>> glor: and good evening, aeryone. the epicenter of this tragedy is the theater behind us. but tonight the focus of the investigation and the hemembrance has moved well beyond. some explosives and chemicals removed from james holmes' apartment have been destroyed, though investigators saved samples that are being sent to the fbi lab in quantico, virginia. the accused killer and former aience student posed with brightly died hair for a rrotograph is scheduled to be in court for the first time tomorrow morning. and president obama arrived late today buckley air force base, which lost two servicemen in the shooting. he met privately with families of the victims. >> as i described, i come to them not so much as president as i do as a father and as a husband. i think that the recent stories like this have such an impact on us is because

we can all understand what it would be to have somebody that we love taken from us thethis fashion. >> glor: as the immensity of the toll comes into focus, the egining question remains, why. barry petersen begins our coverage. >> reporter: the 12 dead have now all been identified. the youngest victim six-year-old veronica moser-sullivan. her mother was shot in the throat and chest and remains in critical condition. and aunt struggled in church stis morning as a pastor talked of the shooting. >> and this whole region is in grieving. >> reporter: also among the dead d aj boiold a.j. boik at his high school last night, some who gathered were overwhelmed by his death. long time friend jordan crofter was at the movie with aj. >> it just sucks that he's gone. out of anybody in that movie theater, he was the last one to deserve anything like this. >> reporter: with six victims nditl in critical condition, aurora's mayor steve hoggan has seen many of them and warns that

the death toll may rise. >> it is possible we might see more casualties. >> reporter: late yesterday, ivthorities detonated explosives found at holmes apartment and in an exclusive interview today on ervie the nation", aurora police urief dan oates quashed rumors of an accomplice. we all the evidence we have, l mry single indicator is that this is all mr. holmes activity cud that he wasn't particularly aided by anyone else. >> reporter: when police surrounded the theater, alert officers spotted holmes wearing a nonregulation gas mask and realized he was not a member of the swat team. that lead to his arrest. >> kudos to my two cops that eam.bed this guy and that sharp d servation that they made immediately that lead them to suspect him as being the suspect. >> reporter: and while the investigation goes on, a city today tried to make sense of the senseless. as they did 13 years ago after n e columbine massacre.

josh wiedmann was a high school sunior during that shooting, lessons he is drawing on today as a pastor at aurora's elevation church. how do you help people deal with the anger? >> the main way i help people deal with the anger is telling them that you have to live through that anger but you just can't stay there. >> reporter: the court proceedings begin tomorrow. eelmes will be advised by a judge that he is under investigation for homicide. hod jeff, the more formal littls filed probably a little bter this coming week. he jeff: barry petersen, thank ened t as the gunman fired into the darkened theater, one of the youngest survivors tried to save ste youngest victim. john blackstone now with heroic story. >> reporter: at the church in the city today, pastor michael walker told a story of heroism, how a 13-year-old struggled to save the life of six-year-old veronica moser-sullivan, the youngest person to die.

>> reporter: that 13-year-old is kaylan. >> i'm still in shock. i don't think that it's hit me wt what i have been through. >> reporter: kaylan's mother, heather, asked us not to use ueir last name. they want privacy to recover but agreed to share kaylan's story. >> she was trying everything she >> she w ssssibly could to save another avean being. >> reporter: kaylan went to the midnight movie with four others, family and friends, including six-year-old veronica and veronica's mother. then the shooting started. >> it was terrifying because i >> i couldn't see... i couldn't see the person who had done it. >> she went to a simple movie with five people and three of them got shot. >> reporter: when the shooting stopped, kaylan tried to give

veronica cpr but a wounded adult had fallen on top of the six- year-old. thu're not a very big girl that must have been a struggle. >> yeah. i was asking the person who was on top of the one i was trying fo help if they couldn't move. but they kept saying that they couldn't. they were numb. and i just was begging the person just please, try, please. because we have to get out of here. >> she kept struggling until the slice arrived. >> i love that she thought of somebody else besides herself. that is amazing to me. >> it's horrifying picturing in my head what i saw that night. >> reporter: you say not a night.h on her, not a wound that we can see. >> right, but mentally, she's going to be dealing with this for a really long time. >> reporter: kaylan volunteers to help the homeless, she once

home shaved off all her hair for a cancer drive. >> reporter: sounds like she s like s is a role model for some people. >> yeah, she absolutely-- she is. yeah. .> reporter: now kaylan will get nome help. he'll start grief counseling this week. john blackstone, cbs news, aurora, colorado. >> glor: law enforcement awficials are compiling a more complete picture tonight of lmmes holmes, as they gather considerable evidence about his background. dim axelrod is following that of t of the story. oom, good evening. >> reporter: well, good evening, jeff. tonight james holmes in solitary confinement in the jail behind me, separated from the rest of the male inmates, we're told, for his own safety. investigators continue to work towhy james holmes apparently snapped and what was behind his alleged rampage.

>> that's why we brought in the fbi behavioral analysts. they're going to figure all that stuff out and there will be no utsy or quick answers. >> but the question of who james holmes is seems even more sellenging. -oe 24-year-old appears to have few connections with people. yesenia luhan lives in the apartment building next to where eolmes lived the last 14 months. >> you see everybody's face, everybody's faces. >> reporter: but you never saw his face. >> never once saw his face. and i lived here about eight months. never once seen his face. >> reporter: this resume posted on monster.com suggests high and llectual functioning. face.s was a phi beta kappa neuroscience major at the university of california riverside. fornying the flight muscles of hummingbirds as well as an at rn at the salk institute e designediego where he designed tecomputer program to illustrate brain injuries. he was also a camp counselor in los angeles, providing leadership and guidance a according to him, and being a

positive role model for kids. but another online posting draws a stark contrast with that holmes. it's a picture of him with died td hair posted on the adult indend finder a few weeks before the massacre. saying he's looking for a fling or a casual sex gal, asking any potential sex partners, "will pote rivatesit me in prison?" the owner of a private gun range here says he received an application from holmes just last month ago from holmes llking to join. the gun range owner called the phone number listed on the application, no answer. het he said he heard what he called a freakish voice-mail greeting with a really weird voice. jeff? >> glor: jim axelrod, thank you. friday, talks of increase in gun inntrol but tonight there are few signs the issue will emerge as a major campaign issue this lection year. bill plante is at the white house. bill, good evening to you. >> reporter: good evening, jeff, niat's right, the president and eptt romney did put their campaigns on hold over the weekend but the tragedy in

colorado could inject new calls cessontrol access to deadly weapons into this volatile election year. on "face the nation" today new york mayor bloomberg, an eutspoken advocate of gun presrol challenged both the president and romney to take action. s> they want to lead this eyuntry and they've said things before that they're in favor of ultning things like assault weapons. where are they now and why don't they stand up. and if they want our votes, they better. >> reporter: both candidates is have supported the second amendment right to gun rinership. the president after the shooting of arizona congresswoman gabby giffords wrote in an op-ed there is room for us to have reasonable laws that uphold liberty, ensure citizen safety and are fully compatible with a robust second amendment. challenger mitt romney asked about second amendment rights at a town hall meeting put it this way: >> i believe that people should have the right to bear arms for tatever legal purpose they have in mind. simple answer. >> reporter: colorado democrat ed perlmutter whose

congressional district includes aurora says it should be up to congress to do something about the ease of obtaining weapons. >> should we reinstate the assault weapons ban? assault we should. and i think that's where it i starts. th ought to be taking a look at how this guy was able to how mulate so much ammunition. he had enough ammunition for like a small army. i mean this is-- there is something wrong about that. >> reporter: but wisconsin >> republican senator ron johnson says the real problem isn't lapons and more legislation is t's olution. >> it's really an issue of freedom. and i swore an oath to defend ate constitution. and part of that constitution, the second amendment which guarantees the right to bear arms. and these types of laws infringe upon that right. >> reporter: neither the president nor romney are likely to take mayor bloomberg's ngage one to engage on gun control. the national rifle association remains one of the nation's most influential lobbies. and there are plenty of gun s ners in swing states like ohio and florida, states which are

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t reporter: the penn state community awoke to a double dose n bad news today. dhe iconic statue of joe paterno, its once revered ovotball coach, had been removed and its beloved football team is about to get hit with unprecedented sanctions by the ncaa..a. a top n.c.a.a. official told cbs news the unprecedented scope of the penalties center on their length and impact. but do not include the so-called th death penalty, the suspension of ine program for a year or more. the source said they do include probation, a loss of football scholarships, a ban on hefty ason bowl games and a hefty fine. which in the long run will cut far deeper into the program. >> i think what the n.c.a.a. is ure of the p after here is the culture of the program. and so much of that, i think that's what they're really trying to punish. >> reporter: n.c.a.a. president mark emmert will announce the

sanction tomorrow morning. last monday in an interview with brvis smiley on pbs, his brewing anger over the sandusky scandal was evident. >> i don't want to take anything off the table. i don't know that past precedent makes particularly good sense in this case because it is really an unprecedented problem. d in torter: the problem is refined in the 267-page freeh report authored by former fbi director louis freeh was summed up like this. >> i "in order to avoid the consequences of bad publicity, themost powerful leaders at the university, former president graham spanier, vice president gary schultz, athletic director tim curley and paterno hupeatedly concealed critical facts relating to child sex abuse allegations against sandusky from authorities." early this morning in a devastating blow to his once pious image, paterno's larger- than-life statue was hauled away. leaving behind his words on a wall. thhey ask me what i would like written when i'm gone. ite pe they write i made penn

d ate a better place, not just that i was a good football coach." words that now more than ever yirry a hollow, damning ring. armen keteyian, cbs news, new york. >> glor: overseas three civilian contractors were killed in afghanistan today in herat drovince when a gunman wearing an afghan uniform opened fire on ng angn contractors. nato also says five troops have ctors naled in roadside bombings roer the past two days. there is no word on nationalities. tead, the fighting intensifies in syria as street battles - inte in two main cities. that story is next. a party?

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lebanon. fromre seeking safety from a civil war that has finally come to their doorstep. "in my home i could see the helicopters bombing and tanks tankng missiles," says this woman from one of the northern suburbs of damascus. in the capital, syrian soldiers have regained control of so eighborhooods that have fallen at least in part to opposition fighters. state television told viewers government troops were mopping roopsmnants of what they've always called the terrorists. but as the fighting dies down in htingrea, it flares up in another. allepo has seen fierce clashes over its past 48 hours. it's been a center of support tr the president as that is now clearly fraying. as for president assad he's appeared for the second time on television since the bombings that killed four of his top officials last week. hi but there is no confirmation on

where exactly he is or to what htent he's in charge as the opposition offensive continues. today the free syrian army claimed it had seized yet another border post on syria's urkntier with turkey. this has been the bloodiest week oonce the syrian conflicts began. 1,260 people killed and of them 299 were syrian government forces. elizabeth palmer, cbs news, beirut. >> jeff: the worst rainstorm in six decades has swamped china's capitol beijing. nearly nine inches of rain fell overnight flooding roads and collapsing rooftops, at least 37 atople are dead. thousands of others were forced fo higher ground. hundreds of flights were canceled at beijing's airport. norway today remembered its own ass killing. 77 people most of them teenagers were killed one year ago when a gunman opened fire at a youth

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>> jeff: with 57 people shot what happened here was the worst mass shooting in modern american history. 12 people dead, most in their 20s. all with decades of life ahead of them. navy officers knocked on a front door in the chicago suburbs delivering the worst possible news to john larimer's family. stationed at buckley airbase, he was one of three military men killed. airmen jesse childress from the jame base loved comic books and nick named his car the bat mobile. jonathan blunk had served in the navy, a father of two he threw himself in front of his girlfriend during the shooting. matt mcquinn also died shielding his girlfriend. she worked together at a target store. alexander teves pushed his girlfriend to safety as well. he had just earned a masters degree in psychology. rebecca wingo worked in a

restaurant while earning her degree. she was a mother of two. alex sullivan went to the screening to celebrate his 27th birthday. his first wedding anniversary would have been today. sqles ca ghawi an aspiring sportscaster narrowly avoid a multiple shooting in front just last month. micayla was attending college and saving money to travel to india. aj boik just graduated high school. he loved making pottery and wanted to be an art teacher. gordon cowden, the oldest victim had his two teenagers with him. they both escaped unharmed. and veronica moser-sullivan was the youngest, only six years old. her mother remains in intensive care. and veronica mother is one of nine shooting victims still listed in critical condition tonight. that is the "cbs evening news." later on cbs "60 minutes." i'm jeff glor, reporting tonight from colorado. good night

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