The Las Vegas Fire Department is investigating the Felando-Klein Explosion and “Bombs” at 8:41 am

It’s still not clear what caused the fire, or if there were any injuries. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police said that the fire had been put out. Police and firefighters were responding to a car fire that was first reported at 8:41 am, according to a news station in Las Vegas.

“I and my husband were literally standing where the luggage is in the footage. I saw it pull up and it went down as though it was a bus. It first looked like fireworks. I immediately thought it could be a bomb and that we were all going to die.

We have not found a video of the vehicle catching fire, but there are several videos on X that show the explosion and smoke. Stephen Felando claimed the windows on the 53rd floor of the building shook violently, while MAX RADFORD claimed there were multiple explosions.

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police and Clark County Fire Department officials told a news conference that a person died inside the futuristic-looking pickup truck and they were working to get the body out. Several people were taken to the hospital with injuries.

Officials found several items in the vehicle including multiple firearms, fireworks, a military ID, an iPhone and several credit cards. The FBI and local law enforcement officials are still looking for a motive.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Wednesday afternoon on X that “we have now confirmed that the explosion was caused by very large fireworks and/or a bomb carried in the bed of the rented Cybertruck and is unrelated to the vehicle itself. The vehicle was positive at the time of the explosion.

“The whole senior team at Tesla is investigating this matter right now after I attended a New Year’s Eve party at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort,” Musk said in an earlier post on the platform. “We’ve never seen anything like this before.”

A person familiar with the matter said law enforcement officials haven’t ruled out terrorism as a possible motive. They were not authorized to publicly discuss details of the investigation so they spoke on condition of anonymity.

“I know you have a lot of questions,” Jeremy Schwartz, acting special agent in charge for the FBI’s Las Vegas office, told reporters. We don’t know a lot of things.

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President Joe Biden was briefed on the explosion. The truck explosion came hours after a driver rammed a truck into a crowd in New Orleans’ famed French Quarter early on New Year’s Day, killing at least 10 people before being shot to death by police.

“The first one where we saw the fire, the second one, I guess, was the battery or something like that, and the third was the big one that smoked the entire area and was the moment when everyone was told to evacuate and stay away,” Bruce said.

Authorities have identified the driver of the Cybertruck that exploded in front of the Trump hotel in Las Vegas as 37-year-old Master Sgt. Matthew Alan Livelsberger is a person. In a news briefing Thursday afternoon, police say they still don’t have 100 percent confirmation because he was “burned beyond recognition” in the Jan. 1 blast. They’re awaiting DNA tests to confirm his identity.

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police officer says Livelsberger had a gunshot wound to the head prior to the detonation of the Cybertuck.

Livelsberger was an active-duty Special Operations soldier with the U.S. Army. The man who drove a pickup truck onto the sidewalk in New Orleans on New Year’s Day, killing at least 15 and injuring more than 40, is similar to Shamsud-Din Nabi, officials said. McMahill said both men served at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, though there’s no indication they served in the same unit. They served in Afghanistan in 2009, and they both used the CarRentals app Turo to rent vehicles used in these attacks. McMahill said details on additional parallels are unknown. Law enforcement and intelligence officials are investigating any potential connection between the two incidents.

A source familiar with Livelsberger’s background who was not authorized to speak publicly on the matter tells NPR’s Tom Bowman that Livelsberger was deployed five times to Afghanistan on combat missions. He had not been deployed for the past 12 months.

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Jeremy Schwartz, the acting special agent in charge of the FBI in Las Vegas, told investigators that he was closely working with the local law enforcement to learn more about the explosion. The FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force was working to determine whether the explosion was an act of terrorism.

“We do not assess at this point that anyone else is involved in this attack,” Christopher Raia, FBI deputy assistant director with the agency’s counterterrorism division, told reporters during a press conference.

Raia said investigators are combing through five electronic devices — three cellphones and two laptops — and there is “nothing to indicate through call records, through anything on those devices, through interviews, through anything in our systems that he was aided in this attack by anyone.”

The FBI initially believed that Jabbar did not act alone and that additional suspects might have aided in the attack.

The driver rented a white F-150 on Monday in Houston before heading to New Orleans on Tuesday, according to Raia. Jabbar posted “several videos” to social media declaring his support for ISIS and explained that while he planned to hurt his family and friends he was concerned the news headlines would not focus on the “war between the believers and the disbelievers,” Raia said. He claimed to have joined the group before the summer of 2024.

Bourbon Street, which has been closed as authorities investigate, has been cleaned overnight and was reopened to pedestrians on Thursday. Fourteen yellow roses have been placed on the sidewalk near Canal Street as a makeshift memorial for each of those killed in the speeding rampage.

The Sugar Bowl, a nationally televised game that is part of the college football playoffs, was slated to take place in New Orleans on Wednesday night but was postponed until Thursday afternoon.

Source: FBI now says the suspect in the deadly New Orleans truck attack acted alone

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When asked about security measures in the city ahead of the game, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry told reporters that officials “reinforced the area” and “deployed some additional types of assets.”

“I don’t like to give specifics because I don’t like to tell the enemy what we got,” he said. “But I can tell you we’re in better shape than we were before,” Landry said. The amount of law enforcement resources that are being utilized to finalize the investigation is unprecedented.

Raia said said there is currently “no definitive link” between the attack in New Orleans and a Cybertruck explosion in Las Vegas in front of the Trump Hotel on Wednesday, in which the suspect was killed inside the vehicle.

Jabbar, who was a U.S. citizen, was honorably discharged from the Army, according to the FBI. He also served as a Human Resource Specialist and Information Technology Specialist from March 2007 until January 2015 and then in the Army Reserve as an IT Specialist until July 2020, an Army spokesperson confirmed to NPR. In February 2009, Jabbar deployed to Afghanistan where he served for about 11 months. He was assigned to the rank of staff sergeant.

The FBI posted on social media that there is no threat to residents in the area, after they completed the search of his home. According to The Texas Newsroom, a person who wasn’t related to the suspect said that their interactions were normal.