about the jesse webster story was the fact that he was able to the lawyer was able to get the federal judge, who sentenced webster to life in prison to write a letter to the office of the pardon attorney, asking them and supporting jesse webster s plea to be released. as well as to the prosecutors who worked on the case. tell me about how this clemency took place involved in the prosecution. tell me about that. i beg your pardon? talk me through the petition with clemency with president obama. how did that come about? okay. so jesse webster had been trying to get out of prison for a while. and he had as his last plea, he thought he could actually write a clemency petition. he ran into the lawyer, jessica ring-emerson, and she was able to put together a clemency petition. this was before the
detectors, radiation detectors, some dogs going through the crowds, looking for any potential bomb residue or anything like that. choppers in the air. one thing that s different this year, 65 garbage trucks to complement the 100 police cars. they will act as blocker vehicles to prevent any vehicle from entering the perimeter of times square. they don t want to see anything like what happened in berlin and in niece earlier this year. i have a group from charlotte, north carolina. they came all the way overnight on a greyhound bus. jennifer and colin and jessica, maid of honor. you guys just got married, decided to come here for the honeymoon. why? we just wanted to do something special for the first new year of a marriage. so we decide today come watch the ball drop. reporter: so you took the greyhound bus all night. you wi you ll watch the ball drop and get back on the bus to go back. at 1:00 a.m. reporter: why is it so special be here and watch the