new york city times square ball. a beautiful ball s feet in diameter that weighs approximately six tons. they ve been preparing for a very long time for this new year s eve celebration. they started preparations on january 2 of 2014. at noon yesterday, they tested the ball drop. so they made sure everything was working properly. on monday they tested the confetti. about 100 pounds of it. they have to make sure all these things are work. about a million people show up in times square for that celebration tonight. about a billion people watch world wide on television. so again, they tested that confetti and expecting a ton will be dropping tonight and all of the messages written on them, so people in advance were able to write down wishes on them and those are released tonight. people can wish for love or for happiness or health. so that s a really beautiful thing. we ll be kicking that off coming up later today. people will be showing up very
turning now to las vegas, the entire city is now in mourning over the senseless killing of two police officers and a third person. a so-called manifesto found at the scene could reveal the motive of the gunmen, a husband and wife who killed themselves as police moved in. a law enforcement source tells cnn the couple held extremist views towards police. according to witnesses, the shooters went into cici s restaurant shortly before noon yesterday, shot and killed two plice officers in cold blood, as the men simply were eating lunch. the husband and wife then went to a nearby walmart where they shot and kill a third person before then killing themselves. our dan simon is covering this story for us, he s in las vegas. also joining us, our senior washington correspondent joe johns. in new york, retired nassau county police officer lou
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memphis. indra, has the state of emergency there been helping officials kind of clean up or deal with the impact of the storm? reporter: you know, that s actually kind of the thing. i m not sure how much you can see around mement but really it almost looks like they scathed the bullet. it doesn t look like we have much ice, but that s not the case west of us, in the west memphis airport, they got half an inch of ice. downtown memphis, it looks okay. this morning, 5,000 people were without power from the freezing rain that really came after noon yesterday, or so, which is why they declared the state of emergency. we re still under the state of emergency because there s another wave expected to come in tonight. one thing i want to point out, 20,000 visitors were expected yesterday, thanks to the marathon supposed to be taking place this morning. once in a while, you may see people running by, because they did make it into town and they want to run. it looks like, the concern was, the c
a drilling crew hit the pipeline sparking a massive explosion. the town of 700 people was evacuated as a precaution. the air in the area was not toxic. no reported deaths, thankfully, from that blast. in florida, another sink hole consuming two homes, a boat, and a backyard pool. work being done as a precautionary measure. by noon yesterday, it expanded to 70 feet wide and 53 feet deep. whitey bulger will serve two life terms in prison and then five more years. his crimes were called almost unfathomab unfathomable. much of the case centered on the fbi looking away from his crimes and using him as an infom mant. i realize that the actions of