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“Most of these are only the size of a softball to maybe a beachball and they usually burn up before they ever make the ground,” Robert Lunsford said.

“She has a light that truly emulates from her,” Art Therapist Daphne Dierkes said.

Spears has many supporters who have advocated for his release, including group of retired St. Louis police officers who run a popular policing podcast.

Over a 12-hour period, Cpl. Dallas Thompson said Missouri State Highway Patrol Troop C received more than 220 calls from people stranded along local roads.

“They have to eat,” Park-Et Restaurant owner Jason Bleckley said. "They’re out there in a lot worse conditions than we are in here. It’s miserable outside."

“I don’t know that across the country there is a more generous, more charitable, city or region than we have in St. Louis,” Chris Kerber said.

District 8 engineer Joe Monroe said IDOT is currently targeting a narrow band of snow-covered roads northeast of Belleville to Carlyle.

“We’re all human beings,” St. Louis Symphony Orchestra pianist Peter Henderson said. “We all need to have opportunities to stretch our wings and grow.”

“I didn't have time to put my brake on,” Auer said. “It happened that quick. The car didn't stop. It just kept on going. I don't think they realized what happened."

According to police spokesman Mitch McCoy, half the officers on duty Monday night responded to an officer in need of aid call at Cardinal Ritter.