lead, 4 p.m. eastern. back to the wintry weather and back to many people stuck on the roads in atlanta. you know what, not just stuck on the roads. look at these smiling faces, gumming down water, after being stuck and walking from their cars. coming up, we ll talk to a woman who has been sitting in a walgreens for 19 hours. and, she says, more and more people keep streaming in. we ll be right back.
that had, you know, heat and water and all of those basic necessities. and i ended up at the walgreens. and they had everything that we needed. there was a group of seven that started out, that were the first buns to come in. i was in that group. as soon as we walked in the door, the employees handed us cups of hot coffee, they had chairs waiting for us. i see lots of valentine s candy at the walgreens. i mean, how are you doing? are just kind of making it through for now? has the anger set in yet? caller: i m not necessarily angry. i m very anxious. i very much want to get home. but, yeah, it s more it s more last night was a lot of anxiety. just because you don t know exactly how severe it is. you know, in our little section of the walgreens, it was
welcome back. as we cover the deep freeze of 2014. new numbers in from the state of alabama as we talk about this winter weather. five confirmed winter-related deaths for that state. as we continue to update that information, lease take you back to george. as you look at these pictures, hundreds of national guard troops are now out and about on foot, on georgia s highways, walking car to car, trying to help folks who are stranded. take a look. first priority was look for people that were stranded. you know, hadn t had any food or water and to bring that to them. you know, if we if we could if they needed to go to a shelter, we try to find out where the closest one was for them, direct them there. any type of coordination we could do with the local police or state patrol that was out here with us. there were some hero units out here as well. in a few instances for some smaller vehicles we had an opportunity where we might have been able to give them a little tow to get them unstuc
georgia emergency management agency, and everything for us, how we get missioned or tasked all goes through that. reporter: okay. so, that s what we wait for. reporter: looks like your guys are taking water to those people on that bus there. right. we try to take advantage we ve got limited resources out here. like i said, we ve been out here for a while now. but we look for, you know, whatever we can help out. you know, earlier today we actually had a couple out here that had two infants with them. they had run out of water so they couldn t make formula. luckily, we were able to provide some water for them. so, that was one of the that was one of the really good ones, doing something like that. you always want to make sure the kids are taken care of. reporter: most definitely. we have some people, we ll put them in the humvee just to warm up. we have wool blankets. anything we can provide, we ll take care of them. all right. thank goodness the national guard is there
highway since yesterday afternoon. it s crazy. one man says, it s unconscionable. let s head to new york and check in with ashleigh banfield. i m talking about lieutenant russel honore. did you see that national guardsman trying to walk across that roadway, his boots were slipping. imagine a truck or semi. remarkable. one thing as i was listening to the live news conference with the georgia governor and a couple of the other officials, the atlanta mayor as well, they were happily listing off all the things they are doing now and how successful this reaction has been or continues to be, but nobody seemed to really want to dig in to why there has to be a reaction at all. why are we in this boat? why is the national guard having to hand out mres and water so an infant can get formula on a roadway almost 24 hours after the fact? i want to bring in the guy who can probably answer this best, retired lieutenant general