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The Alabama State Troopers said the wreck happened at about 10:50 a.m.

Ice. in dallas, look at this, traffic struggling to get up an incline. this was interstate 20. in eastern arkansas, ice snapping utility poles along interstate 40. flames and smoke, in fact, seen coming from one of them. near memphis, tennessee, tonight, icy roads causing a pileuppe pileup near interstate 55. and at the dallas/fort worth airport today, a standstill, except for a convoy of snowplows clearing the snow and the ice. meteorologist rob marciano standing by on this brutal cold moving in right behind this, and abc's mireya villarreal in dallas tonight. >> reporter: tonight, roads like...

Texas roads has risen to at least six. when dozens of semis got stuck on i-20 in dallas tuesday, an army of jeeps from a local offroad club sprang into action, hooking themselves together with tow ropes, pulling those semis one by one. >> my dad's a trucker and i feel for them, and i know i want to do what i can to help them out. and i know the rest of the guys do, too. >> reporter: in austin, tree limbs snapping under the weight of ice. north of there, crews racing to clear blocked streets and repair utility lines torn by ice-encrusted trees. across the state, more than 300,000 customers don'...

That's tonight. memphis getting some of it there. as we expand this, the front moves pretty slowly and that core of the cold air just keeps butting up against this moisture that comes from the gulf. interstate 35 or interstate 20 wednesday at 5:00 p.m., that is not a good situation. even if it's sleet, which we say has a beat, it's more of a pellet, it can cause problems on theed radios. i'd be careful tomorrow night, little rock to memphis and finally, david, that cold air, some of the wind chills by this weekend could be the coldest in parts of new england ain at leat five years, in some pla...

Settling in from the north and that sets us up for a recipe for potential problems, right? ice storm and that is what is unfolding across texas and into arkansas as well as western sections of tennessee. look at this. we see some lightning strikes, this is some impressive kind of precipitation that's moving through, perhaps some thunder sleet, thunder snow, that's a potential but filling in around the dallas region to austin, that interstate 20, 30, that is going to be very difficult to drive in the days to come and you can see computer models indicating of upwards of a half an inch of ice acc...