new year s celebration across america are well underway pretty good evening i am bryan llenas and for jon scott and this is a box report. annette new york city nypd is hard at worst beefing up for the ball drop celebration. hundreds of thousands of people from around the world are expected to gather in times square tomorrow night. that may include pro- palestinian demonstrators who could try to spoil the celebration for everyone else. cb cotton is live in times square with more on security preparations or tomorrow night. good evening brian. nypd certainly wants to reassure partygoers there are no credible threats to the celebrations here in times square. the crowd continues to grow by the hour the party is not even begun. security includes k-9 units, drones, surveillance robots thousands of uniformed officers. but also a big number of undercover ones you see the rehearsal happening around me. nypd says it is prepared as you mention for pro- palestinian rallies to pop up.
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win outright, and there s a third libertarian candidate is polling about 4%. so georgia might be the focus of the political world for a number of weeks after. and walker as the benefit of people voted on ballot. let s look at what s happening in pennsylvania. president biden went there today and traveled around pittsburgh, basically. went to de monte brothers, for the best sandwiches ever with john fetterman lieutenant governor. i think we have some video of that, but they weren t on had a campaign rally together. what do you call this andrew? this quiet campaigning? it s a meet and greet. it s a restaurant stop. it s a man of the people casual sit down. it s a chance to eat a delicious sandwich with french fries wedged into the sandwich itself. but i think this is a win for both candidates.
probably boosting him for people that vote down ballot. that s helping him also at this point. president biden went to pennsylvania today and traveled around pittsburgh, basically. best sandwiches ever. with the lieutenant governor. so i think we have some video of that. but they weren t like on the at a campaign rally together, andrew. what do you call this? quiet campaigning? it is a meet and greet. it is a restaurant stop. it s a man of the people casual sit down. it is a chance to eat a delicious sandwich with french fries wedged into the sandwich itself. but i think this is a win for both candidates. the fact is there are a number of democrats who have not been willing to appear with the president in a rally or otherwise. that s going to be one of the closest races. it s closer now than it was a number of days ago between fett e
to the president s attacks on biden o follow a recent follow that show him trailing biden in aid recent follow and five poin four years before that. at a restaurant stop, biden said small improvements in swing states will defeat trump. if i get the nomination, i will win mib. i promise you. i will win pennsylvania. i will win ohio. i will win these states he got 72 extra,000 votes on on. it is not that there is a great migration to him. it didn t occur. we are talking about 72,500 votes in three states of change. a surprise retirement yterda. texas congressman will hurd, the only african-american in the