last year they collected 65 tons of garbage happy new year in times square i'm chris pollone. >> heret 30 rock we are already seeing that confetti >>> the united states sending over 700 soldiers to the middle east after an attack on a u.s. embassy in baghdad thousands of demonstrators swarmed the compound trying to break its walls. last night president trump took time out of his new year's eve gathering to warn iran of any military conflict. >> i want to have peace. i like peace and iran should want peace more than anybody so i don't see that happening. i don't think iran would want that to happen it would go very quickly >> now the state department says that the embassy is secure at this hour. nbc's hans nichols is following this one for us. >> reporter: it was a sudden and brazen attack. thousands of iranian-backed demonstrators chanting "death to america" as they stormed the u.s. embassy in iraq here using a battering ram to try to pierce the armored entrance lobbing smoke bombs onto embassy grounds. embassy guards watching from the roof protesters lighting fires, though they never