. >>> i'm isha sesay in new york's times square where the party is rocking.one is having a good time. let's ask them. are you having a good time? you're on cnn. are you having a good time? they are having a good time. they come from everyone to be here in new york's times square. i'm going to go out on a limb and say it's hard not to be having a good time on new year's eve. the music has been blaring, live acts on the stages entertaining all the crowds. everyone is in a really great move as the last hours of 2010 foed away and we get ready for 2011. cnn will be covering all the festivities here in times square. anderson cooper is going to be at the helm starting at 11:00 p.m. eastern. joined by kathy griffin. it's going to be a great night. you know there will be lots of the ununexpected frngs lots of fun, a whole lot of excitement. i'll be down here in the crowd. we'll have it all to come as the crystal ball drops just before midnight and the confetti rains down from the sky. it's going to be a fabulous night everyone. this is the only show you want to be wa

she has called isha three times since telling her she is safe. >> this is the first time she feels like she has a legitimate chance. i think she wants to be there to help and do what she can and to help see him leave. >> the situation is fluid and dangerous. >>> the crackle of gunfire lit up the night near the cairo museum that was vandalized the day before. as monday dawned on the egyptian capital, protesters were still camped out on the main square and calling for a general strike. here is larry jacobs. >> after nearly a week of protests, they resolved to press on despite the government's attempt to intimidate them with a show of force. fire jets buzzed over and military helicopters flew even lower. the crowd defied an extended curfew, but made no move to enforce it or shut them down. the opposition leader said "what we have begun cannot be reverse said." -- reversed." he said president mubarak needs to step down. abc news this week hosts talked about it. >> people's concern right now is mubarak has to go immediately. >> mubarak met on tv meeting his prime minister. once again cairo's

. >>> i'm isha sesay in new york's times square where the party is rocking.pecial show just for you. >>> we're at 919 parish place apartment a, philadelphia. the grow-up home for bill cosby. >> ennis was very, very small and i brought him by here. ennis said he wanted to go home. he told camille that i took him someplace and tried to prove to him that life was rough, but he didn't believe it. >> i've known bill cosby a long time. interviewed him many times. the hardest setting for anyone is death to begin with. >> we were all there, and ennis was coming home and we put the coffin in the place and everybody is down, and everybody went to look at him. i didn't go. i don't want to see my son -- i have memories. >> how a guy could go on after a child has died is incomprehensible to me. i would never go on. >> one great thing you must have seen, as you saw all over the world, was the love people have for you. >> for the family, yeah. >> and the caring. >> you never really know what people judge you by if you hit the mark and you've made them very, very happy. and

this isha hurt. state governments get hurt. the federal government gets hurt. and we have to climb our way out of it. and we're not out of it yet. that's why the foreclosures are still fairly high. too many people are filing foreclosures. guest: i think john is right too. on some level we all know we have to make cuts as long as it doesn't impact me. so as long as it's not my kids' school or my neighborhood. again, we're at a place where we have to have a very honest frank discussion about the kinds of cuts that need to be made and what those impacts are going to be. host: our next call,erson, if you could say that. i'm 20 years old and i am a student of arizona state university. i am also a recent transplant . and just the state of politics these days seems to be very concerning to both me and my demographic. i've been here for a few months, and last saturday i was at work when the shootings happened, and it was extremely disturbing to everyone. everyone was so worried. there were natives from the reservation, they were worried about how it would reflect upon