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0 hey, good morning to you. thank you so much for joining me, i m carol costello. it is a nightmare outside. drivers across the south are being warned to stay off the roads for a second day. hundreds of motorists are waking up in their cars. still stranded on icy roads and highways crippled by paralyzing snow. when i say snow, paralyzing snow, i mean two inches. in the city of atlanta alone, nearly 1,000 car accidents were reported. some drivers abandoned their cars on the side of the road and are trying to walk home. a pregnant woman stuck in traffic was forced to give birth in her car. and perhaps even most astonishing, local politicians are shaking off the blame, saying, hey, we can t control the weather. reporter: thousands of drivers stranded on gridlocked highways paralyzing the metro area. children stuck on their school buses well past midnight. i was so much scaried. i was like if i don t get home tonight to my parents i m going to freak out. reporter: sorry students unab
0 reporter: governor f i could follow up, i was i was at reporter: why didn t you declare a state of emergency before the storm hit rather than after? well, we did not think it was justified to do so. we were putting all of our resources in play without the official declaration. the official declaration doesn t really do anything in terms of getting outside help or whatever. all it does is simply say that the state s resources will be available to local levels of government if they chose to ask us for that. and there were minimal requests, even now, from local levels of government for additional state assistance. reporter: couldn t that have kept people off the roads, though? if you declare a state of emergency and wouldn t that have kept people north carolina and other states aren t dealing the same issue we re dealing with because they declared a state of emergency before the storm hit. you may be right. that s a lesson we need to look at and see if it would have made
jon: and happening now , the deep south paralyzed by several inches of snow and ice. hello to you, i m jon scott. hi, everybody, hope you re off to a great day so far, i m jenna lee. thousands of people stranded overnight. highways looking like parking lots in georgia, alabama, carolinas and farther north in virginia as well. if people didn t spend the night on the road they were stuck in schools and businesses because of a rare and sudden winter storm, weather that the south isn t used to handling all the time. jonathan serrie is live from montgomery, alabama, with more now. jonathan? reporter: jenna and jon, that s really the key. dealing with a winter storm in the south is like dealing with a hurricane in the northeast. take a look at this video from montgomery. you re looking at the overpass, this is an entrance ramp to i-65 from i-85 where we saw a jackknifed struck. city and county crews are out trying to clear roads and bridges which have become slick with the ice