Insufficient evidence. She sued cosby and settled in 2006. Now after the recent allegations, his case against constand in 2006 has been unsealed and is providing new evidence. We have jean casarez with more. Reporter cosby was not late to the arraignment yesterday at the small courthouse in Montgomery County, pennsylvania. When defendant cosby entered the courtroom, he appeared he could not see well. His attorney had his arm and helped him step by step get to the defense counsel and sat him down in his seat. The magistrate judge took the stand a short time later and apprised mr. Cosby of the criminal charges against him. Alleged aggravated and indecent assault. Explaining the prosecution. She said bail was set at 1 million. He would have to pay 10 . Cosby did not say anything. He did not have any emotion that came out through his eyes. He was just intently looking. She was talking about the conditions of bail. Saying he could not have any contact with the an accuser, the complainant. At one point he said who. She said with the complainant. She said do you understand what im telling you. He said yes. He gave up his passport. His attorney had it. Gave it to the prosecutor as a condition of bail. The judge ended by saying mr. Cosby, good luck. Mr. Cosby said, respectfully, thank you. And the victim Andrea Constand, we believe remains in canada. Her attorney told me she was told one day ahead of time that charges would be brought and she is so grateful, i am told, that this District Attorney is believing and has confidence in her. Christine, alison. Jean, thank you for. That other accusers are weighing in. Applauding the news. The lawyer for Janice Dickinson releasing this statement. He is a very wealthy and famous celebrity, mr. Cosby should be subject to the same criminal and civil laws and everybody else. Every woman who stands up against mr. Cosby does so in solidarity with the 50 women who have spoken out. Beverly johnson tweeted about karma. Truth is simple. There is nothing we give to others that does not come back to us in some shape or form. Attorneys for cosby slamming the prosecution as political. Their statement says this. The charge by the Montgomery CountyDistrict Attorneys office came as no surprise. Filed 12 years after the alleged incident and on the heels of a hotly contested election for the countys d. A. Which this case was made the focal point. It goes on to say make no mistake. We will mount a vigorous defense against the charges and we will expect mr. Cosby will be exonerated by a court of law. Cosby faces ten years in prison if convicted. No rain in the forecast for missouri, but historic flooding will only get worse. Overnight, state officials closed parts of the major interstate south of st. Louis to push the sand bagging efforts to the limit. They are hoping to keep the interstate open as long as possible. Governor jay nixon says the Mississippi River is expected to crest later today and will hit all time record levels. Cnn with the governor as he toured the flood ravaged area by helicopter. Houses, neighborhoods, schools, all under water and ruined. Rescue efforts across the state. Watch carefully. This is a man trying to get the dog off the roof and he fall into the water. For some time, they had been on the roof with the waters rising. The dog getting more frantic. Check out this truck towed up and out with some of the river still inside. Watch as they open the door and the water pours out. Governor nixon discusses the magnitude of the danger. Until you see the magnitude, it is difficult to know the damages. We want to understand where we know the water is moving. All of the water is heading down to another place in the state of missouri. If you are winning fights here, it allows us to measure and be prepared in perryville and south. So many people are affected by the flooding. More than 12 Million People under flood warnings right now in 19 states. You see them there. It is extremely unusual for this time of year to see this. For the latest on the forecast, lets bring in meteorologist Allison Chinchar. Alison, i want to update you. You are right about this being rare. Some very strong wording coming from the Nationl Weather Service in st. Louis. Wanting to emphasize out of the series of floods we had, interstate 44, interstate 55 and interstate 93 have been shutdown for a period of time. That never happened during the flood of 1993 in the same area or december flooding of 1982. So when you are trying to grasp the magnitude of this storm, understand we will no longer be comparing to the previous storms. This storm is the benchmark Going Forward. If there were ever any flooding events. We still have more than a dozen states dealing with flood watches and warnings and flash flood warnings right now. Over 350 rivers are still either at or above their flood stage. The good news is we are going to start to see those come down over the next couple days. It stopped raining and it will stay that way for at least 5 to 7 days in the areas which will allow the rivers to come down. The roadways to start to become uncovered and people start to recover. Here is a look at current conditions. Behind the system that moved through, we are talking much cooler weather. 17 in minneapolis. 24 in des moines. 37 in louisville. 67 in virginia beach. 69 in charleston. All of the rest of the system will push out into the atlantic. Today, we have areas of lakeeffect snow for the northeast and midwest. For the most part, eastern half of the country will get a bit of a break. High temperatures. Big changes for cities like nashville. You will top out at 44 today. 58 in atlanta. 47 for the high in boston. We will be 84 in jackson. Your colder temperatures are also going to be on the way as well. Just give it a few extra days. New years eve for tonight, if you are heading out for celebrations in new york city, 40 degrees as you are out there. We will have light winds and mostly cloudy skies. Relatively a normal new years eve for a lot of these folks. That is good news. N rain or snow to contend with. Allison, thanks for the latest on weather. Time for an early start on money. The last chance to trade stocks for the year. U. S. Stock future barely moving. Another huge drop in oil. 3 slump in oil. Oil now down 30 for the year. So a Progress Report for you for stocks this year. Ending the year basically where they started. This is the s p 500. Moved sideways most of the year. The s p 500 is up just 0. 2 for 2015. Thats very different from the double digit gains so many have become used to. Last year, the stocks climbed 11 in 2013. A stunning 30 . Whats in store for next year . This is barely budging here. Experts polled by cnn money do not expect more double digit gains. They expect a bigger boost than this year. The prediction for the s p 500 for rest of the year. There are tech stocks that did well. Netflix and amazon. That is why you have the nasdaq with a solid gain for the year. If your retirement portfolio has those names in it, you are doing well. 2016 is just 19 hours away. Cities celebrating around the world, but one citys celebrations is hampered by terrorist threats. Thats next. Ats my boy. Youre proud to give each other your best every day. And at banquet, we want to give you our best. Thats why were adding 20 more chicken to our chicken pot pies with golden, flaky crusts. Thats my mom. Now serving. A better banquet. At t knows the best kind of holiday. Is the kind where everyone gets what they wished for. Make this holiday extra happy when you buy one get one free on our most popular smartphones. Like the Samsung Galaxy s6. Buy one get one free. So spread some cheer. And capture every minute of it. 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He and his mother were on the run for three weeks before arrest in Puerto Vallarta last week. Texas prosecutors plan to charge tonya couch with hindering a juvenile. Police in belgium have arrested a tenth person in connection with last months terror attacks in paris. The men charged with terrorist murder and participating in a terrorist organization. Those are the new charges authorities put on the list. Lets go to cnns Nic Robertson live from brussels. Nic, this is explaining how the terrorist attacks were carried out . Reporter the man charged with participation in the paris attack. Ten cell phones were found. A cell phone found outside the bataclan theater in paris where so many were gunned down and killed, that the cell phone sent 25 Text Messages in the 24 hours before the attack. The last message sent before the attacks. Saying we are about to start. The 25 Text Messages sent to cell phones here in belgium. It is not clear if the ten cell phones recovered yesterday are the same cell phones are the same Text Messages where the cell phones were sent. The third arrest this week. Two men earlier this week. Planning an attack here on new years eve in the grand plaza. The beautiful square where revelers gather for the new year. Celebrations here have been canceled. Fireworks displays, traditional in brussels to bring in the new year. They have been canceled this year. The Prime Minister appearing on television saying terrorists are more prudent and professional. The mayor of the city saying he cannot keep large numbers of the people in the city safe. That is why the celebrations are canceled. Alison. So many big cities on edge. Nic, thank you. The celebrations canceled in brussels, but scheduled to go on here in the u. S. Despite a threat to new york city, los angeles and washington, d. C. The nypd is responding with an unprecedented deployment. We have Miguel Marquez there. Reporter christine, alison, this is it. The crossroads of the world. Despite no credible threats, it will turn into the most secure streets. The famous new years eve ball will drop there. More than 1 million revelers will drop into the blocks of times square here. Police taking no chances though saying although there is no credible threat, they will plan for anything that comes at them. 6,000 police just for the few blocks alone. Tens of thousands of Law Enforcement across the entire city to protect events happening throughout new york city. What was once just parties and good times are now considered soft targets. The threat of isis has changed everything for cities like new york. They will throw everything at it. From the land, from sea, from underground and subways. Even from the air over the city to protect the entire city during the new years eve celebrations. They will have lots of bombsniffing dogs out and available. Radiation detectors and cameras. The mayor saying because of paris and San Bernardino, it has changed the way they look at the city. We are the best prepared city in the country. Best prepared city to prevent terrorism and deal with any event should it occur. There will be a tremendous number of officers who you will see. There will be many officers who you will not see. There will be security measures you will see and wont see. What we can assure you is the preparations are extraordinary. Reporter new york city is saying the special Response Team is able to respond to dozens of incidents at a time because of the San Bernardino and paris attacks. They want to hone in and respond to any sort of small attack in several locations at the same time. This will be the biggest security operation ever with 800 additional officers. New york city says it is prepared for whatever may come. Alison, christine. Thank you, Miguel Marquez. A friend who supplied assault rifles to the San Bernardino couple now facing terrorism charges. 24yearold Enrique Marquez was indicted by a federal grand jury wednesday. He is accused of conspireing with Syed Rizwan Farook to plan terror attacks in 2011 and 2012. Years before farook and his wife killed 14 people earlier this month. Prosecutors said no evidence marquez knew about the San Bernardino attack. Turning to politics. Most of the candidates laying low for the holiday. Big news this morning from the jeb bush campaign. A major shift in strategy. Dropping 3 million worth of tv ad buys in early voting states. Instead, switching gears. Resources will be redeployed with the campaign instead sending 60 or more staffers to the states. Donald trump doing the redeployment of his own. Repurposing the slam against bush. He is low energy. Using it now against Hillary Clinton. Low energy can be applied to hillary. I just dont like to use the same thing twice on one of my enemies. We view this as war. Dont we view this as war . Its war. Its war. Ben carsons war chest in the headlines as well. Word he raised 23 million in the Fourth Quarter. That puts carson at the top of the fund raising race. Not a bad haul for a campaign thought to be in a fund raising crisis. Cruz had 20 million. Golden state warriors hit the Court Without the top star. How long could steph curry on the sideline . We have coy wire with the Bleacher Report next. Jay knows how to keep nice shorts, dad. G. This is what the pros wear. Uhhh. Thats why he starts his day with those two scoops in heart healthy kelloggs raisin bran. Ready to eat my dust . Too bad i already filled up on raisins. Kelloggs raisin bran. Deliciously heart healthy. All right. The weight is over. We will ring in the new year with the College Football playoff semifinal. Our own coy wire at the orange bowl where the tigers face the sooners. Good morning, coy. Good morning to you. The nations lone unbeaten team, clemson, is trying to stay perfect. They will do so as 3. 5 point underdogs as they face oklahoma. If you like offense, this is the game for you. Clemson is led by a heisman finalist quarterback in watson. Former walkon quarterback mayfield averages 45 points per game. They met in the Russell Athletic bowl last year. Clemson crushed oklahoma. You know sooners have revenge on their minds. In the other semifinal, alabama. The only team to return to the playoffs from last season. They are taking on big ten champion michigan state. Mark dantonio coached under nick saban. None of his members have been beaten. It kicks off at 4 00 p. M. And the second at 8 00 eastern. They play for the final 11 days in glendale, arizona. On the to nba. Steph curry sitting out with a bruised left leg. His absence was felt. Klay thompson was miserable from the field. 4 for 15. Others were working on all cylinders. Dallas wins 11491. Finally, lets take a look at an odd moment from the birmingham bowl. Auburn against memphis, 3110. This is cell phone video of defensive back regis ball. Appearing to get into an altercation with a ball boy. He runs to the locker room with the game ball and the Athletic Department said ball has been removed from the team for his actions. To top it off, reggis ball posted on instagram of what appears to be the auburn game ball with his autograph. You dont see that often. That is trending this morning. Like a soap opera. Coy, have a good time tonight. Bill cosby facing sex Assault Charges for the first time after dozens of women came forward with accusations. Prosecutor filing just before the statute of limitations running out. The question is can the charges stick. The latest on the reaction next. Grabbing your data. Stealing your customers secrets. Theres an army of us. Relentlessly unpicking your patchwork of security. Think youll spot us . You havent so far. The next wave of the internet requires the next wave of security. Were ready. Are you . It takes a lot of work. But i really love it. S. Im on the move all day long. And sometimes, i just dont eat the way i should. So i drink boost® to get the nutrition that im missing. Boost complete nutritional drink has 26 essential vitamins and minerals, including calcium and vitamin d to support strong bones and 10 grams of protein to help maintain muscle. All with a great taste. I dont plan on slowing down any time soon. Look for savings on boost® in your sunday paper. After a parade of accusers, bill cosby is officially an charged with sexual assault. The hollywood icon trading his head shots for a mug shot. A complete disaster in missouri. River levels rising to record highs. Washing homes off foundations and the worst is not over. The major show of force in cities around the world as we prepare to usher in 2016. Police doing everything in their power to keep revelers safe. One major european city already calling the party off because of terror concerns. Welcome back to early start. Im alison kosik. Happy early new years eve. Nice to see you. Im christine romans. Reaction is pouring in this morning to the stunning news for the first time Comedian Bill Cosby faces criminal charges. The tv legend is accused of drugging and sexually assaulting a former Temple University employee Andrea Constand 12 years ago. The local prosecutor at the time declined to charge the actor citing insufficient evidence. Constand sued in 2006 civilly. Now after the accusations against cosby, his deposition in constands suit has been unsealed. Providing a new prosecution with new evidence. Cnns jean casarez was at cosbys arraignment. She has the latest. Reporter christine, alison, bill cosby was not late to the arraignment yesterday at the small courthouse in Montgomery County, pennsylvania. When defendant cosby entered the courtroom, he appeared he could not see well. His attorney had his arm and help him step by step get to the defense counsel and sat him down in his seat. The magistrate judge took the stand a short time later. Really apprised mr. Cosby of the criminal charges against him. Alleged aggravated and indecent assault. Explaining the theory of the prosecution. She said bail was set at 1 million. Told him he would have to pay 10 . Cosby did not have any emotion. He was intently looking. She was talking about the conditions of bail. Saying he could not have any contact with the accuser, complainant. At one point he said with who. She said with the complainant. She said do you understand what im telling you. He said yes. He gave up his passport. His attorney had it. Gave it to the prosecutor as is one of the conditions of bail. The judge ended by saying, mr. Cosby, good luck. Bill cosby said matter of factly and respectfully, thank you. Andrea constands Attorney Says she is in canada and she was told one day ahead of time. She is grateful this District Attorney is believing and has confidence in her. Christine and alison. Thank you. Other cosby accusers are weighing in. The lawyer for former model Janice Dickinson released a statement. Though he is a wealthy and famous celebrity, mr. Cosby should be subject to the same criminal and civil laws as everyone else. His arrest today is a highly tout issue. And model Beverly Johnson tweeted about ckarma. When it comes down to it, it is simple. There is nothing that we give to others that does not come back to us in some shape or form. And the defense says the charges by the Montgomery CountyDistrict Attorney office came as no surprise filed 12 years after the alleged incident and coming on the heels of a hotly contested election for this countys d. A. During which this case was made the focal point. We intend to mount a defense against the charge. We expect mr. Cosby will be exonerated by a court of law. Cosby faces ten years in prison if convicted. No rain in the forecast for missouri, but historic flooding under way this morning is only expected to get worse. Overnight, state officials closing an interstate south of st. Louis to push sand bagging efforts to the limit. They are hoping to keep the interstate open as long as possible. The governor says the flooding will hit all time record levels. This is a new benchmark. Cnn accompanying the governor as he tours the area by helicopter. He saw houses, neighborhood and schools all under water. Watch this man as he is trying to get into the rescue boat. The dog in the boat and he fall into the water. Check out the truck here. Towed up and out of the water. Look at how the water is coming out of the truck after being submerged in the water. Governor nixon discussed the damage. Until you see the magnitude of it, it is difficult to deal with the damages. We want to understand this. All of this water is headed down to another place in the state of missouri. If you are winning fights here, it allows to us measure and be prepared in perriville. This is the new high water mark. More than 12 Million People under flood warnings in 19 states. Lets bring in meteorologist Allison Chinchar for the latest on the forecast. Good morning to you. We have 352 rivers that reported at or above flood stage. Now one of the good pieces of information is that the rain is over in these areas. They can finally begin to dry back out. Here is the look at the future radar. The same system that brought all of the flooding rains finally going to make its way out over the open atlantic. We have some areas of lakeeffect snow for parts of the midwest and northeast. Otherwise, a lot of areas getting a chance to dry out. Behind that system, as much colder air, we are going from 63 yesterday in new orleans to 57 for the high today. 66 in atlanta yesterday. 58. From 80 to 76 in tallahassee. Cooler across areas. 28 for the high in chicago. 34 in detroit. 47 degrees in new york. Tonight for new years eve forecast, 40 degrees, mostly cloudy skies. Relatively light winds. Allison, thank you. Time for an early start on your money. Last chance to trade stocks for the year. U. S. Stock futures are barely moving. Another huge drop in oil yesterday. Oil now down more than 30 for the year. Just a remarkable move in one year for a commodity. Puerto rico will default on its bond payments for the second time. It owes 1 billion on january 1st. It will fall short by 37 million. Happy new year. How about a raise . Minimum wage workers will see more in their paychecks at some point next year for 13 states. Currently 29 states and the District Of Columbia have a minimum wage above 7. 25. The socalled fight for 15 once seemed like a really far fetched goal. In 2015, 14 states and cities approved a 15 minimum wage to take effect gradually. Another 3 will likely consider the issue in 2016. Everybody getting ready for new years eve in an unpreced t unprecedented show of force as new york city is preparing for the big new years eve ball drop in times square. This is a security theme playing out around the world. Details next. Breaking news this morning. Police in belgium leveling terror charges against a tenth person in connection with the paris attacks. Ten cell phones collected as we learn a phone discarded after the paris attacks at the bataclan was in communication with someone in belgium on that day. Cnn International EditorNic Robertson joining us live in brussels. From the beginning, investigators zeroing in on the brussels area and molenbek neighborhood. What is the latest, nic . Reporter that is where the arrest took place yesterday in the molenbek area. The tenth person here arrested and charged with terrorist murder. The membership or terrorist organization connected with the paris terror attack. The ten cell phones found. Not clear if the same Text Messages were sent from outside the bataclan theater where one of the largest killing sprees took place in the terror attack. Whether the messages were sent to the cell phones discovered here during the arrest just yesterday. What we know is 25 Text Messages sent from this one cell phone in the 24 hours leading up to the attack at the bataclan theater and the last text message was one that said we are ready to start. This now appearing to be part of the investigation Going Forward here by the authorities here in belgium. What we are also learning here from the Prime Minister saying that he judges the situation now and the uncertainty around the potential acts and intentions by terrorists to be changing hour by hour. They are more professional than in the past. The mayor decided to cancel the new years eve fireworks celebrations. A big tradition here. This is a big issue in belgium. The cancellation is a real concern and disappointment for the people of brussels. This is something we are seeing across europe. The scaling down of celebrations to see in the new year. Here, cancellation of the fireworks. Christine. Authorities want to keep everyone safe and with all of the terror investigation, in that case, they not sure they can. In the u. S. , new years eve celebrations still scheduled to go on despite learning president obama was made aware of the threats to new york city, los angeles and washington, d. C. The nypd responding with an unusual deployment for the new years eve celebrations in time squares. Miguel marquez has more. Reporter this is it, alison, the crossroads of the world. Despite no credible threats, it will be the most secure streets in the world. The ball will drop there. The famous new years eve ball. More than 1 million revelers will pile into the blocks of times square here. Police taking no chances. Although there is no credible threat, they will plan for anything that comes at them. 6,000 police just for these few blocks alone. Tens of thousands of Law Enforcement across the city to protect events happening in new york. What was one parties and good times now considered soft targets. The threat of isis has changed everything for cities like new york. They will throw everything at it. From the land, from sea, from underground in the subways. Even from the air over the city to protect the entire city during the new years eve celebrations. They will have lots of bombsniffing dogs out and available. Radiation detectors and thousands of cameras to keep tabs on things. The mayor of new york saying because of paris and San Bernardino, it has changed the way they look at security. We pride ourselves in the city. We are the best prepared city in the country. The best prepared city to prevent terrorism and deal with any event should it occur. There will be a tremendous number of officers who you will see. Many officers you wont see. There will be obvious security measures you will see and a number of measures you wont see. What we will assure you, the preparations are extraordinary. Reporter new york city saying they are able to respond to dozens of incidents at the same time because of the San Bernardino and paris attacks. They want to hone in and respond to any sort of small attack in several locations at the same time. This is the biggest security operation with 800 additional officers. New york is prepared for whatever may come. Alison and christine. Miguel marquez, thank you for that. Authorities have their hands full out there. It gets crazy out there. Lets see what is coming up on new day. Alisyn camerota. The last 24 hours, alisyn, it is unbelievable with the amount of news. We will followup on that, christine. Straight ahead on new day, the mother of affluenza teen, ethan couch, she landed in los angeles this morning. She could be facing up to ten years behind bars for helping her son leave the country. Her son is still in mexico. And also, an extraordinary show of force as you saw in new yorks times square. 6,000 Police Officers assigned to patrol times square for new years eve. We will tell you about the terror threats facing the big apple and two other big american cities. We will have all of the latest for you on bill cosby. We will speak to a couple of his alleged victims and how they felt yesterday seeing him walk into the courtroom. A lot going on. Thank you, alisyn. Twitter promising a tough stance on violent tweets. Amid criticism for failing to stop violence. What are the new rules . We have your money next. Oh remotes, youve had it tough. Watching tvs get sharper, bigger, smugger. And you . Rubbery buttons. Enter the x1 voice remote. Now when someone says. Show me funny movies. Watch discovery. Record this. Voila. Remotes, come out from the cushions, you are back. The x1 voice remote is here. Chicago mayor rahm emanuel announcing major changes in Police Training and policies that include having a taser in every police cruiser. The changes follow a series of officer involved shootings and claims that police are too quick to fire weapons. Emanuel says this is a move to rebuild trust with the communities and officers sworn to protect and serve. We get more from cnns rosa flores. Reporter the chicago mayor says he wants to inject humanity into policy. Let me get you up to speed. He says 21 of the cruisers out on the street with Police Officers actually have tasers. That totals to about 700 units with tasers. He wants to double that to 1,400 tasers out in the streets of chicago. That comes also with trainings for Police Officers. Not only on how to use the tasers, but how to deescalate the situation when they are patrolling the streets. They want to simmer down the situation so that less use of deadly force is actually used. Heres how the mayor put it in his own words. Theres a difference between whether someone can use a gun and when they should use a gun. And we as a city must train for that difference. We will improve communication with officers and individuals to make these encounters less confrontational. Reporter this is not happening in a vacuum. In the background, the United States department of justice is also investigating the patterns and practices of the Chicago Police department and one of the things theyre looking at, specifically, is training. Alison, christine. Rosa, thanks for that. Turning to politics. Jeb bush with a strategy shift ahead of the year. Scrapping a tv ad buy and putting people on the ground in early voting states to try to boost his campaign. He is trying to overcome the low energy label slapped on him by donald trump who is now throwing that statement at his top democratic opponent. We have eric bradner with us. Is jeb bush taking Donald Trumps advice . Hes going ahead and resetting his strategy and taking that money from tv and putting it into his people on the ground. This is not a decision that any campaign wants to have to make. Jeb bushs is a fund raising machine. Generating what seems li like endless sums of money. Now he has to pull back. This also shows that establishment republican candidates, people like jeb bush, chris christie, john kasich, those types, are all in on New Hampshire. This is devoting more and more resources to actually talking to New Hampshire voters on the ground. It shows that is sort of the one state that these candidates are identifying as the real opportunity. It is not great news for jeb. It shows his campaign is making a lot of tough Financial Decisions at this stage. Lets talk about Financial Decisions in the Fourth Quarter fund raising total. Interesting on the top of this list you have ben carson at 23 million. He pulled in. Ted cruz coming in second at 20 million. Ben carson, the last couple of weeks, had not garnered a lot of headlines or a lot of buzz. He is or was raising a lot of money. This is surprising. Ben carson has had a rough quarter. He has been hit by questions about his stories of his childhood is accurate. You see his poll numbers take a dip. You see ted cruz and ben carson switch places as the other top tier candidate. This is great news for carson. We will learn more about his campaign in a month. Iowa is really key for him. A state where he should do well. The best early state for him. This might kind of turn around a period of weeks of really bad stories for him. Its jarring only because it conflicts with what we know about where the momentum in the race is headed. Donald trump taking another jab at Hillary Clinton. Actually bringing back a phrase he used for jeb bush. Listen to this. Low energy can be applied to hillary. I just dont like to use the same thing twice on one of my enemies, right . We view this as war. Dont we view this as war . Its war. Its war. Low energy. Are those fighting words . They are. I actually think the second half of that sound byte is more interesting. Its war. Hillary clinton took a lot of heat for declaring republicans being her enemies. This is a great piece of evidence. The two frontrunners in the race are not as concerned about the middle. They are not appealing to independents and moderates. They are about revving up their bases and their opportunity to win the race. We have seen this trump clinton battle or war as he calls it escalate with trump going after bush and Hillary Clinton will draw more into it as she comes back to the campaign trail. He is saying this is more war than politics. War can be politics. Is this a downshift for the weekend . You know, most of the candidates are down today. They will take this holiday as a last opportunity to get a bit of family time in. You will see them ramp into high gear. It is a dead sprint through january to the iowa caucuses. Get some rest, eric bradner. We have a lot going on in the next 300 days. Thank you. Nice to see you. Thanks for getting up for us. Happy new year. The last chance to trade stocks for the year. The big story, another huge drop in oil. 3 slump in oil. Oil is now down 30 for the year. That is a big move for commodity. Progress report on stocks. Ending where they started. Stocks moved sideways. The s p right now is up 0. 2 for 2015. Californias equal pay laws are tougher. It requires equal pay for men and women doing the same job. January 1st, equal wages for men and women who do similar work regardless of formal job description. The law prohibits employers from firing workers who disclose the pay of coworkers. Equal pay advocates plan to use this law for model for seven other states. Twitter is changing policy on violent posts. The company said it is taking steps to identify users who tweet hateful and violent speech and kick them off the social network. Social networks have faced criticism for failing to stop threatening items. Many people believe bullying is part of that. Real hateful thing. Many say it is about time twitter changed its policy. Hopefully people will chill out a bit. They hide behind that anonymity. Bombshell felony sex charges against bill cosby. How are his lawyers and his alleged victims responding . New day has that part of the story right now. Bill cosby made two sexual advances at her that were rejected. Bill cosby charged. 12 years after the incident. He could go to prison for ten years if convicted. I wasnt sure if a criminal case would be filed against mr. Cosby. Two suspects arrested in turkey with suicide bombing gear. Brussels canceled new years festivities. 6,000 Police Officers here in times square. Their ambition is to kill as many people as possible. New years eve in new york city will be the safest place in the world to be. The waters are still rising. At this point, we are waiting on the county to decide whether or not we have to leave. What looks like the river behind me, that is the highway. This is new day last day. Our coined day phrase. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to your new day. Its thursday, december 31st. Chris is off. John berman joins us. Great to have you with us. We begin this morning with bill cosby, for the first time after decades of accusations on wednesday, the disgraced comedian faced sexual Assault Charges. The charges coming just before the statute of limitations would have expired. At least 50 women have accused cosby of drugging and assaulting them. Cosby is free on bail. And back at home in his massachusetts home this morning. His lawyers say theyre going to mount a vigorous defense. And claim that cosby is the victim of a political prosecution. What will all of this case mean for the other accusers . Were going to begin our coverage with cnns jean casarez in elkins park, pennsylvania. Jean, good morning. Reporter good morning, this is the courthouse that bill cosby walked into yesterday. There are certain moments of american courts that will never be forgot an. The arraignment of bill cosby is one of them. [ laughter ] reporter once americas beloved tv dad, now disgraced Comedian Bill Cosby arm in arm with his legal team, stumbling as he arrived for his arraignment in pennsylvania wednesday. Mr. Cosby, anything to say . Reporter facing criminal sexual Assault Charges for the first time. The 78yearold released on a 1 million bail for three counts of alleged aggravated indecent assault