Millions of already rung in the new year. Here in the bay area were now one hour and counting until 2017. Thank you for joining us. Im Carolyn Tyler in for eric thomas. The celebrations have been going on all night all over the world. Fireworks celebrations lit up the skies above manila. Right now an estimated 200,000 people are ready for the big show to ring in the new year here in San Francisco. Abc7 is live with more. Good evening, carolyn. Tonight we witnessed something a little different. A political protest as a new years eve celebration. Around 100 people marched down market street. And at one point they shut it down. First this view. There are hundreds of thousands of people gathering to watch the fireworks and theyre bundled up. Reporter before the crackle of fireworks, the sizzle of bacon draws people. We drove out here for this. Reporter from where . Fresno. Reporter for a bacon wrapped hot dog. Yeah. No, im joking. We came for the fireworks. Reporter and a moment of gratitu
Im gus rosendale. Erica is in for raphael this morning. Good morning. Were off to a cold start in some of our suburbs. Only 23 in sussex. 27 in poughkeepsie. But youre right, it doesnt feel like early december once we get into the afternoon hours. We do have some reduced visibility right now, one mile in poughkeepsie and six miles for your visibility in islip. Those visibilities could continue to go down closer to sunrise. Tons of sunshine once that sun actually rises. 51 degrees at noon. By 6 00, down to 52. Dropping from a High Temperature of 56 degrees. Its going to be a really pleasant afternoon. Another great day to spend outside. Coming up in our full sevenday forecast, we have a couple chances for rain. Pat, back to you. Erica, thank you. New this morning, authorities are on the trail of an arsonist in queens. Right now fire marshals on the this is the fifth one in recent weeks. Flames tore through a vacant twostory home on 69th street early this morning. Officials and neighbors
Three al jazeera reporters are granted a new trial. Ringing in 2015, the worlds biggest and best news celebration. Good morning, welcome to Al Jazeera America. While millions of people range in the new year peacefully, it was a trankic start to 2015 in shanghai. 35 people were killed, dozens more injured at a stampede at a celebration. Someone dropped coupons out of a window that looked like money when it started. A night of revelry quickly turned chaotic. This is the skean of what started as a news celebration. The injured lie on the ground, run down in a stampede on the waterfront district. It started just before midnight. Police are still investigating the cause. We were down stairs and those upstairs wanted to move down and those upstairs wanted to move up. We were pushed down. All those trying to move up fell down on the stairs. Witnesses reported seeing cue upons being throwing into the crowd that looked like dollar bills. Pictures of the coupons have appeared on social media. As
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And what people can plan on when they go home tonight. Delia . Reporter mike, we have been here all morning long and talked to a lot of folks. Tons of changes to the morning commute and to metro commute here today, including some shuttle bus service. But surprisingly, we talked to a lot of folks who say they planned ahead of time for long delays and they were pleased by what they found. The rhythmic hum of the morning commute is back. It was easy. Totally normal day. Couldnt tell anything ever happened. Reporter in fact, this Yellow Police tape inside Lenfant Plaza was the only obvious sign of yesterdays deadly electrical malfunction. But many commuters say the images of people struggling for air and smokefilled trains was all they could think about. As they navigated their way through delays and Service Changes. Were all on edge. Reporter how long have you been delayed so far . An hour at least. The blue line moving really, really slow and scary. We know what happened last night, but