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A special emergency alert system to cell phones notifying people about the winter storm warning. we sent out twitter alert messages. we even pushed out a message on our ready georgia app. hitting that message hard and motorists listened. they actually stayed home and we want to thank the public for that because that allowed emergency personnel to do their job. >> so there were fewerer anecdotes of those seven-hour commutes trying to get from one place to another. >> exactly. people really heeded...

Wilson. i have no idea. you can see its an unpleasant place tonight. what i dont understand and i will never understand why the brand new mayor of the big apple didnt cancel school. a lot of people had to go out and get kids to school and manage this. whether theyll manage to get home will be a different kettle of fish. rain is coming. a second round of snow and freeze is coming. thats when it gets bad. i dont need to tell you. youre from atlanta and have driven it. i want to go to pennsylvania ...

This is actually the calm between two storms if you can believe that. we are going to get more snow here tonight and emergency workers and as far away from canada, there over 4,000 of them standing by encased on even more outages. >> my goodness. lets hope that doesnt happen. thank you. north of philadelphia, keeping your roads clear is not always easy. one of the many snow plows trying to keep the roads passible. they survive with no power. keeping an eye on how well they are coping with the st...

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Flash flights. weve prepared because we were here for sandy which we were without power for three days, so we stocked up. we have a gas stove, so we can cook if we need to. but we dont have heat, so its a little more pleasurable to go out. and intermingle with some people and get some social atmosphere because theres no television, theres no radio. you know, were charging our phones in our car. >> reporter: now, a lot of the power has been out. because if you look at the trees above me, they are...

In pennsylvania hundreds of thousands of people have no power. this is -- this town a completely dark. and you can see why by just looking up at the trees here. theres heavy ice and snow layering the branches. some of those branches have fallen knocking down power lines. we can hear crackling as the snow is melting and some of that ice is coming down. its also creating dangerous situations for people on the ground. emergency workers are working around the clock. now, we also know that the big po...

Outages. >> reporter: emergency workers there working around the -- emergency workers there working around the clock to resolve this issue. there are warming centers that opened up across the county. but officials are saying that some areas may not have power through the weekend. chris? >> margaret, thank you for being out there monitoring it for us. to be clear, there has been no motherly love from mother nature this winter. the question is, will we finally catch a break? chad myers is here wit...

Light with whatever power they had. when you look up at trees here, theres snow and ice on the branches thats too heavy for them. trees are mature here, fallen down and broken power lines. thats decimated power in this area. we can hear the crackling now as the ice is melting and falling from the trees. thats creating a dangerous situation for people on the ground here too. emergency workers are working around the clock to try and restore power in the area. there are warming centers, heating cen...

Occupants was missing. daylight was coming. and then they, firemen and others were basically looking for her. >> emergency workers found sabenas body about 100 yards from the house on an overgrown footpath. >> she was naked. she had been brutally murdered, stabbed. beaten, burned, bitten. >> sabena was 49 years owed. >> became pretty obvious right away that whoever had done it is somebody that the, well, quite honestly, had to have been almost a maniac. >> the evidence showed that she was in the...

Call and that was protocol because there is a law that prevents emergency workers from self dispatching, explain? >> assuming that there is a law that prevents self dispatching. that law needs to be changed. resulting in a senseless death and that makes no sense. but suppose the rule is in place. when you have somebody across the street screaming for aid. that is equivalent of a 911. and maybe not every four fire out of the four house to help. but one of them could performed cpr. that would be r...