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Happen? >> reporter: we just caught up with senator tim kaine who just made it to his office in capitol hill. here's what he said. >> you know, it was kind of a survival challenge. how do you keep yourself warm? so it's kind of -- you have to figure out the strategy. turn on the heater full blast. heat the car up. turn it off and then try and catch some sleep and about 20 or 30 minutes it gets so cold in the car you have to do that again. >> jake, to put into context, the backup behind me. we're six miles from where i-95 south officially shuts down. 22 miles away from the bulk of where all the...

Help is on the way eventually. but it was a little too late by then. what you saw and what -- you saw the goodness of people. you can't speak enough about truck drivers. i got woken up at 7:00 a.m. when a truck driver came up with a case of water he had in his rig and came along and was handing them out to people and wanted to know if i had -- i took a bottle of water. about two hours later, an individual was walking up and down the i-95 with loaves of bread. he had decided he had been parked behind a bread truck, called the owner of that bread truck and the owner of the bread truck then conta...

And, you know, people trying to scroll through twitter, find what information they can get, maybe from local authorities or local radio, but really it was just a mystery how long is this going to last. >> reporter: yeah, josh talked about local radio. wtop here in town, the big news channel, they've been hearing constantly from people who are stuck on the roads. now, they've been this touch and we have also been in touch with the virginia department of transportation, vdot as it's known, is trying to dig cars and trucks out. they've got fire department, rescue personnel going car to car trying...

Sen. Tim Kaine left his home in Richmond for his usual two-hour commute to the U.S. Capitol after Monday's snowstorm, eager to negotiate voting rights legislation and preside over the Senate Tuesday morning.

First County Board Meeting of 2022 -- "Arlington County Board members will hold their annual organizational meeting on Monday, Jan. 3 at 6 p.m... At the meeting