"All I kept thinking about was it could have been me,” Charles Weber, owner of Alibi Bar near Bourbon Street, said. “I kept thinking: I don’t want my 80-year-old mom burying me.”

Grieving residents and workers began cautiously reopening the Bourbon Street area on Thursday, determined their city won't be knocked down.

The FBI released photos Thursday obtained from surveillance video that show Shamsud-Din Jabbar walking in the French Quarter about an hour before he steered a pickup truck onto Bourbon Street, killing at least 14 revelers and injuring 37 more in the early hours of New Year’s Day.