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Texas House Speaker asks committees to review statewide blackouts Miguel Gutierrez Jr./The Texas Tribune By: TEXAS TRIBUNE and last updated 2021-02-16 12:03:53-05 Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan has asked two committees in the lower chamber to hold a joint hearing later this month to review statewide power outages that have affected millions of Texas households amid a massive winter storm. Phelan, a Beaumont Republican, requested the House State Affairs and Energy Resources Com...

I think this evidence is in-k incontrovertible in terms of what it is that donald trump did to try to influence the 2020 u.s. presidential election. >> and director, i think you may have been one of the first government officials to testify publicly that either wittingly or unwittingly donald trump was aided by the russian attack on our democracy in 2016. since that time, donald trump disparaged and terminated any individual who sought to investigate or prosecute russia for their efforts in 2016...

Just because of past experience how quickly a fire can move. >> reporter: in northern california a similar scene playing out in sonoma countries where crews are battling the kincade fire for a sixth dade. more than 66,000 acres have already burned in win country. nearly 200,000 people forces to flee their homes. >> it is on fire. the road is on fire. im getting over. im getting over. >> reporter: officials say the kincade fire doubled in size on sunday as winds gusted to hurricane force. firefig...

Presidential candidate has lost because of their sibling where their child. in this particular case, joe biden is going to take care of them, take care of all of this himself, in losing the democratic nomination. we will see his numbers continuo go down. elizabeth warren as a candidate with momentum right now. pete buttigieg is starting to put some impressive numbers together for iowa. certainly, hunter biden gets a lot of headlines. hes not going to cause his dade nomination. the question that ...

>> through cars, through buildings, the storm stalled out here, a category 5, leveling whole towns. many rode out the storm in their homes. many did not survive. pastor joey saunders was on the third floor of his home with his son when the storm surge crashed in. >> we started to make to the second floor of the house and ten minutes and it started to flow up to the third flow and it was up to our head and we felt a strong current trying to brook loose everything in the cracks. >> and this was in...

Most notably what we have seen is how dead it has been on the beach. a lack of tourism. people just not coming to the beach to partake in one of the biggest summer holidays of the year. they were almost sold down. they are down to 30 rooms that are opened and that is a significant indicator that visitors and residents alike are both heeding the warnings that nasty weather is on the way, and of course this is making a huge impact on the florida economy as tourism is so important in this area. >> ...

And sisters from the bahamas. especially we have so many bohemians who live in dade and broward county in south florida. we are really worried about this storm because it is moving at a pace of 1 miles per hour, which is really slow. as we know when a storm is moving that slowly, it can change direction and staring us in our eyes. even if it doesnt hit us, it will go along the coast and so we are really worried about it. . >> we can still provide major damage there. parts are under mandatory eva...

Thing. >> moulton says that he will run for re-election to congress and campaign for whoever gets the democratic nomination. one of the other democratic candidates is slamming his own party for its debate rules. that is colorado senator michael bennett who says that the rules will likely keep half of the field out of the next debate. listen. >> the dnc process is stifling debate at a time when we need it most. were rewarding celebrity candidates with millions of twitter followers, billionaires...

Tsa union representative linda jones. >> this work force is very verys diverse, so i felt like that person must have some kind of psychological issues >> reporter: three officers stumbled upon it last week near a work space where agents screened checked luggage a response tsa called it unacceptable, saying it doesnt tolerate racist or offensive behavior and those responsible will be held accountable for their actions. pro publica uncovered a border patrol facebook group. inside they joked about ...

Photograph of the u.s.-bound migrant father oscar alberto martinez ramirez and his daughter angie valeria who died trying to cross the rio grande. listen to this. >> you have a father and dade who died on this trip, and, you know, i have a grandson about the same age as that daughter. thats what i see when i look at that child. >> but you have actually -- you have -- you said, let them go back and swim across. you said that. >> i didnt say that. no, you said that. i didnt say that. i said this f...