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Drivers have been stuck for hours in freezing temperatures after crashes block I-95

Jackknifed tractor-trailers blocked traffic in both directions along the vital corridor south of the nation's capital. Some people waited 16 hours or more for rescue.

Drivers along a 50-mile stretch of Interstate 95 in Virginia, south of the nation's capital, were trapped in freezing temperatures for hours after heavy snowfall contributed to a series of spinouts and crashes. Traffic on the interstate is still blocked in some places.

reported Tuesday morning that hundreds of drivers were still stranded after the

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