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Security Consultants Urged Barriers to Bourbon Street Be Improved "Immediately" in 2019 Report

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

News

4.1 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In the wake of the early New Year's Day attack in New Orleans, Bourbon Street's security vulnerabilities are coming under scrutiny. Anderson speaks to one security expert who called Bourbon Street the perfect target, five years after his firm warned officials the area was especially vulnerable to a vehicular ramming attack. Plus, a New York judge has upheld President-elect Donald Trump conviction in his hush money case rejecting his effort to throw out the jury’s verdict because of his reelection. Judge Merchan set sentencing for one week from today, but indicated the case is essentially over.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:28.7

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0:32.4

Good evening again from Norlands where the focus tonight is on why this area, the French Quarter,

0:38.0

continued to be what one security expert called a perfect target five years after his firm

0:43.7

warned officials that Bourbon Street just behind us was especially vulnerable to a vehicular

0:49.2

ramming attack. Early Wednesday morning, a killer in a pickup truck exploited that vulnerability, police say,

0:55.0

by simply driving onto the sidewalk to get around a police vehicle that was blocking the street.

1:01.0

That was basically all it took.

1:04.0

Now 14 people are dead, dozens more hurt some badly.

1:08.0

We also learned late today how all of this could have been much worse. A statement from the FBI and ATF says the killer set fire to the short-term rental location where he was staying to destroy evidence, some of which included ingredients for bomb-making material. You're seeing a doorbell video of him unloading his truck outside.

1:33.2

Now, that statement also included an FBI assessment that the killer attended to use a transmitter found in his truck to set off the two IEDs that he had placed previously on Bourbon Street.

1:39.2

Also, tonight, we're learning more about the man who blew himself up in a cyber truck outside

1:43.6

the Trump International

1:44.6

Hotel in Las Vegas. And it is important to say that CNN's Josh Campbell is reporting

1:49.2

tonight. Authorities have now assessed that there is no connection between that and what happened

1:54.5

here. Now this is newly released video of Matthew Livelylisberger, the active duty green beret,

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