sandy springs just north of atlanta. mayor, good to see you. the snow is past not the political firestorm though. mayor reed says that this was a coordination issue. is that your sense? what should have been done differently in your opinion? >> well first of all, it would have been -- the number of calls on the road made it impossible for any jurisdiction to get their trucks out to sand and salt. in sandy springs on the north side of the city of atlanta, we mobilized early and got -- one he one of largest medical centers in the region and pretreated pill hill the three major hospitals on the north side are located. we also salted around the schools. when everybody hit the road at the same time, it made it very difficult for us to move our trucks in and out. what we did is we didn't pay attention to jurisdictional lines. when we had people getting people out of our city and next jurisdiction had clogged streets, we helped move those people so they could get home. when it was real obvious that a lot of people were going to be stranded i spent mos

officer timothy sheffield of the sandy springs, georgia, police department was heading to an accident when he spotted an s.u.v. >> i saw the driver standing over on the passenger's side and it didn't look like it was stuck so i just got out to check on him and i asked the driver, i said "are you okay?" and he very calm, he was on the phone with 911, he said "no, we're having baby." and i said "okay." the baby started to come out, the head came out and then the father started to pull and i could hear them say "don't pull" as i was telling him don't pull because we were trying to help him and as soon as we said that she pushed one more time and the baby came out. today was my birthday so it was like what a birthday present to be a part of that. >> reporter: nick and amy anderson say they named their baby grace, as in "by the grace of god." it was snowy at the capitol last night when the president delivered his state of the union speech and called on congress to raise the minimum wage. does that idea have a snowball's chance? here's nancy cordes. >> reporter: 16 hours after the president

you can look at atlanta georgia, and sandy springs, georgia which started their own town, and which weodeled our government off of, having 20-some employees and being able to put the money back into an actual city, and i respect dr. richardson. he is a great economist. i would just love to know the answer to my question. if we did what we said we were going to do, if we did that and had two different city councils who sat down together and worked this out through agreements will it financially redestroy the city of bat ron rouge? >> well, [ technical difficulties ] >> you can make it work, there's no doubt about that. is it the best way. i think you'll have more than you think you have. i think there will be a chance to redue the government entirely in terms of having the perish really be a parish government. and have the municipalities with fewer responsibilities. i think in the end both sides -- no, you can certainly avoid bankrupting the city. if you look at the two cities, st. george may want to be independent because of say the school system only. we are going to be interdependent

. >> your exhibit is at sandy springs museum? >> yes. it runs through the late part of february, but there's an event tonight, history happy hour where i'll be speaking about the exhibit and very excited to share my work with the community tonight and through the end of the exhibit. >> well, this is one of those where the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. greg a fine artist and jon, his son, also a fine artist. congratulations on the exhibit at the museum. that's tonight. >>> already, howard? >> andrea, it is a gorgeous afternoon. such a cold week. the windchills, subzero temps early in the week. now we're dealing with mostly sunny skies. light winds, dry air. it feels good. temperatures will be going into the mid-40s. south and west of town maybe even close to 50 this afternoon with those light winds. tonight a few clouds mixing in. so we'll drop into the mid-30s by 9:00. only about 30 for the overnight low in the district. mid-20s in the suburbs. you see the clouds still hanging tough up in pennsylvania and north and west of town w

early part of the day, the windchill advisories that i told you about, loo at gaithersburg and sandy spring, you will start out at minus 3, and minus 4 in winchester and 7 below even in hagerstown, but again, this is the latest polar outbreak that will last about a day. the other thing is that it is plenty windy out there, and sustained winds of 20 to 30 and gusts up to 40. and right now it is gusting up to 33 in leesburg, and of course, it is the falling temperatures and the fact that we have so much wind out there that is adding to the bite. as i said, i'm tracking another storm system. this is coming from the south and making its way up the coast and then off of the coast. this is what we told you last week, that some snow could be getting close to our area, and tuesday-wednesday time period and now it e looks late on tuesday and early wednesday morning, but the areas down south will be seeing the snow and atlanta, georgia, and south carolina could see several inches and the snow on the ice for the deep south, for alabama and mississippi and right there closer to us, we will see a chance

i was glad to be where i was in sandy springs because they do an awesome job. you did an awesome job. thank you for coming in to share your story. it was great. thanks so much. >>> the streets of atlanta look like a scene from the walking dead cars still fill the streets. george howell there this morning. >> reporter: still snow on the ground, ice in places. good news, temperatures are going up and people are getting back to abandoned cars. we're tracking it here on the roads. we'll show you what we can find here as cnn "newsroom" continues. i take prilosec otc each morning for my frequent heartburn. because you can't beat zero heartburn. woo hoo! [ male announcer ] prilosec otc is the number one doctor recommended frequent heartburn medicine for 8 straight years. one pill each morning. 24 hours. zero heartburn. ♪ yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah! ♪ we are one, under the sun ♪ under the sun... [ female announcer ] fiber and protein. together as one. introducing new fiber one protein cereal. ♪ [ female announcer ] fiber and protein. together as one. ♪ ♪ told ya you could

how about the lady who gave birth with the sandy springs police officer and the father with help to get to the hospital with baby grace. by the way, baby grace is apparently doing okay. we look at these pictures and -- you think of people in california who oftentimes don't get rain. there are different situations. i'm sure some people can relate to this. we hope at the end of the day you can't. we hope this is a one-time thing. >> wouldn't it be nice to hear some politician say, you know what, we screwed up. i don't know what we were thinking. but we really need to work together better. we need to communicate better. no one is saying that. governor deal is blaming meteorologists. mayor kasim reed sort of accepted responsibility. he said he's not responsible for the highways. he's responsible for the city of atlanta. we'll talk to russel honore, who knows about disasters, gets troops in and out after katrina. ashleigh banfield will pick occupy that conversation. stories coming in as people sleep in home depots, under blankets, using toilet paper as a pillow. that's coming up. [ sneezes,

one happy story in the atlanta suburb of sandy springs police assisted a father in delivering a baby, both the mother and baby are said to be doing fine, bill. bill: thank you, jonathan. we'll check back in with you throughout the morning, okay? >> reporter: will do. bill: in alabama he leads our coverage there today. martha: the traffic problems hitting some states particularly hard. in mississippi tractor-trailers flipped on the side of the road, pleading for help, holed up in their cars and others giving up and starting to walk home. not sure that is good idea. in virginia one driver waited out the storm when a tractor-trailer slammed into his car. drivers admitting they're simply not used to driving in these conditions. >> the stuff sticks to your windshield and cars, they're kicking stuff up all over the place. >> i hope this is over with soon. i had enough winter. >> this is not a time for fast starts. everything slow and easy. you want to leave plenty of cushion around your car obviously so if you need to stop or you slide, you won't be sliding into things. martha: looks like o

is a huge spring stein fan and talks about how he cried the first time he talked to spring stein after hurricane sandy finding himself on all sides but bruce springsteen is a guy proving you can pretend to be an everyman if you gross over $100 million, he wears too much denim for my taste. his biggest crime is that he's the most overrated musician of all time. >> oh! oh! >> that was where the panel went south, kelly. >> in the control room, check button, check button. >> no. no. who doesn't like the boss? it's unpatriotic the point is not so much buck's feelings about bruce as chris christy's feelings about bruce he felt a connection with chris christy and felt moved by the tears he felt upon speaking to him, who wo he have done this? he's suggesting there is a coldness there. >> first of all rush limbaugh is the last naern should be taking moral high ground with anyone. >> he can't point out meanness? >> we don't have to get into it -- >> he can't comment on someone --. >> i think it's a little silly. i'm not going to get into it. >> i would say there that it's overreaching. first of all. >> wait a m

saying two senior members of the governor's administration warned her last spring that her city would be starving of hurricane sandy relief money unless she approved a redevelopment plan approved by the governor. the spokesman said the administration helped hoboken get the money they need and adding, quote, the governor and mayor zimmer have had a productive relationship with the mayor saying she's saying she's very xwlad he's their governor. it's clear they come out of the woodwork to get their faces on television. i want to bring in gordon johnson, a member of the select committee on investigation, a panel looking into the george washington bridge closures today. there are calls for new investigation following the allegation that is hoboken mayor -- steve kornacki reported this morning that new jersey senate chairman nick scotari is calling for an investigation of an independent bipartisan panel to open an investigation into her claims. he released this statement, quote, this latest evidence of government abuse supported by contemporaneous writings of mayor zimer is broader in scope than the george washington bri

sandy baker, you've been trying to jump in. >> yes, most of the artists that came together, occupy wall street is a #revolution in my humble opinion. you can connect to the arab spring with the hashtag. i was tweeting from tahrir square. i was in zuccotti park once. joan baez, one of the high points of my career next to meeting pete, joan paez, she tailored her lyrics "salt of the earth" to occupy. and the musicians were drawn to us, but it was a generational thing. i grew up in the 60's. we sat around and held hands. when i met pete i was on the student non-violent coordinating committee, sncc. these kids in zuccotti park didn't know the lyrics to the songs that i grew up with, and they are reading the lyrics off their iphones. >> thanthank you for bringing u" phone. that's a tremendous reach. you could be reading off the iphone across the planet, which is enlivening and inspiring, and oddly isolating at the same time. yes, occupy wall street is on oe of those exceptional moments when people came together and stayed together. but activism can b be a solitary activity in the 21st century in a way that it wasn't before, instead of storming the pentagon in the morator

sandy the all these efforts but of course go overshadowed by the mainstream media i cannot bring up the infamous time magazine cover comparison to those eleven showing international additions with a picture of the arab spring. europe and then the us why anxiety is good for you amber. what is editorial decision all about and do you think there's a deliberate effort by the forces that view did not make people fully aware of the process of revolution and a lot of people when i tell them about my book people friends of mine overseas they had no idea there were protests happening in the united states because it's been so well censored and that's emblematic of everything that's going on the mainstream media right now with the censorship which is another reason i publish this book and as someone who worked in the inside i mean the censorship is happening as seymour hersh said in a guardian op ed he said that in order to change the media and really have accurate coverage of protests and just humanity in general we need to fire about eighty to ninety percent of staffers at these mainstream outlets and i agree with him one hundred percent you are about as you left c.n.n. you exposed in censorship but funding from th