"There has been a mass casualty incident on Canal and Bourbon Street. Get yourself away from the area," NOLA Ready said.

New Orleans' planned Bourbon Street barriers, with a 10 mph crash rating, are criticized for being insufficient to stop high-speed attacks, especially after a deadly New Year's Day vehicle attack killed 14.

Months before the deadly New Orleans vehicle attack on New Year’s Day, the city modeled scenarios for how an attacker could enter Bourbon Street at various intersections in a crew-cab Ford F-150 similar to the one used to kill 14 people and injure dozens more.

The rating of the new system “is exponentially, far less than what they currently have,” an owner of a bollard manufacturing company said. Here's more.