The man decides to drive into a crowd in New Orleans. It's very sad. Put up the picture for me. I'm going to give you the background and the update as we currently have it. So according to the FBI, at least 15 people are dead. 30 people were injured [00:00:18] after a man drove a truck into a crowd at Bourbon and Canal Street in New Orleans. This was on New Year's Day. This is being considered a terrorist attack. The identity of the suspect [00:00:36] and the truck has been confirmed. The suspect is Shamsuddin Jabar. US Army veteran out of the state of Texas. Here's what we know. A man intentionally drove a pickup truck into a crowd on Bourbon Street [00:00:56] in New Orleans. This is the French Quarter in a deadly rampage Page. Early on New Year's Day. At least 14 people were killed before the attacker died in a shootout with police. That's according to the official report. Dozens of others were injured in the attack, so a black ISIS flag was flying [00:01:15] from the truck's rear bumper. And the attack is being investigated as an act of terrorism. The Federal Bureau of Investigation said the pickup truck appeared to be rented. In televised remarks Wednesday evening, [00:01:32] President Biden said the FBI has determined just hours before the attack, Jabar posted videos to social media indicating that he was inspired by ISIS expressing a desire to kill, that he was inspired by ISIS [00:01:49] expressing a desire to kill, FBI agent Alethea Duncan said at a news conference Wednesday afternoon that investigators, quote, did not believe that Jabbar was solely responsible for the attack, [00:02:04] and the FBI believes he may have had help carrying it out. Duncan said the FBI is looking at a, quote, range of suspects, range of suspects. We don't know exactly what that means yet and does not want to rule anything out at this stage of the investigation. [00:02:19] The FBI is also working to determine his potential affiliations or associations with terrorist associations. So a person familiar with the investigation told CBS news that at this point, neither ISIS nor any other foreign terror organization [00:02:38] has claimed responsibility for the attack. The attacker drove around barricades and up onto the sidewalk of Bourbon Street, new Orleans Police Department Superintendent and Kirkpatrick said, avoiding barriers that had been placed by police. Kirkpatrick said the man, quote, was trying to run over as many people [00:02:58] as he could, end quote. The man then exited the car and opened fire on officers, the FBI official said. He died after exchanging gunfire with three responding officers, the FBI said. He was struck by police fire and declared dead at the scene. [00:03:17] The New Orleans Police Department said two police officers were hit by gunfire but are in stable condition. Let's put up the police chief. A statement came from the chief. Quote, we had a car there. We had barriers there. [00:03:33] We had officers there and he still got around. Kirkpatrick said weapons and two potential improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, were located in the vehicle. Duncan said at least one other IED was found in the French Quarter and was [00:03:54] detonated by law enforcement, a person familiar with the investigation said. The number of IEDs left behind is a large part of why the FBI believes the man may have had an accomplice. Sources tell CBS news investigators are combing through video to see if there were accomplices involved in placing the devices. [00:04:12] Sources told CBS news. Now the FBI is actually leading the investigation. Marissa, do we have that video of him talking? So there's a there's an old YouTube video. It gives you an idea of of some of his character and mannerism. [00:04:29] Here it is. Texas. And now live in Houston. And I've been here all my life, with the exception of traveling for the military, where I spent ten years as a human resources specialist and IT specialist, where I learned the meaning of great service and what it means to be responsive [00:04:46] and take everything seriously, dotting i's and crossing t's to make sure that things go off without a hitch. So I've taken those skills and applied them to my career. Human resource specialist and IT specialists have described. This is a very sad occasion. Now, obviously, it was quickly determined, [00:05:08] categorized as an act of terrorism. I agree with the category just given the amount of information available now. I will say this. [00:05:23] According to the FBI narrative, this individual was radicalized by propaganda. That's according to their own narrative, ISIS propaganda. Understand that if somebody can be [00:05:40] radicalized by propaganda in the context of ISIS, that there are people who are radicalized by political propaganda in the context of MAGA. Understand these things are not mutually exclusive. They are connected. That propaganda can radicalize people [00:05:59] to do extremely dangerous things, such as attempt to kill a bunch of people and sometimes successfully do at one time. It is unfortunate. Obviously, the investigation continues. Our information is currently not complete. [00:06:17] We will bring you updates. Ben, what are your thoughts on this? Yeah, I think it's great that you're highlighting the fact that this is a terrorist attack and this man's radical radicalization into ISIS ideology and working on their behalf, [00:06:33] whether they claim it or not, is not the point. The man clearly, there's no more clear evidence. And I don't know why the media in general is doing such a great job of burying the fact that this is a terror attack. The man had an ISIS flag on the back of his truck while running people down, clear as day. [00:06:50] They were very quick to say Luigi Mangione was a terror attack when it's literally not even fitting the definition of terrorism. He was trying to target one specific person of a very elite small class of people. Not that he should have done that, but that's not black and white terror [00:07:06] like this is this is a great example of the dangers facing us here in the West of radical Islamic terrorism. This is what happens when people are radicalized and bastardize an otherwise peaceful, beautiful religion of Islam, and take it to murder people [00:07:24] who don't agree with them. This man apparently said that he was originally thinking about killing his own family, but that the news coverage wouldn't be focused then on the fight of believers versus nonbelievers. This is jihadism on our shores. This can't be buried. I don't know why we've gotten into this PC place where we are afraid [00:07:42] to call something what it is on its face. This is what globalizing the intifada means. It means they're coming for us in the West to have Western values who believe in equality for all people, all belief systems. And this is a man that just so clearly you see him in a clip before was a [00:08:00] a patriot was a man who served his country and due to ISIS propaganda kills American citizens because he hates our values. He hates what we stand for. He wants to impose his religious beliefs on others. [00:08:16] And when you support that kind of thing in some weird presentation of, oh, I think it's important to support anyone. No, you don't support people whose beliefs are specifically to kill us, to kill people with Western values. [00:08:32] You stick with our allies. You stick with the people that support what we stand for and not imposing their religious extremism on the world. Yeah. And when you zoom out and and not get so caught up in the weeds because sometimes we can we can miss the bigger dynamic at play. [00:08:53] The bigger dynamic is this lack of value for human life, this lack of value for human life? And that may seem fluffy to some people, but it's real. The more you can see yourself, the more you can appreciate the [00:09:11] experiences of life for yourself, the more you can see who you are as an independent, autonomous, sovereign human being. The more you see that in other people. But when you don't see yourself, it's very difficult to see other folk. [00:09:28] And our political narrative, our cultural narrative, and sometimes our social narrative gets into the us and them, where they are, those who are devalued, and then those [00:09:45] are prompted as more valuable than, and that becomes the genesis for much of this. It's very unfortunate. Obviously, we will keep you updated as more information comes.