happened. these are current these emergency vehicles that you see should not be there —— at these coroners around, these emergency vehicles should not be there. they should not have bereft their families for the actions of someone who has very deliberately driven into them by way of an attack that the mayor described as a terrorist attack on the city of new orleans, although the fbi has not described as a terrorist attack as they classified. you are seeing a lot of what happens for the aftermath. this scene, the scene that is seen in front of you here, all of these vehicles and coroner vehicles, they were not to be there forever and there will be an awful lot of activity. yellow tape, as the authorities say, they are asking people to stay away from, eight blocks clear of bourbon street that they are asking people to stay clear from. they are asking people to stay clearfrom. the emotional wounds that this will have however, i have been in direc' that:act with the however, i have been in direc' that this nith the however, i have been in direc' that this will the inflicted notjust on the wounds that this will have inflicted notjust on the

community in new orleans, but community in new orleans, but very specifically the families very families of the deceased is very specifically the families of the deceased is immeasurable. ., ~ , ., immeasurable. ., ~ , ., of the deceased is immeasurable. ., ~ ,, of the deceased is immeasurable. ., ~ ,, immeasurable. thank you. stay with us. immeasurable. thank you. stay with us- a _ immeasurable. thank you. stay with us. immeasurable. thank you. stay with us- a _ immeasurable. thank you. stay with us. a reminder _ immeasurable. thank you. stay with us. a reminder of - immeasurable. thank you. stay with us. a reminder of the - immeasurable. thank you. stay with us. a reminder _ immeasurable. thank you. stay with us. a reminder of - immeasurable. thank you. stay with us. a reminder of the - immeasurable. thank you. stay| with us. a reminder of the news in the last few mutant minutes. immeasurable. thank you. stay| with us. a reminder of the news few mutant minutes. we have heard that president in the last few mutant minutes. we have heard that president biden has been briefed on the biden has been briefed on the horrific news that you driver horrific news that you driver killed and injured dozens of killed and injured dozens of individuals in new orleans and horrific news that you driver killed and inired dozens of horrific news that you driver killed and in newiozens of the white house has been in horrific news that you driver killed and in new orleansf horrific news that you driver killed and in new orleans and individuals in new orleans and the white house has been in touch with the new orleans touch with the new orleans mayor to offer support and the mayor to offer support and the new orleans mayor was one of a in direct contact with the new orleans mayor was one of a group of officials along with group of officials along with the fbi and police that have the fbi and police that have smoking in the last hour. it smoking in the last hour. it started off with the new started off with the new orleans mayor given us an orleans mayor given us an update on the situation. we update on the situation. we want to bring you that again in want to bring you that again in full. full. first of all, we do know that first of all, we do know that the city of new orleans was the city of new orleans was impacted by a terrorist attack. impacted by a terrorist attack. it is all still under it is all still under investigation. investigation. you will hear more after me. you will hear more after me. however, i have been however, i have been

in direct contact with the white house, with governor landry and, of course, a unified command who is present here. what i'm asking at this time are prayers for those who have lost their lives in the city of new orleans, due to this tragedy. in addition to that, i am asking the public to stay clear of eight blocks around bourbon street. stay clear from bourbon street, eight blocks around. very active and, again, unified command is in place right now. i am going to ask chief kirkpatrick to give you an update. you are then going to hearfrom our agent in charge, relative to the fbi. so at this time, chief kirkpatrick? good morning, everyone.

we know we have four at touro, four at oschner baptist... - one at lane, but even as i was walking - out of the door i believe we - have an unconfirmed additional people who have been taken to other area hospitals, possibly. on the east side, but we will give you as many correct - numbers as we can as the day progresses. . it is a very tragic— situation for me to tell you that we know we have ten people that this man - killed on bourbon street. that is why we do not i want anyone on bourbon street today, wherever you see yellow tape please do not - violate, this yellow tape, this is to -

protect the scene. we have informationj on the demographics of those who are in - the hospital right now. we do not know at. this point how many could be tourists, - versus locals, but from the information i have right now it| seems the majority are locals, versus tourists. what i also can tell i you is that this man, this perpetrator, hel fired on our officers. from his vehicle, when he crashed his vehicle. - two of our officers have been shot. i they are stable and we will. give you an update on them. i haven't yet been able to go to the hospital. i i will be leaving here for us to go visit - our officers. we have called in every officer that we have. i we have so much appreciated our partnerships, who have also - offered us staff. last night we had over

300 officers out here. and because of the intentional mindset of this perpetrator, . who went around our barricades in order to conduct this, he - was hell—bent on creating the carnage and the damage that| he did. because of the nature and - the indices that we have on the scene, and we have enoughj information that the fbi will be taking over this investigation. - and with that, i am going to be asking, this is - the assistant agent - in charge, this is agent duncan, special agent duncan and she has taken over this. case on behalf of us and the fbi. - as always, we will be - in partnership with all of our partners, but agent duncan, if you want to have a few words. |

thank you. good morning, my name is alethea duncan, i'm the special agent in charge of new orleans. as chief kirkpatrick said, will be taking over for this event. this is not a terrorist event. what is right now is there are improvised explosive devices that were found and we are working on confirming if this is a viable device or not. as chief kirkpatrick said, we are urging everyone to stay away from bourbon street, specifically from canal street to st ann. that is what i ask. once again, stay away from bourbon street, canal street all the way to st ann, until we can figure out what is going on. our goal is to provide additional information at the iiam press conference. thank you so much and we will be in touch. yes. i will say that we wantl our community and our

i visitors to continue and enjoy, | there is so much to enjoy about new orleans and we are goingl to make sure that the routes to the superdome are safe today for the game and yes we had. for the game and yet we had this tragic event and we are sorry to everyone in our- community, again, but we do want you to go i about the day, as we say, just stay away - from bourbon street. the new orleans police chief, anne kirkpatrick commenting that briefing about an hour ago from the authorities. let me show the scene live back in new orleans, it isjust show the scene live back in new orleans, it is just after am there and you can see there is there and you can see there is the current�*s ban and the yellow tape. this is the area where it happened. an area known as the french quarter. if you had ever been to new orleans, you will know this area. let me bring in our washington correspondent, rowan bridge. we have had news in the last half an hour or so that

present biden has been briefed? yes, that's right, the white house describing this as a horrific incident, saying presidentjoe biden has been in touch with the mayor of new orleans to offer his support and that he is going to be kept briefed on developments throughout today. i briefed on developments throughout today.- throughout today. i have mentioned _ throughout today. i have mentioned this - throughout today. i have mentioned this area - throughout today. i have mentioned this area and| throughout today. i have i mentioned this area and we throughout today. i have - mentioned this area and we have seen the live pictures. for anyone who doesn't know, give us an idea of this area of new orleans. , ., �* ., ,., orleans. yes, i mean, bourbon street is what _ orleans. yes, i mean, bourbon street is what is _ orleans. yes, i mean, bourbon street is what is known - orleans. yes, i mean, bourbon street is what is known as - orleans. yes, i mean, bourbon street is what is known as in i street is what is known as in the french quarter of new orleans. the city has a french heritage and it is an area popular with tourists and would have been busy. this was new year's eve, 3:15am, so it would have been packed with people out celebrating the new year. also, you heard mention there of a football game. what they are talking about is the sugar bowl, which is a big american university football game, which is due to take place in new orleans today and that also will have drawn crowds to the city. what you also heard that

news conference is they are still trying to establish who it is who has been killed and injured in this incident, but as far as they are aware so far, it appears to be more local people and tourists who have been hit by this pick—up truck, which, as you heard her describe, was hell—bent on trying to kill people, deliberately driving into crowds in the early hours of this morning.— crowds in the early hours of this morninu. �* ~ ., ., this morning. and we know that at least 35 _ this morning. and we know that at least 35 people _ this morning. and we know that at least 35 people injured. - this morning. and we know that at least 35 people injured. i - at least 35 people injured. i suppose the concern now is we didn't get any details on how seriously injured they could be? seriously in'ured they could be? , . . , seriously in'ured they could be? , , �* seriously in'ured they could be? , , ~ be? yes, exactly. and there was a possibility _ be? yes, exactly. and there was a possibility that _ be? yes, exactly. and there was a possibility that there _ be? yes, exactly. and there was a possibility that there may - be? yes, exactly. and there was a possibility that there may be i a possibility that there may be a possibility that there may be a 36 person injured as well. i mean, i think, a 36 person injured as well. i mean, ithink, as a 36 person injured as well. i mean, i think, as ever with these sorts of situations, there is a bit of a fog that surrounds them when the event first happens and overtime details start to crystallise. as you say, at the moment it is not clear what the severity of those injured is, but we do know that at least ten people have been killed in this incident.— have been killed in this incident. , . ., , incident. yes, and it was interesting _ incident. yes, and it was interesting that - incident. yes, and it was interesting that during . incident. yes, and it was i interesting that during that

news briefing after it happened, the questions were about this improvised device and whether it is viable. and that will be key to the question is the media ask, but also the investigation that obviously is now under way to try and work out who this aspect is and why he did it. yes, i mean, ithink it aspect is and why he did it. yes, i mean, i think it was noticeable that there was some confusion about whether this is being treated as a terrorist incident or not. you had the police described as a terrorist incident and then sort of be contradicted by the fbi, he said at the moment it wasn't being treated as a terrorist incident and saying they had found this improvised explosive

device, which effectively means a sort of home—made bomb, for want of a better way of putting it, at the scene. but i suspect what we will get is hopefully more clarity around this because they didn't take questions at the news conference, so nobody was able to really follow up and clarify exactly why is there was this confusion about the state of the incident.— confusion about the state of the incident. there is a news conference — the incident. there is a news conference scheduled - the incident. there is a news conference scheduled for - the incident. there is a news conference scheduled for a l conference scheduled for a couple of hours' time also in new orleans and i suspect hopefully we might get a bit more clarity then, especially if they did start taking questions from the media because i suspect that is one they will be asked. yes, it was interesting in what anne kirkpatrick, the superintendent, said, she said he was very clear, hell—bent on creating the carnage and damage he did. , ., , creating the carnage and damage he did. , . , he did. yes, and she said he deliberately _ he did. yes, and she said he deliberately drove _ he did. yes, and she said he deliberately drove around i he did. yes, and she said he | deliberately drove around the bollards or restrictions in the area to deliberately target these people. and clearly, you know, targeting new year's eve, you know there are going to be people out on the streets and they have targeted an area in in the city that they knew was likely to be busy and they have driven a pick—up truck at speed at people. that clearly was a deliberate act and as you say, anne anne kirkpatrick described it as in being hell—bent on killing people. and then she

said there was a weapon because she said he had fired at police officers, so clearly this person went out there with intent to kill people. find intent to kill people. and eo - le intent to kill people. and peeple will _ intent to kill people. and people will be _ intent to kill people. and people will be waking up in new orleans and this will have just really shocked the city on a day that they should have been separating the start of 2025? yes, i mean, this is a city that celebrates, you know, it has carnival, it is a party town, in some ways, new orleans, so in in some ways for this to be at the start of the year when in fact the city should have been looking forward to this american football game, the sugar bowl, which is a major event for the city, new year's eve again a major celebratory event for new orleans, this is a horrific way for the city to have to start 2025. ., ~ , ., , for the city to have to start 2025. ., ~ _, y . ., 2025. thank you very much for the moment. _ 2025. thank you very much for the moment, that _ 2025. thank you very much for the moment, that is _ 2025. thank you very much for the moment, that is rowan . the moment, that is rowan bridge, ourwashington bridge, our washington correspondent, who bridge, ourwashington correspondent, who will keep an eye across any developments we get out of new orleans. thank you very much. these are the live pictures we are seeing from the scene and we have been talking to some eyewitnesses

and cbs, our local us partner, also talking to people. ijust want to bring