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Lot of snow, ice is underneath that snow. i want you to take this live drone footage in and around charlotte. they've cleared off those roads but as you can see, they are wet. that's the concern, there will be another freeze overnight. they've already dealt with 200 accidents in the state. there are several large accidents they're currently dealing with around the state at this point. officials have said, look, please just don't drive. you probably don't know how to drive in these conditions and they're only going to get worse, even though it seems like the conditions have stopped briefly. >> ...

Down the eastern seaboard of not only north carolina and south carolina. inland we're going to see accumulation of snow as well. power crews for duke energy are here staging behind me. there's hundreds and 2,500 utility workers around the state ready to go as soon as the potential for these power lines to go down occurs overnight. they are also expecting downed trees. the weight of this ice, anything 1/4 inch to 1/2 inch and above will cause a destructive landscape. the roads are not safe as all. if you're out there, get off of them. they're not safe. they're going to ice over as the sun goes ...

Treacherous conditions again in the morning. th they've been dealing with 200 different collisions today in the state of north carolina. the governor asking the people you probably don't know how to drive in this so stay off the road. >> for today the best way to avoid a car accident or getting stranded is to stay put. fewer people on the road means fewer car crashes and allows highway crews and utility workers to get faster results. if you must travel, reduce your speed, increase your following distance and clear all the snow and ice the vehicle. >> reporter: he mention they activated the gua...

>> for today, the best way to avoid a car accident or getting stranded is to stay put. fewer people on the road means fewer car crashes. plus it allows highway crews and utility workers to get faster results. if you must travel, reduce your speed, increase your following distance and be sure to clear all the snow and ice off your vehicle before traveling. >> so they are already looking at around 200 or a few more of those car crashes so far in the state of north carolina due to that, but they are also concerned what ice is going to mean for power outages, more than 90,000 report across the sta...

Incredible leader as well. so you will be hearing from her shortly. so let's see what we're looking at right now. this is a very serious storm. very serious. we've been prepare being for this, this could be life-threatening. and we want to make sure that we took all the steps, but we believe that they were necessary including starting with the declaration of state of emergency early on in the process. yesterday we announced that it would go into effect at 8:00 p.m. yesterday. and that allowed us time for the d.o.t. to deploy their trucks, bring in all the plows. but also the utility workers. b...