Of our first night celebration. We begin live in boston tonight. Reporter hi, guys, crowds are growing here at the square, first night in full swing as you can see. We are less than an hour away from 2016 and while many are not celebrating publicly due to terror threats accident not the case here. A much quiet new years eve in brussels in belgium, this amid terror threats following the deadly attacks in paris and san bernardino, california. The fbi is boosting the number of agents and staff in the u. S. Including in new york, washington and los angeles. Some 6,000 new York City Police officers are scattered across times square for the annual new years eve celebration. Rochester, new york, joins a small number of cities festivities. Halted plans to kill new years eve participants in the name of isis at a local bar and restaurant. Brussels and paris also announced cancellations of their Fireworks Shows. Belgian Police Arrested two people and detained six on suspicion of being involved in a plot to attack landmarks in the capital. In munich, germany, police have halted Train Service and warned the public to avoid certain areas over a possible terrorist attack on new years eve. Police across the globe continue to search for those terror plot suspects. Reporting live in boston. Counting down to new years eve in boston, earlier many took in the Family Fireworks snow on boston commons. It was great in. In last hour of 2015, though, perhaps the biggest crowd celebrating first night is right there in copley square. Julie loncich joins us live with the partiers. Reporter just a few of my friends, what a crowd, leo and lisa. I havent heard any complaints. It may have been smaller than in years past, but judging by the enthusiastic crowds happy new year reporter boston still knows how to put on a show. It seems to be a bigger buzz this year. Theres more of a buzz in the streets, which is great. I think its night. Its a little more contained, so you dont have to travel around as much to see everything. Very nice. The weather is not too bad. Reporter from the light display to the procession to fireworks on the commons, the new years eve celebration was a crowd please are and for the very first time was free. I just wanted them to experience all this boston has to offer. The sculptures are beautiful and were just enjoying the night. Reporter so what was your favorite part . That. Reporter security was tight. I dont want people to see it and be intimidated. We have plenty of resources working the crowd. Reporter a crowd that was just happy to be here even without a button. We love washington and new years and its been a great year for us, looking forward to next year. Reporter okay. So moving on to resolutions, mayor walsh told me hes going to drink less soda in 2016. Commissioner evans says hes actually going to try to put on a few more pound. Minutes . Down. Happy new year. You. Its a beautiful night for it. There have been years in the past where the Ice Sculptures started to melt. Tonight they are pristine. There are also years where people have started to become Ice Sculptures. Tonight. 40 degrees now in the city, most towns in the 30s, a temperatures from dropping back too quickly. All told weve got a front moving offshore and a big sprawling area of High Pressure moving in. Dry weather tonight and the start of 2016. Overnight lows 25 to 30 most of the suburbs, close to freezing in downtown. Tomorrow most of us again are above 40 degrees, so a comfortable day to kick off the brandnew year and a pretty good weekend, but after that the bottom drops out and winter reality sets in next week. The forecast is for some snow coming up in a few minutes. Breaking news now at 11 00 emergency crews are at the scene of a serious atv accident in fitchburg that happened just after 10 00 tonight. The Fire Department is telling us three people were seriously hurt including two victims who had to be med flighted. We do have a crew on the way to that scene in fitchburg. We will bring you any new information as soon as we get it. Also in from spencer right now a massive five alarm fire breaking on main street. This viewer video shows the a anybody tells wbz everyone made it out safely, but crews are having a tough time battling the flames because of water pressure issues. Dubais huge new years Fireworks Show lit up the skies despite a massive fire at a nearby luxury hotel. One person died from a all right attack during a stampede while that building from a heart attack during a stampede while that building was evacuate the. Reporter flames lit the outside of the address hotel in dubai. The United Arab Emirates did not let the fire stop the fireworks just doors away at the worlds tallest building. Everybody is calmed down and then we saw the flames on the other side of the building, but they were coming around this side. Reporter the address hotel is a luxury 63 story hotel and condominium. The fire started a couple hours before the new year. Some of those inside say fire alarms did not go off immediately. It was a little nerve reporter the fire consumed 20 floors in minutes. Officials evacuated everyone from the building. Firefighters raced to capable the fire and they say the hotel contain the fire and they say the hotel sprinklers and internal firefighting systems helped prevent the flames from spreading. Witnesses heard several explosions from inside the building. I just heard a big bang. Is it a fire . Reporter as the high rise burned, tens of thousands turned their attention to the fireworks display. 1Million People were expected to gather to up 0 the new years eve show. To watch the new years eve show. One of the prime viewing spots was the address hotel. 53 people suffered minor injuries and there is no word yet on the cause of that fire. State Police Working to identify a body pulled from the charles river. Northeastern University Police were also called to this scene. A student from northeastern has been missing more than a month, but tonight police are not releasing the identity of the person who died or the cause of Umass Amherst offering condolences to the family of a local student who fell to his death from a building in new york city of 20yearold Connor Cummings was climbing scaffolding outside the Four Seasons Hotel when he fell 9 stories. Police believe he and a friend may have been scaling that building to take pictures. Connor was a sophomore psychology major and a member of the alpha sigma pi fraternity. Tonight the ceiling of this building fell into the old carriage home. Three workers were inside when the roof started to come down. Luckily they escaped without injuries. An andover man is free on bail after pointing a gun at a plow driver in a case of snow rage. Wbz was there when a judge released michael mccull local on bail. Police say mccullom on bail. Unloaded gun at the snowplow drivers head. Mcculloms lawyer said it was selfdefense. His intent was to protect himself. He put it in his pocket. Its not like he got out of the car brandishing the weapon. Mccullom was released on 2,000 cash bail. He must stay away from the plow driver and stay away from guns. Police releasing new images of two bank robbers in franklin. These two ordered everyone, even children, to hit the floor at the middlesex savings bank, then took off with the money. Investigators believe they got away in a dark colored bmw3 the state Department Needs to do a better job of meeting its resolutions in 2016. It failed to meet a Court Ordered release of 82 of Hillary Clintons email as secretary of state. They blame it on the number of holiday schedule. Republicans criticized clintons use of a private e mail account for official use security. President obama apparently plans to take on gun control orders. White house sources tell cnn the goal is to close the so called gun show loophole. That allows certain gun sellers to skip buyer background checks. The president is also expected to approve additional funding to local Law Enforcement to enforce existing gun laws. One of the busiest nights for uber drivers could be one of the most expensive for passengers. The Ride Sharing Service is using surge pricing tonight which means between midnight and 2 a. M. Expect to pay double or even triple the normal price for a ride home. Talk about a scary ride, the dangers of Winter Driving caught on camera. Imagine seeing this coming right at you on the road, the lesson police want you to learn by watching this tape. Bill cosby is facing charges and now his loyal supporter finding out she may have to give testimony about the accusation, his wifes legal battle when we come back. And a kitten found abandoned and abused, the disturbing Reason Police believe someone as we head to the break with less than 50 minutes in 2015, we take a look at new years fireworks at copacabana beach earlier in rio dejaneiro, brazil. A dangerous drive, all new at 10 00, a massachusetts man captured that sheet of ice smashing his windshield and tonight he spoke to wbzs Louisa Moller about the wild ride. Yeah. My initial thought was thats going to hit the road in front of me and im just going to drive over some crumpled ice and go on with my day. Reporter even as the rock hard sheet catapulted through the air towards jeff cotes saab, he couldnt imagine this. Now take a look again. It felt like slow motion but took just seconds for the block of ice and snow to slip off the top of the black suv in front of him and torpedo into his windshield. Kind of just a flash. Windshield and just watching it come straight at me. Reporter thankfully cote was unharmed as he calmly drove to the side of the road. But its not what the New Hampshire man expected as he made his routine drive to work on 495 in haverhill wednesday. The whole ordeal captured on a dash camera cote said he got for scenarios just like this. Unfortunately not clearly enough to record the license plate number of the black car that just drove away. Wish theyd cleaned off their car more. Im pretty frustrated. Reporter cote said it was a carefreing experience that could have been much a terrifying experience that could have been much worse and so easily avoided. A few seconds and just tried to slam as much ice off the roof as possible. It could have gone a lot worse and it could save someones life if you do a better job cleaning it. Reporter Louisa Moller, wbz news. We want to bring you back to the breaking news we told three people badly injured in an atv accident. Katie brace is there live with the latest. Reporter lisa and liam, we just arrived here on ashburn hill road in fitchburg. Im going to get out of the way so you can see what investigators are dealing with. We have two atvs involved in an accident. One is on the side in some snow, the other in the middle of the road. I can tell you three people were taken to umass medical. Two of them had to be med flighted and that we do know at least one of the victims is a small child. Investigators on the scene as they figure out exactly what happened, but again two atvs involved in an accident, three people taken to umass medical, two by med flight and at least one of them is the small child. Reporting live in Fitchburg Katie brace, wbz news. Thank you. New tonight bill cosbys wife may be on the hot seat. A massachusetts judge denied her request to avoid a deposition. That means she may have to about the Sexual Assault accusations against her husband. Right now cosby is at his pennsylvania home free on 1 million bail. Prosecutors in that state charged him with drugging and sexually assaulting a woman 12 years ago. Tonight this cat is on the mend and will soon be up for adoption. His story is not free from heartache. The cat nicknamed smurf is recovering from multiple bite wounds. California rescuers say someone dyed the cat purple and then allowed someones dog to maul him like a chew toy. We didnt have a winner in last nights powerball drawing, so by saturday this will be the 12th largest Powerball Jackpot in history. Our number of the night, one in 292 million. Yup, if you buy a ticket, those are your odd of winning the jackpot. When you went outside today, it was so nice. The snow was melting, a beautiful december day. Yeah. There was even like a little house as the snow and ice were melting. The beat of nature, kind of felt like march outside, snow melting and the sun, felt pretty comfortable and ended the warmest december every recorded in the history of boston, in fact, for every single state east of the mississippi. Every one of them had their warmest december on record. Many it wasnt even close. We beat ours by over 4 degrees and thats never happened, a margin of victory that large over the previous record. We had 20 days this hit 50 degrees or warmer, that, too, a record and also a new one set for the least amount of time below freezing. Only six days even hit below 32 degrees and today wasnt one of them. Worster had only 11 days that hit freezing. Quiet out there tonight, no weather issues, temperatures eventually falling back to the upper 20s to lower 30s. A cool start tomorrow but not a bad beginning to 2016. Were watching a nice mix of could be a couple snow showers or flurries with the cold front tomorrow evening. Its now january and you might say festive flakes. Looking at sunrise 7 13, winds west, southwest tomorrow, a nice mix of sun and clouds, fairly mild day, many towns topping 40 degrees and a chance towards evening. For the winter classic great day, maybe a up it warm for the ice, but i dont think touch warm for the ice, but i dont think it will melt all this fast, high 41 degrees, 42 boston, worcester 46, nantucket 49. For the weekend not too much activity, snow showers in the mountains of northern new england, really all weekend long. Then toward the start of next week pretty strong and a potent arctic front will approach and change our weather. Before then upper 30s saturday and sunday, a few towns hitting 40 degrees. If youre running down doing errands enjoying early winter, where things will be excellent, certainly no complaints here, fresh snow coming down. Most ski areas will not climb above freezing for the next few days which means not only some fresh snow but the snow guns are working very efficiently, best weekend so far of the season. Then as we look toward the start of next week, in comes the arctic cold, something we havent talked about yet so far this season. So cold that the wind coming off the warm ocean should produce ocean effect snow on monday, best chance Plymouth County toward the cape and the islands. This could be a plowable snow in a few towns, isolated but weekend. Heres your accuweather seven day, 20s monday and tuesday, first time thats happened back to back days since the end of oh, so fondly. Stretch. We warm up again by wednesday. Lisa and liam, back to you. Thank you, eric. This looks great, too live first night where thousands of people are getting ready to no way. Savor an egg mcmuffin any time a fresh cracked egg, canadian bacon and an english muffin mcdonalds all day okay. We are 37 1 2 minutes away from 2016 and the energy is boston. An estimated 1 Million People packed into times square waiting for the famous ball to drop where we find weigia jiang live at the middle of it all at the crossroads of the world. They dont call it the Biggest Party in the world for nothing. You can feel the excitement coming from the crowd. A lot of people have been here since before the crack of dawn getting their spot. So you can imagine what their day has been like because once theyre in they cant go out. So they made friends. You can just see people dancing and celebrating together already even before the strike of midnight and so you can imagine what kind of celebration it will be when that ball actually drops. In addition to all the people you see, you cant miss the 6,000 Police Officers who are here making sure everyone knows that they are ready to respond to an emergency and theyve been planning for any kind of event that might arise. So far its been very smooth and people tell us they feel very safe because again its very visible. So everyone just focused on having a good time. Back to you. All right, thank you and happy new year to you. Theres a party continuing even after we strike midnight. We have the winter classic. Lets go over to steve for more on that. These teams do not like each other. No. The bruins and canadiens do not like each other. Bruins took a team photo on the Gillette Stadium ice today and then had a practice. Some of these have played on the biggest stages like the olympics or stanley cup finals, but nothing will compare to the crowd theyll see in foxborough tomorrow. Its a special moment. I mean especially here at Gillette Stadium with 60,000 plus fans. I mean its something that we dont get to experience at all, so were going to try to take everything in and enjoy the moment. The bruins werent the only ones to test the rink out. Pats head coach Bill Belichick and claude yulian had their own little skate this morning as well. What i saw from him to be honest is from the second he put his skates on to how he finished, he improved quite a bit. I wish my players could improve that quickly. I love claude. Hes a great guy. I think that we problem have a lot in common just in the way we koch and look at the game and look coach and look at the game and team and things like that. How cool is the special classic goalie match . Great images of tom brady, ron gronkowski, julian edelman. Hopefully the bs will be as tough to beat in foxborough as the patriots are. We wanted to pay tribute to some of their success and their players and make the biggest part of the mask about the pats, i guess, with some bruins