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Charlotte, maybe a foot or more to the north of the city and ice from here south of the city that will no doubt plunge thousands of people into the cold and dark tonight when the electricity finally goes out. but right now, you can bet that officials here at the state and local level are paying very close attention to what happened in atlanta earlier. they have been very proactive in preparing for the storm. you notice just in a little bit of snowfall we've got, we have got a little bit of a dusting here on the sidewalk. look at the street. nothing is sticking to the street right now. that's b...

G-doe? >> i keep wondering why things weren't salted. there were other cities that had salted well in advance of any kind of impending ice storm. i want to read quickly. the mayor claimed they began pretreating streets at 9:00 a.m., city crews, 30 spreaders and 40 snow falls have finished treating priority one areas, such as bridges and exit and their current focus was helping state crews clear the freeways. let me just throw this to general onere. your assessment of how the city of atlanta tried to prevent this. did they fail? is the mayor responsible in deflecting the blame? >> there is a fa...

Storm. get things as ready as possible and just as we did for this storm, we thought we did a great job of preparation. the best thing about these storms, you usually h get a heas up. we were 48 hours out with things prepositioned. you can't do anything about mother nature. hopefully you can prepare yourself the best way possible. >> you got close to three feet or more in many areas, boston included, worcester, other parts of massachusetts. at this point how is the cleanup going and what do you expect the commute to be like tomorrow? >> it's going very well. the main reason i think is the gove...

Proposal being advanced by antigun mayors like chicago. >> supporters are urging the administration to act in other ways as well. from idea like creating a justice department task force to track gun sales and call on environmental protection agency to regulate manufacturer and sale of ammunition that contains lead. father of one of the children killed in newtown said today he is worried that a push for new measurings will do it will to solve underlying problem of violence. >> i'm a big proopponent of individual accountability and enforcement. if there are going to be laws we should enforce the...

here. we're standing, a lot of this was beach. we got here this morning. quickly it's already risen several feet. i was talking to the mayor. he said one of the big worries in this area is when you go past here, there's homes that's built on a cliff. at this point their worries not so much the wind, this is not going to be the kind of storm here where the wind is going to do catastrophic damage, but what they are worried about is, it's moving so slowly, and it's going to hit right before high tide which comes about 3:30 in the morning here, that they are worried that there may be so ...