New Year's Eve ball takes a practice run in Times Square ahead of the big countdown. JohnBDias is high in the sky with all the action:
As a huge crowd gathers to ring in 2023, more than 100 million Americans will have their eyes on the ionic ball drop. The ball has gotten stuck before -- in the 1950s, it got jammed because they used ropes. But that's not the case anymore.
The ball is 12 feet in diameter, weighs 6 tons, has more than 2,000 crystals and 32,000 LED lights, which create a wonderful jewel in the sky. At 6 p.m. Saturday, they will flip the switch to lift the ball. At 60 seconds to midnight, the countdown begins. "The secret is, yes it takes two minutes to go up and see the whole thing. But when the ball comes down, it only travels halfway, because as it reaches those numerals, it turns off and the numerals light up. And then it just sits right there below the numerals until the next morning," said Jeff Straus, co-organizer of Times Square New Year's Eve."Even the ball needs to take a break.
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