CHETRY: Right now, we're getting geared up for, of course, for New Year's Eve. The big Apple celebration, the big on in Times Square and the countdown before the countdown, this is when organizers test out confetti at the cross roads of the world. They did this yesterday.</s>JOHNS: I don't get that.</s>CHETRY: They want to see, there they go. They're testing it out right there.</s>JOHNS: If it's not, what are they going to do?</s>CHETRY: I guess they're going to make more confetti, go back to the paper shredded. Two thousand pounds of this stuff will be released as the clock hits midnight on New Year's Day.</s>JOHNS: All right, it could be a really happy New Year for someone perhaps the next shot at the mega millions jackpot on Friday night, New Year's Eve. There has not been a winner for a while. The jackpot is now at $237 million.</s>CHETRY: Nice.</s>JOHNS: We, of course, follow the rules here at CNN. There will be, on New Year's Eve, a program that you have seen for the last couple years. Kathy Griffin and Anderson Cooper live at 11:00 p.m. Eastern. We'll be right back in a minute.
Early Midnight in Times Square