A mob of people tried to break into an Amazon truck overnight after it jackknifed and got stuck on an icy road in southeast Memphis, the driver told FOX13.
Cripples the dc area, specifically in the virginia area, is this the first time in history of weather we ve had rain followed by snow? they complain, we couldn t put a treatment on road because of rain, they seem to solve that problem up in connecticut before. we ve had rain followed by snow. i don t understand that explanation combined with the fact the images you are see og your screen, people could have died, kevin. kennedy: that is the point. the other thing i don t understand, the lack of communication. we have a problem on i-95, we need tow vehicles or whatever to get this jackknifed truck out of the way and give people an opportunity to get home safely. it was hour upon hour, i watched many feeds and tweets from people stranded.
Consolidation. but even that gas, that s moving down as well despite the cold snap that we re feeling across much of the country. i can see behind you it s a snowstorm in washington. in other corporate news watches of aol are looking to gain because we got a report late yesterday that verizon communications approached aol reportedly about a potential acquisition or joint venture. that s certainly something to watch as well. we ll be opening up in just a few minutes time as well. mandy droourury, thank you so much. coming up in the next half hour of the rundown. two lawmakers from each side of the aisle. we ll talk about the start of the new session and some of the key issues including u.s. relations with cuba and the president of mexico s visit today. plus, more on this first big winter snow. here s a live scene over indianapolis where a jackknifed truck has caused miles of
Some of those semis have been stuck on that road since 10:30 last night. and it s not like the drivers could jump out and go anywhere. they just had to sit in those trucks. there is an inch of ice on the highway. nobody could go anywhere because the semis were jackknifing all over the place. and chad, you well know yes. not nuft saenough salt, n enough trucks. atlanta is just freaked out over there and just isn t equipped to deal with this. 4 million people around the city, something like that. 50. 50 trucks to plow this stuff out of the way. so hundreds of thousands of miles divided by 50 trucks, and it s going to take like 3 1/2 years to get all of this out of the way. good news is summer happens before that. and we might have a bit of sunshine later this afternoon and when we see it we ll all cheer. the sunshine will warm things up a little bit. yesterday we did get the slush to come back in. but as soon as the sun set last night it froze back up. here s a jackknifed t