and we say good morning to you, everybody, i m kendis gibson in for t.j. holmes. i m reena ninan. we begin with ringing in the new year across the world, 2015. there were about a million people in new york s times square last night to watch the ball drop and usher in a new year. all it quiet in times square except take a look workers who are picking up the tons of confetti. what a work out that must be. there was extra security around new york city and other cities because of police protests and shooting. there were no major problems. elizabeth hur has a roundup. reporter: parties and protests from california to new york. as 2015 kicked off across the country with police on high alert. the fbi warning officers to be vigilant following the assassination of two nypd officers. citing copycat threats. any threat against my officers is dealt with quickly, very effectively. reporter: in new york city alone, authorities monitoring at least 70 threats against police. but
disputing reports that sew far equipment detected the plane s fuselage under water. they are narrowing the search more comfortable that they re beginning to know where it is. no confirmation no sonar, nothing. some visual identification but nothing confirmed. the clarification comes as coffins contains the bodies of passengers began arriving at a military air base in indonesia. they ll be taken to a hospital near the airport where families will begin the heartbreaking task of identifying their loved ones. within the last 24 hours, six bodies have been recovered including that of a female flight attendant still in her uniform. life vest ts luggage and wreckage have also been recovered. now the u.s. is sending a second ship the u.s.s. ft. worth to help in the search and recovery effort. it will join the u.s.s. sampson in the region for the past two days. brian mooar, what s the latest of the recovery operations? so key are the black boxes and the fuselage. reporter: f
from the captain s farewell to a major dose of puppy love. a look back at the best ads of the year today, wednesday, december 31, 2014. announcer: from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. and good morning. welcome to today on wednesday morning. i m savannah guthrie. i m willie geist along with sheinelle jones and dylan dreyer. the rest have the morning off. the gates to times square open at 11:00 a.m. some will be out in the cold for 13 hours waiting for the ball to drop. i think i see matt lauer waiting there. he never misses it. 2014 almost done. stick a fork in it. going to be cold. really cold. december was pretty mild, now all of a sudden we re talking about brutally cold temperatures. our top story this morning, investigators believe they may have located the wreckage of airasia flight 8501 on the ocean floor off the coast of borneo. despite some progress in the recovery efforts there are
one of them was wearing a life jacket. the search is concentrated in the java sea where the plane with 162 aboard went down in bad weather sunday. allen pizzey reports from surabaya indonesia, where they re following the rescue operation. reporter: they searched the seabed. some debris has already been brought ashore. if the plane is indeed more intact than shattered it will make it easier to determine what happened. the plane seems to have crashed in water no more than 160 feet. three additional navy ships are in the area along with 40 divers and the u.s. navy destroyer uss sampson which can detect pings from the downed airliner s black boxes. families of victims can only hope that their loved ones will at least be found when divers can reach the wreckage, yesterday many watched in agony as video of the first body found floating in the sea was broadcast on indonesian television. the terrible images made it clear the focus is now finding on and identifying bodies. one of th
creek. it took power lines with it but the power is restored. it s blocking one northbound lane on meridien. winds came in yesterday afternoon. highest wind gust in santa clara county at san jose state blocking down trees, damaging buildings, dragged down power lines all over the area and blew out power transformers. saw a big explosion and people started yelling and so it was like oh, no. reporter: now, the next weather event is the big chill. it s going to get cold tonight. so homeless shelters are expanding for a short time. these two are adding capacity: reporter: crews are getting a handle on this with willow blend. they have opened up the southbound lanes. one northbound lane remains blocked out here on meridien avenue. crews will climb down that embankment and cut up that very large tree and get that lane back open again. we re live in san jose, kiet do, kpix 5. new this morning, those strong winds may have inadvertently caused a fire that damaged an apartment