of countdown entertainment and president of the times square alliance. good morning. thank you so much for having us here and happy new year. we re so happy to be here. the party is about to begin. the ball s ready. fantastic. everything looks good. i want to ask you because across the country we have all kind of drops. we have a possum drop, the moon pie drop, the strawberry drop. why is it a ball in new york city? it is so interesting because the whole tradition started in new york city and expanded across the country. it comes down to a maritime tradition when we had the first ball drop in 1907. it started with taking a time ball which drops in parts around the world. navigators at sea can adjust timepieces. here in new york city we combined with with the electric light bulb to drop at midnight. the first ball was 125 watt incandescent light bulb. there s like 2,600
these canines were actually there right immediately after the tragedy so they re coming back. making that trek across the country. they say dogs can lower stress. but the teachers snapped photographs of the classrooms. so they re-created them from the photograph. this was a junior high previously. chalk hill was a junior high. so they stripped down everything, even the bathrooms to try to replicate. junior high rest rooms look a lot different than elementary schools. so just trying to make those students as comfortable as possible. our thoughts with them, no doubt about that. you saw the ball drop in times square right here at abc last night, but did you catch the possum drop? possum drop? tell me about that. yeah, it s in north carolina. took place in western north carolina. not far from asheville. apparently in the past they put a live possum in the box with a slow ride down. slow ride, but animal rights groups forced a change this year and organizers agreed to use a su
fox news radio todd starnes we got to get rid of an s. he s here action there is a lot of weird traditions around the country, right. dave: your favorite is what? the pickle drop. clayton: there is a pickle drop and also a possum drop which i ll tell you about. we do have very creative people all around the country and check out some of the rather unusual drops we found. pump this party 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1! happy new year! . times square, home to the most famous new year s celebration in the nation. but if you hang a right at the cross roads of the world, you ll
45,000 calories. that s what makes our new year s celebration unique. it s getting together and embracing and stealing a kiss. bidding farewell to days gone by and celebrating those to come. unfortunately, we have some controversy with one of this year s drops. it s in north carolina, home of the annual possum drop. peta protesters, judge intervened and determined that it is cruel to drop a live possum on new year s eve. dave: i can t believe i m siding with peta here. juliet: when they say drop, like bologna drops. they re just dropping bone bologna? it s in the decorative cage. once the cage reaches the bottom, they let the animal out. clayton: oh, come on! dave: it limps out with a broken leg? the guy who runs the local country store said that he s
did it 8 did it say ci-ya baby? i found that to be saw tear cal and i enjoy the new york post as i do every other news corp on a daily basis. story number four, the possum drop. i think it was andrew that accused them of judicial over reach. it was a judge who decided. the judge decided because the animal rights group complained and a judge has nexted the celebration with the pot so many drop. i was just trying to set you up for one of the one-word answers. isn t the key point here from all i have heard the possum enjoys it. he is going up and down in a box. he was just like the dog on mitt romney s car couldn t be