Vegas Survivor Shares What Happened During Visit With Trump

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A California teen clutched her Teddy bear while she recounted the horrible events that took place Sunday night at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas.

Tiffany Huizar, 18, described the moments after Steven Paddock opened fire on thousands of concert-goers.

As she ran down a street trying to escape from the madness, she knew something was wrong.

“I looked under my shirt and it was all bloody,” Huizar told reporters.

She had been shot in the stomach and elbow.

After being rushed to the hospital, doctors removed nine inches of her intestines in order to extract the bullet. She is one of more than 500 people that were injured during Sunday’s massacre.

However, the pain of being shot was overshadowed for a moment by a visit from President Donald Trump and the first lady on Wednesday.

When asked to describe the president, Huizar recounted that he was extremely friendly and acted very much like a “father figure.”

“He wasn’t who we see on social media,” she said. “He was much more comforting. I don’t know his tone of voice and the way he was.”

Huizar said Trump asked about her injuries and was genuinely concerned to know how she was doing.

“People have negative views about him and what he posts on Twitter,” Huizar said. “He was absolutely a different guy today.”

Huizar, who’s currently surrounded by loved ones and family, is expected to make a full recovery.

During his visit, Trump met with several other victims and first responders, saying: “America is truly a nation in mourning.” (For more from the author of “Vegas Survivor Shares What Happened During Visit With Trump” please click HERE)

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FBI Agent Comes Forward: ‘Multiple Leads’ in US. And ‘All Across World’ in Vegas Shooting

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On Thursday, FBI special agent Aaron Rouse, held a press conference to provide further details about Sunday’s shooting at the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival in Las Vegas that left 59 dead, and over 500 wounded.

Rouse, who is in the special agent in charge of the Las Vegas division, also asked for the public’s patience in regards to the investigation.

“Additionally, we have multiple leads across the United States and all across the world for our legal industries determining the whereabouts of the panel of the people involved in this investigation, and that leads grows,” Rouse said.

“A lot of these leads will go nowhere but we have to follow them, and that’s going to take some time,” Rouse said.

Las Vegas Sheriff Joseph Lombardo suggested at a separate press conference that there is a possibility the shooter had assistance in amassing the massive repertoire of weaponry he used during the attack.

“Do you think this was all accomplished on his own?” Lombardo asked. “You’ve got to make the assumption he had to have some help at some point.”

Previously, officials had spoken to the shooter’s girlfriend, Marilou Danley in an attempt to gain more information. Yet, Rouse would not reveal whether Danley was still a person of interest.

Lambardo also suggested that he had seen evidence which could suggest the shooter intended to survive his attack.

Rouse did not comment on that speculation.

“There’s going to be questions, I’m sure you’re going to have questions about people we’ve been talking to, maybe people outside of the United States,” Rouse said.

He also offered an explanation for why he could not answer previously stated questions.

“The fundamental trust of the American people and the FBI is based upon our discretion — and how good would that discretion be if we were to provide information that they provided to us in confidence?

“This is about informing on an investigation, this is about resolving an investigation, so specifics regarding any individual contact cannot be answered.”

Rouse reiterated the importance of public trust during the course of the investigation.

“You need us, you trust us, and the way we have that trust is by using good discretion about what we share,” Rouse said.

Rouse has held his position at the Las Vegas division since September 2016.

Previously, Rouse held a section chief position at FBI headquarters, as well as leadership positions at the Tampa and San Antonio offices. In total, he has been with the FBI for more than 20 years. (For more from the author of “FBI Agent Comes Forward: ‘Multiple Leads’ in US. And ‘All Across World’ in Vegas Shooting” please click HERE)

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U.S. Fertility Rate Plummets to New Record Low

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The last year of the Obama administration saw the fertility rate fall to an all-time low.

According to recent data from the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), the U.S. fertility rate sank to a record low of 62.0 births per 1,000 women of reproductive age in 2016.

This was a slight decrease from the 2015 fertility rate which stood at 62.5. The downward trend is not showing signs of stopping either. According to NCHS preliminary estimates, fertility slumped even lower to 61.5 in the first quarter of 2017.

The U.S. birth rate—a slightly different measure of fertility—also fell among younger women, 15-29 years of age. A small increase in births among women 30 years of age and older was not enough to make up for the decline among younger women. (Read more from “U.S. Fertility Rate Plummets to New Record Low” HERE)

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Vatican Hosts Conference on Child Abuse While Shielding Priest Wanted for Child Porn

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A veteran Vatican watcher noted a “day of irony in Rome” this week as the Holy See conducted a conference on protecting children from internet-based sexual abuse while simultaneously harboring inside its walls a Vatican diplomat wanted by police for possessing child porn.

“This is not to pre-judge the guilt or innocence of anyone,” Dr. Robert Moynihan wrote in an October 3 letter to his subscribers. “It is merely to note the irony of Church sponsorship for a conference on global child pornography while charges of breaking child pornography laws are outstanding against a monsignor who works for the Vatican and who is enjoying immunity due to his diplomatic status and living in the Vatican.”

Moynihan, founder and editor-in-chief of Inside the Vatican magazine, began his newsletter quoting part of the opening address from Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State, Tuesday at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome for the conference, “Child Dignity in the Digital World.”

The event is being held October 3-6 and was organized by the Gregorian University’s Center for Child Protection. (Read more from “Vatican Hosts Conference on Child Abuse While Shielding Priest Wanted for Child Porn” HERE)

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LGBT Wants to Ban Sex-Change Reversal Research

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A British university’s decision to abruptly cancel research into trans people who decide to revert to the sex they were born with has ignited a controversy over academic freedom and political correctness in the U.K.

Psychotherapist James Caspian found out about leftist intolerance the hard way when he proposed a research project on the topic of “detransitioning” to Bath Spa University, in southwest England.

Caspian wanted to study the growing number of people who regret their “gender reassignment” procedures. (“Gender reassignment” is the politically correct term for altering the body through surgery and hormones to appear like the opposite sex.) . . .

The British Guardian newspaper reports: “When he went back with his preliminary findings that suggested growing numbers of young people, particularly [transgender] women, were regretting gender reassignment, Bath Spa said his proposal would have to be resubmitted to the ethics committee, which rejected it.” [In this context, trans “women” are biological males who “transitioned” to look like and live as “women.” (Read more from “LGBT Wants to Ban Sex-Change Reversal Research” HERE)

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D.C. Raises White Flag in 2nd Amendment Battle

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While leftists all over the country, from Hollywood to Hillary Clinton, are hyping gun control in the aftermath of the horrific sniper attack on concert-goers in Las Vegas, the District of Columbia is raising the white flag in a court fight over that very issue, apparently hoping to limit what officials there would consider damage from an adverse ruling.

It was a panel of the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia that rejected the district’s requirement that people prove to police they have a “good reason” to want to carry a firearm, and then rejected the district’s insistence that the full court hear the arguments.

An appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court was the next possible step for District of Columbia officials, but they have now said they will not do that, giving up their own law apparently in the hope that there won’t soon be a Supreme Court ruling that could take down other, similar, laws in other parts of the country.

It was Second Amendment Foundation founder Alan M. Gottlieb, whose organization handled the Wrenn v. District of Columbia case, who noted the court ruling simply means wider opportunities for those who feel they may need to defend themselves to be prepared.

He said disallowing the demand in the district for people to convince government authorities of their “good reason” to have access to a weapon “represents one more advancement in our effort to win firearms freedom one lawsuit at a time.” (Read more from “D.C. Raises White Flag in 2nd Amendment Battle” HERE)

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California Now ‘Sanctuary State’

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California flexed its political muscle Thursday, beefing up protections for undocumented immigrants under a controversial law signed by Gov. Jerry Brown that pushes back against President Trump’s policies.

Brown signed the bill to create a statewide sanctuary policy on the day Trump set as the deadline for immigrants aided by the federal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, to request a two-year extension before the program is phased out. Brown also signed 10 other immigration-related bills that limit the growth of detention centers, expand education services for immigrants, and extend tenant and workplace protections for undocumented people.

Brown said the new laws will ensure “hardworking people who contribute to our state are respected.” (Read more from “California Now ‘Sanctuary State'” HERE)

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Woman ‘Dies From Overtime’ at Work

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Japan has again been forced to confront its work culture after labour inspectors ruled that the death of a 31-year-old journalist at the country’s public broadcaster, NHK, had been caused by overwork.

Miwa Sado, who worked at the broadcaster’s headquarters in Tokyo, logged 159 hours of overtime and took only two days off in the month leading up to her death from heart failure in July 2013.

A labour standards office in Tokyo later attributed her death to karoshi (death from overwork) but her case was only made public by her former employer this week.

Sado’s death is expected to increase pressure on Japanese authorities to address the large number of deaths attributed to the punishingly long hours expected of many employees.

The announcement comes a year after a similar ruling over the death of a young employee at Dentsu advertising agency prompted a national debate over Japan’s attitude to work-life balance and calls to limit overtime. (Read more from “Woman ‘Dies From Overtime’ at Work” HERE)

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Las Vegas Shooter: Multimillionaire, Ex-IRS Agent, Postman, Defense Contractor Who Sheriff Says “Did Not Act Alone”

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The Strange Background of the Las Vegas Shooter

By JENNIFER MEDINA, RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA and ADAM GOLDMAN. Law enforcement officials have said they are confident that Mr. Paddock, who had no prior criminal record, was the sole gunman on Sunday. Though the Islamic State group has claimed that he was one of its followers, officials say that they have found no evidence so far that he had ties to any extremist group. . .

His work history was not completely clear; his brother has described him as a wealthy retiree. Mr. Paddock worked for the federal government for roughly 10 years, from 1975 to 1985, a spokeswoman for the Office of Personnel Management confirmed.

Investigators unearthed multiple job applications, with Mr. Paddock’s fingerprints on file, as part of records reflecting his employment as a letter carrier for the Postal Service in the mid 1970s; as an Internal Revenue Service agent from 1978 to 1984; and as an auditor focused on defense contracts, a job he held until 1985. He also worked in the 1980s for one of the companies that later combined to form Lockheed Martin, the aerospace contractor. (Read more from this story about the Las Vegas Shooter HERE)
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Sheriff: Paddock Did Not Act Alone

By Vincent Wood. Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said: “At face value he had to have some help at some point and we want to ensure that that’s the answer.

“Maybe he was a superhuman who figured this out all on his own but it would be hard for me to believe that.”

Police confirmed the shooter “meticulously” planned his strike on the Route 91 Harvest Festival from his vantage points in the Mandalay Hotel.

Officers, who are investigating the double life of the cold-blooded killer, believe he spent decades acquiring weapons and living a “secret life”. (Read more from this story about the Las Vegas shooter HERE)

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Las Vegas Shooter a “Multi-Millionaire”

By Brad Tuttle. Paddock also appears to have been quite wealthy. . . He owned two planes and was a licensed pilot, and owned homes in four states, according to the Washington Post. His brother said that Stephen Paddock made some $2 million when the two sold their real estate business a few years ago. And just before the massacre, he wired $100,000 to his girlfriend, Marilou Danley, in the Philippines, a transaction investigators are still attempting to explain. . .

Much of Paddock’s money appears to have been spent in casinos. NBC News reported that Paddock often gambled at least $10,000 a day in Las Vegas casinos, and sometimes upwards of $30,000 per day. He reportedly gambled a total of at least $160,000 at Vegas casinos in the weeks before the mass shooting.

It’s unclear how much he won or lost over this time span.A few years ago, he described himself as a “professional gambler by trade” according to his then-neighbor in central Florida, before he moved to Nevada. . .

Eric Paddock said that his brother Stephen pocketed roughly $2 million a few years ago when they sold off the real estate business they ran together. “He’s a multimillionaire,” Eric said, according to New York. “He helped me become affluent, he made me wealthy.” (Read more from this story about the Las Vegas shooter HERE)

Mystery Surrounds Metal Towers Popping up in NYC

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Mysterious metal towers are popping up at local tunnels, and soon they’ll start appearing at bridges, too.

But even people on the MTA board in charge of the towers can’t say why they’re being used or what’s in them, CBS2’s Dave Carlin reports.

Jose Lugo said the tall metal towers quickly appeared up after the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel tolls booths came down.

“We don’t really know what’s the purpose of this,” he told Carlin.

It’s a $100 million MTA project shrouded in secrecy, with 18 of them for tunnels and bridges. So what are they exactly? (Read more from “Mystery Surrounds Metal Towers Popping up in NYC” HERE)

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