alan pizzey, cbs news, london. >> mitchell: the last u.s. combat troops are leaving iraq an end to the nearly nine-yearlong u.s. mission. the end of the war makes 23-year-old david hickland the final american fatality, this according to the pentagon. he died november 14 in an i.e.d. attack outside buying. he was the 4,484th american to die in iraq. and joining us from baghdad is correspondent elizabeth palmer. liz, i know you have been in and out of baghdad now for almost a decade. how would describe the city today? >> reporter: in a word, russ, it's broken. we were out driving around today #-r. there's garbage everywhere, smashed concrete, blast walls. the services are not functioning very well at all. people are getting five to six hours of electricity a day. hospitals are terribly overcrowded, and in some areas there is even problems with water. the iraqis are really fed up. they keep being told that theirs is an oil-rich country so they're asking, "oh, yeah, well, where's the money being spent because it's not being spent on services for

. >> this morning in italy things are getting better in the euro zone as alan pizzey reports. >> reporter: italian prime minister said a press conference that a package for italy was ready but the turbulent phase wasn't over yet and a lot of work to be done in spite of government debt having gone well. the yield, the interest rate italy has to pay was just under 7%. the sign the markets were banking on, if not happy, but less than miserable new year for the ailing euro zone. on wednesday the rate on six-month treasury bills, credit worthiness were half to just under 3%. >> remember, that's the k level that was deemed when portugal and greece and other kind of struggling nations after they went through that 7% and they found it hard to borrow from the main markets. >> reporter: the replacement of silvio berlusconi may have helped calm the markets, but there are concerns that his government may not be able to hold on to political power. tax increases and severe pension reforms haven't gone down well with trade unions and opposition parties here and italy's growth rate is expected to contrac