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washington. and we do begin with breaking news in two separate attacks here in the u.s. on new year's day. president joe biden says investigators are looking into whether there is any possible link between a ramming attack that killed dozens of people in new orleans by a suspect with apparent ties to i.s.i.s., and a tesla truck explosion outside the trump hotel in las vegas. multiple law enforcement sources are telling cnn that the suspects in both incidents had military backgrounds. in new orleans, police now say 15 people have been killed, more than 30 others injured in that truck ramming attack in the city's historic french quarter. the fbi says it is investigating the attack as an act of terrorism. it happened just after 3 a.m. local time wednesday. people still celebrating? of course. the new year on bourbon street, just a few hours after ringing it in.

investigators say that the suspect, shamsud-din jabbar, plowed through the crowd in a large pickup truck, an f150. and we should warn you that much of the video from the scene is graphic we do not believe that jabbar was solely responsible. >> we are aggressively running down every lead, including those of his known associates. >> now, video shows the white ford f-150 making a sharp right turn. you see it there on to bourbon street off of canal street, past police barricades, onto the sidewalk there. the driver, as you just saw, continued down the street, continued, as we understand it, for several blocks, mowing down dozens of pedestrians. oh hell no. >> oh hell no. >> two officers were wounded in

the shootout that killed the suspect. investigators say 42 year old shamsud-din jabbar was born and raised in the u.s., served in the army. they say that he made recordings on the drive from texas to louisiana about joining i.s.i.s., and also about having previously wanted to kill his family. police say they found an i.s.i.s. flag. you see it there on the back of the truck. they also found improvised explosive devices in jabbar truck. and investigators are looking into whether he had any accomplices. >> right now, the entire french quarter, particularly bourbon street, is an active crime scene. we have federal, local and state officials who are embedded in this community, um, looking for additional evidence, looking to make sure that there's no ieds. we know that there were at least two that were found and detonated without incident. and now what we have is a complete use of

every resource. >> now, among the first victims identified, 37 year old reggie hunter from baton rouge, louisiana. his cousin says that he leaves behind two children who are ages 11 and one year old. u.s. president joe biden says the suspect in the new orleans attack was, quote, inspired by i.s.i.s., especially the desire to kill. but with the investigation still in a preliminary stage, he cautioned americans against jumping to conclusions. biden also promised the government's full support to the people of new of new orleans. >> our hearts are with the people of new orleans after the despicable attack that occurred in the early morning hours. to all the families of those who are killed. to all those who were injured. to all the people of new orleans who are grieving today, i want you to know i grieve with you. our nation grieves with you. we're going to stand with you as you mourn

and as you heal in the weeks to come. i want to thank our brave first responders and law enforcement personnel who stopped the attacker in his tracks before he could kill or injured even more people. and i want to thank you to everyone at the department of homeland security, the department of justice, including the fbi, for working nonstop to investigate this heinous act. i directed my team to make sure every resource, every resource is made available to federal, state, and local law enforcement to complete the investigation in new orleans quickly and to make sure there is no remaining threat to the american people. and we will support the people of new orleans as they begin the hard work of healing. new orleans is a place unlike any other place in the world. it's a city full of charm and joy. so many people around the world love new orleans because of its history, its culture, and above all, its people. so i know

while this person committed a terrible assault on the city, the spirit of our new orleans will never, never, never be defeated. >> u.s. president elect donald trump released a statement and it read in part, quote, our hearts are with all of the innocent victims and their loved ones, including the brave officers of the new orleans police department. the trump administration will fully support the city of new orleans as they investigate and recover from this act of pure evil. more now on the investigation and the fallout from the attack from cnn's omar jimenez in new orleans. reporter sudden terror on bourbon street. >> there were just bodies and the screams. you cannot think about, you know, on here that. um, it was chaos and very, very scary. >> everything in the car is hitting. it's getting thrown. >> the vehicle. ran through a crowd of people. there's multiple injuries, multiple casualties the canal de bourbon. street.

>> just hours after the clock struck midnight, the driver and a pickup truck went around barricades, according to police, killing those celebrating new year's eve along the iconic street. at least 15 people were killed, dozens others injured. >> this is not just an act of of terrorism. this is evil. >> the suspect, identified as shamsud-din jabbar, a 42 year old man from texas who previously served in the u.s. military. he was allegedly driving a privately rented pickup truck from turo, an airbnb type rental site for cars. >> an i.s.i.s. flag was located on the trailer hitch of the vehicle, and the fbi is working to determine the subject's potential associations and affiliations with terrorist organizations. >> once the vehicle stopped, the driver reportedly opened fire on responding police officers. >> law enforcement returned fire and the subject was pronounced deceased at the

scene. two law enforcement officers were injured and transported to local hospitals. >> witnesses are asking questions about why the city's steel mechanical barricades weren't up prior to the attack. >> there was police there at the entrance. a lot of police there, but the metal barricades were not up. >> bollards were not up because they are near completion. >> the fbi, which has taken over the investigation, does not believe the suspect acted alone. >> we are aggressively running down every lead, including those of his known associates and the sugar bowl for college football, scheduled to be held in new orleans this evening, has been postponed. >> all agree that it's in the best interest of everybody and public safety that we postpone the game for 24 hours. >> omar jimenez, cnn, new orleans and let's go live now to cnn's ivan rodriguez, who is in new orleans. >> ivan, what can you tell us about where things stand

tonight? >> well, brianna, still a very active scene here, right on the corner of canal and bourbon. as we've seen in surveillance footage now for the last several hours, this is that corner where that white ford truck made that turn around the police vehicle that was serving as a barrier. and then continued down that street, slamming into crowds of people where we now know dozens have been injured, 15 people at least killed. i want to show you here around, brianna, to give you a sense, because it might look a little more quiet here behind me, but still, a lot of people out on the street here tonight in new orleans. again, looking at the heart of what is the french quarter. here, officials have asked people throughout the day to try and get away from the scene, unless it was absolutely necessary to come down here. but, you know, throughout the day, this has sort of been the visuals that we've been seeing. obviously, a lot of tourists here for the sugar bowl, which was postponed until tomorrow. we're now anticipating a heavy police presence at that game.

and we're also, brianna, just learning now a little bit more about one of the latest victims. we're learning that a former princeton college football player is among those killed here in this new orleans attack. previously, our reporting we'd only known of one other confirmation of identity of 137 year old father who was also killed. now, learning of a second one killed as well. >> and ivan, law enforcement spent much of the day. they stressed it was a very active crime scene. um, the victims bodies were actually there for quite some time, at least 12 hours. and they law enforcement were spending time, uh, detonating, rendering safe, as they put it, explosive devices that they found or believed to find there in the french quarter. do you have any updates on what they found, where they think those

came from? >> well, we we actually do have an update on where they think that they came from. and the what we're hearing from now is that those explosive devices that were used here in the new orleans attack and that were found were actually manufactured at an airbnb here in the city of new orleans. that was according to the louisiana attorney general and comments that she made to nbc. and she also made reference to a house fire that occurred earlier this morning, where they believe those ieds were being made. we had known for the last several hours that this suspected attacker stayed at a local airbnb. now, though, they're making that connection that these ieds were in fact being made at the airbnb that he was staying at. another thing that we're keeping a close eye on is not only the investigation here, which is crucial and ongoing, but also what's going on in texas, because right now we're aware

that law enforcement have begun searching a houston location, which they believe is connected to the suspected attacker as well. earlier, we knew that they were waiting on federal approval to go into the home. they're now inside of the home, and we're expecting them to be in that home for the next several hours. according to the fbi. >> all right. ivan rodriguez, thank you for the latest there from new orleans. we're also following developments out of las vegas, where a tesla cybertruck exploded outside of the trump hotel on wednesday morning. here's the moment police suspect either fireworks or some type of gas tank went off in the bed of the vehicle. you see it there on camera. the fbi working to determine whether this was an act of terrorism. veronica miracle has more details. >> our john miller is telling us he has spoken to multiple law enforcement officials who say that the driver of the cybertruck has a military background. now, law

enforcement officials say they know the name of this driver who died in the explosion, but they are not going to be releasing the identity of that driver until they notify the next of kin. we understand that this driver was in las vegas for about an hour, driving around the strip before pulling up to trump tower. before that explosion happened. and authorities say the driver rented the cybertruck in colorado via the turo app before driving down to las vegas. video released by law enforcement shows explosives that were contained inside the truck, which included fireworks, gas tanks and camping fuel, and all of that was connected to a detonation system that was controlled by the driver. and the sheriff pointed out, which is really incredible how the cybertruck actually contained the explosion. the way that it was built forced the explosion to go upwards instead of outwards, which meant that the glass from trump tower was not broken, and seven people nearby were injured, but with minor injuries. all of them are okay.

they've all been released from the hospital. the driver did die, and las vegas police believe that this was an isolated incident. they are not yet willing to say if this was in fact connected to what happened in new orleans, but it is quite unusual that both the drivers in this, in these incidents, rented their cars from turo. we do have a statement from turo, and they said they're cooperating with these investigations, but they also said that neither of the drivers had criminal backgrounds, which would have flagged them as security threats. back to you. >> all right, veronica, thank you so much for that. joining us now, we have cnn chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst john miller. john, you have been talking to sources specifically about this vegas suspect. what are you learning? >> well, we're learning he also, as we mentioned, has a military background. it appears he's active duty. and it appears he's a special forces communications officer. so the

question is that is who authorities believe rented this truck from its owner through the turo app, which is an app that rents people's private vehicles to other people. as the facilitator, they are going on the investigative assumption that he's also the person who is in that vehicle when it exploded. but they won't have that for certain until they get an i.d., a positive i.d., dna, dental records, something on the body that was went up in flames in that vehicle. so what they're looking now is going back through that person's history. who is that person? where was he supposed to be in the military? was he on leave and then what is his background, associates and communications with other people now? in the new orleans attack? of course, they know all that. he is a former military person, and he made his recordings pledging his allegiance to i.s.i.s. and going through some of his

personal issues on tape. >> yeah. and these are i think these are the things that are raising questions. i think we should be very clear. these are very different military backgrounds, but you can't ignore the fact that there are two people, military connected using the same website to rent a car. there are explosive devices. they were not used. they weren't detonated. john, in the case of new orleans, but it was because police stopped the suspect there. there's also differences, and i wonder how law enforcement is trying to wade through that. >> well, i think they're looking at is you can't ignore the coincidences so they will consider them. but until they actually have a connection either between both men and i.s.i.s. facilitators or i.s.i.s. propaganda, or both men and each other, they're going to operate on the idea that that's just a road that they have to go down. they'll also operate, of course, on the

independent theory that there is no connection, that, in fact, the two attacks were generated, possibly because of the symbolic holiday, new year's, the symbolic location, a trump location, the symbolic weapon or vessel, a elon musk truck and the las vegas case. symbolic date new orleans and symbolic location. the heart of their tourist district and that there, despite the coincidences, may be no coincidence. i mean, maybe no connection at all. >> yeah, that's entirely possible. we know you'll keep working your sources and asking questions. john, thank you so much for the very latest. there. we have. pardon me. more on the las vegas truck explosion coming up later this hour. first, though, we do have some new details about the terror attack in new orleans. what we know about the suspect in the new year's day attack. we'll have that next. >> in this cnn film. luther. never too much is brought to you by the all new electric

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just we didn't know what to expect. but that's what was running through. our mind was really to to get to to them quickly and get the mission accomplished, of getting them out safely. that was number one. >> a father describing the chaos after the deadly new orleans terror attack as he tried to reach his son. at least 15 people were killed on new year's day. dozens more injured. the fbi says the attacker drove a rented pickup truck into a crowd on the city's famous bourbon street just after 3 a.m. local time, then exchanged fire with local police. 42 year old shamsud-din jabbar was killed at the scene. a source familiar with the investigation says authorities have been interviewing people who knew him but have not made any arrests or identified any additional suspects. so far. >> we also have some people who are fighting for their lives right now in the hospital. this was a heinous act, a heinous, cowardly act. and we will find

them and we will bring them to justice. >> the fbi says law enforcement is hours away from entering and searching the houston home they believe is connected to the suspected new orleans attacker. cnn's kyung lah reports on what we know about the suspect. >> reporter the suspect behind the terror attack in new orleans up until several years ago appeared to be quite normal. an army veteran who went to college and worked in real estate, and it had started to have some financial troubles. he posted a youtube video, though, as recently as four years ago, where he described that he had been born in texas, that he was trying to get this real estate company off the ground. he identified himself as a veteran. we want to play you a short clip of this. even though this video has been taken down, because it gives you a window into the background of this suspect. >> so i'm born and raised in beaumont, texas and now live in houston, and i've been here

all my life, with the exception of traveling for the military, where i spent ten years as a human resources specialist. >> you're looking at a picture from the u.s. army. it comes from a 2013 u.s. army facebook post that identified him as an army staff sergeant, working as an information technology team chief for the 82nd airborne division's first brigade combat team. now looking online, he appeared to have very much a normal background. he went to college, he went to georgia state university. the university confirms that he did graduate with a bachelor's degree. he worked in real estate in texas for four years. and then things started to change. there are divorce records that show in 2012 from his first wife. she sued him to try to get child support, and then in his second marriage, there was a filing that the suspect, the would be suspect, would eventually file, saying that he was tens of thousands

of dollars in debt from his business, that he was at risk of foreclosure, and that he had credit card debt. and that's why he was petitioning the judge to try to back out of some of those payments. kyung lah, cnn, los angeles. >> our thanks to kyung for that. in recent months, american officials have sounded the alarm about i.s.i.s. recruitment efforts and so-called lone wolf terror attacks. last hour, i asked national security expert jameel jaffer and seth jones from the center for strategic and international studies if this attack appears to be i.s.i.s. inspired or i.s.i.s. coordinated. >> this is a much more rudimentary one, so probably has more of the hallmarks of an inspired attack. and that would also be pretty consistent with most of the i.s.i.s. attacks or plots in the united states. they've generally it's hard to get someone like that into the u.s., so the vast majority of the ones we've seen in the hudson river, for example, or

in san bernardino or the pulse nightclub in florida, have generally been i.s.i.s. inspired attacks. >> yet there had been this drumbeat of i.s.i.s. inspired attacks. jameel. and then there had been kind of a little bit of a reprieve. and now you have the president saying that the new orleans suspect posted these videos on social media only hours before the attack, indicating that he was indeed inspired by i.s.i.s.. you say that we're seeing an uptick here in recent recruiting by i.s.i.s. in recent months and years. >> well, you know, brianna, we've seen an uptick in their efforts to try and get americans and europeans to conduct attacks in where they live, where they where they reside, in an effort to try and spread this toxic ideology in order to spread the terror across the globe, because they can't effectively do it with their own operatives, as seth has correctly laid out. and so we've seen these attacks. we've seen the attack in in germany, at the christmas market. we're now seeing this attack. and this is a steady theme that i.s.i.s. has engaged in. so it wouldn't be surprised to see if that's

exactly what happened here. and there is this nexus between his economic challenges, his family challenges and potentially mental health issues. this was a guy who had served honorably. it appears, as far as we can tell, for 13 years in the u.s. military now turned to an awful, awful outcome. >> we've been hearing from people who were on bourbon street on new year's eve, a resident of new orleans spoke to cnn earlier today and described the harrowing aftermath that he witnessed about 3053 ten this morning, me and my friend were heading from lower bourbon towards canal. >> we seen up towards, uh, crystal burger and all that, that there was just a lot going on. and so we ducked off into a nightclub real quick, and within two minutes of walking in five, 4 or 5 girls come running in, push past security and hide under tables. um, me and my friend living here kind of knowing

what's what and things that have been on the news. we didn't take any chances. we ran upstairs to the balcony area that we knew was there, and when we got up there, it wasn't anyone chasing anybody. it was just. unimaginable casualty. i mean, just the disfigurement and the bodies strewn something you can't unsee. you'll never forget. um, directly at our feet was definitely a mother. um. twisted up. uh, obviously deceased. um, we counted around eight bodies very quickly, right in our area. uh, one gentleman crushed, had tire tracks across his back. once they rolled him over, he had tire tracks on his front. he was completely crushed. um, another

girl, young, small girl, was dancing when we were coming up the street. and she was just completely flat in the middle. dead center. middle. um, another woman just brutally run over, but still agonizing. um, i'm certified in cpr and first responder training. and, um they wouldn't let us help. uh, they locked us all inside, which is understandable, but nobody else was helping. so that was even tougher. um, but just the fact that these these people are somebodies people, and they're not going to be there this morning. it's rough. >> horrific descriptions. uh, let's bring in now new orleans city council member j.p.

morrell. it is tough to listen to what people went through last night on bourbon street. um, and so many people are looking for answers today. council member what we heard earlier today in that press conference was that the fbi didn't think that this person was solely responsible for what happened. does that stand at this hour? >> i think that that still stands. obviously, there are reports, substantiated reports of ieds being located in the vicinity of the vehicle, but obviously not placed by the by the individual who is driving it. i think that's probably why thus far, the fbi has continued to keep that as the forefront, because you can't quite there doesn't seem to have been an opportunity for that individual to have preplanned those those explosives or those explosive devices. so i think that is really what they've leaned into as far as saying there are other people involved. i

think that. it's been really tough today. it's been really tough in the city. it's been really tough on our on our on our citizens. just because the city is so renowned for being this open, inclusive place full of joy, where people come to really kind of just be and it's just been so incredibly jarring in the aftermath of this attack, how we're all struggling to find answers while also struggling to find a way forward. because, as you know, we've got a sugar bowl tomorrow. we've got a super bowl next, next month. and these are all things that we have to do. and we all know in our heart that terrorism, terrorists, they do these jarring, awful things to make us not be who we are. but in the moment, it is very difficult to get back to that. >> yeah. they do. they do it to disrupt. and there's also a desire not i understand it. we heard it loud and clear from this press conference earlier

today, not wanting to let the terrorists win. but if you asked new orleanians and officials, you know, who are they? they're going to tell you they're also people who want to protect people who are in their city. so those are the things you're balancing, right. and i just want to ask you, because the sugar bowl, a huge football game, huge american football game, i just want to be clear, we're simulcasting on cnn international right now. huge game, huge draw for people in your city. and it was supposed to happen tonight. it's been postponed until tomorrow. do you have any concerns that that may be too soon? >> i don't, insofar as had we gone with the super bowl on its original schedule, i think it was super bowl, yes. i mean, had it gone tonight, while bourbon street is still an active crime scene, i don't know if the city could have buried it emotionally in the

wake. i mean, you can't really mourn simultaneously with something like that. i do think that taking that 24 hour period to bring some closure to the bourbon street incident, i think that the tremendous amount of resources being brought to the city from the surrounding parishes, the state level and the federal level, this event tomorrow will be given be so tremendously over resourced that it will be probably one of the safest places on earth. that being said, it's not going to be the same event it would have been yesterday. it's going to be an event with massive checkpoints. i've told a lot of people who are visitors, who are people who are here for the game. you should be prepared for figuring out how you're going to get there. when your vehicle can't park as close, you're going to have to go through checkpoints. it's going to be a different process. i mean that tomorrow is going to be rough. we are already in the midst of looking at

infrastructure improvements, both for tomorrow but also for the super bowl, which is in a month. and as you know, we are renowned internationally for mardi gras, which is the largest outdoor party really available other than carnival in brazil. and that's also in six weeks. so as a city in the midst of all this, we are recalibrating on a massive scale to see how we can continue to be the city everyone loves, while also making sure that we are safe. and it is a difficult tightrope to walk. but i think as a city, as a state and as a nation, we're capable of it. and i can say we are not lacking for resources and help. everyone is helping, whether it's neighboring cities. i mean, we've gotten calls from neighboring countries saying, what can we do to help? i mean, new orleans is that city. it's the international city that predates the united states. yeah, everyone feels a sense of ownership in trying to make

this better. >> that's right. um, so back to, um, these explosive devices there in the french quarter. are they i mean, how certain are law? so you're telling us law enforcement saw them being placed or had some evidence of them being placed by people who are not the suspect? um, can you tell can you tell us understand? that's what you understand. can you tell us a little bit more about that? and if they have all if law enforcement is sure that they've all been cleared at this point? >> well from what we understand, there were two, two devices that were found that were highly suspected to be ieds. >> um, they were located away from the site. they are part of this. i think this delay with information is new orleans has a camera system not quite to the level of new york, but a very significant real time crime center. and they're combing through a tremendous amount of footage available,

um, to try and figure out who might have placed it. because obviously, the challenge you have with suspicious devices is people walk by them. so you have to try and differentiate between somebody who walked by it, took a look at it, somebody who might have placed it. that's a lot of investigation that has to be done, has to be done. as far as is there anything else out there? local law enforcement with partners and with the federal government? they literally walked the entire french quarter cbd area in a grid like shoulder to shoulder, looking everywhere. so with with bomb dogs as well. so as far as there being something that was missed, i would say that is almost impossible, that something was missed. but the existence of those devices, as well as there is a lot that we're still unraveling. like when you look at the fact that when the suspect turned onto bourbon street, they immediately hit the sidewalk to circumvent the barrier. the the police cars that were placed

there as obstacles. there is a level of intent here where this was very council member. >> i want to i want to ask you about that. and we talked about it earlier as well today. um, it appeared that the police vehicle was obstructing the road in such a way that, let's say, if i don't know, an uber driver is turning down the street to go to a hotel, it's going to stop someone like that, right? it's going to stop someone going down a street. they shouldn't be on, where there's revelers, but where that police vehicle was placed was not going to stop anyone who was trying to get by with the nefarious intent, such as the case that we saw early this morning. i mean, what do you say about that? there was a giant more than f-150 sized gap for this truck to drive through. >> well, i think there's two things. first, the police car, obviously, that we are in the midst of addressing the bollard

situation, but the police car was where the bollards would have been. so as far as that window, where a car would have got through, i think one of the things that we're going to have to grapple with is i think that a lot of different governmental agencies, we all tend to base our reaction and our placement based upon what previous attacks saw. i, as someone who's not an infrastructure expert or in law enforcement, i do not think they quantified prepared for the deranged behavior of someone going on the sidewalk completely to circumvent it. there's going to be a lot of a lot of analysis in the after action on this. as far as what should be done different. i mean, we're already having conversations about what infrastructure is going to look like in areas like the french quarter going forward, particularly on bourbon street, because it may be that you'll see bollards in the middle of sidewalks as well. and i mean, it'll be something that we have to adjust both on a on a

local, national and international level. because just like we learned from these attacks, terrorists learned from these attacks. and i mean, i'm sure that there are people somewhere planning an attack somewhere else who are like, well, this guy figured out if you just completely disregard humanity and immediately plow on the sidewalk, you can do other things and it's it's a lot. and the part, part of what we're trying to do locally is really process everything that happened and make this a safer and better outcome going forward. but you're right, there's that's an unanswered large question. like the bollards, weren't there, a car was there? i know that in other parts of the country, new york is a great example. they protect hardened targets with like trucks, like. like a, like garbage trucks or with larger or sand trucks or the like. those weren't there. and that's going to be a question that's going to have to be answered with our state, local and federal partners in the

after action. so that's certainly i can't, i can't and will not discount that. that was not what it could or should have been. but we're kind of dealing with the reality of now and the reality of trying to make sure the city is secure going forward. but, i mean, those are unanswered questions that will be answered in the weeks to come. but today, we don't have the answers and it doesn't, not as a city council anyway. >> yeah, it doesn't bring anyone back right now, but these are important questions for the future. we know that new orleans has had issues, issues with people who may be inebriated and driving, for instance, going down streets. and those bollards may be something that would protect against something like that. um, council member, thank you so much for your time. we really appreciate it. >> thank you. appreciate it. >> and so when we come back, we are going to go live to new orleans for the latest on this investigation into what has just turned out to be a horrific attack. but as the city reels from the carnage, its police chief is telling residents there is a way to get

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an act of terrorism. we are aggressively running down all of the leads to identify this. the possible subject's associates. we are working to ensure that there is no further threat. we do not believe that jabbar was solely responsible. we are aggressively running down every lead, including those of his known associates. >> let's now head over to new orleans, where cnn's ivan rodriguez is standing by. and, ivan, i think there's been we've gotten mixed messages, quite frankly, from the beginning, from the fbi and local officials. i just spoke with a council member who said that there may have been an impression that there were people who were placing ieds in the french quarter, and it now may be, i don't know, i don't want to use i don't want to paraphrase, but i think i'm going to have to hear. and it may be something different that it's possible it was someone who was maybe just looking at some kind of explosive device. but there really is this question now of were there

accomplices? who were they? and it's a little muddy. >> no, it definitely is, because we were sort of going off of that information for a couple of hours of they were reviewing footage. three men, one woman, we were told, possibly placing those ieds throughout the french quarter area. and then it was sort of corrected that, you know what? it turns out that, in fact, um, it doesn't appear to be that case. but, brianna, i think just that message alone right there sort of portrays what we're seeing even just here. i mean, i can tell you from just standing here for the last several hours now, we've witnessed sort of a heightened sense of security from law enforcement in the area just from this corner. we've sort of noticed a couple of times now where officers have sort of beelined to specific people, asking them questions. i'm not exactly sure couldn't pick up the conversations that were had between officers and those people, but they definitely are

on heightened sense of security here, making sure that no one is really doing anything that might seem out of place. it's just you really get that sense here that people really are paying attention because right across the street is where that white truck made that right turn into bourbon and then continued its path, slamming into a multitude of people. and, brianna, the last time we spoke, i mentioned a former princeton football player. i wanted to share a little bit more about that story from him, because we heard from his sister. his name was tiger. but evil will not prevail. i was heartbroken, she said the last time she heard from her brother was around 130 in the morning, saying, happy new year, and that he was supposed to fly back home to new york city wednesday morning. so now you know the heartbreak that one family

there has to deal with. but it's it's those stories that we're going to continue to hear now as we learn a little bit more about the dozens of victims, those who were injured and also those who were killed. >> yeah, these are people enjoying their night, enjoying the beginning of the new year. and i will just note, we see that big, big truck behind you blocking bourbon street that was not there when this occurred. it was actually just a police vehicle that was there that this truck swerved around. so just something to note, ivan, thank you so much for the update. we really do appreciate it. live for us in new orleans. cnn law enforcement contributor steve moore is a retired fbi supervisory special agent. he is with us now from los angeles. steve, what do you make of this? the potential accomplices versus are there accomplices? where are we at this point? >> well, i think you're going to have to come up with some, some evidence to to show that

there were accomplices or you may be spinning your wheels. and this is something you do in every terrorist investigation. uh, at least in the fbi, you have to determine whether anybody else was involved. um, and so if they are involved, we need to see video. we need to see people, uh, materially assisting in the plot, things like that. um, and it's very complicated. then you try to figure out whether this there was assistance from overseas or whether it was self-radicalized and essentially a lone wolf. there are all these all these moving pieces, and you can't while you may have a thought on it, on what is most likely you can't just dig in on one. you have to hit all of them at the same time and hit them all as hard. >> what do you think about this though? we were told at this, um, update from law enforcement, including the fbi,

saying that in addition to this truck, which it entered the french quarter with explosives, which, by the way, the driver was not able to detonate, that there were separate ieds that had been placed in the french quarter. they law enforcement rendered those safe, so they detonated them. um, do you have any questions about those ieds and who may have placed them? and and whether that indicates that there was an accomplice? i mean, help us understand what police may be dealing with here. talking to a council member, it just seemed very confusing about whether someone may have been placing or looking at an ied. >> yeah, and you can't just go on on, you know, secondhand information. you have to know what was in those. and sometimes people can think something's an ied, especially in the heat of the moment when there are bodies on the ground and you see something that could be, um, you tend to move

towards that conclusion, but you have to find out what was in there. and if it is an ied that was related to the individual in the truck, then it would probably have similar characteristics. a similar, uh, detonation device, similar power, whether it was battery operated or some other way, it would have the same kind of, uh, propellant or explosives, whether they're using gas containers. the bombs would match because people don't sit there and say, oh, i'm going to. i found a way to make a bomb. after i make this one, i'm going to find another way. no, they're all identical. and that's the other thing that's going on, is they're going to look at the the ieds that were in the, uh, tesla in las vegas and see if maybe they were similar because these things were not using, as far as i can tell, a high or even low explosives. i, when they were speaking about them so vaguely, it seems to me

that they were highly improvised, that they were using some type of fireworks, uh, to detonate gas canisters, at least in the las vegas incident. and if we find that those are similar, then you got a big problem. >> yeah. camp fuel, rather rudimentary as it has been described to us from sources in the las vegas case. steve moore, great to have you. thank you so much for your insights. >> thank you. >> the attacker used a truck as a weapon against people on a crowded street that is incredibly popular with tourists in new orleans, as cnn's brian todd reports, using vehicles in terror attacks has become more common here in recent years, a warning that some of the video you're about to see is disturbing. >> one witness to the new orleans attack says she can't unhear the screams of the victims. >> i remember the screeching and him gunning the

car and the impact and the screams. like i said, the screams of those girls. i mean, i don't know that i'll be able to forget that the kind of horror that many cities have experienced in recent years when attackers turn vehicles into weapons just a few days before this christmas, a car slams into a christmas market in magdeburg, germany, killing at least five people, injuring more than 200. >> the suspect, a doctor originally from saudi arabia who had expressed anti-muslim far right views like magdeburg and new orleans, other cities have experienced horrific vehicle attacks during holidays. november 2021 a suspect with a long criminal history drives an suv through the annual christmas parade in waukesha, wisconsin, killing six and injuring more than 60. berlin, december 2016 a tractor trailer rams into a crowd at a bustling christmas market, killing at least 12 people, injuring dozens of others. the suspect, a rejected

asylum seeker, was later killed in a shootout with police in italy and the deadliest vehicle attack ever. july 14th, 2016 bastille day in nice, france a tunisian born french resident drives a 20 ton truck nearly a mile through a crowded seaside promenade. 86 people killed, more than 200 others wounded. i.s.i.s. claimed responsibility. why do these vehicle attacks often seem more deadly than other tactics? >> a vehicle attack doesn't require any special training. you just rent a vehicle by a vehicle and use it as a weapon. secondly, just like school shooters look at columbine or other famous school shootings and kind of obsess about them and terrorists examine other terrorists and they say, well, what worked fairly vehicle rammings work october 2017. >> an islamic extremist from uzbekistan jumps a curb in a rental truck in manhattan, drives down a bicycle path along the west side highway and kills eight people. authorities

found a note near the truck claiming the attack was in the name of i.s.i.s.. a couple of months earlier, a domestic extremist, a white nationalist, slammed his vehicle into a crowd of counterprotesters at the unite the right rally in charlottesville, virginia, killing one woman and injuring almost 20 others. analyst peter bergen says vehicle attacks with their bloodcurdling optics have a distinct psychological impact. >> certainly there is a short term effect where it terrorizes people. people are worried about going out in places where there are a lot of people gathered. >> security analysts say one somewhat common characteristic of these vehicle attacks is that many of them took place in cities where tourism is a key part of the local economy. one official with the new orleans tourism association says it's too early to tell what effect this attack will have on tourism in that city, which was still trying to recover from tourism declines stemming from the covid pandemic and even from hurricane katrina in 2005. brian todd, cnn, washington. >> our thanks to brian for that

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>> this is cnn breaking news. >> hello and welcome to our viewers watching from all around the world. i'm paula newton in atlanta. and we begin with breaking news in two separate attacks here in the united states on new year's day. u.s. president joe biden says investigators are looking into whether there is any possible link between a ramming attack that killed dozens of people in new orleans by a suspect with apparent ties to i.s.i.s., and a tesla truck explosion outside the trump hotel in las vegas. multiple law enforcement sources tell cnn the suspects in both incidents had military backgrounds. now, in new orleans, police now say 15 people have been killed, more than 30 others injured in the truck ramming attack in the city's historic french quarter. the fbi says it is investigating the attack as an act of terrorism. we do want to warn you much of the video from the scene is graphic. it happened just after 3 a.m.

local time wednesday, as people were still celebrating the new year on bourbon street. investigators say the suspect plowed through the crowd in a large pickup truck. video shows the white ford f-150 making that sharp turn. you see it there onto bourbon street, past police barricades and at least one police cruiser, and on to the sidewalk. the driver continued down the street for several blocks, mowing down dozens of pedestrians. oh. oh hell no. >> oh hell no. >> now that, in fact, was video from the shootout that ensued. two officers were wounded in that, and the suspect was in fact killed. investigators say 42 year old shamsud-din jabbar was born and raised in the united states and

served in the army. they say he made recordings on the drive from texas to louisiana about joining i.s.i.s. and killing his family. police say they found an i.s.i.s. flag and improvised explosive devices in jabar's truck, and investigators are looking into whether he had any accomplices. u.s. president joe biden praised police for their swift response. >> i directed my team to make sure every resource, every resource is made available to federal, state and local law enforcement to complete the investigation in new orleans quickly and to make sure there is no remaining threat to the american people. and we will support the people of new orleans as they begin the hard work of healing. >> now, among the first victims identified as 37 year old reggie hunter from baton rouge, louisiana. his cousin says he leaves behind two children, ages 11 and one. he had messaged happy new year to his family just hours before the attack. also killed 27 year old

tyler beck, originally from lafayette, louisiana. his sister says he was a former princeton university football player who was visiting new orleans for the holidays with a friend. beck worked for a capital markets firm in new york. we have more now on the investigation and the fallout on this attack from cnn's omar jimenez, who's in new orleans. reporter. >> sudden terror on bourbon street. >> there were just bodies and the screams. you cannot think about, you know, on here that. um, it was chaos and very, very scary. >> everything in the car is hitting. it's getting thrown. >> the vehicle went through a crowd of people. there's multiple injuries, multiple casualties. canal and bourbon. >> just hours after the clock struck midnight, the driver in a pickup truck went around barricades, according to police, killing those celebrating new year's eve along the iconic street. at

least 15 people were killed, dozens others injured. >> this is not just an act of of terrorism. this is evil. >> the suspect, identified as shamsud-din jabbar, a 42 year old man from texas who previously served in the u.s. military. he was allegedly driving a privately rented pickup truck from turo, an airbnb type rental site for cars. >> an i.s.i.s. flag was located on the trailer hitch of the vehicle, and the fbi is working to determine the subject's potential associations and affiliations with terrorist organizations. >> once the vehicle stopped, the driver reportedly opened fire on responding police officers. >> law enforcement returned fire and the subject was pronounced deceased at the scene. two law enforcement officers were injured and transported to local hospitals. >> witnesses are asking questions about why the city's steel mechanical barricades weren't up prior to the attack.

>> there was police there at the entrance. a lot of police there, but the metal barricades were not up. >> bollards were not up because they are near completion. >> the fbi, which has taken over the investigation, does not believe the suspect acted alone. >> we are aggressively running down every lead, including those of his known associates and the sugar bowl for college football, scheduled to be held in new orleans this evening, has been postponed. >> all agree that it's in the best interests of everybody and public safety that we postpone the game for 24 hours. >> omar jimenez, cnn, new orleans. yeah, i don't know. >> and we are following developments in las vegas as well, where a tesla cybertruck exploded outside the trump hotel on wednesday morning. here's the moment police suspect either fireworks or some type of gas tank went off in the bed of the vehicle. the fbi is working to determine whether it was an act of terrorism. veronica miracle has

more. reporter. >> our john miller is telling us he has spoken to multiple law enforcement officials who say that the driver of the cybertruck has a military background. now, law enforcement officials say they know the name of this driver who died in the explosion, but they are not going to be releasing the identity of that driver until they notify the next of kin. we understand that this driver was in las vegas for about an hour, driving around the strip before pulling up to trump tower. before that explosion happened. and authorities say the driver rented the cybertruck in colorado via the turo app before driving down to las vegas. a video released by law enforcement shows explosives that were contained inside the truck, which included fireworks, gas tanks and camping fuel, and all of that was connected to a detonation system that was controlled by the driver. and the sheriff pointed out, which is really incredible how the cybertruck actually contained the explosion the way that it was

built forced the explosion to go upwards instead of outwards, which meant that the glass from trump tower was not broken, and seven people nearby were injured, but with minor injuries. all of them are okay. they've all been released from the hospital. the driver did die, and las vegas police believe that this was an isolated incident. they are not yet willing to say if this was in fact connected to what happened in new orleans, but it is quite unusual that both the drivers in this, in these incidents, rented their cars from turo. we do have a statement from turo and they said they are cooperating with these investigations, but they also said that neither of the drivers had criminal backgrounds, which would have flagged them as security threats. back to you, david katz is a former special agent with the u.s. drug enforcement administration, now ceo of global security group. >> and he joins me now from chandler, arizona. thanks for being with us as we continue to try and work through the details on two very disturbing

situations in the united states this hour. now, given what we've learned, if we talk about the new orleans attack first, is it possible still that he may have acted alone? and i ask because officials have said that they believe he may have had accomplices, but evidence has been hard to come by so far. >> it was certainly possible that he acted alone. nothing. nothing in what he did would be impossible for a single motivated individual, especially one who has some military training, certainly. on the other hand, i think it's prudent that you you assume the otherwise that there was actors in concert, especially after what happened in las vegas. i mean, this is not rocket science, where, you know, it's they use the same with both vehicles are rented, as you mentioned, with the same app. and the incidents occur with relative close proximity in time. so the assumption, i think at least the working theory until proven otherwise is either they were working in concert or they were both

radicalized to. to answer the call of jihad, which has, as law enforcement has put out recently asked asked believers to foment attacks in the united states and western countries over the new year's eve holiday. >> yeah, it would be a notable coincidence. it can't be ruled out that it's a coincidence, but certainly notable, as you say. i do want to ask you about the issue of accomplices, though, because there is this issue about whether or not you're actually radicalized online. and those were the people that were so-called helping you, or if you had material support, what does it look like to you so far? >> again, you know, there's no there's nothing to suggest that in both attacks, you know, a single individual could couldn't procure, couldn't rent the car, couldn't get the the equipment needed the firearms. and in the in the case of the first attack and the explosive with the the elements of making the the fortunately

barely effective homemade explosive device that occurred in the in the cybertruck. so, uh, is it is it possible someone did it. they acted alone. and yeah, you can probably do that easily by yourself, but did they? that's the question. so there are many, many ways and many avenues that investigators are going to be able to look at. they're going to look at first communication. everyone has a cell phone. everyone has a computer. unless these were destroyed. well, in any case, a lot of this stuff is going to be available online through through providers. they can get some indication as to who, if anyone, he was in contact with prior to the incidents. both individuals in fact. so they're going to be looking at that. they're going to look at cameras. they're going to look at the the movements of these individuals over the last few months. so i'm confident they'll be able to make some assessment as to whether they were working individually or in concert with others. >> you know, at this hour, we still believe authorities are on location somewhere near houston searching his home. what would that investigation look like? what do you what are they doing right now in terms of ascertain exactly if there's any evidence there

that they can use in their investigation? >> well, you know, i'm quite certain the search warrant application, including included the ability to look at look at records, look at, look, basically look throughout the house, access any electronic devices. so they're going to look everywhere. they're going to look they'll look in the person's garage. are there. did they did he store ammo. did he have a weapon. did he have other weapons. did he have a gun safe to look online to look at his computer? you know, what was he researching lately? was he researching? did he pull up maps of bourbon street? has he made trips to bourbon street recently? you know, there's so much material. if you think about what you would do if you were online or using your computer to plan out if you plan to vacation, for example, how many, how many sites are you visiting? how much of a record would you have on your computer? that's the that's the kind of stuff that they're going to be looking at now. and i'm quite certain they already are. >> and given the attack in new orleans, do you believe it was a security failure on the part of police? they admit that the

barriers that were supposed to be in place clearly were not positioned where they should be, because they were still being repaired for events that were upcoming in new orleans? >> yeah, that's that that, that that that dog won't hunt. if you look, look for for an example. you know, i'm originally from new york city. what does the nypd do to secure that that parade route? they take you and then they have the same ability to do it in new orleans, get garbage trucks, get any sort of, you know, your highway department. you have large vehicles, not just a single patrol car that will block an exit, which in this case, they tried to do. and then what did the suspect do? just drove right around it. and if you look at if you look at at what is done in new york city, they used garbage trucks, for example, to build barriers that cannot be driven around or through. so they could have done that. and quite frankly, look, the further we get from an incident like this, the less of a concern it is. and, you know, i it's i guess it's a failing of human nature. but we

have to be vigilant 100% of the time. they, you know, any any success on their part is a home run. we have to be we have to be so much better than they do. we have to prepare every single time, without exception, without any sort of, you know, cutting corners. and unfortunately, i don't know what the decision making process was like in new orleans, but they certainly could have done a better job. the idea is physical impediment makes something you can't drive around, you can't drive through. you don't want to have just french like the french barriers or the wooden barricades or a single police car. that's a deterrent to the law abiding. that is not a deterrent to a serious adversary. >> do you worry that vehicles now being used as weapons of terror, that unfortunately, as far as the terrorist is concerned, he succeeded. >> yeah. i mean, look, i mean the the think back, i don't know. was it ten years ago now, the right before halloween in new york city, it was a rental truck being used to run people

over. and i mean, you can your previous report had had it did a great job of going through the number of incidents in recent memory where trucks were vehicles were used. you know, if you think about it, even your car is a500 0 pound weapon. so absolutely, you can you can use it to, to to commit to perpetrate incredible, incredibly damaging acts. and unfortunately you can't protect every place every time. but when you have a high profile event like a new year's eve, like a, like a new year's eve celebration, that's i think i don't think it's much too much to ask to, to completely secure the route, to make sure at least those events are protected against someone who's going to use a vehicle as a weapon. >> i'm sure it is something that many police forces, not just in the united states, but around the world, are taking a very close look at this hour. david katz, for us, i want to thank you for joining us. >> pleasure. >> more on the las vegas truck explosion coming up later this hour. but first, new details about the terror attack in new orleans, what we know about the

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about to see is disturbing. this video shows the scene just moments after the attack, when the attacker was killed by police. the suspect has been identified as shamsud-din jabbar, a u.s. citizen from texas and an army veteran. cnn's evan perez has the story. >> the fbi is working to determine whether anyone else was involved in the attack that killed at least 15 people early on new year's day on bourbon street in new orleans. an army veteran from texas maneuvered a rented pickup truck around a police car that was intended to block access to the street. the attack injured dozens of people, and the fbi is treating it as a terrorism investigation. investigators found an i.s.i.s. flag, as well as writings with the suspect. shamsud-din jabbar. this evidence, along with recordings he is believed to have made, recently indicated allegiance to i.s.i.s.. according to investigators. authorities also detonated several suspected improvised explosives in the

truck and nearby. investigators spent the day at the large crime scene in the french quarter, as well as working to conduct searches at other locations associated with the suspect. this includes a rental home nearby, where the suspect is believed to have spent the recent days before carrying out the attack, as well as another home in the houston area, where the suspect is thought to have lived. they've also spent the day talking to people who knew the suspect. and so far haven't identified anyone who helped him or who knew of his plans to carry out the attack. the fbi is still continuing to ask the public for help to share video or tips if they've seen the suspect in recent days and weeks. evan perez, cnn, washington. >> now, new orleans officials say mechanical barricades to prevent vehicles from entering bourbon street were not functioning and were being repaired ahead of the super bowl that's going to take place in early february. some witnesses say cars were able to drive into the area.

>> of course i'm surprised, but i don't know why they're still letting cars go through bourbon street. even last night, which i was there, there was still like at midnight, one in the morning. there's still cars driving by, even though there's people walking all over the street. you got to dodge cars. so i don't think they should let any vehicles at all. it should always be blocked off at nighttime, because something like this could could happen. >> now, the street has been protected since 2017 with steel barriers that can be raised or lowered to block traffic. but one lawmaker says they may not have helped, even if they had been up. listen. >> their metal bollards that come up out of the ground that are supposed to prevent any oncoming vehicles from driving into the crowd. we were told today at a briefing that apparently they were not working properly. therefore, there were vehicles that were placed in the place where the knowledge would have been, which served as the

blockade. if you will. the. subject or suspect apparently went around the vehicle and jumped the sidewalk. the next question obviously be asked is why was the sidewalk not protected? there are a lot of unanswered questions as it relates to that, but one thing is for certain, as the governor said, with no uncertain terms, we will identify whatever the weakness was and fix it, making sure that the citizens and visitors that come to new orleans are safe is paramount. >> now, the fbi says law enforcement are searching a houston location they believe is connected to the suspected new orleans attacker. cnn's kyung lah reports on what we know about the suspect. >> reporter the suspect behind the terror attack in new orleans up until several years ago appeared to be quite normal. an army veteran who went to college and worked in real estate, and it had started to have some financial troubles. he posted a youtube video, though, as recently as

four years ago, where he described that he had been born in texas, that he was trying to get this real estate company off the ground. he identified himself as a veteran. we want to play you a short clip of this. even though this video has been taken down, because it gives you a window into the background of this suspect. >> so i'm born and raised in beaumont, texas and now live in houston, and i've been here all my life, with the exception of traveling for the military, where i spent ten years as a human resources specialist. >> you're looking at a picture from the u.s. army. it comes from a 2013 u.s. army facebook post that identified him as an army staff sergeant, working as an information technology team chief for the 82nd airborne division's first brigade combat team. now looking online, he appeared to have very much a normal background. he went to college, he went to georgia state university. the university confirms that he did graduate with a bachelor's

degree. he worked in real estate in texas for four years. and then things started to change. there are divorce records that show in 2012 from his first wife. she sued him to try to get child support, and then in his second marriage, there was a filing that the suspect, the would be suspect, would eventually file, saying that he was tens of thousands of dollars in debt from his business, that he was at risk of foreclosure, and that he had credit card debt. and that's why he was petitioning the judge to try to back out of some of those payments. kyung lah, cnn, los angeles. >> juliette kayyem is a cnn senior national security analyst and former assistant secretary to the u.s. department of homeland security. and she joins us now from cambridge, massachusetts. juliette, as always, we look to you to try and parse exactly what is critical about this investigation at this hour. so

how significant would it be if authorities actually confirm that the alleged attacker did not act alone? what does that mean for national security going forward? >> it's a big variable. and i think part of the confusion right now about sort of his status, and in fact, the city's status, is it safe to advance? is it safe to have, say, the sugar bowl tomorrow night is what do we mean by his associates? and i think there was honestly some confusion earlier. did it mean people who had planned with him, who had helped him put out ieds or or helped him manage, you know, manage and rent and do all the horrible things that he did? or was it people say on social media or others who may have known about the event but were not, you know, sort of, you know, aiding and abetting in the sense of making this more likely. and i think we still don't know the answer to this question. i believe in the last couple hours, it is more likely that he is someone who got

radicalized. there may have been people online or elsewhere. maybe he met people abroad who were pushing him, but that he acted alone. and that's why the city sort of is feeling more confident about saying, well, we can move forward, just don't come, come to this area that had been attacked. it's been a bit confusing over the last couple hours. that's to be understood. but that's a big differential. if there were a bunch of people planning a major terrorist attack in a u.s. city, it would it would suggest that there was foreign or international coordination, and then the investigation would be much bigger. yeah. >> and speaking of what the threat assessment could look like going forward, you know, march in march of last year, a branch of i.s.i.s. killed at least 144 people at a concert hall in moscow. you know, at the time, christopher wray, the fbi director, you know, he told congress, look, there is potential for a coordinated attack in the united states. do you believe that those warnings should have been taken more seriously at the time, in the

sense that should there be an elevated threat level right now? >> yes. and in some ways, we always we sort of always exist under it and we focus them on events like new year's eve for these high profile events, or think about christmas villages in germany. i mean, in a lot of ways, the way we've adapted, rather than being on on defcon one all the time, right? always being a nervous and worried is we do put more effort, safety and security effort into these high profile mass events. and that's what's surprising about this. and those of us who know new orleans know that that mayor landrieu several years back, the former mayor had looked at what was happening in europe, what had happened in berlin, what it what had happened in france and with with these terrorist attacks using vehicles and had put up sort of more security on bourbon street, which is really exists, you know, for the party atmosphere. it's a residential

area. but for those of those who have not been there, it is it's sort of where everyone goes to walk on the streets. and and there was a lot of security. there is a question now about whether some of that security was was undermined, or maybe minimized because of upgrades they were trying to do and whether replacements were not satisfactory enough for, uh, to stop something like this. >> yeah, it is always sad in the sense that when you look at hindsight, everyone realizes, okay, you know, perhaps there was something else we could have done. i do want to talk about what happened in las vegas, right? that cybertruck, the tesla truck in front of the trump hotel. what stands out to you about that? i guess an alleged attack. we still don't know exactly what it is. and if it's linked to the what to what happened in new orleans, i think given the timing, there will have to be an investigation about their linkages and any coincidences between, uh, the narratives of the perpetrators, u.s. citizens,

military background, as well as the how they rented the vehicles that ended up being the sort of weapons of mass destruction. >> but i looked at that one, and i think the evidence, at least from las vegas, is suggesting you sort of it's elon musk and donald trump, two people, two high profile people now controversial to many people who, uh, someone seemed to want to make a statement and harm others in that statement. that's not legitimate. that's not a legitimate form of, of of of any kind of protest. and i think that's what we will find is that that ideological connection really is, is related to, to the elon musk, donald trump connection. therefore, the use of a of a of a cybertruck rather than, than, say, something larger, like an i.s.i.s. connection. but the las vegas police were pretty confident in trying to assure people they viewed this as a very isolated incident. >> it is kind of chilling, though, to think about what we

may face in the year to come. and i mean, one hopes that that it's not what we're facing. but when you look at the threat assessment, especially considering that authorities in october have charged an afghan national who was allegedly plotting a terrorist attack in support of i.s.i.s. for election day, what does all of this tell you? when we put together the intelligence combined with what have been two, you know, very heartbreaking events, right? >> so there's going to be the organized threat we that we've known and worried about from abroad. terrorist organizations, organizations that are supported by foreign country enemies, either through physical means or cyber means, which can have a physical impact. there's also going to be people who are who are radicalized by those elements, who who have a certain ideology that then becomes violent, right? and that that is something in which, you know, our intelligence agencies are on the watch out for. that's

why it's important to share intelligence with other countries. we then have a domestic threat. so they're not mutually exclusive. we have a domestic threat in which people are utilizing violence as a part of our political narrative. you know, whether it's assassination attempts on donald trump or it is it is right wing violence and all exist. i say, you know, there's there's all of the above is the solution. one is getting politicians to lower the temperature about language. it is intelligence and law enforcement efforts to denigrate terrorist groups, but it also is communities coming forward. in a lot of these instances, as i'm sure we will determine in these two instances today, there will be people who say he seemed to be acting differently. he was talking about doing something violent. whatever we often find in these cases that we really are dependent on a community coming forward and disclosing their concerns about an

individual. >> and we certainly hope we learn more about this going forward to put people's minds at ease, because this is truly an attack on our way of life and our freedoms. and we can't we can't miss the point no matter. you know what the incident is. juliette. juliette kayyem. thanks again. >> appreciate it. thank you. >> now, cnn's local affiliates in new orleans were on the scene for hours after the attack. here's. wdsu anchor reporter travers mackel, and i'm going to put somebody on the spot here. >> this is chris granger. he's a professional photographer. i know, i know, i'm sorry. you're one of the best. look, he really is. he's a gifted photographer. you've covered a lot of things around the world. do you ever remember something like this? you and i have both lived here a long time. you were here for katrina. you've covered everything. i'm so sorry to put you on the spot, but i know you're here taking pictures to send to the world. can you remember anything like this? i can't. >> no, not at all. um, i've walked maybe 12,000 steps around the corner today alone. and this is. i'm seeing a lot of sad faces. i met somebody

who lost his friend. um, he's from mississippi, and he knew the girl from there, and it really broke my heart. after years of covering crime and murder, this one really, really touched everybody. um, just. i'm at a loss for words. it's, um. >> it's tough. and i know we've become desensitized to it sometimes because you've covered crime scenes before. but when you see the fbi and the heart of the french quarter knowing what this was, it just hits a little different. is that fair to say? >> oh, yeah. yeah. i mean, this hits home, um, and my phone's been blowing up all day with people from around the world trying to find out if we're okay and what's happening, and i'm. it makes me sad for the city, for the country, for all of us, that this kind of thing happens. um, just i, you know, i don't know where we go from here. we just got to clean up the scene and try to get back on our feet. >> yeah, i agree, i agree. i'm so sorry to put you on the spot, too. i'll let you do your job now and get out of the way. um, also, stefan cage, our photojournalist who's behind the camera, is going to get

some some video of you in for you. and this is obviously, you know, the most iconic building in our city, the saint louis cathedral, something we all celebrate and cherish and love is an iconic landmark. and then you have the crime scene tape right here on bourbon street, right in front of the tropical isle. um, there's fbi forensic units out here, and the reason they're all here is because at about 6 a.m. this morning, a state police trooper discovered what he felt like was an unusual package. and we're told it may have even been an ice chest. so they sent out the nopd special unit, and and we believe they detonated it because we heard. or at least they did a, a controlled detonation to make sure it was nothing that could have been more extreme. and when i say they detonated it, i want to be very clear, because we keep saying that this wasn't like a reverberating boom where buildings shook. it sounded more like a firecracker. we heard, you know, someone with the nypd say, fire in the hole. and then there was a firecracker type sound that

happened twice. they now have a drone that the fbi is flying over the scene here right now. they have been out here gathering evidence, um, because we believe it is obviously part of their bigger investigation into what happened in the 100 block. but as you just heard chris granger say, a lot of the people that we're talking about, look, we live here. we understand that sometimes new orleans can be beautifully messy, the beauty. but we deal with crime issues and we deal with things in the city that other cities don't. but but this one is a little different. this is, you know, the trauma of this one is is more intense and the ripple effects are real. i know you all have been reporting that the sugar bowl is going to be postponed. and in the tourists that were here and the locals that were here, we're going to start finding more out about the victims in this really is a truly awful scene, an awful way to start 2025. but that is what it looks like here, right now. >> and some more breaking news just in to cnn. new york police say at least ten people,

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several large events. cnn's tom foreman has that. >> look. this truck was coming down canal street here, the widest main street in america. it turns in here 330 in the morning at a time. the new year, the sugar bowl, all of this happening. bourbon street, end to end, typically is just packed with people. this is where the the the attacks seem to begin in the sense of people being hit. but really the truck, if you look at the pictures, didn't seem to stop till about here. if it had continued up into here, there would have been. i can't imagine the amount of people who would have died in that circumstance. it hit that large red crane type device and stopped. nonetheless, this is one of the reasons that we need clarity on whether or not people can simply grieve this terrible event and look for answers, or whether they need to be concerned about somebody else being out there. because look at all the other areas so close by jackson square, cafe du monde, right down here. so many people have visited. it's right up in here. so many people have visited that

that's merely blocks away. preservation hall, a great tourist attraction. pat o'brien's bar. so many young people go to their canal street over here. we mentioned huge, a lot of mardi gras parades there. they had a parade for the sugar bowl in this area just before this all happened. and of course, the superdome right over here. you could walk from here all the way over here to jackson square in 30 minutes, easily in a very relaxed fashion. and this is a town that has lots and lots of people around it, and they've taken security seriously. they've been aware of threats. there are very serious questions now as to what maybe wasn't done right here. first of all, we have the sugar bowl that's happening right now, 75,000 people may be inside the superdome, maybe more watch parties all over town. mardi gras technically starts next monday with the first parade that will go on for about two months. about a million people will come to town for that. jazz fest will get a half million or more in town. that's coming up a little bit later this spring. the super bowl, in just a little over a

month. these are huge events, all of which, if there is a threat out there are all in a position of having to be concerned about it. and in fact, the nfl put out a tweet saying deeply saddened by the news of this devastating event in new orleans. thoughts are with the victims, the community and all those involved, and the nfl and the local host committee have been working collaboratively with local, state and federal agencies the past two years to develop a comprehensive security plan they will go through with that plan. >> now, as tom mentioned, there are more events, significant events to come in new orleans, and officials are now looking at steps to keep locals and tourists safe. >> it's been a tremendously tragic day in the city of new orleans, and now we are working, of course, with our state and federal partners to make sure that the city of new orleans is secure and obviously doing everything possible to support our federal partners as they go after anyone else who may potentially have been involved in this. >> no doubt in my mind that

they deserve the justice that is coming their way. for, you know, what happened overnight? just to tell you about just how terrible this has been, this afternoon. um, you know, i unfortunately was told about some individuals who were missing who unfortunately will not be coming home and their families have been waiting at university medical center for information as to why they weren't at any of our hospitals. now, unfortunately, they have that tragic news as to why. so, um, you know, moving forward now, as you can imagine, we are looking at our sugar bowl, which will take place tomorrow, and looking at all different types of security measures that are needed to make sure that anyone going to the sugar bowl is going to be safe and that it will be a safe event. >> cnn law enforcement contributor steve moore is a retired fbi supervisory agent, special agent, and he is with us from los angeles. good to have you with us, especially at this hour. given that law enforcement officials are

searching a home in houston which could be connected to the suspected new orleans attacker, can you give us some insight into how that search might be unfolding right now? >> well, the you're going to be looking at so many things. you know, a search warrant is usually limited to, say, if you're looking for a car, you can't search in somebody's chest of drawers, you know, because it couldn't be in there. the problem with this is they're searching for everything, right down to electronic files. in fact, those might be the most important things. so this is going to be a comprehensive search. i mean, one end of the house to another. and it's going to be more than just a visual search and hands on. they're going to be doing electronic searches, and they're going to try and find any electronics, any components, possibly of the of the device that was in the vehicle or other devices that have been talked about. they're going to be looking for

anything that could possibly be linked to this attack. >> you know, the louisiana attorney general says that an airbnb was likely used to assemble the explosives, right, because it wasn't just that he used the truck, but he also had improvised explosive devices with him. what does this tell you about the suspect? his motivations, how well he would have tried to execute this type of an attack. >> he he was in in many ways, trying to go through what what is called in the military or in the federal government. opsec operational security. he was trying to keep everything that he was doing in support of this attack, away from his own home, away from things that would tip people off, that he was, uh, going off the

rails. um, i am also very curious as to why he felt the need to do this. did he not believe that he could compile all the equipment and assemble them in his own home? it's very curious to me as to me how he did this. >> the other question, still top of mind for everyone, is whether or not he had accomplices. it's been a confusing day. there is still no evidence that he did have accomplices, and yet officials in new orleans and beyond are definitely not ruling that out. in fact, they think it's likely that he did have accomplices. do you think this could be more of an inspirational thing, or the fact that he may have had material support? >> uh, i would think it would, uh, what they're talking about, at least from my watching of the press conference, is they're saying that he had people working with him on this, which would be so unusual. usually when we find

these types of things, it's an individual who is radicalized. and it's really hard to find somebody that you can come up to and say, hey, you want to come with me and kill a bunch of people, you know, in the name of allah? you know, because most of the time those people turn you in. so it's rare that you find somebody, um, who has accomplices like this. we would call that a cell. so, um, i want to see the evidence that there were people, uh, accomplices helping him. um, or whether they were just saying stuff a little earlier than they needed to in the investigation. >> yeah, certainly. >> so many questions, especially for the people of new orleans who understand all too well how that would an actual terror cell operating in their city, how that would escalate things as compared to having the one attacker. um, i'm interested to hear from you. do you believe the sugar bowl should go ahead in the coming hours? >> yeah, i do,

because, um, the sugar bowl will likely have much better security than simply bourbon street did. um, there was kind of, uh, a complacent attitude in my mind on protecting the people in, uh, on bourbon street. um, you can't tell me that you the bollards that you have up there or the police cars that you have parked there are not there to prevent a vehicle being used to, uh, hit pedestrians. so why would you not block this sidewalk? um, and when you go into the the game and the facility and the dome there, there is going to be a much more, uh, uh, much more thought out, much more planned, much more, uh. practiced security procedure. uh, that goes that has been going on for, for years at these types of games. and you're going to have magnetometers, things like this. i think it's safe to go on. and i think it's important

not to let terrorists tell us, uh, that we can't go on with life. >> yeah, it will be important symbolically. but of course, you know, the authorities have to have every confidence that it can be safe. steve moore, appreciate you. thanks so much. >> thank you. >> now, as we were just talking about tens of thousands of college football fans have gathered in new orleans for the quarterfinal football playoff game between notre dame and georgia, which, as we were saying, was postponed following the deadly terror attack on wednesday. cnn's andy scholes picks up that story. >> well, officials in new orleans say they have moved the sugar bowl between georgia and notre dame to thursday out of an abundance of caution due to the terrorist attack early wednesday morning. the superintendent of new orleans police says they will have heightened security in the area and bomb dogs will continue to sweep the superdome and the exterior throughout the game. now, officials insist it will be safe to play the game. here is sugar bowl ceo jeff hundley on the decision to postpone.

>> we have been in consultation with espn with the college football playoff, with the southeastern conference, with the university of georgia, with notre dame, all parties and all agree that it's in the best interests of everybody and public safety that we postpone the game. >> i think the mayor and the governor are very wise to postpone this ball game. there's just too much stuff. we don't know. and it's, it's it's just not worth it. >> now the super bowl is set to be played in new orleans on february 9th. the nfl, they released a statement on wednesday saying that they were deeply saddened by what happened and added the nfl and the local host committee have been working collaboratively with local, state and federal agencies the past two years and have developed comprehensive security plans. these planning sessions will continue as they do with all major nfl events, and we are confident attendees will have a safe and enjoyable super bowl experience now. it will be interesting to see what

super bowl week in new orleans is like, because just hours ago, the air in new orleans, it was filled with joy and anticipation for the sugar bowl. and now it's tragedy, uncertainty, and the overriding issue of safety hovering over the city thanks to andy scholes there. >> now, the attacker used a truck as a weapon against people on a crowded street that's very popular with tourists in new orleans. as cnn's brian todd reports, using vehicles in terror attacks has become more common in recent years. a warning some of the video you're about to see is disturbing. robert brooks spafford. >> one witness to the new orleans attack says she can't unhear the screams of the victims. >> i remember the screeching and him gunning the car and the impact and the screams. like i said, the screams of those girls. i mean, i don't know that i'll be able to forget that the kind of horror that many cities have experienced in recent years when attackers turned vehicles into weapons

just a few days before this christmas, a car slams into a christmas market in magdeburg, germany, killing at least five people, injuring more than 200. >> the suspect, a doctor originally from saudi arabia who had expressed anti-muslim far right views like magdeburg and new orleans, other cities have experienced horrific vehicle attacks during holidays. november 2021 a suspect with a long criminal history drives an suv through the annual christmas parade in waukesha, wisconsin, killing six and injuring more than 60. berlin, december 2016 a tractor trailer rams into a crowd at a bustling christmas market, killing at least 12 people, injuring dozens of others. the suspect, a rejected asylum seeker, was later killed in a shootout with police in italy and the deadliest vehicle attack ever. july 14th, 2016 bastille day in nice, france a tunisian born french resident drives a 20 ton

truck nearly a mile through a crowded seaside promenade. 86 people killed, more than 200 others wounded. i.s.i.s. claimed responsibility. why do these vehicle attacks often seem more deadly than other tactics? >> a vehicle attack doesn't require any special training. >> you just rent a vehicle, buy a vehicle and use it as a weapon. secondly, just like school shooters look at columbine or other famous school shootings and kind of obsess about them and terrorists examine other terrorists and they say, well, what worked fairly vehicle rammings work october 2017. >> an islamic extremist from uzbekistan jumps a curb in a rental truck in manhattan, drives down a bicycle path along the west side highway and kills eight people. authorities found a note near the truck claiming the attack was in the name of i.s.i.s.. a couple of months earlier, a domestic extremist, a white nationalist, slammed his vehicle into a crowd of counter-protesters at the unite the right rally in

charlottesville, virginia, killing one woman and injuring almost 20 others. analyst peter bergen says vehicle attacks with their bloodcurdling optics have a distinct psychological impact. >> certainly there is a short term effect where it terrorizes people. people are worried about going out in places where there are a lot of people gathered. >> security analysts say one somewhat common characteristic of these vehicle attacks is that many of them took place in cities where tourism is a key part of the local economy. one official with the new orleans tourism association says it's too early to tell what effect this attack will have on tourism in that city, which was still trying to recover from tourism declines stemming from the covid pandemic and even from hurricane katrina in 2005. brian todd, cnn, washington. >> and i want to thank you for watching cnn newsroom. i'm paula newton. our coverage of the new orleans attack will continue after a quick break

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