top as well, so if you're camping and you want to make sure that this will stay juiced up for when you need it, you can use the sun's power and then there are also rechargeable batteries built into the back, but aside from the fact that it's an emergency radio. it's also a flashlight. as you can see, it's got different led lights and it can charge up your gadgets and it comes with cables that you can connect to your smartphone or tablet. it's a great little radio from under $60. that is an all-purpose radio

like i've never seen before. let's talk about other solar-powered products and there are other things, too, such as goal zero's adventure kit. what's in it? >> reporter: that's right. this is a two-part product from goal zero. one of it is a foldable solar panel that can charge up your gadgets. connect your devices through the cables that are included and it has a car kit, a 12-volt kit and that's one part of it is a foldable velcro solar panel that you can connect to your tent and the other part is four rechargeable double aa batteries in the double casing and that casing lets you connect your devices to it in case you don't have enough solar power and it takes a little while for the sun to charge without a device and it has a built-in led light. for emergency purposes, these gadgets are great for emergency preparedness and this is a product from goal zero. the suggested price is $160, but

you can find it for under $100 online. >> oh, my gosh. i can't believe the advent of some of these incredible accessories and gadgets. you mentioned camping and you can take a lot of this stuff, but then there are perhaps other options of the solar-powered kind of category that you can use when you're out camping. >> reporter: another well-known company that makes solar panels for outdoor use and camping and emergency preparedness is called voltaec systems and they have an inexpensive panel that you can attach to your backpack, for example. maybe you're backpacking across europe and you need extra power for your gadgets and you want it on the wall of your tent to the outside and this one is similar to the one i just showed you, but it's less expensive and it has less power than the one with i showed you brief yously, it has more power, but you're paying for that and it takes an hour of sun light to charge up for three hours of talk time and

not bad. solar panels are getting better all of the time and they're also dropping in price. that's an option from voltaec systems. >> this alone makes me want to go camping just as an excuse to get this kind of cool stuff. very neat. mark seattaltzman, thank you. go to cnn.com/tech and look for the gaming and gadgets tab. every saturday at this time we do bring you information on new technology and how it just might impact and improve your life. ♪

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tragedy. >> one of the most haunting things to come out of colorado this weekend and there's been no shortage of haunting things is the thought of all those people who had gathered at that theater and looked toward the front of the room full of hope that something would happen that evening. it's the implicit bargain that we all make every time we go to the movies. for a few hours, we put aside our worries. we don't think about work. and we allow ourselves to be entertained, to be amused, to be scared, to be moved, to be intrigued. and so the thought of all those men and women from different parts of the city coming to the theater looking toward the very front and opening themselves up to whatever might come next. the movie experience has always consisted of sitting in a dark room with people you know

nothing about but feeling safe, feeling protected, knowing that when the lights go up, the fantasy world is over and you go back to your real lives. so the prayers of the country go out to those who didn't leave the theater and those who did and for the rest of their lives will have to live with the unfairness of a weekend at the movies. hello everyone. i'm frederica whitfield in atlanta. i want to bring you up to date on the investigation taking place in aurora, colorado. a press conference may begin just moments from now. of course we'll take you to that live as it happens. until then, here is the latest. that loud pop you're hearing there, this is the bomb squad carrying out a controlled detonation at the apartment complex where the suspect lived

this as they slowly work to enter the booby trapped apartment of the suspect james holmes and a police spokesman made this announcement. >> it's been successful in disabling a second triggering device. although not certain, we are hopeful that we have eliminated the remaining major threat. however, we will not know this until we enter the apartment. >> we'll bring in ed eleven dara just outside that complex. >> now all the teams that they have here at the apartment complex which is that red brick building, now those teams that are on the ground because of that detonation, they used a water shot, which is like a water bottle that detonated and that allowed them to kind of get control of all the trip wires and various jars