Reporter thousands of officers are detailed to times square throughout the day and into the night. These revelers ready for hours of wait, no bathroom breaks allowed for that one magical count down. Anthony drove through the night from to be here. He has been in the pin since 7 00 a. M. I feel safer with like the police and being wanded on the way in. So i feel safer and a lot better about the situation than i did before i got here. Reporter and back live, the ball is not yet up at the top of the pole from which it will tonight. They preparations here but supremely high security. One more thing about the bathroom break, you cant leave the pin and get back in once youre in here. So people from 7 00 a. M. , theyve got to hold it in or drop. There are a lot of creative that which i will not get into right now. Channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thanks for clarifying, sort of, josh, thank you. Several street closures already in effect around times square. 7th avenue from 43rd to 48th street, broad
And this whole area is under lockdown, all waiting for the ball to drop eight hours from now. To celebrate the moment the clock strikes midnight takes a lot of patience and a high tolerance for exhaustion. I decided last night. And her and i left at midnight and drove all the way from ohio. Reporter all night just to stand all day. The nypd started allowing people in and by midnight more than a million will party the night away. Everybody else comes around and does this. Ive always wanted to do it. Reporter they are ready to wait 17 hours. Cops wont let you return if you leave and that means no bathroom breaks. Not thinking about any waterfalls. Tight as its ever been. There are three security checks just to get in with every pocket, bag, and hat searched. 6000 cops, a deployment increased in the wake of paris and san bernardino. And anthony was worried during the drive from ohio but not any more. I feel safer with the police. I feel safer and a lot better about the situation than i di
Park, 45 in islip, 43 in bridgeport, belmar checking in at a very nice 52 this morning. Temperatures will be soaring into the 50s which is above high readings in the middle 50s through much of the area, we will drop to 51 in the city, 40s friday but dry weather will be here through the weekend, we expect plenty of sunshine sunday near 50 degrees. Lets see what you can expect on roads this morning, ines is here with the traffic. Syncing these conditions, speed restrictions lacrosses, 35 m. P. H. On the George Washington hour, Staten Island doing fine, but was this year and of those, 13 happened here in new york. More than any other state followed by minnesota of all places with 11 arrests. The study found most of the isis sympathizers are younger with average age of 26. 86 of those arrested are male. Surprisingly low number to me. Ben the United States is sending more special Operations Forces to help iraqi and her forces battling isis but irans foreign minister says they are not needed
Seemingly pushing for forcible staffers clarified their ap intent watos not to involuntarily commit herwise competent individuals. No the governor maybe overstepped a bit. The homeless said if governor cuom wants to see the homeless off the streets, he should just match mayo deblasios housing cfor le mentalonly ill. Bringing people ienn off the street ierif we have more housing. The number ofed homeless is something beyond our control. Reporter the problem of homelessness is growing under deblasio but vexed all m yors in recent memory and also not new for the homeless he avoid shelters. The homeless also dont like the rules in shelters like curfews and sobriety requirements. And deblasio have opened smaller shelters in churchbased settings. Two recent conditions have slammed the conditions. They run around on the floor like as if at the disco. Has the state been doing its job if they have gotten to a places where, as you say, Homeless People dont want to come in . There is no doubt tha
Lot 8you would like to do, especially with these cold temperatures. Chris cimino is in the Weather Center with a first look at tha 2016 monday morning forecast. Good morning. Wer t iking about temperatures in the low 30s. We lost another degree in the last hour. Thats going to be the trend through the morning hours. It should level off close to the freezing mark this afternoon. This is the first real cold arctic air mass heading our way. Right now not too bad. 30 in newburgh. Long branch at 28. Windchills are starting to drop. Feels like 22 wath the wind at jfk. Feels like 25 in c hoentral park. Again, this is nothing compared to where i were going. Windchills generally teens and low 20s through the northwestern suburbs. Those windchills will pcdbably be near or below zero by tomorrow morning at this time. So breezy by noon, sun and clouds, 31. Dropping into the 20s by the evening hours. Windchills dropping into the low teens at that point. Colder yet to come. Ill talk about that in a