Throngs of New Year’s Day revelers packed in the city’s bustling French Quarter had no strong barriers to protect them from speeding vehicles like the 6,000-pound truck that plowed into the crowd and killed 14 people.

NBC News' Jesse Kirsch reports from Bourbon Street in New Orleans, where the famed culture hub has reopened following the deadly New Year's attack. Kirsch reports on the questions raised around security measures around the holiday and what is being done in the aftermath.

Operations on Bourbon Street resumed normally days after the truck attack. In the days since a U.S. Army veteran drove a truck into dozens of New Year’s Day revelers, normalcy has begun to return to a stricken yet defiant New Orleans,