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Earlier this month came up short to the public works director they had not anticipated a refreeze event so that made a lot of the side streets here in the city of pittsburgh a frozen mess paralyzing different parts of the city here. what we heard on friday from city officials is they're going to increase the ability to try to respond to treat the roads before the first knowsnow flake started to fall and to have those plow trucks moving constantly to keep the roads clear and here is the thing, the big issue here according to public works is the ageing fleet of snow removal trucks. they ordered ...

Guard to help out and the power outage station is improving but more than 30,000 people without power in north carolina alone. >> it snows, it melts and freezes over again. you have sort of a second wave. polo sandoval is in pittsburgh. tell us what you're seeing there, polo. >> reporter: it's that wind-whipped snow we're seeing in pittsburgh. meteorologists say we've gotten about five or six inches in and around downtown pittsburgh, expect another inch to go and it will scale back. the issue diane mentioned of refreezing. the city of pittsburgh received some criticism which the mayor has call...

Lot of these cars are having a tough time getting around with this slush that remains. and the next wave of the concerns here is going to come in the coming days when overnight temperatures are expected to plummet to about 1 degree later this week. so the fear is a lot of this sort of slushy mess, if it's not removed off the roads, you could end up with a similar situation to what we saw a couple weeks ago here where many of the side streets were a frozen mess. >> like an ice rink. diane, you're in charlotte. tell us what the impacts are there. >> reporter: much like polo was just talking abou...

Road. many of them snowplows, emergency crews. even in the middle of all this, they are trying to get some of these roads plowed. here comes a snow plow right here going south on atlantic avenue. and they have been plowing side streets throughout this area of atlantic city. so they are trying to get ahead of some of the conditions so people can get out on the road once the snow stops. but again, if you see this vehicle traffic here on atlantic avenue, this is something that governor phil murphy and the mayor have told people just don't do this. do not venture out. we're still told by city offi...

Canceled, creating a real mess for air travelers. we have every angle covered. let's begin with polo sandoval from pittsburgh. you were with us last night. it was snowing. now the aftermath. >> reporter: to that point, too, poppy, when you and i last spoke on air, the snow portion of the event was just getting started in pittsburgh. now that we're joining you again, it seems we're bringing that chapter to a close. now is the next big challenge, which is to get as much snow as they can off these highways, off these side streets because of the concern with the forecast calling for an overnight l...