All right welcome back. We want to take another look at
a live view out of Lorton Virginia. We've been tal
about this all morning. I know and I can't really tell
but it does not look like it. It does not look like it
at all. Now. The northbound side on the other side is
clearly moving nice and smooth. But I mean we cannot
say the same for the south side. Meteorologist s
Withers is here scott. We're talking about people
stranded now for at least 16 were approaching 20 hours
stuck in freezing temps on I 95 with very little food,
very little water freezing temperatures overnight
there are all types of people. Here's what Virginia
senator tim kaine tweeted this morning. I started my
normal two hour drive to D.C. At one PM. Yesterday 19
hours later I'm still not near the capital. My office
is in touch with the Department of Transportatio
see how we can help other virginians in this situat
Please stay safe everyone. And he literally is stuck
between semi trucks. Um just like everybody else. So it
doesn't matter who nobody out there is getting any
video now here's video sent in from former State
Department Senior Advisor Susan Palin she's been stuck
on I 95 years Stafford. They got 14 inches of snow.
She's been in the traffic for the last 12 hours says
it's getting dangerous the longer they are stranded out
there. Yeah people are hungry and it's cold now. Newsy
are Newsy our very own music National corresponden
Amber Strong sent this in from her home. This is near
Stafford Virginia. This is where it's all taking place.
Look at that, look you, oh wow, this is the first time
we're seeing this video. Look at that for miles and
miles, it's just stretching and you can actually see
the semis up there that caused the accident looks like
some are off in the trees and then it is just backed up
and if you look at the beginning of that video the
no exit nearby and it just stretches. So this is like a
rural area where you can't just there's not an extra
every, you know, half mile or mile. So all these people
are gonna start running out of gas and then you run
into the situation you had yesterday, where where you
mentioned where you're gonna start towing these cars
and then how do you get people out of there And now
it's on both sides. So uh Susan this is just um I mean
in the ice in that picture and in that video you can
see two. Yeah, and I think and that's what I'm telli
you, everyone's like oh the sun is coming up, it's
gonna melt. Yes, but the wind temperature is still
below freezing. So even if the sun's rays melt, that
top layer, the wind is gonna come through and refreeze
it. So we're gonna have situations just building u
with ice all day and the temperature is gonna drop b
below freezing by four o'clock five o'clock this
afternoon. There's a small window. Um And another one.
We got this from yesterday's pictures from Virgi
Department of Transportation an the snow. This is when
the snow was really really coming down hard out there
and all of this. You know. Yes we knew that snowstor
it's january but we also knew the temperatures were in
the seventies, sixties, seventi for the longest time.
So we saw this coming, we just didn't think it would be
this intense. Just a lot of moisture coming through and
those bitter cold temperatures dropped tons of snow.
Guys extremely dangerous hours a U.S. Senator, former
vice presidential candidate stu for 19 hours. And
then the freezing temperature. I cannot say at any
point would I have enough food, water, clothes bla
for 19 hours at any given moment throughout my day.
That's a good point. I would not, we need to point that
out for everyone that's not stuck today. We're still we
still got two more months of winter and this could
happen anywhere in the country really except south
florida. You need to go and get your car supplies for
winter, your emergency kit blankets, some of those
warming things for your feet, your hands, water, food,
beef jerky things that are not going to go spoiled a
shovel flashlights. You could find yourself in this
situation. We still got months to go with winter. That
being said there is no excuse for the failure of the
government there in Virginia and the Department of
Transportation. Yes, we should be prepared not for that.
Not for 10 12, 14, 16 or certainly not 19 hours. What
disaster. We just pray there or not. Elderly people
waiting medications. Yeah, This storm has claimed five
lives so far. We don't know if anybody or any situatio
or emergency situations in thos cars, yet just such a
scary situation scott. Thank you.