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>> well, its real clear that our power system wasnt hardened to be able to take the really low temperatures. that is not the kind of event that were not going to see. we have to anticipate that. were seeing that with greater regularity right now.e deregula system that puts a premium on low costs for power. theres no market incentive for people to -- around the state that are producing the power to actually buy the insurance policy to protect us in times like this. we need to better regulate our ...

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>> reporter: its absolutely heartbreaking. if you look at the numbers tonight, brian, it really feels like weve traded one crisis for another. at last check upwards of 2 million households without power tonight. as it stands right now, theres several million more than that that are under a boil water notice due to the fact that these pipes have been compromised from the freezing weather. we know that more than a million people in the houston area now and the denton community just north of dallas...

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Still problematic. in both cases the sort of after action report recommended you need to up-armor your generators against the cold. i mean there are power generators that operate in cold areas. they can do it. there are windmills in the arctic. there are natural gas plants in frozen countries. its possible, but its expensive. and so the political will to do it fades very quickly after a disaster, and then the publics attention turns to prices. and it just becomes politically unpopular to do some...

I understand saying this might be an issue that the republicans might not do well on. but lets move beyond the politics of it all and understand that people in the country are suffering, that folk are having trouble keeping a roof over their heads and putting food on the table, that folk are still dying, that we are about to hit the 500,000 mark. and we could chart the kind of -- the typical political stories. but at the end of the day, americans are suffering, and we need to understand that, an...

Now seeing people standing in blankets in the cold with water containers, empty propane tanks, people waiting for food, forget about pharmacies that have no power. its really all you can take to see these pictures out of that great state. . >> reporter: its absolutely heartbreaking. if you look at the numbers tonight, brian, it really feels like weve traded one crisis for another. at last check upwards of 2 million households without power tonight. as it stands right now, theres several million ...

They opted not to do that and that is why we are in this mess. on top of that, mika, is the fact that, okay, we got into this mess because the power companies didnt follow the recommendations to winterize. because were at it alone with our own power grid, we werent easily able to look to other grids to back up the support. it is one policy mess after another that has put us in the situation that we are in now where people are losing their lives. >> its a total mess. you know, victoria, you talke...

Publics attention turns to prices. and it becomes politically unpopular to do something expensive and kick the can down the road again and done it a couple times now. >> follow up to this. theres a broader sort of instruct ral issue here revealed as i read your series on the grid which is that its not just the texas grid that needs to be up armored. two things happening which is we movered to fossil fuels, we need major investments in the grid across the country. >> thats right. the grid is beco...