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Where there's going to be millions of spectators watching tonight. what we've learned from them the planning for this event really started months ago but actually getting on the ground to look at the barges where the fireworks will be taking off, that all happened about a week ago, and there's been some serious, serious details we're going to expect not only tonight but it's been going on again for the last week or so. one rare thing they haven't used yet they're going to this year, drones. the nypd are actually going to put drones up in the air. and they're going to use that technology to com...

Where some of the best views will be. brin, tell us what's ahead. >> reporter: there will be enormous crowds here. it will be a spectacular show. we'll zoom in on the brooklyn bridge. at the bottom of the bridge are these white packets. there are 15 i've counted. those are fire works. for the first time ever, fire works will be launched from the brooklyn bridge. this takes incredible security. they will have thousands of officers on the ground here. they were with the special operations team planning for this event for months. and then getting on the ground.

Brin, what will we see? >> reporter: this is the first time the former trump aide will set foot in court facing these 16 fraud charges. remember he was convicted of fraud charges, federal fraud charges earlier this year, and it was only just an hour after that that the manhattan district attorney then announced these 16 state charges and essentially saying no one is above the law. of course that timing was very calculated am. this essentially will make paul manafort pardon-proof from the president if he's actually convicted on these state charges. it'll be interesting to see how this case move...

We don't know if that will help someone survive such an incident. so many questions, but all hands are on deck. >> josh, stand by. thank you. myles, we'll come to you. brin, you have news that this was fatal? >> this was a fatality on this aircraft, helicopter. as we're reporting, again, we don't know how many people are on the helicopter when it had the hard or crash landing as frishls are describing it. we know one person died. not clear as you heard the governor say. there's casualties. according to all our sources we've been working, we have one person killed. we also know as josh was desc...

Better. like i said i think some of these european regulators are two steps ahead of the united states but we are now seeing in america are lawmakers both on the left and the right bipartisan interest in regulating facebook or try to create some consumer protections for facebook. when we say regulation that could be one of a dozen different things and think all of that remains to be determined. i'm curious to see when we get a democratic house in january what it could look like, what some sort of oversight of facebook, google, twitter, et cetera, could look like because for the first time, it ...