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Good morning, it's sunny, it is windy out there in cold thirty eight degrees in Boston, heading for a high of forty four degrees on Laurie KIRBYDFBI continues his investigation into the deadly terrorst attack in New Orleans that killed fifteen and hurt dozens more. We get the latest in the special report from CBS News.
Federal investigators will hold a briefing shortly on the truck ramming in New Orleans, which left fifteen people dead, including the attacker. CBS is Anna Scheckter says it may clear up some of the President's comments on the suspect, an Army veteran from Texas flying an ISIS flag.
Biden said last night that there were social media posts videos in which he pledged allegiance to ISIS. We have not seen posts like that, but certainly the ISIS flag is an indicator, and so investigators are interviewing anyone that might have been an associate, that might have been an accomplice or pushed him or encouraged him and gave him financial support for tactical support to know how to carry.
Out an attack like this, and we may learn more about the suspect in the Tesla truck explosion in Las Vegas. CBS is Oddris gutierres.
This point, we know that he is out of Colorado Springs.
In fact, at this hour, the FBI is executing a search warrant at a townhouse.
CBS News special Report, I'm Cammy McCormick.
And authorities want to know if the attack in New Orleans and the explosion outside the Trump Hotel in Vegas is just a coincidence or are they linked. ABC's Mula Lengghi.
According to officials, the twenty twenty four cyber truck was rented in Colorado's Springs before it was driven to Nevada and armed with fireworks style mortars, gas canisters in fuel, reinforcing the preliminary belief that the blast was intentional. Now police treating the explosion is a possible act of terror, among other possibilities, saying that they believe it was an isolated incident, but are taking no chances.
In the attack in New Orleans, postpone college football's annuals Sugar Bowl game by a day. Georgia and Notre Dame and now scheduled to play at four pm today. CBS's Chris Miller has more.
Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry says he's called in extra help from the Louisiana National Guard.
We want to make it.
Clear the Superdome in the surrounding area is safe.
The governor says he has activated a National Guard company of military police. He said one hundred MPs will provide support to NPD, Louisiana State Police, and the FBI at NPD headquarters. Chris Miller for CBS News New Orleans.
Shooting in East Boston leaves one man seriously wounded and police on the hunt for a suspect. Gunshots were called in around six o'clock last night in the area of Marion and Paris Streets in East Police found a man on scene with gunshot wounds, taken to the hospital with life threatening injuries. So far, no arrest, no motive, no name. It is so bright out there and so cold. It's the wind. We're looking at wing US fifty sixty miles per hour today, which is going to really cut the
temperature that you see on the thermometer in half. That's today and tonight, very clear tonight, we have some meteor showers. Looking forward to that windy cold is going to feel like we're in the teen's more blestery, dry sunny weather tomorrow, pretty much like today, We're heading into a very cold,
dry weekend, even colder cold stretch right now. I want to go back to our top story here at eleven oh five, former Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis on night Side with Dan Ray is offering his insight into the New Orleans terror attack, and Davis has focused on one detail that left Bourbon Street vulnerable to attack.
Listen in that detail, the lack of security barriers at one end of Bourbon Street. They were under construction when the New Year's celebrating was going on.
He decided to just park a police cruiser in the intersection. As we saw, this suspect was able to sneak his way around onto the sidewalk and past the car.
Davis saying, those barriers can literally be a life and death difference.
These devices really do protect you from a threat from a motor vehicle.
Davis went on to talk about direct parallels with the police response to the Boston Marathon bombing twelve years ago. And how police had to respond to New Orleans. This week, Jim McKay w b Z Boston's News Radio.
The man who served out the remainder of Senator Ted Kennedy's term back in twenty ten is eyeing a political comeback in New Hampshire. The Eagle Tribune reporting former Senator Scott Brown, a Republican, says he's doing the early legwork required before a final decision on a US entered run come twenty twenty six against Democratic Senator Jean Shaheen in
New Hampshire. Brown says he is ticked off by how the entire Democratic delegation in New Hampshire covered up for Joe Biden for the last four years, calling them out of touch with what people want. In New Hampshire and in Washington, House Republicans are working on plans to make it tougher to house the House speaker. CBS's Michael Tuscano is there.
In fighting has made governing difficult for Republicans, who continue to have a razor thin majority in the House, and the rule they created in the last session allowing a single member to trigger a no confidence vote to remove the speaker didn't help the new rules package will raise that number to nine. The House is expected to vote Friday to adopt the rules package after members elected speaker and are sworn in. Michael Tuscano, CBS News, Washington.
President Biden today is warning the Presidential Citizens Medal to twenty people. The AP's Jennifer King has.
That current and former lawmakers are among those to be honored. Two of whom President elect Trump has said should be jailed Liz Cheney and Representative Benny Thompson of Mississippi. They led the congressional investigation into the January sixth attack on
the US Capitol. Recipients include Attorney Mary Bonaldo and Evan Wolfson, who fought to legalize same sex marriage, women's rights activist Eleanor Smiel, and the late Joseph Galloway, the former war correspondent who wrote about the Vietnam War in his book We Were Soldiers Once and Young. Jennifer King, Washington, You.
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