Live updates: New Orleans attacker acted alone in 'evil act' that killed 14; rampage was '100% inspired by ISIS,' authorities say

A reporter asked Biden whether he plans to travel to New Orleans in the wake of the attack.

"I'm going to try," he responded as he was leaving the Presidential Citizens Medal ceremony this evening.

The FBI today released new surveillance images of Jabbar, as well as a blue ice chest connected to the case.

President Joe Biden said today that the FBI has determined that Jabbar acted alone and that he is the person seen in video planting two ice chests containing explosives in the French Quarter a few hours before the vehicle attack.

“They assessed he had a remote detonator in his vehicle to set off those two ice chests,” Biden said.

The explosives never detonated. The FBI and two senior U.S. law enforcement officials said two “functional” explosive devices, made with pipe and containing nails, were inside two coolers. The FBI asked anyone who passed Jabbar on the street or saw his blue ice chest to contact the agency.

New Orleans had access to effective anti-vehicle barriers ahead of the Bourbon Street attack, but the city did not deploy them until a day after the carnage, and the police chief department said she had been unaware of them. 

New Orleans Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick said today while reopening Bourbon Street that the city had added more protections, including heavy trucks and Archer barriers, “that would be preventive if someone had, or if this particular terrorist, went around up on the sidewalk.”

The L-shaped Archer barriers, which are portable and reusable, are designed to stop a vehicle that is careening toward a pedestrian-only area. The 700-pound steel barriers, which are certified by the Department of Homeland Security, were credited with preventing casualties in a similar incident last year at the Rose Parade in California.

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Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., mourned the loss of two people with Alabama connections who were killed in the attack.

"Heartbreaking to learn that two of Alabama’s own were killed in the New Orleans terrorist attack," Tuberville said on X. "My prayers go out to the loved ones of University of Alabama student Kareem Badawi and Auburn University alumnus Drew Dauphin."

Dauphin lived in Montgomery, Alabama. Badawi lived in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and attended the University of Alabama.

Iraq war veteran Jim Mowrer, an eyewitness to the attack, told NBC News that because of his status, he has "unfortunately experienced things like this before."

"But obviously you don’t expect to see it in a peaceful place on a celebratory night," he said.

He said he and his wife were able to jump out of the middle of the street, which the truck was speeding down, and took cover inside a doorway while the shooting continued.

When the shooting appeared to die down, Mowrer went back into the street, where, he said, he saw a victim "right there."

Mowrer said his training for gunshot wounds taught him to stop the bleeding first. He said that he was ready to make a tourniquet with his belt but that after he came across the first person, "for various reasons, it was very clear that they were deceased."

The driver in yesterday’s attack also planted two “functional” improvised explosive devices near the incident site, according to the FBI and two senior U.S. law enforcement officials.

The bombs were made of galvanized pipe with end caps and were taped inside two coolers, the officials said. Both devices contained nails and had receivers for remote firing.

It’s not immediately clear whether Jabbar ever tried to detonate the devices or whether they malfunctioned, officials said.

The New Orleans Saints announced today that an employee for the team was killed in the attack.

Matthew Tenedorio was described as a "valued member" of the video production team, the Saints said in a statement on X.

"Matthew was young, talented, and had a bright future, helping deliver quality content for both the New Orleans Saints and Pelicans," the team said. "Our thoughts, prayers, and deepest condolences are with the Tenedorio family and everyone affected by this senseless act of terrorism. Together, as a city, state, and region, we will come back stronger from this tragedy.”

Speaking at a White House event celebrating the confirmation of over 230 judicial nominees, President Joe Biden spoke about the New Orleans attack and the car explosion in Las Vegas.

"Today the FBI briefed me that as of now, no information — we have no information that anyone else is involved in the attack. They’ve established that the attacker is the same person who planted the explosives in those ice coolers in two nearby locations in the French Quarter just a few hours before he rammed into the crowd with his vehicle," Biden said of the New Orleans attack.

He added later, "Federal law enforcement and the intelligence community are actively investigating any foreign or domestic contacts and connections that could possibly be relevant to the attack, and so we’re also continuing to investigate whether or not there’s any connection between the New Orleans attack and the explosion in Las Vegas."

So far, Biden said, "they have not found any evidence of such a connection" between the Las Vegas and New Orleans incidents.

A moment of silence about 20 seconds long kicked off the Sugar Bowl today in New Orleans. The stadium was so silent honoring those who were injured or lost in yesterday's attack that you could hear people's phones ringing.

The moment was followed by the coin toss, and the delayed bowl game between Georgia and Notre Dame started at 3:11 p.m. local time.

At start time, the stadium was about 80% to 85% filled with no clear sign that crowds were dissuaded by the attack.

Hubert Gauthreaux, 21, was partying with friends and brought in the new year by watching a fireworks show on the riverwalk, his family said.

At 12:08 a.m., he texted his family, “I love you.”

It was the last message he’d send.

“I want my son back,” his visibly shaken mother, Rami Gauthreaux, said this afternoon from her home in a New Orleans suburb. “He was perfect. He would give everybody, anything.”

She said last week that Hubert removed a tire from his new vehicle and gave it to a friend who needed it more, a testament to his character and kind nature.

Friends and family members sat at the home reminiscing about Hubert's offering them money when they didn’t have any and always being a helping hand.

“Even if he was hurting, he’d find a way to fix you,” said his older sister, Brooke Gauthreaux, 26.

She said her brother went from posting social media videos on Bourbon Street to being gone in a matter of hours. 

“There’s so much I could say. I miss him already,” she said.

David Scott, assistant director of the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division, briefed the House Homeland Security Committee, the Louisiana congressional delegation, House leadership and other relevant committee members, a committee aide told NBC News.

As of now, there is no evidence of any co-conspirators from foreign actors or terrorist organizations.

The FBI has also not found any connection between the attack in New Orleans and the explosion involving a Tesla truck in front of a Trump hotel in Las Vegas, but the Army Criminal Investigation Division is still involved.

The aide said the committee will continue to oversee the federal government’s response to the New Orleans attack and monitor investigations into the Las Vegas explosion.

Nicole Perez was described as a hard-working, “determined” single mom, who walked even in the rain and cold to make her shifts at Kimmy’s Market in Metairie, just outside of New Orleans, where she was promoted to sundry manager on Dec. 9.

During the lunch hour this afternoon, patrons at Kimmy’s Deli, a sister site where Perez also worked, offered condolences to her co-workers.

“So sorry,” a man told owner Kimberly Usher Fall before he provided a $100 bill toward fundraising efforts to support Perez’s family.

Fall described Perez as a dedicated mother who would bring her young son, Melvin, to work. She said Perez had worked between the two sites for about three years. “She was a single mama. Over the course of last year, she’s gone through some rough times. But she was pulling out of it,” Fall said.

Fall’s daughter helped look after Perez’s son yesterday.

JP Morrell, council member at-large and vice president of the New Orleans City Council, says his community is coming together to heal.

He joined Andrea Mitchell to discuss the reopening of Bourbon Street after the terrorist attack.

The family of Drew Dauphin said they are "numb" and "suffering more than anyone can imagine" after his death in the attack.

"It’s unbelievable. Who should have to come up with words for this? ... Drew lit up every room he entered. His smile was infectious," they said in a statement. "He had the best personality."

The family said they will "cherish the 26 years that we had with him and raising him will always be one of the greatest joys of our lives."

Dauphin, who graduated from Auburn University in 2023, was "happiest" at Lake Martin in Alabama with his younger brother, the family said.

"A close friend said it best, 'Drew will always now be in the sun at the lake that he loved so much.' We did not get to spend enough time with him and can’t believe we will never see him again this side of heaven," the family said.

Auburn offered condolences to the Dauphin family in a short statement.

Rap legend Master P said his hometown of New Orleans is able to “bounce back from anything.”

“Being the ambassador of entertainment and being able to be here with the mayor and the governor, we’ve got to spread that love. We got to show the people that we’re not stopping and resilience is going to bring us back, the love is going to be here and we’re going to go on,” he said this afternoon at the reopening of Bourbon Street.

“We’re going to keep our trust and faith in God. Even this evil stuff that came against us is not going to stop us because we always bounce back,” he added.

He said the “spirit of Bourbon Street never changes” and that he’s praying for the victims of yesterday’s tragedy and their families. 

Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the driver in the New Orleans attack, was roiled in financial trouble in recent years, according to public records obtained by NBC News. 

He detailed his financial situation in an email to his then-wife’s attorney in January 2022 about speeding up the divorce process. In that email he said: “Time is of the essence. I can not afford the house payment. It is past due in excess of $27,000 and in danger of foreclosure if we delay settling the divorce.”

In that email he said that the business formed before his marriage, Blue Meadow Properties LLC, had a loss of $28,019.54 in 2021, making it worth around -$140,000. He also said he had incurred $16,000 in credit card debt primarily due to attorney’s fees, establishing a second residence, and his then-wife’s purchases over the three months, according to the records. 

Jabbar represented himself in the divorce case and in August 2022 filed his financial information statement and monthly expenses with the court. It said he made nearly $60 an hour at Deloitte and worked 40 hours a week, with a net income of about $7,900 a month after deductions. He also incurred about -$400 a month from his business, making his monthly take home amount about $7,500. He also included debt owed to credit card companies and debtors amounting to nearly $42,000. 

Separately, Jabbar had $2,012.47 across five bank and cash app accounts and an outstanding mortgage balance of $199,984.45 as of June 2022.

Bourbon Street officially reopened to the public around 12:30 p.m. local time (1:30 p.m. ET).

New Orleans Police Superintendent Anna Kirkpatrick announced the street was reopened after yesterday's attack, and this time with reinforcements including heavy trucks and heavy police presence.

“You are going to see an incredibly large presence of police. We are confident, but we want our community to feel confident and know they are confident,” she said.

Kareem Badawi, 18, was home in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, for the holidays. He had just completed his first semester at the University of Alabama, which he believed had a better engineering program than the University of Louisiana, said his father, Belal Badawi.

He said he had given his son permission to go to New Orleans to celebrate the new year with friends, many of whom were also on break from college. Kareem had a kind heart and a great personality that attracted many friends, his parents said.

He was the youngest of three children — he had a brother and sister, who are 21 and 19. Badawi said he and his family are devastated and shocked, and that Kareem’s killing would be especially hard on his older brother, with whom he was very close.

“That’s another tragedy,” Badawi said in an interview Thursday morning. “My son, he ended up with no brother in his life to share his life. That was his buddy.”

He said the family loved to travel together. “Our life is going to be different,” Badawi said, his voice breaking at times. “It’s just changed now, without him.”

An interfaith prayer service for victims and their families will be held Monday to bring "peace and unity in our community," the Archdiocese of New Orleans said.

The service will take place at 6 p.m. local time at St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans.

"Archbishop Aymond continues to offer his prayers and condolences to those affected by this tragedy," the archdiocese said. "He asks that all join in prayer for our community today and every day as we work to build a culture that respects the life and dignity of all people."

Three phones linked to Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the driver in the New Orleans attack, have been recovered, officials said today.

“Digital media exploitation is a priority to see what is on the devices and determine if there are any other potential leads,” said Chris Raia, deputy assistant director of the FBI’s counterterrorism division. 

Two laptops were also recovered from an address on Mandeville Street and are being reviewed. Yesterday, a fire at that address was believed to be potentially connected to the Bourbon Street terrorist attack, WDSU reported. That scene is still being searched by the FBI.

Evidence technicians are also going over the Ford F-150 truck Jabbar was driving. An ISIS flag was found in the back of the vehicle. 

Officials laid out a timeline of suspect Shamsud-Din Jabbar's actions in the lead up to the attack on Bourbon Street yesterday.

Jabbar picked up the rented Ford F-150 truck in Houston on Dec. 30. He then drove from Houston to New Orleans the evening of Dec. 31 and posted several videos on an online platform “proclaiming his support for ISIS,” said Chris Raia, deputy assistant director of the FBI’s counterterrorism division. 

There were five videos posted on his Facebook account time-stamped starting at 1:29 a.m. and the last at 3:02 a.m. In the first video, he said he “originally planned to harm his family and friends, but was concerned the news headlines would not focus on the ‘war between the believers and the disbelievers,’” Raia said.

Jabbar further stated he had joined ISIS before this summer, and provided and will and testament, Raia said. 

On New Year’s morning, he opened fire after ramming his truck through a blocked-off area of Bourbon Street, using his truck as a weapon to run people over.

FBI bomb technicians also recovered two IEDs in coolers, one from the cross section of Bourbon and Orleans Street and the second at an intersection two blocks away. Officials were able to obtain surveillance footage showing Jabbar placing the devices where they were found. 

“Those are the only two devices that we’ve been able to recover that were functional. Both devices were rendered safe on scene,” Raia said.

Evidence technicians are also going over the truck he was driving, noting that an ISIS flag was recovered from the back of the vehicle. 

He said a scene at an address on Mandeville Street in the St. Roch area of New Orleans is still being searched for potential evidence.

New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell said Bourbon Street will be reopened before the Sugar Bowl game time at 3 p.m. local time (4 p.m. ET) today. 

The clearing of the city’s iconic nightlife street started around 2 a.m. local time this morning and was completed around 8 a.m., the mayor said.

“The FBI was able to clear Bourbon Street and what that meant also for me and this city is that we were able to remove our victims, identify them, and notify their families. Real reverence. They mattered. The families matter and matter to the city of New Orleans,” she said, noting a fund will be opened to support the victims' families.

First vendors will be allowed to enter Bourbon Street to service businesses before it’ll be open to the public. 

“I want to reassure the public that the city of New Orleans is not only ready for game day today but we’re ready to continue to host large scale events in our city because we are built to host at every single turn,” Cantrell said.

Gov. Jeff Landry said the city would not cower to fear, stressing "we will be back."

Chris Raia, the deputy assistant director of the FBI’s counterterrorism division, said there’s no connection suspected thus far between the New Orleans attack and the explosion of a Tesla Cybertruck in Las Vegas yesterday.

"At this point, there is no definitive link between the attack here in New Orleans and the one in Las Vegas," he told reporters during a news conference updating on the investigation into the New Orleans attack.

The suspect driver behind the New Year’s attack in New Orleans acted alone, an FBI official said today. 

"We do not assess at this point that anyone else is involved in this attack except for Shamsud-Din Jabbar," Christopher Raia, the deputy assistant director of the FBI's counterterrorism division, told reporters.

Pope Francis offered condolences to the archbishop of New Orleans, Gregory Aymond, saying he was “deeply saddened to learn of the loss of life and injury” in yesterday’s terror attack.

“In assuring the entire community of his spiritual closeness, his holiness commends the souls of those who have died to the loving mercy of Almighty God and prays for the healing and consolation of the injured and bereaved,” Cardinal Pietro Parolin, secretary of state of Vatican City, said in a statement. “As a pledge of peace and strength in the Lord, the Holy Father sends his blessing.”

President Joe Biden will convene members of his homeland security team today around 12:15 p.m. ET to receive an update on the investigation into the Bourbon Street attack.

Investigators are looking into possible connections between the deadly attack in New Orleans and the fatal Tesla Cybertruck blast outside the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas.

"We understand from local law enforcement officials they said that they're not ruling anything out," NBC News' homeland security correspondent Julia Ainsley said, noting that both vehicles were rented through the car-sharing company Turo.

"Is there some kind of connection here? We have to wait and see," she continued.

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry will hold a news conference to update the public on the Bourbon Street terror attack at 10:30 a.m. local time (11:30 a.m. ET).

He’ll be joined by officials from the FBI, Louisiana State Police, New Orleans Police, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

A law enforcement search of a location in northern Houston, which started yesterday in connection with the New Orleans New Year’s Day attack, concluded this morning, FBI Houston said. 

“At approximately 7:50 a.m., FBI Houston and the Harris County Sheriff’s Office concluded a court-authorized search and cleared the 12000 block of Crescent Peak Drive,” FBI Houston said in a statement. 

Officials said there is no threat to residents in the area. Authorities did not provide details on why that area was searched, but earlier said the activity was "related" to the New Orleans attack.

The suspect driver of the van that plowed through the crowd on Bourbon Street yesterday was from Texas. 

The search of the area in Crescent Peak Drive resulted in no arrests, and saw the FBI deploy its SWAT team, crisis negotiators, special agent bomb technicians and a group of counterterrorism investigators. 

The head of the cleanup crew tasked with the difficult job of clearing Bourbon Street following yesterday's attack has described the scene where 15 people were killed and dozens of others injured as "just horrific."

"We’ve cleaned up after Mardi Gras many, many, many, many times over the years, and so we’ve seen all kind of stuff," Sidney Torres of IV Waste said in an interview with NBC News. "I mean, we’ve seen when there’s been shootings down on Bourbon Street and we’ve had to deal with that." But, he said, he had never seen anything like what he witnessed on New Year's Day.

Torres said crews were working to clean up the area while keeping "respect to the victims" in mind. He said the area had already largely been cleared by law enforcement, but "just the fact that there was still stuff on the street and the things we had to deal with ... It was very sad to deal with it, but we did.

Recalling how the community of New Orleans came together in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Torres said that while the city might be "bruised and really broken" following yesterday's attack, he believed the "resilient city" would eventually recover and "come back stronger."

"But we’ll never forget what happened," he said.

Matthew Tenedorio's mother said he was "just starting life" and had the "job of his dreams" when he was killed in the Bourbon Street attack.

Tenedorio, 25, grew up on Long Island, New York, and moved to New Orleans where he was working at the Caesars Superdome. He was out with friends when he was killed.

"He was a wonderful kid," his father, Louis Tenedorio, said. "I'm in disbelief."

Cathy Tenedorio said she last saw Matthew at a New Year's Eve dinner at her middle son's home. She said she tried to dissuade him from going out afterward but he wanted to celebrate with friends.

Cathy Tenedorio described the moment she knew something terrible had happened to her son.

"When we couldn't reach Matthew, we tried his friends and they said, 'We got separated,'" she said. "We knew something dreadfully wrong happened. And then the next thing is we went to University Medical Center, to the morgue."

There was "no information" that had suggested to police there could be a possible attack like the one that unfolded on Bourbon Street last night, Kirkpatrick, superintendent of the New Orleans Police Department, told the "TODAY" show this morning.

"There was no information that we had and so nothing along those lines," she said.

Bourbon Street will reopen later today to pedestrians, the New Orleans PD said. 

Police plan to have a news conference today announcing the reopening and other safety measures. 

This afternoon's Sugar Bowl football game will have a security level similar to that of the Super Bowl, Kirkpatrick said in her interview with the "TODAY" show this morning.

"We are going to have absolutely hundreds of officers and staff lining our streets," Kirkpatrick said, specifically mentioning Bourbon Street, where yesterday's attack unfolded.

"We are staffing up at the same level if not more so than we were prepared for Super Bowl," she said, with the Super Bowl set to take place Feb. 9 at Caesars Superdome.

The Sugar Bowl was meant to take place last night but was postponed to today following yesterday's attack.

Authorities are looking into "people of interest" related to yesterday's attack on Bourbon Street, New Orleans Police Department Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick told NBC News’ “TODAY” show this morning. 

"We have people of interest. They are not people who are suspects at this time," Kirkpatrick said, speaking in a live interview with Hoda Kotb and Laura Jarrett.

She added that the FBI, which is leading the investigation, was in the process of "tracking down everybody."

Outside of his past military service, we now know that Jabbar had been working for professional services giant Deloitte in a staff-level role since 2021, with the company confirming his employment to NBC News.

After military service, he had attended Georgia State University from 2015 to 2017 and graduated with a BBA in computer information systems, a university spokesperson said.

Texas criminal records show that he was later charged in 2002 with misdemeanor theft and in 2005 with driving with an invalid license.

Civil records show he was married twice, with his first marriage ending in 2012 and his second in 2022. In 2020, his second wife filed a motion for a temporary restraining order, according to public records. The order barred both parties from “intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly causing bodily injury to the other party or to a child of either party” or “threatening the other party or a child of either party with imminent bodily injury.”

The "USA is breaking down," President-elect Donald Trump said in a statement posted on his social media platform Truth Social early this morning as he appeared to blame immigration for the "violent erosion of Safety, National Security, and Democracy ... taking place all across our Nation."

“Our Country is a disaster, a laughing stock all over the World! This is what happens when you have OPEN BORDERS, with weak, ineffective, and virtually nonexistent leadership," said Trump, who will be inaugurated as the 47th president later this month on Jan. 20. He did not specifically mention either incident in New Orleans or Las Vegas.

The returning president accused the Justice Department, FBI and "Democrat state and local prosecutors" of having "not done their job," calling them "incompetent and corrupt" after "having spent all of their waking hours unlawfully attacking their political opponent, ME, rather than focusing on protecting Americans from the outside and inside violent SCUM that has infiltrated all aspects of our government, and our Nation itself."

"Democrats should be ashamed of themselves for allowing this to happen to our Country," he added as he called for the CIA to "get involved, NOW, before it is too late."

Surveillance video captures the moment that a white pickup truck drove at high speed into a group of pedestrians on Bourbon Street in New Orleans.

New York City has heightened security and boosted police presence around key areas following the incidents in New Orleans and Las Vegas, the city's mayor said this morning.

NYC Mayor Eric Adams said that he was in "constant communication" with Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch "after the attacks in New Orleans and Las Vegas."

"While there are no immediate threats to our city at this time, out of an abundance of caution, we have heightened security and have increased NYPD presence at relevant locations," he said in a post on X.

Sean Keenan, a freelance reporter for The New York Times, has said he interviewed the man suspected of carrying out the New Orleans attack for his college newspaper years ago in 2015.

Writing for the NYT, Keenan recalled how Jabbar, a veteran and graduate of Georgia State University, told him of his difficulties acclimating to civilian life after leaving the military and the challenges of adapting to college life as a veteran.

Jabbar had served in the Army on active duty from 2006 to 2015 and was deployed to Afghanistan in 2009, three U.S. defense officials separately told NBC News. He attended Georgia State University from 2015 to 2017 and graduated with a BBA in computer information systems, a university spokesperson separately confirmed.

Jabbar had complained that the "complexity of the Department of Veterans Affairs bureaucracy sometimes made it difficult for veterans to get their tuition and other educational benefits paid through the G.I. Bill," Keenan said.

He had also described his difficulties communicating without "defaulting to the military jargon he had adopted during his years in the service — and that doing so can make it difficult for veterans when applying for civilian jobs," Keenan wrote.

The suspect in yesterday's attack was a military veteran who served in the Army on active duty from 2006 to 2015 and then in the Army Reserve from 2015 to 2020, according to three U.S. defense officials.

Shamshud-Din Jabbar was deployed to Afghanistan in 2009 and served as an administrative clerk and had later been a staff sergeant in 2020 when he was honorably discharged.

He had separately tried to enlist in the Navy in 2004, but had never shipped out or begun training, a spokesperson separately said.

Jabbar had reportedly described his difficulties acclimating to civilian life after serving in the military in a 2015 university newspaper interview with journalist Sean Keenan, now a freelance contributor to The New York Times.

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President Joe Biden condemned the deadly terrorist attack in New Orleans that left 15 dead and dozens injured, calling it “despicable” during remarks from Camp David.

Speaking late yesterday, he said that the FBI believes the suspect posted ISIS-inspired videos before the attack and urged patience as the investigation continues, thanking first responders and law enforcement for their swift action.

New Orleans' City Hall will be closed to the public today, but will resume normal business hours tomorrow morning, city officials said.

The municipality said the closure was decided to "minimize traffic disruptions in the vicinity of City Hall" following yesterday's attack.

City services will continue to operate virtually, it said, with emergency personnel expected to operate as normal.

A blood drive will be held today in support of the victims injured in yesterday's attack.

The blood drive will run from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. local time (11 a.m. ET to 6 p.m. ET) both today and tomorrow at the New Orleans Blood Center located at 2609 Canal St., the city of New Orleans said in a statement on its website.

The blood center said the drive would be held to "support blood replacement and medical care for victims suffering incident related injuries" following the attack and noted that parking and entrance areas located on Iberville Street were being monitored by security.

Law enforcement officials said they searched an Airbnb rental in New Orleans that may have been connected to the manufacture of IEDs tied to the attack, Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill told NBC News’ Lester Holt in an interview.

“We know that these individuals had rented the house were using it for that purpose,” Murrill said. Airbnb did not respond to a request for comment.

Murrill also said she wanted to delay the Sugar Bowl another day. The football game, which was originally scheduled for last night in New Orleans, was postponed to today after the attack.

“Not my decision, but I would like to see it delayed at least another day,” Murrill said. “If they asked my opinion, I would tell them that.”

Murrill said she believes “that the community is safe,” emphasizing the law enforcement presence in the city.

NBC News’ Jay Gray reports from New Orleans, where the authorities are investigating yesterday's deadly attack in the city’s French Quarter, in which at least 15 people were killed and dozens injured.

Two women, Elle Eisele and Steele Idelson, have been identified among the injured by the high school they both attended.

“The Eisele and Idelson families are deeply grateful for the outpouring of thoughts, prayers, and offers of support for our daughters following the tragic attack in New Orleans," the Canterbury School in Fort Myers said in a statement. "We also extend our heartfelt gratitude to the first responders, whose swift actions may have saved our daughters’ lives."

The college preparatory school said both Eisele and Idelson were receiving care at University Medical Center. Their conditions were not immediately clear.

A spokesperson for San Diego State University confirmed that Steele was currently enrolled as a student there, but said no additional information could be shared, citing student privacy laws.

Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the suspect in yesterday's attack had worked at professional services giant Deloitte in a staff-level role since 2021, the company confirmed to NBC News.

"We are shocked to learn of reports ... that the individual identified as a suspect had any association with our firm, Deloitte Managing Director Jonathan Gandal said in a statement.

"Like everyone, we are outraged by this shameful and senseless act of violence and are doing all we can to assist authorities in their investigation," he said.

Mourners flocked to the site where at least 15 people were killed by a man who drove a truck into a crowd during New Year's celebrations on Bourbon Street in the city's French Quarter.

The Sugar Bowl college football game is expected to go ahead today at the Superdome in New Orleans, after it was rescheduled from last evening.

The game, between Georgia and Notre Dame, will be played at 3 p.m. local time (4 p.m. ET). 

Officials have said additional safety measures will be in place around the game, with security expected to be on high alert following yesterday's attack.

Rich Clark, the executive director of the College Football Playoff, said in a statement yesterday that organizers would be working with local authorities to "work together to ensure we can provide a safe environment for everyone."

Hubert Gauthreaux, 21, has been identified as being among those killed in the attack by his former high school, the Archbishop Shaw High School in Marrero, Louisiana.

“It is with great sorrow that we share that alum Hubert Gauthreaux, Class of 2021, was tragically killed in the senseless act of violence that occurred early this morning in the French Quarter,” the school said in a statement shared on Facebook.

“We are asking the entire Archbishop Shaw family to pray for the repose of Hubert’s soul, his family and friends during this difficult time, and all those affected by this tragedy,” the statement added.

Investigators are looking into whether there’s any military connection between that suspect in the New Orleans attack and the driver in a Cybertruck explosion outside a Trump hotel in Las Vegas, two law enforcement sources familiar with the matter told NBC News.

The driver in New Orleans is dead after shooting at police, and a person was found dead inside the Cybertruck after that vehicle exploded and caught fire, officials have said.

But whether the drivers overlapped in the time they served in the military, or at any locations, was unclear. The sources said it was a potentially notable investigative strand.

The suspect in the New Orleans attack was a Texas man and Army veteran, officials, including President Joe Biden, have said.

An ISIS flag allegedly found in the truck that Shamsud-Din Jabbar used in the lethal car-ramming attack on Bourbon Street in New Orleans on New Year’s Day highlights the persistent danger posed by the terrorist group, which continues to churn out online propaganda to try to foment violence around the world, experts and U.S. officials say.

ISIS' exact role in the attack remains unclear. But the discovery of the flag, as well as two possible improvised explosive devices in the area, prompted federal authorities to investigate the suspect’s possible links with the terrorist group, law enforcement officials said. President Joe Biden said this evening that the FBI told him Jabbar had published videos “indicating that he was inspired by ISIS.” 

The attack in New Orleans, which killed at least 15 people, follows repeated warnings from U.S. law enforcement and intelligence officials about an elevated terrorist threat over the past year fueled by Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel and Israel’s response.

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Just hours into 2025, an attack in New Orleans killed 15 people and injured dozens more.

A Texas man drove a truck through a street of New Year’s revelers in what the FBI is investigating as an act of terrorism. The attack took place on Bourbon Street, a popular party destination.

Authorities have identified the suspect as 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar and revealed that his truck flew an Islamic State terrorist group flag during the attack. Jabbar died during a gunfight with police.

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