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cnn, los angeles. >> this morning, the fbi investigation saying the new orleans attacker did not act alone. the investigation into the deadly attack now stretching across multiple states as authorities search for possible accomplices. we will speak with witnesses who were there when that truck plowed into dozens of innocent people trying to celebrate the new year. and investigators look into whether this powerful explosion in a cyber truck outside a trump hotel in las vegas is connected to the attack in new orleans. new details show some similarities in the suspects and where they rented their vehicles. also, some gop hardliners threatening house speaker mike johnson's fight to keep the gavel. republicans now pushing to shore up support ahead of tomorrow's vote. and warning a speakership battle could delay certification. donald trump's white house win. i'm sara sidner with john berman. kate

baldwin is out today. this is cnn news central. >> all right. developing this morning, the fbi in new orleans said very clearly they do not believe the terror driver who killed 15 people there acted alone. officials are calling it a deliberate act of terror as they enforce search warrants in several states. there are new details this morning about the killer's ties to i.s.i.s. as serious questions arise about whether this attack is tied to the cybertruck explosion at a trump hotel in las vegas. there are notable similarities. let's get right to cnn's ryan young, who is live in new orleans on the ground for the latest on the investigation. the sun's come up, ryan. we can see bourbon street right behind you. >> yeah. john, a lot of changes so far. we know that. we've been told that a lot of cleanup effort is going on in the streets behind us. that scene

is pretty much been released by the fbi to the sanitation department. so they could actually start the massive cleanup process here. this investigation, of course, is ongoing. but as we were out here getting ready to do this live report, we saw one of our city council members who lives in this area. you've lived in here for quite some time. can you talk about the impact that this has had over the last 24 hours? well, i mean, it's been incredibly tragic. >> as you can imagine, our community is really in a great deal of shock. but we are a resilient community and we will move forward. i mean, as you already saw today, the fbi has cleared this scene. this does not mean, of course, that the investigation is by any means over. but they have cleared the scene, which means that sanitation can go in and out. you'll see more movement through bourbon street, and ultimately it will be up to the new orleans police department superintendent and the mayor to determine when bourbon street will be fully reopened. but we're getting back to normal. and the best way that we beat this

terrorist, this coward, this murderer, is by us getting back to normal. and i'll say this, i mean, we have the sugar bowl coming up today, and, you know, a few days ago, i was not going to go to the sugar bowl. i'm not a notre dame or uga fan, but based on what happened yesterday and knowing all the security measures happening, i will be going to the game not to celebrate or watch a football game, really, but to show that we're not going to be beat. we're not going to go be beat by this murderer. we're moving forward. we're having this game. we're getting back to normal. but at the same time, this incident, what happened here really needs to be reviewed. looked at. what happened here, was there anything missed? >> and let me ask you that, because there's going to be a lot of focus on that part of the investigation. do you feel comfortable with what you're being told so far about the security measures that were in place? >> so i think so much needs to be looked at. and i'm not just talking about the local level.

i'm talking about the intelligence side, too. was there something with this, with this guy that, you know, maybe was a flag that was missed, maybe there was something that showed that he could potentially be a threat to our country, or potentially a threat to the city of new orleans, that our law enforcement officers on the ground could have been notified about. was there something there? and, look, i mean, ultimately, yes, this was an attack on new orleans and an attack on the people of new orleans. but really, this was an attack on america. and so whatever happened here needs to be very closely looked at so that it can be prevented in other cities. >> i got to ask you this last question, just from a perspective of someone who's lived here for quite some time. how heartbreaking was this for you and your family? >> oh man, it was unbelievable. and yesterday i was with families who were at university medical center looking for their loved ones because they weren't at any hospital, but they were on bourbon street last night or the night

before. and last night, you know, i saw flash across the screen, a young man by the name of hubert gautreaux, and i had been sitting with hubert's family earlier that day, as they were hoping to get information that he had been found in one of the hospitals. and unfortunately, he was here. >> thank you for taking the time. yeah. thank you, thank you. appreciate it. john. um, she was walking by. we wanted to make sure we got that new information. obviously, this has been very painful for the people who live here. we've talked to so many people in this area who just are still shocked by this, but i want to read the victims names because i think that's something we should highlight at this point. tiger beck was 27, reggie hunter was 37, karim bawadi of the victims names that we have so far, obviously, as this gets processed out and we try to figure out the next parts of the investigation, i can tell you that the we've seen national guard members also join the police department behind us to add to the ranks

of law enforcement that's going to swell into the city as we have a sugar bowl coming in the next few hours. >> john, it is heartbreaking for that city and for the country. ryan young, thank you for being there, sarah. >> well, joining me now are paul and annika. they are eyewitnesses to that horrific new orleans attack on bourbon street. thank you both so much for taking the time to speak with us this morning. after what you all have been through, i want to ask you first, annika. you and paul, i think, got back to your hotel about 30 minutes before the attack and went to bed. it was very early in the morning, but you were awakened by terrible noises. what did you hear and what did you see when you peered down onto bourbon street? >> yeah, it was about 1:30 a.m. and i was still tossing beads down from the balcony. um, just kind of taking in the last moments of the celebrating the new year before we wrapped up our evening and headed inside to go to bed. um, so it was winding down. it was probably

about 2:30 a.m. when we laid down in bed, and 45 minutes later, you know, we were had the curtains drawn. so it was pitch black in our room and just heard a loud crash. explosion outside. um, yeah. and it was just it was jarring. we didn't didn't know what to what had happened. you know, i had to find the light switch. we're in a foreign, you know, in a hotel room. so it's a foreign space. and, you know, just almost immediate trembling, like, how do we respond? um, you know, i managed to get to the curtain, uh, really quickly, looked out the window and could see officers across the street with their guns drawn. um, looking straight down to where the truck was, but didn't didn't see the truck right away. um, so i just i looked at paul and just said, get back, get back. like, you know, we number one was to make sure that we didn't add to casualties ourselves. and so staying back was the first thing that we could do. um, so i managed to get a couple pictures, um, at

3:18 a.m. and like. yeah, it was it was immediate devastation looking out the window. >> yeah. both the yeah. anika is she's done. search and rescue in the past. i'm a former eagle scout. so we've both been trained in what to do in emergency preparedness. we came to the window. we looked out to see if there was anything we could do to help. but the street was flooded with cops. i mean, it was empty. other than the devastation we saw and cops, so there was nothing that we could do and it was absolutely horrific. >> paul, when you looked out the window, anika said, look, i saw the officers. so she clearly saw the moment or at least was looking at the moment when officers were able to take the suspect out in that vehicle. were you all able to see the, the, the, um, remnants of, of what happened on your street, what was directly under you? how did you see the scene when

you when you finally sort of went back to that vantage point because you're on the balcony above. correct. um. >> correct. yes. our, our balcony was just, just above where the crash happened. um yeah. anika saw, uh, well, i'll let her speak. sorry. >> yeah. um, yeah. as soon as i felt like it was safe enough to approach further onto the balcony, that's where i looked over and saw the truck crash. um, you know, officers had their guns drawn and were trying to assess the situation. um, you know, at first it was super disorienting. when you walk out into a situation like this, you don't know what you're looking at. uh, the fact that there was a police truck that looked similar right behind it, i was like, did did a police officer get hurt or was this something else? you know, i saw i didn't realize in the moment that i saw a wheelchair that was sitting there, you know, at first i thought, like, is that a motorcycle? like what? my eyes had to strain to understand what i was seeing, and then to

see the man from the wheelchair laying in the gutter was heart wrenching, you know, and there's nothing that we can do to help. it's we don't help the situation by entering into it. so all we could do was stand by and watch and to see immediately dead bodies laying in the street, both directions is something that nobody should have to see. in the beginning of the new year. um, it's heart wrenching. >> the triage process is it's it's brutal. i mean, it's you've got to focus on the people who are alive but are on the verge. i mean, it's it was horrible to see. absolutely horrible. >> so you watched this horrific scene where someone in a wheelchair was clearly hit and there were bodies strewn everywhere, and you're watching emergency responders try and save lives. i'm curious what happened in the hotel where you were? what did you do? um, at

some point, i think the hotel told you all to to evacuate or to leave. >> yeah, it was about, uh, three, three, 354 is when the first announcement was made. >> um, asking the hotel to evacuate. there wasn't much for direction or, you know, explanation. um, you know, given the situation completely warranted. and, you know, it was it was hard to watch people getting out of bed in their pajamas, um, tank, tank tops and t-shirts, you know, wandering out onto the streets and like, it was about 45 degrees out. >> i mean, it was very cold. >> it was cold. you know, young kids, like, not understanding what's going on. um, yeah. it was just a lot of confusion and nobody, like, so few people realized what had happened on bourbon street. and so there was just. yeah, a lack of direction, um, confusion. and we tried to help, you know, comfort some people who who did see the same thing that we saw. um, but it

was just shock, you know, nobody is prepared for something like this. >> you can never unsee what you saw. the images that you witnessed. what are you all going to do? i know you're still in new orleans. um, to try to help yourselves through this. >> well, at the at the moment, we're coming up with a plan of what to do next. we still have a few more days, uh, here in new orleans. the hope is to get out into nature. um, see something green? something beautiful. get out of town. um, so that's our plan for the day. um, and when we get back home, we'll have to take it day by day. but there's no doubt we're we're going to have to go find some counseling for this. this is. i mean, we haven't really had a moment of not thinking about this since it happened. it has been top of mind in every conversation we've had, in

every thought we've had. going to sleep last night was almost impossible. >> it is a normal trauma response, paul, and i think it's really smart and lovely. the idea of going out to nature, where you can see something beautiful after you've seen something so horrific, it's good advice to anyone who witnessed that. paul and annika, thank you so much. i know going back through it is hard, but we do appreciate you explaining what happened there and what you saw in new orleans. try to have a decent day today. >> thank you for having us. >> all right. ahead, a tesla cybertruck filled with fireworks and fuel exploded outside a trump hotel in las vegas. could that blast be tied to the terror attack in new orleans, where we'll discuss. plus, president-elect donald trump is planning a rally in washington, d.c., one day before he returns to the white house. and a new year celebration in hawaii turns deadly after a massive explosion of illegal fireworks.

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outside of the trump international hotel in las vegas. >> this is, as of this morning, being investigated as a possible act of terrorism. >> as of right now, our number one goal is to ensure that we have the proper identification of the subject involved in this incident. following that, our second objective is to determine whether this was an act of terrorism or not. i know everybody is interested in that word, and trying to see if we can say, hey, this is a terrorist attack. that is our goal, and that's what we're trying to do. >> all right. cnn chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst john miller is with us. cnn law enforcement analyst and former secret service agent jonathan wackrow is with us. we're going to dig into a lot of different things right now, john. first, just what's the latest on the las vegas investigation? >> well, the las vegas investigation is taking an interesting turn as they get deeper into the profile of the individual who rented the vehicle. now, let's go full stop here for a second. they believe they know who rented the vehicle, but they are not 100% certain that that is the

person who is in the vehicle. because that body, because it's badly burned, has not been identified. but the renter, like the new orleans suspect, is military background, but not former military. he's active duty military with 19 years plus of service, and he's part of special forces command. he is highly trained in communications, electronic measures for bomb detection, intelligence operations. he would be one of the most sophisticated in terms of training people in the green beret. >> okay, just so we're talking about these two different things, the similarities are both rental electric vehicles from this turo place, both military backgrounds, explosives in both trucks. both attacks happened on new year's eve in tourist locations. >> that's right. and that is why they say we can't eliminate the possibility that they're connected. and yet, if you look

at new orleans, where he does five recordings, apparently in the dark as he's driving, you know, towards louisiana from texas, he's talking about family problems, financial problems, his life coming apart at the seams and that he's joined i.s.i.s.. and that's why he's doing this. if you look at las vegas so far, it appears that they don't have communications or a clear motive from the individual who's in that truck. >> all right. so jonathan wackrow, right now we have warrants being executed in new orleans and airbnb's in houston at the home of the new orleans attacker, i guess in colorado, at the home of the person tied to the rental vehicle in the las vegas attack. we're 24 hours in. what's taking so long here in this search process? >> well, the search process needs to, you know, operate in different phases. one, you have to actually go to the court to get those warrants themselves. you have to swear out in front of a magistrate and make sure that the legal process and the legal justification for going into these locations is, is

validated. from there, it's not like what you see on television where the police just rush in and look at look for items of evidentiary value. what they actually have to do is because we have explosives that are involved here, you have to first make sure and focus on officer safety and scene safety. so what's going on is explosive technicians are going into these sites first not looking for items of evidentiary value, but ensuring that there's no primary explosives, that there are no booby traps, that it is safe for the investigators to go in and then conduct a very methodical search for everything that's on that warrant and anything that's within plain sight that is of evidentiary value, that can be used to then piece together, you know, to really find a motive in the intent for these different attacks. >> and again, one of the things john miller pointed out right there in new orleans, you do have this trail of radicalization in las vegas. we don't we don't even have a name yet. so we don't have anything like that just yet. >> we don't have a name. and we also like the targeting locations of both are

different, right? because one, you had a known event, you had, you know, it is a target of opportunity. it's a soft target where you knew from a targeting standpoint that if i launch an attack there, the likelihood of high casualties was was going to be there. the secondary las vegas is a different construct. 940 on or eight 4840 ish on new year's morning in las vegas. not a lot of people there. so you're not really launching an attack. while it is an iconic sight, it is a sight like you because it is the former and you know, you know, you know, the trump hotel, trump hotel, you know that there is significance there. but in terms of causing damage. and then the second part of that, and john and i were talking beforehand, is the what we know potentially of the driver of the cybertruck with the military background using low order explosives, basically gasoline and black powder pyrotechnics is not going to give you the blast radius that you need in the

overpressurization to cause damage to the building or damage to others nearby. >> also, something about the behavior of the truck beforehand. john, you were talking about. >> well, he gets into town and you know, there's a combination of things license plate readers that track him through las vegas from the moment he enters town, but also from tesla. every place he stopped driving from where he started in colorado springs to charge that vehicle until he gets to las vegas. so they've got a good timeline. he spends about an hour driving around the strip. he stops at a motel along the way for a period of time, but an hour before the explosion, he enters that driveway with his vehicle and does a slow pass around past the valet people and everything. and you have to ask yourself, what's he doing? to jonathan's point, is he saying it's seven something in the morning and there's not a lot of people here? i'm going to come back in an hour and see if there's a bigger crowd. or is he just doing his reconnaissance as a military

operator would, which is who stops you? where where am i going to place this? so it's going to be so the elon musk vehicle is going to be right under the trump sign. we don't know what the symbolism that they were going for in this attack was. but i mean they're looking at all of that. the idea that he drove through an hour beforehand is suggestive. >> so we were 24 hours into this, i mean, almost literally in the las vegas thing, a little bit more in new orleans. what do you think the next big piece of information will be, or what's reasonable to expect that we could learn soon? >> well, we're going to start getting information from the search warrants. right. and we're going to start understanding from the localities of both attackers, their residences in houston and other locations. what can we garner from that? right. and i think we have more information, orleans attacker as opposed to las vegas right now. but that will change once we identify the body. once we get these items of evidentiary value, we start piecing together, you know, and trying to figure out what is the motive here. what what is driving both of these attacks,

and are they connected? you know, we have some some threads here of connectivity. but again, the way that these these attacks were launched to me signals some sort of differentiator. >> i mean, how long could it take in las vegas to get some kind of confirmation one way or the other of i.s.i.s. ties, which i think would be hugely significant? >> well, if i.s.i.s. is going by its own playbook, they would have if they recruited these people online, they would have obtained martyrdom videos from one or both of them. we've got clues from the self-made videos from the new orleans attacker, which tells us a lot, but nothing yet. from the las vegas police. but i.s.i.s. could come out with their own communiqué if they're connected that way. or we could see something completely different. i mean, as jonathan points out, there's two critical factors here, which is who are they working for, if anybody? how were they recruited? the second factor is who else might have been involved. we're seeing signs of that in las vegas. i mean, in new orleans. we're not seeing signs of that yet in

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since posting yesterday morning, weighing in on the attack. now, look, when i talked to donald trump's team about this, they said one that donald trump was getting real time updates on what was happening in new orleans. but still, we did see donald trump weigh in on truth social yesterday morning, as we, of course, were still learning more information about who was behind this attack. i want to read for you what he wrote. as you mentioned. he did suggest that perhaps the suspect was an illegal immigrant. this is what he wrote. he said, quote, when i said that the criminals coming in are far worse than the criminals we have in our country. that statement was constantly refuted by democrats and the fake news media, but it turned out to be true. he went on to say that his heart, our hearts, are with all of the innocent victims and their loved ones, including the brave officers of the new orleans police department. now, to be clear, and i know you said this, sarah, but we now know that the person behind this attack was a u.s. citizen. as you mentioned, the fbi identified him as a texas man and an army veteran. and that also he was killed in a

firefight with police officers and that he had made videos before the attack, in which he said that he had joined i.s.i.s.. now, again, when i also was, you know, chatting with some people close to donald trump around all of this yesterday, there was a video that was circulating and being posted and shared by people in donald trump's orbit, people like charlie kirk, that had suggested perhaps that the suspect had driven over the border. again, that was not confirmed. and of course, we now know that that is not true, that the suspect was a u.s. citizen from texas. all to say, um, you know, this was posted, i think, before we had all the information, but we have not heard donald trump correct himself or his team make any further statement on this. >> all right. i do want to ask you about trump announcing he's going to hold a rally in dc the day before the inauguration. what's that all about? >> that's right. so they announced yesterday they actually sent a fundraising text to supporters yesterday

morning, inviting them to an event that they are dubbing a victory rally the day before. donald trump is set to be sworn in. it's going to be held at the capital one arena in washington, dc, home to the washington wizards and the washington capitals. and it can hold. we're told, about 20,000 people at max capacity. but look, when i talked to trump's team about this as well, they recognized that tens of thousands, if not more supporters, they are anticipating to come to the inauguration to go to washington, d.c., for his swearing in. and really, we know that donald trump wants this to be a massive event. he has invited global leaders. he wants this to be a huge event as he is entering the white house. and part of that and part of this rally, we're told, is really to try and energize his supporters right before that happens. and so this is really a way to try to draw bigger crowds to d.c. and also kind of get them excited just one day before he is set to be inaugurated. >> sarah. all right. alayna treene, thank you so much for your reporting this morning. ahead, a new year, but same old battle in congress. the fight over the house speakership is

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major potential headache. it's the smallest majority at the start of a first session in over 100 years. because keep in mind, a lot of people will try and say, okay, you know, back in 1931, but keep in mind, the first session then didn't start actually until i think, december, and there were a ton of vacancies. so i actually went further back into the record books and said, okay, when the first session actually started. and this is the smallest since at least 1917, if not further back, because we got 219 for the republicans, because matt gaetz says he's not joining this congress and 215 for the democrats, likely tomorrow. we're talking about. yeah, it's pretty tight. it's pretty gosh darn tight. we're talking about a difference of get this just four seats between republicans and democrats. virtually no margin for error. >> so how easy would it be for johnson to to lose on the very first ballot? >> yeah. okay. so let's do some math. i like doing math right after new years, don't you? not like that. we had anything in our bodies, you know, that might make our minds go a little bit crazy. all right, gop reps can sink johnson for

speaker bid. if on a given ballot. at least this is scenario number one. scenario number one is if two republicans vote against him. of course, assuming 434 vote in dems, no dems vote for johnson. or scenario number two one republican votes against him, votes against johnson, and two abstain, i.e. vote present. so it's either 2 or 3. the most likely scenarios of republicans that can sink mike johnson. and at this particular point, either of these ones look like a real possibility. >> and we know because we just talked to congressman auchincloss, that no dems plan on voting for johnson. correct. that is a scenario. these it's either of these two if that holds true. all right. recent history. we've been through this before. like i said it's kind of a groundhog day. what are you seeing in the last couple of times this has happened. >> yeah. so the idea that republicans might go against the speaker choice of the majority of the congress ain't something that seems that crazy, given the last two

races, ballots it took to elect a speaker. you go back to january of 2023, 15 ballots for kevin mccarthy, the most since 1859 60, and the first multi ballot race since 1923. and then in october we were like, let's do it all again. it took four ballots to elect mike johnson and actually took more days for the johnson one than the mccarthy one. we were talking over a week. so folks, look, we'll see what happens tomorrow. we don't know. but get your seat belts buckle in. it's a new year. but it's the same old story when it comes to speaker races being quite nutty. >> the fact that you quoted blossom, which i don't know how many people know that show. >> i love that show. >> it really caught john's attention. i know that for a fact. >> i get john's attention rather easily just by looking straight into the camera. >> good times harry enten thank you so much, i appreciate it, it just feels like a whole new year for harry enten. >> i see so many, so many changes. quoting joey from blossom. all right, happy new year to you both. thank you as well. with us now is congressman andre carson, a democrat from indiana. congressman, thank you so much

for being with us. we were just talking about the speaker's race. it's tomorrow morning. what do you and democrats going to do? >> i know i'm supporting my good friend, leader hakeem jeffries. i think he'll be a phenomenal speaker. i think he represents the change that is happening in our country. and i think he represents a new start. >> what do you expect republicans to do and what do you think the larger significance of this uncertainty still is well, i think it reflects the fracture that is the republican party. >> they're divided. there's there's infighting. you have different groups with different ideologies, and they can't seem to get on the right page. i think most will coalesce around speaker johnson, but there are still some outliers who are very ambitious. and these outliers tend to keep trouble up to leverage this trouble to get a plum committee

assignment or to get some other kind of chairmanship. but it's going to be it's going to be a wild ride. but i'm with hakeem jeffries. >> democrats have been there before for mike johnson to save him. not this time. why not? >> well, you know, speaker jeffries has been very clear. i think democrats don't want to be seen as having supported this crazy agenda led by far right maga republicans who intend to divide our country, who intend to take our country back to some mythical good old days. and speaker jeffries has been very clear. future speaker jeffries has been very clear in this matter. and so democrats will stand united while republicans continue to be fractured. >> all right. let's talk about a few weeks from now when there is a speaker, one way or another, how democrats you want them to interact with, not just the republican leadership in the house, but also a president trump on january 20th, donald trump will be back in the white

house. there are questions about how democrats should work with the trump administration. tom suozzi, who is your democratic colleague from new york, from long island, who represents a trump won district, has an op ed in the new york times this morning, and he thinks that democrats should find places to work with the trump administration. he says, as a democratic member, i know my party will be tempted to hold fast against trump at every turn. that would be a mistake. as i see it, the results of the 2024 campaign were a mandate for border security, immigration reform, low inflation, economic stability and common ground on culture war fights. that's good for america, says suozzi. so let's make our shared that our shared agenda in 2025. what do you think about that? he says you should find ways to work with trump. >> well, i don't disagree. i think a lot of the bills that i've had passed personally has been they've been passed with republican support. and so i think where president trump is

concerned about job creation, where he's concerned about border security and national security, i think there are ways in which we can work together. in a strategy that will help our collective districts, that will help fellow americans, that will encourage economic stimulation, that will encourage job growth, that will keep our borders safe, but not in a way that will inflame existing hostilities between groups and entities that otherwise should be working together around the clock. look, democrats aren't in unison. we have different caucuses with regional concerns. we have different groups like the congressional black caucus, which i'm a member of the hispanic caucus, aapi, and so many groups. also the progressive caucus as well as new dems. so we have some philosophical differences, but we're always able to come together for the greater good. and i think if our president, our future president, our soon to be president donald trump, is on the same page, i think we can do what's right for our

our constituents. now we're trustees and we're representatives for our constituents. so we're trustees over taxpayer dollars, but we also represent the interests of our district. so ways in which we can work together, how can we deny the american people and taxpayers of that wonderful opportunity to do so? >> just one last question on the speaker's race back to that, because it is tomorrow again. any predictions? i mean, how long will it take? how many ballots will there be? >> i sure hope it doesn't take as long as it did two years ago. you know, you had families come out. you had folks waiting. um, series of votes that exhausted the larger body. i mean, that's what a democracy is all about. but the american people are sick and tired of the pageantry. they want us to get to work and do what's right for their interest. and i think for us to think that it's okay to go on with this political theater, it's simply unacceptable. >> congressman andre carson from indiana, appreciate you being with us this morning. thank you very much. sarah.

>> thank you. all right. for months now, current and former u.s. officials have been publicly warning about the risk from so-calledwolf terror attacks, individuals acting alone, as well as attacks by smaller groups. over the summer, former acting cia director michael morell warned that terrorism warning lights are, quote, blinking red. cnn's katie lillis has more on this story from washington. what can you tell us about this? i we all sort of remember, there have been several warnings by the fbi and others that terror attacks could be imminent. >> yes, sarah, there has been really this kind of drumbeat of warnings from both current and former u.s. officials that the system is blinking red and that the united states is at heightened risk of a potential attack, either by a small group or a so-called lone wolf attacker. and we've seen a number of really prominent terror attacks, both successful and disrupted, in europe over the past year or so, to include that attack on a concert hall in moscow early last year that

killed more than 100 people. of particular concern for u.s. officials right now is that the ongoing violence in gaza that has continued to dominate international headlines since the october 7th attacks of 2023, could inspire additional violence here in the united states. it's worth taking a listen to what fbi director chris wray had to say about this in a speech last april. >> we continue to be concerned about individuals or small groups drawing some kind of twisted inspiration from the events in the middle east to carry out attacks here at home. the foreign terrorist threat and the potential for a coordinated attack here in the homeland, like the isis-k attack we saw at the russia concert hall just a couple of weeks ago, is now increasingly concerning. >> sarah, the specific fear for u.s. officials now is a little bit different than it was in the post 9/11 era, when

american officials were more concerned about groups like al qaida training operatives at camps overseas and then sending them to the united states to carry out a coordinated attack. now they're much more worried about groups like i.s.i.s., k, the afghanistan based branch of i.s.i.s., leaning into its online recruitment and propaganda efforts to try to radicalize already vulnerable people inside the united states and europe, and sort of inspiring or directing them to carry out attacks kind of under their own steam. and so while there's a lot that we still don't know at this point about the precise nature of the ties in between the suspect in the horrific new orleans attack yesterday and i.s.i.s.. a key question for u.s. officials now is going to be trying to determine his pathway to radicalization, and in particular, whether or not the attack was simply inspired by i.s.i.s. propaganda or whether it was directed and funded and supported by the group. sarah. >> yeah. and whether there are any coconspirators there is a

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fireworks explosion in hawaii left at least three people dead, and more than 20 people injured. the honolulu fire department says it is investigating the cause of the blast. social media posts overnight showed fireworks being set off across the city, even though sparklers and fireworks are illegal in the state. all right. a wet and cold start to the new year. intentionally so for folks in san francisco. the two mile swim from alcatraz to the mainland is a decades old tradition. there on new year's. for those who finish, they are rewarded with an irish coffee. not sure what happened to those who don't finish. maybe no coffee ever again. sarah. >> all right. drama on set spills into real life. actor justin baldoni filed a libel suit against the new york times, saying its article on his feud with blake lively is, quote, rife with inaccuracies. lively filed a complaint in december, accusing her. it ends with u.s. costar of sexual

harassment and retaliation on set now, baldoni alleges, lively created false accusations so she could take control of the film. the times is standing by its reporting. joining us now is cnn legal analyst joey jackson. joey, i'm glad to see you as one of three tigers. there. ra. i do appreciate you taking time on january 2nd to to talk us through this. all right. so this lawsuit is asking for $250 million from the new york times and new york times says look we believe in our reporters. we did our due diligence. what is it going to take in this lawsuit. like what are his chances here? >> yeah, sarah, good to be with you. happy new year to you and to all. of course, you know, any case always turns on its facts. and it's not enough to sue a newspaper outlet or anyone else for that matter,

because you don't like the nature of the coverage, or that you were not necessarily presented in the manner in which you would like the legal standard is that he would have to show that his. mr. baldoni, as we look at him there, and blake lively, that the times published the article with actual malice. what does that mean in english? what it means is that the new york times had knowledge with respect to the falsity of the claims that they were publishing, or actually disregarded the truth in a reckless way. and so if he can demonstrate that that's what happened, then of course, he prevails. the new york times is indicating that they vetted the story. they exercised their due diligence, and they presented it in the manner that they thought was accurate and that they believe carries the day. they also the new york times, that is, indicated that they published the full statement that he and his team made adverse to the actual publication. and so ultimately, like any case, it'll it'll go to court whether there's a

settlement or a trial. and the facts will be what they are. and to the extent that he demonstrates that they published it falsely and he suffered damages to his reputation, he'll prevail. if he cannot sa'ar, he will not prevail. >> the new york times, in its reporting, has text messages supplied to them by the claim that blake lively lively was making. i am curious as to if there were some text messages, for example, left out, which was something that that initially his lawyers said. would that make this a better case for him or not? and then secondly, he's suing the new york times. why is he not suing the person who he says is behind it, which is blake lively? >> yeah. so in terms of the text messages, those are important because they add context, right? in any type of back and forth and exchange. it's always more than meets the eye. and then he's claiming

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