Las Vegas starts to party as 2021 ends — BLOG

Check successful with america each nighttime arsenic our squad covers New Year’s Eve successful Las Vegas from the Strip to Fremont Street.

5:50 p.m.

Strip closure begins

Officials have begun closing a ample information of the Las Vegas Strip arsenic an estimated 300,000 revelers descend connected the city.

The Metropolitan Police Department expected the Strip to beryllium wholly closed to conveyance postulation by 8 p.m. betwixt Spring Mountain Road and Mandalay Bay Road.

Eight hotel-casinos are scheduled to enactment successful an eight-minute fireworks show astatine midnight, but weather could enactment a damper connected the celebration.

— Carri Geer Thevenot

5:35 pm

Lining up astatine Fremont Street Experience

Susan and Terry Eckstein from Appleton, Wisconsin, were the archetypal 2 radical successful enactment to get into the Fremont Street Experience New Year’s Eve party, which was to commencement astatine 6 p.m. This is their archetypal travel to Las Vegas.

“It conscionable seems similar a raucous time,” Terry Eckstein said.

They’re astir excited to perceive A Flock of Seagulls execute arsenic 1 of the bands making up the ’80s and ’90s themed party.

Terry Eckstein started humming the band’s classical “I ran.”

— David Wilson