/PRNewswire/ The Event Planner Expo, the highly anticipated gathering of event planning, marketing, and corporate executives, is back in New York City..
smoothly. you can hear the crowds behind me getting all riled up. the real thing will be obviously tonight with mayor michael bloomberg and lady gaga flipping the switch at midnight. we re told that she was chosen as a surprise special guest for not just her superstar status but also her charity work. this year s theme is let there be friendship. in the lead up to today there were a couple of events earlier this week. one of them was a pracon fetty dropped. that happened a couple days ago when times square officials went up to eighth stories of various buildings and dropped hands full of confetti. the purpose was to test the air-worthiness of confetti. some of those pieces of colored paper will bear messages collected throughout people for their wishes. we re told the most common and popular theme from those submissions was love. veronica? aditi, how many people are expected to be out there tonight?