Hi, so I was hoping that the first thing I'd be saying to you this year would be happy New Year,

but it has been anything but that. As many of you know, the first scheduled show of the year,

it wasn't even supposed to be happening until Monday, January 6th, but there's been too much

craziness going on not to talk about it. So with that said, buckle up and let's just jump into it.

Because we've got a truck attack in New Orleans, a bombing in Las Vegas, a shooting

in New York, and just a bunch of horrible, horrible shit.

But let's start with the deadliest attack.

First, New Orleans.

Right, because the streets of the city's historic French Quarter, they were teeming

with people Tuesday night and Wednesday morning.

Not only to celebrate the New Year, but also to attend a college football playoff game

at the nearby Superdome. But then at around 3.15 in the morning, a Ford pickup truck veered around a police barricade on Bourbon Street and drove straight

for the pedestrians. And this is the barrier system meant to prevent vehicle attacks like this

was reportedly being repaired in preparation for the Super Bowl in February. And so the truck plowed

through a crowd of people with the driver, reportedly a 42-year-old man exiting the vehicle and shooting at the cops, with him reportedly killing 14 people and wounding around 30 others in total before he himself was shot dead by

cops at the scene. And this is you have local police saying the two officers were injured but

are stable. Now with that said, we are still learning the identities of all the victims, but some

have already come out. And I think it's important to put a human face on these numbers. So what we're seeing is that among the dead, you have people like 27-year-old Nicole Perez,

a mother who reportedly brought her four-year-old son to the deli that she managed when she was off from school

and taught him math in the alphabet in the storage room, as well as 28-year-old Martin Tiger Beshe,

a former Princeton football player whose mother reportedly told him how much she loved and was proud of him as he lay dying in a hospital bed.

As well as Karim Badawi, reportedly a Palestinian-American who had just started college and was beloved in his community.

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