inside that courtroom, our jim spellman. jim, we had a hard time lis epbing to what was happening inside of the courtroom, because we had audio issues and don lemon is also outside of the courtroom, and spell out, jim, what you heard the judge say. we got a little bit about the protection order and we can talk about thatbut can you fill in the gaps for us that we could not understand when the audio was cracking? >> sure. the probably the most important thing is that exactly one week from today 9:30 on next monday morning is when they will charge him and arraign him. they went through a number of the usual kind of things that they do about this that it is a no-bond-hold, and ordered him not to have any communications with witnesses or victims in this case. so, he'll be, you know, held in jail, so he would have to do that by proxy, but they wanted to be sure that there would be no harassment or anything of witnesses, but i will tell you if you were looking for from my point of view, if you were looking for clues into what was

jim spellman live in evansdale, iowa. thank you. >>> three more men are now coming forward telling police they were abused by jerry sandusky in the 1970s or '80s. they are the first people to accuse him of abuse before the 1990s, and it could mean that the 68-year-old coach began preying on children in his early 20s. there is no mention of victims before the '90s in the report by former fbi director louie freeh. >>> according to state college.com, the university is changing the name of the student camp ground right outside beaver stadium from paternoville to nittaniville. >>> george and barbara bush will not be attending the republican convention in tampa next month. a spokesman for the 88-year-old former president says he's confined to a wheelchair by a disease that's limiting his mobility and his ability to travel from his home in maine. back to you, soledad. >> i bet he would hate to miss that. one has to imagine at that age and his experience he'd love to be there. z, thank you. >>> well, the wildest drought in decade

jim spellman has the latest. jim? >> reporter: hey, christine, there are two tracks to this investigation, the search and rescue piece, that's draining this lake right here. the bikes were found and purse was found right along the edge. they've already been searching this lake but they want to be positive so they are draining it. by later today or tomorrow that should be done. the other is the law enforcement track where the fbi scent dogs come in, they've been questioning people, including family members increasingly the families think something bad has happened to their girls. here's the father of lyric. >> obviously something bad has happened. i believe that has not an accident, it's something -- it's something and that's what we're trying to find out. two people don't drowned in a lake where there's no dropoffs or dams or boat accident or something like that. there's -- to me knowing my daughter, this would never happen. >> reporter: the family knows that they are part of the investigation themselves. they've all

joined by correspondent jim spellman. jim, is it difficult emotionally to parachute into a scene of a tragedy like this? and talk to people with very raw feelings, they've lost loved ones or survived the shooting themselves? >> reporter: it sure is. i mean, i think you have to kind of put on your professional hat and just be sure you're doing the next thing and not getting caught up in that emotion while remaining aware of it. i live here in denver, howie. so this is -- this is kind of my turf. i travel on these streets. this hospital is a place i've been before. you have to kind of put that out of your head. i'll set the scene a little bit for where you go if you want to check it out. this is james holmes' apartment. right here is where everybody is -- where the authorities were trying to get in and dismantle all these bombs. so when you're right in the thick of it, next to -- >> could you have the camera guy swing around and show us, are there other cameras this? has this become a media encampment? >> sure. sure, you se

. >> jim spellman from us in colorado. we will be hearing from the attorney for the james holmes family in san diego. that will happen in less than an hour. watch for that. i want to talk more about this with sunny hostin. let's talk more about it. jim is right. a lot of people were waiting to see if he would have that flame red dyed hair. he did. odd expressions. we can call them odd. it was a brief stop there in court. what did you take away from it? >> it's interesting. the legal question at this point in this proceedings and we know there will be many proceedings is whether or not he's competent, not insane but competent. does he understand the nature of the charges against him. the judge was talking about first-degree. he can't get out. he's held in solitary confinement. does he understand the nature of the charges against him and can he help his defense team in his defense? can he aid? i saw someone, if he's not malingering that seems incompetent at this time to stand trial. he was sort of very out of it. that could

cnn's jim spellman is live in colorado springs, and you have more of the exclusive pictures which are actually pretty frightening to show us. >> reporter: that's right, carol. they are making a lot of good progress against this fire now. but this is our first look really at what it was like up close, fighting this blaze last tuesday when so many homes were destroyed. take a look. the scene in the devastated mountain shadows neighborhood of colorado springs now. but this is what it looked like last week as high winds drove the fire down from the hills. behind the camera, colorado springs fire department videographer steve shoeper. >> you're starting to smell the smoke. and your head is on a swivel. i have sparks raining down all over me. >> reporter: firefighters converged on the scene. they had to quickly determine which homes to defend and which ones were beyond saving while stopping the fire from advancing. >> made that line in the sand and they said, this fire does not get past us. and that's what they did. they held the line. and they didn't let it get past them. >> reporter: they

>> that's right. >> jim spellman on the scene. we'll check back with you. >>> let's talk more about james holmes, his appearance in court and what his state of mind might be. lisa, thanks very much for coming in. i'm going to show you a picture of the james holmes, and our viewers will see it right there. there's a mug shot of him shortly after he was arrested. you see the eyes wide open there. what, if anything, does that tell you? the fact that he dyed his hair multiple shades of reds? >> as an isolated issue, not much. if you take nit the context of his statement that he's the joker, and we know that the joker in some it rations, at least, had red hair. it suggests he's identifying the joker, which suggests the larger theme. >> which is what? >> the larger theme in the whole batman spectacle that the joker is the one who defeats the hero. he's the super intelligent person. only he can overcome the hero so he becomes the victor. >> forget fesht about this case. what makes someone who is obviously intelligent, graduated with high

cnn's jim spellman joins us live from centennial, colorado. what can we expect today, jim? >> reporter: well, well, zoraida, we will not see television cameras in the courtroom today. in four and a half hours he's going to make his way from the jail through an underground tunnel into the court. we expect him to be formally charged with 12 counts of first degree murder. and numerous counts of attempted first degree murder and other charges likely around the booby trapped apartment he set up as he went off to do this shooting at the movie theater. zoraida? >> let's of talk about the death penalty. any decision on that? >> reporter: that will come down the road. they have to take into account what the victims want to have and all of the evidence in the case. when they get to that point, but they tell me they would be shocked if the da does not go for the death penalty. >> jim spellman, thank you for that. next hour, remembering the victims of the colorado movie theater massacre, including 32-year-old rebecca's mother will join us live. >>> people chanting, tell the truth durin

jim spellman, thank you for that. >> it's about 14 minutes past the hour. moving on to politics, mitt romney is heading to poland, the final stop on his foreign tour. scheduled to meet with the country's prime minister and nobel laur et. >>> a deadly head on collision in a highway near phoenix. a tractor-trailer slamming into a mini van along interstate 10 in arizona killing all seven people in the van. take a look at those horrific pictures. police say the truck driver crossed over the median, hit the anyo mini van and both are listed in serious condition. >>> opening statements in the trial of a chicago area police officer accused of killing his wife. drew peterson is also a suspect in the disappearance of his fourth wife stacy, charged in the 2004 death of kathleen savio. her death was initially ruled an accident after her body was found in a bathtub. >>> michael jackson's personal physician is asking for a new round of testing on a piece of evidence that put him behind bars. conrad murray gave jackson a fatal dose of propofol mixed with lied cane. he sa

jim spellman was in. you can see he's wearing the suit under that. you see the black part and that's the top of that bullet proof vest. they are being careful about it. i don't think it's unusual that they would take someone from the detention center to the courtroom in the tunnel. it's there. that means that they use it from time to time. i'm not sure how often they use it but there's security. we had to go through several security checks. police are standing outside the courthouse and the detention center. police are telling people where to go and they can or cannot go in. >> we're looking at images of him closing his eyes and bobbing his head up and down. he did not have a family member inside this courtroom in aurora today. instead we understand they'll be making a statement via the family attorney in san diego 4:00 eastern time, yes? >> reporter: that's what we're hearing. no one officially from the family inside of the courtroom but we don't know. we're thinking not because the family has chosen to do this press conference or have a representat

jim spellman reports. >> reporter: when the fire roared into colorado springs, u.s. army captain emanuel eghana was four months into a deployment in the horn of africa. wife melissa was home taking care of the three kids. >> it was my son's tenth birthday that day, actually, and we'd picked up his cake. our home, the kitchen windows look up to the foot -- you know, the foothills and when i saw that fire come over the ridge is when i really knew that it was possibly very serious and i just said, we have to get out of here. >> reporter: the winds picked up up and the fire raced down the hill behind their home. she scrambled into the car with the kids and made their sway to safety at a friend's house. the bad news came later that evening when she saw this photo from the denver post. their home, front and center, engulfed in flame. meanwhile, in africa, her husband was following the news from back home on his smartphone when the picture showed up. >> so i texted to him and i just said, you know, here's our home. >> reporter: what did you think when you saw a picture of y

. >> jim spellman reporting live this morning. what can we expect when holmes appears in court today? i'm joined by criminal defense attorney sharon lico. thanks for being with us this morning. most of the documents in the case file are sealed. a gag order restricts what attorneys and law enforcement officers can say about the case. is this unusual? >> it's the way it needs to be. this case has to be tried in a courtroom, not by the media, not in the press. remember, they have to get an impartial jury and it's going to be hard enough given all the pretrial publicity. i would expect the defense possibly will file a motion to change venue so that it's not heard in arapahoe county but heard somewhere else in the state of colorado where people aren't as emotionally charged. >> some details are expected to come out in court today. what can we expect? >> we can expect to hear a laundry list of charges. i would expect at least a hundred charges against him -- murder, attempted murder, aggravated assault. we're going to hear issues regard

jim spellman is live in evans dale, i read the search has included helicopters and dogs and boats and they are saying these girls seem like they just vanished. >> reporter: good morning i'm at this lake they are draining, the level has gone down several feet here. friday it's so mysterious to everybody working on this. friday the two girls go out for a bicycle ride and the bikes are found, one of the purses is found but no sign of where the girls are, no sign of foul play either. then a massive search, almost 1,000 people from the community coming out here to help look for the girls and they found essentially nothing. as every day passes, the family is becoming more and more frustrating. here's anderson cooper 360 hast night. >> it's baffling to understand how someone got off with a 10-year-old and 8-year-old at the same time because it's as those they disappeared in broad daylight. >> reporter: as the standard procedure in any case like this, police have been questioning family members. several of them have told us they've taken polygraph tests and police say they are cooperating. th

jim spellman is live for us in aurora with the latest. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, soledad, the defense actually placed that motion in that same hearing where we first saw him but clearly his appearance was something they must have known was going to be shocking to people. judge granted that and also granted a motion for a gag order. so the police authorities in this case are no longer able to speak publicly about any of this. the information we've been getting is going to slow to more of a trickle as the hearings go on. people here got a bit of a surprise when christian bale, the actor who plays batman showed up here. it was a surprise to just about everybody. he visited patients in the hospital at the bedside. after that he came to this make shift memorial here and joined a prayer circle and prayed with people. it was all unannounced, they had no cameras with him and didn't want media coverage. our affiliate happened to be there and caught him. and it exploded on twitter and facebook, people pretty excited he took th

jim spellman, thank you. we'll have more on this topic with retired fbi agent ray lopez in just a moment. first a look at the day's top stories, christine romans has that for us. >> moupting concern in the u.s. and israel about chemical weapons possibly entering the fray in syria, fierce fighting continuing overnight in city of alep po, the assad regime clinging to power this morning. here's the development that's getting attention, a spokesman publicly threatening to deploy chemical weapons against any foreign intervention. it's a threat senator john mccain is taking seriously. >> there is a danger of chemical weapons that are presently under bash ar al assad's control from flowing to hezbollah, presenting a grave threat to the security of israel. >> president obama warning the assad regime it would be a tragic mistake to use chemical weapons, promising syria will be held accountable if it does. >>> a new era for penn state's football program after a massive punish from the ncaa. they leveled a $60 million f

. >> jim spellman, thanks so much. we'll talk more about that and the legal ins and outs with paul cowin at the bottom of the hour. >> mitt romney's world tour moved into poland today. the stop followed a day and a half in israel and a couple days in london for the olympics. meeting with polish leaders and visiting a world war ii memorial before heading to jerusalem. romney made news there, mostly would talk about iran. let's talk about why he made the headlines. >> well, certainly mr. romney had tough talks on iran. he also made very, very clear that he fully supported israel. he said he would respect israel's decision to defend itself, even if that was -- if israel decided to do a pre-emptive strike on iran to keep iran from building a nuclear weapon. he also talked about the fact that he believes the united states should never openly criticize israel, that it should treat israel as one of its closest allies, especially because what is happening in the region, including what is happening in syria, what happened in eg

our jim spellman met them and asked the boys how they are feeling right now. >> it kind of feels like sadness. >> i miss them so much. >> most of the time i think why me but that's pretty much normal because like people who go through that think why me. why does this happen to me? >> do you ever get an answer to that question? >> no, not really. >> reporter: they manage as best they could. >> it has been a struggle. been to some counseling. we have gone up and down. but everyone is doing much better. >> reporter: and then the fire came forcing them to pack up what few things they could and head for safety. >> as we drove we could see the side of the hill just exploded. there had to be 40 fires just bam. >> reporter: grandma's house was destroyed. the boys would have to start over yet again. tell me how this makes you feel. >> like a little kid. >> susan joins us now. thank you so much for coming on to talk to us. first of all, let me ask you, how are your grand sons doing? beautiful little boys. they are lucky to have you. how are they doing right now? >> they're adjusting. they are v

jim spellman joins me live from colorado springs. you have just gotten some exclusive video from families returning home. what is going on? >> reporter: this is a family ted and kate. they first discovered that their home burned when they saw it on the front of "the denver post" on sunday morning. that was shocking. the city let people in the affected area go in for a few hours to look around. they had to reevacuate now this evening. we asked them to bring a camera with them and show us what it is like to revisit their home. this was where they son took his first steps, where they brought him home from the hospital, almost all gone now. a few bricks and a pillar near the garage. a washer and drier on the upper floor down in the basement burned out. it is unbelievable to me to look at how destructive this fire was. sometimes you'll see a house one or two down completely unaffected. these families are facing a tough decision about whether they are going to rebuild in these neighborhoods or not. they say absolutely they will especially

jim spellman is at the theater. what was the scene like there overnight? >> well, last night, gary, people started forming this makeshift vigil with dozens of candles. and it's still burning there tonight. nobody is there now but it's just one of those organic vigil sites that pop up. they are blank a community-wide vigil. ever since columbine this community has been protective almost of that legacy. and i think this ties into it. people will use it as a healing opportunity and a chance to really show solidarity. on an individual basis, today they have grief counseling at a pair of high schools to help people process the trauma. >> jim, i feel so bad fort families of those who lost loved ones. the bodies were in the theater for so long and weren't given the exact word if it was their laughed ones. finally they got the word last night. have the bodies been removed? >> yeah. around 5:00 last night they were able to get all the bodies out of there. it takes a long time for the coroners to come in and the crime scene investigators to come in and process these

. >> we want to bring in jim spellman. he joins us now from the lake. where are things now? i see the lake behind you. it looks like there's a lot of water to get out. they got a lot of work to do there. >> reporter: it's gone down a lot. they think by tomorrow this lake will be drained. over the weekend they had about a thousand volunteers searching the area. they found nothing that's really advanced the investigation. they want to drain the lake and be serng there is nothing in here that will advance the investigation. we also know that the other part of the investigation, more of the law enforcement angle has been advancing a bit. they have been working on questioning members of the family. i spoke today with daniel, the father of misty, one of missing girls. he said he was interrogated by police and accusing him of something to do with the disappearance. he got up and walked out of the interview. we know police are under no obligation to tell the person they are speaking with the truth and it's very common for them to go through the family members. we know that's been go

jim spellman is live with more here. how is the grounding of the c-130s, has to make tremendous impact on the fire fighting efforts there? >> reporter: absolutely, brooke, there's a lot of tools firefighters have in their arsenal, up to these giant c-130 planes. they outfit them to drop 3,000 gallons in five seconds, it can cover a quarter mile stretch, 100 feet wide in the five seconds, it's definitely one of the big tools they use in a quickly advancing fires. they want this back in the arsenal as quick as they can. listen. >> they are crucial in fighting every fire they go out on because if the units go to a mission, that means that all of the other assets are either unavailable or fully tasked. >> reporter: that's a tool, brooke, that they'll want back in the tool box as quick as they can. they want to make sure everybody is safe before they are up in the air again. >> do you know what specifically they are checking for and when they might get the c-130s back up? >> reporter: we don't know yet. we hope to find out at

jim spellman is joining us from centennial, colorado, and no cameras in the courthouse for today's hearing and tell us why first of all and walk us through what we expect to happen. >> sure. this hearing is under way right now, suzanne. no cameras in the courtroom and the judge decided before last week's hearing that in the early portion of the proceeding he would allow a camera for the initial appearance and the arraignment that should come in a couple of days. there is a sketch artist in there and full of reporters including cnn's eddie lavendara who will come down as soon as we know what is going to happen. first, he will be read the formal charges and from court documents that is 12 counts of first-degree murder and numerous attempts of first-degree murder and numerous counts around the boo booby-trapped apartment me left. and also they will decide if the notebook to the psychiatrist is privileged and the defense will argument to unseal some of the documents in the case that have been sealed. as soon as he is out here, we will be out here to report on it. suzanne? >> and also there was

they are being held back to search the suspect's apartment. >>> we have a statement, jim spellman got this from the fbi. they issued a statement we want to put up. we are involved in working jointly with the aurora police department. it is quite a team effort. i have to tell you at the height of this 250 police on the scene. huge ambulance presence and now the fbi involved saying they are going to assist in whatever way they can. the big news here of course is the victims, right? we have 50 people wounded, 14 dead, ten died on the scene and four at local area hospitals. we've been checking in with the hospitals in that area that have been receiving the patients. tracy, we spoke to her earlier and she has said now they are receiving walk-ins, from the gas and smoke inhalation, what they are treating them for. -- she's joining us on the phone. 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

wolf. >> jim spellman, thank you. joining me now is the man who captured those dramatic pictures. steve schopper of colorado fire department. thanks so much for what you've been doing. thanks very much for joining us right now. what was going through your mind as you were taking these pictures and dealing with what you saw? >> well, wolf, i knew this was a fire of historic proportions. and as i started taking this footage, i knew that there was a lot of destruction going on. but when i saw our firefighters make their first stand and i realized that they had just saved 175 homes by making their first stand on one single family structure. i knew i had to keep documenting this and telling everyone that the firefighters from all over the country that were here helping us were making their stands and they were taking up their positions and they were doing what they were trained to do. and that command was structure protection. and that's what they did. >> but when you saw these homes, some of them so lovely, i would say most of them completely lovely homes knowing that families, their

cnn's jim spellman is in aurora, colorado, at an improvised memorial where the focus isn't on the suspect but on the victims. >> reporter: wolf, i want to show you a little about what's happening in the community. this is a makeshift memorial right across from the theater. started with this single sign gone but not forgotten. since then it's been growing. everyday there's flowers, stuffed animals, many of the candles burn 24 hours a day. come here at night the memorial is completely lit up. even on the sidewalk, wolf, chalk. people leaving their messages. it stretches all the way down. i think this sign is particularly interesting. real heroes wear badges, not capes. a nod to the first responders that showed up in a matter of minutes. look up here wolf, at the top of the hill, a cross for every one of the victims here. people have been coming by here constantly here, night and day, to drop off signs, flowers, candles, personalized messages. there have been prayer circles here. and people come just to pay their respects and be sure that the focus remains on the victims and the spirit of th

cnn's jim spellman was there. >> reporter: residents of hard hit colorado springs get their first look at what was once their homes. >> we will go for the tour around, but there is not much left. >> reporter: now little more than ashes left. tim and katy film exclusively for cnn. >> this is the garage. you can see the gutter that has fallen down. the only thing left of the garage is the bricks standing here and the brass picture that we didn't like anyway. >> reporter: they first learned that the home was destroyed when they saw this picture on the front page of the "denner post" but they weren't sure what to expect when they saw it up cl e close. >> we didn't know if we could be able to handle looking at the house and stuff, but it is actually kind of of nice. we have all of the neighbors here, and they are helping out. the community has been beyond, beyond great. >> reporter: ted's last view of the house was as flames raced down the hillside. >> this is where i saw the fire start coming down, coming out of the back door looking up and seeing the fire come down. and so the seat is rig

. >> jim spellman is live with the latest on the search. authorities trying to rule out the possibilities that the girls may have drowned in this lake where there was a swimming ban in place, right? >> reporter: that's right. take a look at the lake here. you can see how much the water level has gone down. they have first responders teams out here as the water goes down looking for clues. you mentioned there were hundreds of people out here searching along this shore and in these wooded areas. they found basically nothing. to be absolutely sure that they can rule out this lake, they want to drain it as much so there's no lingering doubt there might be a special clue or something in this lake. by late tomorrow or early the next day that part of the investigation should be done. >> the lake is about five acres. how long do they expect this to take? >> reporter: they think they should be able to have it done by late tomorrow or maybe the next day. the other part of this investigation has been expanded. they brought in fbi who brought in two se

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jim spellman is live in aurora, colorado. i understand people are expressing their grief in what looks like makeshift memorials that have been set up throughout. >> reporter: yeah, we've heard so much about the suspected shooter, i want to show you the spirit of the community. this sign gone, not forgotten was the first sign that popped up here. ever since then it's been growing literally by the hour. some of these candles have been burning 24 hours a days ago. even before the sun is up, you can see the glowing tribute. even here on the sidewalk people are leaving messages in chalk. it goes on and on. you can see here this one sign here i think is a pretty special. real heroes wear badges, not capes, in reference, of course, to the batman movies and all the first responder that showed up. up at the top of this hill, you can see a cross made for each of the victims. people have been bringing by candles, stuffed animals, one has a skateboard. lorraine and join just showed up and brought a sign. tell us about the sign. it's an a