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(NBC) - When someone calls 911 for police in the upscale beach town of Santa Monica, California, a drone is dispatched from the roof of the station with a push

How to help those getting pummeled by extreme weather in Texas Millions of Texans are still without power and other emergency resources as winter storms warnings remain in place. Image: Getty Images 2021-02-17 19:49:30 UTC Winter storms continue to move across the U.S. this week, while millions of Texans struggle to navigate power outages expected to continue until at least Thursday. According to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT),  2.7 million households are still without power as of Wednesday morning, a staggering number that was a relative improvement from earlier in the...

>> right. >> reporter: how can this stop that? >> what we've done with the rescue beacons we have retrofitted all of these. we have a blue light at the very top. we call it the blue light of life. it's a high intensity l.e.d. light. it can be seen for up to ten miles away at night. and it offers people that beacon of hope out here in the desert. you can see if you come up to the beacon can you actually push the button on the beacon. that will send a radio signal out to sector headquarters. >> reporter: 32 beacons carefully dispersed over more than 6,000 square miles of desert in the tucson bor...