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Grabbed me or a juror, i would think. here is a call from a frustrated woman who had already called 911 once, and was still waiting for the ambulance to arrive. let's listen to this call. >> 911. where is your emergency? >> i called. >> i know. is it for 1345 south -- >> yes, yes. >> they're on your way. you only called a couple of minutes ago. they're on their way, okay. >> you know, it's an emergency, and they are still not here. >> okay. they're on their way. >> okay, bye. >> all right, bye. >> well, there is a person rather pathetically trying to get the ambulance to show up that normally ...

Rather pathetically trying to get the ambulance to show up that normally would have gotten there, presumably. and there you have this traffic gridlock. it doesn't get through. >> and it was causing problems for the dispatchers too. not only were they having to deal with the normal calls coming in, and there are a lot of them, but now there are also all these calls coming in about traffic from angry motorists. remember, a 91-year-old woman died while she was waiting for first responders. her family said they don't blame chris christie, but this was just causing all sorts of problems. there are ...

Once, and was still waiting for the ambulance to arrive. let's listen to this call. >> 911. where is your emergency? >> i called. >> i know. is it for 1345 south -- >> yes, yes. >> they're on your way. you only called a couple of minutes ago. they're on their way, okay. >> you know, it's an emergency, and they are still not here. >> okay. they're on their way. >> okay, bye. >> all right, bye. >> well, there is a person rather pathetically trying to get the ambulance to show up that normally would have gotten there, presumably. and there you have this traffic gridlock. it doesn't get through. >...

Another car last night and he's still in the hospital tonight. so my prayers are with one of my highway patrol officers at this point in time, just trying to rescue people as we speak. >> governor, good luck to you and to everyone in north carolina right now. good luck to everyone in the south. this weather situation is pretty awful. >> yes. it's quite a unique storm for the southeast. our big dlem dilemma is when we e get a storm like this the temperatures is right there at freezing which causes us all great straps. but north carolina and south carolina, virginia, and georgia. >> heading towa...

Cancelling classes for today and tomorrow. and a lot of people are heeding the warning to stay home. during rush hour traffic today it wasn't much of a rush hour. if this is any indication they are well on their way preventing the serious traffic gridlock. the serious concern in this storm is power outages. the quhans of ice forming on wires and weighing down power lines and weighing down nearby trees falling on the power lines. officials are preparing for the real possibility of power outages. martha: we'll be watching throughout the course of this and updating people as much as we can. bill:...