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Heavy snow, high winds, coastal flooding. >> it stings the eyes. you feel like you immediately have icicels on your eye lashes. >> reporter: this 50-car pile up at least one person killed. in new york city, heavy rain and storm surge turning roads into rivers. first responders rescuing stranded drivers. >> holy cow. i cant even describe. >> reporter: power outages impacting 23 states and more than 1.5 million customers. >> its very scary out there on my way to work with trees down. >> reporter: ...

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Abandoned vehicles, stranded drivers. >> i want people to have things in their vehicles, kits ready to be deployed if they get stuck in their vehicle somewhere. >> reporter: weather hazards causing road closures in various parts of the country. zero visibility making it hard for emergency workers to respond. >> theres hand warmers, some socks, a beanie, and like some hygiene products. and then some water and a blanket. >> reporter: in colorado outreach workers trying to provide help and keep peo...

>> youll see the worst of the snow in places south of buffalo where sadly the storm has turned deadly. erie county officials have confirmed two people have died while trying to shovel their yards, now of initials are urging people to hold off from shoveling this heavy wet snow that led to a partial building collapse. >> we are reminding everybody you have to shovel smart because cardiac events, heart attacks are always occurring in these situations and unfortunately we appear to have lost our fi...

Central erie county and parts of major highways are shut down. despite the road closures though, officials have rescued dozens of stranded drivers. as for flights, buffalos airport is reopened and the runway is in the last hour or so after closing for a few hours this morning. not sure if anyone is going to get anywhere, but its coming down through sunday and around here, many of the hotels are sold out and people staying in them, linemen staying for potential outages. about 4,000 people without...

AAA said extreme heat leads to more calls from stranded drivers. Mark Jenkins, a spokesperson for AAA, said the two most common calls this time of year are for flat tires and dead batteries.

To here. six miles from where its shut down. right now, the virginia department of transportation says nobody is left stranded on i-95, although it is still working to clear about 20 abandoned cars from this mess. the back up on one of the busiest stretches of highway on the east coast stretched more than 40 miles. for hours. stranded drivers moved only inch by inch after 14 inches of snow fell near fredericksburg, virginia. isaac arcos shot this. >> since i was at a stop, i had to conserve my g...

>> you put up with me. >> i did text you that. more than 50 million people facing winter weather alerts as a powerful and dangerous winter storm batters the east coast this morning. thousands without power. freezing rain, ice, snow stretching as far south as florida. governor kemp is pleading with georgians to stay off the road. high wind and sleet making driving treacherous. more of the same in north carolina where conditions have turned deadly. a tractor trailer slid off a highway, killing two...

Of our chemicals and salt off the road. >> reporter: and it wasnt just cars. an amtrak train from new orleans to new york, stranded in lynchburg. resuming its journey late today. >> all right, lets get to ken moton, live in virginia tonight. and kennette, i know officials were pressed late today and they said they were just overwhelmed by the speed of this snow, the ice and the storm and how quickly it came flu? >> reporter: thats right, david. and officials say the ice underneath was four inche...

Freezing rain, ice and snow stretching as far as florida. governor kemp staying for people to stay off the roads. high winds and sleet across northern georgia. more of the same in north carolina, where conditions turned deadly. a tractor trailer slid off the highway killing two people. multiple tornados touched down in southwest florida. in south carolina, the national guard had to be called in to assist stranded drivers, black ice and snow. and the state remained in threat this morning. comin...