The Latest on winter weather across the U.S. (all times local): NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Twelve people have been rescued from boats after an dock weighed down by snow and ice collapsed on the Cumberland River in Tennessee, the Nashville Fire Department said.
Fire crews and the Office of Emergency Management responded Wednesday evening to the Blue Turtle Bay Marina after a report that the dock collapsed on multiple boats trapping people, authorities said.
Nashville Fire Department spokeswoman Kendra Loney told news outlets that everyone known to be on the dock was accounted for and no one was injured.
She said the weight of the ice and snow on the roof of the dock caused the collapse. —- BATON ROUGE, La. — Gov. John Bel Edwards wrote President