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Which begins on ash wednesday. and nbc's bob brudel joins us live from new orleans and we should note completely sober just with the details. >> reporter: i am? >> way to get in the spirit. >> reporter: good morning. good morning to you, lynn. not telling you how i got these beads right here. it's just after 4:00 in the morning local time tuesday morning and it looks like these -- this crowd, thousands of people out here still got another hour or two left in them. probably the last hooray before they restart the partying later today for fat tuesday. what is interesting about this year is that ...

Years and happens to coin side with spring breaks and normally doesn't happen and not only the normal people to come frr mardi gras but spring breakers decided to come to bourbon street and hang out here. of course, fat tuesday today being the culmination of almost two weeks of celebration as you were alluding to earlier. it does end tonight at midnight and literally shut down bourbon street and clear it out for ash wednesday. >> it is 5:00 somewhere there. packed already in the streets. bob, you look like a popular guy in new orleans. thank you for taking the time to give us a little taste of...