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Cybertruck is the worst possible choice for a car bomb, as its stainless steel armor will contain the blast better than any other commercial vehicle.
Hours earlier, Musk had said
Our Country is a disaster, a laughing stock all over the World!
He wrote in a postTesla vehicles transmit their state of health continuously,
Musk saidThe first one where we saw the fire, the second one, I guess, was the battery or something like that, and the third was the big one that smoked the entire area and was the moment when everyone was told to evacuate and stay away,
Bruce said
He gave us a lot of information on how the vehicle was locked. And being able to capture all the video from the Tesla charging stations across the country."
He also personally thanked Tesla CEO Elon Musk, sayingWe have now confirmed that the explosion was caused by very large fireworks and/or a bomb carried in the bed of the rented Cybertruck and is unrelated to the vehicle itself,
he said
It was shaking the glass, it was so loud,
one witness who was staying at the Resorts World on the Las Vegas Strip told KLASAs you can imagine, with an explosion here on an iconic Las Vegas Boulevard, we are taking all of the precautions that we need to take to keep our community safe,
he said during a news conference
We are heartbroken by the violence perpetrated in New Orleans and Las Vegas, and our prayers are with the victims and families,
the statement readsI know everybody's interested in that word, and trying to see if we can say, 'Hey, this is a terrorist attack.' That is our goal, and that's what we're trying to do,
FBI special agent in charge Jeremy Schwartz told reporters at a news conferenceObviously, a Cybertruck, the Trump Hotel, there's lots of questions that we have to answer as we move forward,
he saidWe are absolutely investigating any connection to what happened in New Orleans. We are not ruling anything out yet,
McMahill said
There is no further threat to our community,
he saidWe do know who rented the truck, but we’re not willing to release that information at this time,
said Clark County Sheriff Kevin McMahill
Thus far, there's nothing to report on that score,
he addedWe do not believe that there’s a bunch of folks out there supporting this or helping this, and we don’t believe that there’s any other danger to the community right now,
he said, reassuring the community that
We're tracking the explosion of a Cybertruck outside the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas,
he said while speaking about the fatal crash in New OrleansThe fact that this was a Cybertruck, really limited the damage that occurred inside of the valet because it had most of the blast go up through the truck and out,
McMahill saidWe’re not doing anything along, and we wouldn’t do anything alone without our partners making sure that we’re all in lockstep,
Schwartz saidOur number one goal is to ensure that we have proper identification of the subject involved in the incident."
Like McMahill, Jeremy Schwartz, the FBI acting special agent in charge in Las Vegas, would not identify the person inside the vehicle, saying