National Correspondent RORY O’NEILL will have the latest on the investigation into what happened in New Orleans early on New Year’s morning. 01-02-25 YMS HR3

National Correspondent RORY O’NEILL will have the latest on the investigation into what happened in New Orleans early on New Year’s morning.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Obviously our two big stories and they may be connected,
we don't know yet, but the cyber truck explosion in
Vegas and the terror attack in New Orleans. Roy O'Neil,
our national correspondent to your Morning show, covering both and
has the very latest. Good morning, Rory, Good morning Michael.
All right, what do we know anything new?

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Well, we know that there are different avenues of investigation
because we are trying to figure out well, first, the
priority is to make sure the Sugar Bowl today is
safe and to do that. To do that, part of
it is to make sure that any accomplices that this
guy worked with there in New Orleans are captured as
soon as possible, and just identifying them is the challenge
at the moment. So they're going back to sort of

(00:39):
recreate this guy's life to figure out who he was
interacting with in the days and weeks leading up to
the attack. And of course the other investigation is to
figure out whether or not what happened in New Orleans
is in any way connected to what happened in Las
Vegas at Trump International. Is it a coincidence or was
it part of some conspiracy?

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Yeah, because remember like nine to eleven, I was on
the air when it all happened.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
I remember the first plane hit.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
I remember going to the bathroom, and as I looked
at it, I was like, no commuter plane would have
made a hole like that, It would have just bounced off.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
That has to be a jet.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
And then right about when I was thinking that, the
second jet hit, and everybody kind of forgets. Everything was
like timed ironically, like a half hour apart. First plane,
second plane. One tower goes down, second tower goes down,
Pentagon and so you're trying to piece this all together
in real time. I don't know if anybody who questioned
postponing that sugar bowl not with what happened in New

(01:37):
Orleans then the truck in Vegas, knowing you didn't act alone.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
In New Orleans. I mean, it could have been a diversion.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Get everybody concentrated, the FBI and local law enforcement on
Bourbon Street, and you do something much bigger at the Superdome.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
I mean, it was clearly a wise move.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
Now the question is how ready are they for today
and are there links between these two because we just
don't simply know what body was in that vehicle in Vegas.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Right well, I think we've identified the man as as
a veteran from Colorado who rented the truck and then
drove it down to loaded it with fireworks and camping
fuel and then had the explosion happen and he was
killed and the only person killed there in Las Vegas,
I think what seven other people were injured very mildly.

(02:19):
Didn't even shatter the windows at the hotel Mosk crediting
the design of the truck for that. So that investigation
again is its own thing. But the question is how
do they how do they and if they are actually
somehow connected, because yeah, because two veterans for attacks, right,
two veterans using the same app same day, is it

(02:41):
just a coincidence? And then we've seen these vehicle attacks
become much more the norm with the way that isis
has been carrying out these strikes.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
And you mentioned earlier, boy was at a key point.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
You just don't see this usually at forty two, you know,
I mean, I think you know Jihadis are usually very young.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
We don't know, you know.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Obviously, din Jabbar was a US citizen from Texas served
in the Army, as did whoever blued themselves up in
Las Vegas. But at some point. And I think we
kind of surmised this earlier this morning. Computers and phones,
that's probably where we're going to get most of our information,
and hopefully it is limited to these two.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
Yeah, and it's a lot of information. And think of
all the video data that they're going to be going through.
We know they had an airbnb in New Orleans where
we believe the IEDs were made, where there are cameras
at the airbnb that could show people coming and going
all that sort of stuff.

Speaker 3 (03:34):
It's a lot to go through.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
Yeah, And you know, then we had the twenty four
year old arrested. How that guy lived, I mean, pushed
right in front of a train as that's arriving on purpose,
and he survives, got some head injuries obviously, but I
mean he's a lie. That's a miracle. Just a very
violent start to the new year. Great reporting as always, Rory.
We'll talk again tomorrow.