coming up julie banderas is in for harris, "the faulkner focus" is coming up next. thank you for joining us. >> julie: we begin with a fox news alert. fox just confirming the f.b.i. no longer believes no other suspects involved in the new orleans attack out there. president biden will also meet with members of his homeland security team next hour to get an update on this investigation. meantime this was one of two shocking car incidents to rattle the country on new year's day just at the start of the year. authorities are also looking into a violent scene in las vegas. this is "the faulkner focus." hello, everyone. julie banderas in for harris today. investigators are trying to figure out what led a u.s. army veteran to plow his truck into a crowded street in new orleans leaving 15 dead and more than 35 injured. witnesses expressing their horror and disbelief. >> you just heard this squeal and like the rev of an engine and then this huge loud impact and then the people screaming. and debris, just metal, the sound of crunching metal and bodies. my phone blew up with a

i'm julie banderas.nks for joining us today on this new year's day and this tragic story on this holiday. i'm julie banderas. >> jonathan: tragic indeed. i'm jonathan hunt. the horrifying incident happening at the intersection of bourbon and canal streets, one of the busiest points on it new orleans on any evening, let alone new year's eve, as it went into new year's day 2025. police say the driver went out of his way to hurt people, even driving around barriers to get to them. that driver was eventually killed in a shoot-out with police that left two officers injured, although we understand they are thankfully at this point in stable condition. let's bring back in nicole parker, former fbi special agent and fox news contributor. and that's welcoming paul mauro, fox news contributor and former head of operations for nypd intelligence. great to have you here first, and let me pick up with you, nicole, first of all, it is fascinating, i think, to hear this was a u.s. citizen, obviously an arabic name, sham

coming up julie banderas is in for harris, "the faulkner focus" is coming up next. ing us. >> julie: we begin with a fox news alert. fox just

>> i'm julie banderas.ttack happened earlier this morning the intersection of bourbon and canal street's, just after 3:00 a.m., police say the driver went out of his way to hurt people, even driving around barriers to get to them. the suspect was killed during a gunfire exchange with police that left two officers injured. they are currently in stable condition. >> jonathan: the feds are looking into the matter as a possible act of terrorism. fox news can confirm that the truck used in the attack crossed the border in eagle pass, texas, back in november, but that driver does not appear to be the shooter. former fbi investigator bill daley will join us in moments. >> will get. >> julie: we begin with alexis mcadams with the latest, watching the story all morning. hi, alexis. >> hi, julie. imagine waking up in new orleans come out to party and bring in 2025, nc carnage in the streets on bourbon street as they are also getting ready for a huge event later tonight, the sugar bowl. investigators telling fox news,

and i'm here with my cohost harris faulkner and emily compagno and julie banderas and guy benson i saw woman say last night, the ashes of my brother are in my home. the only memories of my mother. things so deeply personal gone. >> and the reality is that the blessing of having survived and living through it is -- i mean that is paramount. as you start to put the pieces of your life back together, those things are so meaningful, and you can't get them back and the heirlooms that are generational inheritance, and i have loved ones that lost everything in the tubbs fire. i'm from j northern california, and the trauma lasts years. you don't rebuild right away. and it's frightening, the sound of the fire coming, and the speed which is absolutely sort of incomprehensible. i have a dear friend who after everything -- her entire compound eradicated. her family's home and the only thing left was a christening medal from her son's christening and she found it in the exact spot where it would have been her jewelry box. there is nothing to describe the speed, the ferocity, and the totality. as th