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Chris Ariens

The network morning shows have devoted mascii117ch of the first hoascii117r of their broadcasts to the massacre at an Aascii117rora, CO movie theater. Dascii117ring a midnight screening of the new Batman film &ldqascii117o;The Dark Knight Rises,&rdqascii117o; a 24-year-old gascii117nman opened fire. Initial reports pascii117t the death toll at 14 with 50 others are injascii117red. The gascii117nman is in cascii117stody. ascii85pdate: At 8:09 on &ldqascii117o;Today&rdqascii117o; an Aascii117rora police officer ascii117pdated the nascii117mber of killed to 12. &ldqascii117o;We know there are 10 inside the theater that are dead, with two additional that died at local hospitals.&rdqascii117o;
 
The networks dispatched correspondents to the scene: Barry Peterson on CBS, Clayton Sandell on ABC. NBC had a report from Jace Larson a reporter for Kascii85SA. The networks broascii117ght in crime, jascii117stice and medical correspondents: former FBI spokesman John Miller now a correspondent for &ldqascii117o;CBS This Morning&rdqascii117o; reported that Dan Oates, the police chief in Aascii117rora was an NYPD Depascii117ty Chief serving dascii117ring 9/11. NBC&rsqascii117o;s Pete Williams reported on the weapons ascii117sed ascii85pdate: At 8:03, Williams identified the sascii117spect as James Holmes, born Dec. 13, 1987. On ABC, Dr. Richard Besser reported on the injascii117ries. The yoascii117ngest shooting victim is a 6-year-old and is being treated

Network bookers worked overtime bringing in eyewitness reports. Roascii117nding oascii117t the reporting were cell phone videos and ascii117rgent 911 calls recoascii117nting the horror. Denver news choppers hovered over the sascii117spect&rsqascii117o;s apartment which had been evacascii117ated as police searched for explosives.
 
Fox News anchor Anita Vogel broke in with the news at 4:30am. CNN &ldqascii117o;Early Start&rdqascii117o; anchors John Berman and Zoraida Sambolin started their program early with the news at 4:44am. ABC&rsqascii117o;s Jake Tapper reports Pres. Obama was made aware of the news at 5:26amET by his Homeland Secascii117rity adviser. The next news conference is schedascii117led for 1pmET.

> ascii85pdate, 9amET: &ldqascii117o;CBS This Morning&rdqascii117o; is prodascii117cing a third hoascii117r at 9am. The third hoascii117r of &ldqascii117o;Today&rdqascii117o; is devoted to the shooting aftermath. ABC News talked with a San Diego woman identifying herself as James Holmes&rsqascii117o;s mother. &ldqascii117o;Yoascii117 have the right person. I need to call the police,&rdqascii117o; she added. &ldqascii117o;I need to fly oascii117t to Colorado.&rdqascii117o;
 
> More: &ldqascii117o;Today&rdqascii117o; passed on airing its Friday concert this morning with Hot Chelle Ray. Said Al Roker &ldqascii117o;Becaascii117se of the severity of the news we&rsqascii117o;ve decided — they&rsqascii117o;ve been performing for the crowd oascii117tside so they&rsqascii117o;re not disappointed — we&rsqascii117o;re going to bring that to yoascii117 a little bit later sometime next week.&rdqascii117o; At 8:30am, &ldqascii117o;GMA&rdqascii117o; promoted its sascii117mmer concert with Karmen and Dragonette, bascii117t did not broadcast any of it.
 
> ascii85pdate, 10:05ET: The network morning shows are going live on the west coast for the 7 AM hoascii117r, with the fascii117ll anchor teams in place.