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Lot of snow, ice is underneath that snow. i want you to take this live drone footage in and around charlotte. theyve cleared off those roads but as you can see, they are wet. thats the concern, there will be another freeze overnight. theyve already dealt with 200 accidents in the state. there are several large accidents theyre currently dealing with around the state at this point. officials have said, look, please just dont drive. you probably dont know how to drive in these conditions and theyr...

Down the eastern seaboard of not only north carolina and south carolina. inland were going to see accumulation of snow as well. power crews for duke energy are here staging behind me. theres hundreds and 2,500 utility workers around the state ready to go as soon as the potential for these power lines to go down occurs overnight. they are also expecting downed trees. the weight of this ice, anything 1/4 inch to 1/2 inch and above will cause a destructive landscape. the roads are not safe as all. ...

Treacherous conditions again in the morning. th theyve been dealing with 200 different collisions today in the state of north carolina. the governor asking the people you probably dont know how to drive in this so stay off the road. >> for today the best way to avoid a car accident or getting stranded is to stay put. fewer people on the road means fewer car crashes and allows highway crews and utility workers to get faster results. if you must travel, reduce your speed, increase your following d...

>> for today, the best way to avoid a car accident or getting stranded is to stay put. fewer people on the road means fewer car crashes. plus it allows highway crews and utility workers to get faster results. if you must travel, reduce your speed, increase your following distance and be sure to clear all the snow and ice off your vehicle before traveling. >> so they are already looking at around 200 or a few more of those car crashes so far in the state of north carolina due to that, but they ar...

Incredible leader as well. so you will be hearing from her shortly. so lets see what were looking at right now. this is a very serious storm. very serious. weve been prepare being for this, this could be life-threatening. and we want to make sure that we took all the steps, but we believe that they were necessary including starting with the declaration of state of emergency early on in the process. yesterday we announced that it would go into effect at 8:00 p.m. yesterday. and that allowed us ti...

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Bring down power lines. and when you get power outages in cold frigid temperatures like this, it can be very problematic, listen here. >> this is a huge point of vulnerability. you do not want to be in the middle of the storm and start calling in utility workers to be on the ground to start doing repairs so we can restore power. they need to be deployed and on the ground and ready to take action the second the limbs come down and bring down the wires or whatever the circumstance is, because when...

How are officials there prepared to address that? >> reporter: here in long island some 900 utility workers are out and about on the roads responding to power outages, trimming trees, trying to reduce any risk. again, with these winds we could see 60-mile-an-hour wind gusts, could take down trees and the heavy snow and ice coats that could cause branches to break. its a top concern and power outages during frigid temperatures like this all that more alarming. lindsey? >> absolutely, could be dan...

There but lot of trucks from all over the country the utility workers trying to get the lights turn back on and of course the heat which is very important in a storm like this. logan airport cancellation after cancellation after cancellation some 600 flights canceled this afternoon. see if they can begin to clean up and get people off the ground tomorrow and things are expected be a little clearer. we talk about what is yet to come still a lot of snow, still a lot of storm left to go. tomorrow h...

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