. >> still,, carrie engel is here to answer your plant and gardening questions. e-mail your questions to plantquestions@wbaltv.com. and some closure as their reign of muammar gaddafi comes to nato, and a final resting place of the ex-leader's body. >> we will look at a dramatic cool down in the seven-day did here is a live look at the waves at ocean city. 64 in the inner harbor. >> libyan officials said that muammar gaddafi, his son, and a top aide have been buried in a secret location. the burial took place this morning with relatives and officials in attendance. islamic prayers were read over the three bodies, which had been locked in cold storage since gaddafi was captured on thursday. the former leader spent his final weeks shuttling between hideouts. interim leaders have promised an investigation into the circumstances surrounding gaddafi's death. the australian government is receiving harsh criticism after issuing a kill order for a great white shark that killed an american over the weekend. australian authorities believe that the shark is responsible for t

. -- carrie engel. >> some minature house plants in here. with the halloween holiday coming up, we think we ought to halloween this up. >> absolutely. >> all sorts of little pumpkins. >> they have skeletal limbs. we have them here. it is a lot of fun to do. we'll show you how to put one of these together. >> again you have a focal point here. >> this is a patio. we have a nice flat rock. hopefully plants around there. break up the edge a little bit. we'll leave one wide edge for the bicycle area. >> put one in there now. in a minature garden, it would be a tree. >> there you go. some other small plands plants. a little height and spread. >> just like your regular landscape, you want to mix different textures together. you have this evergreen type texture together. we'll put some grassy plants up in here just to break things up a bit. and we can't forget these. >> and then the decorations. this is my favorite stuff. >> what is this? this is like an air -- force >> that's the air plant. we'll have a conversation before we dine. we can add -- t

engel was there. in fact, nbc and msnbc were the only television networks to carry it live of u.s. troops left iraq the way they came in. driving across the border with kuwait. now, the point of the troop surge, the escalation, was to give the iraqi government the opportunity to succeed and today the president said the troop deescalation actually gave the united states a different kind of opportunity all its own. >> the drawdown in iraq allowed us to refocus our fight against al qaeda and achieve major victories against its leadership including osama bin laden. >> the iraq war will have lasted almost nine years. almost 4,500 american troops were killed and more than 30,000 wounded. now the war is finally ending. and not with a victory day parade, but with a conversation between president obama and the iraqi prime minister. you can see him here on the screen. and with a somber short announcement by the president that over the next two months, 40,000 americans will be coming home. and not one american would be getting notice that he or she had to ship out to replace them. so joining