world, i m laila harrak. at the vatican the first holy mass of the new year will commemorate the late pope emeritus benedict. we re live from st. peter s square. and the year begins with flooding and evacuations in california as over 25 million could be affected by extreme weather. details and the forecast ahead. and defiance as ukraine enters the new year untd a barrage of russian missiles. we will hear from the ukrainian and russian leaders on two very different visions of what lies ahead. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with laila harrak. from new zealand to the u.s. most of the world has now ushered in 2023 with a mix of hope, excitement and flare. hours ago new york held its traditional ball drop in front of a jam packed times square. it was a spectacular show complete with fireworks, music and a ton, literally a ton, of confetti raining down on the crowd. celebrations were also held across europe, africa and asia and in the next hour hawa
of scaled back celebrations because of covid. many parts of the world have already ushered in 2023 with dazzling celebrations. just seconds from now, the clock will strike midnight in paris, the city of lights, especially tonight. let s go live to paris right now. now let s go to times square. how is the crowd looking there, gloria? reporter: pamela, it s so exciting. six hours to go. the big crystal ball is being put up right now. i just want to direct our viewers attention right to the top of one times square. that is where the big crystal ball is coming up. you can see it on the screen. 11,000 pounds of waterford crystal. this tradition goes all the way back to 1907. that is when the first crystal ball went down to mark the beginning of the new year. people here are excited. they have been waiting for hours. six more hours to go. i want to show you some of the crowd here. people have been lining up, bundled up. they re excited. this is a really big moment. we re get
In the united states and canada, i m laila harrak and you re watching cnn newsroom. in new york thousands of nurse right side threatening to go on strike next week. the state s nurse association says at least 16,000 caregivers have delivered notices to eight private hospitals. they want a new negotiation of their union contract. the president of the association tells cnn hospitals aren t doing enough to invest and retain nurses. we need to have enough nurses to care for our patients. you cannot have a nurse working in a medical/surgical unit where she should have five nurse five patients and that nurse is taking care of 12 patients. there are nurses in the emergency room that are caring for 20 patients. we are asking in this contract to have proper safe patient to nurse ratio. we are also asking for wages that is equal to the inflation. that is all we re asking for. we are not asking for a strike.
Nurses to care for our patients. you cannot have a nurse working in a medical surgical unit where she should have five patients and that nurse is taking care of 12 patients. there are nurses in the emergency room caring for 20 patients. we want to care for our patients and treat our patient as if they are our family. every patient in the state of new york, regardless of zip code, needs to have proper care. every patient is a vip. we are asking in this contract to have safe proper patient to nurse ratio. we are also asking for wages that is equal to the inflation. that is all we re asking for. we re not asking for a strike. as a matter of fact, the hospital administrators, if they were to come to the table and negotiate in good faith and provide us a fair contract, there won t be a strike right