A terrorist attack on Bourbon Street in New Orleans delayed the highly anticipated Sugar Bowl College Football Playoff game by a day. A pair of siblings from Chicago who came to New Orleans for the game were staying in a hotel right in front of which the early New Year's Day morning pickup truck attack happened.

While they try to move on from the incident, workers in the normally raucous French Quarter described the mood as one of sadness less than two days after an early New Year’s Day terror attack left at least 15 people dead and 37 injured.