now, no response fro president trump to those comments he did call the u.s. response to the embassy attack the anti-benghazi. peter? hans nichols traveling with the president in florida tonight. hans, thank you. also breaking this evening, the deadly crash of a small plane near kansas city it happened shortly after takeoff from an executive airport. the single-engine plane was on fire when authorities arrived. they say that both people on board were killed it is already the new year in much of the world where people are celebrating the start of the new decade and here in new york, they re getting ready for the most famous new year s spectacle, the ball drop in times square nbc s stephanie gosk is there tonight stephanie, the police are out in force yeah, they certainly are, peter the more than one million people that are expected here packed into times square tonight will be surrounded by layers of security. the nypd has thousands of boots on the ground they also have officers