ones in the hospitals who were wounded in that awful attack. talk a little bit about the weather right now. we were telling you about those semis, those trucks and cars stuck on i-285 through atlanta for about four or five hours. well, they re moving again. we re going to talk more about the weather, the situation on the highways, and chad will tell us when it s all going to end. we ll be right back. [ male announcer ] breathe, socket. just breathe. we know it s intimidating. instant torque. top speed of 100 miles an hour. that s one serious machine. but you can do this. any socket can. the volt only needs about a buck fifty worth of charge a day. and for longer trips, it can use gas. so get psyched. this is a big step up from the leafblower. the 2011 chevrolet volt. it s more car than electric.
sanders and plows across atlanta, as you would imagine. just not equipped for that. there are streets that were completely iced over when i drove here this morning. any small, minuscule incline seems like mt. everest when you re in this situation. never knew there were so many hills in atlanta until we get an ice storm. it s crazy. reporter: it will be a slow go. you talk about icy roads. the semis are just stopped on the roadway. they cannot go anywhere. some of these rig drivers have been sleeping in their trucks for two days now. you can t get a tow truck to them. reporter: the issue with this 285 is that, you know, the truckers can t go right through atlanta. that s why they built 285. they d have to go around the city. you have all that traffic and most of it is tractor-trailers trying to get their jobs done. that s where you get the jackknifes happening. we ve had sections shut down or it s a complete parking lot.
of the concourse here and snakes back and forth. i think the weather center fearing with david s live shot. let s head outside and talk to rob marciano. are you there, rob? reporter: i am. a lot of flights are not getting out of the airport here in atlanta. will that situation last all week because of the weather or is there a light at the end of the tunnel as they say? reporter: well, what they were battling with yesterday was the precip continued to come down. so they had incoming weather on top of the weather that was already there. they cleared the runways but they had more freezing precip coming down. you have to get planes de-iced and an airport that doesn t de-ice as regularlies alaguardia or denver. the other issue, i don t know if dave touched on this, the workers, the ramp workers are having a hard time getting
why should the whole country care about this? especially atlanta. the airport. the airport. one of the busiest in the world. and we re going to have the mayor of atlanta on at 10:00 p.m. tonight to give us an update to tell us what they re doing to make sure that, you know, travel doesn t get affected. and people in the northeast, by the way, too, yeah, this could come up your way. tuesday and into wednesday we could have a significant snowstorm for them with the same system. thank you, jacqui jeras. we ll get back to you. here s a look at the day s other top stories. a passenger plane has crashed in northwestern iran. iranian media says at least 70 of the 102 people on board the iran air jet died. more than 30 others were take on the hospital, some in critical condition. snow and fog at the crash site made rescue operations very difficult. officials say the boeing 727 was near its destination when it went down. the secretary of state, hillary clinton, has arrived in the
this has been very icy across parts of mississippi, the ice storm warning which includes you in montgomery, alabama. there you can see the dozen-plus states under these warnings. the good news is dallas, you re done with the snow. but freezing drizzle is expected overnight tonight. oklahoma, you re also winding down, but some of the worst of the weather in parts of arkansas at this time. it s coming down heavy for you now in little rock. the winds are gusting beyond 20 miles per hour so, that s going to start to reduce your visibility. memphis. i know that it looks like you re snowing right now, but it s not coming down just yet. our air is starting to saturate. what we call this is virga, so it s actually snow up there in the clouds, but it s just not making its way to the ground just yet. there you can see jackson, mississippi, in this area along i-20, up towards i-55 is where we ve had some accumulating freezing rain. there s been sleet from time to time into the birmingham area, as