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CNN 5 Things

2025 is almost here, millions without power, Norovirus uptick & more

CNN 5 Things

CNN

Daily News, News

3.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Dozens of countries have already rung in the New Year with massive celebrations. A power outage left more than one million people without electricity in Puerto Rico. Boeing looks back at a year of incidents involving its aircrafts. The CDC warns that Norovirus cases are on the rise. And victims of history’s biggest Ponzi scheme are finally recovering their losses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hey there, from CNN. I'm Paola Ortiz with the five things you need to know for Tuesday, December 31st. It's New Year's Eve.

0:41.3

It's 2025 somewhere though.

0:44.3

New Zealand and Australia are some of the countries that have already rung in the new year.

0:52.3

Kiribati, a small island country in the Pacific, was the first place to ring in 2025.

0:58.1

On the other hand, Hawaii, American Samoa, and other U.S. minor outline islands will be some

1:03.2

of the last places to pop their corks.

1:06.2

It won't be 2025 until Wednesday morning, Eastern Time. Also on New Year's Eve, a massive power outage in Puerto Rico has left nearly 90% of

1:16.4

customers on the island without electricity. Nearly 1.3 million users, including businesses and

1:23.1

residences, were affected as of Tuesday morning. Luma Energy, the island's electricity distributor, announced Via X that the full power restoration process could take between 24 and 48 hours,

1:36.3

leaving some folks in the dark as the clock strikes midnight, ushering in the new year.

1:41.3

The outage is just the latest power interruption Puerto Ricans have had to deal

1:45.0

with as the island struggles with a fragile and poorly maintained power grid. Luma Energy took over

1:50.9

Puerto Rico's power distribution in 2021. CNN has reached out to authorities to learn more about

1:56.6

what caused the failure and what is being done to fix the issue. In 2024 has not been a great year for Boeing.

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