nopd also has cranes in the skies with spotters. something like this happen on bourbon street with so many law enforcement officers down there? we just reported two days ago more than 300 nopd officers are assigned to that one area of the french quarter. >> so you can do your best to prevent an incident like this, in this incident, again, if you had bollards up and other things that were set up like we had in the pastt that preves a vehicle from further egressing through the street and creating more carnage. you can't stop it completely from entering the area without a massive amount of, say, dump trucks kwild with sand or things like that. we don't know what we don't know still. we don't know how they -- how far they got down, how many blocks they got down and what their intent was and we should find that out by now nopd, state police, the fbi should have that and i'm sure they're putting everything together so they want to sound, you know, reasonable when they speak to you and give you your press conference. >> mike, look, if this

with the nopd if somebody was driving down bourbon street inintentionay would they be allowed to use lethal force to stop somebody like this on bourbon street? >> in answer to that question, yes, that individual would. so anyone who is trying to take the life of someone else or engage in taking the life of someone else, you do have the right to use lethal force in order to prevent that person from furtherance of taking someone else's life. in this situation if you would have multiple police officers at different angles shooting at a moving vehicle, it can be where other people end up getting shot, it can be where civilians end up getting shot, but you have to stop that vehicle from continuing to engage in that threat and taking more lives. >> all right. mike cahn, great insight in light of what's a tragic event here. stand by, we will have much more with you coming up. if you are joining us live at 6:30 a.m. on the new year here in new orleans, we are following tragic news, a mass casualty event in the heart of the most famous neighborhood in the state of louisiana, the french quarte

want to thank the men and women of nopd. you know, they always get they often get a get flack and catch a hard time from from just doing their job. but we see today they were quick on the scene, their training kicked in, and they definitely saved lives. so thank you to the men and women of nopd, state police, all those law enforcement agencies that came together. how will this impact you know, the super bowl is about to happen in our city. how will this impact the super bowl, marardi gras coming up? well, i'm sure you know, shame on us if you don't react to this and make the city safer and make the french quarter safer, there's going to be conversations, i'm sure, all the way on the state level, how to make places safer in the city, how to make sure that ensure that drivers can't easily drive around bollards or through barricades and keep, keep the jewel of our city, which is the french quarter safe. we have hundreds of thousands of visitors coming for new years, coming for the sugar bowl, just always in this city in the fre

they have to defer to nopd for that. to stay clear of the area. new orleans ems is asking residents and visitors of new orleans to activate 911 service responsibly for emergencies only. ems has additional staff on duty to continue to respond to 911 calls. again, this is what it's like here at umc. we did see nopd on the entrance ramp. we also saw jefferson parish units on the entrance ramp at this time. again, ten people dead, 30 injured. stay with me on this developing story. back to you. >> they are all standing by live. this is a live look at the 8th district nopd station. we are zoomed in through the window. for those of you not familiar with this, this is in the heart of the french quarter. >> breaking away from our coverage to go to the officials there updating us on this mass casualty situation. let's listen in. >> we are still actively investigating this situation. with that -- [ inaudible question ] >> as the officials there in new orleans gather themselves, let's turn back to our affiliate, wdsu on their covera

you saw nopd officers kind of sweeping the area. cars, garbage cans, trash bins, looking for anything suspicious. cassie, are you seeing the same thing where you are on canal street? yeah, i'm actually seeing that exact same thing going down. bourbon. so obviously we're on canal and bourbon right now to give you guys a little bit idea right across the way here. you guys can see right back there. tt is where it all started. and you're seeing officers going through looking underneath things. we saw people going through trash cans as well. we are seeing more looking in that area. i think that means that they're kind of just making their way through to see if it's safe to go through, because the fact that there are still bodies there on canal street as we speak, i think that they're just trying to do their due diligence before everyone starts making their way to start cleaning the scene, as they're still investigating. now, i do want to say it was very interesting. i actually just talked to a man who was staying right across the street

jabbar exploited the nopd's gross negligence resulting in a horrific act that is now etched into the archives of our great city's history. because of the negligence of the nopd and the city of new orleans, 14 innocent lives were lost, and the city was warned something like this could happen. for years several security reports said french quarter crowds are a risking for mass casualty events. we know that typical barriers that are in place here were not because of super bowl preparations. and the fbi is now returning to jabbar's houston, texas, home. we're also learning jabbar set fire to his new orleans rental property to conceal evidence. and the fbi says bomb-making materials were found in both locations. meanwhile, the fbi and dhs sent out a joint bulletin to 18,000 law enforcement agencies nationwide warning those to be hyper-vigilant of copycat attacks after the one here in new orleans. and, david, we are expecting there to be several vigils today, and then on monday we now know that the president joe biden and the first lady are expected to be here to mourn with survivors and f

we have state police over there in the middle talking with nopd as we speak. we also have ems.fire is here as well. they're a little bit further down, but walking all the way down the street here on canal, you cannot move. you cannot get any further. and i'll tell you right now, i'm seeing people as we speak right now, walking down the sidewalk here in sequins and sparkles. i mean, people have been out and about enjoying the new year celebration. i mean, just last night we had thousands down in jackson square who were just here to celebrate. see the florida year off, as well as those fireworks. and so we have a lot of people out and about, and especially around 3 a.m., you know, usually that's when the crowds start to at least get a little bit quieter when it comes. >> some preliminary information on what has taken place, because this is an active investigation. we want to make our citizens aware of what is taking place, and there will be just for viewers. >> we're listening to a press conference right now updating on this horrific scene in new orleans. you'll take a listen now

the firm said because of the nopd and city's failure to implement basic safety precautions that would have protected citizens and visitors. now, the firm says all the people impacted by wednesday's attack deserve answers and says the act of terror was both foreseeable and preventable and evidence will prove that. the law firm said "because of negligence of nopd and city of new orleans, 14 innocent lives were lost, dozens more injured, and the courses of their lives forever changed. survivors of this tragic event bearing the emotional and physical scars for the rest of their lives". the city was warned something like this could happen. for years several reports said french quarter crowds are a risk for mass casualty events. we know typical barriers that are in place here were not because of super-er bowl preparations and a 2020 security assessment specifically mentions the vehicle barriers and calls the french quarter "a fish tank of bad behavior". fbi is returning to jabbar's houston, texas, home and he set fire to his new orleans rental property to conceal evidence. bomb making mater

is that nopd's responsibility or state police, or somebody else's? that have to be asked and really, as we get ready to go into the super bowl and as we get ready to certainly go into mardi gras, this is really an inflection point for us to reevaluate all of this. molly: joseph giarr u.s.s. o, thank you. your points about the super bowl and many great events in an entertainment city, great points, thank you for being with us today. griff. >> thank you. griff: molly, how democrats plan to recalibrate their resistance to trump in his next term. it's time. yes, the time has come for a fresh approach to dog food. everyday, more dog people are deciding it's time to quit the kibble and feed their dogs fresh food from the farmer's dog. made by vets and delivered right to your door precisely portioned for your dog's needs. it's an idea whose time has come. ♪ dry eyes still feel gritty, rough, or tired? with miebo, eyes can feel ♪ miebo ♪ ♪ ohh yeah ♪ miebo is the only prescription dry eye drop that forms a protective layer for the number one cause of dry eye

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 t

nopd, certain agencies did a sweep before this, they had a plan in place, but really we were talking whenever aubry was giving his live report a moment ago, it's hard to prevent something like this. you can't constantly sweep the french quarter, or can you, or are there things can you do to constantly change that and increase the security there? >> there is a human instinct to try to figure out how this could have been prevented, and, unfortunately, there are certain things that are beyond our human control. when an individual chooses to drive a vehicle into a crowd of people, the officers can respond. they can respond quickly. that's exactly what they did and they should be commended for their quick, fast work, because it saved more lives. that's, i think, we have to look at it from that standpoint. we can't get inside of someone's head. we can't reverse engineer this. this is not minority report, no matter how many experts you have. you can have a plan and have officers in place, first responders in place, and they were there. and they did respond and they did save some lives. and

the law firm says in part, quote, because of the negligence of the nopd ap the city of new orleans, 14 innocent lives were lost. dozens more were injured and the course the of their lives forever changed. the survivors this have tragic event will bear the emotional ap physical scars for the rest of their lives. now, the city was warned something like this could happen for years. several security reports said that french quarter crowds are a risk for mass casualty events ap the typical barriers in place here in the french quarter were not because of super bowl preparations. meanwhile, the fbi says it is returning to jabbar's houston, texas home. we learned that he set fire to his new orleans rental property to conceal evidence and bomb making materials were found in both of those locations. just days after the attack, bourbon street is fully reopened and memorials are growing. eddie williams lost his distant relative in the attack, new orleans native terrence kennedy. >> the importance of leaving them off right there for terry for me, i know he loved bourbon street. bourbon street is li

and so ultimately, nopd, the new orleans police department, should have supremacy in command and control over the entirety of the french quarter. but because of a lack of resources, you end up having a scenario where a different police department will handle one area and nopd will handle the rest. so it becomes kind of a disjointed effort. unlike other major cities. >> you know, it seems like there's a lot of questions about whether, like what work was being done, how long was work being done on these bollards, why was it taking so long? how long should it take to i mean, how long would it theoretically take to really repair and fix this? >> it should not take long at all. as soon as the contract is awarded, contractors can come in and tear up the ground, place it. it's like any type of refurb of any street. it does not take this long. now, to be fair, i can't speak to what's happened since 2019, but i would say that many of these issues that we identified back then appear to exist today. so that gap is significant and it should not have taken this long. >> and i just want to point out,

i really want to thank our nopd was really on the ball because the actual truck itself was a weapon of mass destruction, but that individual did not really get the opportunity to emerge from the car with whatever he had planned next, because our nopd neutralized him fairly, extremely quickly. and we have two injured officers, they are in stable condition, but we're praying for them. but where is a city? we're struggling from this attack, and we're going to continue to step forward and be the resilient city we've always been. >> you do get the sense this could have been much worse. council member, i want to ask you, because mardi gras is just around the corner and you have people from all over descending on new orleans for that. uh, a lot of questions about how to proceed with that without serious. protective measures in place. as you said, these bollards, these, uh, large sort of stanchions that were supposed to stop vehicles from getting in, and you're raising questions about how effective they might have been, period. um, they're being repaired, as you say. how do you proceed with ma

your firm to do this, says, quote, the strength of our on going partnership with the city and the nopdes or reports completed. now we should note, it did not specifically say whether or not the dysfunction and the security lapses flagged in your 2019 report were addressed. but as a security expert, do you feel like the city took your findings seriously enough? >> i have no way of knowing what's happened since 2020. in all reality. and in the back -- behind the scenes of the political in- fighting and bickering, it's very hard for us to determine. but you know, the proof is what we're seeing today. a tragic accident has occurred. an attack, 14 lives were lost, countless injured and this is the type of attack that could certainly been mitigated by implementing specific mitigation tactics like bollards and traffic control. >> and on that note, i want to show this video. for our viewers, it is hard to watch, but it shows the attacker in the white pickup truck driving around the single police cruiser and over a wedge barrier that wasn't deployed. what is your eaction to seeing that given th

this started with nopd being alerted to the residence with a small fire.he bomb making materials and other things in there. we're protecting the perimeter of the scene. dealing with some of the casualties of the individuals who were run over there and assisting the fbi in all other federal entities with whatever they need. >> mike, mark, and rob, thank you for the insight. keep it here as we learn more about this deadly incident overnight on bourbon street. you're watching msnbc. ddleay it overnight on bourbon street. you're watching msnbc. e with yo? same. discover the power of wegovy®. with wegovy®, i lost 35 pounds. and some lost over 46 pounds. and i'm keeping the weight off. i'm reducing my risk. wegovy® is the only weight-management medicine proven to reduce risk of major cardiovascular events such as death, heart attack, or stroke in adults with known heart disease and obesity. don't use wegovy® with semaglutide or glp-1 medicines, or in children under 12. don't take if you or your family had mtc, men 2, or if allergic to it. tell your provider if y

the law firm representing one of the survivors of the terror attack and going for new orleanss and nopd could have prevented this tragedy. the firm will be filing the suit on wednesday, and we're hearing that this could being the first of in lathe lawsuits and the law firm said all people impacted by wednesday's attack deserve answer asks survivors will bear the emissional and physical scars for the -- emotional and physical scars for the rest of their lives. the lawsuit says "the act of terror perpetrated by supra supra aural headphoness preventable and -- supra aural d several security reports said french quart ore crowds are a risk for mass casualty events so the city warned this would happen. we know that typical barriers that are in place here were not because of super bowl preparations. but the ceo of meridian rapid defense tells fox he sold dozens of 700-pound st barriers and hes unsure why they were not in use. >> we have vehicles up to 6,000 pounds going at 60 miles an hour and they'll stop them. it's disappointing when we're trying to secure standards that are national reporte

you got nopd bomb squad, state police, multiple local agencies.ing the french quarter for any explosive devices planted presumably by the suspect. a couple hours ago, in fact, at least two suspicious devices were detonated by law enforcement. as you well know, all of these details are subject to change. look, you've got 26,000 hotel rooms in the french quarter and downtown new orleans. they're expected to be occupied about 82% this weekend. again, with tens of thousands of people flocking in and through the french quarter. new orleans superintendent anne kirkpatrick said this perpetrator -- let me see. she said, quote, was hell bent on creating the carnage and the damage that he did. so, you know, i'll say, of course, with a heavy heart and city wide condolences to those who lost their lives and did not live to see this new year. as of now, it appears sugar bowl is scheduled to kick off in about ten hours. 70,000 fans set the fill the super dome. local police and politicians are assuring fans that the dome is safe. this is heart breaking, sad, ter

we have the nopd. we are doing everything we can.ut like i say there is a lot of information out there. some of it is accurate. >> aishah: we hope you will continue to keep us apprized of what you learn on the ground and we appreciate you taking time for us tonight senator kennedy. >> look, i'm just so sorry. i'm just so sorry to all those folks that lost loved ones and have loved ones in the hospital. i'm sorry. but by god, we are going to get this straight. we are going to chase these guys down. >> aishah: senator john kennedy of louisiana. thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you, aishah. >> aishah: also breaking tonight the las vegas police department is investigating a vehicle fire that occurred this morning outside the trump hotel there, actually involve a tesla cyber truck you can see it on fire in that video suffered minor injuries. the driver of that vehicle is dead. correspondent marianne raftery is following this story from our west coast newsroom. good evening to you. >> a few hours after deadly terrorist attack i

weapon before crashing into the construction equipment and will stop by the brave men and women of nopdortly after 5 a.m., a fire was reported at the rental home in the mandeville street location in new orleans and the new orleans fire department found explosive devices on scene. after entering the home. as we released yesterday, we strongly believe jabbar was solely responsible for the fire on the mandeville street in new orleans. we determined that he set the fire before heading to bourbon street. based on the atf's investigation, i'd like to bring up special agent in charge of the atf field division, joshua jackson, to address the details of their investigation and to explain the origin of the ieds and the materials jabbar used in them. jackson all right. >> thank you. good morning. as stated, my name is joshua jackson. i'm the special agent in charge for the new orleans field division, and i want to share with the media some updates regarding the origin and cause of the fire at the mandeville street address in new orleans. we'll update you on information we developed with the firear

and other times i think right now is a good time for nopd to have shorthanded. that's the nature of it. but, you know, we got to come together. people got to we got to come together. these people have been hurt bad, but the city is going to go on, and it's not our police fault, and it's not our muslim citizens fault or anything like that. it's some crazy guy. until i close the border, they ought to close the border between jefferson county, texas and dekalb county, parish, louisiana. >> when you heard that, i mean, it was somebody who'd been in the military and this attack. and there's a lot more we don't know about the attack in las vegas, obviously, but an active duty member of the military, i mean, it's it's like it shouldn't be shocking, but it is still shocking. >> and the thing is, the particular guy in las vegas is a highly trained. soldier. but the crazy guy, the guy from houston, was in the army for nine years. i mean, i was in the military. the one thing you do is you learn how to deal with explosives and you know, you want it to. fortunately for us, 9

and other times i think right now is a good time for nopd to have shorthanded. but that's the nature of it. but, you know, we got to come together. people got we got to come together. people have been hurt bad, but the city is going to go on and it's not our police fault, and it's not our muslim citizens fault or anything like that. it's some crazy guy. until i close the border, they ought to close the border between jefferson county, texas and kalamazoo county, parish, louisiana. >> when you heard that, i mean, it was somebody who had been in the military. and this attack, when there's a lot more we don't know about the attack in las vegas, obviously, but an active duty member of the military. i mean, it's it's like it shouldn't be shocking, but it is still shocking. >> and the thing is, the particular guy in las vegas is a highly trained soldier, but the crazy guy, the guy from houston, was in the army for nine years. i mean, i was in the military. the one thing you do is you learn how to deal with explosives and you know, you want it to. fortunately for us, 9

can you speak to that and maybe was there any backup option of putting a truck there or an nopd car there i'm going to let the mayor answer. that's one of the first things i thought of this morning. when the mayor called me. okay? and i will tell you that whatever the problem was, is going to be solved. >> thank you, governor. thank you, governor. and thank you for the question. i do understand it's been on your radar since this morning. as it relates to the bollards on bourbon street, over ten years ago, excuse me, okay -- over ten years ago, the city of new orleans implemented an infrastructure project placing bollards on bourbon street. thereafter, the malfunctions of those bollards ensued. from mardi gras beads on down. but the new orleans police department, of course, deemed them inefficient because they did not operate the way that they were intended doing peered because the city of new orleans is hosting super bowl this year, it gave the city of new orleans an opportunity to go further and deeper with infrastructure improvements, as we have been talking about. so as a result of tha

our first rodeo, and we are well equipped to to provide resources with the metropolitan area, with nopd, with the sheriffs from the surrounding areas. and now, certainly the fbi is on the ground in force. if those ballots were not up, someone will have to answer for that. um, this is the first i'm hearing of it, but i can tell you that there is a very sophisticated system of security in and around the french quarter, particularly in bourbon street, much like you see on military installations where these metal balls literally come up from the ground to prevent a vehicle from gaining enough speed to to cause the kind of mass damage that we saw this morning. we'll have to investigate to determine if, in fact, they were not up and why. >> congressman troy carter, please keep us posted as you get new information. thank you. >> thank you. >> so just to recap what we heard there from the congressman for our viewers just now turning in in terms of the suspect, he said that this appears to be a local, someone who lived there was driving a truck with texas license plates. um, and that right now,

i mean, as much as i respect chief ramsey and nopd and what they do, let's not forget that new orleansice department, our men and women officers, here are some of the best trained in the world. when you talk about crowd events, mardi gras, jazz fest and events, uh, french quarter festival, which had almost 900,000 people in the last couple of years. so we're no stranger to policing major events, but this is something that i mean, there were 300 officers in proximity to where this madman, this evil person perpetrated, this violent incident. so how do you police that? how do you stop that? you know. but but there's always a lesson to learn. what more can we do? and can we do? i mean, look, you're talking about an iconic, uh, legendary street. bourbon street in an international city. i mean, you know, we punch above our weight every year with millions of visitors that rival any large city in the world. so we're not a stranger to how we deal with our crowds. but the world is different today. uh, evil is different today, and we're going to have to reassess as a city, as a state and as a cou

and i want to be very clear about the first responders, state police, nopd responded expeditiously, neutralized. this individual certainly saved a lot of lives and a lot more injury with their quick work. but now the now is the rest of the case and that is investigating whether or not this person was completely acting alone. if anyone else knew, if he left any other devices to try to harm more people, and it's all still raw and still too fluid to have all of those answers at at this point. but the fbi is taking over the investigation. they're running the lead on it, and that is what they're working on now with our other partners. >> and, jason, i want to bring in our senior investigative correspondent, aaron katersky, who is also following this investigation very closely. >> jason, i know you mentioned that one of the questions is whether the suspect was acting alone. have you any additional information about a possible second suspect? >> too soon to say right now. there was one suspect, but obviously with any investigation, you got to pull on every thread to find out what else is there and see

. >> reporter: now, we do want to mention we did reach out to the nopd about those vulnerabilities we spotted last night along bourbon street. last night it was a sell-out crowd but about 10,000 people did not show up. there was a moment of silence before the game began in respect to all those people who died in the terror attack here in new orleans. hoda? >> tom, you mentioned that the suspect planted explosives in those ice chests around bourbon street. but they didn't detonate. why not? >> reporter: yeah, that's the big question, right? it is unclear if the terrorists wanted to set off those bombs before the attack, after the attack. his exact idea was they simply did not work. the fbi tells us inside those coolers were those pipe bombs filled with nails. had they gone off, had those remote detonators worked, this terror attack would have been much more deadly. >> tom, thank you. >>> as the investigation moves forward, we're starting to learn more about the victims of that attack on bourbon street. 14 people that were killed, a nursing student, a college football star. several pare

evil, with things that would cause others to be in fear, but instead, our officers and last night, nopd in particular, stood strong. they did not run. they did kill the terrorist. we have two officers, indeed, who received gunfire. they will be okay. we have personally gone to see them. but this is leadership for you. and i promise, as the chief of police of this fantastic city that i will be strong and firm and fearless. thank you. >> thank you, and wrapping it up, i want to disclose a couple of things. i want to thank senator kennedy, and congressman carter. i want to thank, again, all of our law enforcement officers out there. i want the families of the victims to know that i will be issuing an executive order that tomorrow when notre dame plays georgia every flag over every state building in this state is going to be at half mass in remembrance of them, but remembering something else, that fear in this state is a liar. and these folks right here are going to make sure that justice is served and for the citizens out there thinking, man, do i want to go to the sugar bowl tomorrow, i'l

i know the nopd, they went through and did a sweep before this and had a plan in place. but we were togging when aubrey was giving a live report, it is really hard to prevent something like this. you can't constantly sweep the french quarter or can you? are there things you can do to constantly change that and increase the security there? >> there is a human instinct to try to figure out how this could have been prevented and unfortunately, there are certain things that are beyond our human control. when an individual chooses to drive a vehicle into a crowd of people, the officers can respond and respond quickly and that's exactly what they did and they should be commended for their quick, fast work. because it saved more lives. we have to look at it from that standpoint. we can't get inside of someone's head. we can't reverse engineer. this is not minority report no matter how many experts you have. what you have is a plan in place, officers in place and they were there. they did respond and they did save some lives and we all owe them greatly. >> district attorney cais

so they sent out the nopd special unit, and and we believe they detonated it because we heard.r at least they did a, a controlled detonation to make sure it was nothing that could have been more extreme. and when i say they detonated it, i want to be very clear, because we keep saying that this wasn't like a reverberating boom where buildings shook. it sounded more like a firecracker. we heard, you know, someone with the nypd say, fire in the hole. and then there was a firecracker type sound that happened twice. they now have a drone that the fbi is flying over the scene here right now. they have been out here gathering evidence, um, because we believe it is obviously part of their bigger investigation into what happened in the 100 block. but as you just heard chris granger say, a lot of the people that we're talking about, look, we live here. we understand that sometimes new orleans can be beautifully messy, the beauty. but we deal with crime issues and we deal with things in the city that other cities don't. but but this one is a little different. this is, you know, the traum