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Snow and freezing rain has been falling all morning long in parts the of the southeast. streets are covered in ice. officials are urging people to stay home. and just this bit of info before we get to you, george howell who is in atlanta. it s 29 degrees right now in atlanta remember georgia and look at what it is in sochi, russia where the winter storm olympics are. there s a man in shorts. it s 59 degrees. this seems unreal, george. reporter: what s happening, carol, why is that? look, it s pretty cold here in atlanta right now and we are seeing very, very few people on the roads. william if we can switch over to show this camera that we have on interstate 85. you can see people who are on the roads right now are all going at a snail s pace. that s the best way to handle this if you re traveling through the city right now. carol, the good news is officials did get out ahead of this, the warnings were put out to people to stay home. ....
you know what s kind of ironic. they are doing a great job in charlotte, north carolina. don t get me wrong. people have probably been ordered to stay off the roads so they can clear the snow. for the next 24 hours, they are still ordering people to stay you have athe roads. they wonder, why aren t they treating the roads? reporter: they are treating the roads just to stay proactive here. they also have snowplows parked strategically along the interstate. we saw them assembling before down. they are going to get out there and start working on the snow and ice. they want to try and keep the roads as open as possible. it is going to get bad tonight. the harder they work now, the more they are going to have to be the less they will have to worry about it tonight. with that ice, there is really nothing you can do about it once it starts to stick. so everyone is being well-prepared, well-warned in advance here to make sure you hunker down, because you are not going to see any relief h ....
Plenty of flights are canceled. why are we so concerned with ice? remember, guys. .25 or .50 of ice. so many people are saying, what is the big deal? there is way more snow. it is the ice that takes down the power lines and inundates the roads with the black ice driving conditions and makes it impassable. still seeing freezing rain in toward atlanta and portions of south carolina, i should say. here is the problem. you saw that first wave yesterday. it is only about .25 of an inch. here comes the second wave. we have the potential of a catastrophic ice storm. even upwards of an inch of ice out there. that could bring power lines down for weeks at a time. let s hope we don t get there. it looks like that ice storm currently is underway. it is just one part of the system. first, we had the icing in the southeast and then we have the snowmaker. what we are going to watch is a lull cruising up across the ....
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Republican ranks after the shutdown that many people blamed him for in the fall. this is sort of putting him back on track to be a skunk at the garden party within the senate republican caucus. republicans that aren t necessarily going to vote for this, they understand like john boehner did in the house, the republican party does not want to be in a position to be blamed for the debt ceiling, for def t defaulting on the debt. they are going to try to figure out where the five republicans are. they are not going to be happy about it politically. dana bash, live from washington. thanks so much. snow and ice are building up on roads throughout the southeast and thousands are without power this morning. george howell is live in atlanta. good morning. reporter: unlike last time ....