We are live in new york city where hundreds of thousands are expected to celebrate and watch the iconic crystal ball drop into 2017. Return of rousey. Tagged her again. The ufc champion back in the cage for the comeback fight. Did herself imposed media blackout help her regain title . Well break down the shocking results. And a look back at the fun we had this year on weekend today from babies to our fun team. Today, saturday, december 31st, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on saturday morning. Im Sheinelle Jones along craig melvin. Can you believe it is the last day of 2016 . I woke up this morning and thought this is the last day. Lets stick the landing. Were not there yet. You have a theme for 2017 . Be clean in 2017. Clean eating and mind set. We will look back at the year that was through the next hour and a half. Lets get to the top story. Tensions with the United States and russia increasing ove
These are clouds spread across the board in the last hour or so really. Now we have more cloudy skies as we step out. Partly cloudy to cloudy conditions possible even into the evening. Good news, shouldnt effect fireworks too much. We are not talking lowhanging clouds, just clouds rolling by the area. Notice no rain headed our direction. A pretty dry forecast for new years eve. Things change on the ten day forecast. Coming up, a closer look at weekend details and beyond. See you shortly. Thanks for that. New years eve wouldnt be complete without fireworks. This year nbc10 is giving you a front row seat to not one but two Fireworks Shows happening this evening. Nbc10s Monique Braxton is live on penns landing where organizers and crews are getting everything ready for the festivities. Monique . Reporter hey there, rosemary. Being billed as two of the most spectacular Fireworks Shows ever. Take a look down on penns landing. You can see it is all ready for the thousands that will be jam pa
Too warm, meteorologist chris sowers joins us with a first look of the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast this final day of 2016. Reporter she is invited to the party, it looks good, new years eve it could be cold, snowing and we could be talking about windchills, none of that. Outside we go, looking at the commodor barry bridge. A nice quiet morning. Its chilly, temperatures in the 20s, things will moderate nicely later this afternoon. High temperatures should top out in the mid to upper 40s, looks pretty good. 26 in allentown. 32 in philadelphia. 29 in trenton. 32 in beach haven. Millville, 25 degrees. 22 for the poconos, dover, 28. Wilmington, checking in at 29. Salt sat just a couple of clouds off to the northwest, otherwise the mid atlantic is clear this morning with a few more clouds starting to approach from the great lake states that will provide us with partly sunny skies this afternoon. Heres the forecast for today, we go hour by hour for you, starting out with sunshine,
Handle, new zealand, where it just turned midnight, so it is official 2017 there. You see the celebration, including fireworks, New Zealanders celebrating as other parts of the world will follow, goodbye 2016 and hello 2017. Hello, chris sowers. Reporter happy new year. As he get you outside, it will be 45 to 47 degrees. Not too shabby, and it will stay dry. New years celebrations look good. As we go live from our city hall camera, the flags are still at it is chilly, well have to deal with cooler conditions. Quakertown, 24 degrees, clear skies and calm winds. Temperatures have dropped off pretty quickly out here. Pottstown, 24. Coatsville, 23. Thats cold. Tannersville 24, center city, 31. Chester showing 29. We have a lot of across delaware, as well. Glassboro, 24, hammonton blue berry county, 27 degrees. Satellite and radar, clear skies across the mid atlantic and the northeast, just a couple of clouds pushing through the great lake states. Thats the way today will play out. Mostly s
Machine turning on later on this afternoon. For us, High Pressure in control, it will keep the clouds away to start the day, high, thin clouds to the west begin to increase later on. With the cloud cover expected overnight tonight, it keeps the temperatures on the mild side. As you head outside later this evening, for the new years celebration. Temperatures will be close to 40 which is close to the normal high for this time of the year. Heres the way it plays out today, 9 00 a. M. , 33. 11 00 a. M. , 38. 3 00 p. M. , 45, were shooting for a high of 47 more rain on the way next week. We could make another run at 60 degrees by tuesday. Ill have the details in the seven day coming up in just a bit. Alicia. Thank you. Now to breaking news, a Police Ground and air search is happening right now in central pennsylvania where a state trooper was shot to death on the job. They are looking for this man, 32yearold Jason Robison. Police say he opened fire on trooper landon weaver during a call for