Icy conditions also caused more than 200 wrecks around Charlotte, North Carolina, CNN affiliate WCNC reported.

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"They kept saying: 'They have been down there too long without air, '" neighbor Cybil Johnson told WCNC.

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Neighbors told CNN affiliate WCNC that the children are cousins and were trapped after a wall of a basement that was under construction collapsed.

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Comporium is the local cable company there and apparently, they couldn't come to terms with the local NBC affiliate, WCNC, on 20 hours of weekly high-def programming.

ENGADGET: NBC HD: bye-bye birdie in Rock Hill, S.C. HD