and then we ended with garrett tenney. and we also talked to david spunt. these two incidents, your fbi background, do you believe they're connected? do you believe they're both terrorist acts? >> my gut instinct says, yes, that they are both terrorist acts. are they directly linked? i it would be too soon to tell that trace, but i i'm sorry. i look at everything and i think i'm a tesla truck in front. think about it. elon musk associated with tesla. president trump's trump tower and, you know, fireworks. explosive devices potentially found in that truck. and then both vehicles were rented out of state, brought to different states and wreaked havoc in different communities, whether it was in new orleans or whether it was in las vegas. i just don't think that's a coincidence. i really don't. but, you know, we'll see what the investigation unfolds. but it is so important right now that the fbi is on point, looking at every single potential and possible lead. we looked at the press conference that occurred in las vegas, and i thought it was, quite frankly, a v

garrett tenney live on the ground in new orleans at the latest on the investigation, but we begin with marianne rafferty on the other potential terror threat that took place today in las vegas, involving a tesla cybertruck and a trump-owned hotel. >> good evening, trace. just a few hours after the deadly terror attack in new orleans, the tesla cybertruck exploded and caught fire outside the trump towers in las vegas. a short time ago, elon musk posting on x, "we have now confirmed the explosion was caused by very large fireworks and/or a bomb carried in the bed of the rented cybertruck and is unrelated to the vehicle itself. all vehicle telemetry was positive at the time of the explosion." the sheriff said the truck exploded in front of the trump building just before 9:00 this morning, injuring seven people. those injuries reported as minor. and killing the driver. the tesla truck seemed to take the brunt of the blast. the glass front doors of the building still intact. this new drone video reveals the evidence in the back of the truck. >> gasoline canisters, campfield canisters, and l

garrett tenney is in new orleans.ake us through these new chilling images. >> reporter: investigators are learning what the suspect was doing in the hours leading up to this attack with new images released by the fbi showing shamsud-din jabbar going to the french quarter and leaving two coolers filled with ieds the apparent the plan to detonate as part of his attack. around the same time the fbi says he posted five videos to his facebook page where he said he joined isis before last summer and revealed that he initially planned to attack his family and friends but alternately decided on bourbon street because it would create better headlines for the, quote, war between the believers and the disbelievers. we also have this new video showing the moment he hit bourbon street in that rented white pickup truck, you see folks frantically running to get out of the way, several just barely escaping as he flies down the packed street. back here at the scene, you can see bourbon street is back open, there's a growing memorial t

garrett tenney live for us in new orleans. garrett, thank you. we are getting new details by the minute right now on this attack, so let's bring in now someone be who talk more about this, this is former fbi supervisory special agent jason pack. jason, there are so many questions tonight and people feeling very uncertain about where this investigation is and how safe this country is i want to ask you, especially as we are watching what is happening in houston right now. i believe the swat team is outside the home we believe that belongs to the suspect in this attack. what do you believe the fbi is doing right now in this to learn more about the suspect and potentially a team, a cell, a sleeper cell that could be actively working on u.s. soil? >> good evening, aishah. there is a lot of activity going around. you see the video there in houston. the houston fbi swat team and some other fbi agents are likely there they are bringing every resource they may need depending on what hazards they may find prepared for anything they may find. whether they a

garrett tenney is live in new orleans with the latest developments.porter: millionly, good afternoon. we are learning more about what the suspect was doing in the hours leading up to this attack. the fbi says shamsud-din jabbar, they found bomb-making materials inside his home in houston as well as inside an airbnb here in new orleans where he briefly spent some time. inside that airbnb, they found a homemade belief that they believe was -- device that they believe was a silencer. jabbar unsuccessfully if tried to destroy that evidence by setting the airbnb on fire as he left for bourbon street. the fbi is also working together on putting -- working on putting together a timeline. they have spoken with jabbar's family many houston, his ex-wife who lives in georgia. they are cooperating with the investigation. back here in new orleans, the city council is pushing for an investigation of its own. we have earned that city officials had been preetedly warned -- repeatedly in several reports commissionedded by the city in 2017 and 20 the 20 the that the fr

>> bret: garrett tenney, live in new orleans. garrett, thanks.k in new orleans. can you donate at go.fox/ nola or scan the qr code on your screen, fox has contributed to this as well. louisiana's health department is reporting the first bird flu related death in the u.s. the patient was over 65 years old, had underlying medical conditions the department releasing a statement the current public health risk remains low, breaking tonight, snow is piling up in washington, d.c. after a powerful winter storm made its way across the u.s. throughout the mid-atlantic midwest, nearly 300,000 people are still without power, hundreds of motorists are stranded. more than 2,000 flights were canceled today, including all flights scheduled for the rest of the evening at ronald reagan washington national airport. that's where we find correspondent mark meredith with a nightmare of a travel day at least in this region. good evening, mark. >> bret it, sure is likely the nightmare is going to continue. tomorrow, the snow still falling right now at this hour. reagan

correspondent garrett tenney is on the ground in new orleans. ett, good evening. >> trace, as this investigation continues, the fbi is now working on putting together timeline for how and when this u.s. army veteran became radicalized to the point that he carefully planned out a massacre here on bourbon street. >> this was an active. it was premeditated and evil act. >> he acted alone. the fbi today changing its original position on the deadly new year's day rampage in new orleans now saying shamsud-din jabbar is the sole suspect. >> we have had 24 hours now to go through media, to go through phones, to interview people. we are confident at this point that there is no accomplices. >> investigators say the u.s. citizen and army veteran posted videos on facebook just hours before he drove a ford pickup into the bourbon street crowd, saying he was inspired to kill by isis. and that he joined the militant group before last summer. >> he was 100 percent inspired by isis. >> fbi says jabbar was initially planning to kill his family and friends but thou

s garrett tenney is there this morning. garrett, what is the very latest on the investigation? >> reporter: well, ashley, the top priority for investigators right now is tracking down anyone who was involved with this attack. the planning of it, yes, but even to more so anyone who helped carry out this attack. we have learned that this investigation includes an airbnb here in new orleans where a fire broke out yesterday morning just hours after this attack. louisiana's attorney general says they believe that the individuals involved used that airbnb as a home base of sorts to make at least some of the improvised exmostive devices that were found around the french quarter early yesterday morning. we have also learned hours before the attack, the 42-year-old suspect posted videos about his support for isis and expressed a desire to kill people. this past hour though, new orleans' police chief gave us conflicting information from what we've been hearing from other officials and said it's not a sure thing that other individuals

garrett tenney what he is learning on the ground, garrett. >> good morning that path to radicalizationa big focus for investigators going forward and as you mentioned new details about the suspect from his family. his brother, the brother of shamsud-din jabbar told fox news for years the u.s. army veteran had been trying to find himself looking for some one to guide ge him and why he impart joint the military appear to the whole family grew up muslim that he took a step away from religion in his 20s and more recently got back into his face after his second divorce. to the fbi has released new surveillance videos showing jabbar hours leading up to the effect walking through the french quarter placing two coolers with ieds inside he planned to detonate during the massacre. investigators did find bomb-making materials at a nearby therapy in the where the suspect was saying they now believe he did in fact act alone and did not have any accomplice. too many innocent victims killed in the attack and 35 injured first and foremost, let me be clear about this point. this was an act of terrorism

brooke tailor is covering the investigation in texas but first to new orleans where garrett tenney is standing by live. good morning, garrett. >> good morning to you. fox news learned in the wake of this attack the f.b.i. and dhs have issued a warning to police across the country to be on the lookout for the potential of copycat attacks. to be clear, this is really fairly typical after events such as this one and we are told that this specific bulletin doesn't include any specific intelligence of a specific copycat event that they are concerned about. but here in new orleans investigators are learning a lot more about this suspect. what they are learning is that in the hours leading up to his massacre, the f.b.i. says that jabbar posted five videos to his facebook page. on there he said he joined isis before last summer and revealed initially he planned to attack his friends and family. but he ultimately decided to attack bourbon street because that would create better headlines for the quote, war between the believers and the disbelievers. this new video also shows the moment jabbar

garrett tenney is in new orleans this morning. let's talk about the suspect.ore details coming to light. what can you tell us? >> reporter: last night, police and the fbi's task force conducted a search of the suspect's home north of the city of houston in texas. this past hour, they cleared off the gordon allowing cameras to get closer to that home after completing the search of they did overnight. we learned investigators searched and airbnb in new orleans that the attorney general's it was used by individuals involved to make some of the explosive devices that were found in this attack. police recovered one ied in the truck that shamsud-din jabbar used and a several other ieds in different parts of the french quarter. we are getting conflicting information on if other individuals were involved in this attack, the attorney general says they have high confidence shamsud-din jabbar did not excellent but the police chief said she's not as certain of that. hopefully we will get more clarification in the next hour. we are learning more about shamsud-din jabbar. h

here now with the very latest from new orleans, garrett tenney is with us. garrett. >> yeah, tammy.ne of the top priorities for investigators right now is determining whether or not jabbar acted alone in planning out or carrying out these attacks because, if he didn't, that would mean there would still be the possibility of additional attacks like the one we saw this morning. one update we-to-do have along those lines, in our reporting, is that investigators had been looking at surveillance video from earlier that showed three men and one woman, who appeared to be placing impro vialsed explosive devices around the french quarter. we are now told, sources telling our own david spunt, that police interviewed those four individuals and now believe they just were bystanders who happened to look suspicious. that being said, we do know bomb squads have searched the french quarter and detonated multiple i.e.d.s that were left in the area. also, right now in houston, houston, texas, just a few hours away, a swat team from the f.b.i. and local police have surround add house on the north side

here now with the very latest from new orleans, garrett tenney is with us. garrett. >> yeah, tammy.the top priorities for investigators right now is determining whether or not jabbar acted alone in planning out or carrying out these attacks because, if he didn't, that would mean there would still be the possibility of additional attacks like the one we saw this morning. one update we-to-do have along those lines, in our reporting, is that investigators had been looking at surveillance video from earlier that showed three men and one woman, who appeared to be placing impro vialsed explosive devices around the french quarter. we are now told, sources telling our own david spunt, that police interviewed those four individuals and now believe they just were bystanders who happened to look suspicious. that being said, we do know bomb squads have searched the french quarter and detonated multiple i.e.d.s that were left in the area. also, right now in houston, houston, texas, just a few hours away, a swat team from the f.b.i. and local police have surround add house on the north side of th

for more on the latest developments on the investigation we are going to go now to fox news garrett tenneyho is in new orleans. garrett? >> gregg: yeah, we know the fbi as well as local police new orleans several other areas are looking into the possibility of additional accomplices that help this suspect plan out or carry out this attack. that includes just a few hours down the road in houston. right now the fbi and local police are set up outside of the home there on the northside of houston. we have seen them take at least one person into custody and sources tell our own brooke taylor that police are now preparing to move in on that home that has some kind of connection to this terror attack. we don't know for certain if this is, in fact, the suspect's home or someone connected to him. but we are told that police are worried there could be explosive devices inside. so they have been clearing out everyone who lives in that area before moving in and that's suspected to be in the next couple of hours. back here in new orleans. the fbi has named the suspect in attack as 42-year-old shamsud-

let's go to garrett tenney in new orleans. >> good morning to you. the top priority for investigators now is tracking down anyone involved in the attack. the planning but especially in carrying out of this attack. we have learned that investigation includes an airbnb rental in new orleans where a fire broke out hours after this attack. louisiana's attorney general said they believe the individuals involved used that as a home base to make at least soft improvised explosive devices found around the french quarter yesterday morning. we learned hours before this attack the 42-year-old suspect jabbar posted videos on social media about his support for isis and expressed a desire to kill people. new orleans police chief gave conflicting information to what we've been hearing from others. >> there are some people of interest that we -- i know the f.b.i. wants to screen as to whether or not they were associated or not. so this is not an accomplice situation as of yet. they are looking at anyone and everyone who could potentially have been affiliated. may ve

garrett tenney i is s live and t french quarter the scene of the crime with the latest on this,dv garrett, good evening. >> trace, good evening to you and i want to take you to use dense with the fbi carrying out a search warrant at a home nortf e city believed to belong to the suspect in this terror attack. at thi ts point the bureau saysh arrests have been made that we did see one person detained there early this morning. we are also told there are concerns explosives inside of that home. so the place clearing out everyone who before they move in. sources tell brooke taylor of the joint terrorism task forces expected to do that and began so their search soon.tryi part of what investigators trying to figure outut w the seh not only a timeline of when the suspect a 2-year-oldd, shamsud-din jabbar being b radicalized, but was he working with anyone else in the attack?o thisrn past our louisiana attorney general reiterated investigators are highly competent others were, in fact,m involved. we are alse abo learning the background of the suspect born in texas and served 13 years and army rese

let's go live to fox news' garrett tenney in new orleans with the very latest. t. >> reporter: yeah, liz, we are here on bourbon street which is back open to the public now nearly 36 hours after that truck came speeding down this road plowing through crowds of folks that were out celebrating new year. and today we learned a lot of new information about that attack and the suspect. you mentioned his name, the 42-year-old, shamsud-din jabbar, one of the things we've learned is what he was doing in the hours leading up to his rampage. during that the time the fbi says surveillance video shows him placing too coolers at two different intersections here in the french quarter. he was also mosting videos on facebook, five videos, where he said hed isis before this past summer and that originally he planned to hurt his family and friends but, ultimately, decided not to do that because he was concerned the news headlines from doing that would not focus on the, quote, war between the believers and the december believers. another big update we got is that investigators now

. >> brian: this guy was certainly living in squalor over in texas garrett tenney live with what we arerning about the suspect. garrett? >> yeah. good morning, y'all. investigators are focusing on trying to put together a timeline when the suspect a u.s. army veteran became radicalized to the point that he carefully planned out a massacre here on bourbon street. fox news spoke to the brother of shamsud-din jabbar and he told our colleague, brooke taylor that it was shilling, shocking and heart breaking to learn from the fbi he planned to attack his friends and family before ultimately deciding to attack bourbon street because it would create better headlines war between believers and disbelievers. jabbar grew up muslim took astep away in 20's and recently got back into his faith after the divorce. brother said he didn't see any warning signs of that change which is what the fbi is now looking into. >> 14 innocent victims were killed in this senseless attack and at least 35 were injured. first and foremost, let me be very clear about this point, this was and act the terrible. premeditate

. >> brian: garrett tenney joins us live. >> that path to radicalization what they are focusing on.rning new details about the suspect from his family. shamsud-din jabbar's brother tells fox news that for years the u.s. army veteran had been trying to find himself and looking for something to guide him, ground him, and set him straight, which was in part what led him to join the military. the brother says the whole family grew up muslim but that shabby tshamsud-din jabbar tookp away but got back after his divorce. showing jabbar in the hours leading up to the attack walking through the french quarter and placing two coolers with ieds inside that he planned to detonate during the massacre. investigators found bomb-making materials at nearby airbnb where the suspect was staying. they now believe the suspect acted alone and that he did not have any accomplices. >> 14 innocent victims were killed in this senseless attack. and at least 35 were injured. first and foremost, let me be very clear about this point. this was an act of terrorism. it was premeditated and an evil act. >> back her

fox news garrett tenney spoke to the ceo of meridian rapid defense group which makes the steel archerrier that are designed to prevent the exact kind of attack on bourbon street. the archer that new orleans has had for years and had hindsight would have changed everything. >> there is no question would have had a different outcome. it's difficult to say what that outcome would be, but we know what the product does. we're in the mitigation business, we are here to mitigation the situation. right? and that's what the does. it actually stops people progressing down down a path or a road or a street. attorney general of louisiana how did you first learn of the terror attack? >> well, i woke up in the morning on new year's day to an early phone call from the governor immediately called him back and, you know, discovered what happened we saw it breaking on the news. i wasn't aware of it until 6 6:30 a.m. we're hearing that the city had barrier to prevent this type of attack. the superintendent wasn't even aware that the city had them? is it time for her to resign? >> you know, i got that qu

garrett tenney is live in new orleans with more. >> this trip by the president and first lady was offering behalf of the nation and started by visiting the growing memorial here on bourbon street to lay flowers and offer a prayer before heading to a church nearby where they met with some of the victims' families as well as two of the injured officers who were injured in a shoot-out with the suspect that ended his rampage. >> president biden: i know events like this are hard, the shock and pain is still so very raw. my wife jill and i are here to stand with you. grieve with you and pray with you, let you know you are not alone. >> the white house has announced it will send additional resources to the city to help secure next month's super bowl. homeland security will have a much greater presence than initially planned and state officials are pushing to take on a larger role with the frustration of the city ignoring warnings to secure the french quarter against this very kind of attack. louisiana's attorney general is ordering the state's bureau of investigation to conduct a full review of t

retired nypd inspector paul mauro is here with me in new york in just a moment but first, garrett tenneyng live on these newly breaking details from new orleans. >> we have learned in the months leading up to the attack, he made two trips to new orleans, once in october and then again in november. here is video you mentioned that jabbar made in the first of the trips, wearing meta-glasses as he rode a bike down bourbon street right past where he ultimately crashed a truck on new year's killing 14 people and injuring dozens of others. we have new surveillance video showing he had an ied inside. here you can see him setting a cooler down on a different street corner. officials believe he was shot by local police before he was able to detonate those two ieds he was able to leave in the french quarter. they are looking into international travels as well as i try to put together a timeline for his radicalization and looking at a specifically a weeklong trip he made to cairo, egypt, in june of 2023 and a stop he made in ontario, canada, on his way back home to the u.s. >> we have not seen any

let's go to garrett tenney, who is standing by in new orleans with the very latest. garrett?edy, the focus of this investigation is shifting a bit now that the fbi has determined the suspect acted alone and that there is no ongoing public safety threat, investigators are now digging into how and when the suspect became radicalized. we have learned that in the hours leading up to the attack, shamsud din jabbar posted five videos to facebook where he said he joined isis before last summer and revealed his original plan was to hurt his family and friends, but he was worried that kind of attack wouldn't generate news headlines on the "war between the believers and the disbelievers." up until today, officials said they were very confident that other people were involved in this attack, and they were actively looking for accomplices. today, here is how they explained this big change in their investigation. >> the hundreds of interviews we have conducted so far, the social media, i might count the five devices we have, the three cell phones and the two laptops, then able to initiall

first to garrett tenney who joins us live in new orleans with the latest details there. hi, garrett. >> good morning to you. authorities are looking to see if these two incidents are in any way related. simply because of the shared similarities, both men served in the military. veterans. both men used the rental car appear turo to recent electric trucks to carry out these attacks and explosions we saw. but we did just learn a short time ago, david spunt at the justice department said the f.b.i. no longer believes the suspect in new orleans acted with the help of others. that he did this on his own. that is significant because that has been a top priority for investigators who have been trying to figure out if there was any kind of ongoing threat to public safety. hopefully we'll hear more why they now believe the suspect, 43-year-old jabbar acted alone. this last night and early this morning the f.b.i. and state attorney general said they had a high level of confidence others were involved. some had used an airbnb a mile from the scene to make explosive devices. while we

. -- garrett tenney. city is hosting the super bowl next month.cials doing to prepare for that? >> reporter: well, stu, state officials are now pushing to take on a much larger role many in securing do superdome -- the super bowl than originally planned in part because of a lack of confidence in city leaders who they sue as having fail -- view as having failed to secure and protect folks last year on -- week on new year's. state officials say they are confident that next if month that new orleans will be the safest place in the country, and that is in part because the white house will now be sending additional federal resources to help sure the super bowl. we are told the department of homeland security will now have a much larger presence than initially planned. if as those preparations get underway louisiana's attorney general is also ordering the state's bureau of investigation to conduct a full review of the security failures from last week. here she is earlier on "mornings with maria." >> i think it's going to dissect everything that led up t

the ceo told garrett tenney in 2017 they sold new orleans 48 archer barriers designed to stop a chargingto use after the attack. >> actually, we have them. >> the fbi has released new images of shamsud din jabbar and the french quarter roughly an hour before the bloodshed. the release also includes pictures of a cooler. the coolers are significant because two of them were deposited in the french quarter where bombs apparently capable of remote detonation. a pretty clear indication the attacker intended more bloodshed. the flyers were released as investigators are trying to drum up more information. also as investigators pour over a rented house near the french quarter and they have reentered the home where jabbar lived in north houston, all of them trying to determine how this army veteran turned into a domestic terrorist and whether he could have been stopped. edward? >> edward: yeah, incredible scenes down there in new orleans. appreciated, mike tobin, thank you. given these develops, will any hold up and putting trump's cabinet in place put americans endanger? why why some are worried

but first, we begin here with garrett tenney, who is in new orleans with the latest. rrett. >> yeah. and, kaylee, right now i want to take our viewers to the north side of houston, where an fbi swat team and local police have surrounded a house that is in some way connected to this morning's terror attack here in new orleans. we don't know if the suspect if this is their home, but we do know that they did live there in the houston area at some point. so whether or not this is his home or the home of someone who is connected to that is not clear. but we did see police take at least one person into custody already. and for the past few hours, we are told that police have been going house to house in that neighborhood to clear out everyone who lives nearby before they move in on that home, because they are concerned there could be explosive devices inside. that concern stems from the fact that police here in new orleans not only found an improvised explosive device inside the truck used in this morning's attack, they also found multiple ieds that were left in different pa

fox's garrett tenney spoke to the ceo of meridian rapid defense group, which makes the steel archer barriers that are designed to prevent the exact sort of attack that occurred on bourbon street. the archers at new orleans has had for years, and in hindsight, would have changed everything. >> there's no question you would have had a different outcome. it's difficult to say what that outcome would be, but we know what the product does. we're in the mitigation business. we're here to mitigate a situation. right. and that's what the equipment does. it actually stops people progressing down a path or a road or a street. >> that's what we do. >> joining us now is liz morrell, attorney general of louisiana. so you are from new orleans. this was an attack on your home. how did you first learn of the terror attack? >> well, i woke up on in the morning on new year's day to an early phone call from the governor. immediately called him back and, you know, discovered what happened. we also saw it breaking on the news. i actually wasn't aware about of it until around 630 in the morning. public officials