President Joe Biden is taking a message to the grieving families of victims in the deadly New Year's attack in New Orleans: “It takes time. You got to hang on.” Biden on Monday arrived in the city where an Army veteran drove a truck into revelers in the French Quarter,

Hours ahead of President Joe Biden’s visit on Monday to New Orleans — his first since the violent attack on New Year’s Day that left 14 people dead — law enforcement officers swarmed a blockaded Jackson Square, where Biden and his wife, first lady Jill Biden, were expected to attend an evening prayer and memorial service at St. Louis Cathedral.

The man who drove a truck into a crowd of people in New Orleans on New Year’s Day, killing 14, had previously scouted the French Quarter and recorded video with his Meta smart glasses, the FBI said.