Investigators in both New Orleans and Las Vegas have been working all weekend as they look into details surrounding the New Year’s Day attacks, in addition President Biden will be traveling to New Orleans on Monday to comfort the victims. National Correspondent RORY O’NEILL will have the latest. 01-06-25 YMS

Investigators in both New Orleans and Las Vegas have been working all weekend as they look into details surrounding the New Year’s Day attacks, in addition, President Biden will be travelling to New Orleans on Monday to comfort the victims. National Correspondent RORY O’NEILL will have the latest.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Investigators in both New Orleans and Las Vegas have been
working all weekend long as they're looking into all the
details surrounding the New Year's Day attack. Some really interesting
things came to the surface in the New Orleans attack.
Roy O'Neil, our national correspondent at Your Morning show, is
here with all those details. Good morning, Rory Michael, Good morning.
Let's start with New Orleans. I can't remember what those

(00:22):
glasses are. I've seen them advertised, but you can walk
around and it looks like you're just wearing sunglasses, but
you're really filming everybody. And we know he was in
New Orleans prior to the attack doing just.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
That right now, Remember he lived in the Houston area,
but made two trips to New Orleans last fall, using
those glasses to record the area on Bourbon Street in
the French Quarter. We believe he used the information gathered
in those videos to help plot his attack, although I'm
imagining that Bourbon Street's quite a bit different from November

(00:53):
to New Year's Eve, right, But that was some of
the information we believe he used to plot this.

Speaker 3 (00:59):
But they also announced that he's this suspect spent.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
About a month in Cairo, Egypt, and he spent time
in Ontario in the past eighteen months. So now they're
wondering if those improvised explosives that he left at the scene,
did someone in Egypt or Canada teach them how to
do that? Where did he get that knowledge from because
he was really just an IT guy with the military
and HR and didn't really have any training like we saw.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
In the Vegas in vegue.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
Yeah. Absolutely, So it's not just that he was in
the Ontario area, not just that he was in Egypt,
but who was he with in Egypt? And by the
way they know he was there, should we assume they
might know what he was doing and with whom and why.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
Well that's what the investigation is now.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
Obviously easier to work with authorities in Canada than it
is in Egypt, but to try to find who he
may have been with. But that's the evidence that they're
now trying to gather to see if he was trained
or somehow radicalized during those trips to other countries.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
Interesting too, Royal Neil joining us on our top story.
The A lot of the victims lawsuits are already being
filed in New Orleans against the City of New Orleans
and the police department. I'm thinking about the suspect who
was wearing those recording glasses in November must have been
shocked when it came back to carry out his terrorist
attack that the very barricades he may or may not

(02:21):
have seen in November were removed. That's what these lawsuits
are probably going to be centered around. What do we
know about that?

Speaker 3 (02:28):
Right?

Speaker 2 (02:28):
And clearly you know the security measures that were implemented
there at Canal and Bourbon whether or not those ballers
were adequate enough. They were being replaced at the time,
but even then it may not have provided the protection
on the sidewalk area.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
What kind of negligence may have existed.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
We'll see if the lawsuit gets any traction, But yeah,
the lawyers are out there, that's for sure.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
Well, sometimes it's not about what whether the lawsuit winds
or loses as much as the vehicle that it uses
to expose. And because that's you know, for me anyway,
I'm looking at this police chief going, you know, why
is anybody asking her why she had them removed? Why
isn't she being forced answer? Why is anybody holdly or accountable?
Lawsuits like this tend to bring that stuff to light
down the road, anything that shocked you in any of

(03:13):
the updates over the weekend.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
Well, some of the information from the case out in
Las Vegas sad. Essentially, this was this Green Beret who
had served the US for so many years, honorably five
Bronze Stars. Clearly something happened there and he may have
been suffering from PTSD and it looks like that was
really just a high profile suicide judging by the messages

(03:37):
he was leaving behind.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
Yeah, we definitely have Islamic radicalization in the case of
the New Orleans perpetrator in Vegas. There's two different narratives
going around one, the one you just laid out troubled
individual PTSD mental illness. The other is that he was
desperately this is running wild on the internet, desperately trying

(03:59):
to a China vulnerability that we have and may have
done this just to bring attention to it. So time
will tell on both of those. We just report the
news at this point. Rory, thank you great reporting today.
As always,