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Interview, would you like to do this? it spread like wildfire. it was something else. >> so what is this creature? could it really be the living legend? after months of bloodletting on dr. canyons ranch, a similar looking beast is found dead. dna test results point to answers more mortal than mythical. >> it is coyote on the maternal side and mexican wolf on the paternal side. somewhat unusual because weve not had mexican wolf in texas in over 82 years. >> the new species is yet to be named. >> ...

On the lookout for drunk drivers. >> i was just doing my -- what i call my drunk run. stay off the main roads because drunk drivers will take a lot of back roads, a lot of side streets to avoid getting caught. >> albright eyes a possible drunk driver. >> there was a corvette that was in front of me. when he hit about 85-mile-an-hour i turned my lights on. >> albright pulls over the suspect and starts to administer a dui test. >> i did all my field sobriety test. determined the individual was too...

Agents have arrived at the maynard savings bank. they are interviewing the employees about what happened. general police protocol after a bank robbery regardless of jurisdiction is that each bank employee must give a statement separately. >> everyone is supposed to write down their own observations before discussing with others. >> this ensures that employees do not compare notes about what happened and are able to maintain their individual perspectives. >> the officers, of course, were here all...

People just couldnt get back home to their families. they couldnt drive on these roads. when you mention this to our cousins to the northeast. people who are used to or accustomed to dealing with severe weather. this is almost laughable that a couple inches of snow do have caused an entire city to shut down like this but again, lack of preparation and coordination, id say, caused a big problem here, when everybody just was on that roadway. trying to get home. and it was really just more like a r...

You know that i dont have all the responsibilities for the freeways but im partnering with our state partners to get people off of the freeways. >> lets talk about the streets within the city of atlanta. i drove to work this morning. some of them were quite icy and frankly dangerous. i have talked to many, many people that say they havent seen a salt truck anywhere. where are they? >> obviously, there are salt trucks, because the streets are salted on my route here. i drove on the same roads tha...

Roads that are icy. what i know is that we are responding ahead of the storm. you were here in 2011. >> yes, i was the city was closed two and three days. >> i was going to say other cities have these problems. >> we have started immediately. we started immediately. the bottom line is, were going to work nonstop were going to get the city open and operational faster. we are going to partner with the state and get people off the freeways and keep people safe. >> other cities seem to have it tog...

Among businesses and schools. everybody got let out at the same time. you had 1 million people on the roads in atlanta all trying to get home and it was really a race against the clock. everybody trying to beat each other to get home. that caused a huge mess on the freeway, traffic jams. you are looking at live pictures here hovering from our local affiliate. the interstates are still a mess. it is just as alarming here for the residents having to deal with this as it looks and as it sounds. peo...

We had communications and, yes, we do cost them quite a bit. the toughest thing about this storm has been the ice. the snow is not a problem. i have had a chance to work in a number of different cities around the country that have had occasion to deal with these type of emergency situations. the biggest difference between two inches of snow in wisconsin and what we had here is the ice. instant ice on the roads. thats a far different scene than we saw. we saw the same swigs whituatioi was working...

Hours from downtown atlanta. thats typically 30 to 45 minutes on a rough day. lets talk also about the schools. there are students in not only according to a cnn affiliate here in atlanta, but in a suburb who will have to spend the night at school. the timing is the problem here. the government offices, the schools were shut down at the same time, flooding the streets with buses and government workers. so all those people were stuck on the roads and the buses had to go back to the school to drop...

>> you know, this is one of the big things we keep talking about, weather education. understanding what to do when a storms rolling in. unfortunately, yesterday what im seeing and what im hearing, as soon as the storm hit, everyone flooded the doorways. its almost like everybody in the auditorium running for the door. everyone got in their cars on the roads at the exact same time. what do we have on the roads? snow on the roads and vehicles heating up the roads and its turning to water, right? t...