The week
At least 6 killed in the shelving of 133 cars in Fort Worth, Texas
At least six people died and another 65 were hospitalized in a major accident on I-35 in Forth Worth, Texas, on Thursday. Three of the hospitalized people are in critical condition, reports the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Altogether, 133 cars, trucks, vans and 18-wheel vehicles collided on the expressway amid the icy weather. “The scene we saw today is really different from any scene that probably any of us have seen and that we pray to God that we will never see again,” said Fort Worth police chief Neil Noakes. Rescuers had to use hydraulic tools to remove some people from their vehicles, and as they moved through the wreckage, doctors marked the vehicles they were looking for to avoid duplicate efforts while rushing to get people out of sub-zero temperatures. “I was looking in the rearview mirror and it was like seeing the hand of God moving these cars around me on the ice,” a driver named Shane, who stopped near the pile-up, told Star-Telegram. When he got out of the car on the highway, he added, “it was literally like stepping on an ice rink.” There were other fatal accidents in Texas, when an icy storm created icy conditions in Texas south of New Jersey. In Austin, five people were sent to the hospital due to a 26-car pileup, reports USA Today, and three people died in two accidents in Dallas on Wednesday and Thursday, one involving 18 vehicles. The storm also cut power along the 1,500-mile stretch of the storm, and 66,000 customers in Texas, 41,000 in Kentucky and 31,000 in West Virginia were still without power on Thursday night, says USA Today. More stories from theweek.com The impeachment is not what will hurt Trump the most. Mike Pence’s ‘nuclear football’ was also apparently at risk during the siege of the Capitol. Trump will be condemned by the story, right?