New Orleans Attack, Suspect's Texas Home, Las Vegas Truck Explosion

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🗓️ 2 January 2025

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The FBI investigates a New Orleans attack that killed 15 as an "act of terrorism." Bomb techs join the probe at the suspect's Texas home. Law enforcers seek possible connections to a Las Vegas truck explosion.

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0:00.0	Investigators are looking for answers in New Orleans and Las Vegas.
0:07.0	On the Gulf Coast, they identified an attacker who was a veteran from Texas. In Nevada, the question is what made a Tesla cyber truck explode outside a Trump hotel.
0:15.7	I'm Leila Faudil. That's Steven Skipe, and this is up first from NPR News.
0:21.1	What do police know about the suspect in the attack that killed 15 people on Bourbon
0:26.0	Street? The ISIS flag was found in his vehicle. President Biden also said he was
0:30.5	inspired by ISIS, so what's that made? FBI investigators include counterterrorism experts
0:36.1	and bomb texts. And the explosion outside the Vegas Hotel involves two big brand names connected by politics.
0:42.8	It's a Tesla truck, and we know that Elon Musk is working with President-elect Trump, and it's the Trump Tower.
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1:37.2	We'll get up to date now on two incidents in two entertainment districts, an attack in New Orleans
1:41.6	and an explosion in Las Vegas. The Vegas incident involved a
1:45.5	Tesla cyber truck that exploded outside a Trump hotel. But first, we hear from New Orleans, where a pickup
1:52.0	plowed into a crowd on Bourbon Street. Investigators have learned a little more over the past 24
1:58.1	hours. Let's go to Drew Hawkins, once again, of Gulf State's newsroom.
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