greta? morris, that temperature is very terrifying. when it gets below freezing, and you have got a long night and with those wires, i worry for your area. but, good luck, morris. thank you. and one couple had a very memorable experience in atlanta traffic mess in january. amy anderson gave birth to her baby on the side of the highway. and her husband nic handled the delivery duties. they join us. good evening to both of you. amy, first of all, who is that little girl with you? this is grace elizabeth anderson. and she was born alongside of the road? she was. nick, you were there. how scared were you as this was happening? you know, it all happened so fast. we really didn t have a whole lot of time to prepare and/or panic. so, you know, thank goodness because i think had we had a little more time to prepare
greta? morris, that temperature is very terrifying. when it gets below freezing, and you have got a long night and with those wires, i worry for your area. but, good luck, morris. thank you. and one couple had a very memorable experience in atlanta traffic mess in january. amy anderson gave birth to her baby on the side of the highway. and her husband nic handled the delivery duties. they join us. good evening to both of you. amy, first of all, who is that little girl with you? this is grace elizabeth anderson. and she was born alongside of the road? she was. nick, you were there. how scared were you as this was happening? you know, it all happened so fast. we really didn t have a whole lot of time to prepare and/or panic. so, you know, thank goodness because i think had we had a little more time to prepare
they want the cars off the roads so snowplows and salt trucks can do their jobs and finally turn the corner to start clearing up the massive wintery mess. carol? just to figure out why this traffic mess happened in raleigh. that warning to stay off the roads was in effect when people tried to do errands right? reporter: what we were hearing from motorists, they had the warnings, knew the storm was coming. what surprised them was how much snow they got and how quickly they got it in the raleigh area. it was at a time people were trying to leave their jobs and go back home. like what we saw in atlanta a couple of weeks ago. in this case it was the tremendous snowfall that seemed to catch everyone by surprise. they knew the snow was coming, they just didn t know it was going to be that much. a couple of differences then what happened in atlanta. north carolina had the national guard on stand by right? and they had a plan?
muller. and i m marci gonzalez in for diana perez. we begin this half hour with what some forecasters are saying could be a catastrophic winter storm in the east. it is already snowing in washington, d.c., where the federal government is shutting down because of the dangerous conditions. heavy snow forecast from north carolina up into northern new england. for the south, a continuation of freak winter weather. abc s steve osunsami has more. reporter: pictures of the traffic mess that was at land ta with weeks ago. drivers rushing home to their families stranded on the road in blowing snow. avoid i-85 at all times because it is not looking good right now. reporter: the storm has claimed hills and side streets. drivers are having to push each other out. atlanta clearly learned the lesson of a ghost town during the sleet and ice. here s what it looked like two weeks ago when the city rushed home all at once trying to beat
later the governor is scheduled to hold private meetings with donors followed by a dinner. lawmakers back in new jersey put out a new round of subpoenas in their investigation of the bridge controversy. they re demanding access to the governor s helicopter records to see if the new jersey governor flew over the site of the traffic mess which would be out of the way. anyway, that bridge is to the north of where he would have been flying back to trenton. if he flew over that bridge and that helicopter that will tell you something ain t right here. e-mails from staffers indicated that they tied up traffic on the world s busiest bridge to get revenge on a political rival. the governor says he didn t knowing anything aboutseen any directly links him to the closures. they re talking to the people who run the helicopters who fly the governor around. if you were looking at a map and this is ground zero where he had