Begins now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with jose diaz balart. Good evening. Im Peter Alexander in for jose. New years festivities are well underway across the globe. Here in the u. S. As the clock ticks down to midnight, americans are preparing to ring in 2017 surrounded by beefed up security. Police are out in force in the wakes of attacks from brussels to berlin even employing physical barriers like giant sand trucks to protect crowds. Millions are expecting to watch the ball drop in times square. Thats where we begin with nbcs ann thompson. Reporter a dazzling start to 2017. Amid reminders of the everpresent danger. New york preparing with a record 7,000 officers in times square. How confident are you that you can keep all of these people safe . Im extremely confident. We are so well prepared to do this, this is something that the nypd does so well. Reporter people already waiting for hours. Its been on my bucket list since i was
Nightly news begins now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with jose diaz balart. Good evening. Im Peter Alexander in for jose. New years festivities are well underway across the globe. Here in the u. S. As the clock ticks down to midnight, americans are preparing to ring in 2017 surrounded by beefed up security. Police are out in force in the wakes of attacks from brussels to berlin even employing physical barriers like giant sand trucks to protect crowds. Millions are expecting to watch the ball drop in times square. Thats where we begin with nbcs ann thompson. Reporter a dazzling start to 2017. Amid reminders of the everpresent danger. New york preparing with a record 7,000 officers in times square. How confident are you that you can keep im extremely confident. We are so well prepared to do this, this is something that the nypd does so well. Reporter people already waiting for hours. Its been on my bucket list since i was little. Repor
Nightly news begins now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with jose diaz balart. Good evening. Im Peter Alexander in for jose. New years festivities are well underway across the globe. Here in the u. S. As the clock ticks down to midnight, americans are preparing to ring in 2017 surrounded by beefed up security. Police are out in force in the wakes of attacks from brussels to berlin even employing physical barriers like giant sand trucks to protect crowds. Millions are expecting to watch the ball drop in times square. Thats where we begin with nbcs ann thompson. Reporter a dazzling start to 2017. Amid reminders of the everpresent danger. New york preparing with a record 7,000 officers in times square. How confident are you that you can keep im extremely confident. We are so well prepared to do this, this is something that the nypd does so well. Reporter people already waiting for hours. Its been on my bucket list since i was little. Repor
Side of the road. A Woman Holding a baby. And a school bus stopped in the distance. Thats when one of the 14yearold victims appears on the left side of the screen. Standing in a ditch in the front yard of a home. Suddenly. A pitbull lunges at her. Knocking her to the ground. The other 14yearold victim is then observed already on the ground being attacked by another pitbull. We know the initial attack occurred inside one of the victims home. The girl attempted to get away from the dogs by fleeing out the dogs pursued and attacked her and a friend until the officer intervened. Chief michael kass says the officer. Who has been with the department for five years, approached the animals and fired six shots, all of them . Hitting the two dogs. One dog died at the scene. The other was later put down. Kass says the girls suffered severe bites and scratches all over their bodies but their injuries do not appear to be one of the victims did live in the house with the dogs. Police say the owner o
Ptc, we have moan for a long time. It is a controlled by the cab companies, he is disappointed and not surprised by a series of emails that he says show collusion between the ptc and some of the companies it regulates. It is unfortunate that the staff is supposed to be in cahoots trying to set up , they have been on the road for years the ptc maintains they are operating ill laically. Drivers from the companies were slapped with thousands in fines they have accused companies of trying to influence policy makers. Now they have proof. Chief inspector to yellow cab shows that minardi and a limo Service Owner helped provide volunteers. And referred to as shoppers, they ordered services only to turn the drivers over to law enforcement. And to do these things. It is unnecessary. And they say that they had no the Staff Members were working with cab and Limo Companies to carry out stings until the it could be questionable. And setting up the the plan to invalve the companies was, quote, not a