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NPR News: 01-02-2025 4PM EST

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🗓️ 2 January 2025

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0:24.5

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Skivoni.

0:28.3

Authorities have identified the driver of the Tesla cyber truck that exploded in front of the Trump

0:33.3

Hotel in Las Vegas as 37-year-old Matthew Allen Littlesberger. He previously was an active-duty

0:39.8

special operations soldier with the Army, then joined the National Guard, followed by the Army Reserve.

0:46.0

The FBI says they found no indication that this case is related to the early New Year's

0:51.7

morning deadly truck attack in New Orleans by 42-year-old American-born

0:55.8

Shamshood Dean Jabar of Houston, also a veteran who died in a shootout with police.

1:02.1

Sheriff Kevin McMayhill of Las Vegas described what investigators found in the remains of the cyber truck.

1:08.0

There's an SLR model B-30, semi-automatic firearm, a number of fireworks that

1:14.5

were still in the vehicle that had to be removed. Notably, we found an iPhone and a smartwatch,

1:22.0

and then several credit cards were also in the name of our subject. Officials say Livelsberger shot himself in the head before the blast.

1:31.5

The Sugar Bowl college football playoff game kicks off at this hour in New Orleans that Notre Dame

1:36.2

Georgia game had been postponed after the truck attack in the French quarter on New Year's Day.

1:41.7

NPR's Becky Sullivan reports.

1:43.6

The Sugar Bowl was originally scheduled to

1:45.5

kick off last night at the Superdome in downtown New Orleans. But the attack on Bourbon Street took

1:50.0

place less than a mile from the stadium that put the facilities on lockdown as authorities

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