6-year-old boy survives mountain lion attack at park

What started as a family vacation, quickly took a turn for the worst after a six-year-old boy is attacked by a mountain lion in Big Bend National Park. "We weren’t on a trail or down in the woods we were on a sidewalk between the restaurant and hotel," explains Rivers Hobbs’ father, Jason. The Hobbs family drove in from Austin, hoping to enjoy the outdoors in Big Bend National Park. But their vacation was cut short. "It snuck up on me," claims 6-year-old Rivers. “It” was a mountain lion, sneaking up on Rivers just feet from the Chisos Mountain Lodge where they were staying. "It had a hold of his face...the cat was clamped on his face. I reached down and got my knife out and stabbed the cat in the chest and it let go at that point," Jason says. David Elkowitz with the Big Bend National Park tells CBS 7 this was actually the second attack of the day in the same area. Elkowitz said the mountain lion tried to attack another family but was fended off by a backpack...more