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Relatives: Airport shooting suspect had mental health issues

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NewsHubThe man police say opened fire with a gun from his checked baggage at a Florida airport had a history of mental health problems — some of which followed his military service in Iraq — and was receiving psychological treatment at his home in Alaska, his relatives said Friday after the deadly shooting.
“Only thing I could tell you was when he came out of Iraq , he wasn’t feeling too good,” his uncle, Hernan Rivera, told The Record newspaper (http://bit.ly/2j04ghF ).
Esteban Santiago , 26, deployed in 2010 as part of the Puerto Rico National Guard, spending a year with an engineering battalion, according to Guard spokesman Maj. Paul Dahlen.
In recent years, Santiago had been living in Anchorage , Alaska, his brother, Bryan Santiago, told The Associated Press from Puerto Rico. Bryan Santiago said his brother’s girlfriend had recently called the family to alert them to his treatment.
In November, Esteban told FBI agents in Alaska that the government was controlling his mind and was forcing him to watch Islamic State group videos, a law enforcement official said. The official was not authorized to discuss an ongoing investigation by name and spoke Friday on condition of anonymity.
The FBI agents notified the police after the interview with Esteban Santiago , who took him in for a mental health evaluation.
Bryan Santiago said his brother never spoke to him directly about his medical issues.
“We have not talked for the past three weeks,” Bryan Santiago said. “That’s a bit unusual … I’m in shock. He was a serious person … He was a normal person.”
Esteban Santiago was born in New Jersey but moved to Puerto Rico when he was 2, his brother said. He grew up in the southern coastal town of Penuelas before joining the Guard in 2007.
Since returning from Iraq , Santiago served in the Army Reserves and the Alaska National Guard in Anchorage. He was serving as a combat engineer in the Guard before his discharge for “unsatisfactory performance,” said Lt. Col. Candis Olmstead, a spokeswoman. His military rank upon discharge was E3, private 1st class, and he worked one weekend a month with an additional 15 days of training yearly, Olmstead said.
She would not elaborate on his discharge, but the Pentagon said he went AWOL several times and was demoted and discharged.
Still, he’d had some successes during his military career, being awarded a number of medals and commendations including the Iraq Campaign Medal and the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal.
His uncle and aunt in New Jersey were trying to make sense of what they were hearing about Santiago after his arrest at the Fort Lauderdale airport. FBI agents arrived at their house to question them, and reporters swarmed around.
Maria Ruiz told The Record that her nephew had recently become a father and was struggling.
“It was like he lost his mind,” she said in Spanish of his return from Iraq . “He said he saw things.”
Santiago was flying from Anchorage on a Delta flight and had checked only one piece of luggage, which contained the gun.
Santiago was charged in a domestic violence case in January 2016, damaging a door when he forced his way into a bathroom at his girlfriend’s Anchorage home. The woman told officers he yelled at her to leave, strangled her and smacked her on the side of the head, according to charging documents.
A month later municipal prosecutors said he violated the conditions of his release when officers found him at her home during a routine check. He told police he had lived there since he was released from custody the previous month. His Anchorage attorney, Max Holmquist, declined to discuss his client.
Law enforcement officers were at the girlfriend’s home Friday afternoon, and officers guarding the property outside told a reporter who approached the home to step away.
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Danica Coto in San Juan, Puerto Rico ; Becky Bohrer in Juneau, Alaska; Rachel D’Oro and Mark Thiessen in Anchorage , Alaska; and Lolita C. Baldor and Eric Tucker in Washington contributed to this report.
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This story has been corrected to show Santiago served in the Alaska National Guard in Anchorage , not Fairbanks, per new information from the Guard .
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People Shot At Florida's Fort Lauderdale Airport

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NewsHubBy Zachary Fagenson
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (Reuters) – An Iraq war veteran took a gun out of his checked luggage and opened fire in a crowded baggage claim area at Fort Lauderdale’s airport on Friday, killing five people, months after he showed up at an FBI office behaving erratically.
Esteban Santiago, 26, who was taken into custody immediately following the shooting and questioned at length, was expected to face federal charges in the shooting rampage, said George Piro, special agent in charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s office in Miami.
Piro said investigators had not ruled out terrorism as a possible motive in the rampage and were reviewing the suspect’s recent travel.
Santiago, who had served in the U. S. military, had arrived in Ft. Lauderdale shortly before 1 p.m. local time (1800 GMT) on a connecting flight from Alaska, authorities said, when he retrieved a 9mm semi-automatic handgun from his checked luggage and began firing indiscriminately.
Broward County Commissioner Chip LaMarca said on Twitter that the gunman went into a restroom to load his weapon and came out firing. Witnesses told MSNBC television he only stopped after running out of ammunition, at which point he surrendered to police.
Cellphone video posted on social media showed travelers kneeling and treating victims on the floor next to a carousel. At least two victims had pools of blood from apparent head wounds.
The gunman, who wore a “Star Wars” T-shirt, said nothing as he fired, witnesses told MSNBC.
“This is a senseless act of evil,” Florida Governor Rick Scott told reporters.
A White House spokesman said President Barack Obama had spoken to Scott and Broward County Mayor Barbara Sharief and had extended his condolences to the loved ones of the victims.
In addition to the five killed, eight others were wounded by gunfire and some three dozen were taken to local hospitals with bruises or broken bones suffered in the chaos surrounding the shooting massacre.
Piro said that Santiago had turned up at an FBI office in Anchorage in November of last year behaving erratically and was turned over to local police, who took him to a medical facility for a mental evaluation.
A federal law enforcement official told Reuters that Santiago told agents at the Anchorage office in November that his mind was being controlled by a U. S. intelligence agency, which was ordering him to watch Islamic State videos.
Santiago served from 2007 to 2016 in the Puerto Rico National Guard and Alaska National Guard including a deployment to Iraq from 2010 to 2011, according to the Pentagon.
A private first class and combat engineer, he received half a dozen medals before being transferred to the inactive ready reserve in August last year.
An aunt said he came back from his deployment “a different person,” MSNBC reported.
LEGAL TO FLY WITH GUNS
Flying with firearms is routine and legal in the United States as long as the guns are kept in a locked, hard-sided container as checked baggage only, under TSA rules. Ammunition is prohibited in carry-on bags but is allowed in checked luggage.
The attack was the latest in a series of mass shootings that have plagued the United States in recent years, some inspired by militants with an extreme view of Islam, others carried out by loners or the mentally disturbed.
John Schlicher, who told MSNBC he saw the attack, said the shooter was “directly firing at us” while passengers waited for their bags. His wife gave first aid to a victim who had been shot in the head, and his mother-in-law used her sweater to tend to another victim but it turned out that person was already dead, he said.
Mark Lea, another eyewitness, told MSNBC, “He didn’t say anything; he was quiet the whole time.”
Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport is the second largest in South Florida, serving as an intercontinental gateway.
Nearly two months ago a former Southwest Airlines worker killed an employee of the company at Oklahoma City’s airport in what police called a premeditated act.
The deadliest mass shooting in modern U. S. history took place last June, when a gunman apparently inspired by Islamic State killed 49 people and wounded 53 at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida.
(Reporting by Colleen Jenkins, Letitia Stein, Jeffrey Dastin, Joseph Ax, Jonathan Allen, Gina Cherelus, Mark Hosenball and Laila Kearney; Writing by Daniel Trotta and Dan Whitcomb; Editing by James Dalgleish and Lisa Shumaker)

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Putin resented Clinton for calling out his rigged election

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NewsHubRachel Maddow reports on the findings in the U. S. intelligence report on Russia that Vladimir Putin sought to undermine Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election because he blames her for fomenting unrest in Russia after he rigged his own election.

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Airport gunman sent panicked passengers fleeing for lives

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NewsHubFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Without a word, the gunman moved through the baggage claim picking off travelers until his handgun ran out of ammunition, leaving five dead and eight wounded in Fort Lauderdale’s airport.
Panicked witnesses ran out of the terminal and spilled onto the tarmac, baggage in hand. Others hid in bathroom stalls or crouched behind cars or anything else they could find as police and paramedics rushed in Friday to help the wounded and establish whether there were any other gunmen.
Authorities said an Army veteran who complained that the government was controlling his mind drew a gun from his checked luggage on arrival and opened fire on fellow travelers.
Bruce Hugon, who had flown in from Indianapolis for a vacation, was at the baggage carousel when he heard four or five pops and saw everyone drop to the ground. He said a woman next to him tried to get up and was shot in the head.
“The guy must have been standing over me at one point. I could smell the gunpowder,” he said. “I thought I was about to feel a piercing pain or nothing at all because I would have been dead.”
The gunman was identified as 26-year-old Esteban Santiago of Anchorage, Alaska, who served in Iraq with the National Guard but was demoted and discharged last year for unsatisfactory performance. His brother said he had been receiving psychological treatment recently.
A law enforcement official told The Associated Press that Santiago had walked into the FBI office in Anchorage in November to say that the U. S. government was controlling his mind and making him watch Islamic State videos.
Agents questioned an agitated and disjointed-sounding Santiago and then called police, who took him for a mental health evaluation, according to the official, who was not authorized to discuss the case and spoke on condition of anonymity.
FBI agent George Piro, who is in charge of the Miami field office, confirmed that Santiago had come into the Anchorage office and said he clearly indicated at the time that he was not intent on hurting anyone.
Piro said authorities are looking at leads in several states and have not ruled out terrorism. “We’re looking at every angle, including the terrorism angle,” he said
Santiago , who is in federal custody, will face federal charges and is expected to appear in court Monday, Piro said.
It is legal for airline passengers to travel with guns and ammunition as long as the firearms are put in a checked bag — not a carry-on — and are unloaded and locked in a hard-sided container. Guns must be declared to the airline at check-in.
Santiago arrived in Fort Lauderdale after taking off from Anchorage aboard a Delta flight Thursday night, checking only one piece of luggage — his gun, said Jesse Davis, police chief at the Anchorage airport.
At Fort Lauderdale, “after he claimed his bag, he went into the bathroom and loaded the gun and started shooting. We don’t know why,” said Chip LaMarca, a Broward County commissioner who was briefed by investigators.
The gunman was taken into custody after throwing his empty weapon down and lying spread-eagle on the ground, one witness said.
“People started kind of screaming and trying to get out of any door they could or hide under the chairs,” the witness, Mark Lea, told MSNBC. “He just kind of continued coming in, just randomly shooting at people, no rhyme or reason to it.”
The Fort Lauderdale gunman said nothing as he “went up and down the carousels of the baggage claim, shooting through luggage to get at people that were hiding,” according to Lea. The killer went through about three magazines before running out of ammunition, Lea said.
The gunman was arrested unharmed, with no shots fired by law enforcement officers, and was being questioned by the FBI, Sheriff Scott Israel said.
Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel said 30 to 40 people were injured — scrapes, bruises and broken bones — after the shooting.
The condition of the wounded was not disclosed. At least one of the victims was seen lying in a pool of blood with what appeared to be a head wound.
The airport was shut down, with incoming flights diverted and outgoing flights held on the ground. Airport Director Mark Gale said it will try to reopen at 5 a.m. Saturday but urged travelers to check with their individual airlines on flight status
The bloodshed is likely to raise questions of whether aviation safety officials need to change the rules.
The attack also exposed another weak point in airport security: While travelers have to take off their shoes, put their carry-on luggage through X-ray machines and pass through metal detectors to reach the gates, many other sections of airports, such as ticket counters and baggage claim areas, are more lightly secured and more vulnerable to attack.
“The fact is that wherever there are crowds, such as at our airports, we remain vulnerable to these types of attacks,” Nelson said.
President Barack Obama was briefed by his Homeland Security adviser, the White House said. President-elect Donald Trump said that it is a “disgraceful situation that’s happening in our country and throughout the world” and that it was too soon to say whether it was a terrorist attack.
Santiago ’s brother, Bryan, told the AP that his brother had been receiving psychological treatment in Alaska. He said Santiago ’s girlfriend alerted the family to the situation in recent months. Bryan Santiago said that he didn’t know what his brother was being treated for and that they never talked about it.
He said Esteban Santiago was born in New Jersey and moved to Puerto Rico when he was 2. He was sent to Iraq in 2010 and spent a year there with the 130th Engineer Battalion, according to Puerto Rico National Guard spokesman Maj. Paul Dahlen. He later joined the Alaska National Guard.
The Pentagon said Santiago had gone AWOL several times during his stint with the Alaska National Guard and was demoted — from specialist to private first class — and given a general discharge, which is lower than an honorable discharge.
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Associated Press writers Freida Frisaro and Adriana Gomez-Licon in Miami; Lolita C. Baldor and Eric Tucker in Washington; Becky Bohrer in Juneau, Alaska; David Koenig in Dallas; and Danica Coto in San Juan, Puerto Rico, contributed to this report.
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JR常磐線 停車位置を200メートル余り通りすぎる

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NewsHub7日朝、JR常磐線の普通電車が千葉県松戸市の北松戸駅で停車位置を200メートル余り通りすぎてしまうトラブルがあり、JR東日本は運転士の居眠りが原因と見て調べています。 7日午前9時半ごろ、JR常磐線の我孫子発、代々木上原行きの上りの普通電車が北松戸駅で停車位置をおよそ220メートル行きすぎて停車しました。 JR東日本によりますと、乗車していた車掌が気付いて非常ブレーキをかけて停車させたということで、電車はおよそ10分遅れで運転を再開しました。乗客およそ700人にけがはありませんでした。 電車を運転していた29歳の男性の運転士は「強い眠気におそわれてしまった」と話しているということで、JR東日本は運転士の居眠りが原因と見て調べています。 JR東日本では先月、オーバーランなどのミスが相次いで起きていて、JR東日本東京支社は「ご迷惑をおかけし深くおわび申し上げます。お客様に安心してご利用いただけるようさらに乗務員への指導を徹底していきます」と話しています。

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野党4党、街頭演説で共闘訴え 「安倍1強」に対抗勢力を

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NewsHub民進、共産、自由、社民の野党4党の幹部が7日、東京・新宿でそろって今年初めての街頭演説を行った。野党共闘の重要性を示すとともに、次期衆院選での安倍政権打倒を呼び掛けた。民進党の安住淳代表代行は「1強政治に対抗する勢力をみんなでつくる」と強調。主催した安全保障関連法の廃止を掲げる市民団体「市民連合」によると、約2500人の聴衆が集まった。 共産党の志位和夫委員長は「政権に代わる魅力ある受け皿を示せば、状況は大きく変わる」とアピール。自由党の青木愛副代表は「野党が結集し選択肢を示す」と主張。社民党の福島瑞穂副党首は、衆院選で改憲勢力3分の2阻止を訴えた。

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都議選志望の小池塾生が筆記試験 擁立候補の選考スタート

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NewsHub東京都の小池百合子知事が設立した政治塾「希望の塾」は7日、夏の都議選への出馬を志望する塾生を対象として設置する「都議選対策講座」の筆記試験を都内で実施した。小池氏は、支援を受ける都議や塾生らから30〜40人規模の候補者擁立を目指している。 試験は立候補を目指す塾生のほか、政策立案に携わることを希望する塾生ら計約1600人が申し込んだ。内容は論文とマークシート式の総合適性テストなど。 埼玉県の主婦平田優美さん(35)は「出産した女性が働きやすい社会づくりを目指している。試験は難しかったが、合格したら東京に引っ越して都議選に立候補したい」と意欲を見せた。

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名人は連覇、新クイーンが誕生 小倉百人一首かるた競技

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NewsHub小倉百人一首かるた競技の日本一を決める第63期名人位、第61期クイーン位決定戦(全日本かるた協会主催)が7日、大津市の近江神宮であった。 名人位では、昨年名人となった会社員川崎文義さん(28)=福井県越前市、8段=が、挑戦者の会社員三好輝明さん(33)=同市、8段=を下して連覇を果たした。クイーン位では、挑戦者の九州大学4年鶴田紗恵さん(22)=福岡市、6段=が、2連覇していた医療事務の坪田翼さん(34)=東京都東大和市、6段=を破り、新クイーンになった。札が両陣とも残り1枚となる「運命戦」の末に制した。

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早期の日米首脳会談重要=フリン氏と一致-首相補佐官

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NewsHub会談する河井克行首相補佐官(右)とマイケル・フリン次期米国家安全保障担当大統領補佐官=6日、米ワシントン(在米日本大使館提供・時事)
【ワシントン時事】河井克行首相補佐官は6日夜(日本時間7日昼)、トランプ次期米大統領が国家安全保障担当大統領補佐官に指名したマイケル・フリン元国防情報局長官とワシントンのホテルで1時間余り会談した。両氏は20日の新政権発足後、できるだけ早期に安倍晋三首相と次期大統領による首脳会談を実現させることが重要だとの認識で一致した。 日本政府は次期大統領側と、27日を軸にワシントンのホワイトハウスで初の首脳会談を行う方向で調整している。首相は会談で、不安定化するアジア太平洋地域情勢を踏まえた日米同盟の強化や、自由貿易体制の重要性をめぐり意見を交わしたい考えだ。 河井、フリン両氏は6日の会談で、次期大統領が選挙戦で日米同盟見直しに言及した経緯を踏まえ、「新政権下でも日米同盟の価値や重要性は揺るがない」との立場を確認。一層の深化・拡大を目指さなければならないという点でも合意した。 河井氏はまた、アジア太平洋地域の実情を直接把握してほしいとして、次期大統領の早期来日を招請した。 会談後、河井氏は記者団に「日米同盟全般について、さまざまな観点からしっかり意見交換を行うことができ、大変良かった」と強調。首脳会談の時期については「具体的な日にちの話は特に出ていない」と述べるにとどめた。 フリン氏は「とてもいい会談だった」と語ったが、「質問には答えない」として会談の詳細は明らかにしなかった。(2017/01/07-16:12)

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D-Link Calls The FTC's Router And IP Camera Security Allegations 'Baseless'

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NewsHubNetworking vendor D-Link, which this week was sued by the U. S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over alleged security issues in its routers and IP cameras, blasted the FTC for insinuating potential security issues rather than pointing out specific instances where customer privacy was breached.
The FTC filed a complaint in the Northern District of California on Thursday which charged Taiwan-based D-Link and D-Link Systems, its Fountain Valley, Calif.-based U. S. subsidiary, with failing to take «reasonable steps to secure its routers and Internet Protocol (IP) cameras» and possibly compromising sensitive consumer information «including live video and audio feeds from D-Link IP cameras. »
According to the FTC, D-Link failed to take steps to address «well-known and easily preventable security flaws. » Among the alleged missteps were hard-coding the username «guest» and password «guest» into some products, allowing a software flaw that could let unauthorized users take control of routers, making a private key code for the D-Link software openly available on a public website for six months, and leaving users’ login credentials for the company’s mobile app unsecured.
[Related: FTC Files Complaint Against D-Link Over Router, Camera Security Issues ]
D-Link was unable to provide a company executive to discuss the FTC action, citing executive travel schedules related to CES 2017.
In a prepared statement, D-Link Systems said it rejects the FTC’s allegations and firmly believes it has «more than reasonable» security processes and procedures including procedures to address potential security issues, which the company said exist in all of its internet of things (IoT) devices.
The company also said the FTC did not allege any breach of a D-Link Systems device or actual instances of consumers suffering, but instead focused on the potential of being hacked.
The FTC charges against D-Link Systems are unwarranted, said William Brown, chief information security officer at D-Link Systems, in the statement.
«We will vigorously defend the security and integrity of our routers and IP cameras and are fully prepared to contest the complaint. Furthermore, we are continually working to address the overall security features of D-Link Systems’ products for their intended applications and to regularly inform consumers of the appropriate steps to take to secure devices.,» Brown said.
D-Link late Thursday posted an online FAQ to address specific allegations in the FTC complaint.
In the FAQ, the company said it maintains procedures to address the kind of potential security issues that exist in all IoT devices and said the FTC must allege that actual consumers were harmed or could suffer actual injuries.
D-Link’s response was what would be expected of a company facing allegations of delivering solutions which could impact the privacy of its customers, said Andrew Calore, vice president of BCI Computers, a West Warwick, R. I.-based solution provider who partners with D-Link to a limited extent.
With the average household having 14 connected devices and the increasing reliance on IoT, security flaws are to be expected, Calore told CRN.
«Nothing is perfect,» he said. «For a company like D-Link, it sounds like they made a reasonable response to the FTC action. »
However, Calore praised the FTC for raising the issue. Vendors, in general, are quick to promise certain features and capabilities but often slower to deliver them, he said.
«I agree the FTC should be involved,» he said. «Routers and cameras get put in your home, your private area. They should be safe. Otherwise, someone could do something like use your camera to see if you’re at home and then rob you. »
When talking with the IT director at a business customer, it is easy to talk about VPNs and firewalls to protect the business, Calore said. «But at home, users rely on their ISPs or on store-bought routers for security,» he said. «You can’t load antivirus on your baby monitors and cameras. «

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