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detonated them in an undisclosed location. holmes is now in solitary confinement and set for an initial hearing on monday and appointed a public defender. meanwhile, the coroner's office released the names of all 12 victims who died in the shooting early friday mning and even with the suspect this custody, state, local and law enforcement officers are dealing with another threat from the alleged shooter. let's go to the abc 7 news reporter at the theater in colorado. >> yes, alan, exactly where i was yesterday only the the scene here is a different today. only because the mall area is now open. you have shoppers coming and going, but you see the century 16 theater behind me, that's blocked off by police again, after that horrific shooting where police say suspect james holmes shot and killed 12 people and injured more than 50 more. but as you mentioned, police are here and they're also at his apartment trying to make sure there are no massive explosions.
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>> first, there was a warning. then a controlled explosion came from inside james holmes' apartment. the man accused of opening fire during friday's midnight showing of "dark knight rises" in aurora, colorado. >> this is what our team is dealing with. >> after his arrest, holmes reportedly told police his apartment was booby trapped. they disarmed a trip wire and cautiously moved in to dismantle other incendiary device, hoping to find a motive. and he had guns and body armor and 6,000 rounds of ammunition when he killed 12 and wounded dozens more. >> we now know a six-year-old girl is among the dead and for the survivors, some of their injuries will be permanent. >> today is the day that there's going to be some realization that there is going to be some serious long-term issues. >> there will be emotional scars as well. >> it was just a lot of blood,
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kept-- i will never forget how much bloody saw. >> 16-year-old is an in aurora for a weekend conference and she and older sister malia were at the showing. >> we were in the theater next to it, but our seats were right by the wall that was adjoining to theater nine. >> one of their friends was hit by a bullet that came through that wall. >> he had a hole like about this big in his forearm and blood was just coming out of it. >> they rushed out of the theater and got help for their friend, who is now doing well. and again, their friend is doing well. they say he's in good spirits and as for the two girls and their mom, they're also proce processing it, they say it feels surreal almost like it didn't really happen, but trying to get over it just like everybody else as best they can. >> wow, and yesterday some survivors were actually coming back to the scene. are you seeing any of that today? >> yes, in fact, i'm seeing some
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of the same people here yesterday. they just want to get out their stories and tell people what happened here and a lot of people are coming by in fact in the last half hour or so, there's been a sign that somebody put up, community of aurora and everybody is signing it and the community is really coming together. >> in colorado tonight. well, we are learning more on the identities of the victims tonight. including the youngest victim. six-year-old veronica moser has gone to the movies with her mother, in intensive care unit with budgets in her throat and abdomen. 29-year-old air force reservist, jessie childress. 18-year-old alexander boyt. and jonathan shielded his girl friend. and a mother of two, gordon cow den and alexander, jessica
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ghawdi, and alex sullivan. before learning of his son's passing, sullivan's father yesterday made a desperate attempt to find him. >> he's 27. we're looking for him. they don't have him on any list yet. >> he was at the movies. >> he was at the movies. what's your name? >> and alex sullivan's family later released a statement saying he was smart, funny and above all he was loved dearly. one shooting victim and his wife of just two weeks escaped serious injury. brandon axlerod and wife denise and best friend josh nolan were in the awed nens and piled on top of each other, between rows of seats when the gunman started firing. >> josh helped me protect my wife and he got shot. >> josh was hit in the arm and the leg. he has undergone surgery and is recovering from his centers. ahead on world news tonight, the
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survivors, and patients defying the odds next at 5:30 on abc 7. the suspect in this case is not talking to police. and he's asked for an attorney. 24-year-old james holmes is said to be a brilliant science scholar graduating from uc riverside with honors. he was also enrolled in the neuroscience ph.d. program at university of colorado in denver, but dropped out in june and holmes was working on a testify biological of psychiatric neurological disorders. >> and they believe he had been planning it and had the materials at his home. >> the parents of james holmes lives up in san diego where he grew up, but roots in northern california. holmes spent part of his childhood in salenas and named after his uncle who lives in caramel and an aunt who lives in santa cruz, he's the grandson a
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military professor who taught in monteray, the security around the theaters is a sensitive issue and today an entire theater had to be evacuated in santa ray, near tullely road and east capital expressway, where the abc 7 news reporter is live with more, lisa, what happened? >> alan, as you know, theater goers are on edge because of yesterday's mass shooting and today, those at both the mall and the movie theater behind me got quite a scare. >> i'm not sure. and right now-- >> thank you. >> what's going on? >> security won't tell anybody what's going on. >> and at 12:15, alarms sounded and amc movie theater employees walked into all 15 theaters and told movie goers to get out. and this is from the cell phone,
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and people are calm. dark knight is playing on several screens as well as 11 other movies. according to san jose police, the emergency with a water main alarm sounding, but no crime or threat had been reported. the entire eastern complex was shut down for about 30 minutes and then patrons were allowed back inside and some people just wanted to get out and stay out. >> we were just scared, a lot of us were scared and just trying to get out, but everybody was like slow, i was nervous and still sweating and nervous. >> i was a little bit concerned, but you know, it's-- there wasn't any screaming or panicking, it was about the safety precautions, because, what happened recently. >> theater management in several major bay area cities, including here in san jose have upped security in light of yesterday's attacks in colorado. and many have brought in extra private security guards, while san jose police have been told
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that their officers that patrol theater on foot and by car if they're not responding it a call already. as for those who were evacuated from this movie theater, i'm told that they can go back to the movie theater and get amc passes, that are good for any movie for more than a year. live in san jose, abc 7 news. >> thank you, lisa, in response to the shooting spree, hollywood movie studios agreed to suspend this weekend's box office reporting and they're joining warner brothers in withholding box office numbers through the weekend and warner brothers picture canceling appearances by the cast and film makers of the movie in mexico and japan and yesterday's premier in paris was canceled and in the u.s., amc has it's banned fans from wearing costumes or masks or fake weapons to the showing of the new movie and abc 7 will
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have continuing coverage of the colorado theater massacre throughout the weekend and have the latest developments online at abc 7 news.com and also get breaking news updates on twitter, and abc 7 news bay area, and on our facebook page, facebook.com/abc 7 news. >> when we come back, a five-year-old child is hit by gunfire in the east bay. that story is ahead and also the latest area bay police department have become the latest recipient of a letter containing a suspicious white powder. >> what a beautiful day, and stunning skies, warm temperatures, the breeze is bac$
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>> a five-year-old child was shot in oakland this afternoon. the child was taken to a local hospital and she's listed in guarded, but stable condition. police officers were called to the 1700 block of 50th avenue around 2:30 and they found the child with a gunshot wound. investigators would like to hear from anyone with information about that shooting. a motorcyclist was killed today after colliding with a van in san francisco. it happened around 9 this morning. police say the motorcyclist was driving on caesar chavez, and he slammed into a van travelling in the opposite direction. shut down caesar chavez and pennsylvania street for several hours and the driver of the van stopped and is cooperating with police. an investigation is ongoing. today, the san francisco police department became the fifth bay area police department in the past two days to receive a letter containing a suspicious white powder.
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similar letters have been sent to union city, berkley, hayward and san lee andro. the letter arrived around 11 today. and at fillmore, and it was not hazardous. >> hazmat arrived on the scene with others on the scene and went is through the hazmat i.d. machine i believe they found it to be flour. >> three of the other envelopes contained flour. the fourth remained sealed and postal inspectors and the fbi are still investigating. ahead, a hair owing experience for a truck driver, clinging for dear life. how he ended up here. we'll find out if these warmer temperatures stick around
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>> we want to show you some gripping i am manages from china where a truck driver was holding on for dear life after being thrown out of his truck's cab and carrying 30 tons of coal and turned over on a bridge and that driver was left dangling on the bridge 33 feet above the ground and the leg was stuck by the truck. and the crane was able to pull that man up to safety and the truck driver was hanging there for three hours and he's now expected to be okay. and we want to take a moment to say thank you, bay area and helped to raise thousands for bay area children and liking abc 7 on facebook, and from san jose, dale h from san francisco and richard m for martinez, thank you very much. and you can still make a difference and even get mention
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on the news, just like abc 7 on facebook right now and $1 is donated to the abc 7 train dream campaign. lisa is in today and beautiful in san francisco, but hat around the rest of the areas, lisa. >> yeah, that's right, 99 degrees in livermore, so, 37 degree spread from the coast and half moon bay is gorgeous. the winds you may have in theed picked up in live doppler 7 hd. and it's pushed well off the coast due to a strong northerly gradient and brought the temperatures up about 4 degrees. so, notice, no fog here, but it is going to come back and influence our weather tomorrow. right now, 99 in antioch with 90 san jose and 81 in freemont and everyone came up anywhere 2 to 310 degrees from yesterday's
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readings and take you further south and notice into monteray and watsonville. and we'll look for the fog to move on back and part of the reason is this wind. right now, winds are gusting to 35 miles per hour and 25 mile per hour gusts, mountain view, is that warm breeze right now, but a westerly wind, oakland 17 and we'll get the low clouds coming back together and that will aid in our cooling tomorrow. so, the fog at the coast is going to happen later on and that's going to bring the numbers down around 5 degrees or so and then, behind the sweet little system we're going to warm up briefly on monday, but a bigger cooldown comes our way tuesday and wednesday. so, overnight lows tonight, with the fog and low clouds at the coast, low 50's, 53 in the city, upper 50's, it's going to take a while though, pretty warm now, plenty of 80's and 70's through the nine, ten o'clock hour and these are towards five o'clock tomorrow morning so the big dome of high pressure from the east is beginning to retreat just a little bit and there's a weak
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system off shore and that's going to bring that on shore push, a return to the low clouds and fog and just a few degrees of cooling. so, a nice range once again tomorrow with low 60's half moon bay and a little fog from from the san mateo coast and look for five degrees of cooling in san jose. and 74 in watsonville, and a gorgeous day out there. if you thought it was too hot today. just enough to take the edge off tomorrow and warm it back a few degrees on monday and more substantial cooling, tuesday and wednesday and not much change at the end of the week, but it's pleasant up there. >> thank you, lisa. >> colin is has been following tiger woods at the british open. >> he didn't have the meltdown he had at the u.s. open on saturday, he's in contention, but he would have liked to have played better. >> in his career he allowed more
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>> welcome bark back. for much of saturday the talk was sunday. a final round pairing of tiger woods and adam scott. and former caddy now on the bag for scott. drama avoided because tiger couldn't hold up his end of the bargain. the weather mild and the english like to take advantage. the round three looked like the start of round three at the u.s. open for tiger. bogeyed three of the first three holes and able to right it. graeme mcdonald finished runner
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up and he'll play in the final pairing, 3 under 67. snakes in a birdie at 14. 7 under. and snedeker, four bag. no bogeys through two round five in the seven hole stretch today. adam scott chasing the elusive major and rolls into second straight birdie and minus 11. tiger, on 18. nasty left-right breaker would have been nice for momentum. par, 5 back at 6 under. he'll play alongside snede he ker, who pulled it together late and the dropping on 18:and the former major winners, ernie els and johnson, the pressure on scott to hold the field at bay. >> it's a good position, obviously, if i play a solid round of golf it makes it difficult for the other guys, that's all i'm going to concentrate on is my game and
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not worry about anyone else, it's a long round. 18 holes, a lot can happen. four shots is not a big lead either. >> and like to see him do it. when the giants and phillies get together the games are usually never short on drama and today's action will disappoint. and the marquee pitching mapup. turned into home run derby between the two and out in the 6th career homer. and four batters later with his 12th of the year, two run shot and just a triple shine of the cycle. bottom half, ham mel's answer and slopes the fast ball into the right field seats and first career long ball and phillies in a rut. moved to the 6th. and the curve is low and inside. and argued balls and strikes and that's an automatic ejection. and for howard, gone and cane knew it. second homer, phils tyke a lead. and didn't factor in the
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decision because in the 8th cabrera macked his 10th of the year and game tied at five. and it's the opposite after home run, blanco, in cabrera and 6-5. giants 7-1 since the all-star break. never in the 109 years history of the tour de france has a brit claimed the time. barring a massive wreck, his lead is pretty much insurmountable. and back to the british. i would have loved to see tiger and adam scott and the tabloids in london would have been fantastic. not going to happen. >> thank you very much. >> up next one
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>> coming up in a half hour on abc news at 6. president obama and g.o.p. contender mitt romney get ready for a fund raising trip to the bay area. we'll tell you what they're planning, plus, one san francisco resident restaurant backed out of the fau fight. and free gelato, and the museum celebrates the history of gelato and expected to have 20 original
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gelato making machines and documents and photographs and free gelato, creme with lemon peel and dark chocolate along with lemon sorbet with a tonight on a special edition of "world news" from colorado. authorities are right now breaking through the gunman's traps. tonight, federal agents joined the police in aurora. called in to hep at the apartment after investigators said this is something they've never seen before. defusing explosives, what we're learning inside. also, the delicate mission some place else. the trauma rooms. "world news" getting access to the intensive care unit. where we see the critically wounded firsthand. and the loss. a father's desperate search. >> tell me where he is, okay, find my son. i don't know where he is. >> we learn of the son, gone. and the brave mother remembering her daughter. what she told diane sawyer and what so many of you did.
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