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This? we begin with breaking news. a winter storm that some fear will make atlanta's recent nightmare look like nothing. this is what two inches of snow and ice did to the city a couple weeks ago. the storm that's getting ready to pummel the southeast tonight could be the worst in 14 years. take a look at it from space, stretching from texas through virginia, and farther north along the eastern seaboard. it's in georgia, though, and the carolinas that will be the first to get the worst of it. not just out on the roads. even if you stay at home, you could end up in darkness for days when inch...

>> we don't want to be accused of crying wolf. because if we had been wrong, you all would be here saying, you know how many millions of dollars you cost the economy or the city of atlanta and the state of georgia by shutting down businesses all over this city and this state? >> wouldn't that have been terrible facing those questions? governor dele also called the storm in the south unexpected, was his turn of phrase. that does not seem to be true. over at the weather channel, a sister network to msnbc, bryan norcross could have known from the forecast that real trouble was possible. mr. norcr...

Could meteorologists have been more forceful? i mean, is it -- you know, again, two inches in certain parts of this country is not going to have a measurable effect. two inches in other parts of this country is going to have the effect that we saw to a certain extent, obviously not to the extent that we saw in atlanta. in the future what can be done to prevent things like this from a meteorological standpoint if anything? >> yeah, well, i think you have to be careful about crying wolf. i think you have to have situational awareness and know when there's a vulnerable population at play whmpt th...

Their cars in the ice and snow, that can't come soon enough. for most of the deep south, this freak winter snowstorm dropped mere inches. but that was enough to grind parts of it to a complete gridlock. as know and ice built up, traffic snarled. officials took some of that blame after schools and businesses and government all went out at the same time. >> we don't want to be accused of crying wolf. because if we had been wrong, y'all would have been in here saying, you know how many millions of dollars you cost the economy? >> reporter: thousands of crashes, some of them deadly, backed up traf...

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