overnight near canal and bourbon street. you can see the scene right there. a lot of police activity overnight. we've been seeing ambulances you see on your screen right there. truly a frightening scene. as you can imagine, a number of new year's revelers out and about on this new year's day early morning and then waking up to this news. the latest that we have from the new orleans ready, their emergency alert system is that their eighth district, they're working on a mass casualty event. that is how they have described it so far. and again, we got that news just a matter of moments ago that at least ten people have been killed and dozens more were injured. we're also learning some more information from eyewitnesses who have described some of the scenes, frankly, and some of the horror and panic after a vehicle slammed into the crowd. that's the word from some of

the eyewitnesses. kevin garcia, 22 years old, spoke to cnn shortly after this incident. he said all i seen was a truck slamming into everyone on the left side of bourbon sidewalk. a body came flying at me, he said, adding that he also heard gunshots being fired. that's again from kevin garcia speaking with cnn just a little while ago, another witness from shreveport, louisiana, whit davis, told cnn the incident happened while she was at a nightclub on bourbon street. everyone started yelling and screaming. this is according to whit davis, running to the back. and then we basically went into lockdown for a little bit. then it calmed down, but they wouldn't let us leave. that's again from an eyewitness. this is whit davis from shreveport, louisiana, who said that she was there as this happened earlier this evening. you can see some of these frightening images on your screen of just a tremendous amount of law enforcement presence, again, on canal and bourbon street. again, from whit davis telling cnn when they finally let us out of the club, police waved us where to

walk and were telling us to get out of the area fast. i saw a few dead bodies they couldn't even cover up, and tons of people receiving first aid. again, that stands with the information that we were learning. again just in the past. really 30 minutes or so, we learned that at least ten people were killed and dozens more were wounded. we actually have some emergency audio from the emergency officials and the radio sound from the incident. i'm going to play it right now just so our viewers can take a listen. >> communication says engine 29 and all units heading towards canal and bourbon. um, we removed the fire from fuad shukr was responding to a mass casualty incident. a vehicle ran through a crowd of people. there's multiple injuries. multiple casualties. they need the canal. the bourbon. >> and again, we're following this breaking news. a tremendously troubling story

out of new orleans this morning. we're learning that ten people are dead. at least 30 others are injured after a vehicle drove into a crowd in the french quarter of new orleans. of course, the very famous, very populated. you can imagine area, especially on new year's eve going into the early morning hours of new year's day. i believe we have cnn senior law enforcement analyst andrew mccabe joining us now. andrew, i know that you're coming to the story fresh, and we're all learning information as it comes in right now. but again, just knowing that as far as we know, a car drove into a crowd of people killing at least ten. andrew, give me your first thoughts. i mean, we've we've seen this type of incident in other parts of the world over the past couple of weeks. >> yeah, we certainly have danny. >> and it's and it's because of those other experiences with similar mass casualty events that we have to kind of, at

this point, really keep our minds open to any possibility. i think first and foremost, of course, the first responders are trying to get an accurate assessment of the injuries and fatalities and and to tend to the people on scene. and that alone is a massive undertaking. just getting the right assets to the scene can be very challenging. in a place like new orleans, it's tough to move around there. you've got a lot of people, a lot of vehicles, a lot of potential obstructions. so they want to get as many ambulances and emts and medical personnel, fire personnel into that place as they can to just assess the damages and the injuries to people. but as you mentioned, we've seen in just in the last couple of months and specifically, uh, thinking of the christmas market attacks in germany, that there are some times that that incidents like this are intentionally created.

now, we don't know if that's the case with this. it could very well be someone who was incapacitated or intoxicated or something. uh, went the wrong way with their vehicle, reacted terribly and caused this by mistake. um, and that's that's probably how folks on the scene are thinking about this. but you have to keep in the back of your mind the possibility that this could have been an intentional event. someone who was in the act of, um, protest or or some with some sort of terrorist purpose. again, we don't know that here yet. we haven't heard anything about the perpetrator of this mass casualty event. um, but, you know, folks on the scene have really got to keep an open mind as to what caused this and whether or not there are any other threats that we need to be concerned about. >> well, you know, it's interesting. i appreciate you saying that and kind of, you

know, setting the stage for us that we're still learning quite a lot about this particular incident and there's still quite a lot we don't know. but again, you look at that, um, christmas market attack back in germany that, as we're learning, seemed to truly be intentional. but it was interesting. i was here in new york back on christmas, and there was a story of a taxicab hitting a couple of pedestrians, and it turned out that that was, as you noted, in the realm of possibilities. that was someone who, according to police, was having a medical episode. um, so i imagine that is those are two examples of the challenge of what law enforcement officers are looking at with something so terrible like this, and that it could either be i mean, it could be anything at this point. i mean, that's really the situation. um, andrew, i was also curious. i was describing some, uh, eyewitness interviews that cnn got just a

little while ago, and i wanted your take on this because one person said that they thought that they might have even heard gunshots in the aftermath of this car driving through. now, obviously in in chaos, you could hear a lot of things, but would that be what would that potentially tell you if that were in fact the case? as a witness told us just a little while ago? >> yeah. i mean, i think you have to obviously you want to hear what any witnesses have to say. you want to record all those statements right off the bat. but but investigators know that eyewitness testimony in the middle of an attack or an incident like this can very frequently be, um, be kind of off base. and so you got to be very careful before you start drawing conclusions about whether or not something like that happened. it's very, very frequent. that really most mass shootings, you'll have a couple of eyewitnesses who

will say there were two shooters instead of one, or, you know, there were shooting in two different locations. and when we sort through all that after the fact, we come to find out that that was not the case and that people sometimes mishear things and they react very strongly to things. that might be the sound of gunshots. so, so we don't know yet, but we do know if you think about intentional acts like this one and the christmas market attack in germany is the most recent, but there have been very many of these back across time. there's been, i think, probably at least three christmas market attacks in germany that i can think of in the last ten years or so. um, we've had, uh, attacks in the united states with vehicles and large crowds. remember? saif, uh, sayfullo saipov, who drove a rental truck up the west side highway and onto the pedestrian park there and used it to run over people. so, um, and in some vehicle attacks, uh, i'm thinking of some in the

united kingdom several years ago, um, the attackers abandoned the vehicles and then and continued their attacks on foot with knives or firearms, things like that. so it is a possibility. but again, we're really far from that. if we what we have is just the word of one eyewitness hasn't been corroborated. we don't have any we don't have any reporting on individuals with gunshot injuries at this point. um, so those are the sorts of things that that investigators will want to see to try to corroborate that testimony or rule it out. um, and i should also say, danny, you know, we are in the age of video coverage pretty much everywhere. so i'm quite sure investigators are going back and identifying cameras that could provide relevant video to this attack and trying to trace back exactly kind of what led to it and, and where the perpetrator came from, how they drove and sort of piece things together in that way. >> andrew. so i'm here in new york, and i was walking around

new york city last night, obviously with times square and the dropping of the ball a tremendous amount of security. i live in philadelphia. you know, a lot of times when there are these big tentpole events, you see garbage trucks and other large vehicles that cities will bring out to to block areas where they know that a lot of people will be, whether it's a marathon, you know, you name it. how difficult is it to secure a place like bourbon street, for example, on a night where there are expected, you would imagine, to be a tremendous amount of people out and about celebrating? >> yeah, it's very challenging, danny. very, very challenging. fortunately, our, you know, law enforcement and particularly police agencies in large cities like new orleans, like new york, like philadelphia, are very good at it because they've had a lot of practice. and you've mentioned one of the most time tested ways of doing that is you block access to the area where you want the crowd

to gather, and you can block it really with anything but one of the most effective tools that we've seen is the use of like, salt trucks, like so the trucks that would be out clearing the roads and spreading salt down before or during a snowstorm. you know, they're usually not you're not using them for that on that evening, but you'll see them everywhere because they're really big, really heavy. you can't move them without the key. so they're good at blocking off roads. um, the key to that sort of crowd safety is getting the crowd into the area that you think is safe, and then freezing that area from access to vehicles. it's, you know, new york is probably the best at this. with times square having had this exercise every year on new year's eve. they're quite good at it. and one of the things that they do is they control that crowd. so if you show up to watch times square, you come much earlier in the day. you get put into a small kind of penned off area, and you have to stay there until the till the whole thing is finished or you can't get back

in. um, if in places like new orleans where you have massive crowds in, um, in this area on a very frequent basis, if the crowd is able to kind of move in and out organically and streets aren't blocked off, um, that's when you start to have problems with vehicle access to those areas where you have a large number of people that can't really seek safety quickly if there's a problem. so but like i said, law enforcement in this country is very, very familiar with that. on big event nights like new year's eve. so it's it's a little bit odd to me that this was, you know, able to happen down there at all, um, or that it happened in an area presumably that wasn't blocked off that vehicles could get to. that's something that, um, the new orleans pd will go back and look at very closely, i'm sure. >> well, of course, like you said, because we're talking about bourbon street specifically, you know, this this is the, you know, the street in new orleans where,

you know, you will have, especially on a big night like new year's. um, presumably a lot of people walking around and i'm just going to give you this update that we have from, uh, again, the new orleans mess, um, emergency alert system. uh, they reiterate much of what we've known before that there are ten fatalities from this incident, 30 injured. but they note that it seems as though there's one, two, three, four, five hospitals that have received patients. and those injured. just can you give me your reaction? i mean, how challenging is it when you have something like 30 people injured to triage to get these people the care that they need as fast as possible yeah. >> again, danny, this is a skill and a mass casualty response plan. um, that i'm sure has been in place, has been trained on, has been practiced across the first responder medical community in

and around new orleans, i'm sure, for many years. this is what happens in large cities across the country every day. and what you're referring to is exactly the way the system is supposed to work, rather than overwhelm the closest hospital or emergency room with all of the casualties, the 911 dispatchers and the ambulance drivers understand that when an event like this is called, that people are going to be essentially distributed across the health care kind of network in the area, and those hospitals, as soon as this call went out on 911, have reached out to their own networks, brought in extra staffing, extra doctors, extra nurses, techs, all the folks that make the ers around this country run and do the great work that they do. um, so those those are the sort of kind of muscle memory issues that the first responder community. this is why they train. this is what they train for. and i think actually that

update, danny, is a really good one. we know that the system is in place and it's working the way it's supposed to. that's how you get the most care to the most injured people quickly. so that's that's a statistic that i'm actually happy to see. >> uh, andrew, stick with us. don't go anywhere for a second. i'm just going to check in now with cnn's jean casarez, who i know has also been following this story this early morning. again, this hard news about a car driving into a crowd of people. jean, tell us what more you're learning about this hard situation coming out of new orleans. well, danny, we are looking at live pictures right there. >> so obviously this is an extremely active scene they are working on. >> and from the initial call that came out and cnn was able to get that audio tape, it said there were multiple injuries and multiple casualties. so it appears as though from the beginning they knew there was a situation where there were deceased people. what we're learning now, as you

have said, is that ten people are dead, 30 people injured, all 30 people were taken by ambulance to the hospitals. and you have just reported multiple hospitals in the area. the new orleans emergency medical services is the one that was responsible for getting all of the victims transporting them to the hospital, but we do not know the status of those victims. we do not know the cause of this. this is going to take a long time to really reconstruct that scene, talk to witnesses. there was one, one young woman that came out of a bar because it was in the vicinity. they had heard what was happening at bourbon and canal street. another person described it as a truck slamming into the people that were there at the corner of the bourbon and canal street. so obviously this is something that those that were in the vicinity heard some saw. so obviously this is just the beginning of this working scene

that's going on right now as these live pictures show. >> danny, andrew, i'm curious, you know, on a night like new year's eve, you imagine that there's got to be an enormous amount of law enforcement presence out on the street. anyway, can you talk to me about does a night like this, a marquee night like this, does it make it such that, uh, if something bad happens like this, there are enough resources? or does it make it more challenging to actually respond to a mass casualty incident? >> well, you know, i think the, the, the massive amount of resources that we use to secure events like this in advance are that, you know, there's a reason for that, and it's so that you have as many hands on duty as you can, as you can muster in the sad moment when something like this happens. um, so the challenge is, if you find yourself in a continuing situation, it can be hard to maintain that level of

staffing over a longer period of time. but, you know, hopefully that's not the situation we're in this morning. there are uh, there can be some downsides to having a massive number of people respond to an to an incident. um, you we typically experience something called like self-deployment in the law enforcement community. so when the call goes out on the radio, you know, anyone in the area? responds, um, and they usually bring they do that by driving vehicles to that location. and in some events, we have found that first responders, particularly ambulance crews, have a hard time getting ambulances into where people are injured because there are so many vehicles basically left on the side of the road, abandoned by, uh, police officers and and others who have kind of responded to the event. um, the horrible mass shooting in aurora, colorado, years ago in, in the movie was kind of a prime example of that. the

ambulance, you had ambulances, but they couldn't get couldn't get to people and help them because of the massive traffic problem. hopefully that hasn't happened here. you already had a lot of people working, i'm sure last night in new orleans. um, and so those folks are are fortunately on the job and doing what we need them to do. um, but it's there are the logistics around responding to attacks and events like this that i think people don't understand. if you've never actually worked one, but that is certainly one of them. getting the first responders the right resources to the scene when you need them can be tough. i you'll remember last month, the christmas attack in germany. they actually set up, um, a like medical triage, essentially facilities on the scene because it was so large and there were so many people injured at that market that they brought in tents and put them up very quickly. and they actually were delivering medical care on site because it was easier to do that faster and more effective than trying

to get the massive numbers of people out of there to hospitals and other facilities. >> one thing to note also, which is just stunning as we watch some of this frightening footage that's been coming in out of new orleans, is you see people walking with their suitcases again, just to reemphasize, this is a place, this is a destination where people are tourists come to visit and to have fun, especially on new year's eve. and it's just it's this, this whole incident is just so troubling and frustrating and sad. i want to go now to the scene, though. in new orleans, we have some reporting from cnn affiliate. wdsu. fletcher mccall, uh, andy and jeanne, hold on and i'll get your reaction on the other side. >> yeah. and let me just kind of give you a layout of the scene here. we were on bourbon street. we were now on dauphin. we've been moved off bourbon street. you talk about vigilance in a hyper, hyper sense of awareness from law enforcement. take a look here to the left, photojournalist

stefon cage. just stay with us. he's going to pan down. dauphin. you can see the police lights down. dauphin we're on dauphin in orleans you see two police cruisers with their lights. remember we were on bourbon street. so now the perimeter has moved to dauphin. right behind me you can see state police. and then we have a wildlife and fisheries agent right here as well. it's truly an all hands on deck situation. and as you go back down, dauphin, you can see at the corner of dauphin in the next block right there, you can see another police cruiser. and one of the big reasons why the perimeter has been extended. i talk about that that that sense of vigilance and hyper awareness is that one of the law enforcement officers saw a suspicious package on bourbon street. so again, law enforcement is everywhere investigating everything on bourbon street that you all are talking about. that happened. but because they saw a suspicious package on the corner of bourbon and orleans, the perimeter has now been extended at least one more block. again, all of these law

enforcement officers doing a job right now, figuring out what happened and making sure that nothing else happens in the aftermath of the tragedy that you're already talking about. so the perimeter has been extended while they investigate. what they are saying is a suspicious package right now. that's why during our last live shot, we were cleared off and the perimeter has now extended from bourbon street to dauphin here. but the corner is very eerie right now, very strange, with a heavy police presence because of the tragedy that unfolded and the investigation that continues to unfold and the hypersensitive awareness that law enforcement is, is dealing with right now, drivers again, that cnn affiliate, wdsu's fletcher mccall. >> jean, i'll come to you in a second, but i do want to get actually andrew's take on what that reporter described there on the scene was an expanding scene. and, you know, with the caveat that, as you can imagine, there's a lot of moving parts and a lot that law enforcement wants to check out. but what's your reaction to

hearing that? police have been expanding the scene, potentially investigating a suspicious package? >> yeah, danny, a perfect example of the kind of fog of war that accompanies these sort of events. when you don't know, you don't have a solid fix on exactly how this happened. so we we talked a few minutes ago about trying to make that determination as to whether this was an act was an accident. somebody suffering some sort of a medical emergency or intoxicated behind the wheel of a car, or if it was an intentional event, if until you know what you're dealing with, you have to treat every possible development in this investigation as potentially another threat. so, um, so you're going to see a massive law enforcement response to things like, uh, like suspicious packages. and that could be anything, could be a box, could be a suitcase that someone left behind. and people frequently do that when they have to flee a scene

because of because of a car accident, or they get pushed out of where they were or told to go the other way by law enforcement in an effort to kind of clear an area. people leave things behind quite naturally backpacks, suitcases, whatever they might be carrying. and if there's no one around to claim those things, they are automatically deemed suspicious packages and they have to then be cleared, usually by a bomb. bomb disposal or ordnance disposal team. so this is something we should expect to see while police are still trying to get their hands around this event. to understand if this was an intentional act that the the motor vehicle through the crowd was an intentional act, then you have to confront the idea that there might be additional threats until you have, you know, the perpetrator of that initial act in custody and are developing an understanding of how that happened. you have to be vigilant. you have to take everything with utmost seriousness and air on the side of caution. so that's probably

what we're going to see for a while, until the police and the local law enforcement community really get their hands around this thing, and we're getting a little bit more context in terms of what has been going on outside of just the new year's eve and new year's day celebrations in new orleans. >> uh, according to our reporting and our understanding of just what goes on around this time of year, the allstate sugar bowl occurring today on wednesday, uh, in new orleans. it was supposed to be, you know, it is supposed to be just, you know, one of the major bowls in this college football season. and because of that, on monday, the new orleans police department said it would be staffed at 100% during all the festivities, adding it had 300 additional officers assisting from partner law enforcement agencies already in the area. so just again, that's why we're seeing some of these images. you see officers on horseback, you see folks in this area not only because it's new year's eve, but also because there is this

anticipation of this major sugar bowl coming up. jeanne, i want to go to you and get your reaction, if that's all right, to the report that we heard, you and i, we've been we've responded to these sorts of scenes and been pushed back and had to adjust because in instances like this, the situation is ever evolving. what was your takeaway from? absolutely. >> and and one of the things that the reporter was saying was that all hands are on deck. well, we knew that. but this situation to go along with what andy is saying, they don't know if this is a crime scene, if this is an accident scene, if this is both of those because they're having to see and they have no idea at this point, was it intentional behavior, was it reckless behavior? was it negligent behavior? was it actually someone that had a medical emergency? and this happened? it is unknown at this point. so all hands are on deck

looking at all of that. and in regard to the sugar bowl, all eyes. now law enforcement has to really bifurcate its situation now and its people so that some look at that situation because they don't know what the cause was of this, that could potentially expand. obviously, when the unknown is, is where you're at right now. >> all right, everyone, stay with us. we're going to sneak in a quick break. we are expecting a news conference happening momentarily to give us an update on this tragic story that we've been following. again, ten killed, dozens injured after a vehicle plowed into a crowd in new orleans. again, stick with us. we're going to be following this breaking news all morning. can't fool myself. >> it was the most exciting time in the world. >> his life, extremely joyful moments and some really difficult moments. >> you only come across an artist like luther vandross once in a lifetime. >> luther. never too much.

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law enforcement officers right there again, as this news unfolds. we want to go now to the scene in new orleans. cnn affiliate wdsu's. cassie sherm gives us a look at what's going on on the ground, what my sources are saying from nopd. >> and in fact, some of the other law enforcement agencies that are here, they're saying they're treating this as intentional. >> and that's why the fbi has now taken over the scene, as well as homicide units here for nopd. >> so we are expecting it to be locked down for quite some time because there is a lot of areas that this hit as more than 27 people impacted. i heard from aubrey, 30 people transported. we are hearing that number still 12 two officers possibly hit as well by bullets. this is a very developing scene and i can show you right now the scene behind me, more and more officers keep coming to the scene. we did see the bomb squad as they were in that area as well. what fletcher was talking about earlier, one of my sources is telling me that

they believe that there was a package may have been even connected to that car that drove in. they are just taking every precautionary measure they can, because some cases like this, you never know if there's a second attack that could possibly happen. so that's why they have removed so many people from this area. i will tell you, they are being very strict but very, very polite and trying to make sure that people are just keeping safe because this is a very tense situation. you can see all those officers in the middle there. we have obviously those who are on the mounted patrol right in front of us here. they've been blocking the area. we can't even really look down bourbon street anymore because of how many officers are here. we have state police over there in the middle talking with nopd as we speak. we also have ems. fire is here as well. they're a little bit further down, but walking all the way down the street here on canal, you cannot move. you cannot get any further. and i'll tell you right now, i'm seeing people as we speak right now, walking down the sidewalk here in sequins and sparkles. i mean, people have been out and about

enjoying the new year celebration. i mean, just last night we had thousands down in jackson square who were just here to celebrate. see the florida year off, as well as those fireworks. and so we have a lot of people out and about, and especially around 3 a.m., you know, usually that's when the crowds start to at least get a little bit quieter when it comes. >> some preliminary information on what has taken place, because this is an active investigation. we want to make our citizens aware of what is taking place, and there will be just for viewers. >> we're listening to a press conference right now updating on this horrific scene in new orleans. you'll take a listen now at police headquarters. >> if that changes, we will let you know. and for 3 p.m. and with that, we will get our group behind us to assemble. as i said, we will have 3 to 4 of our leaders speaking. we won't be able to take questions because we are still actively investigating this situation. and with that. let's get in position for where you are. well, you just

heard a spokesperson tell us that they are about to have a briefing here where there is no questions remaining at this time, and they are. >> and again, we're standing by waiting for more updates from this press conference with officials here in new orleans. that's what we just heard a little bit from. again, we're waiting for more information as we follow this developing, disturbing, horrific story on this new year's day morning of ten dead, 30 injured in the heart of new orleans in the french district by bourbon street and canal street. we have with us as we wait for more from local officials there. we have with us still andy mccabe and jean khuza'a. jean, i want to go to you first. can you bring us up to speed? we've been talking about this all morning. what do we know so far when it comes to what exactly happened in new orleans a few hours ago?

>> well, what cnn has confirmed is that it was at the corner of bourbon street and canal street, right in the heart of the french quarter. and that is when a car drove, plowed, struck the proper terminology. >> jean, i'm sorry. i'm going to stop you for a second. i believe we have the press conference starting now with the mayor of new orleans. >> good morning. >> first of all, we do know that the city of new orleans was impacted by a terrorist attack. that's all. still under investigation. we'll hear more after me. 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'm asking the public to stay clear of eight blocks around bourbon street. stay clear from bourbon street, eight blocks around very active, and again, a unified command is in place right now. i'm going to ask chief kirkpatrick to give you an update. you're then going to hear from our agent in charge relative to the fbi. so at this time, chief kirkpatrick, thank you. >> all right. good morning, everyone. so i'm going to give you as much of the information i possibly can. we are going to give you an update a couple of times today. so we will give you just the basics this morning. all right. we had this event started at about 315. it did involve a man driving a pickup truck down bourbon street at a very fast pace. and it was very

intentional. behavior. this man was trying to run over as many people as he possibly could. it was not a dui situation. this is a more complex and more serious based on the information we have right now with respect to numbers, we have right now. and as you already know, this could change throughout the day. we do know that there are 26 injured people who are at umc hospital. we know we have four at touro, four at ochsner baptist, one at tulane. but even as i was walking out the door, i believe i 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 want anyone on bourbon street today. wherever you see yellow tape, please do not violate this tape. this is in order to protect and stabilize the scene. we have information to a certain degree of the demographics of those who are in the hospital right now. we do not know at this point how many would 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 you is that this man, this perpetrator,

he fired on our officers from his vehicle when he crashed his vehicle. two of our officers have been shot. they are stable and we will give you an update on them. i have yet been able to go to the hospital. i will be leaving here for us to go visit our officers. we have called in every officer that we have. we have so much appreciated our partnerships who have also offered a 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 a enough 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 for me. >> thank you. ma'am. >> good morning. >> my name is alicia duncan. i'm the assistant special agent in charge for fbi new orleans. >> as chief kirkpatrick said, we'll be taking over the investigative lead for this event. >> this is not a terrorist event. >> what it is right now, is there improvised explosive devices that was found? >> and we are working on

confirming if this is a viable device or not. as chief kirkpatrick said, we're asking everyone to stay away from bourbon street, specifically from canal street to saint anne. that is my ask. once again, stay away from bourbon street. canal street all the way to saint anne until we can figure out what is going on. our goal is to provide you additional information at the 11:11 a.m. press conference. thank you so much, and we will be in touch. >> yes, i will say that we want our community and our visitors to continue enjoying. there's so much to enjoy about new orleans, and we are going to make sure that our routes in the superdome are safe today for the game. and yet we had this tragic event and we're sorry again, to everyone in our community, but we do want you to go about the day, as we say, just stay away from bourbon, okay? >> library on the device. you

did say something about the device. >> we actually are not going to be taking questions this morning until we have more information. that's why we will give you an 11:00 briefing. so until then, please hold your questions. we will give you everything that we possibly can. okay. so 11:00, we will see you at the headquarters and we will go again from there. okay. no questions. no questions. >> right now. the device is confirmed. thank you all. we will see you at 11:00. >> all right. so what you just heard right, there was an update from local officials in new orleans. the mayor there speaking, the police chief speaking as well, and then also the fbi speaking as well, because they announced that they will be taking over this investigation. we learned a tremendous amount of information from that press briefing. first off, that this incident started around 315 in the morning in new orleans in the french quarter, that there was a man driving a pickup truck and that this was very

intentional behavior. the police chief there saying that this was not a dui situation, that this person was trying to run people over. also saying that he was hell bent on creating carnage. another thing that we learned from that press briefing is that the man who was in this pickup truck who allegedly or according to police, drove down bourbon street trying to hit people, also fired on new orleans police officers after, i guess it seems he crashed his car and that two officers were shot by this suspect. one of the other things that came up in this press briefing was that it sounded like the fbi said there. the assistant special agent in charge, that there was an improvised explosive device found, and they're checking on that. but again, as you heard at the end of that press conference, they didn't take any questions. so there was not an opportunity to clarify more about that. let's go to our,

uh, reporters and analysts who we have with us. i believe we still have andrew mccabe and jean casarez. andrew, you know, we were talking about what this may or may not have been earlier in the morning, the local officials there clearly saying that this was an intentional act. >> yeah, danny. that's right. it was it was a i thought a bit surprising to see the police chief come out that strongly. she was unequivocal that this was an intentional act. she mentioned that, um, the perpetrator drove around their barricades in order to get to the crowd that he was apparently seeking, you know, trying to run over. um, so it's interesting. and then you had the, uh, representative from the fbi, the assistant special agent in charge say that they did not believe it was a terrorist attack. or or maybe they weren't ready to conclude that at this point. and it's i think it's important to note that there are distinctions there. you

could have an intentional act that is criminal in nature by someone who's trying to hurt someone else, or a group of other people that is not connected to some sort of a terrorist organization or motivated by terrorism. so there's all sorts of, um, kind of gray area right now, despite the amount of information we got out of that very brief press conference, there's still a lot of questions to be answered. and the biggest for me right now, danny, is do they have this individual in custody? because if i'm correct, neither the police chief nor the fbi representative was clear about that. um, if he crashed the vehicle and then fired shots at police officers, you would think that he's in custody. but of course, we don't know that yet. we certainly can't confirm that. um, but no question, they're taking they're handling this with everything they've got. and i think, uh, putting the fbi in the lead. investigatively is

probably the right call. there certainly have the assets and the resources necessary to sort through a massive crime scene like this. >> yeah. and andrew, i agree that was one of the bigger questions that i had at the end of that press conference is, again, we i agree with you. i did not hear from any of the officials there what the status is of the suspect here. jean, one of the other, uh, fascinating things that the police chief said is that they had, as we reported, more than 300 officers, uh, in that area around the french quarter on new year's eve. just tell me, what was your takeaway from what we just heard, i think all of the resources they had, they brought in to the area, especially when this happened, i guess we we do know now that it was an intentional scene. >> so this is a massive crime scene that they are processing right now as we speak. 26 were injured, is what we heard through that press conference. but what i can see is that

talking about this being a working crime scene, when they mentioned the improvised explosive devices, there appeared to be a question. they were not sure if, in fact, that's what they had that they would be looking at now, but they wanted everyone and anyone to stay away from the bourbon street area. so it appears as though that's their next order of business right here to see exactly what is going on with the possibility of those devices. >> andrew, you noted it when you were just speaking a moment ago, but i just want to take another moment to focus on this. the local officials there saying not only, again, hell bent on creating carnage, that was their words, but also that this man went around barricades. so we were discussing this earlier that you were almost surprised that a car or a vehicle could get access to bourbon street, of all places, on new year's eve. it seems like this particular suspect, according to those local officials, officials went

out of his way to get around any sort of barricades that were up. what do you make of that? >> well, i mean, it shows you how hard it is to deter a, um, you know, a, uh, motivated, driven attacker. um, and so if this is someone who, as the chief said, was hell bent on causing carnage, they, you know, that you have to think of these things when you're trying to secure an event in terms of someone like that, who is going to go to any length and exploit any weakness in your system, which is, uh, and your, and your security plan, which is why i would expect that after this event has been kind of after we're away from the crime scene and have and the and the police department has a moment to think about this, they're going to think about how adequately did they barricade that access point. if he was able to drive around it.

it certainly raises some questions about, um, whether or not that was adequately done. again, that's a that's an issue for another day. but, uh, you can't ever, um, discount or take lightly what a driven, motivated, uh, trained attacker can do. now, we don't know. again, we don't know anything about the attacker in this situation because we haven't heard those sorts of details yet. but, you know, again, you're putting together a massive security plan like this to secure a large crowd in the middle of a huge event that everyone can see is coming. you've really got to think, um, that you've got to, you know, you've got to protect that crowd from every possible attack. uh, um, uh, direction and method. and i'm sure they'll go back and reassess how adequately they did that. >> all right, andrew jean, hold on for us for just a moment. we're going to take a quick break. but again, just to recap what we've been learning over the course of this morning, a

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>> hurry, hurry and we continue to follow this breaking news out of new orleans. >> this tragic news that ten people have been killed, dozens others injured after a car drove through a crowd in new orleans bourbon street. of course, the popular destination packed with people overnight during the new year's eve festivities, the governor of louisiana tweeting just a little while ago, a horrific act of violence took place on bourbon street. earlier this morning. please join shannoni in praying for all the victims and first responders on scene. i urge all near the scene to avoid the area. that's louisiana governor jeff landry. we've been looking at these images all morning just of a tremendous police response to this mass casualty incident. i want to go, though, now to the scene in new orleans. we have cnn affiliate wdsu's fletcher mccall with a

report. >> know and we showed you some images. we were on bourbon street on the corner of bourbon and orleans, and we were moved to dauphin about a block away because we were by a state police trooper who noticed what he felt like was a suspicious package. so they moved the perimeter back at least a block because they are being vigilant and hypersensitive because of what was just detailed by the police superintendent and law enforcement officials. and they certainly want to prevent any type of second attack as well. and right now, most of the streets here in the french quarter are still blocked. there's a lot of people just waking up and finding out what's happening, coming to work this morning and not being able to get into the french quarter. i'm also going to step out of the way right now, because this is one of those really eerie, sad situations. you're looking at maybe the most iconic structure in the city of new orleans, the saint louis cathedral. and as photojournalist defined, cage zooms out, you see police cruisers. you know, this is supposed to be a festive time ringing in the new year, a fresh start, everybody having fun, enjoying the sugar bowl between georgia and notre dame

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