Stop the press, hes a door to door throw back to a simpler time. Meet the oldest paper boy in america. In a season of bitter cold and bliz ards this may be the worst wave of extreme weather. The satellite gives a picture of what looks like a sheet of ice across a swath of the south. 100 million are in the storms path. Officials are using words like catastrophic and unprecedented. Robert ray is live with us in roswell georgia, outside of atlanta with more. Jop, this town, a northern suburb of atlanta has gone through the process of shutting the doors. Restaurants and businesses over my shoulder shut down. They will not be open tomorrow or perhaps the day after. All of atlanta sort of under a gridlock. Everyone hunkering down as over 500 National Guards are out waiting for the storm to hit. 2500 power trucks from around the region are waiting for the ice to come in. Schools and businesses closed. Teams of salt spreaders moving around the interstate. And the governor, nathan deal, giving
The deep south is back in the deep freeze, a major winter storm slamming the southeastern u. S. , dumping snow and ice on texas overnight, claiming four lives in the process. In North Carolina and other parts of the south crews are preparing roads in advance of the storm. Utility crews from florida and other states heading up into the storm to try to help out. Robert did they heed the governors warning and stay off of the roads this time . I think 100 . Im walking over an ice bridge on i75 and absolutely no one is out here. Pretty much everyone is hunkered down, all of Metro Atlanta, about 6 million plus. This is interstate 75, dell, this is where the gridlock occurred just two weeks ago. Some travel on here seems to be going [ technical difficulties ] reporter it looks like were in this for about the next 24hours plus. Some new numbers in from georgia power, a little over 100,000 people in Metro Atlanta right now without power, so crews are dispersing, trying to get that fixed, but wi
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A former athlete shares his story of coming out at the height of his college career. 95 years old. Still going strong, how americas oldest paper boy proves that age is state of mind. Good morning and welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im stephanie sy. Much of the south is now directly in the path of a severe winter storm. The National Weather service is using words like mined bog lipping, and historic so describe it. Ice will be a major problem. Roads could be glazed over, making driving nearly impossible. The ice is threatening to cause widespread Power Outages. More than 3,000 flights have been cancelled. The storm is on track to go up from georgia up through the carolinas, to the northeast. Several governors declared states of emergency. That inclues georgia, including areas that shut them down last month. That is where robert ray is. How are things looking. I see that its already raining. Reporter good morning. It looks like rain, but its a sleet. The temperatures dropped here in the p