this ends up polluting a river that causes cancer and other illnesses they put all the health risk all the dangers out to the american public those are stories that we tell every week and you know what they're working. thank you. thank you. greetings and salutations after the initial impact of tragic attacks like the one in las vegas there's always an argument about what would we should be arguing about whether it's gun control or security discussions were guarding the prevention of future attacks make people uncomfortable but are we really that resistant to making change in order to save lives is it really such a stranger an ethical thing to do are we on american without guns or laws that require certain rules and restrictions to be followed or are these security

measures the opposite of politicizing a tragedy because of life is sacred in the american dream which is one route even living in a place without violence that terrorizes communities that we should be looking at every option doing everything possible to keep people safe from security to strengthen strengthening the bonds that tie let's join tyro enter an r.t. correspondent atia sweet for team coverage from las vegas and start watching the locks. the order. the players are really. a liar they are the out of. ammo the like you lie down they are going to let. are we a educate . everybody to watch in the hocks i'm top of the wallace and

joining me my co-host for watching the hawks who is on the ground in las vegas tyrrell ventre our welcome tyrrel. welcome to all of the if you were having me on once again and we have quite quite a story quo. stories the coverage here in los vegas today definitely about security and the debate surrounding what more could be done and what. more could have been done and what more should we do in the future a man back i want to bring on today to toss a sweetheart to correspondent who's been here in vegas powered a few different the store a couple of the angles on the story of one steven product and his motive what we round out today get the latest on that if you're still the one for that mode of law but they have uncovered a few of the last minutes of the large edition to be sure that you read that let me tell that last weekend investigators realize that you actually called other rooms for two other concerts. for. half an

hour after sunday's horrific massacre. there's a painful silence in the nation's party capital very meticulously planned well planned someone like that is hard to stop tommy burns retired henderson police chief who now runs a security consulting company questions why stephen pound okrent today highrise condominium in september overlooking to life is beautiful concert a similar move trenching the tearooms at mandalay bay overlooking the route ninety one concert sunday where he was said the life is beautiful concert down on downtown las vegas last week. allegedly ran a time that many i'm overlooking here and either he was doing a dry run or he decided not to do it he was might of been playing the same thing meticulously planned on the worst domestic attack the united states history. as many of you already reported panic room to room at the ogden hotel. in downtown los vegas investigators say panic also rented

a room at chicago's blackstone hotel which overlooked the park where the lollapalooza music festival was held well purses and bags are checked in open air venue's burns says shooting from an aerial position caught so many off guard i don't think anybody's ever thought of that i think it will change how. securities new york marathon boston marathon las vegas marathon dot on the strip but how will this change security firm says after the polls nightclub shooting in orlando vegas clubs acquired metal detectors in their clubs to prevent future mass shootings so what does it look like for hotels colburn says hotels here are secure doesn't compare to some other places internationally you know if you go to casinos say in russia or the middle east or something they do have armed security checking people checking i.d.'s checking bags he says an instable security is even one notch up with bag screening you go to istanbul say i know somebody just came back from there

when your luggage comes at a hotel they run it through a matter of just putting the device like at the airport. whether we see hotels do that in other words your back you go through a screening device then you can retrieve him and take him to your room or staff takes him to your room remains to be seen byrne says hotel employees including housekeeping staff are trained to look for signs of terrorism but burns believes that panicky use a do not disturb sign for privacy the policy on privacy is something burns says could very much change. while you're in the taj i have to ask you know everyone is kind of you know what was going over all the different security devices and what would be installed in place in the hotels around the world i mean are we going to see that here and what other security and sort of i know where we're going to turn our hotels and especially airports yeah it's a great question i mean a lot of hotel the first type of speaking with on the ship they definitely think that they're going to have things like metal detectors will have to wait and see if

that's true but actually when we were checking into our hotel with the valet the hotel staff was checking the back of our car at the top of the car looking for anything suspicious and so the gentleman that i interviewed burns he said that if the hotels do stuff like that that that could potentially prevent future. times is that when we thank you so much for that report it was a pleasure. so. moving forward tabitha we got mixed well i was looking at the member nation and i saw that only ten percent of people polled by gallup felt that that gun law should be less strict with thirty four percent saying that they were fine as is and a majority fifty five percent responding that gun laws should be stricter and yet tyrrell the top ten congressional members receiving the most money from the national rifle association like john cain richard burr and journey ernst have all consistently voted against any kind of study restrictions registration and safety

for firearms and all they seem to have right now as a lot of people have been saying our thoughts and prayers but after being largely silent on recent events the national rifle association today made a somewhat shocking statement regarding gun control didn't say. that they did to have been a joint statement you know in the earlier this afternoon and they are n.r.a. c.e.o. wayne la pierre and executive director chris cox called the a.t.f. the bureau of tobacco and firearms and explosives to review the infamous there's everybody is kind of pointing the finger at now bump stocks for you know federal legalities they stated that despite the fact that the obama administration approved the sale of bunch fire stocks on at least two occasions the national rifle association is calling on the bureau of alcohol tobacco firearms and explosives to immediately review whether these devices comply with federal law you know what is

interesting to note is that the n.r.a. is own gun ranges already ban these these infamous stocks that everyone's been talking about and their reasoning is that they make the weapon less accurate and they decrease safety pretty fascinating stuff slide fire the company that makes them actually put us. put a halt on selling them but they did not say it was because of the you know because of the tragedy this week so i guess that's rather just kind of suspicious timing that they just miraculously decided to sell this piece of appliance with one of these weapons i think a lot of people are are are quite surprised if the national rifle association association would even come forward and say hey we should rethink this considering we've seen you know their push for years and years and years we know it's not gun law if it's a gun it's not community organization it's not there for responsible gun owners it's not about marksmanship it's about law it's about politicians and about gun manufacturers and you see this and to have them take this stab is pretty huge. the

n.r.a. for this one time they're stepping up and saying we need to at least look at a problem which is kind of amazing because it is very quiet didn't have a doesn't have a very good track record of helping anyone but themselves and the gun manufacturers so you know i mean we've seen it we've seen it before they say one thing but can we trust that the n.r.a. is going to suddenly really start stepping up as a as an industry organization and start halting things like this or putting more safety measures. i mean it's hard to tell traveler because you know on one hand is it a p.r. move just to look good given the strategy if we want to be cynical maybe that's what that is and they've given us plenty of reason to be cynical i mean they've lobbied against them block legislation that would require gun owners just to simply carry liability insurance a if my gun goes off and hurt somebody i should be insured on that and you know recently though they did launch their own liability insurance so it's very dynamic

what's going on but also let's remember you know there's two sides to every argument i think that you know at the end of the day everybody is saying we need to outlaw guns we're just because you pass a law against something doesn't make it disappear doesn't make it suddenly magically vanish we're no one's going to have them anymore you know. then it goes underground and becomes a criminal it goes into you know goes into the shadow economy which is that going to be is that going to be better or worse for having guns around i don't know those are good questions i think going to be because the moment you outlaw something then criminals take over and you know take over the selling and then you can't trace it at all and you don't know who has a weapon or who doesn't or what weapons are being sold yeah i think that's the hard thing when you when these things when these kind of events happen is that there's plenty of us who have either grown up around guns or you know recreational recreationally shoot guns or hunting or these kinds of things or even for protection i mean people in our line of work there's a million completely legitimate reasons to have

a firearm or to want one but it seems like now the question is should we regulate it in the same way that we did cars tons of people died from car accidents and so we said hey we need to look at the size of the car who can drive a car you know you can't go on just rent a semi. that there's there's laws and there's i think education is a big one i think when you see things that back and happen this situation obviously is years and years of deceit people are you know there's there's so much we don't know do you think this could be the breaking point because a lot of people say if it didn't happen after sandy hook it's never going to happen if it is it may be that we have so much video and we're really seeing it do you get the feeling maybe that that is why they have already started to see it. you know either go so terribly that the stuff really what were you know that could be like or so that could be a pretty big factor is that you know they're looking at this issue saying there's really no wind for

a source at least go this little bit we don't really care about stocks anyway it's not going to make or break us it's not going to get rid of you know you know like oh they're going to take away weapons even if they outlaw this one like little piece this little add on and it looks good for us to look like that we're compassionate we're out of this which i assume they are you don't you know let's do it but at the end. that day you know i think we also have to remember the and i think you're right look we put seat belts in cars because we realize that you know without seatbelts cars are rather dangerous you know rather more dangerous than they needed to be weapons are made to implement their implements about they're made to kill if we can't do something responsibly then yes we have to ask what you want a child can you really have those but what's also about for this to legislate against chaos sometimes bad things happen and there's nothing nothing you can do about that that's very true and in these days we always hear you know it was evil it was evil it's something that we we can't there you can't stop those kinds of i just hope that we can find some kind of work together and find that maybe this puts

a middle ground where we can find a middle ground some safety measures should just stop even accidental deaths or make it a little harder events like this to happen we're going to be right back we have to take a break but i'm going to come right back to you and as we go to break watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered on facebook and twitter see our full says that r t dot com coming up tyrrell sat down with last vegas fixture and producer david sacks about what vegas strong really main stay tuned to watch. is a real irony going. to want to bring a responsible choice new people into their lives or useful that's what the traumas of these things are so it's expensive things to keep you know a little ordinary you know hold still supervillains you feel you have already while there's an image to show she doesn't trump has used to sell you that it will really sort of the story goes it's garbage real soon.

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lawson las vegas nevada is a desert away system built on gambling entertainment and showbiz it still hurting just days after a madman's massacre as as as left this city in shock and bereavement the entertainment is the very life essence of this city it's a disneyland for adults and a playground for children with tourist spending nearly sixty billion dollars and twenty sixteen alone the show must go on for this town despite this this tragedy otherwise the heart and soul of lost bagus may very well die prolific vegas show producer david sacks is bagus royalty with roots deep in the beggars' show

community i sat down with him earlier this week and i asked him a true expert on this just how much this tragedy will affect the lifeblood of bagus which is tourism and entertainment take a listen to what he had to say. how do you think this event this tragedy is going to affect. the truism in the city in the lifeblood of the city you know not just in the next week but like a year from now you know what kind of effect do you think this is going terrible comparison but. obama when he first was elected he made a comment about. something it was benign but it was you know don't go to vegas and blow your money. and they just just that destroyed the convention business i mean a hundred conventions hold out just for the appearance of oh we don't have a convention in vegas because makes us look like we're wasting money or something

and we were terrified that that was going to end vegas though in the coming. again and you know and it did impact it but it came back you know three were very resilient. but one thing about vegas which is interesting sometimes i have been born and raised here i'll have people say oh you have cable t.v. in vegas you know growing up you have this negative yeah i don't live in a hotel. and we're normal but what's with a lot of people don't realize is vegas the people in vegas are really from california arizona and canada and. the the local support that but vegas is america really is it's it's a collection of everybody that represents we just want to have some fun. and so that is america and so america's resilient begun since recently and i think we will definitely bounce back but it's going to hurt for a little while specially concert i would imagine you know right now everyone and everyone is kind of talking about you know what should have been what could be done

what should we do max but i think in all that noise i don't i don't hear anyone actually asking bagus you know what that they need for the rest of us ask you you know what do you think greg of spades what is biggest need for all of us. or. well you know i've been watching this and i've even had it myself there's the wherever so many steps of. when the incident happens there's the acceptance and then over what's later the blame we've been through. you know there's grief there's blame even i started thinking wait why did it take so long why couldn't they why couldn't they just get up there quicker and why didn't they bust the you know we're learning now while that was pretty difficult. you know the guy had cameras to see if the police are coming in so you know i know a lot of the police i personally know a lot of police force captain tenants and you know when it's all. i get the

inside scoop to talk to them and see how hard it was but. i've been through these these phases and i would just say. what vegas needs and it is to not be criticized and. don't we don't want people second guessing and saying. don't don't come to vegas. not just because we need the tourism but just it's not fair. don't go through that phase of the blame phase and say oh well vegas people are. this or that you know really good people who are i think they did their best for so many heroic stories i even have an employee who went down with his truck and just started picking up people to take in the hospital when he didn't think of that like that there wasn't enough ambulances

people were just put putting people in the back of their truck and taking them so i think vegas needs now is don't don't criticise don't go through that phase right now. just just help and they'll be plenty of time for. looking at measures of how to improve and what could be done better but try not to do that what do you think people's biggest misconception is. of practice everybody kind of thinks about it was some city and it has that view of the decadence and all the other incomes are down below you know what is what is the biggest misconception about the city well there's at the one hand you know when you're born and raised here you do have a skewed view of it you know i take offense to people who think all begins or. you know there's just nothing but hookers here and drugs and. i just told my kid there's probably nothing to talk about with my kid we're driving i said i've never seen a hooker in my life i've never seen

a rattlesnake more like kids snake might live tomorrow eleven never. see the snake never seen a hooker until recently now i guess i know what to look for but there are a couple of walk in there. but we're not just that that's just a part of it and those who might criticize some of the bad things or cd or things of vegas have to remember. there's the same thing in your home town too but we're just it's just more highlighted here i guess and. i don't know if you know this is a place to come have fun and. being from the entertainment industry sometimes i wonder because my wife's in the medical industry and i see why you're so lucky you get to change people's lives and help people like it's. i feel like you know so bad we're just entertaining. but it's true you know we the world does need that what if you just work work work and there's nothing else to do you need entertainment is

part of life and it helping to make it better so you know she she told me she said you know what you do. it does help so we're not going to pull the plug on bogus. not that i would not because we i think people do need a release or at least the idea of. you know i don't even go to the strip but knowing everything is open and i could it's it's a pretty cool feeling and i've lived a lot of places just touring the shows and. you know i'm not putting any of those down but it was just knowing that everything clothed in branson missouri for a year and everything close and i would drive in circles in the kmart parking lot at night i don't know if i don't want to do with myself and not that i go out here in vegas but it just knowing everything's the life is there so i just hope that

people don't not come here because out of fear and i understand the fear but it's the odds are still extremely low. what are your plans moving forward. well you know i just i just called a meeting and i own several theaters here and we have four hundred employees and. you know we have safety plans and stuff but a lot of that revolves around relying on the police and the. the property of the hotel to manage a lot of that but it just made me think we really need to put even more intense plans together because you can't always wait for them we do need to have something immediate and as a venue owner you know you get sued for everything we get lawsuits cause. some people slip and fall or say they slip and fall and you don't want the liability but . i think i think it's worth the risk to train i've got some some really good deed

or managers in ussher's who actually have. flied to be in the police force and i think we should give them training case somebody does stand up during a show and has a gun or something how to handle it immediately because. so i just started thinking through all our safety procedures and i want to revamp those. that sort of thing else worked out. there's there's nothing more to add there's just the message so don't let's. see there's a ton of conspiracy theories out there already and toobin and all this stuff and and i i get it. but don't let that whatever that faces the anger phase or whatever the blame face just don't let that overwhelm you there's. it takes away from what happened to all those people and they deserve to. experience they went

through it's disrespectful i think to them too to minimalize a lot just like that c.b.s. executive girl who got fired said that everybody had it coming to them it's thanks she took that out of this is you know i probably didn't mean it that bad but boy you know just be careful what you say right now it's very intense but i think it's a positive thing at the other day that what you saw the show must go on i think i think that does bring people hope of a good does you know if everybody stops and quits you know well you know i don't want to i don't mean to criticize the other shows but this is this all happened so fast i had to make a decision about closing down thirteen different shows of my and i said my instinct was to go on but. you know m.g.m. mirage caesar's entertainment. oh my gosh i mean i think just about it cirque every show in town closed down i think we were one of the only shows to stay open

and then i thought now i'm making the wrong decision like we're being disrespectful . i didn't feel that so i feel i'm probably gonna get some criticism for staying open but i really felt the show must go on and so did my staff and we felt we needed to be there and we've been up for free tickets. anyone who bought a show ticket to any of these shows that are closed down and they still need a place to go and gather they can come for free at my place in any of my shows so. there is going to say about thank you thank you and another into the group that is really good which drove them and thank you so much for the first thank you talked with us today and he welcomes thank you. it turns out that building the hyperloop salon the northeast corridor and exploring the outer reaches of space aren't the only fantastical projects ilan musk has been working on in the land down under the world's most imaginative entrepreneur and innovative car maker

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