dakotas and parts of the upper midwest where nearly 12 million people are now under some sort of winter weather alert. the highest amount of snowfall expect that through the sierras, again, above 5,000 feet where we can pick up nearly 6 feet of snow when the system is all said and done through monday, but we are expecting heavy snow again through parts of the central rockies as well where travel is not advised. not only that but we mentioned the flood threat. along the coastline of california, caramel valley, down into san diego as well as l.a. we are already experiencing landslides on already saturated ground. 1, 2, possibly even 3 inches of rain expected just within the next 48 hours as the system continues to take its track farther east. we have flood alerts in effect, be mindful of that, if you do come across a roadway don t drive through t flooding threats expand into the central plains and back into the tennessee
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certainly doesn t make it easier to accept. the appearance of incompetence and lack of preparation was off set at least to a degree by the way the two leaders handled themselves under fire. in the meantime, across metro atlanta, more than 2,000 abandoned vehicles. i did say 2,000. they are still clogging the major highways in scores on side streets as well. this touched off a complex game of logistics. all aimed at getting the city rolling again. now finally some sunny skies and rising temperatures are slowly starting to melt the chaos that claimed at least ten live across the south. even as the cold retreats, the blame game is still red hot. our victor blackwell is live in atlanta. what is the mayor saying today? reporter: the mayor of atlanta continues to assert he
public safety danger, we were driving around and saw several cars on the side of the highway. what are the dangers as long as cars are out? you have the danger of another car sliding into those cars. we have areas of the interstate set up for leaving cars. we don t normally have this many cars out there. we have a situation where sometimes people traveling down the roadway don t have a place to go if they do have an emergency. that s the reason we re trying to clear cars out as quickly as we can. reporter: thank you very much. today really is the day to get your car. real quick, what happens if you don t get the car today? we re not towing cars today until 9:00 tonight. we ll start assisting motorists by removing vehicles for them. we ll maintain logs where dri r drivers can contact us and retrieve those at a later date.
911 instead of jumping into help themselves? hello everyone. i m ashleigh banfield. it s thursday, january 30th. welcome to legal view. the governor of georgia is apologizing for the crisis in his state following the winter storm there. last hour, governor nathan deal apologized on fox news for all the problems. he said his first priority in the crisis was helping children that got stranded on buses and at schools followed by providing food, water, or a ride to drivers who got trapped on icy roads. some say the governor and mayor don t deserve the blame like joe bookman who writes this. once again, metro atlanta has proved itself incapable of handling a small weather setback. in this case, two inch snowfall. the fact it comes three years after another such failure