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Impacted and impacted very quickly. >> and that's the problem isn't it? so people then stayed in their homes, hunkered down. the rescue missions continue well into the night. it's just after midnight there central time, but talk to us now as we look at these pictures of the roads submerged now, and so many people submerged, what this is going to mean going forward for the transportation system there? >> oh, certainly. so as of now we have over 332 high water location on our freeway system. so, what that means is that it is very difficult, if not impossible to get through, very -- a lot of free...

But, ryan and marci, john congress is already not happy. john boehner said yesterday, if he leaves congress out of this, will run into a brick wall. >> all right, abc's karen travers reporting live from capitol hill this morning. thank you. >> let's take a look at our facebook question of the day. what do you think was the highlight of the president's state of the union address? join the political discussion at wnnfans.com. a lot to talk about there. now to our other top story. that rare winter storm triggering states of emergency across five southern states. 2 to 3 inches of snow fell in at...

Round of misery. >> that's right. more than 140 million americans in 24 states enduring bitter cold, ice, snow or all of the above. you've got 2 to 3 inches is all it took to throw atlanta's entire freeway system into complete gridlock. take a look at that. and people just had to abandon their cars and walk. our coverage begins with abc's tahman bradley in new jersey. good morning, tahman. >> reporter: marci and ryan, good morning. this is metlife stadium, home of the super bowl. it's outdoors this year but thank goodness it was not tuesday and it's not today, because it's brutally cold outsid...

You have a paint transfer. you can find out the manufacturer if it was the original color. they might be looking at a ford ranger or another vehicle. this is the neicallious of the lead recovering the video. >> the victim was able to say it seemed to him like a ford ranger- type pick up. you say that is what they have to go on. this happen on a stretch of i- 81 in pennsylvania. doesn't that stretch of highway have cameras and surveillance cameras that might have picked upon up license plate? >> i would assume so. i have no idea of pennsylvania and their freeway system. i read that the state po...

It's hard to make it out. you really have to sort of look in the midst of all of those emergency response vehicles that have -- that come -- that have come to the scene. it's on president george bush turnpike. if you know the dallas area well, irving, texas, is just slightly north of the downtown area of dallas. it's also where the cowboys used to play. it is an extraordinarily busy -- the freeway system all around north of dallas and going into the irving area is an extraordinarily busy freeway area. it also takes you out to dfw airport too. there is frequently a lot of traffic in that area, ...