Convert with a history of some Mental Illness allegedly plotting to kidnap and behead individuals in rochester or attack restaurants with some sort of bomb. We are told there are no bomb parts found but he did apparently purchase gloves, ropes and ties that could be used in a kidnapping along with numerous knives and hatchets, that according to Law Enforcement officials. Again, we are attempting to reach out to his attorney in the rochester area and his family to try to learn more, but again, the apparent plot, an apparent suspect wanting to target new years eve in rochester, new york, arrested and charged this morning. Back to you. Jonathan, thank you. Are there any indications of just how close he was to actually doing this . Did he have all the equipment to do something tonight when investigators moved in . Reporter according to the recordings and the conversations, the fbi was on to him for some time, certainly since just around christmas, if not before then. And again, they had the help of but it does appear went out and certainly bought parts like ropes, masks, ties that could tie somebody up and numerous knives. So, it certainly suggests there was intent as this investigation is ongoing. He appears to be the lone actor communicating with isis activist or isis supporters overseas. Jonathan, reading the complaint, it appears that he made a video right before last night, in fact, recording him and his pledging his allegiance in isil and someone in the car with him, recorded that video, that confidential informant. Police dont believe that informant or confidential informant number one were involved in the plot itself . Were they looking to see if there are other people he may have been communicating with in the u. S. . Reporter of course that is always a concern and they are going to track every item that he his phone, his computer to see. The investigators i have spoken with as of now say he appears to will want to speak to his relatives, if they know anything, but as of now, he is charged as a lone actor with Material Support for terrorism. It is a charge that carries up to 20 years in prison. And again, he talked about wanting to build a bomb and target restaurant. As of now, it does not appear that he had any bomb making materials in any significant way or parts that would build a bomb but did he obtain knives, masks, that could suggest he was going to go out and at least attack using those kinds of weapons. Another thing thats pretty clear in the complaint, this individual did not have much money, did not have many financial resources. We know these kinds of plots often dont take much money, but he may not have even had the cash to purchase a gun or the bomb making parts needed, which perhaps could explain why he allegedly went out and bought these knives. Looks like that, jonathan. Those ski masks, the knives and machete at a walmart in rochester. Thankfully, this was a plan that was apparently thwarted. We appreciate the update and of course, news 4 will continue to bring you updates on this obviously developing story throughout the day. Stay with us and online for more information. Times square crawling with Police Officers, people there for safety. They have been there for hours, revelers, as you can see there, gathering by the thousands already. They are penned in, they will be staying there until that ball drops to bring in the new year. Less than 12 hours from now. Katherine creag now in the area that police are calling the safest place on earth. Kat . Reporter they are indeed, pat and guys. On this side, by the west side, 54th street and 8th avenue, crowds, big crowds expected to gather here. Thats why the steel barricades are set up, police cars here, Police Officers are here and seccing why securing times square around the more than 1 Million People expected to be here for the music, the celebration and the countdown. 6,000 nypd officers will be in and around the area there will be 14 entrances with security wands and machines. Once inside, revelers will go through a secondary screening and wont be allowed to leave and come back. Those who know best this huge event say it is worth it being here. It is always a full house. The crowd always goes all the way up to central park south. But they will probably get here earlier because it is a little bit warmer and because theres a lot of great talent performing tonight. Reporter though it may not look glamorous sitting on a curb eating cookies, this is actually a part of their dream come true, to be in the middle of it all, to ring in the new year. I love new york. I love times square. It was my lifetime dream to know this place. Reporter these friends from argentina secured their is spot this morning on 47th street and broadway. They know the wait will be long before they can start counting down. Are you ready to stay . Yes, we are prepared for this. Reporter for others who know they couldnt sit here for hours an wait for the ball drop, they took in times square in the wee hours of the morning before the crowds started to gather. It was so much fun, just to be in the midst of everything that is going on. It is like fun. Its new years eve. Have a good time. Reporter and the nypd wants to remind everyone, no big bags new york backpacks, lawn chairs will not be allowed in. Gus and pat that group of friends from argentina, only have a little bag of cookies with them to snack on and their mobile phones and thats it Katherine Creag live in times square. At least they are in good spirits. Trying to get to times square, anywhere in midtown, you know you are going to run into roadblocks today. Emily west has the street closures that you all need to know about. Gus and pat there will be a lot of street closures for the new years eve celebration tonight. 43rd to 48, broadway, 47 to 48 and 46th and 47th between 6 and 8ful start agent 1, a few more streets added to the list, go all the way up to 59 street as well as 43rd and 47th between 6th and 8th avenue and then at 5 00, 42nd street, that will be closed as well. In addition to the previous streets that i mentioned. And at 6 30, a couple more to add on, 48th between 5th and 9th avenues, so, that will be closed. Also, we do have some subway delays starting at 7 00, some times square subway accesses closed on the n, q and r, by passing 49th street and uptown 1 will by pass 50th street. Commuter rails, extra afternoon and Evening Service just to get to you times square. Back to you. All right, thank you. They are already driving home in other parts of the world because they have already running in the new year. That is auckland, new zealand, one of the first cities to usher it happened at 6 a. M. , our time. Fireworks, a light show, lots of screams, lots of kisses set off atop the citys sky tower there. Two hours later, wow, they always do it well out there in sydney. This is a spectacular fireworks display over the harbour bridge in australia. More than 7 tons of fireworks were used, more than 1 Million People were there to watch that happen. An hour ago, they do it big in china, too. And singing in english. This massive show lit up the skies over hong kong, celebration at victoria harbour, also one of the largest in the world. Auld lang syne in any language is the official language. More fireworks. Look, gus, more. Can there be more . This is in thailand minutes ago. Yes. Beautiful fireworks there. It is the annual celebration at the temple of dawn in bangkok. Tourists joining the natives there every year. And if you cant make it to times square, ring in the new year right here on nbc four. New years eve with carson daly starts at 11 30 tonight after news 4 at 11 00. And new at noon, police once again called to the strip club with where a knicks player was shot yesterday. This time around, investigating an attempted arson. News 4s Michael George is in maspeth now with the developing story. Michael what are you hearing . Reporter well, gus, right now, detectives are inside the club trying to find out exactly what happened. Heres what we know, this morning, two people drove up, threw molotov cocktails of the window of the club and took off. I spoke to a manager of the strip club off camera. He says he has no idea who would do this and why. Remember, just yesterday, New York Knicks player cleanthonier was shot while leaving this club and right now, police are trying to find out if the two crimes are connected. Police are back at cityscape strip club. Someone threw two molotov 5 30 in the morning, one day after New York Knicks player Cleanthony Early was shot and robbed after leaving the same club. We spoke with jermaine, an uber driver who frequently drives customers to the club. I think its kind of weird, basically, someone tried to burn it down the day after a ball player got shot. Reporter a manager of cityscapes tells me the club was closed when the attempted arson took place, no one was hurt and theres only minimal damage. The clubs in the middle of an Industrial Area but a hotspot for the rich and famous. A lot of celebrity hang out here, hiphop artists, ball players dom here. Reporter police are still trying to figure out who ambushed cleanthony wednesday morning. His uber car was stopped by six armed men after he left cityscapes, he was robbed and shot in the leg. Now theres another crime to solve. People who work nearby worry the two cases are connected and they are hoping the culprits are caught. I hope so cause the a he is good money for uber drivers out here. Reporter and police say the right now, thats all they are releasing about those suspects. As for early, he is still recovering from that gunshot wound. Last night, he tweeted out, thank you all for your thoughts and prayers. I appreciate you all. We are live in the maspeth section of queens, Michael George, news 4, new york. Michael live with that developing story. Thank you, michael. Police hunting for four suspects who posed as Police Officers during a carjacking. It happened in the ford dam height section of the bronx, 182nd street. You can see how it happened in this surveillance video. The suspects pulled up behind the victims and approached their car. All four had basketballs and what appeared to be protective vests. Now, after ordering the victims out, a suspect drove off in their minivan. New at noon, a condo fire still burning out of control in bridgeport, connecticut. That fire started about 6 00 this morning on charles street in bridge port and firefighters since they got that call. 120 people drill. Ven out of their apartments. Authorities not letting anyone back in obviously because the buildings structure is unsafe. No one was hurt. Next at noon, one day after bill cosby was charged with criminal court, his attorney starts talking about plea deals, but its not what you might think. And we are putting the finishing touches on a record breaking december, however, some chillier changes in the works for the new year. I will have the complete a family in new jersey is reeling from the death of a College Student when he fell from his death at the four seasons in midtown. Tracie strahan has our story. Reporter pat and gus, Police Sources identify the victim as Connor Cummings. We spoke to his aunt who was here early this morning who says he is from rockaway, new jersey and came here to the four seasons simply to have fun with a friend. I mean, he is a young kid a good kid. Reporter she rusheded to four seasons on 57 this morning heartbroken after being notified that her nephew fell nine stories tos i his death. Connor cummings was not a guest at the luxury hotel but his love of photography may have led him to the roof. Might have snuck up to take a picture, but all the doors were open. Reporter Police Confirm they found the body of coupling yous on an interior landing of the hotel around 11 15 last night. Witnesses say crime scene investigators and emergency equipment to try and reach him. The person they are trying to reach is in a position, is in a difficult area and they brought in ladders and i did see how they were bringing in like a stretcher, like one of those emergency stretchers. Reporter this morning, there was no extra security seen outside of the hotel after what stunned guests say is an unfortunate accident. Thats a tragedy of it, im sorry that he felt compelled to do this. Reporter police havent identified the friend that Connor Cummings was with at the time of his fall. They will say they did question him, but no criminality is suspected. Thats the very latest from the Four Seasons Hotel in midtown, im tracie strahan, now back to you. Thanks. In todays money report now, another countdown and this one is for everyone hoping to save money on a new cell phone. Bill griffeth joins us from cnbcs Global Headquarters with that and a look at the market. Happy new year. Happy new year to you. An unusual year, a lot of right where we started, going to be almost unchanged for both the dow and s p. We are lower today, if we can muster a rally, finish virtually on the dow. If you are looking for a new phone with a twoyear contract, new wireless phone, you had better hurry, the last wireless carrier to even offer a twoyear deal, at t, says that is going to change next week on january 8th. After that, everybody has to pay full price for a new phone. The good news is customers will have the ability to move from carrier to carrier with greater ease because youre not locked into a twoyear deal. The question is will we save money in the pros southwest this new pricing model . That remains to be seen. Now all carriers offer fullprice on the cell phone, no twoyear contract. Thats the deal that we have got going into 2016 right now. We will see what happens. All right, bill. Happy new year, everybody. Happy new year, bill. See ya. See ya. Time for a big forecast a we know what you like new pat . On cue. Stand by. Oh, gosh, i dropped my horn. Never mind. Happy new year. [ honking ] [ cranking ] what do we have, besides a headache . A couple of breaks here and there, temperatures in the 40s all day holding in the upper 40s, where we will spend most of the afternoon, things will be pretty quiet, weather headlines pointing to that lots of clouds, a break or two, chilly midnight hour, not terribly cold, had midnights on new years eve much colder than this one and chilly start to new year 2016, however, december, anything but chilly, the warmest december on record, we will tally up the final numbers today, average temperature so far is 51 degrees, thats over 13 above normal. The next closest warmest december was 2001 at 44. 1 degrees. So, again, this was easily a record breaker, second month in a row that has been the warmest ever in central park. City, low and mid40s northwest, 50 across long island and down the jersey shore. Clouds clinging to the area, find a thin spot here and there, every time it things to you the a bit, the clouds tend to thicken up again, lowlevel clouds dealing with, too, i dont expect much in the way of sunshine in the afternoon, a break here or two. Heading out this evening, folks will be 45 at 7 00, 9 43, 11 00, windchills in the 40s. Clouds linger, the breaks today, partly cloudy, chilly, overnight, 35, 20s in some of the suburbs. The new year, 43, the afternoon high, still above normal, mind, normal High Temperature is 39. Drop the ball new years eve, 40 degrees, it will feel like 34, but again, should be fairly pleasant, bundle up, dress accordingly, dress in layers but the wind will make it feel colder. Low 40s saturday, sunday looking pretty good less wind, temperatures mid40s, a real shot of cold air, coldest air of come in early next week. Look at mondays high, only 35. Thats cold. 26 the low, we stay in the 30s tuesday, but back to the 30s on wednesday, the other thing, guys, you notice on that 7day forecast, no snow there still in the snow drought, stay that way the first few days of the new year. Look forward. Happy new year. Happy new year to you, too. Still ahead at noon, bill cosbys attorneys not backing down. New information on her plan to meet the moores were the moore family, and as you can see, we need an internet that can do more. We do more games, and more streaming. So we need more speed. Thats why we switched to Time Warner Cable. You can too. Call now. Now we can connect more devices, at the same time. The wifi in this house is amazing. So is my guacamole. Ha, look at that [laughs] Time Warner Cable even has an internet plan for us. Get the Internet Speed thats right for you. From 3 megs to ultra fast 300 megs they even made it easy to switch with a onehour arrival window. Why settle for less, when you can get more get 50 meg internet for 39. 99 per month. Call now. You could get free installation, no data cap, and access to over 400,000 twc wifi hotspots with select plans. Bill cosby is free on bond and his attorney promising to clear his name. Cosby charged yesterday with aggravated indecent assault for an incident that occurred 12 years ago, prosecutors say a former Temple University claimed that cosby drugged her and sexually assaulted her. Does boys lawyer says the unjustly and the charges are the result of a political football. Speaking on today show, she made it clear that a plea deal is not an option. My client is not guilty and there will be no consideration on our part of any sort of arrangement. A preliminary hearing is set for january 14th. If convicted, cosby faces up to ten years in jail and would have to register as a sex offender. We are coming right back at turns out there are 11 words and phrasez you shouldnt be using in the new year. Michigan Lake Superior university revealed the list of words that should be banned, they include using the word so to begin answering a spreading, also banned in 1999 for use in phrases for im so down with this gus. They shut down manspreading made popular by mta posters. Kim kardashian can no longer break the internet and the phrase giving me life is out. Did that very well. Thank you, gus. Tonight on news 4, new york starting at 5 00, more on the breaking news starting here, near the past of a new york man facing isislinked terror charges. Also a closer look at the stepped up security measures in times square for all those revelers who will be there tonight. Breaking news and weather updates any time, anywhere, go to nbcnewyork. Com or our mobile app. New york live is next. Have a great day