Friday, January 3, 2025
The 7
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🗓️ 3 January 2025
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Friday briefing: New Orleans attack updates; U.S. Steel; House speaker vote; Jan. 6 pipe bomb video; daylight saving; and more
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| 0:00.0 | We're learning more about the driver in the New Orleans attack and his victims. |
| 0:11.4 | That's where we're starting The Seven from the Washington Post. |
| 0:14.4 | I'm Hannah Jewell. |
| 0:15.6 | It's Friday, January 3rd. |
| 0:17.6 | Let's get you caught up with today's seven stories. |
| 0:27.8 | Yeah. 3. Let's get you caught up with today's seven stories. Yesterday, the FBI said the Texas man who drove a pickup truck into a crowd early on New Year's Day probably acted alone. Officials had previously |
| 0:34.9 | said that Shamsu Din Jabbar may have had accomplices. |
| 0:38.9 | He killed 14 people before dying in a shootout with police. |
| 0:43.3 | The Army veteran had pledged his support to the Islamic State extremist group. |
| 0:48.7 | FBI Deputy Assistant Director Christopher Rea provided an update on the investigation. |
| 0:54.3 | There were five videos posted on Jabbar's Facebook account, which are timestamped beginning |
| 0:59.1 | at 129 a.m. and the last at 302 a.m. In the first video, Jabbar explains he originally |
| 1:06.3 | planned to harm his family and friends, but was concerned the news headlines would not focus on the, quote, |
| 1:13.0 | war between the believers and the disbelievers, end quote. |
| 1:18.1 | Surveillance video recorded before the attack showed Jabbar placing coolers containing improvised |
| 1:24.2 | explosive devices near the scene of the massacre. |
| 1:30.5 | At least 35 people were injured in the attack. |
| 1:38.2 | Among those who did not survive were parents of young children, a Superdome worker, and a former Ivy League football player. |
| 1:41.2 | You can learn more about them in our newsletter today. |
| 1:43.3 | Find a link to that in our show notes. |
| 1:57.1 | The cyber truck explosion outside a Trump hotel was probably a suicide. |
| 1:58.4 | That's number two. |
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