>> there was an amazing two-minute standing ovation. it was really, really an emotional moment wrapping up the state of the union address. that's it for me and thanks for watching. newsroom continues right now with brooke baldwin. >> hey, wolf. great to be back with you. we are watching not just one, but two big stories. the weather and much of the south and georgia totally shut down after the winter storm. stranding commuters and hundreds, maybe thousands of people spent the night in their cars. still on the road. you see the other picture on the screen. we are talking cruise ship again today. this one is a royal caribbean cruise ship that arrived in new jersey moments ago.

nearly 700 people on that ship affected by norovirus. they are disembarking on the cruise. we will talk to people who are sick and ready to go home and very frustrated. first this. 24 hours. we will call it what it is. gripping atlanta started around this time and it is very much a crisis as we speak. look at this. the pictures tell the story here. keep in mind the sun is going to set in atlanta in four hours. thousands and thousands of people behind the wheels are stuck in every direction. into and out of atlanta. law enforcement is struggling to clear the roads and reach these people.

some with their kids. minute by minute disaster gross into a second hellish night and up to five people dead. at last word, several thousand school kids have not seen their parents. many were on school house floors and in addition, you have the untold thousands who managed to seek shelter in churches and grocery stores and gas stations. let me say it again. this is an ongoing crisis. this is just day one. >> i'm thinking about getting people out of their cars. what i know is that if compare this to 2011, we were not activated until the 30 day of this winter event.

the third day the members of the community were immobilized. we have to get the interstates cleared up. >> there is a lot of blame flying around and even weather forecasters and the local level and as tofu got it wrong. and first to you, michael holmes. how is it to you. we are moving at a snail's pace. we are on i-20.

it's an east-west highway below. they are rolling along here. we have interviewed the truck drivers who had been sitting on the side of the road. he's given up and he was about 70 miles from here. he gave up and has been there since 4:30 p.m. we are in the left lane and we saw a car empty in the fast lane that is being left there. a lot of people ran out of gas. it is still a very desperate situation and 2:00 p.m. eastern. this is nowhere near cleared up. still ice on the roads. we crawl for a couple hundred yards and then sit for ten minutes. we did speak to one good samaritan and there have been many around throughout this.

his name is chris white. have a listen. >> i just came here and i brought some water and towels to see if anybody was stranded and if families have been here. they gave them some gas and actually kept out more people. >> you are literally looking for people who ran out of gas? >> correct. i found two couples and i will bring them back to my house and let them warm up and give them some food. >> why are you doing it? >> just to help. i look on the news and they had trouble getting to the people and i thought i might come out just to help. lend an extra hand. >> friends and family of mine have seen rude drivers, but they have also seen acts of kindness like we saw from chris white. he has taken the people back to his house to warm up because they are not going anywhere fast. >> so the headline is that traffic is moving. i suppose that's a good thing.

think about all the times you get out with gas at a quarter of a tank and guilty and not thinking you would be stuck like that. i know you are not going anywhere. we will come back to you to check on the conditions on the roadways. let me bring you in. this is where the story is percolating now. this blame game. basically acknowledging there was a mistake made and the schools and the businesses being let out at the same time. you had a million people on the roads and you have the mayor and you have governor nathan deal in the same room around the time the snow started falling yesterday. me more about that. >> we have seen the news conference that happened this morning. there was another last night with the mayor of atlanta and the governor of georgia. they were together earlier in the day. the mayor caught this crisis and i think rightfully so.

the people in traffic all day would agree with that. i want to go through a couple of tweets that the mayor and the governor sent out. the mayor tweeted atlanta, we are ready for the snow. for a lot of people who question that, about 90 minutes later, the mayor tweets i am honored to receive the 2014 georgian of the year award from georgia trends magazine. we have more work to do together. that was at the ritz karlton. the governor was there to present the mayor with this georgian of the year award. i was honored to get his nationals there that are indicating this was sent out by the governor himself.

thousands of people were flooding into the roads. the mayor and the governor at the ritz carlton. they answer them to be struggling, but the offices say that the governor and the mayor were kept in the loop and knew what was happening. the governor cleared the schedule after that. we saw it at the news conference, that was not the first time they were in the room together while people struggled to find a way home. >> as they say in the world of politic, not great optics to have the leaders in a fancy hotel right when it was about to hit the fan. stay on that for us. trying to get reaction from the mayor and chat meyers. we see new orleans because of the ice and the cold there, but the story is here. i want you to respond specifically to what we found from the governor and the mayor.

the national weather service that got it wrong and they were following the models and the weather folks didn't predict it right. >> the forecast goes from to two and it was my forecast and we got 2.6. that's not 5 or 8 or a complete bust. it's the amount that they have to get all the stuff out of the way. every bridge and overpass and every uphill grade needed to be salted before it happened. that couldn't and didn't happen. we don't have 1,000 salt trucks because we can't afford to have that. why would you? you are not going to use it but once every 1,000 days. this is a once in every three-year event. you would have 1,000 trucks parked for three years to use for one day? i get it.

the fault here is that schools weren't closed before. it started around noon. why would you send kids to school and send them home in the middle of the day and in the middle of this. if rang a bell and said go home now, any hour during the day, you get a three-hour rush hour easy. if it's raping or snowing, that's what we had yesterday. people crashed and it could move and the stuck cars got abandoned. they are still there. those cars are still there. people walk home miles to get home. >> that was my next question and i will let you go. we are past that 24-hour mark. get in my ear and tell me if this is a live picture. no. this is tape. we have seen pictures where you have so many stranded cars on highways. this will go into day two. will it not? the sunsets in a couple of hours. >> certainly it will. you won't get these cars, you

won't get every car off the roads for a week. it will take that long to tow every car away and get them out of the ditch. the cars that are abandoned ran out of gas. my brother-in-law spent the night in a home depot. friends that live in the apartment complex spent 22 hours on that road trying to get off that steep hill to the right. couldn't get up the hill. it was turned into a nightmare. this is atlanta all-around cnn center. the bridges and overpasses were a mess. i'm supposed to be on with a picture, but the satellite truck is iced up on the road. our generator died because of ice in the fuel line trying to rent a new generator right now. you would see me if the weather was not so bad here. >> murphy's law. >> most of the ice is northward. the ice goes from houston through alexandria and i-10,

mississippi, alabama, georgia, snowing into the carolinas. i know we focus on atlanta, but many others are in similar problems. >> we will be talking to the principal out of alabama. this is not just the metro atlanta area, but my goodness, it is a mess. we have a lot more to get to including stories of people who have been stranded. beyond looking at the cruise ship that is docked full of a lot of sick people, we have to talk about the president delivering remarks on retirement at the steel plant. this is in pennsylvania. let's take a listen. >> every single person who is willing to work hard and take responsibility in this country. that's what i'm committed to doing. i want to talk about the fourth part of that agenda. making hard work pay off for every american.

jobs pay good wages and affordable health care is there when you need it and after a lifetime of hard work, you can retire with dignity. today women make up about half of our workforce, but they still make 77 cents for every dollar a man makes. that's wrong. in 2014 it is an embarrassment. women deserve equal pay for equal work. they deserve to be able to have a baby without sacrificing a job. moms and dads deserve to be able to take a day off for a sick kid or sick parent. we have to get rid of some of these workplace policies that belong back in the 50s. back in a mad men episode, i say. we have to give every woman the opportunity she deserves. when women succeed, america succeeds. i'm proud that there is a woman heading up this plant and doing amazing work.

i was glad to see that. but women hold the majority of lower wage jobs. they are not the only ones who have been stifled by stagnant wages. the truth is wages and incomes for the average working american haven't gone up even though the economy is more productive. even though it's grown over the last two decades. the average person's salary, what they are taking home, their paycheck has not really grown. now, americans understand, we all understand, some people are going to earn more money than others. we don't envy anybody who achieves success through their hard work. that's what we want for our kids. >> similar themes echoed by the president. talking about equal pay for

women and raising minimum wage and retirement. pushing forward the economy and i want to add that he will be getting the first interview with the president since the state of the union. he will be sitting with the president of the united states tomorrow. still to come, the storm that paralyzed the south. who is responsible for this and how should it have been handled? we have insane stories about being stranded without food and water for upwards of 15 or 16 hours. student for that and we are watching the cruise ship where almost 700 people got sick. back in port. we will talk to the passengers. you are watching cnn. are you ready grandma? just a second, sweetie.

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. >> let's take a look the the dow down 200 points about an hour and 40 minutes until the closing bell. the federal re7 announces it is reducing stimulus spending and you are looking at the market's reaction to that. cnn business correspondent is live at the stock exchange and allison, tell me more about this decision from the fed. >> the fed had the first meeting of the year and just ended around 2:00. it came out with basically a statement. in that statement, nothing's changed. no surprises here. $10 billion pull back in stimulus money means that the bond purchases will equal $65 billion a month. we are seeing the sell off accelerate. we look deeper and no bad news except for maybe the housing market and the recovery and the housing market that slowed. that's not a surprise to many people either. why is the market selling off?

one trader said at this point the market is jonesing for a correction. he said why do you trim a rose bush? because it will come back bigger and come back stronger. in the same line of thinking, this trader said if the market corrects now, it can come back stronger by the end of the year. you see sort of looking for excuses, to have this correction and then you see this sell off accelerate for just this day. also keep in mind, we are knee deep in the middle of fourth quarter earnings season. earnings are not that great. boeing shares weighing down the dow right now. down more than 6%. you have got all of this on wall street with a lot of things going o. nothing positive. you see a sell off in the works. >> supposed to go to the analogy of watching out for the thorns. a lot of people are saying what's going on? let's move along to the other

big story we are watching. live pictures of the explorer of the seas. a vacation cruise, floating paradise or mammoth petri dish? in the case of royal caribbean, more than 600 passengers know the answer too well. being victims of a possible norovirus. this has been the dubious distinction of having the most widespread outbreak on a cruise in the last 20 years. that's why this is such a big deal. according to the centers for disease control, it just docked in new jersey. 629 persons and 54 crew members went through and i'm sparing the details, let's just say they were really sick. >> i think there a lot of people who claim there were 600, but i think as many as 1,000. some people i know didn't bother

going to the infirmary. they didn't feel well and went to the stateroom. they didn't report it. when they felt better, they left. >> elizabeth cohen is there in new jersey. elizabeth, did i hear you saw someone put in an ambulance? >> reporter: indeed. they actually boarded a stretcher and came out with an older gentlemen on the stretcher. they put him in an ambulance and drove away. they are being greeted by freezing cold temperatures and ambulances and ems workers. folks are really sick. i'm told they can go to the hospital and they made it easy for that to happen. also the cdc tells me they recommended to royal caribbean that they offer up hotel rooms for people who are sick. not sick enough to go to the hospital, but they want to keep to themselves for a while. >> not get on an airport and infect others. >> exactly. >> what's happening right now on

the choose ship behind you? have you seen the passengers disembark? >> yes. passengers have been getting off. the whole disembarkation process takes three hours. more than 3,000 people getting off a ship and going through customs and in this situation having to go through medical personnel and asked how they are feeling. it does take a while. several passengers just walked by and he said best cruise of my life. i lot of five pounds. i asked him how and he didn't answer. he said he had a great time. >> i don't think we want to know. elizabeth cohen. >> i don't want to know. >> speaking of the passengers here, we have joseph. are you with me on the phone? >> yes, i am. >> joseph, first of all, are you one of the unfortunate soles who got sick? >> yes, my wife and i both.

we were confined for three days. >> keep in mind, some people are eating lunch, can you tell us how sick you got? >> we couldn't eat anything. that was the last thing we wanted to look at. we had both ends going. it was terrible, terrible, terrible. >> where are you? are ow board the cruise? >> outside on the deck looking out at the dock and i see some of your cameras interviewing people or whatever. >> we are out there. >> we kept going and we had our lunch. we were able to eat, thank god. we are doing better. 90% better. we just want to get home. >> i can't blame you. does 90% mean you get to get off the cruise or get on a plane or train or car and get home or do you need to stay put and get better? >> i live in new jersey and we came where they are supposed to

have a bus to take us back to hamilton. we are waiting for them to depart from the ship. i don't know if we are going to get off the way we are supposed to. >> i think they will let you off. it just takes a while, the whole process. take me back when the worst of the worst of it. this is apparently the worst outbreak of norovirus in a number of years. what was happening on the cruise? what were fellow passengers or members of the crew were sick. what were they saying? >> entertainers were sick and they canceled shows because they couldn't perform. i had people that i know were sick in the infirmary because they didn't want to be confined to their rooms. that happened a lot from what i'm hearing. we were confined for three days. room service was atrocious. we couldn't get anything in the

room. i had to sneak out to get crackered and ginger ale and stuff for us to drink. it was atrocious. they tried to do what they could do, but once you feel like we were feeling, it wasn't worth it. i doubt if i'll be back. >> so many people i know saving up and taking these few vacation theys they have for the cruise that was. final question, will you take another cruise? >> no. at this point i am saying no. they are giving us a credit for the days that we spent in our cabin free to take another cruise. so it's half price for the next one, but i doubt i will see the inside of another ship again. >> joseph, we wish you and your wife well. thank you so much for taking the few minutes. i hope you are able to get home soon. thank you. now to this. when you head into work or

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. >> bottom of the hour. i'm brooke baldwin. we have shown you pictures and videos of the catastrophe that has been the winter storm in the south. take a look at this picture. home depot, think about being one of these people. they opened 26 doors in georgia and alabama for people who were stuck. either on highways or ran out of gas or cooperate get home

because the roads were so impassible. many sought refuge in different parts of home depot stores. these people are some of the lucky ones. some didn't make it out of their cars last night. we have some of their stories coming up for you here. it is a nightmare. no one saw it coming. thousands of people in georgia and alabama are trapped in their cars after this winter storm that hit the region a little over 24 hours ago. in atlanta specifically, the situation is especially bad. it began when you had schools and businesses and government agencies just like this like somebody blew a whistle and everyone said go home. you had all the traffic on the roads as the snow started falling. that created the gridlock on the primary and the secondary streets. pictures for miles on major streets and highways. people were trapped including all kinds of school buses filled with kids with no food or

bathrooms. many drivers ran out of gas and abandoned their cars to seek shelter. nick valencia has more on the social media angle of this story. that's the thing, nick. i heard about this snowed out facebook page. it still is like this virtual war for people who need help. >> that's it and it seems like everyone, myself included and other colleagues have a story about being stuck in traffic. bearing these icy road conditions. if there is an upside to this and a good story line in this event that happened, it's a southern hospitality we are seeing and the facebook page created going from about 100 people to over 40,000 people. this is a bulletin board where people are putting up pleas for help. one person i want to share his story. his name is ronnie and he is stuck on i-285 and the north ramp there on the interstate.

he's a diabetic and hasn't eaten in hours. his friend posted asking for help. on the flip side, we are seeing good samaritans taking in strangers and sheltering strangers in their home and giving them food and water. one woman took in ten people and she was walking people from the interstate to her home. that's a picture there yesterday. posted earlier this morning. this was a dramatic situation for people who couldn't get home. one woman gave birth in her home in a suburb outside of atlanta. i was stuck in it for about four hours going six miles in 12 hours. one woman is still stuck out there. 21 hours. we are getting reaction on twitter especially from this report that the mayor and governor were at an awards luncheon yesterday. the mayor receiving a georgian of the year award and causing a

stir. i want to share with you the reaction being shared with me on my twitter page. one person said it's better because we have the equipment. what's worse is it happened with all the equipment and the salt supply. they are referring to the 2011 snow. you were here for that as well. he said it's not as bad this time around. so many people beg to differ. when they leave their cars on the highways and leaving cars behind and walking the miles that they do need to get home. as you know and as we have been reporting, a big part of the problem was the lack of coordination and preparation on the city's part. people and businesses are closing and schools are closing and everyone hitting the street, an estimated 1 million people on roads at the same time. >> a lot of fingers going around pointing at different people. we talked about the governor and the mayor at the top of the hour. thank you. i think we have to stay with the story that we are still in it

and there so many people still stranded as we could be going into day two, three, four. it was worse for some people because you will hear from a woman spending so much time in a car trapped. 16 hours trying to get home. keep in mind this woman is months pregnant. stay with me. te shipping. fedex one rate. really makes my life easier. maybe a promotion is in order. good news. i got a new title. and a raise? management couldn't make that happen. [ male announcer ] introducing fedex one rate. simple, flat rate shipping with the reliability of fedex.

it's not difficult to keep finding the stories of people who have been stuck in the snow

and ice and their cars. eight months pregnant and left to go home. six hours later, she got to a highway ramp and stayed there for nine hours. total time is 16 hours in her car. no food or water. might be on the road if it weren't for facebook and a stranger. joining me by phone, but first, are you home and a-ok? >> we are home and a-ok. eight months pregnant and i have my 3 career old with me too. >> goodness. in the car and 16 hours. me how you got help. >> we left the office down south of the city at about 1:00. we are cruising along steadily until we hit at 75 and 285. from there that was the spot that we ended up stuck. my friend encouraged me in join

the face brook group and he was instrumental in helping me keep my status and locations. that's how craig was able to locate both me and my son maneuver out of traffic and get us back to my husband safely. >> craig say total strangerer who you linked up with who came to your aid so you could go home? >> absolutely. i never met craig and i will never ever forget craig and his kindness and michelle who started the facebook group. >> how is your 3-year-old? >> he's great. he's taking a nap. it was a long night for him, but he's fine. >> people are not quite irked, but that's what we will go to. irked at the city and the mayor of atlanta and the governor of georgia for not having folks at least stagger and getting out of schools or work, etc.

not anticipating. do you place blame on them or elsewhere? >> i don't know what would place blame. it's a perfect storm. we left work at the same time. it's a congested city anyway. we have everyone participating in the mass exodus. it's a recipe for disaster. hopefully there will be a way to go through that more properly next time. >> hopefully that doesn't happen for a while. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> yes. just getting home here in the south as you heard, that was an ordeal in and of itself. imagine being responsible for more than 50 children. we will talk to a principal who held an unplanned sum ber party last night at her school and we are keeping an eye on live pictures of the explorer of the cities. the royal caribbean cruise that

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. >> all the stories of people in the south who have been stranded, thousands of people whose everyday lives will have a fight for survivor. a postal worker spent the night in a lawn chair at a convenience store. you with me on the phone? >> yes, i am. how are you doing? >> better than you are, but at least i hear you are home. is that right? >> i finally made it home. about 15 minutes ago. >> take me back, stanley and tell me your story. when did you hop in the car with your snow? >> about 8:00 last night. i was going to leave at 2:00.

i thought everything would be fine. after iy left, i got stuck. i made my way up to the 166 and i got stuck there. it was a race track and i walked about a mile to it and got is it the other night. >> you left your car on the highway and slept in a lawn chair at the gas station? >> yes. >> were you alone or were there other people in your shoes? >> there were two people there when i got there and i got there about 10:30 or 11:00 and about 1:00 people were coming in as well. it was about 16 to 15 people there last night. >> we are looking at video of people on the highways pushing cars and trying to move. many of them stuck in traffic. what was the sense -- you were

i'm sure on the phone with family and friends. could you believe this was happening? >> i was so shocked. i knew that the mayor and the governor had it all planned. they noticed the snow day was coming. they had it once a year. they knew it was coming. they knew they had it all planned and mapped out. so many people were coming and they moved to the side and i won't be in harm's way. this was such a bad ordeal. >> stanley, on the issue of the governor and the mayor having this thing mapped out, let me play some sound. >> you ought to be fair with the interview. the public school system calls and the school systems independently call when they are close. what we did was communicate and immediately i said that i thought it was a mistake for business, government, and the schools to announce those closures that cause people to

flow into the streets and created a major traffic jam. >> that was the mayor talking to my colleague earlier this morning. to your point about the mayor and the governor having it mapped out, sleeping in a lawn chair in a gas station, do you feel like they should take some of the blame? >> most definitely. most definitely they should take the blame. they should have mapped this out a long time ago and salted the the highways and everything. they are planning for this ordeal. >> this cannot happen again. stanley, i'm glad you are home and okay. we appreciate you very much. quick break. back after this. [ male announcer ] this is betsy.

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>> we have live pictures out of new jersey. this is the royal caribbean explorer of the seas and another cruise ship story for you today. this time this is a cruise ship

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. >> we are a couple days away from super bowl sunday and that makes it a potential target for terrorists. we have an inside look at how the biggest game of the year is shaping up as the biggest test ever for law enforcement. >> this is the biggest security challenge the city has ever faced. >> a former nypd inteligence commander has overseen the most high profile and high security moments in history. he said the latest mission, securing super bowl boulevard in the middle of manhattan could be tougher. he thinks of it as new year's eve going on for days with all the same challenges. the challenges magnified now he said following threats made on the olympic games in sochi.

they are mindful of that. a hundred agents are bringing in manpower and resources to keep super bowl 48 safe. on monday they deployed officers to a new jersey home less than 20 miles away from met life stadium where the game will be played. man was arrested after they found homemade explosives and guns. they found no link to terrorism or the super bowl. >> there has been a lot of planning. >> what's keeping you up at night? >> nothing. >> a secret location where a vast network of cameras. >> the super bowl is not a

holiday, but it's an american tradition. this is huge. >> super bowl 48 has unique challenges. there will be effects in new jersey and new york. there four nearby airports where air traffic will have to stop. they are close to water for that reason and authorities studied the 2008 terrorist attack in mumbai this launched from the water. >> we have been looking at our sites and making sure that when the 80,000 folks come in to celebrate the super bowl, every contingency is covered. >> cnn, east rutherford, new jersey. >> back to the wintry mess, the icy gridlock is testing patience. we are talking more than 24 hours ago now. our affiliate in atlanta reports people were making u-turns on the interstate, just trying to move along. >> a few cars are using this

space we are sending in right now to do a u-turn of sorts to go against traffic. this is not the contra flow. it's sort of a makeshift maneuver to turn around on the interstate and loop off until they get to the off-ramp. it's gotten a couple dozen cars out of here. there hundreds to see the long line of vehicles. these people were -- some of these people left work at 6:00 and watched the sunset and sunrise from this spot. we will show you why. take a look at the ice. you can really tell here on the strip. that's a half inch thick of ice. it is slick and when people drive on it and do the maneuvers, it is very dicy. >> we continue on.

i'm brooke baldwin. thank you so much for being with me. a busy day here in the newsroom. two stories we are watching. on the left of your screen, live pictures out of new jersey. this cruise ship just docked there this afternoon. the trip was cut short after 7 hundred helped people got very, very ill. we are talking to passengers as they get off the cruise ship and on the right of your screen, at least i'm seeing movement. what has been a major american city just crippled by snow. two inches of snow. atlanta is shut down by the storm system. some drivers stranded for 24 hours plus after the snow started falling. everyone got out on the roads at the same time. the city, mayor of atlanta and georgia's governor in front of cameras, trying to explain what happened. that is really angering the people spending the nights in home depots and gas stations and

places they had never been before. let's begin with the crisis in atlanta, georgia. now as i look at the clock, three hours until sundown. thousands are people are stuck. they are stranded on the ice-covered interstates into and out of the country's ninth largest metropolis. some people had spent a night and day in the hellish conditions already. we have chad meyers joining me now. a cnn employee were on a bus heading from orlando. they have gone on the bus. 22 hours total time. you look bright eyed and bushy-tailed. >> happy to be off the bus. take me through the journey. >> we boarded the bus around 1:00 and said the journey would

be okay if you are were continuing. you might have delays after that. they made it in hours and 20 minutes away from the greyhound station, complete gridlock and shut down. people were turning off the cars and the greyhound bus was in park. >> did you have the heat the whole time? >> i'm thankful we had enough fuel to keep us warm for the 14 hours that we were waiting. we waited longer than the trip from florida to georgia. >> these pictures, are these your pictures? >> that's how i was entertaining myself on that bus. >> taking pictures. you have in your hands an mre. if we can take this on one of the cameras. we were talking about mres. mules ready to eat that are handed out to our men and women in uniform in afghanistan. this morning, thank goodness for

the national guard going car to car, greyhound bus to bus handing them out. that was the first sign of help we got. people were getting restless because we had gone about 12 hours without food or water. we were on the bus without food or water. people were getting restless about that time. a guardsman was walking the wrong way and we asked if they knew what was going on. they were trying to make sure people were okay medically. they were making sure there were no medical emergencies and people were starving and they were nice enough to bring a box of them. >> they were so hungry, they inhaled them. i'm sure on a normal day are nots delicious as they were for you this morning.

what was this sense? take us on the highway for people across the country who are watching and cannot wrap their heads around what has been going on in atlanta. on i major, major city stuck. >> i feel like the situation made from inconvenience to danger and disaster. people were just worried about their safety. you are in this bus that can't go anywhere and cars skidding backwards trying to go uphill. they are skating towards you and you don't know if that's the car that runs into you. we saw three cars that slammed into the concrete median and destroyed their cars. people were okay. the general sentiment is people felt abandoned. they had a hope and a time table. >> we are glad you are okay.

thanks for taking the picture. it has been 24 plus hours and i see you on the side of the road. cars moving which is major news. >> we have to tell you we have come off of the highway. jam packed. i think it's fair to say we are in a situation where there. it certainly isn't and wasn't last night. this was an image that you saw when no one was moving. we have spoken to people who spent the night here. it's freezing now. language what it was like last night. we spoke with a school teacher. have a listen. kathy, you have come back here

to get your car. when did you leave had here. >> we left the car about 5:30 and got to shelter off moore's mill about 6:30 this morning. >> how long had you been stuck in traffic? >> i'm a teacher. i left school about 3:00. >> you got here and had to give out. >> pretty much. par spent the night out here. >> yeah. >> how was it? >> it was good. i picked up a buddy about 2:00 a.m. on that facebook group that i'm sure you have heard about, her son was worried and posted my mother is between howell mill and moore's mill and thinking about walking to moore's mill. i said i'm near her and they were able to figure out how close they were. she got in the car and that was another three hours. >> social media at work. at least you had company. what are you going to do now? you will work the back roads.

they didn't know each other until 2:30 this morning. >> how will you look back on this experience? >> it's certainly an adventure. something to tell. just glad the car is safe and glad i'm safe. >> thank you so much. >> all right. that's kathy. i will show you what's going on now. what we have seen driving is this. cars abandoned all the way along here. you can see the yellow tags on the door handles. they came along and check the cars and marked them. the thing now is what we are seeing tow trucks all over the place. if you haven't picked up the tie yet. you better come and get it. they are moving quickly. they spoke to one of the tow truck drivers as well. have a listen. >> it's been busy.

it has been exciting and fun at the same time. >> what have you been seeing? >> dangerous and still have a lot of icy roads and patches. >> how many cars have you towed? >> 15 or 20. >> you are just beginning. >> since about 8:00 this morning. >> you have plenty more to go. >> i'm tori. >> they are still working up here, but the wheels are spinning and there is a lot of ice around that. when you look back and you have been saying this, when you look back, atlanta is the ninth biggest city in the united states, extraordinary the things that happened over the last 24 hours. it's fair to say now starting to wind down and if you haven't gotten a car, you better go pick

it up. thank you for showing us that. the blame. a mistake was made in dismissing the schools. all at the same time. yesterday afternoon they are laying blame. i want to you bring nathan deal. >> i didn't mean to imply that something was coming. what i was referring to was that the national weather service continually had their modelling showing that the city of atlanta would not be the primary area where the storm would hit. it would be south of atlanta. the agencies are saying based on the modelling, they had not brought in the resources earlier because they thought they were going to be other parts of the state that would be more impacted than the metropolitan

atlanta area. >> our next guest has something to say about that. this is marshall shepherd, the director for program and atmospheric scientists. the 2013 president of the meteorological society. welcome. let me quote this open letter that you posted on line. you wrote in part as soon as i saw what was unfolded with kids being stranded in schools. six plus hour commute and other stories, i knew it was coming. i knew it. it being what? the blame on the weather folks? >> i think in the high impact weather events, it's a stressful situation. the weather folks often are in a tough position. i was starting to see things percolating out there in the social media and even among my circle of friends.

and the leaders who frankly i think are getting beat up. i think they need information. it's a watershed opportunity to convey the type of information that is obvious and also conveyed to a policy maker and decision maker who may not convey or use information the same way we do. >> in order for us to learn from this so it doesn't happen again. the question has to be answered who dropped the ball. in your best opinion, who did? >> if you read the blog carefully, he was no specific person or agency to blame. they believed that. i think the governor was right. i'm on record. i was quoted as saying this to my wife the other night.

it was a dammed if you do and dammed if you don't situation. i hope i can say that. >> go for it. let's be real. >> bottom line is a situation from a meteorological perspective, most thought we were going to have snow that tuesday. it was a perfect conversion and people leaving at the same time. it led to the issues that we saw. let's get off the blame. we conveyed that we as scientists knew in a way that is more useful to decision makers who may not appreciate or understand that we see involving forecasts that we have to watch carefully and may not have people watch the advisory. >> sure and i hear you, but there a lot of frustrated people

who would like to maybe have government folks own some of this. i understand the mayor of atlanta is a wonderful man. i think people want to hear i'm sorry. you are in new orleans to cover the ice and we are talking about atlanta. i want -- you have been doing this a long time. weigh in on this whole thing. >> we need to as dr. shepherd is talking about, maybe refocus the way we say our works. one to two for atlanta and a lot more to the south. that was the forecast. that was always the forecast. that's what happened. 2.3 and 2.6. we were right on the money. there was more and up to the north. i think because we said more to the south, people lot of focus on the one to two that was going to happen. they said the to four will be down there. we are getting one to two.

you vote to two over five million people and three million cars trying to get out of the city at the same time. i believe that probably on second thought the schools may not have opened yesterday. if we knew, and they did, the snow would start during the school day. we were going to have to get the kids home on a half day. that seems illogical now as we monday morning quarterback this. you wouldn't have had 10,000 people. you wouldn't have buses at all. if we think that a snowstorm or any storm starts during the school day, we say forget it. today is a day off. that would have a cleaveiated an awful lot. no one talked about this and i don't know how much it played a part. there was a fire at the station, block north and south and people might have tried to get in their cars. it didn't shut down the system,

but the scare, people said i'm not going to get on the train. taking literally all of the hotel rooms. people that wanted to be going home. they couldn't get a hotel room where they were. it's 83 degrees in kendall airport and we are seeing the weather along this front cold on one side and warm on the other. we had the ice storm and it's melted. our truck melted. that's why you see me. the past couple of hours the fuel lines were frozen shut. >> come home. the lovely new orleans. the cruise ship as we were

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misery for hundreds of passengers and more than 50 of the crew experienced a stomach bug so icky and nasty, the ship had to come home early and the

liner has the dubious distinction of having the most widespread outbreak in the cruise in the last two decades. this is what we are getting. elizabeth cohen is standing beside that cruise ship. what other stories is are you hearing? >> one passenger walked by and i said how was the cruise and he said it was the best cruise of my life. i lot of five pounds. i don't know how he lot of it, but i don't know that i wanted to hear the details. we are hearing that they are getting off of the ship. it is a long process to get 3,000 people off the ship especially if some of them are not feeling terribly well. it will take about three hours for this to happen and they will disinfect the ship from stone to stern. >> beyond disinfecting the ship, some of the people off the cruise were not 100%. they are having them being put

up in hotels not to get people sick on the plane. >> people will have the opportunity to go to a hospital if they need it. they are suggesting to royal krabian to encourage people if they are ill to stay there and socialize. i'm sure they don't feel like socializing and stay there until they recovered. i understand everyone is getting off the ship. me why you are not in line to get off the ship.

>> me again why you decided to stay in the cabin instead of getting off the ship. >> because it's a big lineup on the gang way. i would rather allow the majority of the sick people to take the ship. >> you are staying away from the people. me what this cruise has been like for you. >> it's not your typical cruise, that's for sure. i spent three days in quarantine last week. now yesterday my boyfriend had the virus. it hasn't been the typical family vacation. we are traveling with 12 people. out of the 12, 10 of us got it.

it hasn't been what we were all hoping for. we took vacations. my boyfriend would stay at both ships at some times. >> how did royal caribbean handle this? did they take the ship home in time to end-all of this. >> i don't think so. i think it was handled very poorly. every day things would change. the communication never went down. the captain didn't speak for two days. we should have turned around halfway down and come right back. i don't know why we continued on to puerto rico. to st. thomas, people were

showing symptoms within the first 24 hours. >> i hope you get off the ship and get home to your family. back to you. >> to you for jumping on the line. back here with the weather situation in metro atlanta area. we were hearing horror stories of people being stranded on the roads. another one of the people with stories. shawn cook. are you home and a-ok? >> actually i am back in my car. i just went out ten or 15 minutes ago to retreat. >> have you been able to. this is the first we have heard of this. have you been successful in going to get your car that you left on the road. >> yes, i am with the car and able to get it out from the side of the road where i had it. we are again. i do still have another vehicle that i abandoned that i get to pick up.

>> in the areas where women are leaving these cars as they did not we hours of the morning and last night, are others doing the same at this hour? >> no, people are-some are picking cars up and there a lot of cars that are left by the side of the road. >> take me back to yesterday. you were with your wife and you hooked up in one car. two cars at one point involved in this whole thing. when were you the most frustrated? >> probably at the time we got to my wife. we were three, 3 1/2 miles away from the house. we probably sat in that traffic for at least two or three hours just to move a mile, mile and a half. maybe about a mile. then i lot of the car on a side road and the ice got the best of it. we had to park at that point and walk the remaining trip to the house. >> with all these people who

have the crazy story, are you frustrate and do you take the blame for being out and about? do you place blame on the government. do you place blame on anyone else? >> i think i would take a little bit, but the government could have done more. the powers that be that made the decision to have the children go to school yesterday, that could have been avoided. we had tons of children that were stuck in schools that had to spend the night. my wife and myself observed school buses at 8:30, 9:00. some stuck on the side of the roads themselves. i heard stories of those who didn't get retrieved from us buses by state patrols and national guards. my niece spent the night at 1:30. it was kind of a combination of

things. the fact that they allowed them to go to school. the reaction and not being proactive through the situation itself. kind of just all came together. that was a big mess all over. there was no one that was exempted from feeling some sort of frustration. if you were at home, you were aggravated because of wondering where your loved ones were. >> best clip on the show. thank you so much. hope your wife has her car and still a mess. it's still a mess out there in the atlanta area. think of the people who have to get their cars and the cars are out of gas. we will take a look at the headlines of the day. remember the player who accused a teammate of bullying him. he left the allegations and he is speaking publicly. you will hear that and also the u.s. attorney gets ready to make an announcement on whether he will seek the death penalty for

the surviving boston bombing suspect.

. >> just past the bottom of the hour. two big stories we were watching. first you have the cruise ship in new jersey. almost 7 hundred of the people on board, they are in the process of disembarking and we are watching that. also the city of atlanta. you are seeing some stand still. people are still stuck. more on both of those stories.

first let's look at the other headlines today. first up, the u.s. attorney eric holder said by friday he will decide whether to seek the death penalty. he is the surviving suspect that younger brother of the two accused of bombing the boston marathon last april. those two bombs killed three people and wounded another 250. he pleaded guilt tow 30 counts. terrorists are going to school on the do you means leaked by edward snowden. it is time for the former contractors to stop releasing all this information before something terrible happens. he claims he won and his mission is accomplished. i call on him and accomplices to

facilitate the remaining documents that have not been exposed to prevent more damage to u.s. security. >> the director of the defense agency said snowden's leaks have caused and i'm quoting, grave damage to u.s. national security and could cost american lives in the future. former miami dolphins player jonathan martin felt trapped by the bullying. martin now speaking for the first time since leaving the dolphins after he accused him of harassing him. he was what was what martin said. >> i am a grown man. i have been in locker rooms. one instance doesn't bother me. i wish i had more tools to solve the situation. i felt trapped and i didn't have a way to make it right. it kaiment to a point where i thought it was best to remove myself from the situation. >> he apologized for leaving a racially insensitive voice mail,

but that's how they communicated. he was suspended indefinitely and the nfl is conducting an empty investigation. they are expected to reveal their findings after this sunday's super bowl. we are hearing from a lot of people strappeded and frustrated because of the snow in atlanta. coming up next, we put together the most amazing survival stories, hear them take out frustrations on camera, next. liking your flat rate shipping. fedex one rate. really makes my life easier. maybe a promotion is in order. good news. i got a new title. and a raise? management couldn't make that happen. [ male announcer ] introducing fedex one rate. simple, flat rate shipping with the reliability of fedex.

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>> the ninth biggest city in all of the u.s., atlanta, some drivers stranded over 24 hours. stopping by and defending his response to the storm. that got me thinking about the stories we have been hearing all day long. here is a taste of what the mayor had to say and what's playing out on the streets all-around atlanta. >> i don't feel the people are angry at me and they have a great deal of frustration. >> i definitely feel like it is the government's job to make sure the citizens are safe. i can tell you spending ten hours in my car, moving a few feet every 30 minutes, not knowing how far i was going to

be able to go, my phone died about two hours into my commute. my family department know where i was and if i was okay. it was awful. >> we started immediately and the bottom line is we are going to work nonstop and get the city open and operational faster. we need to get people off of the freeway. >> once you were there, you could tell it was going to be a long night. >> we have one million people out of the city and all of the children what were on school buses in the system off of those buses. >> it was cold. >> some of the other kids were really cold. i bundled up with one of the kids.

we are in day and fully staffed and running full 12-hour shifts. >> we had about 15 people here and it has been here since about 2:00 p.m. >> what we are going to do is continue to work and get the city open and operational. we are going to go out with the state and get folks off the freeway. >> it makes me worry if it happened again. you said earlier what would happen if this came up again in a month. i don't know if it would be any different. >> we talk about traffic and the city is responsible for schools and the primary and secondary streats. in terms of getting help to

people on the freeways. just to be clear, two jurisdictions are dealing with a mighty mess. some are moving and some are not. snow is likely to freeze once again. let's talk to a truck driver from maine. we talked a couple of hours ago and we are talking because you, my new friend, you are still stuck? >> i just got out. >> you did? >> just got out. i am in a truck stop in temple. >> congratulations for getting unstuck. you had been stuck for how long again? >> since about 1:00 yesterday. >> what's the scene on the highways now? are we seeing movement? >> i saw movement and it's stop and go. still ice. the biggest problem i would see is abandoned trucks off the road and stuff like that.

>> that's my next question is how they got abandoned cars and trucks off the road. many of which are out of gas. are most abandoned cars in the middle of the highways or off to the side. >> everywhere. it's like a slalom course. some on the left and the right and in the middle and leaning up on trees. it's like a steven king movie. >> i see what they are talking about. these cars are everywhere. how many years have been driving a truck? >> ten years. >> of those 18, yean nears, have you experienced anything like this? >> i experience weather like this all the time, but i never have seen communities or states that are this bad taking care of the roads. i never have been in a two-day

traffic jam, no. >> that's what this is. before i let you go, i know i heart from the governor in a press conference early this morning. placing some of the blame with the 18 wheelers, some of which have jackknife and that makes traffic even worse. what would your response be to that? there is a lot of things that continue. it was pretty insulting. you never had a problem and suddenly the governor knows better than me how to drive a truck. he ought to stick to running the stands. he could use a little practice. >> thank you so much. >> have a good day. >> thank you, you too. coming up next, an update on the cruise ship we were talking about. we got an interview of the passenger who was sick. new information about the

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>> a bit of a road trip for president obama. he toured a costco outside of washington, d.c. in maryland and off to suburban pittsburgh pushing the themes they have seen in the state of the union including raising the minimum wage and equal pay for women. tomorrow he heads to tennessee and wisconsin. the host of the lead, sitting down with the period president tomorrow. congratulations on that get by the way. what's question number for the president? >> why would i tell you? >> because we are friends. >> well then you and i can talk after the show.

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the ship with the biggest outbreak of norovirus has docked in new jersey. close to 700 people, mostly passengers, some crew members became severely ill on "the explorer of the seas." elizabeth cohen is standing by dockside of that ship. what are passengers telling you? >> reporter: passengers telling us it was a rough ride, to put it mildly, brooke. we just spoke with one passenger who had some really nightmrish details. >> when i was in my room i didn't know about the other people until i asked a crew attendant. they put me in a wheelchair and pushed me to the fifth floor

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president obama is not waiting to act on the agenda laid out last night in the state of the union address. he signed a presidential mem rum directing jack lew to allow workers to start their own retirement savings accounts. he's calling it my ra. during his state of the union address last night, the president said it's a new savings bond. the president said the plan would guarantee you a decent return with no risk and the white house says the money earned will be tax free. have you seen what happened after the president's state of the union last night? new york congressman michael graham, part of this interview post speech, moments after the speech wrapped, when this reporter asked the republican from staten island about an investigation into his campaign fund-raising and then this happened.

>> when reporters caught up with congressman grimm today, he apologized for his behavior and blamed it on being passionate. >> i apologized. i called michael scotto. he was very gracious and accepted my apology. we're going to have lunch sometime next week and make sure this is all behind us. the bottom line is sometimes i wear my emotions on my sleeve. i was wrong. it shouldn't have happened. and that's why i apologized to him. so, you know, he was gracious and accepted my apology and now i got work to do on flood insurance. so i'm going to get back to work and, you know, look, i'm passionate. my stilt constituents know that. >> congressman grimm, you heard him say the reporter accepted the apology. we also heard they will be going out to lunch next week to

discuss their differences, the stories, what have you. don't know. but that's happening. and that's it for me. i'm brooke baldwin. tune back in tonight 11:00 p.m. eastern for an entire live hour. it will be don lemon, my colleague and myself, holding things down for an hour on cnn. in the meantime, "the lead" with jake tapper starts right now. >> and you thought your commute was bad. i'm jake tapper. this is "the lead." the national lead. some drivers got in their cars 24 hours ago and they still have not made it home. hundreds of kids went to school yesterday and have not seen their parents since. how less than three inches of snow paralyzed a major american city. in national news, he managed to unite everyone in a grand display of respect. isn't that amazing? the amazing story. sergeant first class corey roger clemens burg, the man who got the biggest applause at the state of the