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Energy bought if theyre at the lowest cost. so this was completely predictable and now its time for the governor to apologize along with the people that regulate them. the three elected officials called the railroad commission here, those four people need to apologize, they need to make efforts to now winterize the things that we told to winterize years ago. if they dont do that it takes the legislature to make them do it. >> before i let you go, i want to ask you about these pictures purporting...

The former governor rick berry is out with a statement who said texans will be without electricity for longer than three days to make sure he says the federal government is out of their business, trying not to let the crisis of the day is. keep your eye off the grid. im wondering about your response to that. do you agree with your former governor on this? >> oh, absolutely not. i think i will go back and i believe all of them work. they coordinate together. i doubt many of them are experiencing ...

Is unfolding. even as the power comes back on a lot of people are lacking water. the city of houston, several other cities within our county, most of them are under a boil water notice. and the water pressure is down because the generators failed that keep that pressure up so now we are dealing with the continued effects as well as folks who are hungry because theyve not been able to access food for the past few days. i am hoping that things will not go get worse again as far as power but now we...

Provisions that you need under these conditions? >> grocery stores, the lines are out the door super long and we have the covid situation to deal with, as well, so already grocery stores have been limiting how many people go in and out at a certain time and its more of a problem. i went to a couple gas stations to fill up just in case and the lines were so long i was just like theres no point. im not going to sit here and waste more gas waiting to get gas. this morning, my husband and i, we went...

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 talked about the recommendations made in 2011 they ignored. it reminds me after hurricane andrew in florida in 1992. even the conservatives in the democratic legislativers, even the conservatives came together and put to...

Two things simultaneously, stephanie. we can get people the help they need, your people watching or listening, to look for all the charities that are working, looking at beto orourkes twitter feed, who has a number of suggestions of what people can do but we can also assign responsibility in the midst of this and we are at another point where politicians who mislead the public, who lie to the public, put us in a dangerous situation. we saw it in flint where that happened, we saw it in the covid ...

Of power outages? more people are getting their power back. more are in for a difficult day yet again today. >> yeah, halle, are you exactly right. it almost feels like they are trading one crisis for another. at last check, about a half million texans still without electricity. yet, we have 7 million people across the state facing border while advisories. the sad part is there is no definitive time table as to when power will be fully restored. all of this as we stand if 25 degrees in dallas. a...

Facilities are without power. so they werent able to adequately clean the water. if you get a boil notice or a conservation notice from your city, you can do that dallas water utility that services most of this county is in good shape. we are not asking to you contev, boil. >> did you ever think it could get the bad in texas as this? >> yes. we have been warning the governor about this since 2011 when it was nearly this bad around the super bowl. you may remember the ice storm. there was a feder...

Temperatures sink in. in fact just a few minutes before arriving here, i called my mother. she is sitting next to my grandmother in houston, texas. and the good news is that today for the first time in a long time, they had power that actually lasted. each of them endured an outage that lasted about 24 hours. the temperatures dipped inside their homes to where they had to bundle up as much as possible. they dont have fireplaces so they had to light candles and wait it out. thats what made it so ...

♪♪ welcome back. the nightmare continues in texas as millions of people suffer in freezing temperatures without power and heat. and now water issues. for more on the extreme cold, lets bring in meteorologist bill karins. bill? >> good morning. its just one thing after another. theres so many winter headlines out of this area. the big one is the power. yesterday at this time, 3 million texans didnt have power. right now its down to 500,000. so a large portion of the people, the grid went ba...