hraoers -- years later and greg palkot is streaming live in baghdad and he is live on the ground there. greg. reporter error jenna, we are approaching the end of the road for the u.s. military here in iraq. it's a momentous time for those of us who have covered this thing for years, the most importantly, for the iraqi people. what we're hearing from the u.s. military right now is we are well below the 6000 level in terms of u.s. troops inside of iraq. that is up from -- that is down from a peak of about 170,000, in 2007, to a large extent, those troops are leaving via kuwait, and they all have to be out by the end of the year, according to a strategic agreement with iraq. but we are told, in fact, that a lot of those folks could be home for christmas. but what exactly are they leaving behind, what has the u.s. accomplished, what kind of condition is iraq in right now? that's something that we've been trying find out in the past couple of days. here's a brief glimpse of what we saw in baghdad today: >> i was here a few years ago in baghdad, u.s. army