We are live in new york city where hundreds of thousands are expected to celebrate and watch the iconic crystal ball drop into 2017. Return of rousey. Tagged her again. The ufc champion back in the cage for the comeback fight. Did herself imposed media blackout help her regain title . Well break down the shocking results. And a look back at the fun we had this year on weekend today from babies to our fun team. Today, saturday, december 31st, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on saturday morning. Im Sheinelle Jones along craig melvin. Can you believe it is the last day of 2016 . I woke up this morning and thought this is the last day. Lets stick the landing. Were not there yet. You have a theme for 2017 . Be clean in 2017. Clean eating and mind set. We will look back at the year that was through the next hour and a half. Lets get to the top story. Tensions with the United States and russia increasing ove
Handle, new zealand, where it just turned midnight, so it is official 2017 there. You see the celebration, including fireworks, New Zealanders celebrating as other parts of the world will follow, goodbye 2016 and hello 2017. Hello, chris sowers. Reporter happy new year. As he get you outside, it will be 45 to 47 degrees. Not too shabby, and it will stay dry. New years celebrations look good. As we go live from our city hall camera, the flags are still at it is chilly, well have to deal with cooler conditions. Quakertown, 24 degrees, clear skies and calm winds. Temperatures have dropped off pretty quickly out here. Pottstown, 24. Coatsville, 23. Thats cold. Tannersville 24, center city, 31. Chester showing 29. We have a lot of across delaware, as well. Glassboro, 24, hammonton blue berry county, 27 degrees. Satellite and radar, clear skies across the mid atlantic and the northeast, just a couple of clouds pushing through the great lake states. Thats the way today will play out. Mostly s
Machine turning on later on this afternoon. For us, High Pressure in control, it will keep the clouds away to start the day, high, thin clouds to the west begin to increase later on. With the cloud cover expected overnight tonight, it keeps the temperatures on the mild side. As you head outside later this evening, for the new years celebration. Temperatures will be close to 40 which is close to the normal high for this time of the year. Heres the way it plays out today, 9 00 a. M. , 33. 11 00 a. M. , 38. 3 00 p. M. , 45, were shooting for a high of 47 more rain on the way next week. We could make another run at 60 degrees by tuesday. Ill have the details in the seven day coming up in just a bit. Alicia. Thank you. Now to breaking news, a Police Ground and air search is happening right now in central pennsylvania where a state trooper was shot to death on the job. They are looking for this man, 32yearold Jason Robison. Police say he opened fire on trooper landon weaver during a call for
2017. Its the annual mummers parade and were taking live look at Atlantic City, where dozens of people just ran into the water for the 26th annual polar bear plunge. Ahead, how others are celebrating the first day of the new year. First the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast, with meteorologist chris sowers it is mild outside, but not mild enough for a dip in the atlantic ocean. Reporter no, but ill tell you what, looks like they are getting off easy today considering how bad it could be on january 1. 54 degrees in Atlantic City. The ocean temperature, 42. Weve seen way worse than that, so, its not perfect conditions for jumping in, but it could have been worse. 52 in millville. Philadelphia, 50 degrees, the normal high 41. 47 in reading. Allentown, 46. Poconos, 34, a little chilly up there. Trenton, 48. Dover checking in at 51 degrees. Satellite and radar, as advertised all the cloud cover has cleared out. Still seeing the cloud cover across the delaware bay region and a couple o
Last night, wrapping up the Division Title and winning the right to host a playoff game against the giants on sunday. The nfls wild card playoff games start saturday afternoon and those are some of the top stories on this monday, january 2nd. From abc news, this is world news now. Well, we begin this half hour with a violent start to the new year. An intense manhunt now under way for the shooter who unleashed terror in a nightclub in turkey. The gunman opened fire on revelers, turning the celebration into a massacre, leaving at least 39 people dead. We get the latest now from abcs mark remillard. Reporter Security Camera video catches the gunman at work, bullets ricochetting in the streets, people running for their lives, the shooter stalking the nightclub entrance, killing a policeman and another person before barreling through the front door. Inside, we see a gunman in white wearing a hood. Authorities believe the attacker changed clothes. He stayed inside for seven murderous minutes