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Light of the prosecutors focused on him and his long history of alleged financial misconduct, that is going to be a day of reckoning. >> and my thanks to norm isam speaking to me earlier. adding insult to injury, why some techs apps are getting hit with sky high energy bills after the states winter storms.

The country took us in and protected us, and i feel an obligation to the country to pay b back. this is the highest, best use of my own set of skills to pay back, so i want very much to be the kind of attorney general that youre saying i could become. ill do my best to try and be that kind of attorney general. >> chuck grassley and john cornyn are showing support. senate majority leader chuck schumer is setting up votes for linda thomas greenfield as ambassador to the united nations and tom vils...

Received a $207 million energy bill. that bill covers four days last week. for comparison, denton spent about 64 million for all of fiscal 2020. last weeks bill was more than the city had in cash on hand. >> the city will pursue state and federal aid. worth noting, texas has chosen to run its own separate power grid to avoid federal regulation. house and senate members consistently vote against federal aid to other states when they face disasters. meantime, water service still disrupted for more...

As texas continues to recover from that historic winter storm and subsequent energy disaster, the bills are coming due. literally. texas has the nations most deregulated energy market by design and customers in the state could sign up for plans with very highly variable costs, costs that can shift dramatically depending on available supply. when that supply shrank way down amid the winter storm, right, some households that kept power were with electrical bills as high as $10,000 or more. serious...

Water shortages, texas is getting relief. fema is on the ground handing out resources. the boil water notice was lifted on sunday in the largest city in the state, houston. about half of texans still have water supply issues. to help struggling families meet basic needs, water distribution sites and emergency food drives have opened up across the lone star state. >> we spent the last couple of days just trying to get operational, just a skeletal crew, just a few trucks behind us that we can get ...

>> texas thought it could go at it alone and built a system that ignored climate change. i hope they learned a lesson. when we billed power, when we -- when we build power, we have to take into account that climate change is real. carley: millions of people lost power last week due to failures in natural gas and renewable energy pipelines which froze. what senator schumer didnt mention texas produces the most wind power of any state with climate change in mind. some reaction coming in. william s...

Todd: cheryl casone joins us as lone star state leaders look for solutions. they need to look for something and they need to find it quick. cheryl: those warmer temperatures, thats welcome news as the state begins to he slowly recover but over the weekend several reports of texans being hit with electricity bills, some as high as $17,000. wholesale electricity prices jumped 300 times than normal during the brunt of the storm. some residents saying they got messages of bills from power companies ...

Todd: welcome back. with millions of texans reeling from deadly winter weather, chuck schumer is calls it a lesson for the lone star state. jillian: carley shimkus here with reaction to what many are calling an insensitive comment. carley: thats right. senate majority leader chuck schumer criticizing texas over power outages last week, he says he heaps it serves as a reminder to take climate change seriously. take a listen. >> texas thought it could go at it alone and built a system that ignored...

Pressureized with clean water hopefully in a matter of days and the goal and what it looks like now. anything could happen. if they get more water breaks that could delay it. >> were also learning more than a dozen people died in their homes during this winter storm throughout the state of texas likely freezing to death. not having any heat to warm up inside their homes. a family of an 11-year-old boy who died has filed a $100 million lawsuit against the power company involved. >> dana: what is ...

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