once, and was still waiting for the ambulance to arrive. let s listen to this call. 911. where is your emergency? i called. i know. is it for 1345 south yes, yes. they re on your way. you only called a couple of minutes ago. they re on their way, okay. you know, it s an emergency, and they are still not here. okay. they re on their way. okay, bye. all right, bye. well, there is a person rather pathetically trying to get the ambulance to show up that normally would have gotten there, presumably. and there you have this traffic gridlock. it doesn t get through. and it was causing problems for the dispatchers too. not only were they having to deal with the normal calls coming in, and there are a lot of them, but now there are also all these calls coming in about traffic from angry motorists. remember, a 91-year-old woman died while she was waiting for first responders. her family said they don t blame chris christie, but this was just causing all sorts of problems.
another car last night and he s still in the hospital tonight. so my prayers are with one of my highway patrol officers at this point in time, just trying to rescue people as we speak. governor, good luck to you and to everyone in north carolina right now. good luck to everyone in the south. this weather situation is pretty awful. yes. it s quite a unique storm for the southeast. our big dlem dilemma is when we e get a storm like this the temperatures is right there at freezing which causes us all great straps. but north carolina and south carolina, virginia, and georgia. heading towards washington, philadelphia, and new york city even as we speak. i wish those governors the best. wish all the folks the best as well. thanks very much. good luck. thanks, wolf. take care. coming up, much more on the breaking news coverage. we ll hear from a pregnant woman. she s been stuck in her car. she s got a young child with that massive traffic gridlock in north carolina. stand by. we
cancelling classes for today and tomorrow. and a lot of people are heeding the warning to stay home. during rush hour traffic today it wasn t much of a rush hour. if this is any indication they are well on their way preventing the serious traffic gridlock. the serious concern in this storm is power outages. the quhans of ice forming on wires and weighing down power lines and weighing down nearby trees falling on the power lines. officials are preparing for the real possibility of power outages. martha: we ll be watching throughout the course of this and updating people as much as we can. bill: just saw a picture on twitter near macon. it s white on the ground already. georgia s governor is declaring
they are loading two parts gravel and one part salt. once the temperatures get near freezing these truck will head out to prevent freeing and provide traction if ice begins freezing on these roadways. they are getting an early start this time around hoping to avoid all the traffic gridlock they experienced during the storm two weeks ago. martha: that s good news. we didn t hear a lot about salting trucks. i m sure they are going to handle it differently in terms of shutting things down. reporter: the warning are going out much earlier. officials already warning today and even as early as yesterday telling people if you don t have to be out on these road, stay home. most school systems in metro atlanta being very proactive
jonathan serrie live in atlanta with more on what s happening there today, john hand. reporter: hi, jenna. there is a lot of fingerpointing going on, a lot of residents questioning whether local, county and state fishes could have done more to prevent all the traffic gridlock that happened on tuesday. but whatever state officials may have done on tuesday, they are sending in a huge response effort to get all of these abandoned cars that you see behind me and all around me off of the roads. the national guard is here assisting people with four wheel drives, bringing them back into the area, getting in their cars and just a few minutes ago, i saw a couple of national guards soldiers actually pushing a car out of the ice, giving the driver a much-needed shove back on the interstate. they re doing all of this free of charge. people who have run out of gas, they re providing the, the state s providing free fuel. people with, who need their cars jumped started, they re jumping their batter