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Light of the prosecutors focused on him and his long history of alleged financial misconduct, that is going to be a day of reckoning. >> and my thanks to norm isam speaking to me earlier. adding insult to injury, why some techs apps are getting hit with sky high energy bills after the state's winter storms.
The country took us in and protected us, and i feel an obligation to the country to pay b back. this is the highest, best use of my own set of skills to pay back, so i want very much to be the kind of attorney general that you're saying i could become. i'll do my best to try and be that kind of attorney general. >> chuck grassley and john cornyn are showing support. senate majority leader chuck schumer is setting up votes for linda thomas greenfield as ambassador to the united nations and tom vilsack. the city of denton, texas,
Received a $207 million energy bill. that bill covers four days last week. for comparison, denton spent about 64 million for all of fiscal 2020. last week's bill was more than the city had in cash on hand. >> the city will pursue state and federal aid. worth noting, texas has chosen to run its own separate power grid to avoid federal regulation. house and senate members consistently vote against federal aid to other states when they face disasters. meantime, water service still disrupted for more than 8.6 million texans, barely an improvement over yesterday. turns out ted cruz wasn't the onl...
As texas continues to recover from that historic winter storm and subsequent energy disaster, the bills are coming due. literally. texas has the nation's most deregulated energy market by design and customers in the state could sign up for plans with very highly variable costs, costs that can shift dramatically depending on available supply. when that supply shrank way down amid the winter storm, right, some households that kept power were with electrical bills as high as $10,000 or more. seriously. one man nearly emptied his savings account so that he would be able to pay a more than $16,000 ...
Water shortages, texas is getting relief. fema is on the ground handing out resources. the boil water notice was lifted on sunday in the largest city in the state, houston. about half of texans still have water supply issues. to help struggling families meet basic needs, water distribution sites and emergency food drives have opened up across the lone star state. >> we spent the last couple of days just trying to get operational, just a skeletal crew, just a few trucks behind us that we can get going because we had not planned to do this event. >> reporter: as a texas slowly recovers from the ...