Biden to visit New Orleans after Bourbon Street attack
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President Biden will visit New Orleans on Monday to "grieve with the families and communities" touched by the Bourbon Street terrorist attack, the White House announced Friday morning.
Why it matters: The ISIS-inspired truck attack killed 14 people and injured dozens more.
The big picture: First Lady Jill Biden will accompany the president, the White House said.
- The statement didn't give details about where the Bidens will go or with whom they will meet.
Driving the news: Monday is also Twelfth Night, which is the official start of the Mardi Gras season in New Orleans.
- Multiple parades are scheduled that night, including the Societé Jeanne d'Arc (Joan of Arc).
- Jeanne d'Arc co-captain Antoinette De Alteriis on Thursday said its procession will continue as they hope to be a "light in the darkness."
- Carnival culminates on Mardi Gras, which is March 4 this year. See the parade schedule.
Zoom out: Biden has been in contact with Mayor LaToya Cantrell since the attack, the White House said.
- Hours after it happened, the president called it a "terrible assault," and added that "the spirit of New Orleans will never, never be defeated."
- He gave a recorded message at the start of the rescheduled Sugar Bowl too, which was played less than a mile from the crime scene.
The latest: Bourbon Street reopened to the public on Thursday with new vehicle-resistant barricades on the sidewalks. Go deeper.
Catch up quick: A man whom the FBI identified as Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old U.S. Army veteran and a U.S. citizen from Texas, drove his truck around an NOPD SUV and onto a French Quarter sidewalk in the early hours of Jan. 1, as people were out celebrating the holiday.
- When Jabbar exited the truck, he began shooting, and three NOPD officers returned fire, officials have said. Two officers were among the injured.
- See the updated timeline.
- Details about victims in the attack began to emerge as loved ones learned of their identities, though New Orleans coroner Dwight McKenna said it'll take "several days" to perform all autopsies. Go deeper.
Go deeper:
- The victims of the Bourbon Street attack
- New Orleans leaders face questions over preventability of terror attack
- New Orleans parades to be "a light in the darkness" after terror attack
Editor's note: This story has been updated to include additional information.