Take a look at these live pictures of new yorks times square. Just hours ago, the crossroads of the world was packed with a million revellers and three, two, one happy new ar its finally 2016. And people around the world are ringing in the new year with those three familiar words. All happy new year happy new year from a jampacked times square in new york, all of the way to moscow, crowds cheered as colorful fireworks displays painted the night sky. New zealand was the first to ring in the new year, with australia nipping at its heel. Lighting up the famous sydney harbor. Celebrations from hong kong to tokyo illuminating the night sky. One show in particular left the world watching in a different kind of awe. In dubai, even with a hotel fire tallest building, the burj khalifa, 1. 6 tons of fireworks carried on their display as scheduled. All across the globe millions crowded historic landmarks just to get a glimpse of the fireworks. Cities around the world are in a heightened state of
Starting around the world. A big bash rig here in times sqre tonight. Ryan seacrest live with us, Jenny Mccarthy taking you behind the scenes. Its gmas new years rockin mornings we say good morning, america. Im not going to say it as well as Jenny Mccarthy just said but good morning, america. A little more bounce amy. Gma weekend anchor dan harris is here, sara haines and tom llamas as well. We are counting down to tonights big celebration right here in times square. Take a look at the ball getting ready to drop just hours from now and the first new years celebrations have already kicked off, firewos welcoming in 2016 in auckland, any zealand. It blows my mind that theyre far ahead of us. They will be over their with our ball drops here. Im glad you put some thought into that. Im not great at math but able to get there. The college footbaall playoff. Two big bowl games kickingff on esespn, the team mascots from clemson and Michigan State right there on an astroturf carpet. I dont know
President at the time the world seems to be a dangerous place. One of the cbs polls over the weekend showed iowa voters choose ted cruz to be commander in chief by a large margin. Cynthia when it comes to foreign policy, 24 of likely caucusgoers like cruz best. 18 for trump, 15 rubio. On terrorism, they choose trump with 30 , cruz 20 , rubio 10 . Trumps got my vote. I just think he is going to do a good job running the country. Cynthia but the most important issue to iowans, the economy and jobs. Trump is way on top 49 , cruz way below 11 , carson, rubio and fiorina, 6 . Ted cruz is wasting no time coming back to des moines this weekend. Marco rubio is here at the airport holiday inn at the iowa pastors policy briefing which starts at 6 30 tonight. Stacey new information about yesterdays accident near 35th Des Moines Police say troy mure junior was released from the hospital this afternoon he was immediately charged with 2 counts of vehicular homicide and owi. Police say mure was drivi
Hundreds of thousands in las vegas filled the streets. More than a million others crowded into new yorks times square for watch the ball drop at midnight. Other cities around the world marked the new year under a terror threat. Don champion is here in new york with more on that. Reporter good morning. Places like germany and belgium, the threat of terrorism led to cancelled events and even warnings for people to avoid large gather is. German germans ushered in 2016 under close watch. In munich, a different story. People there were told to stay away from two of the citys train stations because of a serious and emimminent threat by isis bombers. In brussels the official party of two men suspected of planning holiday attacks. Some thought it was an overreaction. I think its backing down to the threat of terrorism. I think we should stand up and just make everything happen. Reporter in paris, a city that saw two attacks from isis in 2015, celebrations were scaled back. Frances defense mini
Hey its still not clear what caused a hotel in dubai to go up in flames. At least 14 people were injured. The Mississippi River and a tributaries are at or near record levels. Hundreds of highways and roads are still closed. Been out here 15 years, and never seen it like this. Rochester, new york, the fbi says Emanuel Lutchman planned an attack to prove he was a member of isis. Alabama booking a spot in the National Championship game opposite clemson. They are still undefeated. 140. I told them, you aint favored to win the damn game but we aint no underdog and all that matters. What is your resolution for our 2016 . I tell you what, my resolution is to make America Great again on cbs this morning. Anderson cooper has been spraytan. We have live in reno in the hot sun. Announcer this portion of cbs this morning sponsored by toyota. Lets go places. We hope youre enjoying the first morning of 2016. We recorded parts of this broadcast in the days leading up to the new year. And here we are