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the death toll now at 15. dozens more hurt. the attacker identified as an army veteran from texas. >> mere hours before the attack, he posted videos on social media indicating that he was inspired by isis. >> this morning the search for answers. what we're learning about the suspect and the victims and the ongoing security fears. we'll have complete coverage. deadly blast -- new images of the moment a cyber truck explodes directly in front of the trump hotel in vegas. the heavily damaged vehicle carrying gas canisters and mortars. the fbi investigating the blast as a possible act of terror and looking for any potential link to the attack in new orleans. we're live at the scene. bundle up -- sending temperatures plunging across the country. we'll have the full forecast including the massive winter storm set to bring snow, ice, and rain to tens of millions.

he said, she said -- actor justin baldoni fires back after being accused of sexual harassment by co-star blake lively. just ahead, what he's claiming in a new $250 million lawsuit and how she is responding. all that plus new year's goals. everything you need to know about the top diets, if you're looking to eat and feel better in 2025. this morning how to pick the best plan for your lifestyle. and moving on -- >> right down the middle, smith is wide open! too easy! >> ohio state blows out oregon. >> that ball is intercepted! it is intercepted! >> while texas outduels arizona state in a double overtime thriller. >> what an all-time classic. what a way to welcome in the new year. >> setting up a highly anticipated semifinal showdown in the college football playoff with georgia and notre dame

facing off today, thursday, january 2nd, 2025. >> announcer: from nbc news this is "today" with savannah guthrie and hoda kotb, from studio 1-a in rockefeller plaza. well, good morning. good to see you. welcome in. it's a thursday morning. we're so happy that you're with us. laura jarrett is in for savannah who is enjoying a little bit more time off. we do want to get right to our top story, the very latest from new orleans on that chilling new year's terror attack. >> at least 15 people were killed, dozens more injured, when a truck plowed through a crowd in the city's historic french quarter. and this morning new details are emerging on the attack and the man police say was behind it. >> the city is also postponing college football's sugar bowl. they moved it from last night to this afternoon, and that decision amid criticism that short security posts, known as bollards, were not in place for new year's eve because of

repairs ahead of next month's super bowl at the superdome. meantime, we're also learning more about that cyber truck explosion at the trump international hotel in las vegas. two law enforcement sources now telling nbc news investigators are looking into a possible military connection between the driver, who was killed there, and the new orleans suspect. >> we do have complete coverage on both of these stories including a live interview with new orleans superintendent of police. but first, nbc's senior national correspondent, tom llamas joins us. he has the latest there. hey, tom, good morning. >> reporter: hoda, good morning. we've learned overnight that the fbi has executed search warrants here in new orleans and also in other states, like texas, where that alleged terrorist is from. just behind me, that's where the killing spree started, the entrance to bourbon street. usually the sight of so many good times but now a crime scene. and we learned this morning that the nlpd plans to reopen bourbon

street to pedestrians as so many in the city and across the country are king the same question right now, why new orleans. >> reporter: this morning, new video showing the terrifying moments on bourbon street, pedestrians fleeing that white pickup truck after the driver jumped a curb, passed a police car and barrelled down the street, all captured on surveillance video. >> i need ems canal bourbon now. >> reporter: horrified witnesses recording the scene, along three blocks of the french quarter. >> and there were just bodies and the screams. i mean, you can't un-think about that -- unhear that. it was c chaos. >> reporter: police say at least 15 people killed, more than 30 others injured. authorities looking at this as an act of terrorism. the fbi describing the driver, 42-year-old shamsud-din jabbar, u.s. citizen from texas, army veteran who served in

afghanistan. a youtube video posted four years ago, jabbar identifies himself as a realtor. >> born and raised in beaumont, texas, now live in houston. >> reporter: authorities looking for any potential links to terrorist groups after finding an isis flag attached to the back of the truck. president biden addressing the nation. >> reporter: mere hours before the attack, he posted videos on social media, indicating that he was inspired by isis, expressing desire to kill. >> reporter: this morning cnn reporting, according to two officials briefed on the investigation, that law enforcement is reviewing videos made by the suspect while driving to louisiana, discussing his allegiance to isis. nbc news has not yet verified that report. inside the vehicle, police found weapons and a homemade bomb with more potential improvised explosive devices found in the area. louisiana's attorney general telling nbc news those ieds may have been made in a local airbnb. videos showing police nearby

running towards the chaos, taking down the armed suspect in a gun battle that left two officers shot. >> it felt like a war zone. >> reporter: when you look down bourbon street, you look down to the path the terrorist took, there were no barriers. he essentially had a free pass to go down bourbon street as fast as he wanted. >> 100%. >> reporter: local officials say at the time of the attack, protected barriers or bollards were under repair and not up. instead, police strategically parked patrol vehicles to block key roads. still, authorities admit their prevention plan failed. >> we did, indeed have a plan, but the terrorist defeated it. >> reporter: the city council president calling for more scrutiny. >> i will say this that the bollards go up and down but the sidewalk protection is not what it should be. >> reporter: among those killed a recent high school grad, 18-year-old ni'kyra dedeaux, 28-year-old, tiger bech, a princeton football player, and nicole perez, who leaves behind a 5-year-old son.

>> everybody loved her. and now she gone and never come back. her baby, what i need to tell him? i don't know how i can explain him. >> reporter: the community left to grapple with the new year already tainted by tragedy. you really feel for all those families that lost loved ones in this terror attack. and of course, all the victims that are fighting for their lives right now in hospitals across new orleans. surgeons and doctors working around the clock to keep those people alive. as for the sugar bowl, it was postponed from yesterday to today. it will take place at 4:00 p.m. eastern. and there are questions about safety. the governor says that it's safe to host that game, and he says to prove it, he's going to be there. hoda? >> tom, thank you. let's get more on this investigation, what we're learning about the attacker and the impact this is having on the city of new orleans. let's bring in anne kirkpatrick, the city's superintendent of police. it's nice to see you, chief. i know it's been a difficult time for new orleans. let's just get to some late

details here. so the suspect is dead and initially there was a search for additional suspects. is there an ongoing search for others at this stage? >> yeah, good morning. i do want to begin by saying i know there are a lot of people grieving today, and our hearts really do go out to these families who have had lost ones as well as those who were injured, and i'm grateful for our own officers, who were shot, that they will recover. but with respect to the question of an ongoing search, we have people of interest. they are not people who are suspects at this time. the fbi is tracking down everybody. we want to make sure that people are either cleared, but we do have information that we want to just track it down, and that is under the fbi's investigation at this time. >> sure. chief, did the nopd receive any

kind of intelligence from federal authorities warning that there may be, in fact, some kind of terror threat leading up to the sugar bowl? >> no, there was no information that we had, and so nothing along those lines. >> let's talk about the heinous act for a second. jabbar was driving down canal street. he made a sharp right on bourbon. we video of it. you can see him just barreling past the nopd car getting right up there on the sidewalk. the car was meant to block him but clearly didn't do the job, and we were just talking about those bollards, those barricades, that were under repair. should those have been up and running for the sugar bowl? >> well, they were not able to be up d running, and that is because it was under repair. we were aware of this issue, and that's why we were using patrol cars. that will be changing today. we will have much heavier equipment to harden these softer

targets. so the city had a multimillion-dollar package for repairing this infrastructure obviously in time for the super bowl, but it was not complete at the time of this event last night. >> let's talk about the victims, chief.? >> well, what do we know about them? we f them are locals. >> well, we do know that many o reporting, as well them are locals, and we also know, through your reporting as people who were well, that we had people who yo lives have were young, whose lives have b. just as prior to coming on been cut short, just as prior to coming on with you, a young woman who just graduated from t you, a young woman who just graduated from high school high school.. yes, we ar yes, we are saddened by this, e. but it doesn't matter the age of a person. many of them were young. >> the sugar bowl is tonight. the governor poste but it doesn't matter the age of a person, but many of them were young. >> the sugar bowl is tonight. the governor posted a picture.h, saying he will be in that number at the game. the attorney general said she

he was out to dinner last night wished it would have been postpone saying he will be in that number, at the game. the attorney general said she hoped it would be postponed e a, maybe until friday or maybe even later. do you fee maybe another day, maybe until friday or even later. do you feel like the police department is ready for this de event this afternoon? >> well, yes. event this afternoon?and we are. we are in partnership with >> well, yes, and we are not alone. many other partners we are in partnership with many other partners both local, , bo federal, military poli federal, military, police will forth, will be here. be here. and so, we are going to have absolutely hundreds of we are going to have absolutely an hundreds of officers and staff lining our streets, lining lini, bourbon street, lining the lin the french quarter. so, we french quarter. are staffing upa so we are staffing up at the t same level, if not more same level if not more so than n what we were what we were preparing for the supe super bowl.r bowl. >> yeah. again, you >> again, you do have the super bowl coming up, mardi gras bowl coming up, mardi gras coming up, and you're expressin coming up. and you're expressing that the nopd will be the nopd will be ready. ready. superintendent chief o superintendent chi of police anne kirkpatrick, thank you so much. we appreciate your time this pp morning. morning. >> yes, thank you. >> yes, thank you. also thi >> also this morning, federal s

investigators ar investigators are trying to e t determine if there's any determine if there's any link between what happened there in new orleans and to an alar new orleans and to an alarming incident in las vegas. incident in las vegas. look at that.t that. a tesl a tesla cyber truck exploding a just steps from the entrance just steps from the entrance of the trump international the trump international hotel. the blast killing the driver inside that truck and injuring several others standing nearby. nbc's morgan chesky joins us with this part of the story. morgan, what's the latest? >> reporter: laura, good morning. overnight, authorities have reopened the road in front of trump international, but just in the last few minutes, two senior law enforcement officials tell nbc news that a man named matthew allen lizelburger has been identified as the individual who rented that tesla cybertruck in the state of colorado. however, at this hour, it's still unknown if he was the man inside that car when it pulled in front of this hotel and exploded. this morning new details on that stunning cyber truck explosion that happened outside trump

international hotel on the vegas strip new year's day. three senior law enforcement officials briefed on the case telling nbc news it's being investigated as a potential act of terrorism, and with questions arising over possible ties to the attack in new orleans. >> we're absolutely investigating any connectivity to what happened in new orleans as well as other attacks that have been occurring around the world. we're not ruling anything out yet. >> reporter: nbc news is learning investigators are looking into a possible military connection between the new orleans suspect and the person inside the tesla. according to two law enforcement sources. authorities also confirming the vehicles involved in both incidents were rented from the car sharing company turo. the company saying in a statement they're heartbroken by the violence and are actively partnering with law enforcement authorities as they investigate both incidents. yesterday authorities also revealing crucial evidence found in the back of the truck after crews contained the fiery scene. >> so there were gasoline canisters.

they are camp, fuel canisters and large firework mortars. >> reporter: they say the 2024 cybertruck was rented in colorado and arrived in las vegas around 7:30 a.m. wednesday morning. the truck pulled up to the trump hotel roughly an hour later exploding after less than a minute, injuring seven bystanders and causing chaos inside the hotel. >> we saw a lot of smoke through the windows. we go downstairs and the whole lobby, everyone is trapped. >> reporter: new video shows the truck being taken away by law enforcement and despite the charred aftermath, authorities say the explosion could have been much worse. tesla's ceo, elon musk, posting on x, cyber truck actually contained the explosions and directed the blast upwards. this morning officials stressing this investigation is just beginning. and this morning authorities say despite this being an on going investigation, they do believe this was an isolated act and there's no impending threat to

las vegas at this hour. that said, across the country, nypd has announce that i had are bolstering security around trum new york through tower in manhattan. ura? today. >> morgan chesky, thank you. we're joined by nbc news analys >> morgan chesky, thank you. we are now joined by nbc news analyst and former fbi special agent clint watts. clint, these two incidents happened close in time. is there any connection that you see between las vegas and new orleans? >> the only thing that's really there so far is this turo app. they both rented cars on it. i had never heard of the app until yesterday. that's the one thing. the other thing investigators are looking into is potential military overlap in terms of their service. we don't know anything about the individual in las vegas. we don't have a name yet. so looking for more details there to see if there's any connection between the two or if it's just a major holiday and two individual incidents that are isolated. >> does your gut tell you that they're connected or not? >> it doesn't seem so. i think if there was an isis connection, for example, they were both part of a network, you

would have seen some sort of paraphernalia, something social media wise with the las vegas one. that doesn't mean we won't learn that today. at least so far i'm not seeing it. >> take us behind the scenes in new orleans. what are they doing on the ground to prepare for the sugar bowl, think also have the super bowl coming up. how do you prepare when somebody is this prepared to do such harm? >> yeah. so any time you're doing a major event, whether it's the super bowl, the sugar bowl, two parts to this. the vulnerability assessment. you know what the location is and you want to defend against any and all threats. the threat assessment is the other part. that's definitely changed now. you have seen a major incident in new orleans, another one in las vegas. add to that you have a political season that's coming up, several different ceremonies. so the threat assessment has to widen. i think for the fbi and really all law enforcement, the landscape has never been wider, everything from domestic to international plots, plus individuals of what we call mediated terrorism, they see something in the media, they decide they want to do a target, a targeted attack, but you don't know who the assailant is or why they're picking that attack.

very hard to defend against. >> clint watts, thank you so much for being here this morning. we appreciate it. >> thanks, clint. we have a lot more to get to including tomorrow the start of a new congress, the first order of business, electing a house speaker. republican mike johnson has the job and president-elect trump's endorsement, but he will need nearly every gop vote to hold on to that gavel. nbc's senior capitol hill correspondent garrett haake is in washington with more. hey, garrett. >> reporter: hey, laura, good morning. yeah. look, all through the last congress, these last two years we watched as first kevin mccarthy and then mike johnson struggled to accomplish much of anything with that small republican majority. in the new congress that comes to washington tomorrow, that majority is even smaller making speaker johnson's first task even more challenging, getting himself re-elected. as a new congress arrives in washington tomorrow, house republicans are hoping to avoid the embarrassing spectacle that began the last congress. >> a speaker has not been elected. >> reporter: when it took 15 votes over four days to elect

kevin mccarthy as house speaker. >> duly elected speaker of the house of representatives -- >> reporter: now it's speaker mike johnson scrambling to lock down his own party's support after he replaced mccarthy, who was eventually ousted by fellow republicans. johnson spent much of his tenure relying on democrats to help pass key b bills as e narrow republican majority squabbled over spending and how to approach issues like the war in ukraine. >> i remain undecided as do a number of my colleagues, because we saw so many of the failures last year. >> reporter: with an even smaller majority in this congress, if all democrats stick together and support their leader, hakeem jeffries, on friday, johnson can only afford to lose just one gop vote and still win the gavel. president-elect trump, who seemed cool on johnson after last month's government funding battle, offered him as, quote, complete and total endorsement on monday, praising him at mar-a-lago on new year's eve. >> we're going to get a successful vote. he's a good man.

he's a very wonderful person, and that's what you need. >> i'm really humbled and honored to have president trump's endorsement for speaker again. he and i worked so well together, so closely together, and we have a lot of big things to do. >> reporter: trump's endorsement hasn't swayed thomas massie. there kentucky. currently the only republican to publicly vow to vote against johnson. massie writing on x that johnson, quote, won't tell the president what is achievable and what is not achievable in the house, and suggesting johnson lacks the situational awareness to know what can pass. indiana's victorious concern is simpler. >> he doesn't have any trust, and i don't trust him. >> reporter: now if the vote to elect the speaker takes a few days, it would be embarrassing but it wouldn't seriously hamper the government or the transition unless there's still no speaker come monday. that's january 6th when the presidential electoral votes are set to bcounted and certified by congress. that process can't begin nor can members even be sworn in until a speaker is elected, mike johnson or someone else.

laura? >> all right, garrett haake in washington. thank you. 7:20, time for a check of the weather. i see a lot of blue on your map there, dylan. >> more like boo. no one wants to see that blue. considering how mild it's been lately, we are going to see this huge dip in the jet stream that will drag in the below average temperatures. minneapolis, a high of only 21 degrees today. but wait, it gets colder. looking for highs in the single digits in bismarck, north dakota. tomorrow a high of seven, 16 degrees below average, even louisville will drop down to a high of 37 degrees and then that cold air sticks around minneapolis in the teens, all through the weekend. chicago in the low to mid-20s, even new york, we drop down into the mid and even lower 30s by the time we get into next week. that's a look at the weather across the country. we'll get to your local forecast in the next 30 seconds. metal] [low roar of churning coffee beans] [rattle of barista pouring coffee beans] [grinding noises] [bubbling water] [people softly talking] [whoosh of steam] [trickle of espresso pouring out]

[whoosh of espresso settling] [hissing and frothing of milk steaming] [pouring espresso into cup] [sliding coffee on counter] [person sipping their coffee] into the afternoon, a mix of sun and clouds and overall enjoyable day in the low 60s this afternoon down here into the south bay. it will feel just a touch more mild as we get more sunshine. and those numbers in the mid 60s. now there is rain on the way for tomorrow, so prepare those umbrellas and your >> and that's your latest forecast. >> dylan, thank you. coming up, guys, more on that deadly terror attack in new orleans including its impact on the college football playoff. last night's sugar bowl

postponed until this afteron, already tight security, now being heightened. we're going to have a live report from the superdome. plus, inside this escalating feud between "it ends with us" stars blake lively, justin baldoni, as the actors and what they say happened behind the scenes. first this is "today" on nbc.

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near coyote creek and story road in san jose. the city of san jose has said these encampments are spilling waste into our local waterways and need to go. the encampments need to go away in order to be in compliance with the clean water act. a spokesperson for valley water says the district is right now not planning to remove any unhoused people by force from the banks of its waterways, but instead will conduct public outreach. one person is dead following a head on crash northeast of gilroy. the chp says around 730 last night, a truck and an suv rammed into each other on leavesley road near new avenue. a third car was also involved, ended up in a ditch. officers closed both lanes of leavesley for about two hours to collect evidence and for crews to clear the roadway. it is now back open. it's another cold start on this thursday morning. cynthia is in for kari this morning. good morning laura. good morning everyone. yeah. cold start, but then into the afternoon we should see a dry and enjoyable day to get out there. about a

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good to see you on this -- >> happy new year, by the way. >> craig and savannah enjoying a little time off. let's start with that decision to delay the highly anticipated matchup between georgia and notre dame in college football playoffs. the new orleans police superintendent telling fans to expect a massive police presence. >> yeah, nbc's jesse kirsch is right there at the dome with that part of the story. hey, jesse, good morning. >> reporter: hoda and laura, good morning. when fans show up today to the superdome, they will see a hardened, expanded skrt perimeter. yesterday, these barricades stopped back there, now they extend to the end of this block ahead of a football game under the spotlight for the wrong reasons. >> reporter: this morning, new orleans is teaming with college football fans. ♪♪ ready to cheer on notre dame's fighting irish and the georgia bulldogs in a quarterfinal that was supposed to kick off yesterday on new year's day. but after the deadly terror

attack on bourbon street that killed at least 15 people, football quickly became an afterthought. at a previously scheduled mass, notre dame fans like cheryl and her family were suddenly asked to pray for victims. >> the game is important, yes, but it's not as important as taking care of each other. >> reporter: notre dame's head coach speaking to espn after the bowl game was postponed. >> i have a lot of faith this country will rally around new orleans and support the victims' families that were affected today. >> reporter: these two visits from the atlanta area were on bourbon street just hours before the ramming but left before midnight. and when you found out what happened, what went through your mind? >> my heart hurt. >> reporter: now they're among the thousands of football fans having to decide if they want to stay as major u.s. airlines offer customers flexibility. you're in town, will you go?, if >> absolutely. >> absolutely, yes. >> they're definitely doing their work making sure we're safe.

>> reporter: the city's top cop describing the safety plan. >> we have bomb dogs out there sweeping the superdome and all the exterior area. that will be locked down tough the game. >> your governor is going to be there. that is proof, believe you me, that that facility and this city is safer today than it was yesterday. >> reporter: but some, including louisiana's attorney general, wishing the football game was postponed even longer. >> i would like to see it delayed at least another day. this is an active crime scene. >> reporter: a bowl game unlike any other now bringing rivals together in grief. >> whether we're wearing our green shirts or our red shirts, i think when we go into the stadium to watch the game thinking a lot about the city and rooting for the city. >> reporter: the superintendent of police here in new orleans says they are going to have as much if not more security for this game as was planned for the super bowl next month.

and for what this is going to look like on tv, besides the fact that the game has been moved to an afternoon start time as opposed to at night, there's no indication that the schedule of events has changed. of course, we'll be looking to see if there are any tributes in the stadium and also be looking if more than 70,000 seat venue looks like it's full or if it looks like some people have chosen to stay home. we do know that some people have told our team they are just going to go home because they feel it is safer to watch this on tv. and we also know from the governor of louisiana that at kickoff between georgia and notre dame, the flags on all state buildings will be at half-staffed. hoda? >> jesse kerch, thank you. just ahead for you, the growing calls to crack down on illegal fireworks after a massive new year's eve explosion in a residential neighborhood. we have the very latest. but first the legal battle that's intensifying between blake lively and her "it ends

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co-stars of the recent film "it ends with us." blake lively and justin baldoni. >> their accounts of what happened behind the scenes and the media tour differ greatly with baldoni, and now he's sharing his version of the story in a lawsuit. it's a he said/she said. >> nbc entertainment correspondent chloe melas has been following every last twist and turn. chloe, good morning. >> incding two lawsuits filed on new year's eve, no less. lively initially laid out her claims of baldoni sexually harassed and directed a smear campaign against her in a complaint with the california skifl rights department that was filed in december. now baldoni is suing "the new york times." the paper that first reported those allegations for $250 million, saying that they uncritically embraced lively's narrative. the legal battle involving the co-stars of "it ends with us" now in full swing with two explosive lawsuits filed on new year's eve. justin baldoni suing "the new york times" for an article reporting blake lively's claims

that he directed a smear campaign against her during the press campaign. baldoni's lawsuit calling the article, rife with inaccuracies, misrepresentations and omissions, relying on lively's, quote, self-serving narrative and showing examples of text messages that the lawsuit says were misleadingly edited by lively and knowingly published by "the times" such as removing an emoji that would indicate the comment was sarcastic. which the lawsuit calls a calculated distortion. >> they allege that "the times" cherry picked and decided to take snippets of negative things, negative text messages, out of context and put them in their article, which ended up making baldoni and others look bad. >> reporter: "the new york times" says it plans to vigorously defend against the lawsuit. meanwhile, blake lively filing her lawsuit against baldoni and his production company as well as the pr team they hired and a new york federal court. the suit echoing claims laid out in lively's earlier bombshell

complaint alleges baldoni and the film's lead producer engaged in sexually inappropriate behavior on set. >> it's going to be perfect. >> okay. >> reporter: and then the lawsuit says baldoni and his production company wayfarer and mr. baldoni directed their pr team to actively engage in retaliatory social manipulation campaign. an attorney for baldoni and other defendants called the allegations categorically false. baldoni's talent agency wme told nbc news they dropped him as a client in the wake of lively's complaint. in his podcast co-host announced her departure from the show. the legal drama surrounding "it ends with us" only just beginning. >> all right, chloe. how is lively now responding to this new lawsuit from baldoni? >> her team says that nothing in her original civil rights complaint and now her federal suit changes in the wake of baldoni suing "the new york times," but it is interesting, as you heard danny cevallos say in the piece, he is suing "the times," not lively. he could still potentially do that. and will this ever see the light

of day in a courthouse? potentially but it's a long road to get there and as you know it's a very uphill battle. we were talking about that earlier this morning to go up against "the new york times." you can imagine they said they're going to vigorously fight these claims. >> it's going to get nasty, it looks like, right? chloe, thank you. >> thank you. let us switch gears. shall we get a check of the weather from ms. dylan. hey. good morning, everyone. we do have windy conditions across the northeast today with winds up to 55 miles per hour. it's also much colder outside, so you factor in those gusty winds, and it's going to feel really, really uncomfortable if you're outside for too long. wind gusts could be as high as 25 up to nearly 45 miles per hour in new york city. boston could see those wind gusts up to about 48 degrees. so that could also cause some power outages. the ground is really saturated from the recent rains. so that could topple trees and power lines, too. when you have the strong northwest winds, though, and the great lakes are still not frozen, we have the great lake effect, that combined with a ept

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savannah and craig enjoying a little bit of time off. good to see you. did you have a good year? >> i did. nice to be with you. 2025, i like the ring of it. i like the energy. >> all right, let's go. we do want to get to our news at 8:00, and we will begin, of course, with that terror attack in new orleans. new details emerging about the man who drove his truck right down bourbon street, plowing into a crowd of new year's revelers, killing 15 people. nbc's senior national correspondent tom llamas joins us. he has the latest here. hey, tom. >> reporter: hoda, good morning to you. we have some new reporting to share with our viewers. the new orleans police department tells me they're going to reopen bourbon street today to pedestrians. they are expected to announce this as a news conference later today at some point. this as the new orleans superintendent of the police department was on the "today" show saying they are still searching for persons of interest. all of this as the investigation continues. this morning new video showing the terrifying moments on bourbon street, pedestrians fleeing that white pickup truck after the driver jumped a curb, passed a police car and barreled down the street, all captured on

surveillance video. >> i need ems canal and bourbon now! >> reporter: the fbi describing the driver, 42-year-old shamsud din jabbar, as a u.s. citizen from texas, an army veteran who served in afghanistan. authorities now looking for any potential links to terrorist groups after finding an isis flag attached to the back of the rented truck. president biden addressing the nation. >> mere hours before the attack, he posted videos on social media indicating that he was inspired by isis, especially a desire to kill. >> reporter: inside the vehicle police found weapons and a homemade bomb with more potential improvised explosive devices found in the area. louisiana's attorney general telling nbc news those ieds may have been made in a local airbnb. video showing police running towards the chaos, taking down

the armed suspect in a gun battle that left two officers shot. when you look down bourbon street, you look down to the path the terrorist took, that were no barriers. he essentially had a free pass to go down bourbon street as fast as he wanted. >> 100%. >> reporter: local officials say at the time of the attack protected barriers or bollards were under repair and not up. >> they were not able to be up and running and that is because it was under repair. we were aware of this issue, and that's why we were using patrol cars. that will be changing today. we will have much heavier equipment to hard he these softer targets. >> reporter: among those killed

a recent high school grad. 18-year-old nikyra dedeaux, tiger bech, a former princeton football player, and nicole perez, who leaves behind a 5-year-old son. >> my baby, what am i going to tell him? i don't know how i can explain him. >> reporter: we're seeing some new video of police in houston investigating the home of the alleged terrorist, searching that home after search warrants were executed trying to gather more clues. we also have an update on the sugar bowl. it is going to take place today at 4:00 eastern. this was postponed from yesterday. so a lot happening in new orleans today. you have the sugar bowl taking place and the reopening of bourbon street to pedestrians. police and the governor say the city will be safe. guys, back to you. >> tom llamas for us there on bourbon street. tom, thank you. also breaking overnight, ten people were injured after several gunmen opened fire outside a nightclub in queens here in the city. this morning police are still searching for four male suspects. they say the gunmen fired at least 30 shots, but the incident is not believed to be an act of terror. all of the victims suffered non-life threatening injuries and are expected to recover. to a new year's eve celebration in hawaii that turned deadly. illegal homemade fireworks

killing three people and injuring dozens more. liz kreutz joins us with more. hey, liz, good morning. >> reporter: the scene where this happened is so horrific one witness compared it to a war zone. hawaii officials are now pleading with citizens to stop using amateur fireworks, saying there's a reason it should be left to professionals. in hawaii a new year's eve celebration turning deadly after illegal fireworks exploded at a home in honolulu, igniting this massive fiery blast that authorities say killed at least three people and critically injured more than 20 others. >> what should have been a night of joy and celebration has instead become one of sorrow and heartbtbreak forur community. >> reporter: the tragic explosion appearing to happen just after midnight of the new year when video showed dozens of amateur fireworks lighting up the honolulu sky. >> every ariel firework is illegal. this situation is out of control. it cannot be allowed to continue. >> reporter: officials say a new year's eve party was taking place in the carport of a

three-story home when a bundle of lit fireworks fell over setting off a chain reaction. >> it was a cake bomb essentially. it was a bomb last night. it was fireworks but they were put together in a way that they were so explosive, they took the table down, apparently. >> reporter: according to authorities, two women died at the scene and a third died at the hospital where two dozen others, including children, were taken with serious injuries. >> all of them had burns, many of them also had shrapnel injuries. >> reporter: this video showing the chaos on the street. >> it blasted outward, like this, and it took thhouses in front of it and the cars in front of it. >> happy new year! >> reporter: adrian was visiting from southern california, says he and his friends were a few blocks over from the blast. >> it kind of looked like a ball of fire. it was clear something was off. it's kind of sad to think about, you know, as we're counting down for new year's, people are losing their lives.

>> reporter: hawaii's governor now saying enough is enough calling for legislation, making it a felony to possess large fireworks over 50 pounds. >> we're talking about the worst possible war zone injuries that took their lives, and that will continue to happen if we don't take, as a society, real action. >> reporter: now law enforcement says tens of thousands of dollars worth of illegal fireworks were at the house where it happened. they say they're still considering charges for the person who lit the fireworks that caused this tragic accident. hoda? >> liz kreutz, thank you. let's take a turn now, two more teams punching their ticket to the semifinals of the college football playoff yesterday. let's start with the rose bowl. oregon taking on ohio state in the shadow of the san gabriel mountains. >> see if they take a shot here. howard looking to launch right down the middle -- smith is wide open! too easy! >> this one was all ohio state. the game was essentially over halfway through the second

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and good morning, we are live in new orleans just yards away from the site of that deadly new year's terror attack. and we are coming on the air now because authorities are about to hold a news conference th the very latest. police and the fbi have said they are actively looking for other persons of interest who may have been involved in the attack. that attack in the early morning hours of new year's day on bourbon street that killed 15 people and injured dozens of others. kierinto the crowd was at the very least quote inspired by isis. or any duals here in the u.s.? he was killed by police a shootout during that attack. and the investigation is widening and law enforcrcement now trying to determine if there's any link between the

new orleans attack and the explosion of a tesla cyber truck outside of the trump hotel in las vegas. nbc news has now identified the driver of that truck who was the only person killed in the explosion. >> hi there, you are watching an nbc news special report. this is anchor savannah sellers in new york. we have just lost the audio from tom llamas but to nbc news law enforcement and intelligence correspondent tom winter. if you can hear me, tom, we'd love to understand the latest here. what is it we are hoping to hear in the latest update? there's been many questions as is anybody here in the u.s. we know some search warrants have been executed, who are they

looking at and what are you looking to hear in this update shortly? >> right, savannah and it was something that tom was alluding to from the scene there in new orleans. the idea of something the fbi first and broached yesterday afternoon in their press conference are they looking for any other individuals? that was based on video that they were able to gather from local businesses that showed two possible homemade explosive devices that were planted or left behind near the scene. so it was not what was found in the truck but what was found near the scene and they saw some individual around those apparently all those individuals checked ou that means that those individuals are not believed to have been involved in this. so at this point, there's still the working belief is that this individual acted alone. jabbar acted alone. the question is did he get any sort of support as tom said from overseas when he raveled over there in 2023? did anybody radicalize him and get any sort of financial support and these are recall the traditional questions we get when we're looking at the incident like this. in the las vegas incident,

right now there's no indication that anybody else is involved in that really i think investigators are looking at these as two separate incidents except the fact of how the commonality of how the trucks were rented as well as both men served in the army. any sort of overlap in the army service and did they know each other? if so that's an avenue to pursue but if not these two appear to be separate incidents entirely. so that's what's going on in law enforcement's circles right now. we want to get more clarity from louisiana authorities and they seem to suggest the attorney general? interviews with our own lester holt last night, that there may have been individuals who were at the airbnb where this suspect stayed leading up to this vehicle ramming attack. so the question is, was there anybody else that was coming in or out or perhaps they were there to make food deliveries or other types of deliveries and they have no nexus to this investigation or individual as well? hopefully, now with hindsight in about 12 hours of time for

police to do this investigation, about 15 or 16 hours since the last time they spoke to us, we'll have more clarity as to what they found there in new orleans. so those are kind of the questions that we're trying to get answers to. but again, increasingly these incidents look like they are separate incidents and the incident at the trump hotel in las vegas and what happened yesterday in new orleans and also they are increasingly looking like these two individuals acted alone but hopefully this press conference will provide more clarity. we'll look to see if we hear from the fbi at this press conference as well who's running this investigation. savannah? >> tom winter, thank you very much. again, we are standing by as you can e for this update from officials. i'm going to send it back to tom llamas on the ground right near the scene of where this attack happened. tom? >> hey. thank you for that again. any moment now we're waiting for the governor of louisiana to start the news conference here in new orleans to provide the big update and we expect

possibly the announcement they're going to reopen bourbon street to pedestrians ands this something we were told by the new orleans police department earlier today. and that it would be announced later. dottie schwartz who joins the coverage in new orleans is here live for us now. you were walking around the area earlier today. a lot of cleaning done but they're getting ready to possibly reopen. >> that's right and you know as we look at this press conference here, you have got a member of the national guard standing there all around the perimeter. there are members of the national guard standing next to state troopers and so there are kind of these -- these symptoms of the remnants of hurricane katrina almost if you will. and then we were walking around and you can see the people were starting to go in and they couldn't cross bourbon street but those that worked along bourbon street were going inside entrances. we've heard two different times possibly noon, possibly 3:00 but again we're going to wait and see what they say during this press conference. >> besides the potential reopening of bourbon street. again which would happen less

than two days after the terror attack in the city. the sugar bowl is going to take place tonight at 4:00 p.m. eastern. lots of fans from notre dame and the university of georgia are going to be here. what does file like to you? it's unclear how busy the superdome will be. >> i mean, you can hear the music. there are still -- places -- >> the vibe of new orleans. >> that are celebrating right? you have got the fans that are making their way down the and t- shirt sales are coming out and there are hundreds and hundreds of people all around this streets here and again, you have got the spirit of new orleans is still very much alive that resiliency is come back. >> gaydy schwartz, we appreciate your reporting and stand by for us after this press conference. frank. give me the sense, what is your gut telling you and do you think there are other co- conspirators out there or do you think possibly the isis connection could be something financial or something different but maybe a connection overseas? and not necessarily other sort of people on the ground here in

new orleans and/or in the u.s.? >> yeah, that's of course the swer we all are looking for particularly as, you know, the final decision is made to carry out the sugar bowl today. so look, it's too early i think for the fbi to say definitively that this man acted alone. that would be wonderful. but i don't expect it because it's -- it would be just too fast. the question is whether or not his self-association with isis really means that there was some cell operating, there's no evidence of that right now. there's been a lot of rue manhattan, rumors and intelligence around the people around the airbnb -- >> it looks like -- looks like this news conference is going the start and let's listen to the governor of louisiana. >> as you travel around the state, you will see flags of all state buildings at half- mast in honor of those lives that were lost in this horrific

act of violence. i also think that it's important to remember that what happened yesterday was akin to those are old enough to remember jigsaw puzzles. and that you would take 1,000 piece jigsaw puzzle and you empty the box and you have got to start sifting through those pieces and you want to start -- if you are real good you start at the corners. try to put your corners together. from yesterday, to today, over a thousand law enforcement agents and officers, men and women, have been poring over countless amounts of data, of videos, of surveillances,

interviews, tracking down every possible lead that came to us, whether it was the new orleans police department, the louisiana state police, the fbi, or our other federal agencies. also yesterday, we declared -- i issued an emergency declaration. that declaration was meant to streamline resources and communications between state, local, and federal partners. and we're seeing the results of it. i would also like to remind everyone that what's going on in the city and state is twofold. we've got an active criminal investigation going on while we're also continuing to secure the city in preparation for 3:00 kickoff time for the sugar

bowl. with that, i would also remind those who are in the city that as far as state resources are concerned, we have the louisiana state e police, e louisiana national guard which was part of that emergency declaration, which allows us to put an entire mp company on ground. that becomes force multipliers is what we call that in the law enforcement and the military. that helps to add to the resources that we have. wildlife and fisheries and dsf and dhs, our veterans affairs, our probation and parole. any state agency who has a postcertified officers are here in this city to help secure the city. so with that, i would like to turn it over to christopher wray the deputy assistant

director of the fbi's counterterrorism division. chris? >> thank you governor landry. good morning. i am fbi deputy stands director christopher wray. i'm from the counterterrorism division at headquarters. i'm also joined by assistant special agent in charge alathea duncan from the new orleans office what you heard from yesterday. here too discuss not only the latest investigative information we have here in new orleans, but also let you know about other investigative activities outside of the state. our first and most importantly want to send our deepest condolences to the victims of this horrific attack and their loved ones. 14 innocent victims were killed in this senseless attack. and at least 35 are injured. we cannot ease the grief people in this community and across the nation are feeling at this

time but rest assured, we stand with you and in support of you. all the resources and i'm going to go into a little bit later. all the resources of the fbi are being focused on tracking down every piece of evidence. every leads. every interview, every potential -- every potential lead we've got. while i won't be able to answer all your questions today, my goal is to be as forthcoming as possible with you on what we've uncovered so far. first and foremost let me be clear about this point. this was an act of terrorism. it was premeditated and an evil act. this was obviously a critical incident and with that lots of information and tips come pouring in from law enforcement, first responders, and the public. we have been aggressively running down these tips and information. as you all know, that takes time and we will continue to do

so until every lead has been followed through on. this investigation is only a little more than 24 hours old. so i ask you to keep in mind that as i go through some of the specifics later. but at this point, currently, and this is another position -- another fact i want to be clear on. 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. little bit about what the fbi is doing. so we are surging people and assets to the area from across the region and across the nation. special agents in multiple field offices across the country have been deployed and are assisting with potential aspects of this investigation and following up on every lead. additional teams of special

agents, professional staff, and victims' specialists continue to arrive to provide more investigative power and assistance to the victims and their families. we have also forward deployed a number of out of our critical incident response group assets including members of our hostage rescue team, special agent bomb technicians, and crisis management coordinators. in addition, we have deployed more evidence response technicians to continue to process the various scenes that we have. so far, we have received just over 400 tips from the public. and that information is being followed up on both here in new orleans and across the country. some of the tips are here in new orleans, and there are other tips in other states across-country that we are following up on. the fbi team and our law enforcement partners here are also reviewing hundreds of hours of surveillance and other

video from both the french quarter and other locations. as for timeline, at this point, investigators believe jabbar picked up the rented f-150 in houston, texas on december 30th and 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. there were five videos posted on jarbar's facebook account which are time stamped beginning at 1:29 a.m. and the last at 3:02 a.m. in the first video, jabbar explains he was concerned the news headlines would not focus on the quote, war between the believers and the disbelievers if he focused on family and friends. end quote. additionally he stated hehe joined isis before this summer. he also provided a will and

testament. fbi and atf -- we have a couple of different scenes at the location. as you -- we have released the scene at bourbon street. that scene has been released. we also have a scene off of mandevilla address where we are currently searching that scene right now. fbi and atf agents have secured that house. and that location is being searched for potential evidence. on new year's morning, jabbar opened fire after ramming through a blocked off area of bourbon street, used his truck as a weapon to run over the victims and teams of specially trained victims specialists are on the ground here in new orleans as i said assisting survivors of the attack and

loved ones of the deceased. we do not believe the public is in any danger around any of these locations. three phones linked to jabbar have been recovered and digital media exploitation is a priority to see what is on the devices and determine if there are any other potential leads. additionally, we have recovered two laptops and are currently reviewing them for any potential leads. those laptops were recovered at the mandeville address. everyday technicians will also be going over the f-150 truck jabbar was driving. as you know we recovered an isis flag from the back of the vehicle. jabbar declared his support for the group on social media as i stated before as he made his way to new orleans. fbi bomb technicians also recovered two ieds in coolers, one from the cross section of

bourbon and orleans street and the second at an intersection approximately two blocks away. there were multiple reports of other devices. those reports turned out to be misinformationmont -- not actual functioning devices. those are the only two devices that we've been able to recover that were functional. both devices were renderedsafe on scene. we did obtain surveillance footage showing jabbar placing the devices where they were found. two other as i said before, two other items of interest were determined not to be ieds. a little bit about jabbar. he himself was born in the united states and is a u.s. military veteran. we are looking in everything in his life while we have interviewed many people know jabbar, we still need to talk to others. whether you know jabbar personally or worked with him, served in the military, or saw

him in new orleans or texas, we need to talk to you. you may not think you have relevant information, but what you know could tie in into one of our investigative leads. specifically, we want to talk to anyone who was in the french quarter on new year's eve or early on new year's day. that includes people spotted near one of the two ieds on bourbon street, that includes -- the ied was inside a cooler and many people stopped and looked at the cooler and then continued on their way. let's be clear. again, we do not believe at this point these people are involve in this incident in any way. we want to speak to them as witnesses and want to know what they saw and when. i went down to the crime scene last night. it is very hard to put into words what it looked like and

how difficult it was to see. anyone with information can call us at 1-800-call-fbi or seal tips to fbi.gov/bourbonstreetattack. early this morning, evidence response teams finished their work at the crime scene. bourbon street has been turned over to the city of new orleans. as you know, there's also an fbi investigation in las vegas. we are following up on all potential leads and not ruling everything out. however, atis point, there's no definitive link between the attack here in new orleans and the one in las vegas and again i'll preface as i close i'll preface with what i started with in the beginning which was it's very early in investigation like this. again, our thoughts and our prayers are with the victims of

this tragedy and everyone impacted across the country. they remain at the heart of our investigation. i also although i have only been on the ground here a short time. also want to express a sincere appreciation for our partners here. which include the u.s. attorney's office, hsi, atf, the new orleans pd, louisiana state police, the governor's office, and countless others. at this point, turn it over to the special agent in carjack of atf here, josh jackson. >> hey, good afternoon and as stated may name is joshua jackson and i'm the special agent in charge of the new orleans atf field division. preventing and reducing and involving violent crime is our main mission througthe united states and abroad. solving part is the focus of this investigation. atf resources that have been brought to bear to the city and to focus with our federal,

state and local partners have been our national response team. we spoke about the scene that still being processed now. the national response team of atf is a team of certified fire investigators and certified explosive specialists and fire engineers and electrical engineers and those folks will give us additional investigative leads to help the investigative team identify what happened at the location of mandeville and identify how that fire started. and move the investigation forward from there. additional resources at atf is brought to bear into the city is our atf special response seams. this is a tactical team capable of handling any sort of operation. this team is deployed and on set and ready for the sugar bowl today. also made available to the louisiana state police and also new orleans police department to assist with any effort that they may have during this period. additional resources. as the governor alluded to, we

executed executive powers and emergency support function 13 resources. this allowed us to bring additional k-9s that we can safely sweep the city and safely sweep the super bowl and preparation for the game today. these resources will still be in the city as we lead up to -- and up to the super bowl and through mardi gras. these type of resources will be here. the last resource atf brought to bear and and probably the most important one, is our victim witness coordinators. these folks come in and they provide resources to the victims and the family members that have suffered greatly during this tragedy and the entire city hurts. but the victims and the family members are in need of resources and care long after this investigation wraps up. this time next year, it will be hard for the families and friends who suffered during

this event. our victim witness coordinators are working with fbi and the city of new orleans coordinators to provide resources to these folks out here. and as we move forward, atf will be committed. we will work with theinvestigative team moving this investigation forward. but also we'll be here to make sure the city is safe and prepared as we move into the super bowl. with that i'm going to turn it over to our mayor of this great city of new orleans, madame mayor? >> thank you so much. well, good morning once again. and i just want to just echo my thank yous to the unified command of our law enforcement partners and at every single level. federal, state and governor, thank you for your partnership. thank you. i also want to thank the residents and the visitors of the city of new orleans for your patience, for your

support, and most of all, your prayers. our hearts and prayers continue to go out to the victims' families, and the city of new orleans, we're resilient and as i stated on yesterday, my focus in terms of a priority has been on our victims. as you heard, that yes, the fbi was able to clear bourbon street and what that meant also for me and this city was that we were able to remove our victims, identify them, and notify their families. real reverence,. they mattered, the families matter. and matter to the city of new orleans. in addition to that, i want to just thank again our federal

partners in washington listening to my plea personally, for the additional resources to allow for the scene to be cleared and again, attending to our victims. i walk by each one and i made the sign of the cross in my own way because reverence again is important. so while we have been able to have bourbon street returned back to the city of new orleans, and the due diligence has been done, that then allows me to give the go ahead to begin the cleaning of bourbon street. that started happening in the morning about 2:00 a.m. it was completed before 8:00 a.m. this morning. but that has really set the tone. i would say, and with the confidence that i have, in the law enforcement partners, all of the resources that have been activated, how we have made sure that safety continues to

be our top priority, how our assets have been deployed strategically again for the safety and the protection of our visitors and our residents in the city. and because of that, the confidence is there to reopen bourbon street to the public prior to game -- time today. the first order will be to allow for vendors to come in and service the businesses. that's important in order for us to stand up activation as you know, governor. and so with that, i want to reassure the public that the city of new orleans is not only ready for game day today, but we're ready to continue to host large-scale events in our city because we are built to host at every single turn. i want to again thank all of

those who responded to the fbi's call for information and tips. as you heard, that has been useful. continue to do that. the investigation is still active and absolutely under the fbi's leadership. we will continue to operate and cooperate as we always have. so i want to also thank all of our partners for the added resources for victim and crises management. we know that that's again important. working with our partners, the greater new orleans foundation, we have set up a fund for our victims' families for not only today, but into the future as you heard, this is going to be a long process for our people. so with that, the city of new orleans and with all of my confidence, we are ready and we could not get here again

without the unified presence, support, and cooperation. we are stronger together and i want to say again thank you so much. thank you, governor. >> so once again, the governor would like me to reiterate that bourbon street will be prepared for full activation before game time today. we know 3:00 p.m. so we are working towards 2:30 p.m. but prior to game time, the kickoff bourbon street will be restored and we're hard at work now and our teams are now and of course working with our business community to serve our public and serve our residents. and our visitors alike. okay. >> in closing, i want to -- rest people assured. right now in the city of new

orleans, there's an unprecedented amount of law enforcement resources that are being utilized to close out and to hunt down and to finalize this investigation. i want to thank the fbi and all of our federal partners for the amount of resources they have poured into the city. this type of event can happen in any ci. and that's the tragedy of it. and i think it's important for people to understand that to protect our citizens in america from evil, you have to crush it. you can't go out there and placate it and 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. we're goining to put it all behind us. we're going to continue to keep the victims, those that are in the hospital either fighting for their lives or trying to recover, in our thoughts and in

our prayers. but you know, this morning and i don't want to -- single out just one news source but i just happened to turn on "fox & friends" and that was a young man who was in -- who was actually on bourbon street during this horrific act of terrorism. and they closed out by asking him what now? and i think he summed it up. he said look, we can't live in fear. because fear will paralyze us. he said we come down to the city to enjoy ourselves and to entertain ourselves and to be with our friends and with our families because that's who we are. louisiana invented hospitality. the people of this city care for each other. and believe you mewe care about each one of the lives that were lost in the city that day.

we will never forget them. but it would be a tragedy if we let their losses be snuffed out because of fear. this city will be back. will be open to family and friends and loved ones who want some time to relax from the pressures of life. and so today we're going to have us a sugar bowl. we're going to enjoy ourselves. we're going to keep those again who have lost loved ones in mind. and we're going to get on to the business of this city and the great country. with that i'll take any questions. >> governor, this is -- [ inaudible ] the message is really changed since yesterday. yesterday, the fbi said that people should be vigilant and that you cannot -- act alone and that he likely lad help. and now you are coming up the very next day and saying you

are going to -- revoke everything and -- everybody -- how can you be so sure 12 hours later? >> well, we're going to bring him up. all right? but here's what i want -- i want to remind everyone. like i worked at and i was -- i worked in the jail and i worked on the street and i worked on the interstate. i served warrants and i can tell you. look, in today's world, i get it. information, we get information like that. everybody lives in a 15 second tiktok video. we think that life operates like it does on our phones. and it just doesn't. information changes and in fact, that's why we ask the media for patience. we get information like i said, putting -- no one dumps 1,000 piece jigsaw puzzle and puts it together in five seconds. okay? and what i would tell you is that i would rather, i appreciate the fact that what

we did was we're underpromising and overdelivering today and i think that's important and i want to remind somebody. over the last decade law enforcement has taken it on the chin. unfairly. and there are great men and women who serve in the fbi and atf and louisiana state police, in new orleans pd, our sheriffs have been unbelievable in this. and i tell you, they want to protect you all. and we have to trust them. and sometimes the information we put out, we end up finding out that it may be incorrect. but guess what? we're doing here is something that i think is important. it's called transparency. look, something may change again. here's what i do know though. right now, this is one of the safest places on earth. it doesn't mean that nothing can't happen. >> thank you governor. and to echo exactly -- i think the governor put it eloquently

here as cub said. in a lot of the instances i also had the opportunity and this was almost carbon copy to boss bomb as far as the inaccurate reporting that comes up. what the governor said is we want to be transparent with the public. years of the fbi not being transparent. unfortunately, as we're being transparent, unfortununately, r that, there's some information that we have to go back and recorrect and this particular incident, you heard the resources that we brought that the other state and locals have brought. we've had 24 hours now to go through media to go through phones and to interview people and to analyze those videos and analyze other databases. and after all of that, there's been hundreds and hundreds of leads done just in 24 hours and we're confident at this point that there's no accomplices and i'll give you an idea of how that information -- sometimes lot of the early reports came out that there were people that

extra people that were setting the coolers down. it turns out those were just patrons on the street looking inside the coolers? we don't know that at first. that's just an example one of the pieces of information but there were other pieces after wegot the feet under us a little bit on the ground here we were able to put together a much more accurate picture of the subject. and his intentions. 14 and then the shooter himself would be 15 total. to include the shooter. [ inaudible question ] were the ieds pipe bombs and have you discovered a remote detonator anywhere? he planted -- suspect t planted his ieds and what time roughly were they planted. >> roughly -- i don't have the exact times in frt of me. a couple of hours prior to the attack. probably after midnight. i want to say 1:00 or 2:00 in the morning but i can't -- >> the area -- [ inaudible ]

>> correct. that's our assumption now. we still have is a lot to work through and getting more surveillance video and everything else but that's the assumption. [ inaudible question ] any k-9s out on new year's eve or bomb sweeps done as roadway caution? >> i think. just say this and either joe or bob or correct me -- look, bomb dog doesn't operate like a drug dog. right? they -- on bourbon street there's a lot of scents. right? a lot of smells. i don't think you can run a bomb dog down bourbon street with thousands of people there and be able to sniff out a bomb. what we have been doing, what they have been doing is certainly a complete sweep of the quarter because of the limited amount of traffic that's been out there. let me just say this. i think -- this may help. it would be my hope that as

some additional time goes through, maybe closer to maybe the beginning of next week, we will -- if we've got it -- to what extent buttoned up as we could, i would work with the fbi and the city and maybe we can come up with a timeline to be able to get you those information kind of walk everyone through from day one through i think it is -- it's extremely premature and you really putting us on some speculative grounds to ask some of the questions because again it's only been 24 hours. can you imagine how far we've come in 24 hours? [ inaudible question ] >> whoa, one at a time. >> what's being done to make bourbon street safer tonight than it was on new year's eve? or temporary bomb -- being brought in off the streets and why weren't those used on new year's eve? >> well, look, here's what i'm

going to say. every time some bad guy does something like this, that's what we call an afteraction review because again, nothing is 100%. we have reinforced the area. we have deployed some additional types of assets. i personally think -- it's up to -- the city or other -- i don't like to give specifics because i don't like to tell the enemy what we got. but i can tell you we're in better shape than we were before. >> you have time for two more questions. [ inaudible question ] >> mandeville -- neighbors at that site told us they smelled smoke early in the morning, was there a fire there? any kind of burning happening? >> yeah. great -- [ inaudible ] >> that's correct. >> yeah. i want to address the suicide vest question and i want to

kill that one right away. there was no evidence that the subject was wearing a suicide vest at all. so i will turn the mandeville stuff over to atf. >> as to the fire at the mandeville scene, so the working theory now is that the fire started after jabbar was already deceased. a lot of different ways that can happen. you can have different timed devices and you could have a -- long cord that extended that time. you could also have pressure cookers that were put on top of stove filled with gasoline that went off. that's why the atf national response team is here to answer those questions and get t that investigative lead back to our team. so more to come on that. we're still processing that scene and we're out this right now. [ inaudible question ] >> sure, a lot -- a lot of questions we're still asking

ourselves. we know that he specifically picked out bourbon street. i'm not quite sure why. i think one can assumeit was lots of people and new year's eve and, you know, with -- you know, a target for an attack. that's -- the stuff in the coming days as far as that path to radicalization that we're really going to be digging into and making a priority making a priority of. so what i can tell you right now is that he was 100% inspired by isis, more social media and more interview working with the other partners to ascertain just how -- to ascertain a little bit more about that connection. [ inaudible question ] >> we're going to do one more. >> you had your hand up for a while. >> actually for -- [ inaudible ] >> i prefer those. [ laughter ] >> in order to reassure people, explain the analysis as it is that has led to this -- the

deeper understanding that he was -- a lone actor and at this point at least -- no further danger to the public? >> sure. sure. i think a lot of that multiple interviews and the hundreds of interviews that we've conducted so far. the social media, the social media review that we've done of his accounts. the thought -- what we by my count now the five devices we have, the three cell phones and the two laptops. been able to initially triage or go through that and there's just nothing to indicate through call records, through anything on those devices, through interviews, through anything in our systems, that he was aided -- aided in this attack by anybody. and again i have to caveat like the governor said. this is 24 hours into it and? could change but right now we've got a much better picture and much more confidence on what we were dealing with than we were just 24 hours ago. >> all right, look. thank you all so very much.

again again, we're going to try to get y'all as much information as possible. so -- any additional information will be put out through press releases, thank you so very much. >> okay. we've just been listening to the governor of louisiana along with fbi officials and local officials here in new orleans and we've learned a lot of new information. i do want to start that the number of dead has somewhat changed. there are now saying there are 14 victims who have died in the terrorist attack and the 15th was the terrorist himself. also something that's happen right now. you see a lot of construction vehicles behind me. we have some video. roll as well. they are now setting up barriers along bourbon street because the mayor and as nbc news first reported is set to reopen bourbon street after 36 hours after the terrorist

attack happened. open 2:30 local. 3:30 eastern. just before the start of the sugar bowl. they feel the area is now secure. my colleague gadi schwartz was out there on bourbon street and also putting them at the corner of where that terrorist jumped the curb and got on to bourbon street. so essentially on the sidewalks as well. they are reinforcing bourbon street and a lot of people are going to be asking why they didn't do this before new year's eve. why this had to be done after 14 people were killed in that terrorist attack. also learning from the fbi that they now believes this somewhat of a lone wolf attack. ththey are w saying they the fbi now believes this is somewhat of a lone wolf attack. they do not think there are co- conspirators anymore. the investigation is fluid that they do not think there were other people in new orleans who helped him out to pull off the attack, now they are telling us there were two ied's, pipe bombs that were in coolers along bourbon street on one location or a few blocks ahead of where the terrorist attack ende