President Biden and wife Jill laid flowers at a makeshift shrine on Bourbon Street in New Orleans on Monday after the New Year’s Day terror attack there that killed 14 pedestrians.
Biden, 82, paid tribute to the victims ahead of an evening interfaith service at the St. Louis Cathedral near the site of the French Quarter carnage.
The presidential visit comes five days after the horrific truck rampage by Islamic State-inspired Army veteran Shamsud-Din Jabbar.
Jabbar, 42, drove around a police roadblock shortly after 3 a.m. and mowed down victims before being shot dead by police.
Biden made the stop ahead of a trip to southern California, where he will tout his Monday executive action to ban offshore drilling for oil and natural gas along most of the country’s coastline, which President-elect Donald Trump says he will un-ban “immediately” after taking office Jan. 20.
