01-15-25 YMS The FBI has released new information about the New Year’s Day attack in New Orleans. National Correspondent RORY O’NEILL has the story.

The FBI has released new information about the New Year’s Day attack in New Orleans. National Correspondent RORY O’NEILL has the story.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Previously on your Morning show with Michael Dilchoono.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Real quickly, we always get the final story to Rory,
and I want to talk a little bit about the
FBI releasing new information on the terrorist attack in New
Orleans before we get to that. Containment and weather conditions
today for those suffering in southern California, what's the outlook, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (00:19):
The concern is that we might see new fire activity,
especially Ventura County, which is next to Los Angeles County.
So that's I think something that they're watching. As we're
seeing winds thirty forty fifty miles per hour, steady, gusting
even higher in some spots. The wind field isn't as
large as it was when this all began about a
week ago, but still obviously something to watch, and there

(00:42):
is better weather around the corner.

Speaker 4 (00:45):
Stuff will start to improve today.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
Tomorrow's a bit of a transition day, but we're going
to see increasing humidity, lower wind speeds.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
On Friday and Saturday, death toll rose by one to
twenty five and again in the Eton fire in general
is where the majority of these desks are coming. Do
we have any idea how because we keep following the
not accounted for a list. This is a number that
will rise, right, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
I think we still have about thirty who are listed
as missing. So it's a painstaking investigation. As some of
these firefighters, I was going to say going door to door,
but the doors are don't exist anymore, so they go
from home site to home site, going through the rubble
to make sure there's no one there.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
Well, the favorable conditions tomorrow will be helpful, all right,
let's make the transition. FBI releasing new information about the
New Orleans Day attack.

Speaker 4 (01:38):
What do we know?

Speaker 3 (01:39):
Yeah, two weeks after the attack, just some incremental information.
They say that fifty seven people were actually injured during
the attack that happened in the early hours of New
Year's Day. They had said thirty five were in the hospital,
but overall fifty seven injured. Of course, fourteen people were killed,
plus the person responsible who died in that shootout with police.

(02:01):
They say it appears the suspects started to become radicalized
back in twenty twenty two, really went off the deep end,
it seems in the spring of last year, and it
made multiple trips to New Orleans, even tried to get
a room with a balcony over Bourbon Street, which may
be a red flag there and may have been more
immediately influenced by the Christmas market attack in Germany that

(02:27):
happened ten days before.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
And there was also warnings issued yesterday about copycats in
the future. So I mean that kind of all ties
together in terms of the motive he seemed to have.
It was marital problems, right, and then ended up getting
divorced marital yeah, and then apparently got radicalized online.

Speaker 4 (02:50):
Right.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
And now they want to know, now that they have
seen his digital fingerprints, they want to know who else
is interacting with some of these same sites, watching these
same videos, reading the same stuff, to see if perhaps
they have similar thoughts, because these lone wolf actors are
are difficult to find until it's too late.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
Yeah, And you know, I guess the only other wrinkle
that we don't you know, I don't know what you
would do with it, but he was he was doing
some live videos on social media prior to it.

Speaker 4 (03:25):
But you know, how do you I mean, some of
the stuff, how do you prevent? Right? But probably would
probably be best.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
Coming from family members or those on social media that
are kind of monitoring these things.

Speaker 4 (03:37):
It's certainly a teachable moment. But that's the very latest, Rory.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
They don't monitor them anymore on Facebook, right, they know
not anymore.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
I appreciate your reporting today, Rory. We'll talk again tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
Miss a little, miss a lot, miss a lot, and
we'll miss you. It's your morning Show with Michael del Churno.