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October 14, 2017

[Reality_And_Drama_TV_Shows] Las Vegas sheriff, in emotional press conference, admits he's still searching for answers

 

  I wonder if this will get to him too much and he will resign after this is over? He really seems like he is feeling guilty for not having answers. Good grief give the man a break.  I read that some blame him for not getting there fast enough. I have read that law suits are going against those that should be BUT they also are adding the Concert organizer- the first responders, the sheriffs office and the Gun Company

 I do think those involved in a law suit should be #1- PADDOCKS ESTATE  THE MANDOLAY BAY  MGM  and the Gun Company
I had read somewhere that the security guard that got shot called down to the office and they chose to not call the police . It was the people in the streets that made the call. I donot know how true this is but IF it is>? Then Mandalay Bay needs sued for sure.
While I am not for guns? How are they at fault? The gun itself did not kill anyone . It had to have someone put a finger on the trigger.
Why would the concert organizers be at fault?
 I do hope those that are filing suits have a decent attorney and not just some ambulance chaser that will make a mess of it. I wonder if they could have 22,000 law suits against them?
I know the ones injured and killed but those not injured? Should they ,could they also have a suit to file?
cg

Las Vegas sheriff, in emotional press conference, admits he's still searching for answers

Holly Bailey 21 hours ago
Joe Lombardo was having a late dinner with friends from out of town when his cellphone suddenly blew up with messages. Shots had been fired on the south end of the Las Vegas Strip, about 10 minutes from where he was. With a few rushed apologies, he stood and ran out, hoping it would be only a minor diversion.
It took just seconds for Lombardo, the Clark County sheriff, to realize this would be no ordinary Sunday-night call. As he rushed past unsuspecting crowds illuminated by the flashing lights of the casinos along the north end of the Strip, radio traffic revealed chaos mere blocks away outside the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, where officers and thousands of attendees at a country music concert were being sprayed with gunfire by an assailant whose location was not yet known.
Nearly two weeks later, Lombardo still doesn't have the answers he has been seeking ever since, to the how and, more important, the why of the horrific attack. But at a press briefing Friday afternoon that clarified some of the events of that night, while raising new questions, the stoic lawman gave vent to some of the emotions that have been roiling him ever since.
As he approached the scene, Lombardo saw hundreds of people running for their lives up Las Vegas Boulevard and along the side streets and in parking lots, some covered in blood. By then the shooting had stopped, and his officers were closing in on the suspected gunman, later identified as Stephen Paddock, who was holed up on the 32nd floor of Mandalay Bay. But the horror was far from over. Lombardo's radio crackled with word of casualties, including reports of dozens of lifeless bodies in and around the Route 91 Harvest Festival concert grounds and word that some of his responding officers were down, wounded by gunfire when Paddock apparently took aim at law enforcement responding to the scene. There were also reports, later dispelled, of shots being fired at other nearby casinos along the Strip.
 
For Lombardo, a 29-year veteran of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, it was the nightmare he had always feared, the one he had tried to prepare his department for. He had methodically studied mass shootings, including the 2015 terror attack in San Bernardino, Calif., and the Pulse nightclub shooting last year in Orlando, to heed lessons for his own officers. He had even traveled to Mumbai, India, to study firsthand the 2008 terrorist attacks where 164 people were killed in a series of coordinated strikes against hotels and other public spaces — aware that terrorist groups had long mentioned Las Vegas as a possible target.
But one of his biggest concerns as sheriff, he told the Las Vegas Sun in 2015, was a "lone wolf" attacker. "The person here locally that is disgruntled with government, separatist, anarchist, those types of individuals," Lombardo said. Someone, he said, willing to act "on their own."
As Lombardo later told reporters, even though his officers were doing everything they had been trained to do that Sunday night in reaction to a mass shooting event, nothing had fully prepared him or anyone to be confronted with this type of horror on their own doorstep.
"It just kept getting worse and worse," Lombardo told KLAS-TV, the CBS affiliate in Las Vegas.
 
In the nearly two weeks since Paddock broke the windows of his suite at Mandalay Bay and rained gunfire on roughly 22,000 concertgoers below, killing 58 and injuring more than 540, Lombardo has become the face of the ongoing investigation. Plain-spoken, with a matter-of-fact delivery, the sheriff has been the primary conduit of information for his community and the television audience at large from around the world as people grapple for answers to why Paddock created such carnage.
Lombardo has won praise for his down-to-earth, even-keeled demeanor, and seems more forthcoming than other law enforcement officials, including the FBI, who have publicly spoken about the case. He has insisted on "telling the public what I know when I know it," as he explains it, to "provide calmness in the community."
While Lombardo has warned the media and others against speculation, he has been open about his own theories. He has repeatedly questioned how Paddock, a 64-year-old real estate investor and avid gambler, could have planned the attack with no one noticing or helping.
"Do you think all of this was accomplished on his own?" Lombardo said at a briefing last week. "Face value, you've got to make the assumption that he had to have help at some point." He said "it would be hard for me to believe" that Paddock did all the preparations totally on his own.
The sheriff has also said he believes Paddock — who had 50 pounds of explosive material and another 1,600 rounds of ammunition in his car, parked in the casino's garage — intended to escape. But he acknowledged that not everyone involved in the investigation agrees with him.
  
Lombardo has not tried to conceal his own frustration with the pace of the investigation. After nearly two weeks, police still have no clear motive for one of the worst mass shootings in American history. And as the mystery has deepened about Paddock, who had no record of mental illness or political or religious extremism, Lombardo has openly questioned whether a motive will ever be established.
"There's a chance we may never know," he told reporters this week. "There are questions that may never get answered."
The investigation has cast a spotlight on the sheriff, who, according to those who know him, does not enjoy the limelight. Lombardo, 54, was born in Japan. His father, a sergeant in the Air Force, was transferred to Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas in 1976, when Lombardo was 14.
After high school, Lombardo joined the Army before enrolling at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, where he got a civil engineering degree. But soon he followed his father, who had retired from the Air Force and joined the Las Vegas police department, into law enforcement. Lombardo joined the Las Vegas police in 1988 — and while working his way up the ranks, he got a master's degree in crisis management from UNLV and from the FBI National Academy, both in 2006.
In 2014 Lombardo, a Republican, ran for and was elected Clark County sheriff — a job that, unlike in other big cities, involves running both the sheriff's department and the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. More than 3,500 officers report to him, and his jurisdiction spans roughly 8,000 square miles — including the city of Las Vegas and the rest of Clark County, which extends nearly 100 miles east toward the Utah border and 100 miles south toward Arizona.
While much of the land is unsettled desert or farmland, it has not been without drama. In 2014 Lombardo, as assistant sheriff, was the lead tactical commander in responding to a standoff between rancher Cliven Bundy and his supporters and officials of the Bureau of Land Management who had confiscated cattle that Bundy had been grazing on federal land. Lombardo helped negotiate the release of cattle, allowing the standoff to end peacefully.
  
As sheriff, Lombardo has grappled with restructuring a police department that has come under Justice Department scrutiny for its frequent police shootings and its relationship with the black community. In a high-profile event over the summer, Seattle Seahawks player Michael Bennett accused Las Vegas police of targeting him in a traffic stop because he was black and of using excessive force. Lombardo has said his officers acted properly but has allowed that more work needs to be done establishing trust between his department and the community.
But now Lombardo faces one of the biggest challenges of his career — heading an investigation of an incident in which a man appears to have taken deadly aim at people while leaving no obvious clues or explanation for why he did so. In the days since the Oct. 1 shooting, Lombardo has grown more and more outwardly frustrated in the search for Paddock's motive.
"We still don't know why," Lombardo told reporters earlier this week. "And it's not for a lack of trying."
With that mystery comes increased scrutiny on other parts of the investigation — including on the police response to the shooting.
On Monday, Lombardo released a significantly revised timeline of the shooting, indicating that Paddock shot a hotel security guard six minutes before he started firing on concertgoers. The timeline, which was disputed by MGM Resorts, the owner of Mandalay Bay, raised questions about why it took police so long to locate the gunman, and a possible failure in communication between officers and Mandalay Bay, which presumably would have reported that one of its guards had been shot.
  
On Friday, Lombardo corrected the timeline once again — bristling at what he described as people in "cyberspace" questioning the integrity of not only his investigation but his own personal integrity. "I provided you the information as I knew it, and everybody in here knew it was going to change," he said, visibly irritated. "The dynamics of this investigation are far-reaching. It's wide. It's huge, and you can't expect exact answers in the early throes."
In their initial account police said the security guard, Jesus Campos, was shot around 10:15 p.m. — about 10 minutes into the attack — when Paddock discharged a volley of gunfire through the door of his room after seeing Campos approach on a baby monitor the shooter had placed on a room service cart. Police had originally portrayed Campos as a hero, telling reporters he had interrupted and stopped the killing and alerted law enforcement about the location of Paddock's room.
But on Monday police said Campos, who was unarmed, was shot and wounded at 9:59 p.m. as he investigated an apparently unrelated alarm for an open door on the floor — six minutes before Paddock began firing out his window at 10:05. Police now say they have no idea why Paddock, who had a large quantity of ammunition and other loaded weapons in his room, stopped his rampage 10 minutes later.
Lombardo said Campos had alerted Mandalay Bay security that he had been shot, but police hunting for the gunman learned this only when they found him lying wounded in the hallway. By that time Paddock had stopped shooting.
According to the updated timeline released Monday, police officers reached the 31st floor of the resort and casino at 10:12 p.m. — where, they reported to colleagues, they could hear shots being fired above them. Officers reached the 32nd floor, where Paddock was staying in Room 135, at 10:17, two minutes after he stopped shooting. They found Campos a minute later, at 10:18 p.m., and the security guard pointed them to Paddock's room. Police did not breach Paddock's room until 11:20 p.m. — more than an hour later — where they found him dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
But that timeline was disputed by MGM Resorts, which released a statement Thursday saying the 9:59 p.m. report was "not accurate." "We know that shots were being fired at the festival lot at the same time as, or within 40 seconds after, the time Jesus Campos first reported that shots were fired over the radio," the statement read. "Metro officers were together with armed Mandalay Bay security officers in the building when Campos first reported that shots were fired over the radio. These Metro officers and armed Mandalay Bay security officers immediately responded to the 32nd floor."
 
On Friday Lombardo defended the revised timeline, specifically regarding the 9:59 p.m. time print, but said "circumstances associated" with it had changed and the police timeline was "not in conflict" with the MGM Resorts statement. The sheriff explained that a "human entry" in a hotel security log provided to police had listed 9:59 p.m. as the moment Campos had first encountered Paddock. But he said it now appears that the entry marked the time when Campos, attempting to reach the 32nd floor, discovered that a stairwell door near Paddock's room had been barricaded.
Unable to access the floor from that stairwell, Campos, according to Lombardo, took another route, and was actually shot at 10:05 p.m., about the same time when Paddock began taking aim at concertgoers outside his window.
But the sheriff did not clarify remaining questions, including what time Mandalay Bay officials alerted police that Campos had been shot or why it still took 12 minutes for cops to make it to the 32nd floor. On Friday, Lombardo repeated that Campos alerted security at Mandalay Bay of the gunfire — via both radio and his cellphone. But, uncharacteristically, he declined to take follow-up questions.
Lombardo, who has declined most national media requests except for an appearance on "60 Minutes" that aired last Sunday, was unapologetic about the changing facts of the case. And he pushed back against criticism that the shifting timeline was evidence of "incompetence" or "conspiracy" by his department.
"I am absolutely offended by that characterization," he insisted. "There is no conspiracy. … Nobody is attempting to hide anything."
The details, he added, are likely to change again.
In the 12 days since the shooting, Lombardo says he hasn't slept much. A few hours here, a few hours there — mostly on a ragged old couch in his office at police headquarters. He and others have been combing through more than 1,000 tips from the public, trying to answer the mystery behind why someone who had led an otherwise unremarkable life would suddenly become a mass killer.
  
"Part of me losing sleep is, did I miss something? Did I fail to do something? Did my people fail to do something?" he told the Las Vegas Review-Journal on Tuesday. "You immediately think you're gonna know the reasons why in the short term. Now, here we are a week after the fact, and we still don't know."
On Friday, 12 days after the shooting, the sheriff looked and sounded exhausted. And after days of being matter-of-fact and in control, he became visibly emotional discussing officers who had selflessly run toward the scene to save lives, even as the bullets continued to rain down. Several officers, he said, were severely wounded when Paddock began shooting at them as they drove up to the scene — a diversion that injured them, but likely saved the lives of others.
One of the officers, Brady Cook, had four gunshot wounds, including in the chest. "The reason I bring him up," Lombardo said, choking back tears, "is because he asked me if he could come back to work today."
The sheriff paused, trying to regain his composure. "Excuse me for my emotion," he said, his voice quivering.

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[Reality-TV-Fanatics] Las Vegas sheriff, in emotional press conference, admits he's still searching for answers
October 14, 2017

[Reality-TV-Fanatics] Las Vegas sheriff, in emotional press conference, admits he's still searching for answers

 

  I wonder if this will get to him too much and he will resign after this is over? He really seems like he is feeling guilty for not having answers. Good grief give the man a break.  I read that some blame him for not getting there fast enough. I have read that law suits are going against those that should be BUT they also are adding the Concert organizer- the first responders, the sheriffs office and the Gun Company

 I do think those involved in a law suit should be #1- PADDOCKS ESTATE  THE MANDOLAY BAY  MGM  and the Gun Company
I had read somewhere that the security guard that got shot called down to the office and they chose to not call the police . It was the people in the streets that made the call. I donot know how true this is but IF it is>? Then Mandalay Bay needs sued for sure.
While I am not for guns? How are they at fault? The gun itself did not kill anyone . It had to have someone put a finger on the trigger.
Why would the concert organizers be at fault?
 I do hope those that are filing suits have a decent attorney and not just some ambulance chaser that will make a mess of it. I wonder if they could have 22,000 law suits against them?
I know the ones injured and killed but those not injured? Should they ,could they also have a suit to file?
cg

Las Vegas sheriff, in emotional press conference, admits he's still searching for answers

Holly Bailey 21 hours ago
Joe Lombardo was having a late dinner with friends from out of town when his cellphone suddenly blew up with messages. Shots had been fired on the south end of the Las Vegas Strip, about 10 minutes from where he was. With a few rushed apologies, he stood and ran out, hoping it would be only a minor diversion.
It took just seconds for Lombardo, the Clark County sheriff, to realize this would be no ordinary Sunday-night call. As he rushed past unsuspecting crowds illuminated by the flashing lights of the casinos along the north end of the Strip, radio traffic revealed chaos mere blocks away outside the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, where officers and thousands of attendees at a country music concert were being sprayed with gunfire by an assailant whose location was not yet known.
Nearly two weeks later, Lombardo still doesn't have the answers he has been seeking ever since, to the how and, more important, the why of the horrific attack. But at a press briefing Friday afternoon that clarified some of the events of that night, while raising new questions, the stoic lawman gave vent to some of the emotions that have been roiling him ever since.
As he approached the scene, Lombardo saw hundreds of people running for their lives up Las Vegas Boulevard and along the side streets and in parking lots, some covered in blood. By then the shooting had stopped, and his officers were closing in on the suspected gunman, later identified as Stephen Paddock, who was holed up on the 32nd floor of Mandalay Bay. But the horror was far from over. Lombardo's radio crackled with word of casualties, including reports of dozens of lifeless bodies in and around the Route 91 Harvest Festival concert grounds and word that some of his responding officers were down, wounded by gunfire when Paddock apparently took aim at law enforcement responding to the scene. There were also reports, later dispelled, of shots being fired at other nearby casinos along the Strip.
 
For Lombardo, a 29-year veteran of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, it was the nightmare he had always feared, the one he had tried to prepare his department for. He had methodically studied mass shootings, including the 2015 terror attack in San Bernardino, Calif., and the Pulse nightclub shooting last year in Orlando, to heed lessons for his own officers. He had even traveled to Mumbai, India, to study firsthand the 2008 terrorist attacks where 164 people were killed in a series of coordinated strikes against hotels and other public spaces — aware that terrorist groups had long mentioned Las Vegas as a possible target.
But one of his biggest concerns as sheriff, he told the Las Vegas Sun in 2015, was a "lone wolf" attacker. "The person here locally that is disgruntled with government, separatist, anarchist, those types of individuals," Lombardo said. Someone, he said, willing to act "on their own."
As Lombardo later told reporters, even though his officers were doing everything they had been trained to do that Sunday night in reaction to a mass shooting event, nothing had fully prepared him or anyone to be confronted with this type of horror on their own doorstep.
"It just kept getting worse and worse," Lombardo told KLAS-TV, the CBS affiliate in Las Vegas.
 
In the nearly two weeks since Paddock broke the windows of his suite at Mandalay Bay and rained gunfire on roughly 22,000 concertgoers below, killing 58 and injuring more than 540, Lombardo has become the face of the ongoing investigation. Plain-spoken, with a matter-of-fact delivery, the sheriff has been the primary conduit of information for his community and the television audience at large from around the world as people grapple for answers to why Paddock created such carnage.
Lombardo has won praise for his down-to-earth, even-keeled demeanor, and seems more forthcoming than other law enforcement officials, including the FBI, who have publicly spoken about the case. He has insisted on "telling the public what I know when I know it," as he explains it, to "provide calmness in the community."
While Lombardo has warned the media and others against speculation, he has been open about his own theories. He has repeatedly questioned how Paddock, a 64-year-old real estate investor and avid gambler, could have planned the attack with no one noticing or helping.
"Do you think all of this was accomplished on his own?" Lombardo said at a briefing last week. "Face value, you've got to make the assumption that he had to have help at some point." He said "it would be hard for me to believe" that Paddock did all the preparations totally on his own.
The sheriff has also said he believes Paddock — who had 50 pounds of explosive material and another 1,600 rounds of ammunition in his car, parked in the casino's garage — intended to escape. But he acknowledged that not everyone involved in the investigation agrees with him.
  
Lombardo has not tried to conceal his own frustration with the pace of the investigation. After nearly two weeks, police still have no clear motive for one of the worst mass shootings in American history. And as the mystery has deepened about Paddock, who had no record of mental illness or political or religious extremism, Lombardo has openly questioned whether a motive will ever be established.
"There's a chance we may never know," he told reporters this week. "There are questions that may never get answered."
The investigation has cast a spotlight on the sheriff, who, according to those who know him, does not enjoy the limelight. Lombardo, 54, was born in Japan. His father, a sergeant in the Air Force, was transferred to Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas in 1976, when Lombardo was 14.
After high school, Lombardo joined the Army before enrolling at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, where he got a civil engineering degree. But soon he followed his father, who had retired from the Air Force and joined the Las Vegas police department, into law enforcement. Lombardo joined the Las Vegas police in 1988 — and while working his way up the ranks, he got a master's degree in crisis management from UNLV and from the FBI National Academy, both in 2006.
In 2014 Lombardo, a Republican, ran for and was elected Clark County sheriff — a job that, unlike in other big cities, involves running both the sheriff's department and the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. More than 3,500 officers report to him, and his jurisdiction spans roughly 8,000 square miles — including the city of Las Vegas and the rest of Clark County, which extends nearly 100 miles east toward the Utah border and 100 miles south toward Arizona.
While much of the land is unsettled desert or farmland, it has not been without drama. In 2014 Lombardo, as assistant sheriff, was the lead tactical commander in responding to a standoff between rancher Cliven Bundy and his supporters and officials of the Bureau of Land Management who had confiscated cattle that Bundy had been grazing on federal land. Lombardo helped negotiate the release of cattle, allowing the standoff to end peacefully.
  
As sheriff, Lombardo has grappled with restructuring a police department that has come under Justice Department scrutiny for its frequent police shootings and its relationship with the black community. In a high-profile event over the summer, Seattle Seahawks player Michael Bennett accused Las Vegas police of targeting him in a traffic stop because he was black and of using excessive force. Lombardo has said his officers acted properly but has allowed that more work needs to be done establishing trust between his department and the community.
But now Lombardo faces one of the biggest challenges of his career — heading an investigation of an incident in which a man appears to have taken deadly aim at people while leaving no obvious clues or explanation for why he did so. In the days since the Oct. 1 shooting, Lombardo has grown more and more outwardly frustrated in the search for Paddock's motive.
"We still don't know why," Lombardo told reporters earlier this week. "And it's not for a lack of trying."
With that mystery comes increased scrutiny on other parts of the investigation — including on the police response to the shooting.
On Monday, Lombardo released a significantly revised timeline of the shooting, indicating that Paddock shot a hotel security guard six minutes before he started firing on concertgoers. The timeline, which was disputed by MGM Resorts, the owner of Mandalay Bay, raised questions about why it took police so long to locate the gunman, and a possible failure in communication between officers and Mandalay Bay, which presumably would have reported that one of its guards had been shot.
  
On Friday, Lombardo corrected the timeline once again — bristling at what he described as people in "cyberspace" questioning the integrity of not only his investigation but his own personal integrity. "I provided you the information as I knew it, and everybody in here knew it was going to change," he said, visibly irritated. "The dynamics of this investigation are far-reaching. It's wide. It's huge, and you can't expect exact answers in the early throes."
In their initial account police said the security guard, Jesus Campos, was shot around 10:15 p.m. — about 10 minutes into the attack — when Paddock discharged a volley of gunfire through the door of his room after seeing Campos approach on a baby monitor the shooter had placed on a room service cart. Police had originally portrayed Campos as a hero, telling reporters he had interrupted and stopped the killing and alerted law enforcement about the location of Paddock's room.
But on Monday police said Campos, who was unarmed, was shot and wounded at 9:59 p.m. as he investigated an apparently unrelated alarm for an open door on the floor — six minutes before Paddock began firing out his window at 10:05. Police now say they have no idea why Paddock, who had a large quantity of ammunition and other loaded weapons in his room, stopped his rampage 10 minutes later.
Lombardo said Campos had alerted Mandalay Bay security that he had been shot, but police hunting for the gunman learned this only when they found him lying wounded in the hallway. By that time Paddock had stopped shooting.
According to the updated timeline released Monday, police officers reached the 31st floor of the resort and casino at 10:12 p.m. — where, they reported to colleagues, they could hear shots being fired above them. Officers reached the 32nd floor, where Paddock was staying in Room 135, at 10:17, two minutes after he stopped shooting. They found Campos a minute later, at 10:18 p.m., and the security guard pointed them to Paddock's room. Police did not breach Paddock's room until 11:20 p.m. — more than an hour later — where they found him dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
But that timeline was disputed by MGM Resorts, which released a statement Thursday saying the 9:59 p.m. report was "not accurate." "We know that shots were being fired at the festival lot at the same time as, or within 40 seconds after, the time Jesus Campos first reported that shots were fired over the radio," the statement read. "Metro officers were together with armed Mandalay Bay security officers in the building when Campos first reported that shots were fired over the radio. These Metro officers and armed Mandalay Bay security officers immediately responded to the 32nd floor."
 
On Friday Lombardo defended the revised timeline, specifically regarding the 9:59 p.m. time print, but said "circumstances associated" with it had changed and the police timeline was "not in conflict" with the MGM Resorts statement. The sheriff explained that a "human entry" in a hotel security log provided to police had listed 9:59 p.m. as the moment Campos had first encountered Paddock. But he said it now appears that the entry marked the time when Campos, attempting to reach the 32nd floor, discovered that a stairwell door near Paddock's room had been barricaded.
Unable to access the floor from that stairwell, Campos, according to Lombardo, took another route, and was actually shot at 10:05 p.m., about the same time when Paddock began taking aim at concertgoers outside his window.
But the sheriff did not clarify remaining questions, including what time Mandalay Bay officials alerted police that Campos had been shot or why it still took 12 minutes for cops to make it to the 32nd floor. On Friday, Lombardo repeated that Campos alerted security at Mandalay Bay of the gunfire — via both radio and his cellphone. But, uncharacteristically, he declined to take follow-up questions.
Lombardo, who has declined most national media requests except for an appearance on "60 Minutes" that aired last Sunday, was unapologetic about the changing facts of the case. And he pushed back against criticism that the shifting timeline was evidence of "incompetence" or "conspiracy" by his department.
"I am absolutely offended by that characterization," he insisted. "There is no conspiracy. … Nobody is attempting to hide anything."
The details, he added, are likely to change again.
In the 12 days since the shooting, Lombardo says he hasn't slept much. A few hours here, a few hours there — mostly on a ragged old couch in his office at police headquarters. He and others have been combing through more than 1,000 tips from the public, trying to answer the mystery behind why someone who had led an otherwise unremarkable life would suddenly become a mass killer.
  
"Part of me losing sleep is, did I miss something? Did I fail to do something? Did my people fail to do something?" he told the Las Vegas Review-Journal on Tuesday. "You immediately think you're gonna know the reasons why in the short term. Now, here we are a week after the fact, and we still don't know."
On Friday, 12 days after the shooting, the sheriff looked and sounded exhausted. And after days of being matter-of-fact and in control, he became visibly emotional discussing officers who had selflessly run toward the scene to save lives, even as the bullets continued to rain down. Several officers, he said, were severely wounded when Paddock began shooting at them as they drove up to the scene — a diversion that injured them, but likely saved the lives of others.
One of the officers, Brady Cook, had four gunshot wounds, including in the chest. "The reason I bring him up," Lombardo said, choking back tears, "is because he asked me if he could come back to work today."
The sheriff paused, trying to regain his composure. "Excuse me for my emotion," he said, his voice quivering.

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RE: [Reality-TV-Fanatics] CALIFORNIA FIRES NOW DEADLIEST IN STATE HISTORY

 

 

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I live close to the fires........but not affected and I don't think I will be.  However, I have friends and relatives who are closer.  Luckily all are OK as of now.  However, some big winds are supposed to come up this evening (Friday) and thru the weekend.  So prayers would be appreciated.  Luckily the fire fighters are more prepared now.  The event Sunday night came on suddenly with hurricane force winds in some areas.

 

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now I hear at least 32 people have died so far :( so tragic

 

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 This is so sad. Too many people have died from hurricanes earthquakes and fired this year . Not counting of course mass murder. Just seems this year has been the worst in a very long time/ I often wonder how many of the yahoo groups have members that are in these devastated areas.

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Authorities geared up for another grueling day of rescues Friday as the death toll from the Northern California wildfires continued to rise.

CALIFORNIA FIRES NOW DEADLIEST IN STATE HISTORY 

At least 31 people have died as 21 fast-moving blazes have roared across a 300-square-mile area, about the size of New York City. Most of the fires were less than 10 percent contained as of Thursday, with about 8,000 firefighters working to extinguish them.

"We are not even close to being out of this emergency," Sheriff Rob Giordano said at a news conference Thursday evening.

Seventeen fatalities have come in Sonoma County. Other deaths have been reported in Mendocino County (eight), Yuba County (four), and Napa County (two). 

The 31 deaths have set a new state record for the deadliest spate of wildfires in California history. The second-deadliest event was in 1933, when a fast moving brush fire in Los Angeles' Griffith Park killed 29 people and injured more than 150.

"We will do everything in our power to locate all the missing persons," Giordano said. "And I promise you we will handle the remains with care and get them returned to their loved ones."

The Sonoma County Coroner's Office identified 10 people killed in the county, eight of whom were in their 70s or older. Giordano said authorities had begun searching for those killed by the blazes.

"We have recovered people where their bodies are intact," he said, before noting that officials "have recovered people where there's just ash and bone."

Giordano warned it'd be "unrealistic" to think the death toll wouldn't continue to rise. He noted that in Sonoma County alone, out of a total of 900 people who were originally reported as missing, 437 have been confirmed as safe.

Most of those reported missing are presumed to have the status due to the difficulty of communicating in the area, not because they're necessarily deceased or injured.

"We have had big fires in the past," California Gov. Jerry Brown said in a press conference Wednesday. "This is one of the biggest, most serious, and it's not over."

"We're pretty exhausted. It's pretty steep terrain," Sonoma firefighter Steven Moore told NPR. "We've been dealing with trying to save the structures. The winds aren't helping. All we can do is get to the structures as fast as we possibly can and save what we can."

Evacuations continue across Napa and Sonoma counties as authorities attempt to convey the severity of the threat.

"This is a mandatory evacuation. Your presence in Calistoga is not welcome if you are not a first responder," Calistoga Mayor Chris Canning said.

Some evacuees even left behind cookies for the first responders, according to The Associated Press.

 

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I totally agree with you. It was the same way for me when I had just turned 18 and I was working a job in a grocery store. The store manager would come into the back room where I was washing out pots, pans, a serving trays, etc. and grope me as I had my hands in the soapy water. Made me sick. But I was terrified that if I said anything to the owner I would just be fired. I got married five months later and he stopped.

 

I'm sure this still goes on all the time. Men have the power and young women just do not speak out unless they have support like others speaking out.
Bren

 

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I really can understand why many of these actresses didn't say anything . If they would have then they could kiss their career goodbye . They would have been blacklisted . I am sure we will be hearing a lot more as the days go on. I just hope though, that those coming forward really have a case and not just wanting 15 minutes of fame. .

 

 

Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie, and others say Harvey Weinstein harassed them

Raechal Leone Shewfelt 17 hours ago

 

Gwyneth Paltrow and Angelina Jolie, two of the biggest names in Hollywood, have revealed that they were once subjected to unwanted sexual advances from fallen producer Harvey Weinstein.

The New York Times published their accounts along with stories from Patricia Arquette and four other women on Tuesday, less than a week after the newspaper reported that the longtime head of the Weinstein Company had paid off at least eight women accusing him of sexual harassment over three decades.

  

Weinstein, one of the most powerful people in the entertainment industry, was fired from his company on Sunday, after he had both denied the allegations and publicly apologized in a statement. He apologized for the way he had treated colleagues in the past and said he "came of age in the '60s and '70s, when all the rules about behavior and workplaces were different. That was the culture then." He said he planned to seek counseling and work to become a "better man."

Paltrow told her story for the first time. She was 22, preparing for her first role in one of Weinstein's movies, Emma, and she was told to meet the studio head of the former Miramax in his suite at his regular place, the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills, for a meeting. At the end of it, she claimed, Weinstein put his hands on her and suggested they go to his bedroom for massages — something that other women have also noted he did to them.

"I was a kid, I was signed up, I was petrified," Paltrow said.

Paltrow refused, she told the newspaper, but she told her boyfriend at the time, Brad Pitt, who confirmed for the Times that he had confronted the mogul and told him never to touch her again. Weinstein told Paltrow not to tell anyone else about what had happened, and she was afraid that she would be fired from her starring role in Emma if she spoke up.

"[Harvey] screamed at me for a long time," Paltrow said. "It was brutal."

Pitt later married Angelina Jolie, who also spoke with the Times.

"I had a bad experience with Harvey Weinstein in my youth and, as a result, chose never to work with him again and warn others when they did," Jolie wrote in a statement. "This behavior towards women in any field, any country, is unacceptable."

The accounts came within hours of a New Yorker story revealing three women's claims that Weinstein raped them. Four women cited in the piece alleged that Weinstein exposed himself to them or masturbated in front of them. Meanwhile, actress and screenwriter Louisette Geiss revealed Weinstein had tried to force her to watch him masturbate while she was pitching a movie at the Sundance Film Festival in 2008.

"We went to his office and had a great conversation about his current film and about the film I was pitching," she said in a statement delivered at a news conference on Tuesday with her lawyer, Gloria Allred, by her side. "He seemed genuinely interested in the script I had co-written. After 30 minutes he excused himself to go to the bathroom.

"He returned in a robe with the front open, buck-naked," she explained. "He told me to keep talking about my film and that he was going to get into his hot tub, which was in the room adjacent to his office, steps away. I kept talking as he got into the hot tub. When I finished my pitch, he asked me to watch him masturbate. I told him I was leaving. He quickly got out of the hot tub. As I went to get my purse to leave, he grabbed my forearm and pulled me to his bathroom and pleaded with me to watch him masturbate. My heart was racing, and I was very scared."

On Monday, George Clooney, another powerful voice in the entertainment industry, told the Daily Beast that Weinstein's actions were "indefensible."

"A lot of people are doing the 'you had to know' thing right now, and, yes, if you're asking if I knew that someone who was very powerful had a tendency to hit on young, beautiful women, sure," Clooney said. "But I had no idea that it had gone to the level of having to pay off eight women for their silence, and that these women were threatened and victimized."

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon on Tuesday added their voices to the growing chorus of those disavowing Weinstein's actions.

"This kind of stuff can't happen. This morning, I just feel absolutely sick to my stomach," Damon said in an interview with Deadline.

"We know this stuff goes on in the world," Damon continued. "I did five or six movies with Harvey. I never saw this. I think a lot of actors have come out and said, everybody's saying we all knew. That's not true. This type of predation happens behind closed doors and out of public view. If there was ever an event that I was at and Harvey was doing this kind of thing and I didn't see it, then I am so deeply sorry, because I would have stopped it. And I will peel my eyes back now, [farther] than I ever have, to look for this type of behavior. Because we know that it happens. I feel horrible for these women, and it's wonderful they have this incredible courage and are standing up now."

Affleck, Damon's longtime friend who came to fame, as he did, with the Miramax movie Good Will Hunting, was also "sick," according to his statement.

 

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