run out of gas and stayed warm. temperatures dropped to the 20s. i talked to a man stuck here for eight hours and considers himself lucky he was only here that long. he told me stories about kindness, drivers passing out food and water to each other. the people next to them. his car died after five hours. someone near him gave him a jump and paid it forward by walking all the way to the next exit in front of him where him and a group of people with shovels were digging tractor trailors out themselves. you try to stay warm but running out of gas. i have a tractor trailer and i m running out of gas now. it was bad. it was cold. i was there for like a good eight hours almost. it turned into a survival thing. a lot of people whose cars slid off the road. who ran out of gas. u.s. senator tim cain among those stuck.
anthony: no matter how you feel about quebec as either separate from or as essential part of greater canada, any reasonable person loves this place. correct me if i m wrong. wilensky s is famous for the sandwich. the special. woman: wilensky special. right. anthony: and in what tradition does this fall? woman: it s basically eastern europe. it was a survival thing. it was cause they were poor. and that s what they could make. anthony: wilensky s. an old-school corner institution around since 1932, serving up pressed beef bologna and salami sandwiches, or specials, as they call them, along with egg creams and milkshakes. so, um, this a the special. and an appropriate beverage. egg cream. very happy. anthony: here s how it goes. there are rules. the special is always served with mustard. it is never cut in two.
areas. virginia closed about a 50-mile stretch of 95. work crews are trying to free frozen trucks that have been blocking both directions of the highway. just trying to get home from washington, d.c., spending the new year s over there. we took off about 3:00 p.m. yesterday and on the way over here we obviously noticed the snowstorm and we are from texas, so never experienced snow the first time, so yesterday was the first time driving on ice and clearly bumper to bumper since then. drivers had been tweeting about running out of food with their pets and kids in the car. some stuck in the area are u.s. area senators trying to get to the capitol. instead they spent their night in the car. i left yesterday right at lunch time because he had a meeting last night that i wanted to do in-person and it s turned into kind of a survival thing. thank goodness i have a warm
speaking out after a school board in tennessee unanimously voted to ban his landmark graphic novel about polish jews surviving the holocaust. the pulitzer prize winning novel was removed from an eighth grade language arts curriculum after concerns about profanity and nudity. spiegelman, who only learned about the removal a day before international holocaust remembrance day, slammed the move as orwellian. here s some of his conversation with my colleague, joy reid, earlier this week. i m concerned about the information content that s being withheld. you need to know stuff. that s what you re in school for. there s a good reason that you need to know stuff. it s a survival thing, you know? and i don t know that it s possible, when parents, as jerry just said, interfere with the learning process. joining me now, with his reporting on this, is nbc s tim stello. tim, thanks for joining us on this.
harris: breaking news now. as we continue our coverage of the nightmare along one of the nation s busiest interstates, i-95. this is virginia. people have been stuck in their vehicles for hours upon hours. the situation is unbearable for some. they weren t ready for this. some of them stuck for up to 24 hours after that major winter storm wreaked havoc. it caused accidents, spinouts, stalled trucks, blockages. people couldn t move from all the ice below. virginia democratic senator tim kaine is a driver who s been stuck for a day inside his car. listen to this. i left yesterday right at lunchtime because i had a meeting last night that i wanted to do in person. it turned into kind of a survival thing.