Dubais tallest towers captured the worlds attention, while mes square went off without a hitch. Meghan hughes looks at the celebrations and the tensions around the holiday. The times square celebrated without incident. The nypd promising safetying and delivering. Around the world, 2016 got a warm and safe welcome from sydney harbor. To moscow. In dubai, a massive hotel fire lit up the sky three hours before the fireworks were to begin. I can see a lot of debris, coming down from the building and its getting bigger and bigger. Reporter no mention of arson or her roar as investigators search for a cause. It there were two trains in munich that were evacuated and in paris, no fireworks due to thrift threat, the same in brussels. In the u. S. , they stopped a threat in rochester, new york. Emanuel lechman is accused of planning to attack people in isis. Even though the ball dropped security is expected to be high at another new years tradition. Dont do anything illegal. Chancing are you are standing next to an undercover officer. The rose bowl in pasadena was designated a top tier event even before the San Bernardino attack. An estimated 7,000 people are expected to line the route and dont seem question terred by the potential threat. We have been at 48 conservative parades. We enjoy it every year. Its always something new and refreshing and beautiful. Reporter Pasadena Police are partnering with the fbi and Homeland Security for todays parade. The event kicks off at 11 a. M. Eastern. Meghan hughes, abc new, washington. Holly a developing story out of waynesville. A mother accused of prostitution is out on bonds this morning. 42 yearold barbara gray faces felony solicitation for prostitution. She is also accused of using her home on putnam street for that purpose. Arrest. Grays neighbors say they dont want that kind of activity in their community. I have a bunch of little grandkids that come over here all the time and visit me. Its an awful thing. Holly neighbors say young had a young boy and girl living in the home. She posted a 5,000 bond. She is scheduled for Court January 13th. A man is facing charges this morning for showing obscene pictures to two young boys in Mcdowell County. Detectives say 40 yearold joseph parish showed pictures of neighborhood women to minors. They say he is acquainted with the kids. One boy is 11, the other is 2. The childrens mother is the one who reported the incident to authorities. And after a long manhunt in Mcdowell County a suspect is in custody. 27 yearold Jacob Cordell is charged with breaking and entering and larceny among other crimes. The incident happened on u. S. 221 north when a neighbor noticed a man attempted to break into a home. Cordell was later arrested and this mornings news reel a man is in custody after a police chase ended in harris county, texas. According to deputies they were night. The man hit several civilian and Law Enforcement vehicles during the pursuit. The department of Public Safety officers eventually surrounded the man and arrested him. Medal of honor recipient Kyle Carpenter is out on bond after he was charged with a hit and run in south carolina. President obama awarded the medal to the marine in 2014 for jumping on a grenade to save a fellow soldier in afghanistan. But, earlier this month, carpenter was accused of leaving an accident after hitting a pedestrian. Police say carpenter pulled over briefly but then drove away. The restrict is expected to recover. A ship left the port of Corpus Christi carrying first u. S. Crude oil sold internationally in 40 year, coming weeks after congress lifted the 1970s era ban on buyers. The tanker is carrying oil from coanyca wells in texas. The buyer is swiss based company vie toll. The to tankers location is not being released. Officials charge a 17 yearold boy in the accidental shooting death of his 13 yearold friend in georgia. It happened wednesday. And as with we have a report, the boys were playing when they found a gun in the woods. It makes no sense to me. Like i said, it was senseless. Two lives and two different directions. My baby is gone. And that mothers child is now gone also. Reporter Sonya Wheeler cant wrap her head around what happened during the past 24 hours. He had dreams, you know, high hopes. From fifth grade on, he was talk, mom, when i grow up, i want to be an engineer. Reporter she gave us this picture of her son, marcus house on Idlewood Park to liftweights in the garage with a classmate. 17 yearold Aaron Harkham showed up with a gun he claimed he found earlier in the day. Why show it off . Why pull a trigger . Do you know nothing about weapons, what difference does this person have to pick it up and show it off like it was a toy . Police believe harkham accidently shot it, shooting him in the face. Both said they were not familiar with the older teen. They are middle schooler, he is a high schooler, i dont know. Police charged him with Involuntary Manslaughter after he died later. He is the only child i have, you know. I have him in my memories but he is not here physically. Reporter police say they will investigate the history of the gun and who it may have belonged to. On the campaign trail, three top aides for republican candidate ben carson have resigned. First, carsons Campaign Manager and Communications Director later, the deputy Campaign Manager also resigned. Carson struggled in the polls since october when he was1xovbegmv1h `;zp gop race behind donald trump and ted cruz. The state Department Says it will release fewer Hillary Clinton emails than expected this month. More than 9,000 pages of clintons emails while she was secretary of state were supposed to be released yesterday. But the state Department Said it will only be able to release 5500 pages. Clinton has been under fire for using a private email server to conduct official business as secretary of state. Take cover. How some farm animals are trying to escape the flooding. 40 degrees at the ashville airport right now. Coming up after the break, i will talk more about what its like outside right now. Staying cool and breezy today, have the answer coming guitar music its not monday, wednesday, thursday, friday, saturday, sunday its tuesday. Tuesday the very first tuesday tuesday ttttuesday tuesday, usday, the very first tuesdaaaaaaaaaay now, in high definition, this is your news 13 skywatch forecast. Ingrid welcome back, everyone. Happy january 1st. 2016. Pretty exciting the first day of the year here. Uncas camera, nothing too exciting to share with you, but thankfully its mild conditions. Same thing down into greenville, although we have a breeze with the flag flying in the background. Lets talk about the leicester carpet sales Skycam Network. 50s there but 30s in Black Mountain, 2400 feet. Leicesesr carpet sales is showing a cool start and cloudy, too. Look at this. Satellite radar showing a lot of cloud cover to start off the new well to the south, thankfully, because we picked up plenty of it back in december. Way back in december. Lets look at our hd radar. I want to indicate one thing here. This is the french broad at blantyre. There is still a Flood Warning out for the river because of all the rain we have had. It will recede into tomorrow morning but keep in mind if you live in that zone. Meanwhile, temperatures this morning, 40 degrees, so still unseasonably warm because typically 27 is what we wake up to. But this is our forecasted low for tonight. We are trending colder. 30s burnsville but 40 in asheville. We finally drop down to 39 into andrews. But, its definitely much milder, especially if you head south. Look at this, 50 degrees, 10 degrees warmer in greenville. And 20 degrees warmer if you head down on 26 towards columbia, where its 60 degrees right now. Winds picked up the last half hour. Were at 15 Miles Per Hour in asheville. So there is a wind chill. We definitely will need that to what gone if you step outside in the next few minutes because it at 32 degrees. Looking at the big picture, we have that rain to our south with that system that pulled through yesterday. To our west, we have the High Pressure continuing to build back into the region. Meaning some eventual clearing skies. We will see wind on the futurecast satellite radar. Still got clouds through lunchtime. We will start to see the sunshine by Late Afternoon and this evening with the clear sky, that means colder condition, we will wake up to the 20s on saturday morning. Tomorrow, throughout the day, not going to warm up too much. Staying in the 40s. We will have the sunshine through sunday as well. So, overall, cooler than what we have been feeling. It will be breezy, too, with gusts up to 18 Miles Per Hour today in asheville. Tonight is going to be cold, bundle up. 27 degrees. And into greenville, 56, partly clear, cooler overall, same thing tonight. Couple degrees above freezing. Happy new year. The first week of the new year is looking sunny and cool with a slight chance possibly for some mixed precipitation if we see some of this rain reenter the forecast, but its going to be a the next several days are going to stay dry in the upstate, too. Holly humans are not the only ones looking to get to safety from the flood waters. Chickens were caught on camera on the roof of the house near riverton, illinois. One side of the bridge is completely underwater. Rivers in the areas hit by the massive flooding in missouri and illinois are cresting but for some further south the worst is expecting to come nexex week. People in pa dueca, kentucky, are bracing for it. One homeowner says she sees the potential destruction neighbors are trying to protect against. They have kids, they have toys, they just had christmas, you know, it makes me nor voice and breaks my heart when you think about it. Holly the ohio river near pa dueca is expense expected to crest 18 feet next week. The Clemson Tigers is one win away from the title. Prepare,tt2w`t3n 24 bt qc. , tt2w`t3n 24 a qsh tt2w`t3n 24 bm qx d tt4w`t3n 24 dztq k6 tt4w`t3n 24 entq ;2d tt4w`t3n 24 gzt 5< tt4w`t3n 24 hnt 2;p tt4w`t3n 24 iztq xr tt4w`t3n 24 jntq jh tt4w`t3n 24 lzt ro4 stip Clemson Tigers are one win away from a National Title. Last night in the semifinal playoff, tigers dominate the second half to beat oklahoma. And they were fired up. They were 130, no. 1 in the changed that perception quickly. Andy got wringed out for falling a fake punt against North Carolina . Last night on clemsons order, he did a fake punt and found it wide open with a 31yard pass leading to a touchdown. Deshawn watson best one in the country, 143 clemson, he had 145 yards rushing including over 1,000 for the year. Sooners before the half, andrews scores, oklahoma by 1 at the half. Second half all clemson. 75yard drive, capped off with a power run, 150 yards rushing for him. Tigers take the lead, 2317. Then a big fourth and one defense, seals the deal basically. That thing takes over, they stop the series, 41, the tigers offense explodes after that. Big night for them. Clemson rolls in title game. 3717. You know, we support each other and its really knowing each other and, you know, if we do that, you know, no one can as a unit, it is tough to beat us when were all on the same page and have each others back. Its an awesome feeling. To see the things we have done in the past and how close we have built this program up in the last 7 years, we have the chance to be on top and win it all, its just a crazy feeling. I havent wrapped my head around it yet. Stan the other semifinal game had alabama against michigan state. Alabama lead 380 when we take the segment with 3 minutes to go. We assume they will win the National Title game in january, arizona and clemson. The other team overcomes a second half deficit, dylan smith continues to shine leading with points, one of four in double figure, asheville plays saturday afternoon. Thats sports this morning. Im stan pamfilis. Happy few year, everyone. To find out how the new years forecast is. Ingrid dry, so thats good news. We have had so month rain in december, january is trending dryer, at least for now. Partly cloudy skies this afternoon. 48 degrees in asheville. With 50 in bryson city. 49 in franklin. Gaffney 55, same thing in forest city. 56 in greenville and upper 50s in clemson, anderson, and greenwood. A couple degrees shy of 60 degrees. Now back over to you, holly. Holly time for a quick look at this mornings traffic report. Lets go live to i26 near the brevard road exit in south asheville. Still very few cars out there. Probably a lot of folks sleeping in this morning. The traffic seems to be flowing smoothly. There are some foods that are supposed to make the new year luckier, remember bringing health, wealth, and happiness . Joining us this morning so we can get all this is laurie aiken so from earth fair. Thank you for coming in. Thank you for having us. Holly you have been giving great ideas that are not only what do you have for us . We have a juice recipe. Again with the new year, many of us have new years resolutions and juicing is a great way to get nutrients into the body. Juicing actually extracts the liquid from the fresh fruits and vegetables leaving the pulp behind so the nutrients are behind. Holly you are just getting the liquid. Yes. One of the stars of this particular recipe is we have spinach. Its packed with iran, vitamin k. And c. And it contains antiinflammatories as well. Its very easy to incorporate into juicing. Also, with our cucumbers. Cucumbers are made up of 95 water. They are ideal to juice. They have a high water content and they have a mild flavor so they blend very well with the other ingredients. So if you are new to juicing, cucumbers are definitely a must. They are great to add in. Holly lets talk about juicing. I have never done this. If we are like today is the first day of the year, i want to try it, where do we begin . There are many varieties out there. I recommend doing a little research. There is many price points as well. There is a basic option, all the way up to a very high end option. But, pick your juicer and then virtually any fruit or vegetable you can pull in there, it will actually catch the fiber in the pulp gastric so if i do spinach and qume ber it will do it for me . Very easy and convenient, great to take on the way to go. Its a great way to get nutrients into the diet. Here we incorporated some apples and lemon, also blueberries, we earlier. They are definitely considered a superfood packed with antioxidants, vitamin c and they cognitive health. The flaifd noidz give it a nice blue hue there. Very high in antioxidants and you blend it together and parsley, great for the digestive system and helps eliminate toxins and get rid of excess liquid so its a great inagreedient to add. Add parsley and spinach and blueberries. A lot of times people worry about the calorie, but if you add spinach and cucumber, its very few calories. Yes, and you are getting all the vitamins and minerals and getting that soluble fiber. Holly okay. What are we talking about the next half hour . We have fabulous body camera product, organic hair kir products. Its not just what we put in our body but on top of our body as well. So we have some great items coming up next. Holly you will feel all fresh from the inside and the outside on this new year. Thanks so much. We will be right back. In this mornings surf, something you can do with kids. Although we dont have snow yet. Ingrid you can enjoy some snowflakes. This site lets you create the snowflakes and you can save it and email to someone or email it on your instagram, Something Like this. Holly its very simple. We have it linked to wlos. Com and you can make a flake and click on make your own snowflake. We will give you a preview, and basically, all you will do is take these little scissors and once you get to the edge they turn green and you start cutting. I will cut this way and i will cut over here. Ingrid this is my kind of craft project because theres no cleanup. Holly exactly. And you can preview your snowflake. I havent done a very good job here. I will go back and cut some more. Ingrid its beautiful. I love it. Holly i will take out bigger chunks. Lets see what that looks like. This is much more interesting. Holly you can save your snowflake and submit it to do whatever i want here. You can cut more on them. Just go back and see what else you have going on. Uhoh, i think i just we need to redo it. Ingrid oh, no. Holly thats what happens when you cut too much of your snowflake. Ingrid thats okay. That would be great to do with the kids especially on a cold morning and its chillier right now. It will turn colder in the extended forecast though. 40 at the ashville airport, but notice the wind there, 15. It will make it feel a little bit cooler when you step outside. Its cloloy out there. Cool and breezy is the trend for the entire day, actually. I will talk about that coming up at 6 30 and also let you know what you can expect for the holly it is a new year which means new laws are taking effect. We will take a look at some of the major ones here in North Carolina. Security measure, how to keep people safe at placesf1 y 2 mkpt wow, you changed my old bedroom. With a little help from a havertys designer. He helped us, uh. Reinvent the whole space. And it is perfect. Im sure it was perfect then too, because youre perfect. Yeah, i was perfect. No mom, youre grounded its uh. Its better now. Well, my design sense is everevolving, so. Shop our winter event at havertys and enjoy thirtysix month, no interest financing havertys. Discover something you. Right when you feel a cold sore, abreva can heal it in as few as two and a half days when used at the first sign. Without it the virus spreads from cell to cell. Only abreva penetrates deep and starts to work immediately to block the virus and protect healthy cells. You could heal your cold sore, fast, as fast as two and a half days when used at the first sign. Learn how abreva starts to work immediately at abreva. Com dont tough it out, knock it out, fast. Now, in high definition, from the western North Carolinas news leader, this is news 13 this morning. Holly folks arnd the country are celebrating the new year. Ingrid this is from mobile, alabama. A unique way to start the new year with the annual mobile moon of course the firework, too. Moon pie, when is the last time you had moon pie . Holly its been a good two decades i think . Since my last moon pie . Ingrid i used to like them. Holly we should get moon pies for new year. Sounds like a good thing to bring back. Happy new year. Im sure some people are still groggy. Ingrid and you probably have better resolutions than eating a moon pie, but lets look outside, 38 degrees in burnsville, 48 in columbus. So we have a range of temperatures, down in the upstate its warmer but mountains were in the 30s and low 40s. And actually we will stay in the middle 40s through lunchtime with partly cloudy skies. Coming up in just a moment, i will have the sevenday forecast and it does include a lot of 20s. It will turn chilly. Now, back over to you. Holly. Holly time to check this mornings traffic. Lets look at another look at i26 at the brevard exit in south asheville. Just a few cars on the roads this morning. Looks like everything is going happening today, new laws in North Carolina for voter identification will now be required in 2016 starting with the primary elections inmar. Business owners will be able to sue employees who take video or photographs at the workplace. Its labeled the ag gag law by its opponents. The local farmers say the measure is not necessary if you treat your employees and your animals the right way. I dont think those protections are necessary. I think that, you know, its important that we, as farmers in general, have conversations with consumers about the way their food is being raised. Holly for a full list of the new laws taking effect today, visit the web site, wlos. Com. People across the mountains rang in the new year in different ways. Out in brevard, oscar blues brewery turned their new years eve festivities and the Fourth Annual event had people turn out for the food and of course the are looking forward to 2016. Im looking forward to the president ial election being over, but hoping that this country steps up to the plate and really elects the best person that this country needs. Holly local hotels offered discounts to people attending that event and oscar blues provided the trolley to and from those hotels. Developing this morning, arson investigators are looking into a fire that displaced two apartments. The fire broke out around 8 15 last night and damaged two units. No one was home at the time, but one person we spoke with said she was planning on ringing in the new year with a night of fun. That all changed with the fire. We are going to celebrate it with my aunt and uncle and my boyfriend. We are going to go out to the home. I dont know where im going to, my mothers maybe. Holly about 30 firefighters no one was hurt. Sheriff Greg Christopher is providing Security Training to places of worship. Yesterday, the North CarolinaSheriffs Association gathered Law Enforcement across the state, to take part in the training. Their goal is to help create security plans to keep people safe. Worship leaders interested in learning more should call the number there on your screen. The Clemson Tigers are going to the National Championship game. The tigers beat the oklahoma sooners 3717 last night in the orange bowl in miami. Confetti flying every where as players and coaches hugging. Fans here at home were happy toned the year with a clemson win. I have been following this team since i was little and going off to the playoffs is pretty cool. Good way to end it. Holly for the victory, all the clemson fans have been to be feeling good. Congratulations. All this week we have been airing our most memorable persons of the week from the past year. This morning, we are announcing that william cookie mills is our we brought you his story back in january, and as you are about to see, he has a been helping change lives for more than a decade. [inaudible] oh, youre our 2015 person of the year. Are you serious . How can that be . Oh, i cannot even believe that. Holly looks like we are having problems with the story. We will try to get it for you after the break. A shady past, but he has come a long way. Well, it was scary. Reporter albert shingles lived behind a new Beginnings Church there for 51 years. And the drugs will come in here and buy the drugs here. Reporter tammy moved away after she was burglarized. At one point there was a man going out my back door as my son everything here is junk. Reporter cookie mills grew up here and in 1997, after years of dodging drug dealers, living around litter, and homes that looked more like salvage yards. We made this mess. Why is it that we have a problem cleaning it up . Reporter he had enough. He shot this video to make a point. The reason i took that is i was trying to encourage people in the community to do something about this issue. I wanted them to see how others see it. Reporter and they did. Cookie created the ducker Row Community involvement council. Wasnt nobody making a move to try to help themselves so he came in and started the council and the people came. We have to protect our kids. We have to be there for them. We have to. Reporter and not just the kids on ducker road. He waged a war on drug, taking his message of awareness out in the community. Lately he is warning about the drug crocodile, a knock off of heroin, made with gasoline, with devastating effects. Shoot up with it and it goes to a certain part of the body and it starts eating the flesh from the inside out. Him and his wife started giving refuge to people in recovery with no place to go. Theres no doing good now. Around the area, the young kids call him grand dad, but when he takes his message to t. C. Robberson high school, the kids call him something else. I deal the kids donuts. The thing about it is, it got bigger and bigger and bigger. Reporter they wrote about him in the student newspaper. The pan who brings donuts to get their attention, then delivers a message that will last a lot longer. Off. It does work. And he does make a difference with what he has to say. Reporter through words and actions, cookie mills has been making a difference around ducker and beyond. There used to be a crack house right here. And we got rid of it. Awesome to have a play area where they can play where they used to sell drugs. Future. He built them a playground. Theyre safe. They can live here now. Reporter and he helped others who find Second Chances hard to come by, like convicted felon michael norman. I went to prison for three counts of Armed Robbery and that was 3 years ago and cookie helped me from that point on and put me in job places where people will help me. All of us do Different Things we may not want to do, but we always have the option to change. And thats what i believe in. Reporter he believes in the future of ducker road. I looked at that building and i said you can forget this, nobody come down here. Reporter he took a chance, creating places to live on a street many avoided over the years. Theres apartments sitting on i can drive near i can court, they really want to. I dont let any of the kids say i cant. I wont let them do that. He is the one and only. He just carries. Come on. You feel better. One of the greatest gifts on this earth, to me, is to get to be able to choose what you do, and i mean, you are born with that. Reporter for ducker road, the gift is cookie. Im still out here. Holly coming up, healthy eating. With your new years now, in high definition, this is your news 13 skywatch forecast. Happy new year. Years eve. Unca camera showing a clear start to 2016. Leicester carpet sales Skycam Network shows its breezy down into the upstate. You can see that with the flag flying behind me here. 53 degrees but notice much cooler back here in the mountains. This is the Black Mountain camera. 37 degrees, but dry conditions finally. We are going to have a nice string of dry condition, too. Satellite radar shows we are starting off the first day of 2016, a bit cloudy, we are hoping for some of these clouds to break up this afternoon so we can have nice sunshine and good afternoon expected. We have this Flood Warning out. This is just for the french broad at blantyre. It is going through, of course, Transylvania County and henderson counties, so those zones still waiting for that water to recede. 40 degrees cool as we have gotten at the ashville airport. So, yes, although it is colder outside, still, 27 is normal for this time of year. We will finally get there tonight, thats where the forecasted low is. 48 burnsville and 40 in burnsville, 45 degrees forest city. Some locations dropped into the 30s including andrews and franklin. But, 10 degrees warmer down into greenville, a 50, low 50s from anderson to greenwood, to still 60 down towards columbia. Now the wind in asheville picked up overnight. 15 Miles Per Hour. You combine that with the air temperature and the wind chill, it feels like its freezing outside at 32 degrees. So, if you are heading out the door, maybe for a jog in the new year, make sure you are bundled up. That will be a good idea. This is the system that brought rain well to the south now. Thats continuing to build in. We have a good amount of clouds to get through, but once again hoping for the sun to peak out. Take a closer look. This is 8 a. M. Still showing the cloud cover outside. Through lunchtime. Then Late Afternoon, starts to break up especially past 4 p. M. And into dinnertime. Clearing skies tonight means a cold start saturday morning, locations. Sunshine throughout the day, into the evening. Once again, another cold night to stay clear. We will not have that blanket, if you will, of cloud cover. Be breezy. 1013. Gusts up to 18. 48 degrees. But we are hoping for those partly cloudy skies today and tonight, still breezy, so 27 is the air temperature, feeling locations. Cooler overall in greenville at 56 and tonight, down to 34 with decreasing clouds. So, happy new year everyone. Here is the first week of 2016. Bit milder sunday, but back to the 40s into the beginning of next week. And yes, it will be so cold in the Morning Hours that if we see any precipitation it could come in the way of a mist by the end of next week. So we are turning colder in the new year, and maybe hopefully some snow in the second half of january. Back over to you. Holly time for a look at this mornings ontime traffic report. We have a better look at the i26 brevard road exit in south asheville and it is a quiet new years morning. A lot of people probably just getting up or maybe still sleeping in. All morning long we have been talking the new yours resolutions and things to make you happy, healthy, wealthy, and better. And so this what we are talking about on the inside to the outside, things to put in your body, juicing, smooth thinks, pappa johns recipe with the black eyed peas and now we are talking about products . Yes. Wellness department with supplements and all natural and organic body Care Products and the great thing is we always have a very knowledgeable staff on site to help answer questions you might have. So, we have everything from organic hair care to cosmetics, to body lotions and shea butters, everything single item in the Wellness Department adheres to our quality standards. And we actually have some educational videos, if you go to earth fair. Com wellness you can learn more about our quality standards and we answer some our your most frequently answered questions about wellness and each and every week in january we will upload new content so go to earth fair. Com. Holly why switch to this . If you think about it, your skin is the largest organ on your di and you have to treat it right. All the products in our Wellness Department are going to be free of harsh chemicals and parabens. There is no added dyes or synthetic fray glances or fillers. It is 100 all natural and or organic. And this is a Great Company i they offer hand made soap, batat salts, and different scrubs. And you can get them by the pound or by the ounce. You can get as much or little as you like. And they make great gifts. Holly it smells so good. They use essential oils and oatmeal and lavender. Bulk . You can just try it in your home and if you are thinking of switching over you dont have the buy the whole expensive thing, you can get a sampling. Exactly. You can scoop your own. We have big bins in the Wellness Department and they make great gifts for mothers day and valentines day coming up. They use the highest quality, all natural ingredients. When it comes to hair care, john masters hair care is a phenomenal company. They work with farmers that treat the environment with respect. Friendly and they use`vs s6e[bdtnvbi . Qq o y yyvz3mee natural products, this is vegan and also gluten free. So if you have extreme allergies this is a great makeup line to turn to. There is no artificial colors or dyes. 100 natural. Holly especially lipstick and lip gloss, going directly in your mouth. Exactly. Holly thank you so much. We will, of course, upload all the segments on wlos. Com in case you missed the earlier ones and you are wanting to have a healthier you in the new year. Holly welcome back. The u. S. Saw quite party, people raised a glass and watched the fireworks display with friends and family. Him kutcherson has a look at the celebrations. Reporter america says hello to 2016. The new year, each in its own unique style. Times square, of course, was the place to be in new york city. Officials expected a Million People to pack the space. At midnight, the Waterford Crystal ball, 12 feet in diameter and sporting more than 2500 crystal triangles came down to mark the beginning of january, 2016. Raleigh, North Carolina, celebrated by dropping an acorn. While in atlanta, crowds gathered to watch a peach drop. In meatball, alabama, they pie. Fort worth, texas, treated newiers revelers to an impressive light and Fireworks Show. This is the scene on bile street in mem sphis, his, tennessee, peach gathered to watch the guguar drop. Unfortunately, it stalled. Revelers in new orleans partied as hard as you expect them to in the big easy, the same goes for people on the strip in vegas. The west coast represented itself well, as usual. San franciscos party centered around treasure island. While seattles iconic space Counter Point for the citys fireworks display. Im Kim Hutcherson reporting. Holly a massive highrize infer know in dubai erupts hours before a fireworks di place. It started on the 63rd floor of the hotel just under 3 hours before dubai was to hold its famous Fireworks Show starting at the worlds tallest building nearby. The music was playing, and then all of a sudden we saw the flames and everyone was focused, you know, writing to get a better vantage point. Holly at least 16 people were hurt. And there has been no mention of terror, arson, or any official cause. President obama is about to start his final full year in office. And he is filling out his agenda for the remaining time in the white house. He will start with gun control. Reporter for president obama, the final round is about in 2016 im going to leave it all out on the field. Reporter a first in the president s eighth and last year in office, his longpromised response to Mass Shootings in the u. S. Sources familiar with the plan say it will be a package of executive actions on gun control. Expected before the january 12th state of the unioio and aimed at the gun show loophole, which allows some firearms sellers to avoid conducting background checks on their customers. And so, the beginning of this year . I think it will be fair, yeah. The white house argues the president s actions will be within his executive authority. And in line with polls that show broad support for tightening background checks. Unfortunately, congress has not shown the courage to do so. Thats why the president asked his team to look at what he can do administratively. Vowing to fight the move, the n. R. A. Says the president is doing what he always does when he doesnt get his way, defying the will of the people and using executive action. Another controversial proposal coming in the new year . The pr dez will ask congress to center at guantanamo, a facility mr. Obama may close on his own if lawmakers balk at the white house plan. It will be an uphill battle. Reporter the president also hopes to travel to cuba and perhaps a dozen other countries in what is shaping up to be a global farewell tour. But the president s agenda can be up ended by setbacks in the war on isis. A Foreign Policy crisis that can complicate white house plans to have the President Campaign heavily with the 2016 democratic nominee, a prospect that may well put him and Hillary Clinton on the trail together again. I think we will have a strong democratic nominee and that nominee will win and i think we will have a democratic successor. Holly the gun control proposals are expected to be revealed next week. President obamas final state of the Union Address will be january 12th. We will tell you who was fiesta bowl game. First todays mind teaser. Where did toasting originate . The answer right after the break. Holly lets get a recap of this mornings local headlines. The mother accused of prostitution is out on bond this morning. 42 yearold barbara gray faces felony solicitation for prostitution as well as an arrest for allegedly using her home at 71 putnam street for that purpose. In order to cover the operations started by Waynesville Police led to her arrest. New laws going into effect in North Carolina. Voter yes, i didfycation will be required in 2016. Starting with the primary elections inmar. Business owners will be able to sue employees who take video or photographs at the workplace. For a full list of the new laws the web site, wlos. Com. Haywood county sheriff Greg Christopher is providing Security Training to places of worship. The North Carolina sheriff offense association gathered Law Enforcement across the state to take part in the training. Their goal is to help create security plans to keep people safe. Here is the answer took. Com news days mind teaser. We asked where did toasting originate . The answer is england. Ohio state and notre dame are set to face off today in the battle for the fiesta bowl. Glendale, arizona. Holly all things are on the orangutan to pick between two shirts, one for the fighting irish, he initially seemed to favor ohio state but in the end he chose notre dame. Holly going to be a tough game. My dad went to ohoe ohio state and i almost went to notree dame, so it is quite the game between pull for notre dame. Ingrid your dad is not happy . Holly not when they play notre dame. He usually goes for notre dame but not this time. Ingrid the weather is not as interesting as it has been, im happy to say. More seasonable. 40s thin call this time of year and 0s typical, thats the trend for the first week of january. It look like winter is finally returned. It will be very sunny for the weekend, so get outside and enjoy it. Just make sure you are bundled up. Now it will be so cold into the end of next week, if we see some precipitation, maybe some mixed precipitation. Everyone. Good morning, america, and happy new year were helping you kick off the new year right and stick with those resolutions. Managing your health and your money