'No credible threats' on Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans following New Year's terror attack, Kristi Noem says

Secretary Kristi Noem said Monday the Department of Homeland Security has "no credible threats" connected Super Bowl LIX successful New Orleans. 

Noem spoke astatine a property league up of the Super Bowl betwixt the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles. While it's each astir shot successful the "Big Easy" this week, discussions astir information for this monolithic lawsuit people came up pursuing the New Year's Day panic onslaught connected the city's historical Bourbon Street. 

Terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar killed 14 civilians and injured 57 others aft ramming his Ford F-150 motortruck done crowds celebrating connected the celebrated thoroughfare astir 3 a.m. connected Jan. 1. Jabbar was killed during a shootout with police. 

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Gov. Kristi Noem during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee confirmation proceeding successful Washington, D.C., connected Jan. 17, 2025. (Getty)

The NFL held a nationalist information property league connected Monday successful New Orleans wherever Noem spoke alongside Cathy L. Lanier, the league’s main information officer, Eric DeLaune, Homeland Security Investigations peculiar cause successful charge, Col. Robert P. Hodges, Louisiana State Police superintendent, and Anne Kirkpatrick, New Orleans Police Department superintendent. 

Noem discussed the world of the information astir the world, but erstwhile it comes to events present successful the United States, she was wide with however harmless the Super Bowl would be. 

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"The satellite is simply a overmuch much unsafe place, but present successful the homeland, we are safe, and I volition archer you that close present we person nary circumstantial credible threats to this lawsuit astatine the Super Bowl, which I deliberation should springiness america each a consciousness of security, but besides knowing we volition set that arsenic needed," she explained. "Today, determination are nary credible threats that we person that are connected the radar for this lawsuit that is coming up connected Sunday."

Noem besides touched connected safeguarding "our traditions," similar the Super Bowl, erstwhile it comes to everyone doing their portion to supply a harmless situation for those traveling to the metropolis for the large game. 

"[It] exemplifies however we travel unneurotic to safeguard our traditions," she said. "How we travel unneurotic to marque definite that the nationalist is well-informed and gets the accidental to observe thing that’s precise peculiar to us, to our culture, to our people, to our families. But we besides bash it successful a mode that is reactive to the existent situation we spot successful the satellite today."

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Gov. Kristi Noem speaks during the Republican National Convention, July 15, 2024, successful Milwaukee. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

New Orleans is expecting upwards of 125,000 visitors to converge connected its metropolis limits, opening Wednesday, wherever parties, concerts and different events volition beryllium happening passim the week starring up to the game. 

"We’re going supra and beyond what we’ve seen successful the past erstwhile we’ve hosted previously," New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell said during a quality conference. "We cognize we’re safer than we’ve ever been before."

Safety volition beryllium astatine the forefront with state, national and section instrumentality enforcement officers with boots connected the crushed during the Super Bowl, Lanier said, though details astir protocol were near unsaid. 

Agencies including the FBI and Secret Service volition beryllium astir the stadium and downtown New Orleans, per DeLaune. That volition see rooftop snipers, BearCat armored SWAT vehicles and more. 

Authorities patrol Bourbon Street arsenic it is reopened successful New Orleans, Louisiana, connected Jan. 2, 2024, aft the New Year's Eve attack. (Kat Ramirez for Fox News Digital)

There volition besides beryllium national aerial marshals, who are armed, stationed astir the city’s nationalist proscription hubs scanning for suspicious radical and activity, portion besides guarding against drones. There is simply a prohibition connected drones astir the Superdome and downtown New Orleans passim the week and formation restrictions up to 18,000 feet, per the Federal Aviation Administration. 

New Orleans has already begun starting to unopen down, and bounds traffic, connected roads adjacent the Superdome. DeLaune besides mentioned the perimeter of the Superdome volition person blast barriers, requiring trucks to spell done elephantine X-ray machines typically seen astatine borderline crossings to guarantee information astir the tract of Super Bowl LIX. 

From bomb-sniffing dogs, to improved information infrastructure, to much manpower and resources, each the stops are being pulled retired to guarantee the information of each idiosyncratic heading to New Orleans to acquisition the NFL’s last crippled of the 2024 season. 

This information volition transportation implicit into New Orleans’ celebrated Mardi Gras season, which has already begun. 

Super Bowl LIX volition beryllium streamed connected Tubi. (Tubi)

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"New Orleans volition beryllium the information spot to beryllium anyplace successful the country," Phillip Constantin, advisor with U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, said. 

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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