Good morning, New Orleans.

The NOPJF invites residents to support law enforcement by wearing blue and lighting up homes on Oct.

8 (police radio code '10-8') to show solidarity. City Council President JP Morrell is introducing a declaration to mark the fourth annual Go Blue Day, building on past community events.

City records show that officials flagged unpermitted interior demolition at the historic French Quarter building on 631 Dauphine Street months before part of it collapsed on Sept.

14, prompting a permit to stabilize the structure.

Avondale Global Gateway received its first shipment of Venezuelan aluminum on Oct.

5 + establishing a new U.S. trade route through its Mississippi River terminal in Avondale. Federal officials and T. Parker Host noted the shipment’s benefit to domestic manufacturing and industrial supply chains.

Celebrated jazz trumpeter Wendell Brunious will headline New Orleans Legends at Dew Drop Jazz & Social Hall in Old Mandeville on Oct.

10 from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Doors open at 5:30 p.m., with adults paying $15 and students and children free.

Japan will honor art educator and collector Alice Yelen Gitter at the New Orleans Museum of Art on Oct.

10, recognizing her and her late husband’s nearly 350 donated works that built one of the leading Edo-period Japanese art collections. The event is part of NOMA’s Japan Fest and the ‘Second Nature’ exhibition.

The Historic New Orleans Collection has acquired two rare Julien Hudson portraits, donated by the Robert and Martha Bolton Living Trust in memory of James D ‘Don’ Didier — the paintings are on free public display at the Williams Research Center on Chartres St in the French Quarter.

Brother Martin High School started a multimillion-dollar project to redevelop Farley Field on Sept.

30. Gibbs Construction and Holly & Smith Architects will finish the new athletic facilities on the Gentilly campus in fall 2027.

City officials urge New Orleans residents to prepare for potential floods as Tropical Depression Nine gathers strength in the Gulf later this week.

They recommend clearing catch basins, moving vehicles to higher ground, and avoiding floodwaters + calling 911 for emergencies.

The National Hurricane Center notes that Invest 92L in the southwestern Gulf is showing signs of organization and is expected to develop into a tropical depression soon.

The system is projected to drift eastward — then turn north or northeast toward the northern Gulf Coast by this weekend.

Medevise Consulting will host a robotics workshop tomorrow at Embassy Suites in New Orleans.

Industry experts will discuss eye surgery robotics, AI imaging and the regulatory and reimbursement hurdles facing new technology.

DCFS urges local parents to keep infants safe by placing them on their backs in separate cribs — without pillows or stuffed animals that could block breathing, following guidelines that aim to reduce preventable sleep-related infant deaths.

On national TV, the Saints lost 45-24 to the Falcons on the 20th anniversary of the Superdome reopening.

Coach Kellen Moore said his team was frustrated by an early deficit (they will play the Vikings on Sunday).