Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Monday that her office knows of no credible threats to Super Bowl LIX, which takes place Sunday in New Orleans between the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles.
In a video with Republican Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry posted on her X account, Noam said that "70,000-plus people will attend the Super Bowl in New Orleans next week. We will give law enforcement every resource they need to ensure a safe event. This is going to be a safe event and a fun event."
Noem also vowed agencies will coordinate ahead of the game, which will be held at the Caesars Superdome, to ensure everyone’s safety. This will be the 11th time the Super Bowl has been in New Orleans.
"We are going to make sure that we have safe events," Noem said. "We’ve seen failures across the country of agencies not talking well and not working well, and it's just not going to happen anymore, not on my watch."
Noem asked people to remain vigilant and to speak out if they see something.
Noem, Landry and Democrat New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell visited a memorial and held a moment of silence for those killed in the New Year's Day terrorist attack on Bourbon Street.
"Having the secretary here not only paying respect to the victims and their families but also looking at how we have worked together to make sure that we’re hardening our targets, that we have a unified command, [and] the communication has been stellar," Cantrell said, according to KLFY-TV in Lafayette, Louisiana.
Fourteen people were killed after Shamsud-Din Jabbar plowed through a crowd on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter in a pickup truck before being shot dead by police during New Year's celebrations.
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