Children say they were kicked off Metro buses while heading to school during snowstorm

WASHINGTON -

Eight children, all of them siblings, were treated for possible hypothermia Tuesday after they were found cold, wet and shivering on a Northeast D.C. doorstep.

The oldest told the Good Samaritans who discovered them just before 9 a.m. that they had been kicked off three different Metro buses and were just trying to get to school.

The eight children were all taken to Children's National Medical Center where they were treated for several hours before being released into the care of their mother.

The children, some of them crying, were first noticed by a woman shoveling snow from the walk in front of her house. She looked across the street and saw them all dressed in their school clothes huddled together on a Rhode Island Avenue doorstep.

The youngest was just four years old, and when the woman went to see if she could help, the children told her an incredible story.

Kevin Gadson and Acurah White live directly across the street from where they first saw the children.

"They're scared, they're shivering, they're shaking, they're crying, they're frozen, they can't even move off the porch," said White in an interview Tuesday.

So White and her boyfriend gathered them up and safely took the eight children -- ages 4 to 14 -- across busy Rhode Island Avenue to their home.

"We had to carry them to my house and warm them up, and even when we get them into the house and put blankets on them, they are still crying, shivering, said White. It's cold.

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Children say they were kicked off Metro buses while heading to school during snowstorm