good morning. happy thanksgiving. this is the day you ve been waiting for. carol costello, thursday, november 24th. ali and christina have the day off. so glad you re with us. i have all of the fattening stuff laid out for me already here. it s already here. they ordered in thanksgiving dinner for us at 3:00 a.m. the turkey is crusty now. still edible. the stuffing is quite good actually. first up this morning, one thing we re very thankful for, our brave men and women in the military serving here and overseas. we have about 20,000 troops in iraq right now but the forces are flooding out as a december deadline for withdrawal approaches. thousan thousands sent to kuwait waiting to be reassigned or sent back home. happy thanksgiving, martin. reporter: good morning, carol. happy thanksgiving to you. it is a happy thanksgiving especially for those soldiers gathered here at camp virginia. let me tell you why. we re located about 20 kilometers south of the border with iraq.