(NEW ORLEANS) — Five people were shot, one fatally, at the Krewe of Bacchus Parade in New Orleans on Sunday night, police said.
All five victims — three males and two females — were transported to local hospitals. One of them is a juvenile, according to the New Orleans Police Department.
A male victim died from his injuries at the hospital. The other four victims, including the juvenile, were listed in stable condition, police said.
New Orleans resident Camryn Lafleur, 19, said she was watching the parade when “gunshots were fired across the street,” triggering panic and a stampede. She said she sought cover before retreating into a relative’s nearby house.
“I couldn’t see, but I was hearing them,” Lafleur told ABC News of the gunshots. “It was a continuous loud noise that kept going off. And when I saw people coming from the other side, running across the street, like, in front of the float to us and I saw their faces with pure horror, that’s when I realized something’s not right. This must be a shooting.”
“It didn’t used to be like this,” she added. “It didn’t used to be this dangerous in the city at all.”
Longtime resident Kristie Bowerman, 49, said the incident on Sunday night marked the third time she has witnessed a shooting at a Mardi Gras parade. She described the scene as “mass chaos.”
“The shots just rang out and then, instantly, people were just stampeding in all different directions,” Bowerman told ABC News. “People were being, you know, knocked out of their chairs onto the ground.”
Bowerman said she and her husband were watching the parade from a balcony and ducked for cover as the shots rang out, knowing that they needed to “get down and get as flat as possible and then get out of the way.” She said they tried to convince another couple, who believed the shots were just fireworks, to also take shelter, yelling at them: “No, those aren’t fireworks — those are gunshots! You need to get down!”
Bowerman recalled looking down at the aftermath to see “people sobbing everywhere.”
“Some people were injured,” she told ABC News. “I think a lot of people were in shock and I think a lot of people were scared.”
An unidentified suspect was arrested “just moments after shots were fired,” police said. Two weapons were also recovered from the scene, according to police.
Investigators are still working to determine whether others had fired shots or were involved in the incident. Anyone with information is urged to contact the New Orleans Police Department’s Sixth District at 504-658-6060, or anonymously call CrimeStoppers of Greater New Orleans at 504-822-1111.
(PLAINS, Ga.) — Former President Jimmy Carter will receive hospice care following a series of short hospital stays, the Carter Center announced Saturday.
Carter, 98, is both the oldest living and longest-lived U.S. president.
“After a series of short hospital stays, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter today decided to spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive hospice care instead of additional medical intervention,” the Carter Center said in a statement. “He has the full support of his family and his medical team. The Carter family asks for privacy during this time and is grateful for the concern shown by his many admirers.”
Carter, who held office from 1977 to 1981 as the 39th president, has seen serious health challenges in recent years. In 2019, he suffered from various falls and underwent hip surgery. He has also survived metastatic melanoma.
As the son of a Georgia peanut farmer, he grew up not only to be president, but also a Nobel Peace Prize winner and a Grammy Award winner. He was also awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Among his administration’s most notable achievements were the Camp David Accords, which Carter brokered between Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1978. Carter’s time in office also saw the start of the Iran hostage crisis, and on the domestic front, the first efforts toward developing a policy for energy independence.
Post-presidency, Carter and his wife, former first lady Rosalynn Carter, founded the human rights organization the Carter Center, which helped spearhead a successful campaign to eradicate Guinea worm disease. They have also been prominent supporters of Habitat for Humanity, the nonprofit devoted to affordable housing.
They have four children together — three sons and a daughter.
One of their grandchildren, Jason Carter, tweeted in the wake of the announcement that he saw his grandparents on Friday and they are “at peace and — as always — their home is full of love.”
President Joe Biden reacted to the news with his own tweet, on Sunday, addressing Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter directly to say he and first lady Jill Biden “are with you in prayer and send you our love.”
“We admire you for the strength and humility you have shown in difficult times. May you continue your journey with grace and dignity, and God grant you peace,” Biden wrote.
The Carter Center on Sunday encouraged any well-wishers to send their thoughts about Jimmy Carter or his family to an online. “We really appreciate all the kind words we’ve received from President Carter’s admirers,” the center wrote on Twitter.
In Atlanta, where The Carter Center is based, some reacted to Jimmy Carter’s decision by remarking on all the work he did after the White House — a common refrain.
“When I think of Jimmy Carter, I think of not so much his political career, certainly, but his life after being in the limelight,” one out-of-town visitor told ABC affiliate WSB.
At the weekly Sunday service at the Carters’ Maranatha Baptist Church, parishioners reflected on the former president’s legacy. Jimmy Carter’s niece Kim Fuller led the congregation and shared a quote from her uncle: “My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I can, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.”
ABC News’ Adam Carlson contributed to this report.
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(EAST LANSING) — Five students injured during the shooting at Michigan State University remain in critical condition.
Grief counselors and a bolstered police presence will be on hand Monday at Michigan State University, as in-person classes resume eight days after a gunman came onto the East Lansing campus and fatally shot three students and injured five others, officials said Sunday.
The decision to resume classes was announced Sunday, despite many students expressing fear about returning to classes so soon after the shooting, school officials said.
“We know that everybody heals at their own pace and in their own manner. So getting it exactly right will not be possible,” Thomas Jeitschko, MSU’s interim provost said. “But we will do the best we can and support each other.”
Jeitschko acknowledged that reopening the school for in-person classes just a week after the rampage should not be construed as a “resumption of normal operations.”
He said that experts the school consulted advised that being back in spaces that are familiar and interacting with people who are familiar, “is helpful in the process of healing and grieving.”
Berkey Hall and the MSU Union building, where the shootings occurred, will remain closed for the rest of the school year, and about 300 classes will be moved to other locations on campus, officials said.
“I’d like to emphasize that coming back to a normal week this semester is not going to be normal,” Jeitschko said. “So that’s an important recognition and we’ve worked with academic leadership, we’ve worked with faculty leadership and we’ve tried to imagine and envision what will be needed and what might make this return possible and helpful.”
The shooting erupted just after 8 p.m. on Feb. 13, when the gunman entered Berkey Hall through an unlocked door and proceeded to a classroom where he opened fire, striking several victims, including two students who later died, according to police. While responding to the scene, police received reports of another shooting at the MSU Union building, located nearby.
One of the victims shot at the Union building also died, police said.
After an hourslong manhunt, police found the suspect — 43-year-old Anthony McRae — dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound off campus.
Four of the students wounded in the incident remained in critical condition Sunday, officials said.
Jeitschko said academic advisors will be available to accommodate students struggling with returning to school.
“We have advisors ready to work with them to find what is the best path and what does that entail,” Jeitschko said.
He said more than 1,000 faculty members attended a presentation Friday by two renowned experts on teaching in a trauma-informed way, especially on the first day back to class.
Alexis Travis, assistant provost and executive director for health and well-being for the university, said she anticipates many students who witnessed the shooting and the panic that ensued, may experience post traumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety, grief and anger.
“There’s no expectations that our faculty members will be mental health practitioners in these settings. But they will be empathetic and each of them with their classes will figure out what are the best ways forward,” Jeitschko said.
Despite reassurances that the campus is safe to return, Joe Kovatch, the MSU student body president, said “frankly, students are scared.”
“Students desperately need flexibility, empathy and options coming back to campus,” said Kovatch, adding that many students are asking for online options for courses.
In addition to making mental health counselors available to students returning to campus, MSU Police and Public Safety Interim Deputy Chief Chris Rozman said a large police presence will be on campus Monday, including officers from surrounding agencies.
Rozman has not updated on the investigation of the shooting, including a motive for the rampage.
Officials said MSU will cover all funeral costs for the victims killed and pay for the medical bills of those wounded, with more than $250,000 donated to the Spartan Strong Fund, established after the shooting.
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(LOS ANGELES) — A long-serving Catholic bishop known as a “peacemaker” was fatally shot in a Los Angeles home on Saturday, prompting police to launch a murder investigation, officials said.
Auxiliary Bishop David O’Connell, who had been a priest and then a bishop during his 45 years with the church, died “unexpectedly,” José H. Gomez, the archbishop of Los Angeles, said in a statement.
He’d been known as a “man of deep prayer,” Gomez said.
Los Angeles County Sheriff’s investigators said they received a medical emergency call at 12:57 a.m. Sunday and deputies responded to a home in the unincorporated neighborhood of Hacienda Heights. There, they found the 69-year-old O’Connell unresponsive and bleeding from a gunshot wound to the upper torso. He was pronounced dead at the scene, officials said.
No arrests have been announced.
It’s unclear how long O’Connell had been dead before sheriff’s deputies arrived at the home.
Detectives were piecing together the circumstances of the homicide on Sunday and working to determine the identity of the O’Connell’s killer.
“He was a peacemaker with a heart for the poor and the immigrant, and he had a passion for building a community where the sanctity and dignity of every human life was honored and protected,” Gomez said.
Upon hearing of O’Connell’s death, parishioners went to the crime scene and said prayers in front of the home.
“It broke me and I was scared to tell my wife because my wife loved him so much,” parishioner Johnny Flores told ABC Los Angeles station KABC.
Another parishioner, Glendy Perez, described O’Connell as “a humble soul.”
“He was not the type that would have confrontations with nobody,” Perez told KABC. “He was very loving, and he had like a gift of healing. When you would attend his ceremonies, it was like a gift of healing.”
O’Connell, who was born in Ireland, was named an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles by Pope Francis in 2015.
O’Connell studied for the priesthood at All Hallows College in Dublin and was ordained in 1979 to serve in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. After ordination, he served as associate pastor and pastor at several parishes in Los Angeles.
(NEW YORK) — Don’t be fooled by the mild winter weather in some places — a massive storm is on its way to wreak havoc in several states as it treks across the country.
The next storm gearing up to affect the U.S. will start in the Northwest on Tuesday morning, bringing heavy snow to the mountains of Montana, Idaho and Wyoming, forecasts show.
The storm system will then strengthen as it moves southeast into America’s Heartland.
By Wednesday, there will be a wide swath of snow from the Rocky Mountains to the Great Lakes region, delivering possible blizzards to the northern Plains and upper Midwest.
The National Weather Service has begun to issue winter weather alerts in those regions as the large storm system develops.
Many regions are projected to receive up to 2 feet of snow through Friday morning, but projected totals could increase as the storm gets closer.
Heavy rain and thunderstorms will also be possible in the South on Tuesday and and Wednesday, forecasts show.
However, the Northeast will continue to experience an unseasonably mild winter. The storm system will trek to the Northeast, bringing a wintry mix, but not much snow accumulation is expected in cities along the I-95 corridor.
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(WILMINGTON, N.C.) — Athalia Howe was just 12 years old when she, her sister and mother were forced to seek refuge in a cemetery as armed white supremacists terrorized Wilmington, North Carolina, in the fall of 1898. Separated from her father, they were unsure if he was still alive until days later when they reunited.
Decades after the incident, Howe had a flashback to that time. She grabbed the wrist of her great-granddaughter, Cynthia Brown, and screamed, “If it ever happens again, run! Don’t let it happen to you!”
“She had a very stark, distant look in her eyes,” Brown told ABC News, remembering the encounter. “I was very thrown. I didn’t know what to make of it. After that, no one talked about it, no one explained it.”
It would be years before she finally learned from family members what her great-grandmother was referencing: the Wilmington Coup of 1898, the only successful coup d’état in American history.
Nearly 125 years later, the wounds of the deadly campaign still run deep in the city, with many residents saying Wilmington never made amends for the tragedy. Residents and activists continue to work towards uncovering that history and finding redress for the descendants of Black residents impacted by the violence.
The coup was spearheaded by Josephus Daniels, publisher of several influential newspapers in the state, and Furnifold Simmons, chairman of the state’s Democratic Party, to overthrow the elected biracial government in Wilmington, according to historians.
The plot, titled the “White Supremacy Campaign,” utilized propaganda, fiery speeches and intimidation by the Red Shirts, a militia group named for the red tunics they wore, to prevent Black and white Republican voters from turning out for the 1898 state and federal elections, historians say.
The plot succeeded and they effectively stole the election. But in Wilmington, several Black politicians still held office and the coup leaders did not want to wait until the following year to vote them out.
Two days later, on Nov. 10, 1898, a mob of nearly 2,000 white men torched the offices of Wilmington’s only Black newspaper, The Daily Record, and began indiscriminately shooting at Black residents across the city. At least 200 people were killed in the violence, although historians say the true number is hard to pinpoint. White leaders later spun the violence as a “race riot” that the militia needed to control.
In the following weeks, as many as 2,100 Black residents abandoned the city, historians say.
Amid the chaos, Alfred Waddell, a former confederate general and one of the leaders of the campaign, forced the resignation of several local officials and installed himself as mayor of Wilmington.
As a result of the violence, Jim Crow segregationist laws became entrenched in North Carolina and echoes of the event still manifest themselves over a century later. The Black population, once boasting the majority in Wilmington, now only makes up 17 percent of the city, according to the latest Census data from 2020.
What happened in Wilmington also became a model for other massacres like the one in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1921.
“The violence in Wilmington became an example to other locations of how to have a riot and get away with killing people in the street based on race,” LeRae Umfleet, a lead researcher for a 2006 state report on the coup, told ABC News. “People from Atlanta spoke to people from Wilmington and asked them, ‘How did you do this, how were you able to neutralize the black vote? How was it that there was so many people killed, and no one was ever held accountable?'”
Brown grew up in Wilmington during segregation, but said she had a “romantic idea” of the community around her. As she learned about the history of the coup, that sentiment turned into anger and frustration.
“There was a generational robbery of values, of understanding one’s family tree, one’s family legacy. I realized there were people who had a snip if you will,” Brown said. “There was a disconnect for them because they had lost family history…family assets and family members.”
Brown said she recalls going to the public library after school with a friend to try and learn more about what happened. The library refused to show them any records even though they were stored there, Brown said.
She moved away for college, eager to leave the city behind, but returned to Wilmington after her mother suddenly passed away. It was then she says that she became more involved in community programs and working to preserve the history of the events of 1898.
Laura Ginther, a member of the New Hanover County Community Remembrance Project (NHCCRP), a group working to memorialize the victims of the massacre, calls Wilmington “a microcosm for every prejudice that can exist.”
“The students who go to the schools in the primarily Black areas of the town, their scores on education are worse. Their access to healthcare is worse, there’s no grocery store in the area,” she said.
The 2021 Cape Fear Inclusive Economy Report, a study that looks at the inclusivity of the economy in the Cape Fear region where Wilmington is located, found that 30 percent of Black residents fall below the federal poverty line compared to 11.9 percent of White residents. It also found that the median White household income is a little more than double that of the median Black income.
Kim Cook, a professor of sociology and criminology at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, and a restorative justice practitioner moved to the city in 2005 and said she was “distressed” by the “palpable” segregation. For a long time, she couldn’t understand the division until she learned about the events of 1898.
Now, she works with groups like NHCCRP and Coming to the Table, a national organization focused on healing the racial wounds of America’s past.
“The wound hasn’t healed,” she said. “I’ve been calling for a truth and reconciliation process in Wilmington for years that has fallen on deaf ears.”
As the 125th anniversary of the incident approaches, Wilmington residents are calling on the North Carolina legislature to hold true to the recommendations made in the 2006 report on the incident. The residents feel like nothing has been done beyond a grassroots level.
Some of the recommendations were put into legislative proposals, but most died in committee. The North Carolina Democratic Party issued an apology in 2007, acknowledging the party’s role in the coup and renouncing the past leaders.
Meanwhile, organizations like Third Person Project have worked to preserve and digitize copies of The Daily Record. The group also works in conjunction with the Equal Justice Initiative and other advocates to find descendants of victims and those who fled Wilmington using genealogical data.
Activists like Sonya Patrick are pushing for legislation to provide reparations for the descendants of those affected by the riot. She said change needs to be made to improve opportunities for Black residents of the city.
“When we don’t take action, and we don’t try to change things, that’s saying that we’re satisfied with the massacre, we’re satisfied with what happened,” Patrick said. “We should never be satisfied with that type of injustice.”
(PHILADELPHIA) — A Temple University police officer was fatally shot in the head when trying to arrest a robbery suspect in north Philadelphia on Saturday night, officials said.
He was later pronounced dead at Temple University Hospital, the university said.
The suspect fled, and no arrests have been made.
Temple President Jason Wingard said he was “heartbroken,” in a statement.
“There are simply no words that can make sense of this tragedy,” he said.
The death of the officer, whose identity officials were not yet disclosing out of respect for his family, was the first for a Temple University officer in the line of duty, Jennifer Griffin, the university’s vice president for public safety, said at a news conference Saturday night.
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro offered his condolences on the death of the officer.
“Lori and I are devastated for the family of the Temple University police officer who was killed in the line of duty tonight, bravely serving his community. We’re sending prayers to his loved ones, Temple Police, and the entire @TempleUniv community. May his memory be a blessing,” Shapiro tweeted Saturday.
Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney said he was “heartbroken and outraged” by the death and pledged that “The City will continue to work with Temple Police to support them during this difficult time.”
Temple University alerted shortly after 7 p.m. Saturday that a shooting was reported on the 1700 block of Montgomery Avenue.
“Use caution. Avoid the area. Police are responding,” the school tweeted.
ABC News’ Will McDuffie contributed to this report.
(COLUMBUS, Ga.) — Police in Columbus, Georgia, responded to the shooting at a local Shell gas station Friday night to find nine children, including a five-year-old child, injured with gunshot wounds.
The Columbus Police Department has made no arrests in the case, and the nine victims are being treated for non-life-threatening injuries at a local hospital. Police were dispatched to the crime scene at 10:11 p.m. Friday.
“The rash of gun violence involving our youth is impacting communities across the country,” Columbus Police Chief Freddie Blackmon said in a statement.
According to the Columbus police, they arrived at the gas station to see “a large group of people” and the victims. The victims range in age from five to 17 years old and include seven males and two females.
The mass shooting follows a deadly attack in Arkabutla, Mississippi, where a shooter killed six people on Friday before his arrest. The Georgia shooting is the 74th mass shooting this year in the United States, according to data from the Gun Violence Archive.
“It is going to take a community effort to combat gun violence in our city,” Blackmon said. “The entire village has a responsibility because incidents like this impacts all of us.”
(NEW YORK) — The doorbell at 224 West 4th Street in Manhattan’s West Village doesn’t work, which is why Will Fann is leaving a note on the door. That note is one of the only handwritten things at the Fat Cat Fab Lab on a recent Saturday, because the space is hosting a gathering of computer keyboard enthusiasts.
Fann tells ABC Audio that meetups like this are usually pretty informal.
“It’s usually just bring your keyboard – or just show up – talk to other people about, like, what you’re doing, what you’re planning to build, what you have built [and] show off whatever keyboard you want to show off,” he said.
The event is hosted by Fann, alongside one of the Lab’s board members, Mars Kennedy, who said the mechanical keyboard community is sizable.
“The first time I ran this meetup, I actually had to cap attendance because we just can’t fit that many people in this space,” said Kennedy.
For this meet, keyboard enthusiasts congregate under a multicolored lighting fixture styled to look like an alien spacecraft. Huddled around wooden tables, attendees browse a diverse selection of customized keyboards. Notecards are perched above each one, with words like “Royal Kludge,” “Kailh tactiles” and “float mount” detailing each board’s specifications (like any hobby, mechanical keyboard enthusiasm brings with it a fair amount of lingo).
Most modern keyboards, like the ones that come with laptops and desktop computers, are “membrane” keyboards. A large rubber pad sits under the entire keyboard, and pressing each key into that “membrane” completes an electrical circuit. Doing so sends a message to the computer that a keystroke is happening.
The boards on display at this meetup are “mechanical” keyboards, which complete the same electrical circuit, but instead of using a rubber membrane, each key uses individual “switches.” Subtle differences in those mechanical components can vastly impact the typing experience.
“They’re little plastic cubes with a cross-shaped stem on it,” said John Poblador, a software consultant who brought two keyboards to the meet. “And the internals of the cross-shaped stem is actually what determines the feel.”
Poblador also said different switches make different sounds. But that’s just the start of what keyboard customizers can get up to.
One of the boards on display is pink and shaped like a cat’s head, while another sports a black and gray color scheme, with keys styled to look like skulls. Another purple and white board features keys split into two distinct clusters: what’s known as an “Alice” layout. There’s even a board dedicated to coffee – the Arabic lettering a reference to arabica coffee beans.
Not all keyboards are for typing, either. Gordon Biggs showed off his homemade keypad, which he says has a WiFi chip inside.
“Various keys do different sort of home automation things,” he said, like “turning on and off lights, that kind of thing.”
Biggs says he first became interested in mechanical keyboards in 2019. But his interest really took off as pandemic lockdowns set in the following year.
“I can build this keyboard, and that’s a, like, nice tactile thing that I can control in this moment,” he says. “Then also finding this community of other keyboard enthusiasts where we could all kind of connect online when we were all stuck at home, and that was also very nice.”
It’s a similar story for several keyboard enthusiasts at the meet.
“I started kind of during the COVID era, so 2020. And that’s when the hobby boomed,” says Poblador. “Everyone’s at home or working from home and they want to upgrade their office set up and all that stuff… everyone is obsessed with standing desks and Herman Miller chairs, whatever. Well, what about this thing that you were literally touching for, let’s say, eight hours a day?”
But it’s not all about ergonomics, said Biggs.
“I think you have people coming at it from like a vintage computing aspect,” he said. “Where it’s like, ‘this is a modern keyboard switch that mimics the feel of or sound or whatever of an old keyboard from the ’80s.'”
In fact, analog tech appears to be having a moment. VHS cassettes, for example, are fetching big money at auction, with a collector shelling out $75,000 for a near-mint tape of “Back to the Future” last year. Vinyl records, led by Taylor Swift’s “Midnights,” accounted for 43% of all album sales last year, outselling CDs for the second year in a row, according to Luminate.
Biggs said, for him, mechanical keyboards are more about the thrill of tinkering with a machine, mixing style and functionality to create something unique.
“I think it’s about sort of like, being able to get a tool that works really well for you,” he said.
All told, about 40 people showed up to the meet – a good turnout, according to the organizers. This particular event was considered a “mini-meet.” Biggs is in charge of organizing larger gatherings. For his next meetup, in April, he’s expecting about 150 people to attend.
(WASHINGTON) — The U.S military has announced that it has concluded its search for flying objects shot down over Deadhorse, Alaska, and Lake Huron.
The first object was shot down on Feb. 10th over Alaska while the second was shot down over Lake Huron on Feb. 12 and no debris was found in either of these cases, according to a joint statement released by NORCOM and NORAD.
“The U.S. military, federal agencies, and Canadian partners concluded systematic searches of each area using a variety of capabilities, including airborne imagery and sensors, surface sensors and inspections, and surface scans, and did not locate debris,” read the statement from NORAD published on social media. “The Secretary of Defense concurred with the recommendations.”
President Joe Biden addressed the U.S. response to the aerial objects in a speech from the White House Thursday after facing calls from lawmakers on Capitol Hill for greater transparency.
Biden said he would “make no apologies for taking down” the Chinese surveillance balloon, calling it a “violation of our sovereignty.”
The other three objects were taken down “out of an abundance of caution,” Biden said, and don’t appear to be spy vehicles from China or any other foreign country.
“The intelligence community’s current assessment is that these three objects were most likely balloons tied to private companies, recreation, or research institutions studying weather or conducting other scientific research,” he said.
Air and maritime safety perimeters have been lifted both in Deadhorse, Alaska, and in Lake Huron following the conclusion of the search for debris, according to NORAD, while federal authorities said their investigation into the balloon shot down off the coast of South Carolina is currently ongoing.
“Recovery operations concluded Feb. 16 off the coast of South Carolina, after U.S. Navy assets assigned to U.S. Northern Command successfully located and retrieved debris from the high-altitude PRC surveillance balloon shot down Feb. 4, 2023,” NORAD said in its latest statement. “Final pieces of debris are being transferred to the Federal Bureau of Investigation Laboratory in Virginia for counterintelligence exploitation, as has occurred with the previous surface and subsurface debris recovered. U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard vessels have departed the area.”
Several agencies are currently conducting a review to study broader policy implications for the U.S. detection and analyzation of unidentified aerial objects, and Biden said the review’s findings will guide how the administration operates going forward.
“But make no mistake, if any object presents a threat to the safety and security of the American people, I will take it down,” Biden said.
ABC News’ Luis Martinez and Davone Morales contributed to this report.
