tracy weiss, can you tell us about the walk-ins you're receiving? >> i don't have a whole lot of information on those right now. i can tell you we were doing decontamination for them. and triaging and treating them as quickly as we do. >> what is decontamination? >> the cleansing and removing of the gas. i don't have all of the specifics on the process at this point but just treating them for the tear gas. >> what is it they are complaining of when they come in to the emergency room? >> you know, i don't have the specifics on that either, as you can imagine, if there's been gas inhalation, there's probay painful breathing and inhalation in the eyes and things like that. that's what we're helping take care of at this point. >> do you have a number of how many people are walking in and being treated for that? >> not at this time. >> tracy, i know you're working hard and i really appreciate the time you're spending with us this morning. we'll continue to check in with you to see the progress that's happening there. tracy weise. >> you're looking at liv

. >>> let's send you to the aurora medical center where you are hearing from spokeswoman tracy weiss.> the phone number to call is 303-872-5292. that's the best number for them to call. 303-872-5292. i'm going to pass it over to dr. lansville for a status update. >> good morning. we started receiving patients at about 1:00 this morning. some of the initial patients arrived by police vehicle. some of the most critically ill were immediately seen, evaluated and taken to surgery. we received 15 patients from this incident, 12 of which had gunshot wounds. three of which had some sort of fume, chemical exposure. at this point we have admitted seven patients to the hospital. four, as i said, have gone to the operating room emergently. those patients are alive. we have had no fatalities so far. we have two pending surgery this morning as well. we have had four total patients discharged. we don't anticipate any further patients from this incident, but we are always prepared. as a level 2 trauma center we have an internal disaster program we implemented after 1:00 a.m. we were able to mobilize