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Chain artery. cnn's paula newton live in ottawa with the very latest. paula? >> reporter: john, you know, for political leaders and police trying to stay one step ahead of these protests it has been literally impossible. you just mentioned that border crossing between detroit and windsor, another one has been blocked for about ten days between alberta and montana. it goes on and on. i am here in the downtown core of ottawa, the nation's capital, john. it has been gridlocked. tractor trailers right outside the prime minister's office. outside parliament. behind me here keeping a major mall clos...

>> reporter: the protests here against the covid-19 measures started in ottowa, but have spread right across the country. sunday was much quieter than saturday, but you still had hundreds of tractor trailers and other trucks and thousands of people spread out from one side of the country to the other, demanding an end to those covid-19 restrictions. now, this started out adds a truckers protest. they were against vaccine mandates to actually cross the border into the united states. but this has turned into so much more. people saying that they are fed up with the mask mandates, the vaccine man...

Family. >> reporter: aaron parker banks has been the only doctor on the battlefield in this family clinking in owingsville. >> if at any moment i start thinking about it, i cry. one of my mentors growing up, who was like a mom to me, she lost her battle. there are not even words that can describe what all we've seen over the last year and a half. >> reporter: he says finding those words and his own time to heal will have to wait for now. kris van cleave, cbs news, owingsville, kentucky. >> duncan: now to some other stories making headlines. that widespread winter storm of snow and ice, along w...

Take a look at these images coming out of castleton, north dakota -- or south dakota. this lies just to the west of fargo. and they saw such blizzard conditions here, the winds were gusting around 60 kilometers per hour. visibility was near zero and all-day long, that temperature remained below the freezing mark. there were six injuries reported here. th there were about six tractor-trailers involved with this that shut down a portion of that interstate 95 -- 94 for some hours. all right. in the deep south, it is big thunderstorms that will produce some violent weather, especially to the north...

♪ >> bret: here is a look at a couple of the other headlines, region police told the national guard they believe truck drivers intend to shut down the capitol beltway and most other major roads leading into and outs of washington, d.c. state and local law enforcement are so far unable to secure the amount of tow trucks necessary to clear anticipated tractor trailers. so the national guard will be strategically planting road blocks throughout d.c. this has begun in some locations in the city near the capitol. meantime iowa governor kim reynolds will give the republican response to next tuesda...