Thanks for watching. Im Christine Romans following fiscal cliff all day and night. Ashleigh banfield returning tomorrow. Newsroom with Suzanne Malveaux starts right now. Welcome back to cnn newsroom. Heres whats going on right now. 2013 hitting right now in bangkok, thailand. Were looking at live pictures there as the celebrations and the fireworks exploding there. Lots of picturetaking and a lot of excitement there. Right now Pope Benedict holding a new years eve mass at st. Peters basilica. They will celebrate the new year in six hours. A couple of hours ago folks toasted 2013 in new zealand. Check it out. Pretty cool. Party started with fireworks with the auckland sky it tower. Organizers were worried bad weather would be a problem, but everything turned out just fine. Congratulations. The second major city to ring in the new year, sydney, australia. Check it out. Wow, that is over city harbor bridge. The show is huge. We are talking about seven tons of fireworks. Happy new years al
Fire, does it look to any of you that the folks in charge are all wet . It is clear we were ouch guard off guard by folks that were over there, they are rail over here, but ebola. They seem out of control, and potential cure it out of reach for a nation, that is out of money. We will look at this ebola thing in layers to the doctor on how it is mutating. I am worrying, because as you rightfully said, people were sleeping on the job in terms of taking this crisis seriously. It is so late in the game. White house trying to call a 4th quarter audible with no real play in mind in terms of how to tackle it. It is multifaceted. They dont have adequate people who are trained. There is not adequate information to the lay public. The number of people in the field, that the cdc has or anyone has now in terms of able to care forever these people, in west africa is less than what is actually necessary. It is probably going to be woergs in somworsein some repre. Neil you could make an argument that
Fire, does it look to any of you that the folks in charge are all wet . It is clear we were ouch guard off guard by folks that were over there, they are rail over here, but ebola. They seem out of control, and potential cure it out of reach for a nation, that is out of money. We will look at this ebola thing in layers to the doctor on how it is mutating. I am worrying, because as you rightfully said, people were sleeping on the job in terms of taking this crisis seriously. It is so late in the game. White house trying to call a 4th quarter audible with no real play in mind in terms of how to tackle it. It is multifaceted. They dont have adequate people who are trained. There is not adequate information to the lay public. The number of people in the field, that the cdc has or anyone has now in terms of able to care forever these people, in west africa is less than what is actually necessary. It is probably going to be woergs in somworsein some repre. Neil you could make an argument that
[ laughter ] congressman, good luck. Appreciate your time tonight. Jim mcdermott thanks. See you next week ed. Reverent al sharpton begins right now. \s. Good evening, ed. We start with breaking news in the fight against terror on two separate continents. In Belgium Police killed two terror suspects in a raid to stop what Authorities Say was an imminent attack on police buildings. In ohio investigators analyzing laptops and cell phones seized from the 20yearold man accused of plotting to blow up the u. S. Capitol. But we tart tonight in belgium. Thats where were seeing another terror plot a new one, foiled. Belgian police launched about a dozen raids aimed at terrorists who had come back from fighting in syria. They say they stopped a terror
cell about to launch attacks on a, quote, grand scale. Video posted to youtube appears to show the raid as it happened. The shootout happened in a town in eastern part of the country called verviers. Two suspects were killed a third injured, so far
Across the river from new york city. Floors collapsing one top on the other. This was a fourstory building. Making matters worse, the gas was still on. Now, on the ground, this is what people heard, sirens wailing as more than 300 people were evacuated. The scene was so bad that the mayor was declaring a local state of emergency. Schools in fact closed today. The fire simply has people in disbelief. When the firefighters got nervous and started running, i knew it was worse than we thought. It spread like a wildfire. Its just amazing how the fire, it spread so quickly. No word on what sparked this fire. Officials say no one died and no major injuries. This was the site of a fire when it was still under suspicion. And the deflategate scandal is so big, vegas is taking bets on whether head coach Bill Belichick will be suspended. And they say the balls were properly checked by officials before the game. Nbcs ron mott reports. Reporter espn citing anonymous sources, reports that the nfl fou