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.
of the same this weekend. a largely fine end to the day to day. there will be fine spells of weather at times this weekend. it will be blustery and quite warm when you get to see some sunshine. we have low pressure to the rest of us. also bands of wet weather and there is another one about to show its hand across south west england over the next few hours and lived northward through the night into more of england and wales by morning. north of that, a lot of dry weather. heavy showers in scotland slowly fading away, and it s a bit cooler tonight, some spots dipping into single figures. we start with rain in wales and parts of england tomorrow. and that moves north in the morning into northern england, northern ireland, southern scotland, slowly feeding further north across scotland during the day but not into northern scotland until the evening. behind it, some heavy showers for east anglia and south east england, a largely fine afternoon. hazy sunshine and warmth. saturday e
migrants arriving on its shores. charles watson is standing by with more on that, but first, lucas tomlinson live at the white house with a preview of the president s trip. reporter: jon, a short time ago the white house says president biden called new house speaker ken mccarthy to congratulate him on his victory, but the border a growing issue perhaps that s one of the reasons the president s making this trip tomorrow to the southern border. the most extreme republicans continue to demagogue this issue and reject solutions. i m left with only one choice, to act on my own, do as much as i can on my own to try to change the atmosphere. reporter: the president s in delaware today. he has never gone to the border as president or in the eight years he served as vice president, jon. and ahead of this trip to el paso tomorrow, president biden outlining new plans here at the white house late this week to crack down on migrants crossing the border illegally. this new parole pla
fails to elect a speaker in its opening session. no persons having received a majority of the whole number of votes cast by surname, a speaker has not been elected. and a mountain and a ski lift, but where s the snow? the record mild temperatures affecting europe s winter sports. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. russia s defence ministry says officials will be held accountable after ukrainian forces located and destroyed an army barracks in the occupied town of makiivka, killing dozens of troops. russia now says 89 people were killed. ukraine says the number was much higher. russia says the unauthorised use of mobile phones by russian troops allowed ukraine to target its troops because they were able to use the signal to find the soldiers location. here s some more of the russian military statememt. translation: circumstances of the incident are currently being investigated, but it is already obvious that the main reason, despite the restri
17 hours. it was actually longer not that long ago. earlier today king charles and prince william took time to personally greet some of the mourners shaking hands and thanking people for waiting in line for so long to honor the queen. all this is happening as cnn learned about a major royal flub. prince harry and his wife meghan, the duchess of sussex, were invited to a reception tomorrow at buckingham palace by mistake. a royal kerfuffle. more on that in a moment. jasmine wright is live outside the white house correspondents dinner, and anna stewart is in that crowd in london. jasmine, president biden among the hundreds of world leaders that are headed to london for monday s funeral. what are we expecting to see from the first couple while in the uk? reporter: yeah, the president and the first lady leave the white house here very soon. i am not sure if you can pick it up in the mics, but on the lawn you can hear the sound of mash even one waiting to take the president a