A crowd of more than a million people poured into New York City’s Times Square under heavy security to celebrate the arrival of 2016 with the traditional dropping of the New Year’s Eve crystal ball. They have been empowered to shut down the event at any time and evacuate the area if necessary.
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After the Paris attacks in November, ISIS terrorists released a propaganda video showing images of Times Square and a suicide bomber.
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And to welcome the new millennium, the crystal ball was created.
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Enabled by Livestream, the Times Square Alliance webcast puts you at the epicenter of the festivities, with all the live music, interviews with celebrities and revelers and behind-the-scenes stories – all leading up to the ball drop that starts exactly one minute before midnight EST.
Officers will have radiation detectors, metal detectors and bomb sniffing dogs, a counter terrorism team will guard entry points with long guns, and a thousand security cameras will help keep an eye on it all.
“Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest 2016” at 8 p.m. Hosts Ryan Seacrest and Jenny McCarthy will be in Times Square while Fergie will be on the West Coast.
“New York is ready”, said Mayor Bill DeBlasio.
The New York Police Department (NYPD) said it is “very, very confident that New Year’s Eve inNew York City will be the safest place in the world to be”.
City police have been on alert throughout the holiday season, deploying the first 100 officers of the department’s Critical Response Command just three days after the November 13 terror attacks in Paris killed 130 people. Estimates for worldwide viewership of the Times Square celebration stand at more than 1 billion.
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Once inside the square and funneled into one of the dozens of viewing pens monitored by law enforcement, visitors were barred from leaving or re-entering those corrals until the end of the event.
