ACOSTA: Here on the east coast, we're hours away from New Year's celebrations, but around the world, the clock has already struck midnight. Take a look.</s>CROWD: Two, one --</s>CROWD: Happy New Year!</s>CROWD: Three, two, one --</s>CROWD: Happy New Year!</s>ACOSTA: And happy New Year, everybody. That's it for me. The NEWSROOM continues right now with Martin Savidge.</s>MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN ANCHOR: Hello, everyone. I'm Martin Savidge. Thanks very much for joining me for these final hours of 2013. It is the holiday that everyone, no matter their creed or their country, celebrates. We're talking about the magic of New Year's, of course. And while it has yet to hit the United States, in much of the world, it is already 2014. It arrived in eye-dazzling style.</s>CROWD: Happy New Year!</s>SAVIDGE: Celebrations in Hong Kong and Taiwan. At this moment, New Year's is hitting the revelers in Pakistan, the Maldives and Amsterdam Island in the Indian Ocean. Back here, stateside, we're less than 10 hours away from the big event on the east coast. Of course, that is all the focus on New York's Times Square. In case you're wondering, the Times Square ball says it is set, even tweeting today, quote, "Here we go again. We need to rehearse seriously.
The World Rings in the New Year.