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This picture taken from a balcony of the Royal Sonesta New Orleans hotel shows law enforcement gathering around the suspect pickup truck. Paul S.The new year was just three hours old when a pickup truck sped down Bourbon Street – the heart of the French Quarter in New Orleans. The truck quickly turns onto Bourbon Street and around a patrol vehicle. Footage captured two blocks north of Canal Street shows bystanders rushing to a victim as uniformed officers confront the driver. New Orleans officials urged tourists to continue enjoying the city but steer clear of Bourbon Street.

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☆ How the New Orleans truck attack unfolded on the famous Bourbon Street
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-03 | by ( Dakin Andone | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

The Sugar Bowl college football game between Notre Dame and the University of Georgia was postponed Wednesday and rescheduled for Thursday after the truck attack on Bourbon Street. The truck quickly turns onto Bourbon Street, appearing to maneuver around a patrol vehicle with its lights flashing. Lying in her hotel room above Bourbon Street, April McGee thought the sound of chaos below was fireworks, she told WDSU. In New Orleans, officials urged tourists to carry on, to enjoy the city but to steer clear of Bourbon Street. Matthias Hauswirth of New Orleans prays on the street near the scene of Wednesday's truck attack.

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☆ Visual timeline: What happened in the New Year’s truck attack in New Orleans
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-02 | by ( Caroll Alvarado | Elizabeth Wolfe | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Using surveillance footage and witness video and accounts, CNN has pieced together a visual timeline of the attack. Around 3:16 a.m., a white pickup truck was captured on a surveillance camera driving northwest on Canal Street toward the intersection with Bourbon Street. WVUEPanic and fear surged through the crowd as the driver accelerated down Bourbon Street, ramming into more pedestrians. A group of law enforcement officers rush down Bourbon Street after appearing to receive a call about the attack. Law enforcement officers rush past several bodies, which CNN has blurred, that lay on Bourbon Street after the attack.

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☆ Fact Check-Clip of hundreds of birds flying above a motorway filmed in Texas, not Ukraine in 2023
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-24 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A clip dating to at least as far back as 2017 showing hundreds of birds flying above a motorway was not filmed in Kyiv, Ukraine, in January 2023. One individual shared the clip filmed from a vehicle showing the flock flying above a motorway, with a caption that reads: “WATCH Huge ‘murder’ of crows reportedly spotted flying over #Kiev, #Ukraine The end of times" (here), (here). The clip is not recent, nor was it filmed in Kyiv, Ukraine. According to the media reports, the clip was filmed on a motorway in Houston, Texas. The clip was widely published by media outlets in January 2017 and was filmed on a motorway in Houston, Texas.

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