happy new year's to you. erin burnett "outfront" starts right now. "outfront" tonight, more heart break for families after being told the plane had been found, airasia ceo said no sonar, nothing. as tonight we talk to captain sully sullenberger. in china, dozens killed and we'll be live in shanghai. and new york police here on high alert as more than a million people crowd into the time square to ring in the new year. let's go outfront. and happy new year.

i'm jim execute out in tonight for erin burnett. one report is that the main fuselage had been located, not only located but lying upside down on the java sea floor and that official has since dialed back his assessment. and then today the airline ceo emphatically declared it is still missing. search teams have not found it on sonar. >> we are narrowing the search and we are feeling more comfortable that we are beginning to know where it is. there is no information we can [ inaudible ]. >> devastated family members face emotional whiplash informed first the plane was located, providing some small measure of hope and then told the opposite. the plane still missing and the relief quickly fading. and so as day breaks that hour the search resumed but facing big waves and high winds,

grounding all aerial operations. searchers have recovered so far seven bodies. an earlier intriguing report that one body was found wearing a life vest turned out to be fault. gary tuchman is nearby. and overnight the indonesia search and rescue hoping the main part of the wreckage was found on the ocean floor and then the ceo dialing that back. how are the families responding to what must be very difficult and emotional conflicting reports? >> reporter: well jim, first of all, there are a lot of people in the kitchen. there is the government police and the airline. they are all saying different things. but the most important thing i can tell you is family members here at the police department in surabaya said yesterday they

were indeed told that senator found what was believe -- that sonar found what was found. they were not told it was upside down but it was found. we know it was found for sure and we are presenting you the information and that is what the families have heard. and they have been moved to the police station because it is next to the hospital where the bodies are being brought. and that is the most important goal for the family members now. most of them accepting the fact their loved ones are no longer with us and their bodies are found and brought to the hospital and they can come to this center where they can be given food and comfort and support and go next door to the hospital. >> and i wonder today what are the latest on the search efforts? we hear of the bad weather at the search flights. no planes flying but they do still have ships out there

searching? >> reporter: right. the sun came up here on new year's day in indonesia an hour ago and the ships resumed. the ships are out there. this is the first time we've seen blue sky since we've been here but the search site is 200 miles north of us and the java sea conditions are not good. ships and planes are wonderful to have out there but the most important thing during the search effort is divers because the bottom of the java sea where it is believed the plane is only about 100 to 150 feet deep and you can scuba down there. and it is believed by people here in charge of the suit it is more likely that people are strapped to their seats in the bottom of the sea. they need to go down there and look and the conditions are not good fluff for the driver-- good enough for the drivers to go down there and do that. >> thank you, gary. and the uss sampson is now deployed as part of the search and recovery operations searching for the flight. on the phone note lieutenant

coles with the u.s. seventh fleet. lauren thank you for joining us. the u.s. navy a large international effort led by the indonesian government. we have the uss sampson participating and spotting some wreckage we understand from an update yesterday. were you caught off guard by the announcement last night that the plane or majority of the wreckage had been found? >> no the sampson is a supporting role to provide whatever capabilities and tasking the indonesian government request. so they are continuing to conduct their services for the indonesian government and to help however we can. >> and this is a combat ship based in singapore and has specific capabilities that could be employed in the search of a dive team side scan sonar, essential to the wreckage on the

ocean floor. do we have any sense when it might deploy? >> we have a variety of capabilities available. they range from ships and aircraft to specialized navy divers to sonars that can help search the ocean floor and we are working at the request of the indonesian government to make sure those capabilities are available and ready to go whenever the indonesian government requests. so those deployments depend on what the indonesian government requests and we're there to support them. >> and you are there to support them but is there frustration like a coiled spring ready to go but haven't been called yet? >> they are been performing admirally and they are ready to go whenever they are requested. but right now sampson is doing a truly tremendous job out there and they are holding up and sailors are working around the clock. >> and the weather, how is that

affecting the sampson's participation in the search. >> the weather the sampson has been experienced is 2-4 foot waves, 15-20 knots of wind and scattered thunderstorms. it has not prevented the helicopters from going up and conducting searches and not prevented the sailors from conducting around the clock, 24-hour searches on board the ship. >> lieutenant lauren cole thank you very much for joining us tonight. >> thank you. joining me now is captain sully sullenberger. who landed the same aircraft flight 8501 in 2001. and great to have you here on this holiday. >> thank you, jim. >> i want to start by asking and it is clearly far too early in the investigation, but we do have indicators about what happened to this flight. we know there was bad weather and the pilot made a request to climb to a higher altitude and

of course we know the plane ended up in the water. as you look at this as a pilot, one that has flown this particular type of plane what, information has stood out to you most revealing about what could have brought this plane down? >> you know here we have another apparently qualified crew that was unable to resolve whatever challenges they've faced. we've seen with air france 447 and other incidents with asiana having a safe path to the completion of the flight. so that is a growing concern globally i think in pilot experience and training. are we providing for them a robust enough safety system in which they can operate where there is a culture of excellence applied on every flight. we have global aviation industry now. so we need to look at this problem systemically.

>> some other former pilots have made the point to me that while boeings and airbuses are fly by wire as you say, did the airbus cockpit takes a few more things out of pilot's hands and describing how the tloting doesn't have -- the throttle doesn't have many speeds and it is just stop and go and i know that is oversimplifying there and is there anything in the airbus that takes away the pilot's possibility to respond to crises from the cockpit? >> one of the things that pilots when they first begin to fly, they learn to make good use of all of the peripheral cues that we can see, hear and feel when we fly an airplane. we can hear the slight change in the airspeed noise or if speed increases or decreases. we can feel the pressure on a stick when we are speeping up or -- speeding up or slowing

down. and on the airbus when it is not connected to the controls and only moves when you make an input to change the flight path you don't get some of the that feedback the tactile feedback you would normally have. the sticks are not mechanically interconnected. so if one pilot makes an input the other pilot's stick doesn't move. you have to see what changes were made. >> and i foe you've been outspoken on the disconnect -- increasing disconnect from the pilots flying the planes and the technology has gotten so good perhaps too good that pilots become too dependent upon them? >> we must always fly an airplane and it is still an airplane and it must be flown well. but you need to know how many levels of technology are between you and the flight control. and the answer should be you should use the most appropriate

level of automation. and automation can sometimes increase when work load is high and decrease when work load is low, during a long portion of a flight. so it is important to work hard to mentally fly the airplane using the technology to help maneuver it. having said that i think it is important that we design our cockpit in such a way that we use the human part of the system to its advantage. and one of the things that humans are not good at is monitoring other systems and doing things over many long hours, days weeks and months. we are much better doers and not monitors. it would be better to fly the airplanes and have the computers monitor us. >> going back to mh-370 there was talk about streaming constant information about the plane or even the battery life of a pinger from the black box from 30 days to 90 days.

are international safety agencies communicating and requiring those changes quickly enough when airlines confront a safety problem. >> there are two problems. the international agencies can't mandate these things. they can make recommendations and have international standards but it is up to each individual state or country to choose to mandate that their countries that fly in their air space follow the standards and it takes a long time to get over 100 countries to agree what the standards should be. it takes years and not decades for the improved safety standards to be implemented and something that takes too long quite frankly. >> certainly not fast enough. and i fly often. i wish you were my pilot up in the air and it is good to have

you on. >> good to be with you, jim. a high tech toolg in air france after it went missing. will side scan sonar find the flight. and people celebrating the new year's crushed in the city of shanghai. at least 35 people killed there. and new york police here ramping up security as more than a million people descend on time square. we're there live.

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welcome back. at this hour we're still piecing together what happened to airasia flight 8501. many details remaining illusive with indonesian and search officials providing conflicting information about whether any parts of the plane have been identified. one official said there was significant pieces of wreckage on the ocean floor and another official said they have failed to recognize anything. investigators are hoping that sonar equipment will direct them to the wreckage at the bottom of the java sea. rosa flores is "outfront" tonight. >> reporter: this probe is the

latest technology that could be used to find airasia flight 8501. it is equipped with side scan sonar which can be used to find things that don't belong. >> what is side scan sonar? >> it is an acoustic technology that is based on reflections of sound rather than reflections of light. >> reporter: the under water vehicle, an auv is gathering information to create a map of the sea floor. this is the bottom of a massachusetts reservoir. out on the java sea, boats are using sonar to search for debris of the plane's flight. >> if there is a package inside of the vehicle and it is a computer that processes the data to make the pulse and bring back the pulse and con figure it into an image. >> reporter: it moves back and forth along the surface but has the ability to dive deep into the ocean. it helps find air france flight

447 in 2011. nearly two years after it went missing. locating debris at the bottom of the atlantic ocean. here in massachusetts, sonar helps identify and find debris like this submerged car. >> once we identify the target, we did this cross pattern and if we zoom in here and pull in that sonar file and went to that location and get a better high def image of the car. >> reporter: to get a real-time close-up image this remote vehicle, or rov, uses a map to locate the condition and then once there it picks up debris and bringing critical degrees and hopefully answers to the surface. >> joining me now les abbon, a pilot himself and david sousie a former faa safety inspector

and written a new book about malaysian airline flight that disappeared months ago. and we had a conflicting evening last night where the indonesian officials said sonar had detected significant piece of wreckage and now they are backing off. it sounds like they jumped the gun. >> and there are echoes here. we had talked a few days ago about how well they had researched their information and that they were doing a good job of this and then six miles to 100 miles, that is a little bit wrong. and then to say you've found the aircraft in the next day and then say sonar didn't show us anything. >> and there is a lot of stuff on the ocean floor, containers rock formations and a lot of garbage sadly. and you could see on sonar images that would look like the size of a plane but you need more information than that? >> my understanding is there is old airplanes down there too

from days gone by. it is a little disappointing. i think they were probably attempting to give hope to the families. >> i wonder if our expectations are unrealistically high. there is a lot of whiz bang technology and what sonar can do and when you look at air france flight 447, it took 18 missions with side scan sonar and they knew the general area there. so it is really detective work because you are gathering clues and it is not like you are suddenly -- until you have video and the drivers in the water you won't have a eureka moment quickly, or at least that's unlikely. >> and i think the ceo has done a good job of saying hold off. we don't need to rush the information out. let's wait until we see it touch it and feel it. and i think that is wise. i think that is what he's doing, saying let's not relee on the technology. it is tools to help us find what is going on. but once it is there, don't say

yeah we have it until you have it. >> and if could you both jump in on this, based on all of the clues we have others have made the point, you only found seven bodies which might be an indicator but it could be just that they drifted far away from the main crash site but it might be an indicator that the plane is in one piece and the bodies are still confined in the fuselage. is that a reasonable reasoning? >> anything is game in this investigation. but what concerns me more than anything else is there was one last transmission and then all avenue sudden there was nothing. so if they were under a situation where a 20-,000-hour captain is trying to control the plane, and they are out, the

capability can fly without engine and still transmit a communication to air traffic control and say i'm in trouble it. doesn't mean he was focused on the job at hand but something tumultuous had occurred and it could be something analogous to 447 but something might have been happening that occupied their time they were occupied. >> and couldn't communicate. >> couldn't communicate. >> and this came up in my conversation with captain sullenberger. he said the regulators are too slow to require and implement safety changes after you have a safety crisis. he gave an example which i thought was fantastic and i didn't know this the pilots for instance they get weather information before they start the flight. but they haven't -- for instance, there are better methods where they could have an ipad and get constant or up to the minute as opposed to something that is hours ago. >> and filtered through someone else. >> why is that?

you would think today, i can lift up my phone and get current data anywhere in the world? >> the international civil aviation and the other organization that work hand in hand they set standard and practices. now to be part of that club you are saying i'm going to adhere to these standards and practices but it doesn't say i'm going to adhere to all of them. i'm going to adhere to the ones i choose to. the good example is mh-370 is still not an accident according to most states. but they say a missing aircraft that may not be recovered isn't considered an accident. everybody else says no. we don't like that and we want to do it a different way. >> here is an interesting concept at a seminar that i attended with one of the weather centers that my airline uses they want the premium customers to use the internet and that is

how we would obtain the real-time weather and if we take up that bandwidth, it will take it away from -- >> i would happily give you that bandwidth. i'll pay the $5 for your -- >> that is one of the considerations. and quite honestly the weather radar, if you are dealing with convective weather, because once we see what -- where the highs and the lows and the cold fronts and the warm fronts are, it won't move a tremendous amount especially after a two-hour flight. >> priorities you would think safety would be the ultimate priority. >> les abend and david sousie thank you very much. breaking news. out of shanghai china, reporting that 3500 people have been killed and more injured in a massive stampede in a new years celebration. and you are looking at live pictures at time square where police are on alert as more than a million people prepare for the

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welcome back. and breaking news tonight. at least 35 people have been killed in a stampede at a new year's eve celebration in shanghai china, according to state media. the chaos unfolded after massive crowds packed into the river front area to ring in the new year. steven jong, cnn producer joining me now. steven do we know what caused the stampede and looking at the pictures there, the debsity of the crowds -- the density of the crowds was really incredible?

>> reporter: that is right, jim. we still don't know what caused the fatal accident. officials say they are investigating and promise a very prompt and thorough investigation. as the city's top leaders visited various local hospitals where the injured have been taken to. in addition to the 35 killed in this stampede 43 others have been injured. and most of them are contusions and many of them as you can imagine, are very much traumatized. we have seen pictures on social media of family members angry and frustrated waiting outside of the emergency rooms and sometimes having scuffles and clashing with police officers for patients in the hospitals. but earlier we received reports and images on social media of what happened before and after the incident. before, you can see huge swarms of crowds lining on the streets,

in the seven-lane street for literally miles. and afterwards a scene of total chaos. you have shoes and other personal belongings littered on the ground injured people lying on the ground, appearing lifeless and being treated by emergency medical workers or carried into ambulances. so really a very unexpected turn of events in china's largest city on new year's eve. jim. >> no question. so our viewers know this is in shanghai at the water front there, the most popular place to go in that city arguably in china as a whole, kind of like a time square. a sad event there on new year's eve. thank you for being on. and high alert in new york city's time square. the police department have received increase threats against police departments on social medium.

counter terroristic teams and bomb-sniffing dogs and cameras are where a few people are expected to ring in the new year. we are "outfront" live from time square. meck ala, how is law enforcement stepping up security on what is one of the toughest nights of the year? >> reporter: it is one of the toughest nights of the year. but as you know the focus of time square is security and safety. this is one of those events that families and young people come people from all over the world come and so the presence from police is intense. we knew there would be 3500 police officers here normally but we were told they bolstered that force by about 200. they have hardened the perimeter and widened it. where you would normally have a certain block blocked off in the past years, you'll see that spread out more. as you mentioned, bomb-sniffing dogs and resources in the air.

there are plain-clothed police officers in the crowds watching for trouble. people are saying it is one of the safest places to be because of the extra measures. >> they have two threats tonight, the terrorist threat that is always there sadly and also this increased tension with police in light of racial tension and so on. does that make it particularly tough for them tonight? >> reporter: well i imagine it is. it is interesting because i think when it come to it, our men and women in blue they put on their uniforms and do their job they are assigned to do. we know they are here and in force. we came through coming north down broadway a street that many people from around the country know broadway was shut down to traffic and there were several layers of police officers. their presence is known here. i haven't gotten a sense of any sort of hard feelings any grumblings of any sort. people are here to do what they came to do in time square. bring in nut year. and the police and security are

here to do the job to keep everyone safe. >> and they have measures developed over more than a decade and they know how to do it well. michaela pierra i'm a little jealous. >> you can come and join me. come on down. >> i might be. give me 27 minutes. have a good night. >> reporter: happy new year jim. well quitting smoking is one of the most popular new year's resolution and one of the most easily broken. the american lung association said six out of ten smokers need multiple tries to kick the habit. some are turning to battery powered cigarettes or e-cigarettes. while teen cigarette smoking down teen e-cigarette use is on the rise. the battery powered cigarette come in a variety of flavors like cherry crush and vanilla and they inhale nicko teen directly -- nicotine directly.

molly haralo is "outfront." >> reporter: they are marketed with flashy ads across television. >> what kind do you smoke? >> strawberry or mango. >> you like the nicotine? you like the way it makes you feel. >> yeah. >> reporter: this is one of 2 million teens who tried or are using e-cigarettes. they have surpassed traditional cigarette use among teens. >> is this really the wild west? >> exactly. they are unregulated. companies are free to put any product on the market. >> it has been louded by some as a cure for smoking, but inside the plastic device is liquid containing nicotine masked by a rainbow of flavors attractive to younger customers. >> nicotine is not a benign compound and it can be harmful to the still developing brain of the adolescent and it is

addictive. >> reporter: it has been a free for all. >> it took us way too long to get the proposed rule out. >> it would ban sales to minors and require ingredient lists but they don't address flavors or marketing tactics. >> you sell your products in cherry crush and vanilla flavors. cherry crush. how can you sit here and say you're not marketing to children? >> senator, it is a good question. >> what is the answer? >> the answer is the average age of a cherry shoeker is in the high 40s. >> reporter: that is the head of blue e-cigarettes. >> are you marketing to children? >> no i am not. >> reporter: but the parent company of blue has a website saying kids may be vulnerable to trying flavors like cherry van ill and pena colado. increasingly big tobacco is manufacturing the e-cigarettes tapping into the booming market. according to watch dog site open

secrets, among them are the parent company of philip morris have spent 22$22 million in last year and a half lobbying congress. the flavors and ads like this have critics calling foul saying the industry that fooled americans once about the effects of smoking is trying to hook kids on nicotine again. >> can you defend as a lobbyist for the industry cotton candy flavor. >> i wouldn't go into a member of congress and say you need to protect cotton candy flavor. >> should it be pulled? >> that is something for someone else to decide. >> if e-cigarettes are going to be use by those who would never use any nicotine containing product and turn to efr cigarettes. >> reporter: the fda is walking a fine line between safety and technology that could save lives. the big question now is how

restrictive will the fda regulation be. they have to walk a fine line because if they do anything that the industry deems as over-reaching they risk being sued and having the regulations overturned by a court and that has happened in the past. so they have to weigh all of that as they write the rules for e-cigarettes. jim. >> poppy har low, thank you very much. "outfront" next when sony was hacked during thanksgiving week everything was compromised except for the dusty old black berry. how did they save the day? plus how do you decide the biggest story of the year? if you are google by the number of searches. ahead, the surprising results.

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welcome back and happy new year. i'm jim sciutto. today the sony movie available in millions of homes. and according to the new york times, some sony pictures employees turned on computers to find images of ceo michael linden's severed head on their computer screen. shortly after that they shut down and they went old-school. they set up a phone tree to communicate and employees used personal cell phones and

paychecks were cut manually. and joining me a prosecutor for cyber crimes mark thanks for joining us. why blackberries? i know the president famously uses one. what makes them more secure? >> they are more secure because of the way they communicate with each other. if you are sending a message to a back -- a blackberry part of the message will get there. but they were only able to communicate through blackberry because they were using a different channel. >> so today a lot of people have their personal work sent to their personal devices, iphones and android devices in a world where we are being told to expect hacks, frankly, is that safe practice? >> a good practice irrespective of whether it is a blackberry or not, your phones have vulner abilities.

whether it is blackberry android or iphone or windows' based machine. the good plan is to have a back-up plan if something happens. and sony had an ad hoc, make it up as you go along back-up plan. you want to have a back-up plan that includes alternate mobile communications and way to reach people. even just old-fashioned telephones land lines. >> imagine that old-fashioned telephones. and you are aware there is another private firm that said it wasn't north korea, it was insiders inside of the sony company, disgruntled employees who did it and the fbi and the white house still standing by at sesment it was north korea. based on your expertise and what you have been ale to watch here -- able to watch here do you believe it was north korea behind this and do you have any doubt? >> i definitely have doubt. and i'm not saying that it could not have been north korea. and the fbi said we have secret

information, secret intelligence that nobody else has that leads us to conclude that it is north korea. but there are so many things about this attack that don't make sense if it was north korea. if north korea really wanted to go to sony and say, if you release this movie, we'll destroy you, then the north korean government would have done exactly that. there is no reason to come in as the guardians of peace or the gop and steal your motive and say what you are going to do. a lot of it doesn't make sense if it is north korea. >> to be fair, the u.s. government and u.s. intelligence the nsa, they have impressive assets at hand? >> well the problem isn't the forensics and it isn't the credentials. the problem is how you interpret the data and what you do is come in with a certain bias. so if you are looking to prove that it was north korea, you can look at evidence and say, ah that proves its north korea. if you are looking to disprove it you look at the same evident

and come to the -- evidence and come to the opposite conclusion. mark rash thank you for joining us. >> happy new year. >> happy new year. and coming back google's look back at the year. and time square is getting ready for new year's and a place that anderson cooper says is scarier than a war zone and shares it with kathy griffin. we'll tell you why.

ringing in the new year here on the east coast. as we look ahead to 2015 we thought we take a moment to reflect on 2014 in most 21st century way. by what you search for on google through the year. tom foreman has been looking into it. tom, what were you googling in 2014? >> hey, jim. you could call this the geography of google. they're looking at searches all over the world. of course big news was way up on the list. people want to know all about ebola and crimea and gaza. when people look at information for the missing malaysia jet,

more often use the word found than the word lost. people were fascinated by the events in ferguson missouri, when unarmed teenager was shot. but the searches jumped 700 times when rioting broke out there. the world of sports had a lot of big news happening, the world cup and the sochi olympics heavily searched. the cork there, the most searched athlete at the olympics was shaun white, the u.s. snowboarder who did not win a single medal. in the world of celebrities, the name that had the greatest increase in the number of searches related to it was robin williams after he committed suicide. at the same time there was a spike in searches about mental illness and depression. the most searched television character out there was dr. sheldon cooper, the best scientist and the worst roommate from "the big bang theory." the most searched celebrity wedding was kimye and animal was

grumpy cat. strange, he did what a lot of other people did. he searched where to get a hat like the singer pharrell williams wears. the world of science had a lot of big news coming out of it. people were fascinated by the rosetta spacecraft traveled 300 million miles to intersect with a comet. at the same time by the way, we had the biggest spike ever in people asking how do you become an astronaut? people searched up information about new phones and drones and wearable computers but simultaneously also searched up information about time machines and flying cars and teleporters. the single biggest question asked all yearlong was, what is love all about? and people also wanted to know how do you kiss? whether it's related or not, we can't say, but i can also tell you this. a lot of guys not a lot of girls, but a lot of guys searched how do you take a better selfie? is that related to all the

romance? who knows or maybe as you can see, jim, some of us could use the help zwl i could use the help as well. we were curious what the number one search is on new year's day. thanks to the washington post tweet, we got the answer. surprise surprise number one tweet, on new year's day is for hangover cure. surprise surprise. necessary information. coming up at the top of the hour, tom former will look back at 2014. all the thrills and spills. don't miss all the best and all the worst. also on cnn tonight, new year's eve's odd couple anderson cooper and kathy griffin with her eighth new year's in a row in times square. he's given up on asking kathy to watch what happens on the air. he just hopes for the best. the cnn couple managed to make fireworks for the last several years. >> i am here with of course kathy griffin. >> i'm here with not ryan seacrest. >> let's throw down at the jonas

brothers. you're frauds. >> you can't do that. >> yeah i did. >> you almost -- i was this close to wearing this. >> not awkward at all. sorry. hi everybody. take your hands off me. honestly. >> kathy was saying it was like the she never had. someone on twitter, there will be a drink every time i giggle nervously. >> just. people actually asked if i was going to lick you tonight. miley cyrus, that was like a genuine question. i know the hurt little boy who lives inside the model body and let me tell you, he's 5 years old, mommy's missing. she's at studio 54. his soup is cold. and all he wants is love. >> hey, hello. >> hi. >> how's it going? >> turn around. say hi to the camera. . >> who was that? >> that was mc hammer. >> no. >> really? >> yes.

he's just a model. an underwear model that became a news man by mistake. >> no swearing no stripping and most important to me no touching and no simulations if you know what i mean. simulations. >> i'm not going to simulate. i'm going to do it. >> are you kidding to me? i'm talking to you guys and literally turn around. where's the sign? look at the sign. jesus. >> you know what buddy? you suck too. i love the new york band. shut up! you know, screw you. i'm working. i handcuff myself to anderson cooper. you guys i did it. >> this is truly my worst nagt mare. >> we're together forever. if i can't have you, no one can. >> i will gnaw off my hand. >> can't wait. stay tuned for new year's eve live with anderson cooper and kathy griffin. that begins at 9:00 eastern. and outfront next, you're

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ball to drop tonight in times square much of the world has already welcomed in the new year. london celebrated just this past hour and for the first time a limited number of tickets were sold to the fireworks and more than half the people had to be turned away. sydney australia one of the first to celebrate. this year's spectacular display photographed by a drone. st. bay zil's in the kremlin on red square lit by new year's fireworks as well. russian president vladimir putin used to aneckization of crimea

and ukraine. and last, salute the troops. stationed in more than 150 countries around the world. happy new year to all of them and to their families who missed them very much at home. happy new year's to you. great to be on. all the worst coming up next here on cnn. i'm don lemon. we are just one hour away from the big show new year's live with anderson cooper and kathy griffin. what will kathy say? i'm live at the other square in new orleans, the heart of the french quarter. it's going to be a beautiful evening in the french quarter, starting at 9:00 p.m. eastern our coverage will start and then at midnight, central time the