everybody was working well. we even had our shopping centers to stay open for stranded travelers. so everybody was pulling toeshgs b together, but it was really a mess. one of the signs thousand stopped life, had you to postpone the duke/unc basketball game last night. that matters. the first time anything that epic has been done. what did you see? students throwing snowballs together instead? we didn t get that far. i m sure people were disappointed but in the best interests of all. they re going to play it again. hopefully things will work out a lot better. showing the motorists, dealing with it poorly. not used to it. ice. underneath snow, deceptive to people. it s hard. the cars aren t set up for it. what about government, mr. mayor? what were the challenges, what did you respond to well and what surprised you in terms of how hard it was? well, what surprises me and a lot of people, we expecting the snow. but it just seemed to come down all of a sudden. it wasn t a gradual.
reporter: got to show the flag. that s right, buddy. straight over to meteorologist indra petersons tracking the extreme weather in white plains, new york, she s live. what should people be looking out for? it came overnight for some and is still heading this morning to others. what should people be looking out for, indra? reporter: what people need to realize, we ll start to see a transition going in through late morning. you can see out here in white plains now, no shortage of snow plows. seems like every 15 or 20 minutes another plow comes on by. that s the good thing there, prepared in this area. i mentioned, around 10:00 or so, so close that freezing line. we re going to start to transition more into a sleet. what you re dealing with now is very heavy, wet snow. it will start to be more of that sleet kind of snow and evenship rain. what i m concerned about, people will think the storm system is winding down. not the case. at times the sleet and rain could be heavy and on t
the national guard on standby helping stranded drivers lining the roads. tens of thousands finding themselves in the dark and cold wait are for power to come back on. our live coverage continues. what are we seeing down there? reporter: a light snow in the metro, atlanta area. kind of out of the woods as far as that sleet and freezing rain is concerned, but when you go in to the woods, the wooded neighborhoods in this area, you can see the problem. look back there. you see tree that brought down a power line. one of many neighborhoods that s been affected by think, and it could take a long time. it could take days before the power s restored. late in to the night the south reeled from the chaos created by the storm. especially in the carolinas. crews desperately tried to clear the streets covered in snow and littered with abandoned cars.
over, and people have been sliding continuously. now, last night, several people had to abandon their cars, because they simply couldn t get through some of the roads. there was just total gridlock, because clouds had not been able to come through, and the other issue, as you mentioned, are power outages. with all that ice, if you look at the power line, the ice is accumulating up there, and can you can see it on the trees. where we ve been we have seen power flicker and transformers making noises clout t s through morning. roads only plowed once because it s been extremely difficult to get out on to the roadways. just a very, very icy situation here. this is a tleed would taroad th you right into the parking lots here. a very dangerous situation. chris, back to you. beankhia, thank you for the reporting. ice more of a problem than snow. linging it in the d.c. area,
welcome back to new day. what a mess. we are tracking the breaking news overnight. you re taking a live look right now at the snow coming down on the roads in both new york and washington, d.c. this beast of a winter storm barreling through the northeast right now. it s already done significant damage in the south. it s pure chaos throughout the carolinas. look at this video of the roads. thousands of drivers forced to abandon cars on icy highways. some of them having to walk home. atlanta once again shut down. ice up to one inch thick taking down trees and power lines all over the city. that gets compounded by how hard it is to get to the lines to fix them. latest count, three quarter of a million neem the south without power. the number will continue to climb and the time it will take to get fixed will extent the