states shut down. many of them are finally reopening later on this morning. colorado reportedly seeing ten foot snow drifts, rough for driver, but great for skiers. >> gretchen: taxpayer dollars hard at work in washington. check out your screen right now. yep. that's a shrimp on a treadmill. last year we told you that's what your money paid for. oklahoma senator tom coburn's wasteful 2011 reveals more than 6 1/2 billion dollars was wasted. it went to a video game preservation center. whatever that is. 765,000 spent on pancakes for yuppies. 550,000 was used to fund a documentary about how rock music contributed to the collapse of the soviet union. and 48,700 for a festival promoting hawaii's chocolate industry. i thought that it was all about leis. >> brian: do you remember this from ace ventura, pet detective?