Tonight from the heart of times square, this is cnns new years eve live with appearances by usher, ellie golding, kevin hart, patti lupone, Patti Labelle, jean smart, john stamos, jennifer lewis, amy sedaris, tenacious d, nick cannon, ava max, samuel l. Jackson, plus more surprises. And now live from new york city, your hosts, Anderson Cooper and andy cohen. And welcome, everybody, to times square in new york city. Anderson cooper here. Im andy cohen. They brought us back for another year. They did. Yes, they did. With stipulations. Some stipulations this year. Well get into that. Yeah. Theres fine print. Yes. It is a balmy night here in new york. Its almost like 50 degrees. Yes, it is. I was schmitzing. I got rid of my coat. We were all prepared for it to get colder. The crowd has been assembling for hours here in times square. Very wet very wet. I would call them flaccid, the crowd. Okay. Its early. Not the word i would use. And a little early for that word. Okay. Theres plenty of ti
tonight from the heart of times square, this is cnn s new year s eve live with appearances by usher, ellie golding, kevin hart, patti lupone, patti labelle, jean smart, john stamos, jennifer lewis, amy sedaris, tenacious d, nick cannon, ava max, samuel l. jackson, plus more surprises. and now live from new york city, your hosts, anderson cooper and andy cohen. and welcome, everybody, to times square in new york city. anderson cooper here. i m andy cohen. they brought us back for another year. they did. yes, they did. with stipulations. some stipulations this year. we ll get into that. yeah. there s fine print. yes. it is a balmy night here in new york. it s almost like 50 degrees. yes, it is. i was schmitzing. i got rid of my coat. we were all prepared for it to get colder. the crowd has been assembling for hours here in times square. very wet very wet. i would call them flaccid, the crowd. okay. it s early. not the word i would use.
say? because it s personal. that s why it works. it s not like an interview. about grieving. which we all can relate to. even if it s an animal. especialy i think on, one of the reasons i started doing new year s eve is because i always it was kind of charged for me, i always felt sort of sad and not didn t know what to do. and i started working on new year s eve to like avoid it. yeah. yeah. now it s turneded into something fun. right. i am curious what you re going to do with everything. i think about it a lot. do with everything? well, he s talking about what i like about the program is i know i say this every year, but there s a lot of folks watching tonight who, you know, are not having a great time or not celebrating, or they ve lost somebody or they ve lost a job or they re worried about what the new year is going to bring, and you know, i think it s nice that we re all together and we re all in this, and that idea that we re not alone, if you are grievin
asylum. this is the bridge that takes you into texas. not only are migrants telling us they re getting turneded away by u.s. customs officials, they re telling us mexican customs officials aren t letting them set foot on the bridge. patricia says she s brn turned away twice in the last two weeks and that mexican authorities threatened to deport her if she tried again. flores and her 7-year-old son are from el sal vaa davadosalva. she say she s scared of being separated from her son, but doesn t think god would allow that. shebtsz her son saw a man shot in the eye and one of her son s favorite games is to run around with a make believe bulletproof jacket and pretend he survived a gang member s gun shot. i was asking her why she does this. she says it s worth the hard journey. these migrants sit in a form
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