During its maximum enforcement period, running from Tuesday night through midnight Wednesday, CHP officers on patrol handed out 11 DUI arrests and 142 traffic citations - 86 for speeding.
Gold Coast-based music podcaster Brenton Larney was in the crowd for the six-minute show. At 11.01pm they gave her an extra minute— they cut the mic, and you heard the collective sigh from the crowd, he says. They'd been waiting for a while and they get two songs? So that was a bit ridiculous and it was just really disrespectful how she walked off, she was laughing they tried to give her flowers for her birthday and she just shrugged them off.
"People from all over the country and the world flooded into the heart of the Big Apple to see the iconic ball drop. The process, however, is not for the faint of heart."