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According to our friends at the weather channel, the storm ultimately will target more than 100 million people. that also means major roads and airline hubs from texas to georgia, new york and massachusetts will be crippled. >> expect that number to grow as the storm moves up the east coast. flightaware.com is already reporting more than 1300 cancellations just today. >> and as we mentioned, the atlanta area is bracing for the worst. the governor ordered road crews out ahead of the storm. he's also ordered people to stay home. power officials predict the effects of the ice to be, quote, catast...

I don't know what modeling they were looking at. >> a lot of pushback from the meteorologists and al roker talked about his projects for the storm yesterday. >> the mayor and the governor got on tv yesterday and said, oh, this wasn't expected and that is not true. we were talking about this monday that this was going to happen. they took a gamble. they didn't want to pretreat the roads. i don't think they wanted to spend the money and do what they needed to. then they told -- everybody started going home right around noon. by 1:30, i-285 and i-75 and i-85 was a parking lot. this was poor plann...

About 2,000 of the fulton county school system's children that are still in their schools. jon: buck lanford, fox affiliate in atlanta. what is happening there now, buck? >> reporter: jon, let me show you behind me. we're at our fox studios. we got 2 1/2 inches of snow we measured last night. places like new york and other parts of the northeast 2 1/2 inches of snow. doesn't sound like a whole lot. that is a different story here in atlanta. there are really two reasons for that. atlanta is not really quipped with the proper trucks, sat and sand to handle a major snowstorm. number two the time ...

Still stranded in cars. at a news conference just moments ago atlanta america seem reed said one of the lessons there needs to be staggered release times for schools, businesses, government offices the next time there is a sear rushes winter storm in atlanta. now i would like to show awe live remote from our photographer jeff burton who is on i-85 between atlanta and the al became state line. as you can see very little traffic. but what little traffic it is it is moving along albeit moving slowly. as you look closely at the roadway there is still plenty of ice. that is why officials in georgia...

I need to take the microphone. i forgot to talk about this in advance. i didn't plan well, julia. atlanta didn't either in many ways. >> shep, we've gotten a lot of tweets in into this afternoon. just two hours ago will tweeted, i've been stuck in traffic for 36 hours, y'all. >> i got to call a foul on this. i snow it started snowing right after lunch in atlanta yesterday. it's now pushing 4:00. somebody can't add. i feel you. but 36 hours -- >> probably feels like 36 hours. >> probably feels like 36 days. i-85 often does. >> glad my sister's safe. she was stuck in her car on i-75 since 8:00 l...