there are a number of them in new york city. the main branch is on wall street. e package was addressed to the c.e.o. and intercepted in frankfurt, germany, and it was on its way to new york city. the chief correspondent is also working this for us right now. do we have any idea, jonathan, what the line of transportation was for this package? >>jonathan: nothing yet, trace. we know it was intercepted in frankfurt but the announcement is coming out of u.s. law enforcement so it may have been on its way here. obviously, deutch bank has major offices here in new york. the package which was packed with explosives and shrapnel obviously very dangerous indeed, was addressed to the outgoing c.e.o. of deutch bank due to step down in 2012. mr. ackerman is based directly in frankfurt, the headquarters of deutch bank, but, also, obviously, spend as good deal of time here in new york. so we are run this down right now. deutch bank has said them call us back and the new york police department asked us to e-mail any questions we have. the information is very scarce. the basics

new york city near 60. the cold air entrenched, minneapolis to chicago. down in areas of texas today. that's where the transition is. thunderstorms in houston and new orleans, but colder and chilly back in dallas, so aditi, very interesting things going on so far. winter looks to take more of a grip around the country by the weekend. >> we'll brace for it, thank you, bill. >>> all eyes on europe this week. stocks to watch on wall street and even for italian politics, right now things are pretty confused. your first look at this morning's business headlines are straight ahead. >>> coming up, the bcs title game is set, tiger finally wins and a coach ices his own kicker. you're watching "first look" on msnbc. >>> welcome back to "first look," i'm aditi roy, here's some of the top stories making news this morning. pentagon officials are denying claims by iran that it shot down a u.s. spy drone, which is now in the possession of iran's armed forces. u.s. officials admit the military lst a remote control of the drone as it flew a surveillance mission along the i

even though new york city has the biggest celebration, it certainly isn't the strangest. ew year's, nobody does it like new york. it has been called the biggest party on the planet. 1 million slivering souls crammed into times square. they'll be blanketed by 2,000 pounds of confetti and kept warm by countless goofy hats and silly glasses. and this year, they'll be entertained by one lady gaga. the pop diva will ring in the new year, heating up times square, alongside ryan seacrest. who, for the seventh year, does the bulk of the hosting. dick clark, the man who first got the party rolling exactly 40 years ago today, will be there, too. >> he's excited about this year. he gets excited every year. looks forward to this. he'll make as many appearances as he wants. and i kind of stand there and take the ball when he passes it. >> reporter: justin bieber will take the stage. so will carlos santana. what they won't have is this -- or this. across america, cities big and small have their own answer to that famous times square ball. trip adviser rounded up the best of them. from c

there's a milk strike in new york city. the upstate dairies can't get milk into new york city. they then have a milk strike upstate where the producers won't ship it to new york city. well, none of this is within the purview of the governor's powers. the governor tries to get his departments of farms and markets to act. they won't because many they don't report to the governor. hearst won't take this answer and he also says you are moving too slow on municipal ownership. we want the utilities in new york to be owned. you are the governor, you should make them do that. they won't. smith goes head-to-head with him. he takes the stage at carnegie hall to debate hearst. hearst won't show up for the debate. he goes to san simeon and starts buying more art work. smith loses control, screams and yells, red in the face, about this man and unmasks hearst. hearst then ironically comes out and backs smith for re- election. smith want nothing to do with him. 1922, hearst wants the nomination. smith says i won't run on the ticket if he's going to be on it. he said i'll be gone. he said i won

top priority during tomorrow's new year's eve celebration in new york city. r and the nypd says it's ready. a ton of resources will be deployed, including thousands of officers and bomb-sniffing dogs and mounted horses. want to talk about security preps in times square and ray kelly is here to talk about that. good to see you, commissioner. the cross roads of the world, we're talking about a million people in times square. in terms of security, there is a lot you can't talk about, but what can you tell us in terms of what we'll see. >> you'll see a lot of police officers and the most recent police academy graduating class. this is their first deployment. >> graduated on december 22nd. >> that's right. but they've been training since then. this is the first deployment, about 1,550 of them. as you said, mounted police officers and our helicopters will be up in the air and checking the 200-block area around times square. everyone that enters the area will have to go through a magnetometry check. >> let's talk a little bit about that because this is a massive oper

beck joins us now from his lavish new york city studios. is, of course, the author of the big new best seller "being george washington." so, gingrich a progressive? really? >> yes. he says the best president, the most effective president of the 20th century, every conservative would say that's ronald reagan. he says it's fdr. 14 different times we have him on tape saying it and explaining because is he a progressive in the good times and he knows how to get things done in the bad times. he was on my program, questioned him extensively about teddy roosevelt. he started the progressive party. he says when it comes to -- when it comes to foreign policy, is he positively will sownian, woodrow wilson. >> to you woodrow wilson that's not good. this is a bad move. >> bill: you know teddy roosevelt progressive party is a lot different than the progressive party of today,. >> no it's not, bill. it's the other side of barack obama. >> bill: no, no, no. >> yes, it is. >> bill: if you look at the her side of teddy roosevelt. >> i'm not going to argue w

the quest to reduce the city's carbon footprint and manage new york's traffic, sadik-khan has converted miles of city streets into bike lanes. >> they're trying to stigma ties car owners and get them to abandon their cars. >> reporter: brooklyn borough president mocked the bike lanes by riding a tricycle. he even wrote a song about them. >> i simply remember my favorite lanes and then i just say, ay, va. >> reporter: the opinions are really heart felt and if you're taking away my ability to get from point a to point b and the way i've always done it, you are messing with me. >> but i'm not taking away your ability to do it, that's the important piece. i'm just allowing some other people to do it and improving their options for getting around. >> reporter: impeccably dressed ivy league educated and tough as nails, sadik-khan has been labeled a zealot, an anti-car extremist and one columnist called her the wacko nutso bike commissioner. >> reporter: do you read this stuff? >> i do. >> reporter: when you read it, what do you think? >> not for tv. >> reporter: it's not just what she's done

the women of new york city. first up, jesse. >> i had to say hi to you. do you mind if i sit with you? i'm really bored right now. >> reporter: three numbers in 40 minutes. did you think he was trying to pick you up or -- >> i thought he was trying to pick me up. >> reporter: you think he was cute? >> yeah. >> reporter: it didn't bother you that he was wearing a super mario costume? >> you don't ask questions in this city. you just don't. >> reporter: second up, kong. >> i can talk to you guys about jesus christ. i'm just kidding. i thought you guys were cute. i'm not about to marry you. geez. you just seem like a cool person. wait. i want to keep in contact, though. do you text? >> reporter: two numbers in 20 minutes. >> give me a hug. you're too cool. >> reporter: but then as jason common straits -- >> alyssa, jayson, nice to meet you. bye. >> reporter: it's not always as easy as it looks in their videos. >> class -- you don't have a name? love you. but this, jason says, is an important lesson. be prepared to fail. >> we should exchange numbers. >> that

. >>> new at 11:00, the city decide whether to approve the construction of a new sports complex. kron 4's reggie kumar is live at city hall where people are at a city counsel meeting. >> reporter: i can tell you the new sports complex a hot topic here tonight. people are still speaking to the counsel and those that already spoke are standing outside. >> reporter: before walking in, residents woo opposed the sports fields project stood near the entrance holding this banner. their biggest concerns are the environmental impact on the land and the extra traffic. >> adequate space for a field that is football sized field. football sized field is 100 by 300 yards. and that would require a huge cut into the hillside. high walls. and it's an inappropriate project and that space. >> teraerizing what will happen with the increase in traffic. people fly. >> reporter: people sat out in the hallway and watched the meetingoon television screen. this is what the complex will look like, baseball and soccer fields a dog part and a garden. the project is being funded through private donors. support

and 40s in new york city to start your morning and eventually it will move into the big cities. 'll take a while, d.c., midmorning or so. as we go through the afternoon new york city will see rain. hartford, boston, it won't be until after the sun sets when the rain moves into your direction. all of these big cities, it's an all rain forecast. no snow at all. only areas that will see snow eventually as we go through western new york, pittsburgh, erie, cleveland and back up into western portions of new york state so, veronica, maybe a little snow for the kids to play but most of us plain old rain. >> sounds good. who is getting married? who had a baby and who is fighting over a dog. plus a new lawsuit against lady gaga makes her sound not the greatest person to work for. your first look at entertainment straight ahead. you're watching "first look." other makeup can sit on your skin, so it looks like...makeup. but trublend has skin twin technology to actually merge with your skin. how easy breezy beautiful is that? trublend...from covergirl. nick, what are you doing? oh, there's st

new england. it's mainly rain for the coastal cities, d.c., new york city, philadelphia, boston. back to the west it has changed a erovo sner for parts of west virginia, pittsburgh and into o terior sections of new york. that's where you will see the heaviest snow amounts coming up. we have a future cast preview to show you what we expect with the computer forecast models. by 11:00 tonight the rain/snow ill be moving toward parts of new jersey, the catskills and poconos and the adirondacks. the higher elevations will see the highest amounts. maybe up to a foot of snow. the ski resorts will be happy. rain continuing on the eastern seaboard. boston with rain in the morning. by 6:00 a.m. it dries out for just about everybody except for the great lakes. there will be light snow left around 2:00 or so. in terms of amounts, there's the 6 to 12 inches over interior new york. the green and white mountains. north of new york city, one to three. philadelphia, boston, new york city, maybe flurries here and there. the ground is still warm from the temperatures the past few days. >> so the fol

[ monica ] i may not be home for a while. [ male announcer ] the new citi simplicity card. no late fees. no penalty rate. no worries. >>> one of the national zoo's newest residents splashed around without a name. now the one and a half-year-old pacific octopus has a name. i's going to be called pandora. kimberly submitted the name in a kids post contest. the giant pacific octopus is the largest species of octopus in the world. you can visit it. zoo keepers expect pandora to grow to ten times its size in a year. >>> the national zoo also got giant news. the pandas are here to stay. a local philanthropist is giving a $4.5 million donation hoping it will give to more. megan mcgrath was at the zoo for this big announcement. >> this panda spent the morning eating bamboo and doing the power walk. it's a sign the giant male panda is feeling frisky. >> he's showing the women in the area, he's the big panda. he's scent marking. he's showing he is ready for love. >> reporter: this won't be all wine and roses. it may be their last together. she gave birth to a cub in 2005 and hasn't c

have seen a lot of the same behavior that has been going on for the past couple months here in new york city with regards to the way bts treatment of the press colleagues that i know of here in new york city that were trying to cover the protests last night were you know treated as if they were spies or something traded the police were trying to keep them away from the area when they identified themselves as journalists they were shoot a way i attended protests here earlier in the week at a human university where i saw a reporter for a new york of fairly mainstream publication here in the city struck by a police officer when he simply tried to the reporter tried to step out of the area where the protesters were and onto the sidewalk he was hit in the side with a baton so you know it might be the case that some officers are making an effort but we are seen some of the same problematic behavior that was laid out in that letter that you mentioned let's talk about this sort of new chapter that's going on about occupy protesters targeting events in this case and the president i know occupy d.c. h

city. >> while new york city is the safest largest city in america, crime has been going down, one of the reasons the crime is going down is because the police do make a lot of arrests. everybody who gets arrested and who doesn't get bailed out comes to us. >> get arrested in the big apple and you're almost assured of a trip to rikers island. a 400-acre penal colony on the east river, directly under the flight path of the laguardia airport. connected to the mainland by a narrow two-lane bridge the island is home to an average of 14,000 inmates in ten different facilities. >> we patrol the meanest precincts in america. when our officers go to work, everyday, they know everyone they run into is going to be a criminal. every criminal who has committed the worst act -- >> bring all your property with you. >> is coming through here if they're coming from new york city. >> they come off of the streets. they're tired, they're dirty, they're hungry. and you saw everything there, whether it was somebody who was from wall street who was charged with fraud or whether it was the lowest of the low of

looking at peer cities, they are required in boston and new york. they were in some of the other cities that we looked at. as of mid september, the five companies that were participating in the waiver program collectively had installed about 300 of the monitors. they have not fully met their obligations. and again, they were included in the waiver program as an incentive. the staff thought that this was a good thing and for the customers especially. anecdotal information suggests that driver tips would increase as well. so do they enhance the san francisco taxi experience? no one knows for sure. one of the things we were looking at was a follow-up survey back sonali mentioned. information about taxicab drivers and the way of finding information. however, more data and customer perception on the volume, the ease of use, and just in general the alternative devices, more data is necessary. director: can i interrupt with a question? i understand that sometimes more data is needed, but other cities have done this. have other cities studied this, as san fr

but i love that you're in new york city now. you're enjoying new york city. >> i love new york. on another show in australia called "neighbours," and then i finished that and i came -- >> jimmy: "neighbours," wait that's a famous show in australia. >> yeah. it's like one of those iconic things like vegemite, "neighbours" -- >> jimmy: yeah, yeah. >> it's been running for like -- >> jimmy: boomerangs, paul hogan, yeah. >> kangaroos. that sort of thing. >> jimmy: but then like, guy pearce is from "neighbours" isn't he? >> everyone, not everyone, but a lot of aussie actors have either done "neighbours" or "home and away," so i did "neighbours." it's like boot camp for aussie actors. >> jimmy: that's hilarious. >> and then i came over here like five days after finishing that. and the pilot season, and then got "pan am." that was in january, got "pan am" in february. so it happened really quickly. and then -- >> jimmy: and oh my gosh, congratulations. >> went to new york in march and started shooting -- >> jimmy: wow that's the way to do it, right? >> mm-hmm. >> jimmy: and you've been

new york city will surpass a record 50 million visitors this year, providing an estimated $32 billion in tourist spending. >>> finally, thought to be lost for decades, orson welles' oscar for "citizen kane" was sold at auction for $62,000. the loser was magician david copperfield. >>> the buckeyes get bopped. college football bowl action. rangers and devils drop the glove almost before the puck hits the ice. plus, known as the hitman during his playing days, now you might call dodger manager don mattingly the nutcracker. is that for real? your early morning sports headlines are straight ahead. >>> we're still waiting for winter in the east. warm temperatures and rain today. your forecast is coming up. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning. if you're just waking up, this is "early today." in sports, ohio state, one of the nation's most storied college football programs, will pay a hefty price for rule violations. here's nbc's mario solis with an early look at all your sports headlines. >> good morning. unless you're ohio state. the school's football team given a one-year bowl

>> i'm going to go with new york city. >> sorry. no. no. >> yeah. oh, sorry. >> all right. ought new york, too, but it's actually las vegas. >> that surprised me, but las vegas for the past six years has been the most popular destination on new year's eve. new york and the theater district and times square, of course, that comes in number two. as a new yorker, i was surprised. and then we've got new orleans. >> that's a fun one. >> and miami. these are great party cities. not a surprise. people have a good time wherever they go. >> back across to kath. >> finish the lyrics to this classic new year's song. ♪ should old acquaintance be forgot ♪ >> go ahead. >> i'm with her. >> i'm blank. ♪ should old acquaintance be forgot ♪ ♪ for auld lang syne >> in her defense, that was a little bit of an interesting version. a little different. >> yeah. >> tell us about that song. no one ever gets the words, including me. >> "auld lang syne" means a long time ago or old time sake. it's written by robby burns, he was like the hugh jackman of the day. he was tote 58 -- totally hot. you could

announcer ] ask your doctor if chantix is right for you. >> announcer: "nightline" continues from new york city with terry moran. >> giving new life a chance at long life. that's one of the most basic desires of every human community, taking good care of new mothers and their babies. in the united states, the infant mortality rate is about 6, for every 1,000 newborns. that in other places, the babies face much darker prospects and they need help, which sometimes comes from a world away. here's abc's juju chang. >> reporter: dr. sigrid hahn and her baby girl are about to embark on a mission, thousands of miles away from new york city. thousands of miles away from mt. sinai hospital where she and dr. natasha are both professors. for two years now, this dynamic duo has been traveling back and forth to remote mozambiqumozamb. ♪ because far too many women and children die here needlessly. >> just telling me that the number of woman who give birth alone with absolutely nobody is 6%. alone, nobody. >> reporter: incredible. so, they're working with local health care workers to train village midwives ho

[ monica ] i may not be home for a while. [ male announcer ] the new citi simplicity card. no late fees. no penalty rate. no worries. will be without forward martin havlat for 6-t . >>> the sharks learn they will be out martin for six to eight weeks after he needed surgery for a torn hamstring. they called up benito take his place. >>> clipping his skate as he was going over the boards, and landing on the ice. you see it there. he was done for the nice. they didn't need him against tampa bay. >> off the post. they score! . >> now thornton back, he has burn, saved by -- rebound, they score! he wants more, goes for the net and scores! marlo on his right, after -- back for -- scores! to the net, saves rebound score! . it's --. >> they score five in the first and beat the lightning 7- 2. >>> as we told you at the start of the broadcast, ellis is being sued by a former employee who claims that he sent her graphic texts. she says he sent her a dozen unwanted texts, one was a photograph that she said was of his genitals. smith's attorney says the warriors knew about it and they co

most of the snow stays to the west of new york city. low 50s today here around the big apple, cooling off tonight into the 30s for the big ball drop. 42 degrees at minneapolis. you can see where the colder air is, the milder air to the south with the yellow and orange shaded areas. on new year's day, snow showers around the lakes. we'll see some good snow bands down wind of lake ontario and lake erie on sunday. but looking dry for much of the country. the mild air stays in place in orlando. still near 80 degrees, one of the warmer decembers we've had, no doubt about that. monday, snow showers lingering here and adding up the snow in cleveland, pittsburgh. tuesday, this is when we quiet down. looking at the map, there's not going to be a lot happening. but that cold air across the east, and you're going to feel that shock to the system with overnight temperatures falling into the single digits. the start of 2012, not looking too bad across much of the country with the exception of that cold air wedged in here east of the mississippi and

yet again, you're back here in new york city. dag? onna be strange to be paid a lot of money just to be in one place 'cause you're used to be traveling. i'm usually on tour. i'm doing, i don't know, dingle berry's comedy club. [ laughter ] in -- long island. >> jimmy: such a great club. >> i'm like, "what are you, nuts? it's broadway!" no, i love new york. i love being here. but you know, new york is like its own deal. it's like its own deal. you guys do your own thing in new york. you order food differently here. it's true, you know the deal. i was dating this girl and she said, "will you go get me a bagel?" i said, "yeah baby, i'll do whatever you want." she said i want an everything bagel. and i was like, "okay. you want a bagel. everything bagel, i got that." so, i went to the bagel place. you know, i was like, "may i get a bagel with everything on it." [ laughter ] and the dude was like, "oh, you mean an everything bagel?" you know, he's trying to get in my face, you know, new york. [ laughter ] i'm like, "no, man." >> jimmy: he w

administrator will serve as acting administrator. >>> after a long time of con ten, debate, city council approved a newports complex for a popular park. residents packed city chambers and spilled into the hallway. after seven hours of debate at 2:30 this morning the council voted 4-1 in favor of the makeover. neighbors argued adding soccer fields, the parking lot and concessions to blair park is not a good fit. >>> it is out with the old and in with the new this holiday season. spurred on by mother nature, the christmas tree was the victim of high wind and lost many needles and decorations. the supplier heard about the problem and brought in a replacement tree free of charge today. he says they should have all the decorations by noon on thursday. >>> they're calling themselves occupy -- but the message isn't about corporate greed or the 99%. the protest inside this school's halls was about decking the halls. >> this sign marks where they made their stand, occupy christmas an on campus protest. the it was the seniors idea. >> i was red do be suspended. -- ready to be suspended when a group put up christ

announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden and bill weir in new york city, this is "nightline," december 30th, 2011. >>> good evening, all, i'm bill weir. for american troops serving in afghanistan, one killer has surpassed all others. the improvised explosive device. they have either taken the lives or shattered the bolds of more than 8,000 u.s. service members of that war. and they are such a relens lent scourge because they are so easy to make, with a couple of ingredients that end up being disturbingly easy to buy. here's nick schifrin with our series, "nightline investigates." >> reporter: down every rutted road in afghanistan, nothing scares u.s. troops more than this. an ied, just blew up beneath this truck. >> is everyone okay? >> reporter: ieds are the u.s.'s enemy number one in afghanistan. >> oh, my ears. >> reporter: they killed or wounded more than 8,000 american troops. and the numbers are getting worse. >> [ bleep ]. this is close as we get to the source of all our problems. ieds. >> reporter: meet this sar jet. he's an explosives technician,

and a sexually transmitted disease rate that we have in this city to try to do something about it shasm on us if we don't. he. >> bill: is the newty undermining parental authority? hoover, let me outlining this to the audience. we are not going to tell you guy what is they're going to teach because some of it is very, very graphic. it doesn't have to do with just man/woman. it's everything you can imagine. this is sixth grade we are talking about. these are 10, 11, 12-year-old kids. >> 12. 13, 14. sixth through 12th grades. sixth graders are 12 years old. >> bill: the younger edge of this. so the parents in new york city many of them can't afford to go to private school which i always recommend if you can afford to go to private school please do so because you don't have to deal with this craziness. they have no choice. even if they don't want their kids hearing about alternative situations, they have to. something wrong, this disturbs me. >> i appreciate that on one hand. on the other hand, bill, we spend a lot of time in this show in this segment talking about how parents these days are advocating their duties as parents being

replaced, so that i could continue on my crusade to right the wrongs within the government here in new york citynted. new camera, compliments of the board of education. >> i think it is so ironic that the board of education, and essentially the city, bought me a new camera and a better one, than the one that this man destroyed so that i can use that camera to police them. >> back in business, jimmy says bring it on. he's on the streets, searching for justice, no matter the danger, proving an ordinary citizen, armed with a video camera, can make a lot of noise and, he hopes, a little difference. >> business district. i am jimmy justice. and your days of running around this city like a cowboy are over. they still don't know exactly who i am. they just know there's this guy who calls himself jimmy justice, >>>. >> i'm melissa rayburger. north korean state leadership is reporting that kim jong il has dieded. kim is believed to have suffered a stroke back in 2008. despite that he appeared vigorous in photos and videos from recent trips to china and russia. kim ruled the isolated nation since 1994. fo

new york. and of that's the one we want to keep an eye on. obviously major cities, a lot of flights go through. if there's any delays there, they are going to trickle down to here in the bay area. >>> new details tonight. a 7-year-old boy has died after falling 60 feet from a chairlift at the sugar bowl ski resort. it happened on sunday. doctors performed surgery, but the child passed away today. the boy was practicing with the resort's ski team when he slipped out of the mount lincoln lift. >> there were tronning reactions today after the lights went out twice after the monday night football game at candlestick part. >> obviously we all experienced kind of a national embarrassment for this to happen. we were on the phones as earliesa last -- early as last evening, during and after the game to make sure this doesn't happen again. we expect another playoff game in early january. but we are going to go through some immediate protocols with them, with oversight from the cal republic utilities commission. >>> pg&e is back in the spotlight. the areas on your screen will

a museum in new york city has a whole exhibit dedicated to that one famous song. >> reporter: millionsing it every new year's eve. well, fake it, anyway. it's been called the most famous song that we don't note lyrics to. >> "auld lang syne." >> be forgot keep your eye on -- >> reporter: billy crystal even ranted about it in "when harry met sally." >> what does this song mean? my whole life i don't know what this song means. should old acquaintance be forgotten? does that mean we should forget old acquaintance? if we don't remember them we should remember them because we already forgot them. >> reporter: within the stacks of this museum a new exhibit has the answers starting with the origins of the song. >> the tune has been knock about for the best part of the 18th century in various incarnations. >> reporter: back in the late 1700s, the celebrated scottish poet robert burns penned the words claiming he heard it from an old man singing. >> shoulder old acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind? should old acquaintance be forgot and days "auld lang syne." >> it literally means "