A Tesla Cybertruck exploded outside the entrance to the Trump Hotel in Vegas. Being investigated by the FBI as a possible terrorist event. Driver killed and a few others suffered minor injuries. Also a truck plowed through crowded Bourbon Street in New Orleans around 3 in the morning and killed at last count at least 15 revelers and injured 35 others. 42-year old Army vet and Texas native Shamsud-Din Jabbar was the driver and killed in a shootout with police. Had an ISIS flag in his pickup. Both the Cybertruck and pickup both rented through the car renting app Turo. Possible link between the two events being investigated. FBI thinks Jabbar was not a lone wolf but possibly had terror associates. NYC and Yonkers recorded their first murders of the New Year.
Not an auspicious start. It would have been really nice not to have anything to blog about today. Ease into the New Year ya know?