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FBN’s Lauren Simonetti with Philips Lighting CEO Ed Crawford on celebrating New Year’s Eve in Times Square.
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It's new years -- so -- -- Times Square.
But a block from -- -- -- here in New York Saturday.
Is it synonymous with -- -- -- for millions of years of American people worldwide and Lar in Cincinnati standing smack bad in the middle love it.
How cold -- it -- -- at this you know it's only eight volatile.
Is -- -- I'm so glad you last underneath my blood is.
A warmer for my hands and that might see is this thing here there I kid -- not.
And -- here only been here for quite some time.
Thing for one of the big us.
Times -- New Year's Eve celebrations the Russell ever seen a billion people are gonna watch what happens right behind me tonight.
-- a couple of hours from now 11 o'clock they -- to shut everything down right did you their massive security -- And three and people start coming in unpacking the ten and they can't leave once they come in and there are no -- -- unite.
So -- a lot of young people -- -- about there and starting at 3 PM.
And they'll stay there until the -- -- at twelve but.
-- stand.
So it's gonna flip the switch to get the volatile bottling up its twelfth season 121000 pounds and that man is -- CEO Philips lighting.
I mr.
Crawford and he's joining me now I'm doing desperate how many years.
Well this is my sixty ever built has been involved the Times Square ball since 1999 to this -- thirteenth year.
There anything different this year.
Well that we a couple years ago we converted the ball over to LED technology.
So -- the big news for this year is -- we've converted over all of the digits when.
When it comes down the ball -- the bottom in this 2013.
Those Raleigh LED as well they -- 85%.
Less energy than the -- they replaced so.
Very energy efficient.
And -- -- property night had lesson earlier and he was very gracious to tell me that my glasses.
Had LED lighting and them believe it or not.
-- -- -- Hate to say those are not -- but you know we that the ball is up on the 22 floor one Times Square so that's it.
Yet to see it from a couple thousand feet away so what those -- Phillips let's see on LEDs that we use these zero a little less expensive than the reason the ball.
Obviously -- -- more than a million dollars OK ladies that the yearly new years T.
And I'll send it back.
You're talking about people pack in his hand yelling need to know two words on New Year's Eve in Times Square.
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