across the south. but this is such a widespread event it s really encompassing quite a bit of real estate. power outages, about 6500 in georgia. give or take. similar numbers in mississippi and alabama. schools obviously closed. the governor s inauguration has been downsized and moved inside today. so, historic event by the south s standards. that s for sure. and we ll keep the temperatures here below freezing tonight and tomorrow, so tomorrow morning, it s not going to be any sort of cake walk, either. so you ve got people who live down here, don t have the skills to drive in this thing, not that driving on ice requires skills. it s very, very difficult to do. they don t have scrapers. they don t have shovels. kids really don t have sleds so they probably had to make due with homemade stuff there. and certainly the plows have been a situation. the resources aren t in the south for that. for atlanta proper there s only 16 trucks with sand, 11 plows, you ve got help from georgia departm
the south, clearly not used to nor equipped for this type of weather scenario. atlanta, you know, a million or so people live here and we ve got 16 sand trucks and 11 plow necessary operation today. you can imagine that coupled with the fact that people don t really have shovels, they don t have scrapers, they re not kwit quick to get around. there are a few folks getting out and about. a four wheel vehicle helps when you re talking about a major street here in downtown atlanta that hasn t been touched, either by plow or by sand and with this moisture now coming down in the form of wet stuff as opposed to sleet and snow, it s getting very crusty and glazed over. there are a number of areas here around georgia, alabama and mississippi that have been deemed impassable. let s talk airports. the atlanta airport is officially still open at last check. three out of five runways are open and operational. but the airlines aren t really
nowhere is safe. but the things we re most concerned about is our own personal information. so social network sites, resumé sites, places where your phone number is listed, anything like that is something to be concerned about. however, you don t have much choice, either. you can t prevent this from happening unless you don t put any information online, which is unrealistic these days. so how many people are affected by data scrapers? basically everything that everyone writes at some point is being scraped. wikipedia has a counter showing how often it s scraped. it s a lot of times. so what shocks you the most? the thing i found upsetting was that we wrote about this medical board where people were talking about their diseases. the scrapers came and created a fake profile and pretended to be
latest estimation is 3 inches or so out of dallas. this is heading off to the east, shreveport you are getting this really heavy snow right now and that s moving over to parts of mississippi and alabama. check out all the warnings which are in place now. you know, the snowfall totals for the most part you will count on one hand, maybe two-ish, but it s a huge deal in places where people don t have snowplows and people don t have snow shovels or even scrapers to scrape the ice off of their scars, so this is a huge storm stretching to the southeast over the weekend. jacqui, thank you. thank you. here s what we re working on for the next hour of cnn newsroom. iran s powf power struggle, we at the key players from the political battle from the government to the clergy and the opposition. athletes aren t the only ones getting ready for the winter games. you ll love this story. a canadian couple prepares for their moment in the spotlight, broadcasting the games in their native langua
much of the northeast and south is digging out today from a powerful winter storm that killed more than 20 people, put more than a million in the dark, and idled thousands of planes, trains, and automobiles. laura ingle has the latest from new york s central park. plows, shovels, and scrapers. the clean-up continues for millions up and down the east coast, digging out from the latest winter storm that brought record snow totals. i don t know if we ve had as much snow this year as last year, but still, it s a lot of snow. fed up? fed up? i think next year i m going to go to arizona. this winter, new york, d.c., detroit. boston, and st. louis, all slammed with two or three times as much snow as usual for this time. all this snow causing severe