>> you know, it has stepped up here in the past couple of hour, anderson, and we are starting to get what the carolinas have seen, and this is the transportation department facility here and we have seen dozens and dozens of trucks coming out now to fill up with salt here to get out on the roads to fight the snow as it gathers. the the federal government is closed tomorrow and schools all over are closed tomorrow simply because they don't want to be in the position that atlanta was in recently and the carolinas are in now. there are going to be 4,000 trucks out here by midnight to work the roads as hard and fast as they can. right now, that is the beltway around washington that the you hear so much about and this traffic is moving steadily, but we know that as the hours go on, that is not going to continue, anderson. >> how much does it take to clear roads in a storm like this, tom? >> well, the simple truth is that if this snow is coming down one or two inches an hour, they can't do it. the snow crews can go out there to salt and scrape and do all