joins me now on the phone you re on skype. hi there, hillary. hey, how are you? i m much better than you. but i m so glad you re home right now. how many hours did it take you to get home? it took over 12 hours. and actually, my car overheated. so a stranger, a nice samaritan, his name is peter. i don t have his last name. he actually took me the rest of the way. we were in the car ten hours. so let me get this straight, were you in your car for 12 hours, and then another ten hours in his car? no, i was in my car for two hours. my car overheated. he was kind enough to take me the rest of the way. were we driving together. i never met him before in my life. and we, together, made it through really treacherous times. i don t know how we made it there. we made it to a racetrack, a gas station, a police officer took me the rest of the way home. and this was particularly scary for you because you have
information in a timely fashion so they can ask their administration to make those informed decisions. and we will continue to work with them to fine-tune this to be successful as we move ahead. all right. so there you heard it. these are live pictures. this is actually this is tape. but just a short time ago. this is i-75 in cobb county, that s outside of atlanta. as you can see, there are cars still on the roadway right now. the reason for that, is a lot of people simply abandoned their cars. and either got in a car with another person who still had gas or walked somewhere for warmth. there was also a number of traffic accidents. since emergency crews do not get to the accidents where there were no injuries, people simply abandoned their cars on the highway. this is what it looks like right now. people are still trapped in their cars as we speak. one of the persons one woman who suffered through a similar nightmare is hillary isman, she
south that are going to experience this today? well, i have to say, i lived in philadelphia for eight years. so i ve experienced extreme temperatures and extreme weather. and here in atlanta, we don t get soft, powdery snow. we get ice. what happened is compacting with all the traffic answer td the j was thought heating up the roads. it was making it black ice. i had to step out of the car twice. each time it was slick. it was an ice dating rink for a car. it s very dangerous, it s very danger option for soft snow. and we don t have the kind of roads and conditions that can handle that. nor do we have the drivers. we have people who are not familiar on how to drive in that. even those who are familiar, i m telling you, there s no way to navigate this. i don t know how i made it home safely and we made it anywhere. last question, hillary, who
do you hold accountable for this? oh, that s a good question, but i think no pun intended but it was the perfect storm. we should never had had the kids go to school today at all. i think part of the clamoring is parents trying to get to their children. and i do think, i didn t see any salt trucks i didn t see d.o.t. and i just think it was a matter of so many things that happened in such symmetry that made for a nightmare. hillary isman, i m glad you re safe and sound. up want to continue watching because mayor kasim reed just entered the studio. i ll talk to atlanta s mayor after the break. farmer: hello, i m an idaho potato farmer.