shep: you are good but you are not groundhog. you are good, it s groundhog s day. [ laughter ] you are good. countless americans rely on punxsutawney phil but it turns out he has no clue on what he is doing. they chanted his name and roared what his handlers got him out. the people gathered in punxsutawney, pennsylvania, they didn t like what. as i look at the crowd, many shadows do i see. shep: what winter, phil? another mild day around these parts, temperatures that do not dip and snow that does not fall, but phil knows his stuff, right? punxsutawney fill says
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bill on on tha is going to spend new money then you need to say what you are going to eliminate to pay for the funding. holocaust museum gets $50 million a year. that is about half of its operating budget. kennedy center gets $22 million a year. and chuck schumer is fighting for the museum here to get the support, too. this is sacred ground not only to new yorkers but to americans and to have the memorial the museum in as good as way as possible, not limited by lack of funding makes sense. reporter: and the museum was originally supposed to open this september but a spokesman won t say when had they hope to open now. shep: a day after the bloody
telegraph that 2013 would be the end of the u.s. and nato s combat role in afghanistan. here is what john mccain said earlier today. taliban and our enemies, see, i told you the americans were leaving. and aides most associated with the war david petraeus say there was nothing new in panetta s announcement. he blamed the media for miss interpreting panetta. it was an overanalysis. if you read what he said sir, i if could, this is exactly in line with the policy that we started back in 2011, we started combat operation. let me say this. and completed by the end of
if you re finding yourself feeling tinmanish if you need to get the water works going proving the heart is still there thumping, you go to youtube and type in the search feature homecoming soldier iraq. in fact there is a whole video blog called the welcome home blog, just videos, pages and pages of videos of american soldiers coming home from the wars. surprising their families and their kids and in some cases their dogs welcoming them home. if you re feeling tinmanish and need to exercise your tear ducts, this is the way to do it. afghanistan war continues, 90,000 americans deployed, the target date for ending that war is not this year, not next year but the end of the year after that. the iraq war is over. it has been six weeks since the last u.s. troops crossed in kuwait for the last time. while the trip back from iraq led to lots of emotional homecomings, for families at