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3:00 pm and in a normal year 60,000 people would crowd out in the streets below the ball that eventually drops this year, they will cabinet 15,000 but a year ago it was down to almost nothing so we are seeing closer returned to normal as we wait for that 12,000 pound ball, you dont realize that when you see on tv, 12,000 pounds, 12 feet wide. the weather in new york city is going to turn nice. lets dive into the forecast, look at your forecast, current temperatures 50 degrees and if you live in ...

Oklahoma city. by the time the ball drops folks out here hanging around 50/51 throughout the day, the entire night as we ring in 2022. fox news as you know is going to be in nashville this evening. they will be down there. temperatures closer to 70 degrees with a chance of isolated thunderstorm and new years day forecast is what i will leave you with, some rain across the ohio river valley, snow in the middle of the country, that is how we will be kicking off the next year. otherwise what have w...

Talk about all day every day and then you get home and you hold this little, you know, 7 pound ball of love and all he wants to do is sleep and eat and smile and, you know. >> and mom is responsible for the eating part in the sense that you are doing it naturally? >> yes, i am. its amazing. its sort of incredible that the human body not only provides you with the immense love that you naturally and immediately have for another human you just met, but that you can provide everything they need, an...

Talk about all day every day and then you get home and you hold this little, you know, 7 pound ball of love and all he wants to do is sleep and eat and smile and, you know. >> and mom is responsible for the eating part in the sense that you are doing it naturally? >> yes, i am. its amazing. its sort of incredible that the human body not only provides you with the immense love that you naturally and immediately have for another human you just met, but that you can provide everything they need, an...

Talk about all day every day and then you get home and you hold this little, you know, 7 pound ball of love and all he wants to do is sleep and eat and smile and, you know. >> and mom is responsible for the eating part in the sense that you are doing it naturally? >> yes, i am. its amazing. its sort of incredible that the human body not only provides you with the immense love that you naturally and immediately have for another human you just met, but that you can provide everything they need, an...

Cancer. all systems go for the ball drop in times square tonight. it passed yesterdays test with flying colors. this years ball contains 32,000 lights. those are some of the top stories on this new years eve, tuesday, december 31st. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." welcome in on this new years eve. this year has gone by incredibly quickly. incredible. >> absolutely. it is not a bad time to be in new york city for new years eve. >> look at who is joining us, muhammad lil...

4:00 a.m. >> the crew. >> like the people. >> thats the -- theres a reason that people dont put that part of new years eve on tv. >> people who live in new york call it amateur hour. i think a lot of people realize that those that go to watch the ball drop, fine. those that stay after hours after the ball drop probably need to get to a party somewhere quickly. >> yeah. lets get started. we begin this half hour with a train wreck in north dakota. one train was carrying grain. the other oil. som...

All systems go for tonight. organizers tested the 12,000 pound ball yesterday and everything went fine. >> this years ball has 32,000 lights and 2600 waterford crystals, all formed in a new designed called gifted imagination. the design inspired by a sketch written or drawn by 12-year-old patient at saint judes hospital. >> very nice. coming up, the weirdest photos that have gone viral over the past year. and what a momentous year at the "world news now" anchor desk with changes and anniversar...

This, muhammad? >> i was hoping you wouldnt say that. lets have a contest. why dont i try and you try. >> i like that. >> you go first. >> okay. >> oh, boy. >> all right. ive got it in front of me. >> 35 characters. kahaka -- i give up. >> im not going to try. that is really good. i would have broken it in to syllables. >> kay-ha-kee-ko -- thats where im stopping. >> i know people not being able to pronounce your name growing up but that is a mouthful. >> i wonder what her first name is, probabl...

>> if the movie owe -- "new years eve," it didnt work. >> back in the 1980s, that ball has changed it used to be in a janitors closet and there were eight or nine guys that pulled it down with a rope and guessed at the time. >> and now it is crystal. >> and rick was down there, like, growing up you would see it and it would move, and stop, and slid down, and now, it is on time. rick: well, it used to be done by pulleys and there was someone below with a stop watch running the whole thing, and it...