developing. so we're going to be covering this more throughout the show. the president we learned, he's going to deliver remarks to the american people later this morning. we'll be awaiting that as well. in the meantime, this huge winter storm stretching more than 2500 miles from the southwest all the way to new england. it is threatening to paralyze parts of the country with ice, snow, dangerously cold temperatures. we're talking about more than 110 million people under winter weather alerts. and in texas, there is concern, because there is reason to have concern based on the past, about the power grid. cnn's ed lavandera is in texas. what can you tell us? >> reporter: it was just a year ago we saw a catastrophic failure of the state's power grid here in texas during last february's winter storm. so far this morning, after several hours of sleet and snow falling over much of the state, we have no indication that there are any major issues with the state's power grid right now.