victor blackwell joins us with some numbers. tell us, victor. carol, good morning. the first confirmed fatality in the state of georgia is related to the weather. i just received an update from georgia state patrol in which i am going to read the message as it came from them. reporter: troopers have been dispatched to 1,254 crash calls with 130 injuries and one weather-related fatality since 10:00 a.m. tuesday. of course, that s when the snow started. the slush started and all froze over. i am holding my phone here. i, of course, asked for details about the circumstances surrounding that fatality. i am hoping that i get a response. understand that even with the 1,254 crash calls, those were just calls that state troopers responded to. that does not include the crashes that local city police, the municipal resources responded to. we have seen cnn i-reporters
few minutes. i m sure you ll have questions of each of these individuals after they have made their presentations. next, i would like to ask colonel mark mcdonough, the head of the georgia state patrol, if he would bring you up to date as to what our state troopers have been doing. thank you, governor. good morning, everybody. state troopers worked 1,254 accidents during this period. of that, there were 130 injuries. thus far, two fatalities. one of the two is weather related and the other is not weather related. as of the last 24 hours, 1,254 accidents, 130 injuries and one weather-related fatality. state troopers have three priorities in particular today. that s escorting d.o.t. equipment to where that equipment needs to be used to clear the roadways. number two, wrecker services to clear vehicles out to reestablish lanes of travel.
the mayor just said 791 accidents in all in the city of atlanta. most of them have been cleared. he still has open cases as he termed but for 28 accidents. what are you hearing? reporter: again, just for those people that joined us late, 1,254 crash calls for georgia state police, 130 injuries and now one confirmed fatality. now, you heard mayor kasim reed say there was not one fatality in the city of atlanta. these two things can be true, because they are the numbers for the state. it could be outside the city of atlanta. another thing the mayor mentioned, getting food to children at schools. i had a conversation with the spokesperson in atlanta public schools about the food and the supplies getting to students. i read some tweets from the aps accounts at 11:54 last night about students who were waiting for food and they were hungry. they said, food is on the way.
our skyline is about to get bigger. the freedom tower is now on track to become the tallest building not only in new york city but the entire western hemisphere. the twin towers built in the 70s were the tallest buildings in new york until they went down september 11th. the freedom tower reached 100 floors and once the 101st floor stands it will be at 1254 feet 15 feet taller than the empire state building. those are your 5 at 5:00. time for your first degree weather update. storms threatening all across the central part of the country. hi there, janet. hello guys or ladies. it is girl power this morning. somewhere it s girl s night,
we have now, yesterday we were thinking there wasn t going to be a referendum. now the greek finance minister has told the eu there will be no referendum. but as you alluded to, within about six hours or so there is going to be the final step in a confidence vote on the greek in the greek parliament. the prime minister, george papandreou, who s really behind all the drama this week, only has a two-seat lead in parliament. so it remains to be seen what s going to happen in greece. but randi, greece is a tiny country in the grand scheme of things. it is the 32nd biggest country in the world in terms of its economy. t italy is a much bigger country and italy right now is in the focus because right now lenders from around the world, whether they re banks or governments, are looking at europe and saying is this a stable organization? are these 17 countries that use the euro trustworthy that they ll pay their debts? after what we saw with greece they are starting to look at italy