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been saved. >> goodd evening. thank you for joining us tonight. shock and horror remain in the french quarter as new orleans reels from the nightmarish new year's eve attack there, even as tens of thousands of defiant fans attend the sugar bowl in the same city. abc's trevor ault is

outside the superdome. trevor. >> well, byron, the mood here in new orleans has been very somber, of course, for many people. but the city is still pressing forward, reopening bourbon street today. they also hosted the sugar bowl here at the superdome with a ton, as you can see, of heightened security presence, including armored police vehicles and officers standing outside them with long guns. and while authorities now say the suspect acted on his own, there is still very much an active investigation ongoing into how a former member of the military became radicalized and snap plowing down so many people, killing many of them here in new orleans. >> one. two. one. two three. >> while music has returned to the french quarter signs, the big easy is still uneasy and more on edge. tonight. armored tanks, officers in combat gear. new orleans is on high alert after the unimaginable terror that took place here just the day before. 42 year old

shamsudin jabar, a us born decorated army veteran, driving a rented truck onto bourbon street, killing 14 people and injuring 35 others before being fatally shot down by police on the scene. tonight, a clearer picture emerging as authorities try to piece together what led jabar to allegedly commit this heinous act and the possible security failures that may have contributed to the carnage. >> let me be very clear about this point. this was an act of terrorism. it was premeditated and an evil act. >> survivor jeremy censky, who was hit by the truck while in his wheelchair, talking to my colleague whit johnson from a hospital bed. >> i really did not know what the hell was going on. i just didn't know. i didn't know that i had been hit by anything. i thought it was an explosion. i mean, i'm alive. everything is good. i just feel bad for the people that didn't make it, man. >> authorities are now trying to determine how jabar was radicalized. >> good evening. i'm chamseddine

jabar, property manager. >> the texas native seen here in recent years promoting his real estate business. the fbi seizing three phones and two laptops. >> while we have interviewed many people who know jabar, we still need to talk to others. whether, you know, jabar personally worked with him, served in the military, or saw him in new orleans or texas. we need to talk to you. >> after initially suggesting jabar possibly had help. officials now believe he acted alone. and new details are emerging about the days and moments leading up to the carnage. investigators say jabar rented that ford f-150 truck used in the attack in houston, texas, on december 30th. >> he then drove from houston to new orleans on the evening of the 31st, and he posted several videos to an online platform proclaiming his support for isis. >> jabar allegedly posting five videos which haven't been

released to facebook, with authorities saying the last video was timestamped minutes before he plowed into the crowd. this new video, showing multiple people barely getting out of the way as jabar speeding pickup barrels down bourbon street. >> he stated he had joined isis before this summer. he also provided a will and testament. >> we have the people that got hit by this car. >> the video you're about to see is disturbing. showing the truck rushing down the street, hitting at least one person. authorities say the driver was also firing an assault style rifle out of the truck, racing about three blocks before crashing, stepping out and opening fire again, wounding two police officers. authorities then returning fire. the suspect dead at the scene. this image showing his body lying next to that truck just hours later in las vegas. a separate, unrelated incident,

also being investigated as a terror attack. a tesla cybertruck exploding in front of the 64 story trump international hotel near the famed vegas strip. >> i will say that we do know that the components primarily consist of fireworks, mortars, aerial shells, and are all consumer fireworks. >> the suspect, matthew leibensperger, an active duty green beret on leave, died by a self-inflicted gunshot wound before the truck burst into flames. the fbi, saying they do not believe these incidents are linked. >> they're strange, really eerie and odd similarities between these two events. both drivers have military backgrounds. both had been assigned to fort bragg. both appear to have served in afghanistan during the same time period. authorities were trying to figure out if they did have any overlap at fort bragg. so then it's the same day. that's obviously a critical sign.

>> literally no barricades were up on any of the streets all night long. >> as both cities deal with the fallout. questions are now emerging in new orleans about the security measures in place for the new year's holiday. >> these barriers that block cars from getting access to a location like bourbon street, they were not there. authorities have explained they were planning to have them replaced in time for mardi gras and for the super bowl, but they were not there in time for new year's eve. >> those barriers are a common security measure used in major cities like new york. >> they are very effective. they will stop a 5050 zero zero 0 pound car going 50 miles an hour. >> robert boyce is the former chief of detectives in new york city. >> i think the saddest part of the new orleans case is that you think you put forth a solid security plan, and it's defeated by someone who's determined to do it, and it's tough to come up with a scheme to stop that. and so you learn from from failure and you go forth in a more positive direction. >> earlier today, new orleans putting up new barriers and

reopening bourbon street. the police chief defending their original security plan. >> this is not a matter of pointing blame anywhere. a terrorist is hell bent on destruction. >> in the days following the carnage on bourbon street, we're learning more about the killer shamsudin jabar. >> no one had anything bad to say about him. >> jabbar's 24 year old half brother, abdul jabbar, who did not wish to show his face, shared these family photos, telling abc news his brother was an ordinary guy who didn't drink or do drugs and was a practicing muslim. maybe he was. >> dealing with some mental health issues that i didn't know about. i can't imagine what would drive anybody to do anything like this. >> jabbar's past revealed major struggles. court records show he's been divorced three times, the most recent divorce in 2022. financial troubles also plagued

him. according to court documents, he could not afford to keep up with payments on a home and was at risk of foreclosure. and despite making a $125,000 salary at deloitte, he'd been ordered to pay thousands in child support to two of his ex-wives. so far, eight of the 14 victims names have been released, their lives honored at the sugar bowl with a moment of silence. among those newly identified 27 year old tiger beck, a former football star player for princeton university who worked in finance. 26 year old drew dauphin. his family says he'll always be in the sun at the lake that he loves so much. 25 year old matthew tenorio, a superdome video technician whose beautiful face his laugh. >> i love you, mom. you know, just he was just a wonderful son. >> louisiana native hubert gauthreaux and karim badawi, a

university of alabama freshman, remembered as someone everyone could count on. with major events like the super bowl and mardi gras happening in the coming weeks, officials say their investigation is ongoing. >> we care about each one of the lives that were lost in this city in that, but it would be a tragedy if we let their losses be snuffed out because of fear. this city will be back. >> our thanks to trevor. we will, of course, continue to follow this story as it develops right here on abc. when we come back, sopranos star drea de matteo bringing in big bucks for her new persona online. how she her new persona online. how she says she saved herself you know what you don't see in psoriasis commercials? the thousands of real people who go undiagnosed. people whose psoriasis can look very different depending on their skin tone.

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version of me that i'm kind of proud of, and i don't feel like i need to apologize to anybody. >> the 52 year old actress, who has specialized in sex bomb characters on screen, most famously in the sopranos, is now creating a new sort of persona these days online. >> i didn't even know i made all these tips, guys. and $50,000 in tips right here. >> and it's paying off thanks to onlyfans. in fact, she says it saved her from financial ruin. she's joined a growing list of high profile actors and others taking their talents to the exclusive, subscription based platform and cashing in without doing explicit content. drea knows her appeal on onlyfans to many comes from her role as adriana la cerva, the doomed but much loved character from six seasons of hbo's iconic series the sopranos. >> adriana la cerva this is my

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sense of safety. and it came right out of the pandemic where we really didn't know what was happening and what was up and what was down, and there was just so many things happening. >> at the beginning of the pandemic. hollywood, like everything else, shut down. filming slowly picked back up and work resumed. but not for drea. she had chosen not to get the vaccine. you didn't get on a soapbox and talk about why you weren't doing it, but you decided not to take the covid vaccine. >> well, for me, it was just i don't even take tylenol. i don't like to put anything in my body. so i also just didn't know enough. i didn't know enough. my children didn't know enough. my kids are fully vaccinated. >> so it wasn't like a big ideological thing for you. >> no, it was it was not at all until it became that in the in the media. >> like so many others who are out of work and out of money.

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