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Speaker 2: Good morning, it's sunny, it is windy out there in
Speaker 2: cold thirty eight degrees in Boston, heading for a high
Speaker 2: of forty four degrees on Laurie KIRBYDFBI continues his investigation
Speaker 2: into the deadly terrorst attack in New Orleans that killed
Speaker 2: fifteen and hurt dozens more. We get the latest in
Speaker 2: the special report from CBS News.
Speaker 3: Federal investigators will hold a briefing shortly on the truck
Speaker 3: ramming in New Orleans, which left fifteen people dead, including
Speaker 3: the attacker. CBS is Anna Scheckter says it may clear
Speaker 3: up some of the President's comments on the suspect, an
Speaker 3: Army veteran from Texas flying an ISIS flag.
Speaker 4: Biden said last night that there were social media posts
Speaker 4: videos in which he pledged allegiance to ISIS. We have
Speaker 4: not seen posts like that, but certainly the ISIS flag
Speaker 4: is an indicator, and so investigators are interviewing anyone that
Speaker 4: might have been an associate, that might have been an
Speaker 4: accomplice or pushed him or encouraged him and gave him
Speaker 4: financial support for tactical support to know how to carry.
Speaker 3: Out an attack like this, and we may learn more
Speaker 3: about the suspect in the Tesla truck explosion in Las Vegas.
Speaker 3: CBS is Oddris gutierres.
Speaker 2: This point, we know that he is out of Colorado Springs.
Speaker 5: In fact, at this hour, the FBI is executing a
Speaker 5: search warrant at a townhouse.
Speaker 3: CBS News special Report, I'm Cammy McCormick.
Speaker 2: And authorities want to know if the attack in New
Speaker 2: Orleans and the explosion outside the Trump Hotel in Vegas
Speaker 2: is just a coincidence or are they linked. ABC's Mula Lengghi.
Speaker 6: According to officials, the twenty twenty four cyber truck was
Speaker 6: rented in Colorado's Springs before it was driven to Nevada
Speaker 6: and armed with fireworks style mortars, gas canisters in fuel,
Speaker 6: reinforcing the preliminary belief that the blast was intentional. Now
Speaker 6: police treating the explosion is a possible act of terror,
Speaker 6: among other possibilities, saying that they believe it was an
Speaker 6: isolated incident, but are taking no chances.
Speaker 2: In the attack in New Orleans, postpone college football's annuals
Speaker 2: Sugar Bowl game by a day. Georgia and Notre Dame
Speaker 2: and now scheduled to play at four pm today. CBS's
Speaker 2: Chris Miller has more.
Speaker 1: Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry says he's called in extra help
Speaker 1: from the Louisiana National Guard.
Speaker 6: We want to make it.
Speaker 2: Clear the Superdome in the surrounding area is safe.
Speaker 1: The governor says he has activated a National Guard company
Speaker 1: of military police. He said one hundred MPs will provide
Speaker 1: support to NPD, Louisiana State Police, and the FBI at
Speaker 1: NPD headquarters. Chris Miller for CBS News New Orleans.
Speaker 2: Shooting in East Boston leaves one man seriously wounded and
Speaker 2: police on the hunt for a suspect. Gunshots were called
Speaker 2: in around six o'clock last night in the area of
Speaker 2: Marion and Paris Streets in East Police found a man
Speaker 2: on scene with gunshot wounds, taken to the hospital with
Speaker 2: life threatening injuries. So far, no arrest, no motive, no name.
Speaker 2: It is so bright out there and so cold. It's
Speaker 2: the wind. We're looking at wing US fifty sixty miles
Speaker 2: per hour today, which is going to really cut the
Speaker 2: temperature that you see on the thermometer in half. That's
Speaker 2: today and tonight, very clear tonight, we have some meteor showers.
Speaker 2: Looking forward to that windy cold is going to feel
Speaker 2: like we're in the teen's more blestery, dry sunny weather tomorrow,
Speaker 2: pretty much like today, We're heading into a very cold,
Speaker 2: dry weekend, even colder cold stretch right now. I want
Speaker 2: to go back to our top story here at eleven
Speaker 2: oh five, former Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis on night
Speaker 2: Side with Dan Ray is offering his insight into the
Speaker 2: New Orleans terror attack, and Davis has focused on one
Speaker 2: detail that left Bourbon Street vulnerable to attack.
Speaker 7: Listen in that detail, the lack of security barriers at
Speaker 7: one end of Bourbon Street. They were under construction when
Speaker 7: the New Year's celebrating was going on.
Speaker 8: He decided to just park a police cruiser in the intersection.
Speaker 8: As we saw, this suspect was able to sneak his
Speaker 8: way around onto the sidewalk and past the car.
Speaker 7: Davis saying, those barriers can literally be a life and
Speaker 7: death difference.
Speaker 8: These devices really do protect you from a threat from
Speaker 8: a motor vehicle.
Speaker 7: Davis went on to talk about direct parallels with the
Speaker 7: police response to the Boston Marathon bombing twelve years ago.
Speaker 7: And how police had to respond to New Orleans. This week,
Speaker 7: Jim McKay w b Z Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: The man who served out the remainder of Senator Ted
Speaker 2: Kennedy's term back in twenty ten is eyeing a political
Speaker 2: comeback in New Hampshire. The Eagle Tribune reporting former Senator
Speaker 2: Scott Brown, a Republican, says he's doing the early legwork
Speaker 2: required before a final decision on a US entered run
Speaker 2: come twenty twenty six against Democratic Senator Jean Shaheen in
Speaker 2: New Hampshire. Brown says he is ticked off by how
Speaker 2: the entire Democratic delegation in New Hampshire covered up for
Speaker 2: Joe Biden for the last four years, calling them out
Speaker 2: of touch with what people want. In New Hampshire and
Speaker 2: in Washington, House Republicans are working on plans to make
Speaker 2: it tougher to house the House speaker. CBS's Michael Tuscano
Speaker 2: is there.
Speaker 9: In fighting has made governing difficult for Republicans, who continue
Speaker 9: to have a razor thin majority in the House, and
Speaker 9: the rule they created in the last session allowing a
Speaker 9: single member to trigger a no confidence vote to remove
Speaker 9: the speaker didn't help the new rules package will raise
Speaker 9: that number to nine. The House is expected to vote
Speaker 9: Friday to adopt the rules package after members elected speaker
Speaker 9: and are sworn in. Michael Tuscano, CBS News, Washington.
Speaker 2: President Biden today is warning the Presidential Citizens Medal to
Speaker 2: twenty people. The AP's Jennifer King has.
Speaker 5: That current and former lawmakers are among those to be honored.
Speaker 5: Two of whom President elect Trump has said should be
Speaker 5: jailed Liz Cheney and Representative Benny Thompson of Mississippi. They
Speaker 5: led the congressional investigation into the January sixth attack on
Speaker 5: the US Capitol. Recipients include Attorney Mary Bonaldo and Evan Wolfson,
Speaker 5: who fought to legalize same sex marriage, women's rights activist
Speaker 5: Eleanor Smiel, and the late Joseph Galloway, the former war
Speaker 5: correspondent who wrote about the Vietnam War in his book
Speaker 5: We Were Soldiers Once and Young. Jennifer King, Washington, You.
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