all told, 6,000 flights cancelled today and already 6,000 1,000 are cancelled tomorrow. many more delays. it will take a while, mark, thank you, and folks just having a lot of trouble traveling the roads. look at raleigh, abandoned cars litter the streets after what went down there yesterday. some people left their cars in the bone-chilling cold. others spent the night in a shopping mall. we have team fox coverage for you this night. let s get to chief meteorologist rick reichmuth, but first, we ll talk to steve. it actually looks deserted. reporter: yeah, it was pretty quiet but it actually was a busy day as folks hoped to get flights they couldn t get. nature dealt us a one-two punch, more inches on top of that. and there is very little traffic this time of night and still a lot of cancellations.
all told, 6,000 flights cancelled today and already 6,000 1,000 are cancelled tomorrow. many more delays. it will take a while, mark, thank you, and folks just having a lot of trouble traveling the roads. look at raleigh, abandoned cars litter the streets after what went down there yesterday. some people left their cars in the bone-chilling cold. others spent the night in a shopping mall. we have team fox coverage for you this night. let s get to chief meteorologist rick reichmuth, but first, we ll talk to steve. it actually looks deserted. reporter: yeah, it was pretty quiet but it actually was a busy day as folks hoped to get flights they couldn t get. nature dealt us a one-two punch, more inches on top of that. and there is very little traffic this time of night and still a lot of cancellations.
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atlanta and beyond for that matter. this time around officials say they have taken extra steps to keep people safe. salt trucks went out to pretreat the roads. georgia s governor said he s declared a state of emergency for nearly one-third of the state and atlanta public schools are closed today and tomorrow. you probably remember lots of kids in atlanta spent the night in a school two weeks ago when the freeways were just a mess. snow and ice stranded thousands of drivers on icy highways. one woman even had a baby on the jammed interstate. many folks abandoned their vehicles and some slept on the floors of super impacts and gas stations. it was an all around mess. let s look at the big wall. forecasters say parts of georgia could get up to nine inches of snow by tomorrow night. they say this storm could cause widespread power outages. the bad weather has already delayed or cancelled many thousands of flights. we have team fox coverage. let s get to janice dean in the
salt is more of a delay than anything. in milwaukee, a couple ships carrying 50,000 tons of the stuff arrived today in milwaukee. that s because milwaukee s already used up more salt than it does in an entire average winter. and if the groundhog is right, we could have six more weeks of this stuff left team fox coverage, janice dean is live in the fox weather center. first to mike in chicago. he s riding around. what s up, mike? shep, i saw it get a little harry particularly in northwest indiana. we came up on a wreck with four jack-knifed trucks on i-65 in the northbound lanes. what that caused was a b big pileup. had to shut down the sboel whoel interstate in the northbound lanes. now we re in the neighborhoods in north chicago. actually i should say southeast chicago, close to the indiana border. i can give you a look outside and what we see is a lot of snow on the sides of the roads and