New Year's Terror | 01-02-25

Sid & Friends In The Morning

77 WABC

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🗓️ 2 January 2025

⏱️ 185 minutes

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Summary

On this Thursday edition of Sid & Friends in the Morning, Sid makes his return to the airwaves in the new year, delivering his first program of the year 2025 in what is unfortunately a somber morning following the acts of terror on the famed Bourbon Street in New Orleans during the city's New Year's celebration, and thereafter a Tesla Cybertruck explosion right outside the Trump building in Las Vegas. New year, same bloody American streets. In other news of the day, the man who randomly shoved a New Yorker into a moving train on the subway is revealed, teenagers are shot outside a nightclub in Queens, and Sid wins Barret Media's Talk Radio Host of the Year Award. Jacqueline Toboroff, Curtis Sliwa, Jason Whitlock, Roger Stone, Paul Mauro and Peter King join Sid on this new year installment of Sid & Friends in the Morning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Sit in Friends in the morning.
0:03.2	Entertaining and informative.
0:05.6	Oh, you're my best friend.
0:08.0	77 WabC.
0:11.0	The man behind the wheel of a pickup truck that plowed into a crowd in New Orleans is being described as a cold-blooded killer.
0:18.3	Officials say the Army veteran was, quote, hell-bent on carnage and pledged allegiance to ISIS before killing at least 15 people and injuring dozens more.
0:28.9	The tragedy unfolded around 315 in the morning as hundreds of people packed Bourbon Street celebrating the new year.
0:36.4	The driver managed to get around security
0:38.9	measures that were in place to protect pedestrians and plowed right into the crowd.
0:44.2	Sandra Mitchell is here in studio with us now. She's got the latest on the driver and his
0:48.3	motive for that attack. Sandra. Well, we do have some new information now about the driver
0:53.2	inspired by ISIS. The FBI says he posted
0:56.3	videos on social media in the hours before the attack describing his desire to kill. Also, I spoke with a
1:03.9	San Bernardino County man. He was on Bourbon Street just moments before the carnage.
1:11.5	For three city blocks, the white pickup truck with an ISIS flag barrel down Bourbon
1:16.9	Street mowing down New Year's Eve partiers.
1:20.2	This is not just an act of terrorism.
1:25.7	This is evil.
1:26.6	At least 15 people confirmed dead, dozens more seriously injured.
1:31.6	President Biden spoke to a shaken nation about the terror attack.
1:35.6	The law enforcement and intelligence community continue to look for any connections,
1:40.9	associations, or co-conspirators. The FBI has identified 42-year-old Shamsa Dinn-Jabbar, an American citizen and army veteran from Texas as the attacker.
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