messages that miss lively had that were edited in some way, that were doctored in other ways. it didn't give the full nature of the discourse as between the two. and so, like anything else, you look and you'll examine the entirety not only of the text messages, but the surrounding circumstances. and the truth will lie somewhere in there. in terms of why he's not suing miss lively herself, that's because the new york times is the one who published the story. yes, they published it predicated upon the nature of her story and the manner in which she believes things unfolded. and, of course, the lawsuit that she has leveled against him, of course. and mr. heath, who is his co-producer and director, and others, uh, alleging sexual harassment, retaliation, et cetera.. so like anything else, once all the facts are vetted, interviews are made of various witnesses, other text messages and everything else. and viewed in context, we'll see what

really was the truth here. what party suffered damages and how strong the claims are in a court of law? >> it all has to be fact based. we got to see the receipts, right? joey jackson, that's always what you tell us. i really appreciate you coming on a new hour of cnn news central starts right now. >> all right. this morning the fbi in new orleans says bluntly they do not think the new year's attacker acted alone. security increasing around that city as they prepare for today's sugar bowl. it was postponed because of the terror attack. and this morning, law enforcement trying to determine if this attack is tied to the explosion of a cyber truck outside a trump hotel in las vegas. there are important similarities, but also some key differences. kate is out today. i'm john berman with sara sidner. this is cnn news

central. >> this morning. new developments in the deadly new orleans terror attack that killed at least 15 people and injured dozens more just hours into the new year. at this hour, officials have said they do not believe the attacker acted alone, as investigators try to determine if he was inspired by i.s.i.s. or directed by i.s.i.s.. also, right now, the nation on edge as investigators look into whether this attack is linked to a cybertruck explosion in las vegas. all this as more witnesses are now describing the horror they saw on bourbon street. >> 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, anna and her husband paul saw all that, as did so many others. >> ryan young is live in new orleans with more on this story. ryan, you've been talking to city officials and you have been talking to witnesses. what are you learning this morning? this morning, yeah, and i've also talked to the chief this morning who told me she was on her way to an fbi briefing. >> so hopefully we'll get some more information a little later on this morning. but you can understand how people are sort of walking around in a daze. a lot of people trying to figure out exactly what's next. the local paper pretty much making this pretty clear act of terrorism. we know that that's how people feel here. they feel like this city was attacked, and they want to show that they're going to be resilient. they want to move on. but at the same time, they want to think about the victims down the way here. we've actually

seen national guard members helping to flank the police and state troopers who are down the way here as they clean the street. and they've also started to tow out vehicles and clean all the evidence from that bourbon street and from canal street. after this devastating attack with 15 people who are dead. now, of course, we want to show you this video of that truck taking that turn down the road here. of course, there was a car that tried to block it, but that truck, that f-150 lightning got on the sidewalk and just created carnage. so many people trying to figure out exactly why we know the suspect shamsud-din jabbar, 42, a u.s. citizen from texas and an army veteran, had an adios on the way here talking about that allegiance to i.s.i.s.. but you really want to think about the victims, people who have had their lives stolen from them. take a listen to this family talk about the devastation they witnessed. >> it's just devastating. and it's very scary. and how it could

have been me and my mother, me and my mom. it was just horrible. it was it was very graphic. we heard everything that came outside and once we heard it, it was from there, like tragedy. and it was just the night was very silent after that. they saved our life by us walking into that bar saved our lives because we would have been in the direct path of that driver. >> but yeah, we also know 35 were injured. but the names that we know so far, tiger beck, 27, reggie hunter, 37, and kareem bawadi. and you got to also think about the two officers who were shot when they were having to exchange gunfire with the suspect who had that long rifle. so much information is still being sifted through. we know the fbi didn't clear the scene until after 230 last night, so hopefully we'll get more information as the morning continues. but this has been devastating for this entire area. >> sara ryan young, thank you to you and your crew for being there and giving us the very

latest on all of this. it is a devastating situation there for sure. >> john, and very shortly, the fbi will provide a briefing to the house and senate oversight committees with the latest information on that attack this morning. authorities continue to search multiple locations with potential connections to the attacker, including a home in houston. let's get right to cnn's senior national correspondent, ed lavandera, who is there with the latest on these searches. good morning. ed. >> good morning. john. well, fbi investigators and other authorities have been here on the northern side of houston, houston, searching a property just beyond those police cars that you see behind me at this intersection. we just heard moments ago from the fbi office here in houston saying that about ten minutes ago, they wrapped up the search of the property that they have been doing here since yesterday afternoon. it wasn't until late last night that they got the court order to be able to to go inside the the premises. so

overnight, investigators here in houston have been searching the home believed to be connected to the suspect in the new orleans attack. so they have spent here hours and hours going through this. we have no information beyond that as to exactly what has been found here. the fbi statement this morning does say that there is no threat to the residents and the neighbors who live around the property, that they have been searching, but this is an area where this has become a great deal of focus on the background of this suspect. in a youtube video that the suspect posted back in 2020, he talked about being born and raised here in texas, in the city of beaumont, which is just in southeast texas along the texas and louisiana border, and also in court documents and public records that we have been able to comb through in the last 24 hours. we've learned a lot about essentially, the life of financial struggles that this suspect had gone through. there is a he was sued by the mother of two of his children for child support. and in those

documents, he talked about being in heavy debt, credit card debt, as well as businesses that had lost nearly $30,000 as well. so financial struggles as he worked in, in i.t. and real estate here in the houston area. so starting to piece together some of the struggles that this man was going through here before carrying out this attack in new orleans. john. >> all right. the news that search and the residents behind you has now wrapped up. ed lavandera, thank you so much for that information. appreciate it. sara. >> all right. joining me now to discuss a retired fbi special agent, bobby chacon, and former nypd detective tom verni. thank you both for being here this morning. i know this is a tough, tough assignment. i want to start with you, bobby. what is the difference between i.s.i.s. inspired or i.s.i.s. directed? what does that mean for the public? >> well, in simple terms, it means that, um, i.s.i.s. inspired means he didn't have

much contact with i.s.i.s. itself. he read their material online, he radicalized. he self radicalized by viewing their videos. i.s.i.s. is famous for making videos which are designed to get people to come over to their side. if they're leaning in that way. um, and i.s.i.s. assisted obviously would be if they gave any assistance, if they even if they gave him instructions on how to do something, um, you know, that would be, you know, part of the criminal act. so that's the two things, whether he had any kind of contact with someone and, you know, even on the dark web from i.s.i.s., um, that would be them involved and inspired means he just, you know, consumed their videos and their material online and radicalized that way. that's that's the basic difference. >> so he took it upon himself to do something as opposed to, like, being directed in the planning and how to do everything directly by someone in i.s.i.s.. okay. all right. and and now to you, tom. the metal street barricades that were normally in place on bourbon street were not working according to to law

enforcement. so you can see what law enforcement used instead. they used their own vehicles to to block the street. but the terror suspect drove around the vehicles and up onto the sidewalk to kill people. was there anything else that could have been done here? >> hey, good morning and my condolences to to those who have families who have had to deal with this horrible tragedy. >> and, uh, i mean, yeah, i think they're going to have to review what security measures they had in place for that evening. >> it's at that time of the morning, just like we would do in new year's eve in times square. >> you know, once the ball has dropped and we get into, you know, one, 2:00 in the morning, you start to pare down, generally start to pare down the size of the detail of, of officers that are assigned to provide security for that event and any other security measures that have been put in place right as the crowd starts to dissipate. >> uh, and, or they're located

and sort of one place or another, then you sort of move your resources, uh, to, you know, to kind of fortify those specific areas, such as here on bourbon street, which normally is a pretty busy street to begin with. uh, you know, no one needs a real excuse to party on bourbon street. but you know the problem. yeah, they're going to have to review why? you know, how long have those bollards been inactive or not operational? uh, you know, and what, you know, it seems it sounds like, based on prior reporting, that it's taken some time to either repair or replace those bollards, those security bollards which basically rise up from the ground and prevent an act like this from occurring. now, the the police vehicle being there is what's known as a blocker car. right? so the blocker car would be there to block the street. uh, but to have now this gap there, they're going to have to, you know, figure out like why was there a gap. could they have put something else there, maybe a temporary cement barrier, perhaps that would just block off the sidewalk area itself,

which is what we would do in new york. so all these procedures are going to have to be reviewed as to what was done and what wasn't done. and in preparation for future events such as the one later on today. >> yeah, i think the barriers, according to the police, were being replaced as the super bowl is going to be played there in new orleans. and obviously you have the sugar bowl that's going to be happening today. so the security is going to to have a lot to do when you have these huge crowds coming in again. now to you, bobby, when it comes to the this act, the fbi saying they do not believe that the suspect acted alone. what will they have to do now to try and figure out if there are indeed anyone? is there anyone else or you know what that means? whether or not that just means that i.s.i.s. was sort of i.s.i.s. involved, but not necessarily any other suspects. what are they going to be doing today to try to figure all of

that out? >> yeah. well, they they must have something in my mind. they must have something to make that statement, because it is an unusual statement. i mean, normally they say the person acted alone. now they say they believe he acted in concert with others, which means they must have something to go on. now, the only thing we as the public so far know about that is that there were other ieds, other explosive devices planted around the french quarter. so who planted those? did this guy plant them himself before going back to the vehicle and planning and executing this attack? or did someone else working with him plant them around the french quarter? now they'll be probably viewing a lot of videotape and trying to see who. and yesterday we had some erroneous reporting in the beginning that the three men and a woman that were seen maybe planting those there, trying to determine who planted those devices, because that's the connection to other people, i think. and the only thing they made public that could be a connection to other people right now, they may have more that they haven't released. but right now, the only thing

we know about that could have been connected to other people. all those other devices planted around. so they're trying to determine they're probably viewing videotape at the same time. the fbi so somex, which is the social media exploitation team, is looking at his online life and seeing if he connected with anybody. this kind of thing has to have. planning. and planning is usually not in person anymore because people are so spread out. so if he communicated with others who planted those other devices, there must be some communication somewhere between him and those other people. so they're looking into all those avenues of possible communication that he had with other people. >> yeah. and this is, you know, before, as i mentioned, the super bowl is going to be played there and you've got the sugar bowl today. so heightened security in every single measure that we can imagine. bobby chacon and tom verni we'll have to leave it there. thank you both so much for coming on on this second day of. thank you sir. >> great to see you again. >> good to see you too. all right. house speaker mike johnson gearing up for a fight again to keep his gavel

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job? friday's vote is shaping up to be a close one, even with an endorsement from president elect donald trump. >> yeah, it's it's a numbers game. >> we have the smallest margin in u.s. history. >> we'll have a margin of probably two votes tomorrow during that. so can only afford to lose 1 or 2. but i think we'll get it done, i really do, lawrence. i've talked to every single one of those friends and colleagues over the holidays. we'll be talking about process reforms inside the house, and i've encouraged all of them. and i think the reason they're all going to vote yes is this we're shifting into a brand new paradigm. we have unified government that begins tomorrow. >> cnn anchor and chief congressional correspondent manu raju is in washington. he says everybody is unified. it's all kumbaya. what are you hearing? >> well, look, the math is really the challenge here for speaker johnson. he's right. this is a razor thin majority in the house, and he's already lost one republican vote. but we expect tomorrow's majority, given matt gaetz is not expected at the moment to

return to his seat. that's going to be a 219 to 215 majority, meaning he could lose one. mike johnson can if he loses two republicans. that could be problematic, could undercut his chances to win on that first ballot. now there are different machinations some members decide may decide to not show up or vote present, not vote for a specific candidate. and that could lower the voting threshold. the majority that is needed to be elected speaker. but he very much has no margin for error. now, right before the christmas recess, i caught up with one of his main detractors. really the one republican outspoken opponent of mike johnson, thomas massie, who indicated he won't change his mind. and just a couple of days ago, congressman chip roy also indicated that he did not believe johnson at the moment had the votes. you told me earlier this week that you that speaker johnson does not have your vote on january 3rd. is that still the case? >> even more so, he doesn't have my vote. >> there's no way he'll vote for him. >> i don't i don't plan to enter it as a negotiation.

>> i plan to just not vote for him. >> okay? i have no asks. there's nothing i want in exchange for my vote. >> i remain undecided, as do a number of my colleagues, because we saw so many of the failures last year that we are concerned about that might limit or inhibit our ability to advance the president's agenda. >> and roy went on to say that he did not believe that johnson at the moment had the votes. now, johnson has been working the phones. he's been reaching out to several of those members talking about things that he could do to make their ease, their concerns. but as we know, if any one of these members can extract some concessions from mike johnson, they most certainly will. the question, ultimately, sara, will be whether they will do that privately or whether they will actually go to the floor and vote for another candidate making his path to the speakership that much more complicated, which will make tomorrow, tomorrow a bit of a high drama situation on the house floor. can mike johnson get the votes with the

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know that he's been working the phones. i spoke with him last friday. >> we had a very good conversation. >> he's willing to take our suggestions and ideas and try to incorporate them into running the house better and making sure that this is a member driven process that we're not seeing deals being made and then coming to the conference expecting a rubber stamp. >> i think also making sure that he helps us score legislative wins throughout the year for our constituents is also something that he's he's heard and is willing to implement some changes there. so it's more member driven. i believe he will have the votes tomorrow by the end of the day. >> and you're a definite yes. >> i am voting yes, yes, i don't i don't see a value in a in a fight for the speakership at this time. i mean, we saw what happened two years ago and it was an embarrassment for our party and for the institution. i believe i don't agree with everything that mike johnson has done, but i think that he is the best person to move us forward,

united. and i think he's the only one, quite frankly, that could probably get to the 218, which is needed for the gavel. and i do agree with him that the dynamics have shifted. he he had no choice but to negotiate with democrats when it came to the debt limit. when it came to a continuing resolution to keep our government funded and running. now, we hope that he'll work within our conference and let's negotiate within our own membership first, before we turn over to the democrats for votes. but i do still think it's going to need to be a bipartisan congress. if you look at the senate, they have 53 votes. you still need seven democrats to pass most pieces of legislation outside of reconciliation. and so the members who are holdouts, uh, they're not they're not being reasonable when they think that we can govern without some type of negotiation, without some type of bipartisanship. and that's part of the problem. they want everything they want all or nothing, and they're willing to risk our majority. and, and in the, in the

congress over it. and i think that's the wrong approach. every relationship, every government, every business requires some type of negotiation. and that's where they need to be reasonable. >> and to be clear, you're talking about members of your own party, your own caucus in the house, correct? >> that's right. i think that there's members in my own party, unfortunately, that want everything. it's their way or the highway, and there's little regard for many of the other members that we represent a very diverse group across the country. right? we have people across the political spectrum, moderates to far right conservatives. and i will say that we need to do what we believe is the best thing for our constituents. and at the end of the day, we're willing to negotiate, certainly, on how that's accomplished. and overall, let's be let's be honest, 80, 80, 80, 90% of the time we agree. we agree on the big picture issues needing to secure the border, needing to ramp up domestic energy production, needing to get the economy back on track, extending president trump's tax cuts. we agree on all that. the

question is in the details. how do we how do we get the consensus to pass these legislation, pieces of legislation forward? and that requires negotiation. and like i said, not just within our conference, but eventually with the democrats, too, because you need those votes in the senate. >> you said one thing in passing. i don't want to let it just slip by. you said you think that mike johnson may be the only one who can piece together the votes needed to become the speaker of the house. you can't squint and think of any other member, any other republican member who could maybe win. >> well, there could be other members. but, you know, then then i think you, you you risk the ability of them being able to, to do the job. i think with mike johnson, the issue was that he was the first person that emerged after we went through multiple candidates who had not offended anyone. everyone actually likes the guy. he's a nice guy. he's a good person. family person, has very good values, respects our constitution. and so no one had an issue with him. everyone else, everybody seemed to have an issue with. and if you elect

somebody, for example, from the freedom caucus, then you have the moderates are upset. if you elect someone who's too moderate, then the far right conservatives are too upset. so mike johnson was the first person after multiple candidates that has actually able to unite everyone. and i think we should not, uh, you know, try to fix what's not broken. let's just give him constructive criticism. let's give him our ideas on how we can do things better. i certainly have, and he's willing to implement these things for the betterment of the whole congress. it's when you're looking for these personal things, you know, you're looking for a chairmanship or you're looking to try to leverage him for your own personal gain. that's not in the best interest of the institution or the country. >> well, representative nicole malliotakis from staten island, it's great to see you get some sleep tonight. i think you might be in for a long day tomorrow. >> thank you. >> all right. fireworks, gas tanks, camping fuel in the back of a tesla cybertruck exploded in a blast outside a trump hotel. now, the fbi investigating whether it was an act of terrorism and possibly

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new year's attack unfolded, and why the preparations in place, the way they had things set up were unable to prevent it. >> the city of new orleans has known for years that the huge crowds on bourbon street are a potential target for terrorists. >> why is that such an attraction? well, it's an attraction in its own right, but it's also just a short distance away from jackson square. one of the big attractions there from preservation jazz hall, just a short distance away from canal street, this huge artery running through the middle of the city and from the superdome as well, which also is not that far away. that's why there are always big crowds here. they've always known this was a potential terrorist target. so why were they unable to protect it? partially because the city was in the middle of a program to replace these steel bollards, to stop cars from being able to go down the road. they wanted to have a better working system in place before the super bowl coming up. the

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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? >> clearly, 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

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then colder. thanks for that. happy new year elisa raffa appreciate it. >> happy new year. >> all right. >> police in new york are searching for multiple suspects and a motive after ten people, including several minors, were injured in a drive by shooting outside a nightclub in queens. they were standing in line there when the bullets began to fly. officials say four men attacked a group who were waiting in line, firing about 30 rounds before fleeing in a light colored sedan. police are asking for the public's help in finding the suspects. the victims were taken to area hospitals with non-life threatening injuries. they are all expected to recover. disbelief and shock. a michigan woman said she is just wowed by the fact that she would have to have her tonsils removed for a second time. yes, two times. it is rare, but doctors say her tonsils grew back 40 years after they removed them in 1983. studies show this only happens in 1 to 6% of all tonsillectomies. the

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