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exclusive new doorbell video you can see there on the right side of your screen. it appears to show the moment that the suspect unloaded his rented truck outside the airbnb that he was using just hours before the attack. cnn anchor anderson cooper is live in new orleans, and anderson right now. investigators are combing through evidence still, as the timeline of how this all happened comes into focus. where does the investigation stand? >> yeah. that airbnb you talked about, they found five cell phones, two laptops, as well as a number of items, obviously, in the vehicle. a change of clothing, the i.s.i.s. flag that was earlier reported. and that is what leads them to to to say that that he was acting alone in this and certainly in terms of here in new orleans, there had been a belief that perhaps in earlier on in the investigation, they thought maybe there were other people involved because of the placement of explosive devices in other locations. the attack itself ended just a couple of blocks down in that direction,

and an explosive device was found several blocks further up. so he placed, according to law enforcement, two explosive devices elsewhere in in the french quarter before conducting this, this terror attack. i just want to play something that we heard from the the fbi earlier today. >> this was an act of terrorism. it was premeditated and an evil act. we do not assess at this point that anyone else involved in this attack is involved in this attack, except for shamsud-din jabbar the subject you've already been briefed on. >> they've also traced the trail of this of jabbar from houston, where he rented this vehicle on december 30th, drove up to new orleans on new year's eve, and made a number

of videos that posted to his facebook. um, talking about talking about i.s.i.s., talking about why he was doing this. he said that he initially thought about killing members of his family and relatives and friends, and then thought, according to the fbi, that it would be portrayed in the media differently, that it wouldn't be portrayed as part of what the fbi said. he jabbar referred to it as a war between believers and nonbelievers. here's more of what the fbi said. >> there were five videos posted on jabbar facebook account, which are timestamped beginning at 1:29 a.m. and the last at 3:02 a.m. in the first video, jabbar explains he originally planned to harm his family and friends, but was concerned the news headlines would not focus on the, quote, war between the believers and the

disbelievers, end quote. additionally, he stated he had joined i.s.i.s. before this summer. he also provided a will and testament. >> so, as you said, brianna bourbon street is back open and reopened about 40 minutes ago or so, about an hour ago, there was a band that came here. there were a number of religious, uh, there were preachers and religious leaders who came here and held prayers. city officials were here as well. and then now the public is coming back. some bars are open. there's music playing. and this football game is going to be starting soon. >> i see a gentleman cleaning the balcony behind you. they're really trying to get back to normal there as they welcome traffic back into the french quarter. anderson, what are officials saying about the connection to i.s.i.s. of jabbar? what are they saying about that? >> they haven't really gone into a lot of detail. and i

think it seems that that's clearly one of the things that they are trying to understand more about. they said at their press conference that they want to hear from anybody who knew this person, not just anybody who may have seen this person in new orleans. but going back months, any conversations this person may have had with with somebody that would give a sense of kind of a timeline of his radicalization or his mental disintegration, or perhaps both. um, you know, we're we know he was a veteran. we know he pleaded guilty to dui charges in 2015. he had that i.s.i.s. flag. and according to the fbi, in the in one of the the postings he made, he talked about, uh, pledging, joining i.s.i.s. before the summer. but there's not a lot of details yet on exactly what he did to take that step. >> all right. we'll be looking for that. anderson, thank you

so much. anderson cooper live in new orleans. president-elect trump is falsely linking the new orleans terror attack to migrants after an erroneous report from fox news. cnn's kristen holmes is here with us now on this. kristen, what is trump saying? and just take us through the basis for his initial comments and how he's sort of moving with them. yeah, i would say he's making micro steps backwards away from his initial comments, but he's still kind of doubling down on the rhetoric that this was somehow related to an open border policy. >> now, we were told yesterday that donald trump was being briefed on what had happened in new orleans, but we weren't told by whom. and we know one thing. donald trump, when anything is unfolding, turns to the news media. he turns the tv on and watches the coverage to see what's happening. now, one of the things that was happening at this time was this report on fox news that essentially alleged that the truck that had been rented, which we didn't know at the time it had been rented, had crossed an eagle pass on the border two days prior. now, it

turns out that was not right, that it had been rented and crossed the border. two weeks, i believe, prior. however, that was the reporting at the time. that was then conflated into an idea that we saw run rampant on conservative social media, that it wasn't just the car, that it was also the perpetrator of the crime in new orleans of this terror attack had come in across the border, and that appeared to be what donald trump was being briefed on. coming from this news report or some of these conservative social media personalities, because what he tweeted at that time was people coming across the border, as i've said, they're bringing worse crime into the country. and then he issued his condolences to the families of the victims in new orleans. since then, since even though the report has been corrected, even though we have learned that the perpetrator here was american, and if anything, he was radicalized here in america, he has continued with this idea that somehow this terror attack is linked to open border policy under biden, to immigration, to

a migrant, even though, again, we have reported, as have others, that this is an american citizen. so, for example, five hours ago on truth social, he said, with the biden open borders policy, i said many times during rallies and elsewhere that radical islamic terrorism and other forms of violent crime will become so bad in america that it will become hard to even imagine or believe in. that time has come again. this is not related to any crimes that are happening from people crossing the border, whether it be radical islamic terrorism or not, related to what happened in new orleans. as far as we can tell. we again have the facts that he is an american citizen, but was not, you know, this wasn't an instance of someone coming over as a radical islamic terrorist. >> there is it's very popular on conservative media, though, to focus on the threat of terrorism potentially crossing the border. and there have been people with suspected ties to

i.s.i.s. who have been expelled. they have been caught. and then it will often be represented as i.s.i.s. terrorists crossing the border. it's bad enough. honestly, the truth. right? but it then tends to be a little trumped up. you talk to supporters of trump's and they will highlight the border that they are very concerned about, not just criminals crossing, but terrorists crossing. is this sort of a hat tip to some of the conversations that go on with his supporters? because he certainly has an audience for this narrative. >> yeah, he does have an audience, but i will say, i mean, this didn't appear in this case, at least to be pulled out of thin air. we saw that this was being reported, and it wasn't just on fox news. by that point, it had started getting this pickup from a large scale of conservative social media personalities. so it's not as though donald trump was existed. this existed in a vacuum of donald trump, which obviously we have seen in the past. this tended to have taken fire. i think really what the interesting part of this and what we're seeing now is donald trump continuing to

double down on this rhetoric. and that's where you get into this idea of the hat tip, but also the idea of immigration as a whole still being one of the core issues that donald trump uses to stoke his base and to stoke fear as he heads into office january 20th and becomes the president there, very receptive to it. >> certainly a lot of americans. kristen holmes, thank you so much for that. really appreciate it. i want to talk more now with cnn senior law enforcement analyst chief charles ramsey. first off, chief, i just want to know what you think about we see bourbon street back open. we see people filing into the superdome. they are weathering much more security. and there's this kind of sense of, as we're hearing from officials in new orleans, the need to mourn, but also the need to live and not let the terrorists win. what do you see? what are your concerns? >> well, first of all, i agree with that. i think that now that they've taken additional security steps, it's it's

right to reopen bourbon street to go ahead with the game that was scheduled. i think that's fine. and i'm glad to see that they've taken some additional security steps. many of those steps should have been taken on new years, but at least they're being taken now. so i think people can feel more comfortable going down there. and and that's a good thing for the city of new orleans. >> so what are the security steps that you see them taking that give you some confidence? >> well, the bollard in the middle of the street on bourbon street that will prevent a car from actually going through and having vices on the sidewalk that would prevent someone from circumventing that particular bollard and enter the street. so it's things like that, making sure that they've got it blocked off. it will be a pedestrian only type of situation on bourbon street, i'm sure for the length of bourbon street, so that people can feel comfortable being in that particular environment. but you have to block off the streets and you have to do so

in a way in which they can't be defeated by a vehicle. >> yeah. and then i do want to mention, according to two internal memos obtained by cnn, you had dhs and the fbi warning law enforcement just broadly last month of the threat of violence from lone offenders around the holidays and the potential use of vehicle ramming. we saw just a few, you know, of course, it feels like a few days ago, but it was a couple of weeks ago in magdeburg, germany, where we saw a vehicle used as a weapon to kill many people. and so often when that happens, you'll have officials in cities in the u.s. take that as a warning. oh, that could happen here. was that missed in new orleans? >> well, it was missed to an extent. obviously they had some security, but they had insufficient security. and whether or not they were reacting to that particular memo or not, in today's world, in the environment we're in now and we've been in this situation for a while now, it's not like this is

something that just happened. you really have to tighten security to an extreme level, where you'll get people who say, well, there's too many cops around or there's too much security. i'd rather have them say that than have an inadequate number of personnel or devices and other ways in which we can keep the the people safe and secure than to not have enough resources on the scene. and that's just not personnel. that's also equipment and things that you need to be able to take all the steps you can to keep people safe. now, having said that, you can stop a car from going down the street. but what if a person walks down there with an ak 47 or an m16? i mean, it's someone who's bent on that kind of destruction, really wants to perform, and it's very difficult to stop it. but there are things you can do to minimize the opportunity. >> it seems like with the police presence, they were more prepared for a scenario like that, like a weapon. so many police were there. i also want to ask you about something else. i was just speaking with the council member who was raising questions about these ieds that you now see. they're

now seeing jabbar on camera placing in the couple hours before the vehicle attack. and questions about how were those missed. what questions do you have about how law enforcement didn't see these? >> well, one of the first things i noticed when there was a video clip that was shown after the incident occurred yesterday during the newscast that showed police officers running toward the scene where the truck had crashed, or at least where it had breached the initial barrier that had been set up and was being run. run people over there had to be about 12 cops that took off running. and the first thing that crossed my mind is, why are you all bunched up on the same corner? i mean, you have people deployed, so you have a couple on each corner, but then you have teams that are actually walking up and down the street together as teams, being mobile if you're mobile and if you're walking, you start to see

things that don't look right. you can take action. plus it gives people that are there a better sense of safety and security. and so that was a concern. and those are the kinds of things they got to. they have to look at and see whether or not it's not just about how many people you have, it's what the hell they're doing. what do you have them doing? where where are they deployed? how are they deployed? what's there? assignment. uh, cities across america can learn from this. it's not just about new orleans. i mean, it happened in new orleans, but every major city ought to be looking at this and and doing a debrief and saying, okay, if that happened here, how would we handle it? what are the steps we would have taken to prevent something like that from happening here at a major event? how do we have our personnel deployed? what are they doing? do they have clear direction? i mean, those are the kinds of things you just have to doeah. these are the th you see that the untrained eye does not. raising questions about the use of personnel in the french quarter or any city. really. chief, great to have you. thank you so much. >> thank you.

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investigators looking at what happened here in las vegas, but there is an fbi team that's been spending hours at a residence in colorado springs today, as well as a notion from the press conference that because he was on active duty serving in germany at the time that he was approved to take leave, when this happened. there are international searches as well going on. so this is going to take some time to figure out motive. we did hear from one of the officials at a press conference in the last hour or so, talking about the fact that, yes, this is a cybertruck in front of a trump hotel. here's what he said. >> bombing. absolutely. and it's a bombing that certainly has factors that raise concern. it's not lost on us that it's in front of, you know, of the trump building, that it's a tesla vehicle. but we don't have information at this point that definitively tells us or suggests it was because of this particular ideology or the, you know, any of the reasoning behind it. that's the purpose of the investigation that we're

conducting is to get to the bottom of exactly what happened, why and how. >> at this point, they described this this incident. they characterized it as a suicide with bombing that occurred immediately after. and that's because in the charred remains and the materials found inside, they figured out that the subject inside the car had died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound right before the explosion. now, i did speak to a couple of guests who did not want to be identified. they were staying here when this explhathey were on one of the high floors above the 40th floor and heard that bomb sound. they said that their windows shook even that high up. and shortly after even saw smoke billowing from the stairwell billowing out of the elevator doors. and the elevator service had to be shut down for some time. and they were basically caught, stuck up there for a while, which was a very troubling experience, as you can imagine. so definitely thankful that no one else was

hurt even further. but there were seven people in the immediate vicinity injured beyond the person inside the truck who died. >> brianna, and tell us a little bit about the scene behind you. we can see that there are police vehicles. is it sort of business as usual going into the hotel? it seems like they're making some repairs and things. >> there has been some police activity here, just some presence throughout the morning, throughout the day. but it is a fully operational hotel at this point. this since this morning, we've seen guests checking out, guests checking in. the valet service is working there. we did notice that there is some smoke damage along the ceiling of that valet drive through, and there's a hole in the ceiling, actually. so some of the cleanup and repairs are going on sort of as the guests are trying to come in and out. it is very busy there. it is the day after new year's when a lot of people are trying to get home from their vacations. and so we do

expect that, you know, everything will continue as usual there at the trump hotel. um, they they did say that there just would be police presence, given that such an incident happened not more than about 24 hours ago. >> yeah, it is really remarkable, though. it looks like things are going very well there as they're just continuing about their daily business. natasha chen live for us in las vegas. thank you so much for the very latest on that cybertruck explosion. and we are now watching at the white house where president biden is about to deliver remarks. uh, he is actually going to be talking about, uh, it's a bit of a legacy walk. his contribution to judicial confirmations. let's listen in now to senator dick durbin. >> history, not just in a record breaking number, but in the quality of the individuals who've been nominated and confirmed. >> i've served on the senate

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serving on the judicial bench were nominated by this president, joseph biden. >> we are listening to an event there at the white house, as here in the final days of the biden administration, joe biden and those in his party are celebrating his legacy as he exits the white house, certainly not as he wanted to. but today they are focusing on judicial confirmations that were made during his tenure. we're going to keep an eye on this event that is happening in the white house state dining room, and we'll bring you comments as we monitor them. we'll be right back after a quick break the whole story with anderson cooper sunday at 8:00 on cnn. >> when you're the leader of a disaster cleanup and restoration, how do you make like it never even happened, happen? >> fired up

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flocking back to the area. about 36 hours after the new year's day attack there, after 14 innocent pedestrians lost their lives before the reopening, city and community leaders performed a second line and they placed 14 yellow roses at different spots along bourbon street to remember the victims. with us now is democratic congressman troy carter of louisiana. i will tell you, that is something, congressman, that you will only see in new orleans, a scene like that. but i also want to ask you, you received a briefing from the fbi this morning. we did see this press conference. but as a member of congress, you received an fbi briefing as a member of the house homeland security committee. can you share anything with us? >> yeah. thank you, brianna, and thank you for giving the level of attention to this horrific act. we had a briefing this morning for the entire congressional membership. we were delighted to find out that

this individual apparently did. in fact, act alone, that it appears from all evidence that's been collected that there were no coconspirators, which gives us a great sense of relief that there's not some other actors that are out there that may still be up to nefarious acts. this gives us an opportunity to at least close this chapter of this particular villain. coward, and move forward into providing the kind of sense of security for our citizens and residents as we prepare and build on what we've learned from this breach. >> i also want to ask you, because cnn has obtained a december 6th joint bulletin from dhs, the fbi and the national counterterrorism center warning lone offenders pose most likely threat of violence to soft targets in the homeland during winter holidays. um, looking back on

that, i know it feels a little clearer. perhaps, but given that very recent warning, should local officials in new orleans, as well as other places have given more urgency to repairing any security issues or reinforcing them so that a truck couldn't get onto bourbon street? >> well, there's no question about that. whenever these kind of situations happen, it gives us an opportunity to pause, to look back and to think, what could we have done better? and unfortunately, these kinds of situations don't lend themselves for a do over. so all we can hope to do now is to pay attention. learn from this situation, and hopefully other jurisdictions, other large cities across the country or other cities that are going to be hosting big events will learn from it as well to make sure that we leave no stone unturned as it relates to

protecting our communities from the horrific acts of cowards like this. >> um, president-elect trump posted on social media this morning. this, he said, with the biden open borders policy, i said many times during rallies and elsewhere that radical islamic terrorism and other forms of violent crime will become so bad in america that it will become hard to even imagine or believe. and then speaker mike johnson was on fox news this morning. he was asked just simply if this suspect was on the radar of the fbi. this is how he responded. >> the congressional republicans, we here in the house and the senate have repeatedly asked the dhs under the biden administration about the correlation. the obvious concern about terrorism and the wide open border, the idea that dangerous people were coming here in droves and setting up potentially terrorist cells around the country. we have been ringing the alarms. >> all right, congressman, i just want to pivot really

quickly. let's go to the white house and listen to president biden speaking about this attack. >> he says he had a remote detonator in his vehicle to set off those two ice chests. so there's no question. i just come from the meeting just to spend while we prepare these remarks better. part of an hour from my homeland security team. the number of people killed in new orleans has risen to 15, including the attacker. 35 people were injured. today, the fbi briefed me that as of now, no information. we have no information that anyone else is involved in the attack. they've established that the attacker was the same person who planted the explosives in those ice coolers in two nearby locations in the french quarter. just a few hours before he rammed into the crowd with his vehicle. they assessed he had a remote detonator in his vehicle to set off those two ice chests. so there's no question that remember, all the talk about

other people were involved. placed him. they have him, they have established he's there and even established that he had a detonator to explode. those those ice chests. as i said yesterday, the attacker posted several videos just several hours before the attack, indicating his strong support for i.s.i.s., federal law enforcement and the intelligence community are actively investigating any foreign or domestic contacts and connections that could possibly be relevant to the attack. and so we're also continuing to investigate whether or not there's any connection between the new orleans attack and the explosion in las vegas. as of now, as of now, they've just been briefed. they have not found any evidence of such a connection thus far. i've directed them to keep looking. the individual who rented the truck to explode, that exploded in las vegas also served as active duty u.s. army. and the fbi is working with the department of defense on investigating, including the service member's possible

motives in all those he worked with in who served with him, what things he'd say and do. i directed my team to accelerate these investigations, so we have answers to our unanswered questions. they're making every single resource available to get the job done, and we're going to share the facts as soon as i learn them. so the american public doesn't have to wonder. in the meantime, like i said last night, new orleans is a city of tremendous spirit. it can't keep it down. you really can't. and we're seeing that today. the sugar bowl is back on. kickoff is going to take off very shortly. if i don't get this thing done, we're going to be in real trouble. and the fbi has handed control to bourbon street back to local officials. security of the area has been reinforced, and it should be open for business later today. the bourbon street people in new orleans are sending an unmistakable message. they will not let this attack or the attacks attackers diluted ideology overcome us. none of

us should fear. that we will overcome it. we're going to continue to relentlessly pursue i.s.i.s. and other terrorist organizations where they are, and they'll find no safe harbor here. i'll continue to provide updates in new orleans and las vegas as the facts develop. now to the business at hand. i can't tell you how much i appreciate these two men. not a joke. you know, i want to. fact of the matter is, congressman troy carter, we were just listening to president biden there talking about. >> and i should mention, bourbon street has actually reopened, as you are well aware, congressman. it reopened here about an hour or so ago. um, i do want to ask you, though, just back to what we were talking about, which is that you have president elect trump and speaker johnson talking about open borders in some sort of proximity to what happened in new orleans, when

we need to be very clear that this suspect was an american citizen born in the u.s., an army veteran from texas. what's your reaction to this brianna, it's unfortunate that both the president elect and speaker johnson has chosen to make this a partisan issue. >> this is an american attack. this is an attack on our democracy. this is an attack on our freedoms. this person was was radicalized, but it was an american citizen, a citizen of texas, and someone who was honorably discharged from the united states army. and we should not play games with the american people to try and imply that it was something that it wasn't, or to somehow suggest that this was a democrat or republican issue. um, we have to be more mature and more direct and fair and honest with the american people. this is not the time to play

political brinksmanship or gamesmanship. this is a time that we should be united as americans to push back against terrorism, push back against terrorist threats, and to demonstrate to the american people that we will use every resource that we have to combat these kind of hateful and heinous acts. no time for political games or or trickery to suggest somehow that one party or the other may be responsible. the families of the loved ones who have died, and those who are in the hospital fighting for their lives, and our law enforcement agents from the federal, local and state deserve better. and i would call on all of our leadership to stand firm and recognizing that we are americans and we are better than this. >> congressman troy carter, thank you so much. we are again with new orleans today, and we are awaiting the beginning here of the sugar bowl. it is a big

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up on new year's eve because the equipment has not always been functioning. and so but we're going to go ahead and do it today. even if it did malfunction. we have we have all of this extra protection, but we have raised it. and so that has been here. but you can see now we have what we call the archers for the sidewalk protection. and those are the changes you'll see. >> and something else they've already done is they've added these metal barriers right here, because they wanted to make sure that if a car tried to get up on the sidewalk, it would not make it. but of course, there's going to be a lot of concern about these barriers. they're supposed to be repairs put in place for that as well, because they want to make sure those are upgraded before the super bowl. we know the super bowl as head of security was here as well today. they talked about the plan moving forward, but they want to make sure all these steps are put in place for a

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also significant differences in their military service. there are also so many people with military service who would never think about doing something like this, who would never become radicalized. what do you read into this? what do you read into this? >> well, i do think that the new orleans attack and the las vegas bombing are completely unrelated. there's been no link between them right now. we're focusing on the military service, but it really doesn't have anything to do with the attacks. the one thing that the men really have in common is clearly their lives were decompensating. our new orleans attacker had a lot of financial woes, a lot of family family problems. um, had posted the in just the hours before he went in with his truck into the into bourbon street. the idea that he had wanted to gather his family together and kill all of them, but then changed his mind at the last minute. we know

less about our las vegas bomber, but we did just find out in recent hours that he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. the one thing they have in common brianna, is they were decompensating and both decided to take their lives. but interestingly enough, and in entirely different ways, send a message. while they were doing it. the messages have nothing to do with one another, though. >> so when you're saying the decompensating you're talking about, um, looking at lives kind of falling apart and turning a corner or turning downward, and if we can just zero in on the new orleans attacker, because i spoke with a former classmate of his who was stunned that this was him. but it's very clear that something had changed and that as he had financial problems, marital problems, family problems that coincided with the radicalization, how does that happen? casey? >> sure. and keep in mind that his army service was probably

the happiest time of his life. he worked in it. he worked in hr. he was excellent at what he did. but in the years following that, the two divorces, three children, custody issues, you know, lots of payments due, failed businesses, his military identity was in the past and he had no new identity to really absorb and and validate his worth in this world. and that leaves people open to seeking solutions and comfort, if you will, validation and if you will, rabbit holing sometimes into something that makes them feel like they belong and can be successful. by his own admission, he only, um, really changed his name and, you know, kind of got radicalized, he said. before summer is when he really joined the i.s.i.s. mentality. other than that flag on his hitch, there really is nothing to suggest that this was a terrorist attack. it was more

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