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january 2nd, 9 a.m. here in london, 3 a.m. in new orleans and 1 a.m. in las vegas. we begin with breaking news in two separate new year's day attacks in the united states. president joe biden says investigators are looking into whether there is any possible link between a ramming attack that killed more than a dozen people in new orleans by a suspect with apparent ties to i.s.i.s., and a tesla truck explosion outside a trump hotel in las vegas. multiple law enforcement sources tell cnn the suspects in both incidents had military backgrounds do i think it's a coincidence? >> i don't know, but what i can tell you is we're absolutely investigating any connectivity to what happened in new orleans, as well as other attacks that have been occurring around the world. we're not ruling anything out yet. >> well, first to new orleans, where police say at least 15 people were killed, more than 30 others injured when a man drove his truck down a crowded bourbon street early wednesday. investigators say he had an i.s.i.s. flag and improvised

explosive devices in the truck. a congressional aide tells cnn lawmakers in washington will get an unclassified briefing today from the fbi. the incident is being investigated as a terror attack. the suspect has been identified as 42 year old shamsud-din jabbar, a u.s. citizen and army veteran. he was killed in a shootout with police. investigators say he made recordings on the drive from texas to louisiana about joining i.s.i.s. and killing his family. one witness described the scene on bourbon street on wednesday morning. >> you hear the the screech of tires, and when i turned my head around, there's like a yukon or escalade or something just barreling down the street, bro. i kid you not like. real life horror movie. everything in the car is hitting. it's getting thrown. it's getting thrown up into the air in a way. and just or under the car. >> the fbi says searches are

underway in multiple states connected to jabbar. the suspect posted this video on youtube several years ago after leaving the army. >> 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. >> authorities say they do not believe jabbar acted alone, and lawmakers from both sides of the aisle are vowing to get answers. >> and for those who may have played a role in this horrific act of cowardice, we will find you. >> i will promise you this. i will when when it is appropriate in this investigation is complete, you will find out what happened and who was responsible, or i will raise fresh hell. >> and we're starting to learn the identities of some of the

victims of the new orleans terror attack. a school in florida says two recent graduates, l sl and steal edilson, both 19 years old, are among the injured. 27 year old tyler beck, originally from lafayette, louisiana, was killed. his sister says he was a former princeton university football player who was visiting new orleans for the holidays with a friend. 37 year old reggie hunter from baton rouge, louisiana, was also killed. his cousin says he leaves behind two children, ages 11 and one. hunter had messaged happy new year to his family just hours before the attack took place. 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 into 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, 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. >> well, u.s. president joe biden is promising the federal government's full support to the people of new orleans. he says he's mourning with the city and will do everything possible to support the investigation. >> 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. the law enforcement and intelligence community are continuing to look for any connections, associations or coconspirators. we have nothing additional to report at this time. the investigation is continuing to be active and no one should jump to conclusions. the fbi also reported to me that mere hours before the attack, he posted videos on social media indicating that he was inspired by i.s.i.s. expressing a desire to kill, a desire to kill.

>> u.s. president-elect donald trump released a statement. it read in part, quote, our hearts are with all 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. joining me to discuss cnn's international diplomatic editor, nic robertson rejoining me. so, nic, we know these investigations are underway. there's not much concrete we can say right now. but with regard to the deadly attack itself, i mean, it does seem to bear the hallmarks of an i.s.i.s. attack. when we look at the location, the timing, the motive. what will the authorities be looking for at the multiple searches underway right now? >> they're going to want to make sure in the immediate aftermath that there's no immediate follow on attack in that vicinity. and it does seem that they've found some ieds, homemade explosive devices. so they'll want to know, did he make them himself, or was there

somebody making them with him? it seems that the authorities have found a location, a house, a rental and airbnb in new orleans where they believe that these explosives were made. was there somebody else renting that with with him, or did he rent it in his own name? so these are some of the immediate questions. is there another attack in that area to come. then the next one. are there associates that he was talking to by phone or online, by other means that could be preparing their own attacks in other parts of the united states? so sort of as a follow on from this. so that will be another immediate concern. and i think we're seeing that reflected in the fact that the sporting events that were planned in new orleans has sort of been given a slight delay that will allow the police to sort of give some level of measure of certainty about safety there. but, but, but then you get to the next big issue, which is, um, who was supporting him more broadly. have they gone to ground if they're not planning something else, can the police

get to them? so looking for a potentially a bigger network because as we've heard, they believe he wasn't acting alone. >> and what do we know really about the mental state of this individual? because we've heard that there were recordings released on his on the drive that he made from texas to louisiana, talking about joining i.s.i.s., about killing his family, in fact. >> yeah, killing his family and then deciding to join i.s.i.s.. and this is a sort of statement you're getting from somebody who who knows that they're essentially going on a suicide mission, that they know that they're not going to be able to speak after the event. so his sort of, you know, he's saying this is in the name of i.s.i.s.. and i think every law enforcement officer, every intelligence expert would say, you cannot overlook these kind of statements. what does it really mean? how deep does it go? when did he form these connections? but what we do know is that this was somebody who was seen as as a professional in his ten years in the military. he presented himself, as we saw in that video clip, as a professional

in the, in the, the, in the home sales industry. this was somebody who until recently had seemed fairly normal in society, but he was having financial issues. he's saying that he was short of money, that he wanted to settle his second divorce quickly because his business was suffering mental crisis. it speaks to mental crisis. and we've seen before with attackers, whether it's in the name of i.s.i.s. or others, that they go through a mental crisis which leads to a breakdown, which leads to a change in behavior. and and his pinning this now on i.s.i.s.. >> and we know that on the night there were hundreds of police officers on the ground in enforcement, but clearly there was a security breach here, and there are questions being raised about the security measures. what was lacking. and, you know, this is important because we know that vehicles have been used fairly regularly in tourist locations such as this. one of the most high profile nights of the year, i mean, was something

missed here. >> it seems to be. and i think you can ask that question at a couple of levels. absolutely. as you say, i.s.i.s. and al qaeda have both talked about using vehicles as a means of attack. use a pedestrian area. get to high speed, maximum casualties. and the reason they do that is that came about 15 years ago. these terror groups before tried to sort of have mass participation, big planned explosions, that sort of thing. intelligence. the intelligence community was able to sort of see those coming, get the warnings because they were grouping together, having discussions and stop them. so the vehicle became an easy way of perpetrating terror. so you can ask the question in two levels here. at the moment, the authorities are saying he didn't act alone. okay. does that mean intelligence opportunities were missed, that there was some level of communication that they didn't see? and then, of course, the idea that that pedestrian areas are protected, protected with bollards, protected with other

things, and in this case, as we heard omar reporting, there, the bollard was down because new bollards were being put in place. but at that event, as you say, new year's eve mass, pedestrian participation, therefore a potential target. why would you not have a backup available? and i think that those two questions will be asked. >> they are being pulled over right now, aren't they? nic, thank you. and now to las vegas, where the fbi is working to determine whether that tesla cybertruck explosion is possibly connected to the new orleans attack. here's the moment police say fireworks, gas tanks and camping fuel were detonated in the bed of the vehicle. the fbi is also trying to figure out whether it was an act of terrorism. local police spoke to the glaring possibility of a connection between trump tower and the car produced by elon musk's company. >> well, i mean, it's a tesla truck, and we know that elon musk is working with

president-elect trump and it's the trump tower. so there's obviously things to be concerned about there. and that's something we continue to look at. the fact that this was a cybertruck really limited the damage that occurred inside of the valet, because it it had most of the blast go up through the truck and out. in fact, if you look on that video, you'll see that the front glass doors at the trump hotel were not even broken by that blast. >> well, cnn's veronica miracle has more on the details of that investigation. >> 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. >> well, for more analysis, we're joined by glenn schoen, a security management consultant who is also an expert on terrorism. he's speaking with us from the hague. thank you so much for your time. now, we understand that the attacker had, as we've been saying multiple times, an i.s.i.s. flag attached to his vehicle at the time of the attack. he is also made a series of videos before the attack, in which he said he joined i.s.i.s.. what do you make of these links, these quite obvious links to the terror organization? and given that, how likely is it, do you think that he did have accomplices in the act? >> well, i.s.i.s. is a bit of a do it yourself organization and always has promoted people, even if they're not an

integral part or even tenuously linked to the organization to claim things in its name. so in and of itself, this this fits a larger pattern that we've not only seen previously used in the u.s., but also notably in europe and the middle east. of note here with i.s.i.s., of course, we haven't heard much about it yet in today's discussion, but is the fact that on 19th of december, the united states central command killed the most recently known leader of i.s.i.s., abu yasif, in syria. and certainly that must be news within the organization. that has also led to more calls just in recent days in the middle east for revenge against the u.s. so that might be a factor here as well, if that is a factor. >> is that something the authorities should have been aware of? been alert to? i mean, is there anything that could have flagged this attacker ahead of the event, the deadly

event taking place? >> possibly. but generally speaking, these are more generic alerts that come forth from from the fact when you kill a terrorist leader, hey, there may be some form of revenge, and often that's more local or regional. think here about the middle east region, not necessarily as far away for such a headline attack as we just had in the u.s. but certainly analysts are looking at it now. >> but specifically, i suppose i'm talking about his actions and his activities leading up to this event. we know that he was, for instance, posting or recording videos talking about joining i.s.i.s.. we know he was former military. are any of these red flags or should have been red flags to authorities, or is there just no way of knowing? is it a needle in a haystack? >> no. i think we'll have to see from the analysis. of course. you know, hindsight is 2020, but quite often with these incidents, we find out later that people were fixing on a particular group,

had a particular motive or following a particular agenda. we have the same right now in a different vein with the whole investigation in germany, in magdeburg, in that horrible accident just around christmas a few days ago. and this sort of reflects that situation, that there were signals that there was leakage of information, if you will, to the outside world. but the signals weren't necessarily identified. so i'm sure the fbi foremost will be scrubbing that effort right now. look at that information to see if there is something clearly we missed, or if there was something he was signaling in terms of i'm going to do a major event, or i'm looking at new years in terms of timing or hints. what he might have been intending to hit. >> i just wanted to get your thoughts quickly. we've been talking, of course, about this las vegas car explosion, and authorities are looking at potential links between the two deadly events. and we know that, at least on the surface, there appear to be some superficial similarities between the two. both suspects, for instance, used the same car

rental app. both suspects were former military background. how likely is it that there was a link here? >> i'd say at least 50 over 50. when we look at these kinds of incidents that are generally, well planned, if they're happening or coinciding within a day of each other or even closer, we do often in the past see coordination in these efforts. think of it also symbolically in terms of where it happened. i mean, there's more parallels that i'm sure investigators are looking at. these are both sort of sin cities, if you will, with the gambling with with the nightlife in new orleans and the gambling in las vegas. they're both places where a lot of americans have traveled to have been have visited. a lot of tourists come. so i'm sure there's a lot of parallels here that investigators will be looking at. and then, of course, the, the, the sort of pure symbolism

of trump tower and use of a tesla. and i'm certain that within the next 24 hours, we'll get some harder read on what authorities believe may have been behind that. >> yeah. on that and of course, on new orleans. to glenn for now, we appreciate your thoughts. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> well, deadly new year celebrations in the u.s. and germany show are showing dangerous. how dangerous fireworks can be. coming up. plus heavy rain, floods, roads and causes travel chaos in england's northern city of manchester. and later, we'll have more on the deadly terror attacks in new orleans, including the security concerns, as the city prepares to host several major events, drawing hundreds of thousands of visitors. stay with us. >> hank used to suffer from what felt like a cold and flu medicine hangover in the

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guns off into a crowd. except it's from the explosion. it was a bomb. make no mistake, it was a bomb that exploded. it was a firework bomb. >> meanwhile, in germany, five people were killed in a string of incidents involving fireworks during new year's eve celebrations in berlin. firefighters responded to more than 1800 incidents and police detained more than 330 people. cnn's andy beshear has been following the story and joins us now. why are the numbers of incidents here this high? >> well, that is the concern. and we continue to hear from a number of organizations in germany calling for a ban actually on fireworks being sold on new year's eve. and there is real concern in particular over the illegal sale of fireworks. so these are not standardized fireworks that are being used in sort of organized manners, but rather illegal homemade fireworks and often cases. and that may be why we have seen such a spike, such an increase in the number of incidents that emergency services are having to report to in just over new year's eve. i mean, we've seen a staggering number of quite

disturbing incidents, including one apartment building, a firework setting alight at a balcony on one floor and then extending that fire to the second floor of the apartment building, as you mentioned. we've seen at least five people killed and countless people injured as well. there has been reports of pretty serious injuries, including amongst children. one of the reports from officials says a two year old, 11 year old and 14 year old children were seriously injured with burns to their hands, necks and faces. so real concern, of course, for parents and families as they try to celebrate new year's eve in a safe manner. and i think what has been quite concerning as well for the authorities is, of course, this is a moment of high alert for the emergency services. but what we've also seen this year is emergency workers being targeted. we've heard of fireworks, firefighters, as well as one police officer who had been presumably hit by an illegal firework. what is being described as a firework bomb, essentially, and is now undergoing surgery in hospitals. so a series of

events, of course, taking place across germany on new year's eve, really raising the concern again around the use of these illegal fireworks, essentially. >> well, they're essentially private fireworks, aren't they? and that was what the authorities were trying to ban in the run up to the event. what are the authorities saying now after the event? >> well, there has been that repeated call again for a ban on new year's eve, in particular in order to try and stem the number of incidents that we're seeing. clearly, that wasn't the case this year. this has only renewed those calls. we know that at least 300 people have been detained, and this is only going to underscore for the authorities the need to get that regulations in place. >> it's not a problem isolated to germany, of course, but the numbers here are quite staggering. neda thank you now the fbi is conducting search warrants in multiple states as it investigates the new orleans terror attack. plus, new york police are searching for the persons responsible for a drive by shooting outside an event venue. more details on that after this short break.

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died from self-inflicted injuries. the suspect had been on the run from police after opening fire in a restaurant not far from the country's capital the fbi says it's carrying out search warrants in multiple states associated with the new orleans terror attack, including texas, where the suspect had lived. 42 year old shamsud-din jabbar was a u.s. army veteran and american citizen. investigators are focusing on figuring out the motive and if there were any accomplices. officials say jabbar had recorded videos about joining i.s.i.s.. the terror group's flag was found in the ford pickup he rented, and later used to ram into a crowd on bourbon street. local authorities and law enforcement analysts have been speaking out about the killings. >> this was a

>> army veteran who went to college and worked in real estate in it, had started to have some financial troubles. he posted a youtube video though recently. >> it was 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. out 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. >> well, the college basketball quarterfinal playoff game between notre dame and georgia is now set for later today. the terror attack happened in the popular french quarter, not far less than a mile, in fact, from the superdome, the sports arena where the two teams were set to face off wednesday in the sugar bowl. the head coach of notre dame football expressed his condolences to the victims. >> first off, i'd like to say we're hurting for all those affected by this tragedy. the city of new orleans has welcomed us with open arms, and we joined them in prayers for all those victims and families that are affected by this tragedy. we got together this morning as a team, um, and, you know, before i got downstairs, i had gotten a phone

call that there was an incident, obviously, some type of tragedy that happened in the middle of the night. um, and i didn't really have the, the details. and so we were preparing this morning to play a game this evening, and, um, then after our break when we got the, the news and we learned of the severity of the, the tragedies that, that happened, um, you know, we had to get back together as a team. i think a lot of people would start to hear that the game would be postponed. but, um, we had to get back together and discuss what had happened. and so, you know, what i told the team is, is, you know, in the toughest moments, the culture, um, of of any program of a nation is revealed. and, um, i have a lot of faith this country will rally around new orleans and support all the victims and families that were affected today. >> well, some notre dame supporters and alumni gathered at a nearby hotel to pray for

those killed in the attack. cnn's andy scholes has more now on the plans for the rescheduled sugar bowl. >> 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. >> meanwhile, the head coach of the city's nfl team says the new orleans saints will be there for the community in the aftermath of the attack. darren rizzi says the people of new orleans are resilient and have risen before from difficult times this entire community has

our entire organization behind them 100%. >> our players, our coaches, our staff and everybody with this organization is 100% here for this community. it's something that that when i pulled in this morning to the parking lot, and i got the alert on my phone that it happened. the first thing i was doing was checking where my children were. and there's some people that woke up this morning and unfortunately, lost loved ones that were victims of these attacks lost sons, lost daughters, lost brothers, lost sisters. and so certainly not a way to start the new year, but it certainly puts things in perspective. and once again, my thoughts and prayers are with all those victims and their families. >> the saints are set to play their final game of the nfl season on sunday against the tampa bay buccaneers in florida. and we're following a developing story out of new york this hour. police say ten people were injured outside a nightclub in the borough of queens while waiting to get

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through ukraine despite the war between the two countries. but that ended on wednesday, when a transit deal between kyiv and moscow expired. the deal supplied an estimated 5% of the eu's total gas imports. but this time around, european officials say they're not too worried about the impact. for more, we're joined by clare sebastian clair. this was obviously a calculated decision on ukraine's part, presumably to hurt russia financially. but what is the real impact of this? >> yeah, well, as you say, europe had had time to prepare for this. they had already set their own goal of cutting all reliance on russian fossil fuels by 2027. so it's possible this will accelerate it a bit. i think it's amazing just to sort of think about how resilient this contract has been. almost three years of a full scale war, and both sides have kept to it for the last four months. the entry point of the pipeline that was transporting gas was actually in the war zone itself, in the part of kursk that ukraine now occupies. so that's part of it ending it. clearly it does. it's the latest stage in this sort of wholesale redrawing of the energy map around russia that we've seen as part of

this war. i think we can show you the map of of what the pipeline map used to look like from russia. but basically, if you look down to the south to the black sea, the turkstream is now the only pipeline left of the four entry points from russia into europe. ironically, the nord stream was originally built as a way to bypass ukraine. russia knew that it was a risk sending its gas through ukraine, given the political disputes that they were having before this war. but now the nord stream has gone as well as we know. so in terms of the impact, it is limited gas prices have gone up a very small amount this morning as the markets have opened. as you say, it was only about 4% of european imports into, uh, into europe came through ukraine, 5% in the first eight months of this year, compared to, you know, much more than that 11% before the war. so they had been reducing already. slovakia is one of the countries that's very upset. its prime minister has warned of a catastrophic impact. austria is one of the ones that's most reliant, but they say they're going to be able to deal with it. moldova is worth looking at because

they are now potentially in an energy crisis. as a result of this, the transnistria republic, that breakaway republic that borders ukraine, has had to cut electricity to residents power and hot water, which is obviously a pretty dire situation in the middle of winter. so that could sort of spiral into a humanitarian situation. but for the kremlin's part, i think in proof of just how political gas still is to russia is accusing this morning the foreign ministry spokeswoman accusing the u.s. this morning of being behind this, saying they are the ones that stand to gain. i think a reference, of course, to the fact that europe has been importing more american lng, liquefied natural gas as a result of the disruption to russian gas supply since the start of the war. >> it is remarkable, as you say, that this deal had lasted this long at a time of war, but now there is no gas flowing through these pipelines through ukraine. does that not make ukraine more vulnerable now to attacks from russia to that type of infrastructure being targeted? >> yeah, i think there is a concern. i think russia has shown obviously throughout this war that nothing is off limits. the energy grid has been has

been hit very hard throughout the course of 2024. so there are there is a concern obviously ukraine's gas pipelines have been stress tested. they have been shown to be able to survive under under all different stress scenarios. but certainly that's something that ukraine is going to be looking at. ukraine is also losing transit fees through ending this deal worth about a half percent of gdp. but i think their thinking is that the political symbolism of keeping this up was just they couldn't they couldn't stomach it anymore. >> yeah. all right. claire, thank you. and it's nearly 4 a.m. in new orleans, a city trying to recover and heal from a deadly terror attack. we'll have the latest on the investigation after the break. >> ah, it's a good day to cough. oh, no. >> bye bye. >> cough later. chest congestion. hello. 12 hours of relief. 12 hours. >> not coughing at the movies.

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jeju air. that's part of the investigation into last week's plane crash. that left 179 people dead. mike valerio has the latest. rahel solomon. >> well, the biggest headline today is certainly about the cockpit voice recorder. and we now know that south korea's transportation ministry has a transcript of what was said on that voice recorder. communication between the cockpit and the control tower. but in terms of when we, the public, are going to be able to see that. transcript or hear audio from the voice recorder, those are still unanswered questions. however, south korea's transportation ministry was able to reveal just one specific detail about what they've heard on the voice recorder. and they told us this. they can't verify, they cannot verify the specific timing of when the cockpit and control tower had difficulty communicating. now, we do know that before landing, the control tower warned the plane about birds in the area. minutes later, the pilot called

out, mayday, mayday, mayday, and then bird strike. the plane would then crash a short time later. now, as for the police, searches of the airport and airline offices, a search warrant was issued on charges of, quote, professional negligence resulting in death and injury. that's according to south jeolla police. and south jeolla is the province where the crash happened. so what we're looking for in the days ahead is a concrete timeframe on when the flight data recorder is going to be sent to the united states. it is too damaged to be assessed here in south korea. the ntsb is taking the lead on that front of the investigation. certainly a somber start to the new year here in south korea. the headlines and the pictures in the paper certainly tell it all. so many families and loved ones leaving offerings on these tables that are just steps away from the crash site in memory of the victims. and more than 1500 people

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