expected in times square, and officials are ramping up security, including monitoring area hotels. anne thompson joins me now from times square. anne, what does the security presence look like? what s the scene there in times square, a few blocks out from here? reporter: well, david, for the people who are in these pens behind me, in order to get in here, they are wanded, their bags are inspected, and it is 16 degrees here. it feels like 3 with the windchill. and believe it or not, police are so serious, they re making people unzip their coats and doing body searches before they allow them in these pens. so they are taking security very, very seriously tonight. but even more than security, the weather may be the ultimate story. the temperature is expected to be somewhere between 8 and 11 degrees when the ball comes down, and we re going to have a subzero windchill, because the winds are going to pick up, and it is going to be brutal. so, how do you survive this? tim tompkins of the t
mexico and travel to where i could just walk across the u.s. border. finally the bus pulled up to the peru/ecuador border. i was here three years ago. this was a cake walk. you showed them your passport, they stamped it and they let you through. i saw them searching peruvians and ecuadorians patting their bodies. body searches. this wasn t supposed to happen. were they going to body search me? the customs man came aboard and then he said take your luggage out. and this attractive young traveler sat next to me and said i bet you have a kilo of cocaine under there. what? i had a total panic reaction.
this was the first phase. then i would fly from ecuador to mexico and travel to where i could just walk across the u.s. border. finally the bus pulled up to the peru/ecuador border. i was here three years ago. this was a cakewalk. you showed them your passport, they stamped it and they let you through. i saw them searching peruvians and ecuadorians patting their bodies. body searches. this wasn t supposed to happen. were they going to body search me? the customs man came aboard and then he said take your luggage out. and this attractive young traveler sat next to me and said
then i would fly from ecuador to mexico and travel to where i could just walk across the u.s. border. finally the bus pulled up to the peru/ecuador border. i was here three years ago. this was a cake walk. you showed them your passport, they stamped it and they let you through. i saw them searching peruvians and ecuadorians patting their bodies. body searches. this wasn t supposed to happen. were they going to body search me? the customs man came aboard and then he said take your luggage out. and this attractive young traveler sat next to me and said i bet you have a kilo of cocaine under there. what?
then i would fly from ecuador to mexico and travel to where i could just walk across the u.s. border. finally the bus pulled up to the peru/ecuador border. i was here three years ago. this was a cake walk. you showed them your passport, they stamped it and they let you through. i saw them searching peruvians and ecuadorians patting their bodies. body searches. this wasn t supposed to happen. were they going to body search me? the customs man came aboard and then he said take your luggage out. and this attractive young traveler sat next to me and said i bet you have a kilo of cocaine under there. what?