We've still had some issues with people trying to drive around the barricades. VDOT and the sheriff's office have been helpful in dealing with those issues.

He's also there for people who have lost loved ones.

People get a lot of hugs from Chick when they come into the station. It's just his way of making a bad day better and a good one more worth living.

Like the state attorney's office, we're trying to get more resources, more money to pay our people and keep turnaround down and try to do what we're supposed to do.

He had been giving money to some of these people (in office). He said, 'I'm as qualified to be in there as they are, and I think I'm going to run. I think for John it's just that simple.

You have thousands of people who are in their vehicles trying to escape.