the world to watch the ball drop in times square every year, and the 12-foot crystal ball did not disappoint, ushering in 2017. a ton of confetti falling on more than a million people from all over the world who braved the cold, some for more than 12 hours to see it in person. kisses, hugs and tears all around, but speaking of dropping the ball, oh, man. all the talk today is about singer mariah carey who had a disastrous, painful, cringe-worthy singing performance last night just before the ball dropped on national tv. sound problems plaguing her performance. apparently, unable to hear, mariah flat out just stopped singing, but her music kept obvious she was lip syncing. mariah tried to save face. well, happy new year. [cheers and applause] we can t hear, but i ll just get through the moment, okay?
perhaps persuade the russians to stop this kind of attacks on our very fundamentals of democracy. let s talk more about this, unpack this with ambassador, james hallcy, former c.i.a. director under president clinton, a lifelong adviser. a senior adviser to trump s campaign. ambassador, can you hear me? ambassador, can you hear me? hello. hello. ambassador, this is suzanne malveaux. can you hear me? her voice is very faint. i think we are going to take a break, a quick break. we are having some sound problems with the ambassador. we are going to get right to him after the break. we will correct that and see you on the other side.
for the upcoming debate or when you hear this meeting among some of the candidates campaign folks by the rnc is not part of that meeting. it is hard to know who is angry at whom. reince priebus blasted cnbc for a poorly produced, badly mangled debate. it is generally agreed it was a catastrophic production on a technical level. there were even sound problems and the time division was way off. that didn t happen after the cnn family group debate. jake was a strong moderator who tried to keep the timing fair but proportionate between frontrunners and people way back in the pack. two, everything was fact checked. cnn s fact checking overwhelmed me with data. we rehearsed and mark preston lived in my head for three
can t be sure that when she is a victim of domestic violence, which one in four women will be in her lifetime, she will be protected, that he sh is that she is going to have access to all the things she needs to be to be free of the violence. she s not going to be expected to we had a couple sound problems there but we definitely got your point. thanks to both of you. ups is a global company, but most of our employees live in the same communities that we serve. people here know that our operations have an impact locally. we re using more natural gas vehicles than ever before. the trucks are reliable, that s good for business. but they also reduce emissions, and that s good for everyone. it makes me feel very good about the future of our company.
see the plane, then that is really new territory. they ll be able to see the plane. will they be able to see all of the plane? because there s, what, 20 meters, in some cases, of silt on the ocean floor. you were telling us about this silt. will that cause visibility problems? what kind of challenges will that present? yes, it s absolutely true that it s visibility problems, probably. it might also be sound problems. it might be that the pinger and remember, they re still searching or listening to this ping that the silt might actually affect that in some ways. but to be honest, we don t really know how thick this layer of silt is, what it actually looks like, how dense it is or not. much of that really is something that in the next few days to maybe weeks, we are going to find out as we go down in this area, hopefully pretty soon. one of the things that s astounding is how narrow this search area has become compared to what it was before. even so, there are people saying