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HAPPENED. >> THAT'S RIGHT. FLETCHER WILL HAVE THE HISTORY. LET'S START WITH WHAT HAPPENED. >> A BUSY NIGHT AS TENS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WERE ON THE PARADE ROUTE FOR THE ENDYMION PARADE. IT STRUCK SOMEBODY UNDER A TANDEM FLOAT. THE PERSON WAS REACHING FOR BEADS AND THEY WERE HIT BY THE TANDEM FLOAT. DRAGGED UNDER AND KILLED HERE IN MID CITY AT CANAL. TAKE A LOOK AT THIS VIDEO. IMMEDIATELY AFTER EVERYTHING WENT DOWN. AT THIS TIME WE DON'T KNOW THE VICTIM'S NAME, IF HE WAS WITH FAMILY OR BY HIMSELF. IT WAS FLOAT 13. STARTS AT ENDYMION AND GOES TOWARD CANAL STREET DOWNTOWN. WE WERE HALFWAY THROUGH THIS PARADE WHEN THE TRAGEDY HAPPENED THE MAYOR AND POLICE CHIEF WERE BOTH OUT HERE HERE'S WHAT BOTH HAD TO SAY MOMENTS AFTER THIS HAPPENED. >> AT APPROXIMATELY 6:55 P.M., A MAN WAS STRUCK BY A FLOAT NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF CANAL AND GALVIS AND BEING STRUCK THAT RESULTED IN HIS DEATH. >> MOVING FORWARD THROUGHOUT THE MARDI GRAS SEASON 2020, WE'RE ALSO ELIMINATING THE USE OF TANDEM FLOATS MOVING FORWARD. >> THAT'S A REALLY BIG DEVELOPMENT BY THE MAYOR. THAT WAS BASICALLY MADE ON THE SPOT. MONTH NO MORE TANDEM FLOATS. THEY WON'T USE THOSE. ANOTHER SUPER CREW COMING UP ON MONDAY NIGHT AS WELL. THEY HAVE A LOT OF TANDEM FLOATS. THE MAYOR WAS RIGHT HERE IN FRONT OF UMC WITH THE VICTIM'S RELATIVES. ONCE AGAIN THE NAME OF THE PERSON WHO WAS STRUCK AND KILLED NOT BEING RELEASED BUT IT WAS A VERY HECTIC SCENE. YOU WERE ONE OF THE FIRST REPORTERS AT THE SCENE. WHAT DID EYEWITNESSES TELL YOU. >> MANY PEOPLE WERE TELLING ME THEY ACTUALLY SAW A MAN WHO APPEARED TO BE TRYING TO CATCH BEADS AND THEY SAW HE WENT UNDER THE FLOAT. SOME TOLD ME THEY SAW HIS LEGS ACTUALLY UNDER THE FLOAT. WE DID GET A CHANCE TO INTERVIEW SOME OF THOSE PEOPLE AND HERE'S WHAT THEY HAD TO SAY. >> WE JUST SAW SOMEONE JUST KIND OF -- GET SOME BEADS FOR THE FLOAT AND THEN HE WAS JUST COMING UP TO THE FLOAT JUST TRYING TO GET SOME BEADS AND TAKE A PICTURE AND IT JUST SO HAPPENED, I GUESS HE RAN OVER. WE SAW WHERE THE VEHICLE WAS BACKING UP, TO RELEASE HIM, I'M ASSUMING, AND WE JUST HEARD THAT EVERYBODY WAS STANDING BACK OUT OF THE WAY BECAUSE HE WAS RAN OVER. >> THEY STARTED PUTTING UP YELLOW TAPE. THEY HAD A STRETCHER OUT BUT THEY PUT IT BACK IN THE AMBULANCE. >> SHEA, IT'S A GORGEOUS NIGHT HERE. IT'S COOL. SOME HAVE TOLD ME THIS IS THE BIGGEST CROWDS HERE ON CANAL STREET. MAYBE 10-15 DEEP. >> WE WERE ALONG CARROLLTON AND WHEN WE HEARD ABOUT THIS WE HEADED DOWN. JUST SEEING SO MANY PEOPLE, SO MANY PEOPLE WHO LOOKED LIKE THEY WANTED TO PARTY AT FIRST BUT THEN TO HAVE THIS HAPPEN, DEVASTATED. >> NO BARRICADES ON THIS PART OF THE ROUTE. WE SHOULD POINT OUT FROM FLOATS ALL THE WAY BACK TO 36. THEY WERE SCRAPPED. THAT WAS CANCELED. THEY WERE TAKEN TO

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Another person was run over and killed by a Mardi Gras floatIt's the second deadly accident in a matter of three daysThe person killed Saturday was an adult manThe deadly accident happened during the Krewe of Endymion paradeTandem floats have now been canceled for Mardi Gras 2020For the second time in the same week, a person was killed when they were run over by a Mardi Gras float during a parade in New Orleans.New Orleans Police Superintendent Shaun Ferguson confirmed Saturday that a man was killed when he was struck just before 7 p.m. as the Krewe of Endymion was rolling through Mid-City on its way to downtown New Orleans.The accident happened at Canal and Galvez streets, Ferguson said.Family has identified the man killed as 58-year-old Joe Sampson.The Endymion parade was canceled from Float 14 and on. Floats after that, including the one that ran over the man -- float No. 14 -- were redirected to another area. Floats No. 1 through No. 13 were able to continue on to the end point. The Endymion Extravaganza, the post-parade music celebration at the Convention Center, was able to continue without interruption.Ferguson made a surprise announcement when he said all tandem floats -- multiple floats connected with hitches -- will no longer be allowed through the rest of Carnival 2020. He said the city will need to assess the safety of the floats.The decision to eliminate tandem floats means super krewes like Bacchus and Orpheus, which have elaborate tandem floats, had to reassess their parade plans. Officials for Bacchus and Orpheus said the organizations would adhere to the city's mandate, eliminating all tandem floats.Tandem floats have been involved in both deadly float accidents this week in New Orleans.The first accident happened Wednesday during the Krewe of Nyx parade Uptown. Officials said a 58-year-old woman was killed when she was rolled over by a float in the parade. Witnesses at the scene have said the woman was crossing through the middle section of a tandem float when the accident happened, killing the woman.Police have released few details about the investigation into the Nyx accident.It wasn't since the Endymion parade in 2008 that someone was killed by a float. That accident happened as the parade was entering the Superdome.New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell released a statement Saturday on the second float-related death, saying "to be confronted with such tragedy a second time at the height of our Carnival celebrations seems an unimaginable burden to bear.""The city and the people of New Orleans will come together, we will grieve together, and we will persevere together. Our hearts break for those lost and for their loved ones, and our prayers and deepest sympathies are with them — and will be with them in all the days and months ahead. May our people take this moment to uplift our brothers and our sisters, to mourn as one and to move forward, together."Additional updates are expected.