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Melting snow for basic needs. we'll take you there in a moment there is also news we'll get to about the vaccines and those dangerous covid strains and later talk about sticking a landing. the big deal that happens on mars and the first photo. let's start closer to home with morgan chesky with the unfolding disaster in texas. >> reporter: tonight a frozen texas facing power outages and now a water crisis >> on a scale of one through ten? 20 nearly 7 million statewide without access to drinking water. the white house declaring a state of emergency for texas, oklahoma and other affected states...

Company that manages texas' power grid says it's generating enough power to resume normal operationing conditions but more than 14 million texans are being told to boil tap water bauds of burst pipes and water mains. that's if your tap is working. firefighters in san antonio working to contain this apartment fire because of frozen hydrants. president biden says he hopes to travel to texas next week to assess the devastation firsthand as long as the trip doesn't create too much of a burden for authorities and residents. in a moment i'll speak with the mayor of austin, texas where about 70% of t...

That. i know there's a lot of questions that we have. we need answers. the truth is, right now i'm focused on trying to get water and food to everybody in my city. that's where the attention is. >> totally get that. we got plenty of time for the after action. right now we're still in the action. good luck to you. we hope that water can get restored asap. up next, the latest on the covid fight, including vaccine testing beginning for one of the most vulnerable groups. keep it here. e groups keep it here psst! psst! allergies don't have to be scary. spraying flonase daily stops your body from ...

But meanwhile, here on earth today, same day, same country, we still have not figured out how to keep lights on. hundreds of thousands of people still in the dark tonight in the great state of texas suffering what has been a days' long, slow-rolling disaster caused by a big and very cold winter storm that still pounded most of the country, and it is bad in a bunch of places and a bunch of states. but the situation in texas is just a catastrophe, not only because of the weather, but because of the mix of the weather and texas' inability to prepare for it and inability to handle it. against the ...

So this is just phenomenal news. this is the type of data that we can hang our hat on despite the variants because all these vaccines crucially keep you out of the i.c.u. regardless of the variant that you may be infected with. so that's something we have to hang our hat on as we scale up vaccination in people's arms across the country, disaster or not. >> abby, we reported the power outages are down to 350,000 customers. and let's be candid. if 350,000 people on the east coast where most of the news media are headquartered were in the dark and in the cold, it would be a lead story several nig...