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Can you give us a status update on where things stand this morning with this crisis? >> well, this morning i understand we have about 3 million people without power around the state of texas. we were at 5 million people at one point, i think. here in my city in austin about a third of the austin energy customers are without power. were just not getting enough power from the state, from the grid. im in a community right now that is not only cold, but it is also scared and frustrated and confused ...

Recharged. morgan is live in dallas. temperatures are not expected to get above freezing. morgan, first, are we getting any sense of when these families may finally get their power back on? what are officials saying? >> reporter: officials are saying the same thing they have been saying for the past 24 hours, related to the power grid, that is they are working hard to restore full power. at this point, theres no definitive timetable as to when it will be fully restored. they say that rolling out...

Key clarifications here, steph. one of the things thats come under fire recently the last several days is the renewable energy here in texas, particularly the one driven by the wind. the massive turbines out in west texas, they did suffer issues due to the cold. those massive turbine blades had ice build up on them and because of incredibly cold temperatures, the batteries that store power there to be dispersed whenever we do have events like this actually drain faster than anticipated because o...

Card? you can live whole life and not see scenes like this in greece. norwegian ambassador was psyched to go skiing in athens for first time. new orleans, freak weather, full-on tornado in new orleans, death toll stands at three. 50 injured, 50 homes gone, freak winter storm event that happened along the coast in wilmington, associated with hurricanes and not tornadoes and not this time of year. then the continued suffering in texas. no power for 3 to 4 million people. great portions of some of ...

Culture battles that are led by the gop and our governor, greg abbott, whos focusing on making texas a sanctuary state for the nra. or theyre arguing with the mavericks about playing the star-spangled banner at the beginning of their games, or bathroom bills, or other kinds of stupidity while we have very real emergencies like a pandemic that has killed more than 40,000 of our fellow texans, a botched rollout of the vaccine where folks dont know how to get on the list, this recession that has pu...

Going to the library, which is on generator power or theyre going to the civic center which has been converted into a warming center, at least as long as there is capacity for more people to get there. folks are very desperate. theyre suffering. as you know, far too many have died already. i worry whats going to happen over the next 24 hours. almost every major city in texas tonight will see subfreezing temperatures. many of them will not have electricity or power or in many instances water. as ...

-- turbines freezing over. renewable energy sources make up about a quarter of the energy supply in texas. a larger percent of the problem had to do with the natural gas and other fossil fuel plants going offline, unable to operate. as a result, there wasnt enough power to deliver it to all the texans who were needing it at the time they most critically needed to have power for their homes. >> one of the first things, josh, as you know that president biden did when he took office was sign this e...

System. >> talk about that for a minute. it is unique they have their own power grid, i dont know of any other state that has it that way. to your point, one of the experts said the blackouts are primarily because instruments are getting frozen in gas, coal, nuclear plants. meanwhile, texas politico on the republican side are saying it is the green power grid thats the problem. do you have a sense of that? that doesnt seem logical. >> right. right now, you still have just a fraction of the texas...

Depending on where you live, it is hell out there. 100 million americans remain under some sort of winter weather advisories tonight. at least 30 people have died in weather-related incidents. in parts of texas, it is straight up a disaster area. a power failure has plunged people into the cold and dark. between 3 million and 4 million customers we believe without power across the frigid state. outages wreaking havoc on vaccine distribution as well. yesterday officials in harris county, texas, s...

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