tonight from the heart of times square, this is cnn s new year s eve live with appearances by usher, ellie golding, kevin hart, patti lupone, patti labelle, jean smart, john stamos, jennifer lewis, amy sedaris, tenacious d, nick cannon, ava max, samuel l. jackson, plus more surprises. and now live from new york city, your hosts, anderson cooper and andy cohen. and welcome, everybody, to times square in new york city. anderson cooper here. i m andy cohen. they brought us back for another year. they did. yes, they did. with stipulations. some stipulations this year. we ll get into that. yeah. there s fine print. yes. it is a balmy night here in new york. it s almost like 50 degrees. yes, it is. i was schmitzing. i got rid of my coat. we were all prepared for it to get colder. the crowd has been assembling for hours here in times square. very wet very wet. i would call them flaccid, the crowd. okay. it s early. not the word i would use.
then, tech mogul mark cuban surprises me with some news about his future on shark tank. and his ongoing feud with one guest shark. have you been in the same room with him? no, i have not. i haven t talked to him since. not a word. and later, the so-called man with a golden ear, clyde davis, reveals the biggest recording artist he never signed and the one he ll always be remembered for. is whitney the artist of your career? i worked a lot on this question. deny it? don t deny it. are you always like this? are you saying parents are wrong? will you come back? of course i will. dr. rochelle walensky leads the centers for disease control and prevention. for more than 18 months, she s been the face of the biden administration s fight against the covid pandemic. in our conversation, she talks about how she deals with the criticism she faces and her future at the agency. but we start with those new covid vaccines. how does the rate at which people are getting thi
opinion. it didn t help that as the wall street journal reported, the fbi decided earlier there was no need to send agents to supervise biden lawyers collecting classified papers that they said they found. that reeked of a double standard. the washington post says biden world adopted a strategy of caution and deference toward doj, it was the goody two-shoes approach, more concerned with pleasing investigators than the public. here s a classic example. after white house sat on this story for two months, officials confirmed the cbs scoop about the first batch of documents found at penn biden center. now, the prime minister and his people already the president and his people already knew about the second batch but said nothing. it smelled like a cover-up. the post says some of biden s aides now regret the strategy. you think? here s the thing, anyone if can defend himself even when there s a justice investigation. i m howard kurtz, and this is mediabuzz. if. howa
this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening like breathing fire 50 million people in the west from california to montana suffering under heat alerts and temperatures not just a little bit hotter than normal but pushing 15 to 30 degrees above average. a relentless heat wave now more than a week in smashing records. at 116 degrees yesterday sacramento recording its highest temperature ever in fact, over a million northern californians have experienced temperatures of 110 or higher a danger to people, the crippling heat also leaving the region s power providers and customers on tenterhooks. officials imploring californians tonight to conserve electricity use during peak demand hours, hoping to avoid rolling blackouts. miguel almaguer is there and has the very latest reporter: tonight across california, the lights are on for now. on the brink of blackouts again as power demand reached an all-time record high overnight, slivers of the golden state plunged into dark
that will be next tuesday. anything can happen, make no mistake. we ll be talking about the results one week from tonight. we ll know the results hopefully in all states. five senate races in more than two dozen house races are within two points. this is why i m not poll pollyannaish, why don t want to create a condition where people are overly enthusiastic. within two points. that s five states. that s within the balance of power in congress. a few thousand votes can decide whether or not joe biden and his radical left democrat social party will have key control over your government. other races are within two points including in the state of new york. all the races are tight. in 2016, thick about this, polls showed donald trump losing handily and then he shocked the world and won the election if you look at three key states in 2016 they were at were decided by a combined 77,000 votes in 2020, the margin for joe biden which is 43,000 votes and three swing states despite the