♪ ♪ >> police in las vegas are now set to give an update at 2:00 p.m. eastern on that cybertruck explosion that happened in front of president-elect trump's hotel. we will take you there live when it begins. investigators say they are investigating possible links between yesterday's explosion and that deadly attack in new orleans. so far, the fbi says there is no definitive link, and federal officials are investigating a home in colorado in connection with that vegas explosion. keep it right here on fox news channel. thanks for joining us. >> this type of event can happen in any city. and that is the tragedy of it. and i think it is important for people to understand that to protect our citizens and america from evil, you have to crush it. you can't go out there and placate it.

you can't go out there and say, oh, i'm going to put this in place and that in place and hope that evil doesn't show up on your doorstep, because it will. you have to crush it. and that's what we're going to do here. >> sandra: that was governor jeff landry of louisiana vowing that his home state will fight back against the evil we saw yesterday. two attacks in two american cities, hours apart. the fbi says there is no definitive link that we know of yet between the two, but they say to be cautious, it is still early. >> and we have new reporting on the cybertruck explosion in las vegas still ahead, but we begin today with that deadly attack in new orleans, where the fbi just wrapped up a news conference. >> 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 have already been briefed on. jabbar to pair declared his support for the terrorist group on social media, as i stated before, as he made his way to

new orleans peered we do not believe the public is in any danger around any of these locations. fbi bomb technicians also recovered two ieds in coolers. we did obtain surveillance footage showing jabbar placing the devices where they were found. it is very hard to put into words what it looks like and how difficult it was to see. >> sandra: emotions running high all around as one would imagine at this moment. hello and welcome everyone. i'm sandra smith. this is "america reports." bill, great to have you here today. >> sandra, good to be with you, as well. i wish we were starting the year on better terms. bill melugin in for john roberts. you are taking a look at new orleans, the famed french quarter, the city hosting tens of thousands of football fans in town for the big sugar bowl and that city is still a high alert at this hour, here's what we know so far, the fbi now says the suspect, shamsud din jabbar,

acted alone and was in fact inspired by isis. agents have recovered three cell phones and two laptops come and right now, they're scrubbing through his digital footprint. >> sandra: they are also saying that the suspect posted five videos online right before the attack. jason williams is the district attorney of new orleans parish. he will be joining us in moments to discuss efforts to secure the city just hours ahead of that football game, 3:00 central t time. >> bill: we begin today with brooke taylor live in houston, texas, were fbi agents just searched a home where the terror suspect was living. brooke, what are you seeing out there? >> hi, bill. the fbi and s.w.a.t. left so we got this rare access and we were able to go inside, roam around outside of the property where the trailer is. i could really describe it as sort of a mess and disheveled, with things everywhere. i could peek through the window and see furniture, the drawers open and everything, most likely from that read.

you could also see outside where the fence is completely ripped off the metal. i want to take you directly to that video so you could check it out for yourselves here. this again is the aftermath of the fbi and s.w.a.t. raid, that metal fence just on the ground. we also saw sheep and chickens outside the property. now i spoke to a neighbor who said he was living here for about a year. he said the white ford pickup truck used in the attack was parked outside for one night outside of the trailer. he saw it himself. the neighbor who wanted to stay anonymous described this as a religious, tight-knit, conservative muslim community with a mosque just a minute a away. >> when he comes income he was a muslim. i know what happened to him before. i didn't know anything before what his background was, military. i learned just like everybody else learned everything. a nice, quiet neighbor.

>> and according to court records he has three kids and went through two divorces, claiming major money issues and tens of thousands of dollars in debt and could no longer pay for his home and said he also had issues with child support. now the fbi said he drove from houston to new orleans on the 31st. he posted a series of videos on his facebook account, in the videos he says he originally pls family and friends come and the neighbor that you just heard from their said he even saw his son here before outside the house riding his bike before his daughters also visited. he said, though, in those videos that he was concerned the news headlines wouldn't focus on the "war" between the believers and disbelievers. fbi also says that in those videos on facebook he says he joined isis in the summer. i do want to note this is a man, a u.s. citizen from texas who served in the army for nearly a decade. the fbi says he served roles as

human resource, specialist, also an i.t. specialist, so definitely a drastic change from serving in the army to now being accused as a suspect in this deadly terrorist attack. guys? >> bill: yep, sounds like a total 180 in his life, and the fbi says the two laptops they recovered from a property you are standing in front of right now. we will see once they scrub it if they are able to find anything. brooke taylor live in houston thank you. >> sandra: jason williams, the new orleans paris district attorney. thank you very much for joining us. please jump on in here, is there any update you can offer us at this hour and so many are hungry for more information? >> yeah, there was an official update by the fbi. we thank god for their assistance and leadership as militarism is their expertise and not many agents are prepared for something like this. and they've shared what they can share at this moment. they feel confident that this was, in fact, a lone wolf.

which is consistent with what isis and al qaeda have tried to do in terms of radicalizing folks who feel marginalized road ever personal problem or reason they are dealing with, but what they have done is they have gone back and they have looked at this person's physical footprint, their digital footprint, they have looked up social media posts, emails, text messages, bank reppert's, venmo, everything that they did leading up until the fateful moments on bourbon street, and they are confident he was acting alone, and so that does give us some solace. it's not enough to guess at something that is that critical when we are hosting the nation for one of the biggest games in america today. >> sandra: the question now, can the city be secure and safe enough for people to return? they are certainly doing so at this hour as that game is now just a couple of hours away. police did say in their update

that they did not anticipate a vehicular attack in that city of this nature. this was a little bit of what we heard when the reporter asked this question at the news conference monday. listen. >> was someone getting up on a sidewalk considered impossible or nearly impossible or was this not something you expected you have to account for? >> of course it wasn't something we expected to account for. the bollards, they are actually wedges, they are strategically placed by locations throughout the french quarter. on the roadway, this particular terrorist drove onto the sidewalk behind the police car to gain access to the 100 block of bourbon street. >> sandra: that was yesterday, fresh off of this happening. remind our viewers, gosh, just about 30 hours now from this happening on the streets of new orleans. but that discussion about the barriers that were not set up properly to prevent something

like this from happening, they were there but they were removed and we are trying to get the whole story but what can you add to that? >> well, i can tell you that bourbon street for a very long time, since about 2015, there have been hundreds of these vehicle attacks in europe, germany, belgium, and france. so these attacks may be unique to america, but not unique to the world. bourbon street is clearly a soft target. there are a number of people milling about, and the plan as it was situated was for there to be a paulist or a barricade on that street come on that roadway. there was no plan for the sidewalks, pedestrian traffic, if there is a reason to get off of urban street. i can tell you there is going to have to be an after action report about everything that was in existence before this event to make sure there are lessons learned. things will change. just after 9/11, usually run

from my car to the gate and you might have been able to do that, too, back in the day. the way i usually am. but everything changed after 9/11 and we all collectively agreed as a community that we would deal with more stringent standards to get on a plane to keep us all safe, and that same thing is going to start happening on bourbon street and any other place that is hosting large crowds, whether it is surveillance, drones, using these things proactively so that we can see if perhaps this white truck was casing that area moments before, and that was suspicious activity. those earlier on in the day, using cameras not to solve but help prevent a terror attack. >> sandra: we obviously pray that nothing like this ever happens again, but you have to prepare for the fact that it could, and so many of us who have traveled that city, toured that city, walked those

sidewalks, you know you feel comfortable in large numbers. you start to not think you are vulnerable to that traffic, and you certainly are. thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you for the coverage. >> bill: well, sandra, we are still keeping tabs on a second possible terror attack, this one in las vegas. that is where a man drove a rented tesla cybertruck right up to the trump international hotel where it then exploded, injuring seven people. jeff paul is joining us live in vegas with more. so jeff, what are we learning about the suspect? >> yeah, bill, we are learning according to the associated press the suspect is matthew lycos burger but according to our sources compete with u.s. defense officials, fox news has learned he was active duty special forces and most recently a green beret who was on leave from germany at the time of the incident. we also know that cybertruck involved, it was rented from the state of colorado. a short time ago the fbi confirmed, along with another

team from the atf and local police are searching a home right there in colorado springs. they say this is in fact related to the truck explosion right here in las vegas. all of this happening as investigators try to figure out if there any possible ties to terrorism or if it is somehow related to the attack in new orleans. investigators there had this to say when asked about a possible connection between the two incidents. >> there is also an fbi investigation in las vegas. we are following up on all potential leads and not ruling anything out. however, at this point, there is no definitive lead -- link between the attack here in new orleans and the one in las vegas. >> now this all unfolded yesterday morning. authorities say the driver rented the truck in colorado where he then drove to las vegas, eventually pulling up to the valet area of the trump hotel. seconds later witnesses saw smoke inside the truck, then there was a flash and then an

explosion. inside was the driver, the sole occupant and later investigators discovered gasoline canisters and large firework mortars. the driver died but seven innocent bystanders were hurt. however, the local sheriff in nevada staying the explosion could have been far more devastating. >> the fact that this was a cybertruck really limited the damage that occurred inside of the valet because it had most of the blast go up through the truck and out. in fact if you look in the window, the front blast doors at the trump hotel were not even rocked by that blast. >> so far investigators haven't officially released the name of the suspect involved, but they do believe he acted alone. we are hoping to learn a little bit more as police are set to give a new update at the top of the hour. >> bill: will be keeping tabs on that, jeff paul live in vegas, thank you.

it sure feels like his coincidence are starting to add up. both guys spent time in the u.s. army, rented trucks through the same app that committed the act on the same day. that's about a coincidence is lining up. >> sandra: right, but still no definitive link has been made. checking out some of these camera shots, i know we've got the one we were showing just a moment ago as they anticipate the opening of bourbon street there. i, bill, and just going on some of those earth webcams, they've got them all over the french quarter, for years now, people who are down there, they call family, look at me, they waived come i'm looking at them and i am in the streets, barren still, ted williams reporting, saying people were out and about, people are not comfortable getting out there yet. the crowds still have some time to emerge and head on over to the superdome for that game. >> bill: yeah, you'd think there'd be a lot of people out

there partying out. yesterday the fbi was saying we are looking for potential accomplices, they had people on video they thought were helping them, they have reversed that today and said they're not looking for anybody else but like you said, you take a look at those cameras, it is a ghost town down there. a lot of people still apprehensive, rightfully so, wasn't just the truck going down the street, he also put a couple ieds in coolers on the street, people very under steadily scared out there. >> sandra: the corner of bourbon street and canal right there. we will keep an eye on that at any development as we get closer to kickoff, bill. all right, now this. >> whether you no jabbar personally, worked with him, served in the military, or saw him in new orleans or texas, we need to talk to you. >> sandra: investigators digging into the new orleans terror suspects background. what we are now learning. that is next.

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coincidence or a link there? >> it is good to see the fbi has brought out the a-team here in handling the coordination of these two attacks, and yeah, there is enough, they are keeping an open mind, you can tell that. there are some commonalities, as you know, the car-rental site, these two may have served, one active-duty green beret, the other, jabbar separated from the military and had some personal problems but they serve the same military base, fort bragg in north carolina, what used to be known as fort bragg in north carolina. i think it is an open question. there is symbolism to both targets. both of them are sort of perceived to be las vegas and new orleans, sort of the hedonistic decadent systems of the united states from a jihadist perspective. test law and trump towers,

obvious symbolism there. downtown french quarter new orleans has iconic, it is an iconic site, sort of the central .4 new orleans celebrations for new year's eve and new year's day. a lot of people gathered there. i think there is enough commonalities, you can get about halfway there right now. >> bill: you mentioned the fbi brought in the a-team. just your thoughts come i noticed they had someone different out there doing the messaging. yesterday they said not terror despite an isis flag found in the truck. what were your thoughts when you saw that initial statement? >> yeah, it was crean g. that was an assistant special agent in charge, who is very junior in a field office like new orleans. what you saw today was the deputy assistant director over counterterrorism take charge. das ac, as we call them, that

did the press conference yesterday, not very confident, not very much in charge, the second press conference was a fiasco. basically trampled. i knew from my contacts in the bureau they were going to bring someone else out as quickly as they could and take charge of this investigation. it is one of the most complex the fbi has had and you really do have to bring out the best for this type of investigation. >> bill: and just a short time ago the fbi said they recovered a few of his cell phones as well as a couple of his laptops. this is number one. this is what they said. >> three phones link to jabbar have been recovered and digital media explication is a priority. additionally we have recovered two laptops and are currently reviewing them for any potential leads. those laptops were recovered at the mandeville address. >> bill: of those phones and

laptops are obviously going to have passwords on them, might be encrypted in some way. how do you get into those and what are you looking for? >> right, electronic evidence like that is crucial. what's on the device itself is very important. what is stored in the cloud is accessible via subpoena search warrant, and/or search warrant, but it is really important to get into the devices themselves because texts are not stored, for example, there is a lot of different types of apps and communication apps and social media apps and that sort of thing that do not store the information in the cloud, so it exists only on the device, so there are ways to crack into those. we are a lot better off than we were several years ago when it comes to iphones. there is some brute force pass code cracking apps that take a little bit of time but eventually you will get in. there are operational technology division at the fbi is good at this. so i don't expect to see as many obstacles and as much time as

you might have seen two years ago. >> bill: and i guess we will find out if he was in touch with anybody else, the fbi will be looking at here. former fbi assistant director chris swecker, thank you so much for your time, appreciate it. >> sandra: president biden arriving back at the white house today meeting with his national security team over these terror attacks come obviously after the one in new orleans, why some are saying he is just not doing enough. >> bill: plus lawmakers briefed this morning by the fbi on what they know about this deadly incident. louisiana senator bill cassidy was on that call. he is going to join us coming up after the break. >> you will find out what happened and who was responsible or i will raise fresh hell. we handcraft every stearns & foster® using the finest materials, like indulgent memory foam, and ultra-conforming inner springs, for a beautiful mattress, and indescribable comfort. start the new year with savings up to $800 on select adjustable mattress sets.

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president biden offering condolences to the victims of that new orleans rampage. >> all the people of new orleang today, i want you to know, i agree with you. our nation grieves with you. we are going to stand with you as you mourn and as you heal in the weeks to come. >> now those remarks came hours after tweeting happy new year, something biden returned to the white house. deliver remarks at the white house soon this afternoon so we likely get an update from new orleans when he announces the new judicial nominees at the top of the hour. later at 5:00 eastern he awards 20 medals of freedom including liz cheney. biden also briefed in the situation room about the cybertruck explosion with fuel and fireworks outside the trump hotel in las vegas hours after the massacre in new orleans. some want to see if biden now considers islamic terrorism to the u.s. recall he said this to

howard university graduates in 2023. >> stand up against the poison white supremacy as i did in my inaugural address to single out is the most dangerous terrorist threat to our homeland is white the premises. supremacy. >> asked president biden as he was walking into the white house if he still considers white supremacy the biggest terrorism threat to the unit states. bill, the president ignored me. >> bill: a very reasonable question to ask. lucas tomlinson at the white house for us, thanks. sandra? >> sandra: republican louisiana senator bill cassidy. i know you just were briefed by the fbi. what can you add to what we already know? there was a public update where we learned the fbi believes this driver acted alone. no outstanding suspects at this time, no link between the new orleans and the las vegas attacks at this time. they have received 400 tips, the suspect posted videos online tuesday night, claiming he

joined isis before the summer and provided a will and testament, but indeed they said 100% that this person was inspired by isis. what more did you learn in that briefing? >> well, first they emphasized that. they emphasized that he acted alone. there were those coolers with the ieds. and initially we had been told that there are videos of people handling those. it turns out that -- how to put this -- the fbi given the briefing goes people walked by and they picked it up, perhaps looking for alcohol. i'm not sure, i think prejudging people at 3:00 a.m. on bourbon street, but then they put it down and kept going. so point being that this terrorist put out the ieds, as well. that was the one that was kind of in question. they seem to have traced it, and just to emphasize that, because i'm going to the football game in a little bit. as we go to that sugar bowl

today, people were concerned that may be others out there, there are no others out there as best to be determined. he acted by himself. >> sandra: let me ask you about that because it seems that there are reports of dropping ticket prices, potentially a lot of empty seats. some folks just say it is too soon. you are going to the game. should other people feel safe, senator? >> absolutely! by the way, terrorists win if they intimidate us. they don't kill somebody in a small town but no one has heard of. they go to a place where there is national, international media attention, and they attempt to do something that attracts attention, to strike fear in our hearts. americans don't live fearfully. now there is going to be so much, so much security out there. it's going to be incredible. so on the one hand you could just say, my gosh, you've got some any national guard, police officer, fbi, federal agents, that would make you secure. they locked down the super superdome from right before the

event happened. we cannot allow them to intimidate us, sandra. if we do, they win. we must win. >> sandra: our hearts break for this happening in that city that we all love and our hearts break for these victims, their families, so many young folks, lives taken so soon, senator. just terrific. i do believe there was -- sorry, i spoke to a victim earlier -- i say victim, he was a witness, but dramatically affected by what he saw yesterday morning in the early hours of new year's day. joined me earlier today, and his words were extremely powerful, when i asked him for his message. >> i don't want people to think that you can't have a life and can't have fun. if someone told me live life like that, then we are letting the terrorists win, you know. we are feeding into the terror, being scared to go out. that's their end game, is to create terror, and it can fear. i want to live my life and be happy, so i am not upset that i went out, but i am upset that

this kind of stuff happens. i just want everyone to know, love your loved ones, have a good time, don't be scared to live your life, but at the same time, check on your loved ones and just hold them close, you never know when can be your last day. >> sandra: just wanted to get your thoughts and reaction to that, as i do note live on the screen right now we are told by an update just a moment ago that bourbon street is being reopened right now, as promised, just a couple hours before kickoff for the sugar bowl. they are going to be reopening the streets, although i don't see a direct connection to what we are seeing on the screen right now, senator, but just your thoughts broadly as we all watch what is happening there. you feel for all of these -- >> i totally agree with what the young man said. and by the way, gives more power that he was actually there. we can't live our lives

fearfully. and i'm glad they are reopening bourbon street. bourbon street is a place or congregation. it's a place of enjoyment. it's a place for people to live freely. we can be in a society where every ten steps are checked. we don't want that. unfortunately, when you don't have that, you sometimes have a terrorist event. but we would come in our country, live freely as opposed to live in fear, and that is our challenge, let's live freely. >> sandra: okay. we are going to keep monitoring this. obviously, another big weekend, not just because of the football game. it's another holiday weekend here, and that is typically a very busy area of new orleans, still very few people in the streets but it looks like numbers are getting up there. thank you very much, senator. appreciate you coming on the program. >> thanks, sandra. >> sandra: keep us posted on the game. >> will do. >> we are very concerned about the risk of inspired attacks, lone actors here inspired by

some of those same calls for violence from over in the middle east. >> jabbar declared his support for the terrorist group on social media, as i stated before, as he made his way to new orleans. >> bill: well, you are taking a look at new orleans live and the crime scene courtesy of earth cam as officials now say the suspect in the deadly terror attack was radicalized. former federal prosecutor jonathan fahey on the rising terror threat facing our nation. >> you can't go corner to corner without seeing first responders in those folks, hats off to them, the jobs that these people have. >> sandra: plus those heroes, those officers running to the scene, racing to save lives indirect gunfire. their actions may have spared others from the carnage. we are going to speak to ted williams live on the ground in new orleans coming up. here's to getting better with age. here's to beating these two every thursday. help fuel today with boost high protein, complete nutrition you need,

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♪ ♪ >> sandra: all right, fox news alert. it is 1:42 on the east coast and right now we are expecting a police update on the las vegas cybertruck explosion. this was obviously the scene on wednesday right outside of trump tower there. what we learned from the fbi's most recent update is that there is no link or no evidence of a link between the new orleans attack and the las vegas cybertruck incident at this time. according to the fbi. so we are now awaiting an update from police on the ground in las vegas. when that happens, we will bring that to you live. now this. >> there were five videos posted on jabbar's facebook account which are time stamped beginning at 1:29 a.m. and the last at 3:02 am. in the first video jabbar

explained he originally planned to harm his family and friends but was concerned the news headlines would not focus on the "war" between the believers and the disbelievers. additionally, he stated he had joined isis before this summer. >> bill: so you hear it there, fbi officials saying the suspect in yesterday's attack was radicalized and inspired by isis. that attack reigniting concerns about terrorism here in america. intel agents say the ongoing crisis in the middle east and our open southern border have made conditions ripe for a taxi or in homeland. jonathan fahey is the former acting director of i.c.e. and kind enough to join us this afternoon. jonathan, thank you so much for coming out today. we hear the fbi, they are saying he pledged allegiance to isis months ago, before the summer even happened. that he posted five videos as he is driving this rental car to new orleans. once again pledging allegiance to isis and saying he wants to kill. it sounds like he slipped under the radar somehow and the ball

got dropped somewhere. >> yeah, it certainly does, and it sort of highlights some of these broader points as to what the fbi's priorities are. they will always tell you it's terrorists and christopher wray testified about that, but what they have actually been doing and what have they been focusing on for the last four years under the biden administration, it is school parents at school board meetings. it's the people going -- every last person in the capitol on january 6th. they have a wide open border and i wish chris wray was more strong on the border because we have had four years of alejandro mayorkas a civilly operating our border as a way to facilitate massive migrant groups coming into this country under the guise of asylum, knowing they are not truly asylum-seekers, and you report on this probably better than anyone, so all of these inks show our government is not focusing on safety, they are focused on so many other issues, which is a great concern because when you see something like this

happen, sure it is an isolated incident, or appears to be, but it can't mean there aren't more isolated incidents that people should be caught and maybe if the resources were directed toward terrorism, this person might have been on the radar screen earlier and this would have been prevented. >> bill: as we continue to take a live look at the crime scene in new orleans on your screen, we had former secretary of state mike pompeo on "fox & friends" earlier this morning. he feels isis is making a resurgence. here's what he had to say. >> and over the past four years we watched this resurgence. we watch them refuse to even talk about radical islamic terrorism. we have watched the fbi not focusing on these dangerous places in mosques that have gone bad around the country. this is a deep problem, a real challenge, and the next trump administration will have to confront this radical islamic terrorist threat in ways they did back in 2017. >> bill: so jonathan, during the first trump administration,

isis was essentially defeated militarily, but we are fighting out now, obviously it is kind of hard to defeat an ideology that can just spread its tentacles all over the internet. >> exactly, and i think secretary pompeo makes a great point. no one will even say radical islamic terrorism and you look at what joe biden said which is pretty striking, if you were to watch this from another planet you would think the real issue was that he was an american citizen and had served in the military. there is nothing about radical islamic terrorism. they said something about isis. it really isn't reassuring to the extent our government seems to be taking this particularly seriously and just going back last week when they entered into the plea deals or the plea deals were entered into with the 9/11 mastermind who is now going to get a more lenient sentence because of the biden administration is just indicative of how this administration treats terrorism and treats public safety and we are really reaping the consequences and we may for years and decades to come

because there are people who have come in here that we have no idea who they are or what they are going to do, and i know senator cassidy is making a good point about people should go out and live their lives but we should also be able to go out and have confidence that our government is putting our safety as its highest priority as opposed to some political agendas. >> bill: jonathan fahey, thank you so much for your time and your insight this afternoon. check in with you again soon. >> sandra: president-elect trump speaking out following this attack in new orleans, pledging support to the region as he promises to crack down on terrorism. incoming trump administration border czar tom homan is here. plus this. >> we have parents that are going to have to -- that are making funeral arrangements as we speak. each of those is a reminder of the terrorism that exists and the evil out there. >> bill: and sadly we are learning new details about the

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trucks. you will see when you go down bourbon. you will see yellow, what are called archers, and they are along the sidewalk, and that would be to be preventive, if someone had or this particular terrorist went around up on the sidewalk, that's what that would do. right now, i can declare to you that bourbon street is open. >> sandra: all right, that was the police chief just moments ago in new orleans saying that bourbon street is open now after the federal authorities completed their investigation at the scene there. they have now turned it over to local authorities, and at this moment we are learning more about the victims, seven of the 14 have been identified and some of their heartwarming friends and family members are sharing tributes on social media, cb cotton is live with more on this, what do we know about the

victims, cb? >> we believe some of the youngest among them were just 18 years old. another was a former ivy league football player and others were mothers or fathers. mississippi teen nick ira cheyenne two was dreaming of becoming a nurse. her friend who post on facebook that he watched her die, saying "she was on her way to college in two weeks and planned to get her first apartment soon. to see her in such a state truly deeply broke me. and the girls mother wrote on social media "when your parents they don't go anywhere, please listen to them." this was an act of terrorism and now my baby is gone, y'all." reggie hunter's cousin posted on social media he was among the victims, writing she was grateful she hugged him on christmas night. other family members wrote online that he was a great father. martin beck, known as tiger, was a louisiana high school football star and play on princeton. his friend posted about his death, saying "we talked just

last night and i remember the last thing i said to him was i loved him and told him to be safe. i know you were skipping walking into the gates of heaven this morning." his high school held a vigil for him yesterday and kareem badawi was a 2024 graduate from a high school in baton rouge which will hold a vigil for him this evening and for another one of its students left critically injured. his father rode about his death on social media, asking a la to give the family patience and strength to overcome the strengths it will take several days to perform autopsies and all the victims and inform the next of kin. more than 30 victims treated area hospitals after the attack. sandra? >> sandra: so sad, awful, just heartbreaking as we continue to learn more about each one of those victims, we will continue to share that with our viewers. just wanted to call attention to the screen real quick, cb, thank you very much. we have been watching since the

police chief just declared bourbon street is now open and it was the first declaration since this happened in the wee hours of the morning. this obviously more like canal street, adjacent to bourbon street, we also have pulled up a webcam, from earthcam that i am familiar with, if we show it right now you will see a young woman at her parents it looks like walking the streets but not a lot of people filling those streets yet, that is actually bourbon street, the cross-section of st. peter's, again provided by earthcam. we are watching all of these to see if people do start coming out and if they do start filling the streets were a couple hours now from the kickoff of the sugar bowl. at the superdome in new orleans. a lot of people traveled to the city that have been there but they have not been allowed out on bourbon street, bill, so that is a live look and we are just trying to see with the appetite is to head on out there so we'll keep watching these.

>> 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 have already been briefed on. >> bill: the fbi speaking earlier and confirming the suspect in a terrifying attack in new orleans did in fact act alone. in just minutes from now, the bottom right of your screen, we are expected to get an update on the cybertruck explosion that happened in most vegas. we will have former atf deputy assistant for intelligence scott sweetow coming up right after the break.

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