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You see the traffic mess right there. those are tractor-trailers. what happened earlier, hours and hours earlier, you had several of these tractor-trailers involved in a variety of accidents. mostly because of the weather. you had one and then the domino effect. you see right there, you have all these tractor-trailers backed up. behind those tractor-trailers, you have cars for miles and miles and miles that are also backed up. it swings around. what happens is you cannot get the trailers out of the way because you cannot get tow trucks on and therefore, you cannot get to traffic. we have repor...

Have never heard of a jackknife shutting down the freeway. what are the calls for accountability in the aftermath? >> well, one thing i'll say, just from what we could see on the ground, is it wasn't like there was one accident if they could only clear that. the issue was the roadways were such a mess of ice and snow that looking around, it was littered in every direction with disabled vehicles, cars, trucks, tractor-trailers so you'd clear one accident and ten feet down the road, there would be another one. so there were certainly a lot of issues there. now, the authorities are saying that pa...

Roads. more than 200 act tram passengers traveling from new york, new orleans -- new orleans to new york were stuck on an amtrak train for more than 30 hours. look at the map tonight. two storms now on the move and right now, the winter alerments coast to coast. first up, that system that will hit i-95 again tomorrow. and then that cross-country stop, snow, heavy winds and rain. ginger is standing by to time all of this out, but first, the misery and, of course, the major questions tonight, how did all of this happen? abc's kenneth moton leading us off from fredericksburg, virginia, tonight. >...

Different than i-95. dead stop traffic. we've been sitting here for two hours already. >> trace: i'm just wondering, because we are seeing the pictures on the screen. the big focuses on i-95 because it's for the big traffic lanes are and where all the tractor-trailers got into the accidents. we know what the problem is on is on i-95. what's the problem where you are? why are you stuck? are there accidents? is at the weather? what is the cause? >> as far as accident or whether, it looks pretty good. i think it is just everybody else trying to get off of i-95 and taking the u.s. 1 route. trying ...

>> martha: so traffic is moving again on i-95 in virginia after hundreds of drivers were stranded. it started when tractor trailers jackknifed causing a chain reaction crash. >> people had no water, no food. they had been there for 24 hours. >> it's hard. you're trying to stay warm. but you're running out of gas. it's freezing out here. a total standstill. >> unclear why they couldn't get them water and food. katie is live. >> hi, martha. water outside of a wawa gas station near cardinal road. some of the drivers were able to get off after being stranded for hours. you can see the gas station ...