so are we in for six more weeks of winter kevin tibbles with the answer from one of the world's most famous forecasters. >> reporter: thanks a bunch, phil. punxsutawney phil, that is. the prognosticator of prognosticators. poked his head out of his pennsylvania gopher hole this morning and saw his shadow >> six more weeks of winter there will be >> reporter: his top-hatted troupe had us hoping for an early spring disappointing his pandemic fan club of cardboard cutouts and the rest of us >> what is going on? >> reporter: bill murray played a weather man trapped in the fickle groundhog's wintry spell as a mild-mannered reporter in chicago i'd been living it for two decades. >> it's groundhog day. >> it's still just once a year, isn't it? >> reporter: but let's face it, in a pandemic every day feels like groundhog day. ♪