My MacBook froze and won't turn on now.

I was watching Netflix and first the screen froze but the sound was still working. I thought it was Netflix having issues so I hit escape and nothing worked. I closed my MacBook so the sound would stop and it did. But then I opened it up 5 seconds later and the screen is black and is acting like its turned off. I tried to turn it on but nothing is happening. Not even the apple on the back lights up. The fan was loud too when it shut off. The fan is still on and it is loud. What happened? I bought it not even a week ago.

Reset SMC.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964
Choose the method for:
"Resetting SMC on portables with a battery you should not remove on your own".
A new Mac comes with 90 days of free tech support from AppleCare.
AppleCare: 1-800-275-2273
Contact Apple.
Best.

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Just to expand a bit on Sig's great advice...
"Try Disk Utility
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4. Click the disclosure triangle to the left of the hard drive icon to display the names of your hard disk volumes and partitions.
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107120
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