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ERCOT press conference to update likelihood of coming out of emergency conditions later today. Speakers include ERCOT President and CEO Bill Magness and Senior Director of System Operations Dan Woodfin.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Power was restored to more homes and businesses in Texas on Thursday after a deadly blast of winter this week overwhelmed the electrical grid and left

Things were looking up Friday as ERCOT officials expected the Texas power grid to come down from emergency status.

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas Thursday has made significant progress overnight restoring customer power, although some outages still remain throughout the state, according to its latest update Thursday morning.

Significant progress could be made overnight, ERCOT says Keaton Fox Replay Video UPDATE: 5:40 a.m. Feb. 18 CenterPoint Energy reports 107,020 customers remained without power Thursday morning across the Houston area. Statewide, 605,972 customers were still in the dark, according to poweroutage.us. UPDATE: 11:07 p.m. Feb. 17 A total of 423,926 customers are without power as of late Wednesday night, according to CenterPoint Energys outage tracker. UPDATE: 8:11 p.m. Feb. 17 A total...

Power was restored to more homes and businesses Thursday in states hit by a deadly blast of winter that overwhelmed the electrical grid and left millions shivering in the cold this week. But the crisis was far from over in parts of the South, where many people still lacked safe drinking water.

The extreme weather has been blamed for the deaths of more than three dozen people, some of whom perished while struggling to keep warm.

Homeland Security Adviser Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall informed reporters Thursday that the winter weather situations in Texas and other areas “demonstrate to us that...

Get the latest updates from the winter storm that continues to grip much of the US. Plus, photos and video from impacted regions across the country.

Power was restored to more Texans on Thursday, with fewer than a half-million homes remaining without electricity, and many still were without safe drinking...