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That it had started to snow but i honestly thought i was going to make it home. >> why did you think that? >> because it was only supposed to be 0-2 inches of snow. thats not that much. i believed that the roads would be taken care of. most of my commute, almost 30 miles, is on the highway. i thought i would make it. i can tell you now, i didnt. im still not home. >> its just crazy. were looking at live pictures. i think thats i-75 there, aerial shots from wxia. people are still trapped in their...

Miles away from home and got home about 5:30 this morning. we walked. >> oh, my gosh. you left work at 4:45 yesterday afternoon and made it home at 5:30 this morning. thats insane. question just moved you here from florida. so this must be absolute hell for you. >> it was crazy. we dropped the car two miles away from home. we walked the last two miles. thats the only way we are home now. this completely reminds me of the scenes that i saw in 2005 during hurricane rita when houston was trying to ...

Took me 16 hours to go about 20 miles. i got about 20 more miles to go. well see how long that takes. >> so just take off your cnn hat. i just want you to be a citizen of atlanta. if you could say anything to city officials right now, what would that be? >> what was the plan? i mean, two or three weeks ago, the kids were left out of school when it got cold here. knowing what was coming, i cant believe they -- they didnt have the kids out of school and there wasnt a better plan on the roads. i me...

Wolf? >> victor, stand by. well check in with you. were also getting reports of people stranded all over the interstates and ma of those back roads, as well. one of those who spent hours on the road and found herself stranded at a gas station is maury patterson. youre on the phone with us right now. what was it like? >> caller: my company actually released me around 1:15 this afternoon to make sure we all arrived safely to our homes. i live south of our compans location, and i spent about six ho...

>> were looking at live pictures of the highway right now. and it probably looks exactly the same as it did when you were stuck there for those 12 hours. >> absolutely. absolutely. we had to make big decisions, do we try to get off the highway -- you know, what the exit. and what do we do if we -- you know, get to a certain point. what do we do if we get in a car accident? what do we do if somebody gets injured? one of us. we had to talk through a lot of very big life decisions with two stranger...

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 intoxicated to be driving. placed him under arrest for driving under the influence of...

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 were here all afternoon. ...

>> 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 intoxicated to be driving. placed...

Frisk program into place. if you thought that drivers were the only ones who obey the rules of the road, well, youre mistaken. apparently birds follow the speed limit as well. a new study suggests that they react based on the speed of a particular road. this means that they will fly faster on busy highways and slower on the long, back roads. scientists also note more birds get hit in the spring. they say its likely because the babies havent had time to learn the road rules yet. those are your ...

He has a misdemeanor in texas. now, granted, its a misdemeanor. but its interesting because it was for fleeing from police. at one point he was headed down a dirt road going 60 or 70 miles per hour, according to a police report that we obtained. and something that sheriffs deputies here have been warning about or cautioning about, he is an outdoorsman. he is a camper. it stands to reason he was somebody who if he wanted to evade authorities would be very good and very skilled at using back roads...