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Banks looking for supplies and bottled water. thats for people that even have stove tops and have power back into their homes so that they are even able to boil it. all of the houston metro area, the nations fourth largest city and all of austin under mandatory boil water advisories, because of forces, frozen pipes and equipment at water treatment facilities. if there is a silver lining its power outages have dropped significantly over night from about 2 million in two about a half million. here...

Standstill. in louisiana, ice blocked storm drains and led to massive street flooding. anger is murdering about the electric reliability council of text, which manages the independent power grid. as the only sliver of texas not on the grid like el paso fared much better. >> blame can be assessed soon. >> ted cruz found himself in the hot seat on thursday after pictures surfaced on social media showing him board ago flight to cancun as many of his constituents were left freezing. after being call...

Are very excited about what the rest of 2021 is going to bring. they say they are continuing to bring in historic amounts of donations and they feel pretty good about everything going forward. >> dana: maybe the next financial disclosure well see about that. thank you so much. >> bill: president biden meanwhile meeting with labor leaders talking about infrastructure. texas entering its fourth day without power in some areas. the electric grid failing after an historic winter stormed hit the stat...

As texans endure more pain. millions are now facing a new problem. major water disruptions. this womans apartment in dallas, flooded. >> we aint got [ bleep ]. everything that we brought here, we dont have nothing, yall. >> reporter: broken pipes, failing systems, piling onto the pain texans have felt since sunday. the white house has declared states of emergency for texas and oklahoma with 22 million from texas to louisiana now under hard freeze warnings. >> were just left sitting in a cold, da...

Unacce unacceptable. >> texas is bracing for another dangerously frigid night. >> we are not yet out of this. we will not stop until normalcy is restored to your lives. as another winter storm barrels in, the white house has declared an emergency in texas and oklahoma. >> we aint got no water, its no heat, its nothing! >> reporter: local officials are fed up and fearing the worst. >> the truth is, right now, were just trying to keep people alive and safe for the next two days. >> we expect to se...

Dallas. >> reporter: unlivable conditions in texas. frozen pipes bursting. flooding homes in bitter temperatures. >> the fact is every source of pow power the state of texas has access to has been compromised because of the ultracold temperature or because of equipment failures. >> reporter: utility companies are shut down unable to generate electricity. >> we knew for weeks this was coming. we knew for weeks this was coming. why werent we ready. our house is 32 degrees inside. were worried abou...

Angry. i am too. >> reporter: governor greg abbott said the dangerous lack of power is not the state governments fault but a failure by ercot. >> ercot stands for electric reliability council of texas. they showed they were not reliable. >> reporter: some 90% of the lone star states power is managed by ercot. they operate mostly independent of other federal power grids and, thus, mostly alone in its efforts to restore power quickly and safely. >> the operators acted with judgment based on their ...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration will investigate the incident.

SHREVEPORT, La. - Power companies across the ArkLaTex continue to restore electricity to their customers.

Bienville Parish 310 Southwestern Electric Power Company workers and contractors continue to restore power to approximately 19,000 customers without service following a winter storm that brought freezing rain, ice, sleet and snow to the ArkLaTex. Ice and snow brought down multiple trees and wires, particularly in the hardest-hit areas of Central Louisiana. Customers are reminded to stay away from downed lines and keep children and pets away as well. Report downed lines immediately to SWEPCO at ...