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is cnn breaking news. >> good morning. i'm danny freeman in new york. it is the first of the year. and we continue to follow breaking news out of new orleans. ten people are dead. at least 35 others injured after a car drove into a crowd in the french quarter. we have some of the radio chatter right after this happened. i want you to take a listen to how it all sounded as it unfolded. ons 12 engine 29 and all units heading towards canal and bourbon. um, we are moving fire ground to responding to a mass casualty incident. a vehicle ran through a crowd of people. there's multiple injuries, multiple casualties. they need help. canal and bourbon. >> so again, as you heard right there, emergency officials saying it happened overnight near canal and bourbon street. the mayor of new orleans calling this a terrorist attack, though the fbi then said it was not a terrorist

incident. police say the suspect drove around barricades to get to bourbon street. they said he was hell bent on creating carnage and even fired on police shooting and injuring two officers. we have a whole panel of folks who are here to digest and dissect what we have been covering over the course of this new year's day morning. you can see andrew mccabe, jean casarez, juliette kayyem and ryan young. but before we go to this panel, i want you to take a listen to the update that local officials just gave within the last hour first of all, we do know that the city of new orleans was impacted by a terrorist attack. >> that's all. still under investigation. you'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 truro. 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 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 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 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 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 alethea 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 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. >> all right. you heard right there the update from local officials in new orleans about this evolving situation on the ground that happened earlier this morning in the french quarter, right on bourbon street. we have our panel back here to help break down what we just listened to. jeanne, i'd like to go to you first, if that's all right. what were your major takeaways from what

we heard from law enforcement right there? >> well, i think they've really shown the timeline in all of this, and i think we can recreate in our minds the vivid picture that they have described. 315 in the morning, a man driving as fast as he can down bourbon street, he goes beyond the barricades to hit as many people as he can. while he's doing that, it appears as though that's when he takes out a gun and shoots two police officers. and then after that, that's when everything basically is done. but the improvised explosive devices that they have found, they have found them, but they probably, as we speak, are looking to see if they were viable. but here's the one question that was not answered. what about this perpetrator? do they have him in custody? is he deceased? he shot two police officers. they had a right to shoot back. we don't know what happened there. so that is where we're sort of wondering

because they're going to want to question him. they're going to want to see exactly what that mindset was from him, if possible jeanne, i appreciate you mentioning that because that was something we discussed last hour that, again, we don't have information about this suspect at the heart of this just yet. >> jeanne, i'll let you go to work your sources. thank you for your reporting all this morning. andrew, i want to go to you a number of different things from that press conference. as jeanne noted, shooting at officers, potentially explosive devices found. and now we know the fbi is taking control of this investigation, i guess. andrew, can you just explain to me why is the fbi now coming in and taking the lead here? >> sure. well, i think we also have to put on that list of things that we got from the press conference. a little bit of confusion, um, in, in messaging from, from our local officials, which is not uh, you know, that that often happens.

they are trying to get their hands around this thing as, as quickly as they can. but the mayor very clearly said at the beginning of the press conference that this had been a terrorist attack. uh, the police chief, although i don't believe she used the word terrorist, she referred to it repeatedly as an intentional act that he drove around the barricades. and then, of course, the fbi assistant special agent in charge said started off her comments by saying this is not a terrorist event. and then she really only referred to the to the ieds that they were investigating. so lot going on there. and it's not i think um, strange to see that they're not maybe perfectly connected on on how they're going to, uh, message this and present it to the public at this early hour. nevertheless, the fbi investigates many things for the purpose of determining whether or not they are terrorist acts. so the fact that the fbi is involved doesn't mean, uh, conclusively they've determined, yes, this is terrorism. they could still be in the phase of trying to make that determination for

themselves. terrorist investigation is is a national security investigation, and it is done for the purpose of mitigating a potential threat to national security. you don't wait until the terrorism label has been applied before you get out. the the agents and the resources and the teams to do this work. so i think it's it's entirely predictable and responsible that the fbi is now at the front of this very large law enforcement team, and that's to make that determination about potential national security threats. they want to know if this was an intentional attack, why did it happen? and most importantly, do they need to be concerned about another one? are there other people out there who might have helped this attacker, trained this person, supported them with resources or money or or instruments that they needed for this attack? and are there potentially other attackers out there? they need to be prepared for? so it also

brings the entirety of the fbi's intelligence collection apparatus to the table. and that's going to really inform the direction that the investigators go and enables them to bring in, bring other, other partners to that effort as well. >> and i should note, the local law enforcement, uh, folks there who were speaking said that there will be another press conference at 11 a.m. local time where hopefully we can have the opportunity to hear more about that conflicting messaging, the potential devices, and again, crucially, as jeanne noted earlier, the suspect as well. juliette kayyem, i want to bring you into this conversation. you heard this press conference. you heard the local officials saying very clearly and unequivocally that this was a very intentional act, that this man was trying to run people over and that this was not a dui. i just want to get your top line reaction to what's been unfolding so far in new orleans. >> yeah.

>> so so it's intentional. >> or as the governor said, it was clearly an act of violence. uh, and this question of terror or terrorism, i want to just pick up on what andy said. look, this is an act of terror in the sense that it is terrorizing a city. ten people are dead. the city is closed down, and the mayor may have been using that term or the term terror as a reflection and a description of what this kind of violence does to a city, regardless of the perpetrators intent. the fbi uses a much more formalistic, uh, view of it as as well as law enforcement, which is you have to prove a certain kind of intent related to political violence generally to prove terrorism. so i think that the explanation will be just sort of how are you thinking about this word? are you trying to bring a case or are you reflecting on what's just happened to a city, which is someone used a pickup truck and guns to essentially create terror in an american city? a

few hours into the new year, we will get clarity on that. part of it is we can't get clarity until we know who the perpetrator is. as we've been saying, you know, who is he? is he in custody? is he alive or dead? uh, did they know him before? did the fbi know him before the ieds, as andy was saying, is just a a factor that shows both intent, you know, sort of pre-planning. he didn't he didn't just sort of something didn't happen that night. and he and he decides to ram in. i mean, he clearly had some preplanning um, to this if there are viable ieds. but ieds also can be used loosely. so we'll wait on on that. i'm looking at a couple other things, you know, 3 a.m. is not 12 a.m. i know that sounds weird, but for those of us who are on call with you last night with cnn, you know, you sort of start to to sort of, you know, let loose a little bit at 12, 1215, 1230 as it looks like things are safe. so 3 a.m.

it's less dense. but but we also wonder what was the police presence like? what were the barricades like at that time? and was there any drawdown over the course of those hours that made it may have made this attack a little bit easier for the the perpetrator. these things will all be answered. uh, but in particular, obviously, who is this person i want to bring into the conversation? >> also, cnn's ryan young from atlanta. ryan, uh, a couple of things that just put into context what's going on in new orleans today as we're looking at now, footage of the scene in the daylight hours, the sugar bowl is happening today. of course, you know, an enormous college football bowl. absolutely typical. after on new year's day, uh, the reason that's important is not only are there a tremendous amount of people in new orleans, even more so than they would normally be for new year's eve on bourbon street, but there was a tremendous law

enforcement presence and continues to be already, uh, what did you hear on that particular subject from the press conference? >> well, let's take that in a couple layers here. not only do you have the sugar bowl, but you also have the super bowl that's coming up in less than a month. pretty much that's going to happen in that same city. when you talk about the layers of security, as someone who's covered the sugar bowl before, they really do a good job of sort of blocking off bourbon street. as someone who's been there at midnight. but the idea, something that julia brought up there is did they move some barricades beforehand? we saw in new york, we've seen in cities like atlanta and chicago, they use the heavy sanitation trash trucks to sort of block off roads. and that's something that we haven't seen in this location. one thing we do know, and one of the reasons why they might be able to talk about that motivation and how that truck was moving through the crowd, is there are a lot of video cameras that are up and down bourbon street. so officers have probably had the opportunity to watch back the incident almost in real time to see exactly what happened. and that would lead me to the next question is, do they have a

bead on the suspect? because obviously, if you have a white f-150 that fired shots, the tracking cameras that are in that area should be able to flag that and be able to follow a license plate. so i'm hoping to hear from law enforcement in the near future about how they were able to track that vehicle, whether the suspect is still in it, or did he flee. you would also believe that if two officers were fired on, did they return fire at some point? but when you look at those numbers and you see the fact that they used that clear language that he was trying to intentionally hit people who were in that area, you know, just how dangerous that would be with a truck of that size. but one of the things that stood out to me is all i saw was those metal barricades in that area. the drawdown aspect of it. we know that usually they surge people in around that midnight area. new orleans does a really good job of having a mounted patrol as well. so you just have to wonder what was the number of officers that were down there at the time of this at at 3:00? and then moving from that point? um, how many video

surveillance cameras are in the area from local hotels, from local businesses? did anybody who was involved in this who was on the street, also get video that could help investigators? those are all the big questions. and of course, hopefully we'll get more of that when it comes to around 11:00. >> yeah. and again, you know, one of the interesting things is that we heard from eyewitnesses, ryan, right. at the, i should say, maybe a couple of hours after this incident happened and they had said we heard gunshots. and initially the question was, was there a gun firing component of this incident? and then sure enough, as you heard from the law enforcement officials there, there absolutely was as the suspect, according to these officials, shot two police officers. i want to bring into the conversation cnn's tom foreman, who, as i understand you have a long history and relationship with new orleans. and, tom, can you i've been to bourbon street. i've been to new orleans. i imagine a lot of our viewers potentially have. but for those who haven't, you

know, we're looking at these images. these are tiny areas here. and the thought of a pickup truck plowing through bourbon street is pretty terrifying. >> yeah, bourbon street on new year's eve or at mardi gras or during the super bowl or any of the other events at the sugar bowl, as in tonight around midnight, very likely would have been packed end to end, like a rock concert. >> that's the only way i can describe it. i mean, a lot of us who are locals down there, you know, at certain times of year, certain days, you would really not particularly want to be on bourbon street. not because it wasn't fascinating, but because it was so crowded sometimes. now, the police in new orleans arguably do some of the best crowd control in this country because they deal with such massive crowds. this area right here between canal street, this giant wide avenue coming right down the middle of new orleans, where it turns there onto

bourbon street, that really is is a nexus that matters a great deal. they had a parade there yesterday afternoon for the sugar bowl in this area. and so so when you turn there onto bourbon street, that's where the crowd first starts to pick up. if this truck had been, oh, 2 or 3 blocks further down bourbon street, away from canal, working its way into the town, the crowds would have likely been even larger. uh, over the years there has been a real effort to stop vehicular access to that whole area. bourbon street is typically closed, except for some service vehicles, just virtually all the time. i mean, it's opened some, but for that purpose, mainly it's closed and the cross streets to it are typically closed. and when big events are happening, you will see the barricading of the streets not only by permanent, you know, well, movable, but barricades that are in place to stop traffic going down there, but also big dump trucks and

things put there to stop people from coming in. so it's interesting that the mayor talked about the notion of this person somehow going around those barricades to get onto bourbon street and work their way down. this has been one of the reasons she mentioned that this wasn't a drunk driving incident was back in 2017, a drunk driver plowed into people during the endymion parade, one of the biggest parades of carnival, and a couple dozen people were hurt. nobody was killed at the time, but back then there was a great concern among all of us who know the town. there is obviously a concern for the people hurt, but for the notion that was this a terrorist attack, was this or a purposeful attack? let's not use the word terrorist. i guess, since we have some confusion over whether that's what this constituted. but there is a question back then of whether it was a purposeful attack. turned out it was it was more of a case of of an intoxicated driver. but that's why the mayor was talking about this. and that is one of the reasons

that this city has been aware of this kind of threat and has taken a lot of measures to prevent this kind of threat. it's going to be very interesting when we find out exactly where this car came from to start this attack, if it was in fact going down bourbon street, i would think it probably came from canal, because canal is kept open as much as possible, because it is this main thoroughfare cutting right through the middle of the city, through hotels, restaurants, all sorts of things. but but this at the start of bourbon street here, i think when we get more details of exactly where this truck came from, exactly where it was going, and ultimately what did stop it, i don't know if it was the car crashing or did it hit some other barricades further down, because there are plenty of things to try to stop this from happening. obviously it didn't work in this case, but as andrew mccabe noted earlier on, you know, when you have somebody very, very determined

to to bring damage like this, they can do it. and this is a big target. i'm super sugar bowl every year. huge event here and and loads of people down on bourbon street of course but out into canal. and this is what maybe eight blocks from the superdome there you see the the dome right there. you kind of wind in and out there and, and everything over where you see the word bourbon street, um, everything to the right of that. in this case, because of the curve of the river, it makes it shape this way. it would be to the right and to the upper right hand corner of your screen. that's the french quarter over there on that side of canal street. that's where you draw massive crowds of tourists. and when the mayor said, seemed like a lot of locals there, well, that's because this is a huge service industry. town tourism is unbelievably massive here. so you have many, many, many locals who are in that area, many of them to work and then some of them to simply be

around the festivities as well. but the french quarter, it's important to remember, is a living, breathing community that is heavily based in tourism. but people live here. people have their homes in the french quarter. this is an attack not just on a tourist area, but on a neighborhood. so. so that's a little measure of how this feels, especially to a new orleanian. those of us who have called new orleans home and still consider it home, it's this is an attack on really the heart and soul of new orleans itself, a community that's been there for hundreds of years. the french quarter surviving many things. and police have tried to be prepared for just this. and again, as i said from the beginning, one of the best police forces in this country for knowing how to control crowds and just to all of those very important points. >> tom, so eerie to see bourbon street so empty this morning, of course, now closed off after

this attack. um, we're going to take a quick break, but just before we go, we do now know that president joe biden has been briefed on the situation. the white house putting a statement out, saying that he's been briefed on the horrific news that a driver killed and injured dozens of individuals in new orleans overnight. and the white house has been in touch with the new orleans mayor to offer support. the fbi is already on the ground supporting local law enforcement in the investigation, and the president will continue to be briefed throughout the day. we're going to take a quick break and then update you more on this developing story. and i want to be the greatest player that i could possibly become. >> 000. >> sore throat. got your tongue? >> mucinex institute sore throat, medicated drops uniquely formulated for rapid relief that lasts and lasts. that's my baby. try our new

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creating carnage. they emphasize this was not a dui situation. the incident happened around 315 this morning. a couple of hours, of course, after the turn of the new year. and local law enforcement officials also said that after this man crashed and finished driving through these crowds, he then fired on police officers. two officers were ultimately shot. we have a list of the hospitals that many of the injured victims were taken to. you can see right there more than 30 people were taken to five area hospitals across new orleans. we don't know at this point any information really about the suspect at the heart of this case. we don't know the conditions of all of the 30 plus people who were taken to these area hospitals. but this all comes amid, of course, new year's celebration last night into the early morning hours. and then, of

course, the sugar bowl is happening today in new orleans. a lot of people in the area, certainly in bourbon street and on bourbon street as they celebrated the new year's. i want to bring in cnn's kayla tausche now from the from wilmington. i should say she's traveling with president joe biden. i understand the president has been briefed. what can you tell us? >> well, danny, the president was briefed earlier this morning on the horrific incident in new orleans. the white house says that it is also in touch with new orleans mayor cantrell, and that the fbi is already on the ground in new orleans offering support. we expect that biden will be briefed throughout the day as new information is available, and the white house has said that it is also available to provide its support to local law enforcement as this situation evolves. now, president biden is here in wilmington for a family event. >> he came here after a vacation post christmas in saint croix in the virgin islands, and we expect that he'll be departing for camp

david in just a couple of hours. >> it's unclear whether that still remains his plan. uh, but as of right now, the white house has not communicated any change of plans for the president. reporters could get an opportunity to shout questions at biden when he departs for camp david, so he could have an opportunity to speak on this matter. >> and that's coming up in just a couple of hours time. now, we know that biden was last in new orleans back in september. he held an event at tulane university to announce new funding for his cancer moonshot program, a partnership with cancer researchers at tulane university and at the time, several of his longtime advisors were also traveling there with him. he has very close ties to the city of new orleans, his longtime infrastructure coordinator, mitch landrieu, was the mayor of the city. cedric richmond, also a longtime adviser to the president from new orleans, as well as his budget director. so he has very close ties, as do many white house officials, to the city of new orleans. but at this time, we know that biden has been briefed, will continue to be briefed throughout the

day, and we are awaiting any news on any potential statement by the president or whether he will take questions on this. >> danny kayla tausche, thank you very much for that update. following president joe biden, i want to turn to andrew mccabe, who's been guiding us through this incident all morning. you know, andrew, one of the big questions that is still outstanding is we really did not learn anything about this suspect at the heart of this case. what do you make of that? what questions still need to be answered? >> yeah, danny, it's really kind of baffling. it's hard to imagine that they have someone in custody, because it seems like that would have been included in the in the pretty, revealing press conference we got a little while ago. um, but of course, you know, we can't we can't jump to conclusions yet, but that is really the key that will unlock the the progress in this investigation once they know the identity of the person behind this attack that gives the fbi and the

entire law enforcement team hundreds of different directions and leads that they can start pursuing on the intelligence side, on the physical investigative side. so with search warrants at at residences and locations and things like that, identifying people who might have known this person, who might be able to provide information about him. um, so it's that is really the linchpin of of the investigation going forward and that that forward progress is important to, to to basically answer the question of whether or not we need to be concerned about an ongoing threat. are there other actors out there that we need to worry about, especially in new orleans this weekend when you have another massive event coming just a few hours from now with the sugar bowl, the sugar bowl, maybe, what, a half a mile from the site of this attack. so they have their hands full down there in terms of the sort of things they need to be doing today. um, i would expect they

know the answers to many of these questions. they just simply haven't shared them with us yet, which is understandable. oftentimes, it's better to continue, or at least to start doing that. investigating. um, without the without the public's eye on every step that you're taking. so hopefully we'll learn more from them at the next presser at 11:00. >> yeah, certainly. because there's still so many questions along those lines to be answered. andrew mccabe, thank you, as always for your analysis. we're going to take a quick break. and on the other side we'll have more on this developing situation in new orleans. again, ten killed, more than 30 injured after a car plowed through bourbon street in the early hours of new year's day. stay with us kobe believed in himself at the youngest possible age. >> it's one of the most remarkable stories in sports history. >> i don't want to be remembered as just a basketball player. >> kobe premieres january 25th on cnn. >> here's to getting better

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this suspect went around barricades specifically to get to bourbon street, and was hell bent on creating carnage. now we have a little bit of sound from our affiliate wvue, from a witness from the site. let's take a listen. >> who came through with the truck and hit by four people and shot about four people? it was about eight. >> you say you saw him, got out and shoot? >> no, he was in a car. he didn't get out. he already hit him. >> local law enforcement officials emphasizing this was not a dui situation. this was, quote, a very intentional act. for more on this, i want to bring in juliette kayyem. she's been helping us understand such that we can what has been going on this morning in new orleans. juliette, talk to me about the fbi coming in and now investigating potential ied's potential improvised explosive devices. they didn't say that they had confirmed that they'd

found one, but they are looking at this as a possibility. >> yeah. so ied is a very broad term. and to the extent that what's what likely happened is in the car, there are things that could be explosive. there are lots of things in cars. it's a pickup car. we don't know what the perpetrator's employment is. and so they are going to call it an ied. now that's what we would call the federal nexus. that's why the fbi is in charge, because we don't know the intent of the driver. so that's the second question. now, is this term terror, terrorism, intentional violence? look, overall, any rational person would look at this and say, this is terror. this is terror on an american city. a few hours after the new year, ten people dead. it's a party atmosphere. someone intentionally evaded security precautions, also had a gun shot. two police officers. that is

different than the legal term terrorism. to bring a federal case that requires a motivation that is related to a political intent. and we don't know what that is yet. so i think part of, you know, lots of things are going on. so my role is just to try to explain why does this seem confusing? is, is that to bring a terrorism case in federal court, you need an intent that's related to political violence. we don't know if we have that yet. so i think the federal and law enforcement, uh, spokespeople are trying to just simply focus on what in fact happened. and ied potential guns. and of course, the use of a car as a weapon of mass destruction on a city that that was celebrating, uh, and has a big celebration tonight as well, versus the legal case that may eventually be brought against this person and who this person is. and is

he dead? is he in custody? we don't know that yet. and so all of that has to wait for the 11 a.m. new orleans time press conference. >> and again, much of what you're talking about specifically because the mayor came out really, unequivocally saying this was a terrorist attack. and then the fbi later in that same press conference from about an hour ago, said this was not a terrorist event. um, i want to actually go now to the scene in new orleans. we have cnn affiliate wdsu, cassie sherm, with perspective from the scene. >> i'm heartbroken. i really am heartbroken. what we're seeing right now, because we are still seeing red light tarps covering things that are down. bourbon. that's why the police officers are back now in front of us. i'm it's just it's just awful. a lot of people are just waking up to this. some people have been out of their hotels this entire time because they could not even get back to their hotels,

because everything has been roped off. so we have a lot of people that are just standing by, just trying to figure out what's going on. some people are like asking, you know, do you know any of the victims? do you know anything like that? what we do know is that at least 30 people have been injured, ten people are now dead after this deadly incident, after a man drove through the barricades over in this area here, made it around the barricades to go through. and i mean, it is a very heavy scene over here. just a lot of sadness from people in this area, a tragedy, a complete tragedy. very tense too, because officers never want to see anything like this happen. no one wants to see anything like this happen in the city of new orleans. and i'll tell you, just watching the videos that viewers are sending me right now, we cannot even show you some of these videos because they are horrific to see anyone having lying on the ground like that. it's just this is not something that the city of new orleans wants. and they have been preparing for months to make sure something like this doesn't happen, especially having more than 300 officers

here last night covering this area. and so i know there's a lot of heavy hearts right now. and, you know, my prayers are going out to everyone who was impacted by this, because watching some of those videos, i'm sure this was probably one of the worst nights for some people. and so we're going to continue to keep on asking questions and try to get more information to. officers are in the hospital right now. they do not have any life threatening injuries right now. so that's what we know so far. but reporting here from bourbon and canal street. i'm cassie sherman, back to you. >> and we have breaking news on this developing story from cnn's evan perez. we can now report that the suspect in this new orleans attack is dead. that's according to a federal law enforcement official telling cnn's evan perez, the suspect in this tragic both shooting and car attack is dead. that just in to cnn. and this has been a big question because we had heard from local law enforcement and local officials on the ground

in new orleans earlier that there was this suspect in this pickup truck, but we didn't hear the status of this suspect until now. getting this new information again from cnn's evan perez through federal law enforcement officials telling cnn the suspect in this new orleans attack is dead. i want to bring into the conversation cnn's ryan young. ryan, you have that new information that the suspect is, in fact, dead. but i also wanted to get your reaction to that raw report, really, from that reporter on the scene. and it's striking. you see, the coroner's van sitting in front of cameras to the entrance of bourbon street, presumably to not only do the hard work that they have to do, but also to block the view of potential carnage that's left behind there. >> yeah. danny, let's take this in two parts. when you think about that massive scene, you not only do you have the evidence that's involved here, you're going to look at shell casings and you're going to be trying to find any sort of physical evidence on the ground. then you have the

carnage of dead bodies there. and on top of that, you want to make sure you pay the ultimate respect to them while gathering that evidence. and with the state and the fbi involved, a lot of times they bring in a digital scene recreated, and they'll take pictures of the entire scene so they can do that later on in court and be able to show and illustrate exactly the path the truck was going through. and then how many people were hit. but so many times when you have a situation where bodies are hit, you will find evidence 100 yards away because of the force of the vehicle. and then what it does to the human body. so just the idea that an f-150 was used in this, and then it was steering through a crowd of people, and you can only imagine the folks running online. some of the videos that have been spread are just hard to watch and hard to talk about. when you talk about the suspect. i was talking to a state source since the last time i joined you, and it did seem like we were going to lead to this information. with the suspect being dead. and as he. evan perez was able to confirm that. but they were doing an

abundance of caution from what i was getting from one of my sources to make sure they had the suspect that they were looking for. so there's a lot of evidence that they're going to obviously have to go through. they're going to have to take pictures of that truck and then go try to figure out, where did this truck come from? did the person plan to be there? was this, you know, this is such a big event. and when you think about new year's eve as a person who's been down there before, there's hundreds of people who lined those streets all the time. and then you add the fact that you have two of the biggest college football programs down there for the sugar bowl. you can just only imagine the amount of people that could have been down there. but this, of course, happened around 315. the drones were also deployed last night from the new orleans police department. that's something. so i'm wondering, were they able to follow this truck, especially after the shots were fired through the video cameras, through officers watching it after exchanging fire? hopefully at that point. and then did they were able to track him down and then ultimately end this? i'm sure they're also going to try to

figure out that the suspect tried to shoot himself, so it'll be interesting to see. did he commit suicide or were officers able to take him out. so these are all questions that we'll be trying to figure out over the next few hours. of course, there's 11:00 news conference, so hopefully we'll get some more information then as well. >> ryan young, thank you so much for your reporting all throughout the morning. i really do appreciate it. we're going to go to a break in just a moment. but again, the breaking news just into cnn in the last few minutes, the suspect in the new orleans attack is dead. that's after we confirmed that ten were killed, more than 35 injured in this mass casualty attack. we'll be right back. >> can't fool myself. it was the most exciting time in the world. >> his life had 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. tonight at eight on cnn. >> doctor box. there were many failed attempts to fix my teeth. i retouched all my wedding photos, and it was even

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fire in the hole a second time, and they detonated what sounded like another type of explosive device. you see some people from special operations and the bomb squad working right down the street. i think photojournalists define cage has zoomed in on them right now. so again, just to kind of set the scene here, the fbi alluded to the fact that there was an ied type type device that they were investigating because they feel like the suspect may have had that when he came into the french quarter to do the harm that he did. a state police trooper called in a suspicious device. we were cleared off of bourbon street. we're on dauphine right now in orleans. about five minutes ago, we heard the bomb squad scream fire in the hole, and we heard what sounded like a firecracker going off. and just about 30s ago, or about 30s before you came to me, we heard it again. another fire in the hole and another detonation, which sounded like a firecracker going off. these aren't huge detonations. some of the residents that that live here are actually out watching right now following what's going on. there were people on

the balconies earlier, but again, because of this investigation leading to potential ieds in the french quarter, we have seen police doing massive sweeps here with with the gloves, searching trash cans, searching under cars everywhere here in the french quarter, teams of police officers, we showed you that live on tv coming through looking for suspicious packages or anything out of the ordinary. they seem to have found one right on the corner of bourbon in orleans, right by the tropical isle bar, which is a huge landmark for people wanting to party during mardi gras new year's eve. other events in the french quarter. but again, we have heard two small detonations from the special operations rv that came onto the scene down the street that you're looking at right now, and we'll continue to follow and monitor the situation here. >> for more on this, we have cnn's tom foreman with us. tom, i just want to get your

reaction quickly as the last word here to hearing that report about bomb squads detonating potential ieds in the french quarter. >> i will find it very interesting to find out what that really is versus what it seems to be at first blush, in part because we have that witness a short while ago talking about this man shooting from inside the car, as if he didn't even get out of the car. unless this was a case of somebody working with him or this person coming earlier and leaving things there. i'll just be very interested to find out if that's exactly what they think it is. we've had many cases like this in the past where things are found, and authorities have to be very, very cautious. so if they see anything that looks like it could possibly be threatening, they have to treat it as if it's a real threat. but we will we will find out. i'm just thinking about the the sheer number of people that they have to manage on an event like new year's eve. it really is quite remarkable. and that makes a big difference here. remember, this is a town that routinely

for mardi gras takes in a million people, doubling the size of the metro area for jazz fest takes in a half million people this past year, with the rolling stones being there, huge, huge, huge crowds. the police there do a lot of work to prevent this sort of thing from happening and to keep alert to these sort of things. and i will point out when this event happened, you can bet your life there were police all over that road, because that's what happens during big events. and yet they couldn't stop it. >> tom foreman, thank you so much for your perspective all throughout the morning. again, we've been following this breaking news all throughout the morning. ten dead, more than 35 injured in new orleans after a mass casualty incident. we do now know the suspect, though, in this both shooting and vehicle attack is dead. cnn has confirmed that a lot more still to learn. we're going to hopefully find out more at 11 a.m. press conference. until then, we're going to take a quick break. >> from

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