PHILLIPS: And the breaking news is out of Aurora, Colorado, this morning. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg now speaking out against gun violence in the wake of the Colorado shootings. At a local New York radio station, he issued a challenge to the presidential candidates to open up about their stances on gun control.</s>MICHAEL BLOOMBERG, MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY: Soothing words are nice, but maybe it is time that the two people who want to be president of the United States stand up and tell us what they are going to do about it because this is obviously a problem across the country.</s>PHILLIPS: And as the first shots rang out, there was a moment when reality and fiction definitely blurred. Many people watching the movie thought that they were hearing the explosions, gunshots, screaming as part of the shootout unfolding on the screen. Then suddenly, it was clear what was happening was a massacre within their own theater.</s>WILLIAM WASHINGTON, WITNESS (voice-over): It was a scene where Anne Hathaway is basically in a shootout with the police. And so there is all of the gunshots going through the theater. And at one point, you know, one of the shots just happens to be really, really loud, and it is so much so that I kind of go for a second -- I could not hear, and I hear a loud ringing. And joking with my brother, I say, hey, we are actually -- I mean, and these sound effects have gotten pretty good. And then you start to hear them again and people are screaming in the theater and then it starts to register that there is something wrong here. And we all start to make our way to the exit, and in runs a guy who yells, don't go to the lobby, he has got a gun.</s>PHILLIPS: CNN's the live coverage of the massacre in Colorado will continue after the break.
NYC Mayor Blasts Candidates Over Guns.