somewhere in the U.S., 11:55pm

pen *click* "And this is New Year's Rockin' Eve 2000. I am Dick Clark, observer to the chaos erupting down below. There has been a bomb reported in the area of Times Square, and people have been notified to evacuate from the area as soon as possible. And now, as you look down from the tower here, you can see the people...it looks like a tragedy, as people are stampeding each other to try and get away from here...the crowd was reported at 100,000 people before the evacuation was called.

"We will try to stay here as much as we can in the seconds up until midnight, but the police are warning us that they're going to pull the plug on us very soon now...hey! hey! what are you..."

*fzzzzzzzzzzz* "Heya, it's Daisy Fuentes, here from Hollywood, where 311 is about to play...let's keep it rockin' through the new year! Woooooo!"

*click* "This is CNN." <Crisis In Iraq>
"Several bombs have been reported to be in the vicinity of several metropolitan cities...in Washington, a bomb, possibly nuclear in origin, was found and defused just a block from the White House..."
*click*

television
telephone
radio
internet
11:50pm 11:55pm midnight "you're the real thing - even better than the real thing - child."