| By KASEY BUBNASH | Staff writer |
Good morning and thanks for joining us. Here are some of today's top headlines. Mass shooting updates: City leaders scrambled Monday to defend a cornerstone of New Orleans culture while police searched for suspects in Sunday’s deadly eruption of gun violence during a second-line parade through the St. Roch neighborhood. Here's where the investigation is at so far and here's how friends and family remembered the two Marrero men killed in one of the shootings. Big balloons: No other New Orleans parade includes giant hot-air balloons, but, in the past two years, the Children's Hospital Holiday Parade has made a name for itself with its 40-foot Rudolph and a similarly gargantuan candy cane, snowflake, gingerbread man, Hanukkah ornament and Frosty the Snowman. Those old favorites and new ones are set to get the yuletide season rolling again this year. Doug MacCash has all the details. Lead pipes: Jefferson Parish plans to inspect nearly every property in the parish over the next three-and-half years to determine whether they are connected to lead pipes. The move is an effort to meet a new deadline set by the EPA requiring utilities across the U.S. to replace lead pipes within the next decade, Blake Paterson reports. Here's the plan. Thanks for reading. Check back for more news, entertainment and sports from The Times-Picayune. Kasey | 