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Investigators are looking for answers in New Orleans and Las Vegas.
On the Gulf coast, they identified an attacker who was a veteran from Texas in Nevada.
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What do police know about the suspect in the attack that killed 15 people on Bourbon Street?
The ISIS flag was found in his vehicle.
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FBI investigators include counterterrorism experts and bomb techs.
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We'll get up to date now on two incidents in two entertainment districts, an attack in New Orleans and an explosion in Las Vegas.
The Vegas incident involved a Tesla cybertruck that exploded outside a Trump hotel.
But first we hear from New Orleans, where a pickup plowed into a crowd on Bourbon Street.
Investigators have learned a little more over the past 24 hours.