| BY CHAD CALDER | Staff writer |
Good morning. Thank you for joining us. Here are some of today's top headlines. Barriers questioned: The absence of bollards on Bourbon Street that allowed at Texas man to speed a rental truck through crowds of people on New Year's Day has drawn scrutiny from those wondering why it is taking so long to have the old ones replaced. But a new report from Ben Myers shows that the bollards set to be installed are not designed to stop the type of attacks New Orleans saw this week or the ones that have hit cities around the world. 'A very quiet person': How did a middle-aged IT worker and Army veteran described by neighbors as quiet and mild-mannered come to pledge allegiance to ISIS, plant explosives in the French Quarter and run over dozens of people on Bourbon Street? Sam Karlin has a deeper look at the life of Shamsud-Din Jabbar. How to protect the quarter? Wednesday's attack is restarting a debate that New Orleans has been having with itself for decades: How does the city keep people safe in the French Quarter, which draws millions of annual visitors, supports the south Louisiana economy and is still a residential neighborhood, without diluting what makes it such a treasured place to begin with? Stephanie Riegel has the details. Thanks for reading. Check back throughout the day for more news, entertainment and sports from The Times-Picayune. Chad | 