wada, near one of those overpasses and stranded cars in murietta, georgia, just tside atlanta.rning to you, how is it looking out there? >> reporter: good morning. we've got a cold rain going on right now. the thaw is taking place on most roads. you know t. happens every year in atlanta, at least once a year, but the black ice nightmare hit early this year before christmas. at rush hour yesterday, hundreds of crashes and those vehicles, if they didn't smash into something, they clogged roads, motorists waited for hours to make the crawl home, some left cars, creating a headache for law enforcement and the georgia department of transportation. now, what happened yesterday at rush hour is that there wasn't much rain, just a little bit, but the south has had several days of very, very cold weather, so with the pavement being cold, it didn't take much rain for that ice to freeze. martha. martha: and you get that little layer of thin ice on top of the pavement and it's a bad combination. morris, thank you very much. we wish the folks luck as they try to stabilize things on the road