soledad. you look gorgeous. you like the hair. you satisfy. it s all about the hair at the end of the day. see you guys. it could be the end of the fen year war. leon panetta says there is a new goal, end come bad and switch the role of u.s. and nato troops from fighting and training. presidential candidates already weighing in. mitt romney s trashing the plan. the chairman of the house armed services committee calls it premature. we re going to talk about that? just a second. first barbara starr is at the pentagon. barbara, we ve got about 89,000 boots on the ground in afghanistan. let s talk about what this would mean for them. you know, kyra, good morning. this will mean they goin get some clear signals about when they will be coming home. that s important to so many military families. but let s go back to what you just said. you put it exactly right. it is a goal now that leon panetta is talking about to transition from combat to training the afghans by the end of
parts of it are gone. the town of about 600 people, parts of it washed away. everyone got away safely, but they don t have much to return to. this is what it looks like at ground level. a correspondent who shot this compared it to joplin, missouri after the tornado. she was stranded there by rising floodwaters. she joins us shortly still stranded there, actually, tonight. irene dumped as much as a foot of rain on the northeast onto already waterlogged ground onto already full rivers and waters. look at that truck trying to get through the water. that water has to go somewhere and it doesn t care who or what is in the way. from virginia to vermont, rivers and streams were overflowing, some now well above record flood levels or soon to be. largely because of the flooding, damage from hurricane irene could hit $7 billion, making it one of the ten most expense si disasters in american history. as many as 5 million people are still without power. lines are down everywhere it hit.
reason why. you re looking where the town of prattsville, new york used to be. parts of it are gone. the town of about 600 people, parts of it washed away. everyone got away safely, but they don t have much to return to. this is what it looks like at ground level. a correspondent who shot this compared it to joplin, missouri after the tornado. she was stranded there by rising floodwaters. she joins us shortly still stranded there, actually, tonight. irene dumped as much as a foot of rain on the northeast onto already waterlogged ground onto already full rivers and waters. look at that truck trying to get through the water. that water has to go somewhere and it doesn t care who or what is in the way. from virginia to vermont, rivers and streams were overflowing, some now well above record flood levels or soon to be. largely because of the flooding, damage from hurricane irene could hit $7 billion, making it one of the ten most expense si disasters in american history. as many
anderson cooper on your network during katrina, shep smith on fox news during katrina, are two great examples of that cronkite tradition. i m glad you brought that up. i was going to say that, doing that and also during the oil spill, same thing. anderson did some very good work. other people, brian williams on nbc news did very good work during katrina. all those things were not talked about. they were forgotten in this article. there are people who are doing advocacy. we sat around thinking who got a bill passed. what stewart did was get the ball rolling. he didn t take it all the way, but he got the ball rolling to get this bill through congress. there are a few other examples of very specific activism like that. i would argue that rachel maddow on the issue of don t ask, don t tell has been influenceal. she did a good job on the oil spill as well. she did a very good job on the oil spill. this was also a spoof on the daily show a couple months back. we have to leave it ther