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casey stegall is reporting live now from dallas. casey. >> reporter: jon, temperatures made it above 70 degrees today across the dallas/fort worth area. however, still at this hour millions of people across the state are struggling to find clean drinking water. some 9 million more bottles of water are on the way to texas to be distributed to the residents here as are some 5 million mres, or meals ready to eat, from the u.s. military as the state begins to they out and power is restored. reports are surfacing of people getting slapped with outrageous power bills in the thousands of dollars. in fact, the governor's office now says it is investigating, but with roads now clear and deliveries are at least reaching stores, shelves are getting restocked because even the basics have been difficult to come by. >> i went and i got these, and i got ten of 'em. that's what we're living on, okay? the bread was gone, the milk was gone, the biscuits were gone. i mean, everything was empty. it was like an empty grocery store except for the people. so it was hard. >> reporter: as we've also been telling you this week, the extreme cold crippled part of the state's agriculture industry from cattle and dairy farms trying to keep animals alive to citrus farmers and those who lost bounties of their crops in the field. in addition to the federal disaster declaration that has been approved by president biden, governor abbott has also requested a disaster designation with the usda for some of the most impacted counties as far as agriculture goes. jon? jon: caseysaster. casey, thank you. while president biden says he wants to get america's back in the classroom -- kids back in the classroom, the guidelines from the centers for disease control are creating confusion among parents, teachers and students all across the country. charles watson live in atlanta with more. charles. >> reporter: hi, jon. it is president biden's hope that most k-8 schools reopen five days a week for in-person learning by his 100th day in office, but, however, critics say that could be difficult under new cdc guidelines to safely reopen schools. of concern, among other things, is the cdc's recommendation that schools in areas with high transmission rates move to hybrid learning. right now that would affect more than 70% of students who are -- enrolled in schools that are in so-called red zones. meanwhile, increasingly frustrated parents in oakley, california, holding protests in hopes of getting their kids back in class as state lawmakers try to pass legislation that ad

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casey. mr. casey. aye. miss collins aye. mr. cornen -- >> sandra: our congressional correspondent standing by. >> this is the first aspect in this senate trial. what you have to have laid out here is a resolution established the frame work, the parameters. we thought this might be what we call voice vote. this is where the loudest side wins. people say yay and nay. that's where all 100 senators agree. what they decided was to call a poll call vote through the entire senate roll, all 100 senators and then approve this frame work. the frame work today calls for a debate on the constitutionality of the trial and then later in the week the managers will present their case, the president's defense counsel will present their case. there will be a time, presumably over the weekend or early next week. that's when senators will be able to ask questions. sometime next week you would have a vote on whether or not to have witnesses in this trial. now, a vote later today would bring an end to the trial. they're going to consider the constitu

casey stiegel is live in dallas. casey. >> harris, millions of texans are getting quite frustrated and furious now. many have been in the dark for more than 24 hours since this whole thing began. that's by the way as the windchills dipped below zero across many parts of the state last night and it has kept a lot of the roads a mess. i can tell you right now more than 4.4 million customers are without electricity across texas. officials say that is a mix of controlled black-outs to ease some of the strain on the grid but also because a lot of the infrastructure is frozen like the wind farms and natural gas generators. now those who do have power are being asked to conserve. many cities looking very different last night. large swaths not lit up hoping to give power back to the system to help those struggling to stay warm inside. >> we started watching the temperature drop in our house. 55, we're at 53 now. we will go sit in the car for a little bit to keep warm. >> the wintery blast is impacting some of louisiana. many of the same areas hit by hurricanes late last year, ice, a very rare thing in that state, causing more than 158,000 power outages while up to 5 inches of snow fell on parts of kentucky. other communities getting a bit more of a freezing rain which glazed roadways making driving conditions extremely treacherous. snowplows have been out in full force and harris, as you alluded to we aren't done just yet. call it a 1-2 punch. more snow and ice is on the way for lots of texas. in fact, tonight the dallas fort worth area alone could pick up another 4 inches of snow tonight and into tomorrow. so we're not climbing out of freezing until at least friday. harris. >> you think about those people who haven't had heat for 24 hours who may not have a gas stove. a lot of people have electric. it is a hot climate. that's how they do because it is so hot in the summer. this is the opposite of the extreme. casey stiegel. thank you very much. as casey just reported millions of americans in the cold and dark. the lack of power is because of green energy policies and the vilification of oil, gas, and coal. the stuff that really keeps you warm. coming up, we're looking out for you. the energy war. we'll focus in. and this. >> the person ultimately responsible for security in the house, that would be nancy pelosi. but instead of getting to the bottom of this massive security failure, well, no, the speaker just rushed through yet another snap impeachment. >> house speaker pelosi, republicans are wanting to know why national guard presence was denied before january 6th. sean duffy is with me next. we made usaa insurance for members like kate. a former army medic, made of the flexibility to handle whatever monday has in store and tackle four things at once. so when her car got hit, she didn't worry. she simply filed a claim on her usaa app and said... i got this. usaa insurance is made the way kate n

casey >> mr. casey, guilty. >> mr. cassidy. mr. cassidy, guilty. >> ms. collins. >> guilty. ms., guilty. >> mr. coons >>. guilty. >> mr. coons, guilty. mr. cornyn. cornyn, not guilty. >> mr. cortez masto, guilty. >> mr. cotton. mr. cotton, not guilty. >> mr. cramer. >> not guilty. >> mr. cramer, not guilty. >> mr. crapo, not guilty. mr. cruz, not guilty. >> mr. cruz, not guilty. >> mr. danes. >> mr. danes, not guilty. >> ms. duckworth, guilty. mr. durbin, guilty. >> ms. urnst. >> not guilty. ms. feinstein. mrs. feinstein, guilty, mrs. fisher mrs. fisher, not guilty. mrs. gillibrand, mrs. gillibrand, guilty. >> mr. graham. mr. graham not guilty. mr. grassley not guilty. >> mr. grassley, not guilty. >> mr. haggerty, not guilty. >> ms. hassim, guilty. >> mr. hawley, mr. hawley, not guilty. >> mr. heinrich, mr. heinrich, guilty. mr. hickenlooper, mr. hickenlooper, guilty. >> ms. mirono not guilty. mr. hoeven mr. hoeven, not guilty. >> mrs. hyde-smith, not guilty. mr. inhofe. mr. inhofe, not. mr. johnson, not guilty. mr. johnson, not guilty. mr. cain. >> guilty. >> mr. cain, guilty.

casey. senator casey, really appreciate you being here today. my first question is what is the most important thing to you, what are you most focused on in this package, the must-haves? >> well, alicia, good to be with you. i think the most important thing for most americans, and i hope democrats and republicans, is to provide support at least for the three major areas. one is to do everything we can to invest in a speeded-up vaccination program for getting millions, tens of millions of americans to have shots as soon as possible. secondly, to reopen our schools and, thirdly, to make sure that we're providing direct relief. there's still terrible numbers on the economy and jobs just reported yesterday. and hunger and food insecurity has never been worse. i see anytime our home state of pennsylvania -- it in our home state of pennsylvania. so providing direct relief and making sure we're getting every dollar possible into a vaccination program as well. alicia: you mentioned schools and getting them reopened. as you know, the cdc director this week got into kind of a strange little back and forth with the white house over the data that she says is showing that not every teacher has to be vaccinated. and then earlier today in talking to griff jenkins, your colleague, senator marsha blackburn, said this: tying covid relief to getting schools back opened. >> you can't get these federal dollars if you are not going to have children back in those classrooms, if you're not going to have those teachers in person back in those classrooms. this is despicable that these unions keep moving the goalpost. alicia: senator, your response? >> well, i think that's 100% not helpful. look, the worst thing we should do is to tell a state like pennsylvania, which has a strong tradition of local control, we have 500 school districts, every district has different challenges, and we have got to make sure that every district can make its own decision about how to open up. what we should be doing at the federal government level to provide the dollars, appropriate dollars to states and school districts so they can have the dollars to open up, reopen or open up a school. that is an expensive process. you've got to have ventilation, you've got to have a lot of personal protective equipment, all kinds of supports that schools need. i think ultimately, additionally -- i hope we get to this, probably not in this bill, but down the road -- is to finally, finally invest in a school reconstruction and repair program. but for the short term, these schools need dollars to open up so our kids can learn, and i think it would have an economic benefit as well. alicia: senator, you have democrats in large states like california and illinois also saying it's time toll listen to what the -- to listen to what the cdc is indicating and get the schools open now, that the teachers unions are applying too much pressure in a place where they really shouldn't. >> well, we don't want to put teachers at risk. teachers often live in homes where they could put other people at risk if they contract the virus. so the key here is to make sure that we're investing in schools but also investing in the wider public health infrastructure so that we can have in communities where we have a lot of people who have not been vaccinated yet, you can have testing. one of the real failures of the last administration was this disaster in testing which is now coupled with the disaster in the rollout of the vaccination program. so both, both have to be repaired with the investments we can make in this legislation coming up. but i think there's bipartisan concern about the slow pace of vaccinations as well as the lack of testing and personal protective equipment. alicia: i want to get back to one point about teachers needing protection and vaccinations. the cdc director herself, a scientist, said that the data indicating that the teachers can still safely return even if not all of them are vaccinated. does that move you in any way? >> there's no question that in some, in some schools and school districts you might have some teachers who have access to vaccinations and others who don't. i think overall we've got to make sure that we're speeding up the vaccination program. by the way, none of this is going to happen unless we get a bill. the good news that democrats are united to get a bill done and get it done fast. and i hope it's bipartisan, even the reconciliation, the budget reconciliation pathway can be bipartisan. but i think we're at a point now, at least my view, is where the president biden and the administration and and congressional democrats are in one place about the dollars needed, and senate republicans at least -- and i'm sure house republicans -- are at a number that's far too low. we have to meet this moment and hit it hard meaning the virus and the economy to get the economy out of the ditch and to get into, to put this virus behind us. alicia: senator bob caseyg week ahead. thank you so much for your time today. >> thanks, alicia. griff: out west police are actively investigating the disappearance of a california woman who hasn't been seen by her family since last month. this as investigators say the his of the missing woman is no longer cooperating. christina coleman is live from l.a. with the latest. hi, christina. >> reporter: hi, griff. yeah, that's right. police told me this morning that it's concerning that this mother of three has been missing for this can. her his -- this long. her husband was the last one to see her on january 7th at their home. however, maya was reported missing by family members a few days later, on saturday, january 9th. officers responded to her home just south of san diego shortly after getting the call, and they've been investigating her disappearance since then. authorities are not commenting much on the circumstances regarding the last time she was seen, though they do say her vehicles were still at the home

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casey >> reporter: casey harrington was 36 years old with a 15-year-old daughter she struggled with heroin abuse. last july when she overdosed o fentanyl, they couldn't bring her brain function back. she once told her sister-in-law bobby she wanted to be an organ donor. how many people did she end up saving 'she saved five lives and then the face transplant for carman >> reporter: initially there was hesitation with donating the face. >> our initial reaction was, no, that's not going to be okay. we can't live with that. the more research we did, and recipients, how their lives had changed, the better we felt about it it gave us hope in what would otherwise appear to be a completely hopeless time, especially for her daughter. >> in the most difficult time, you gave me the biggest gift anybody could have given me. >> reporter: when casey'seak. >> it would be nice after this covid thing passes to actually meet you guys in person. give you all a great, big hug. >> i would love that >> you can kiss my face. >> reporter: the harrington family was moved by carman's positivity everyone who meets her is. >> as a society, we're -- we lean towards the negative. i think the whole world does now. ourselves what doesn't work if i stayed so it is much easier to complain and just talk about amongst ourselves, what doesn't work if i stayed there, i would be what society said i would be you're going to be miserable you're disabled. you're blind you're dependent i didn't listen to any of that i focused on what i was going to do now >> reporter: before her injuries, carman was a nurse now, she tells her story to help others >> my life expanded greatly, and i had to step into that. to step into that, you need to find your confidence you need to find your stability. you need to find your, you know, your self-worth. i'm excited to see what

casey. senator casey: thank you, senator stabenow. i want to thank secretary vilsack for your -- i want to thank you in particular for your continuing commitment to exemplary public service and your willingness to serve this administration and the american people. of course always proud of your pennsylvania roots. i have two questions. i will submit more for the record. i want to start with food security or food insecurity. it's an issue that so many of us have worked on. i know you have in your works -- work as secretary, but also i want to thank you for the work that you did as secretary of agriculture and of course the work done by senator stabenow this year and others to provide more food assistance. we know the bime -- biden administration has made clear they are committed to addressing food insecurity by providing more food assistance. the executive order to expand nutrition assistance was an important first step. but as you know, mr. secretary, there are signature additional investments that require congressional action and president biden has called for in his american rescue plan. i appreciate the executive order including direction for usda to work with the department of justice to review its authority to allow states to provide extra snap emergency allotments to the lowest income households. as you know from our discussion, pennsylvania's been unable to move forward with approved emergency allotments because the department of agriculture previously threatened to recoup more than $400 million in additional benefits. the relevant legal challenge was put on hold for 30 days providing usda an opportunity to examine and reconsider the decision made by the previous administration. first question, as secretary would you explore every legal option and opportunity to maximize emergency allotments to the state and provide much needed clarity to enable pennsylvania and other states to move forward as quickly as possible? mr. vilsack: i'm heartened by the fact there are conversations taking place between the department of justice and the commonwealth of pennsylvania to try to get this resolved in a way that is appropriate and is acceptable. i encourage those conversations and hope they ultimately end up in a place that you find satisfactory. we certainly encourage that conversation and appreciate the fact that there's still stimtime to get this resolved in a way that makes sense. as a practical matter or philosophy, i think whatever we can do to provide as much help as we can we should do. how we can make those benefits most conveniently utilized we should do. i think we should figure out additional ways to make qualification for and access to these programs. in my conversations we have talked about getting rid of a hassle that sometimes can be connected with these programs. there are ways you can do this without minimizing the integrity or without disregarding the integrity of the programs f we can expand access, increase benefits, make them more convenient, i think more people would be helped. and i think that's what i would hope we would be able to do. that would be the goal. more access, more convenience. and i frankly think at some point you can take a look at the level of benefit. it's great it's been exsend -- it's been extended. the way which we calculate that benefit doesn't make sense today f you create a ben tied to the way things are today -- senator casey: thank you for working with us. my last question is about water quality and climate change. we know the same practices and programs that we work to improve to the last farm bill for water quality also offer enormous climate benefits. as you know as well as anyone. we know the adoption of best management practices for water quality like forested buffers and filter strips can also provide long-term carbon storage and emission reductions. the department has an important role to play in not only providing the financial and technical assistance but also in terms of measuring and evaluating the benefits they provide. i've got a bill, the farmer driven conservation outcomes act, which would direct the department to establish a process through which usda can measure, evaluate, and report on these conservation benefits. if confirmed, would you support efforts to stand up to measurement, evaluate, and reporting systems at usda to help us quantify the benefits of climate smart agricultural and w

casey. senator casey: thank you, senator stabenow. i want to thank secretary vilsack for your -- i want to thank you in particular for your continuing commitment to exemplary public service and your willingness to serve this administration and the american people. of course always proud of your pennsylvania roots. i have two questions. i will submit more for the record. i want to start with food security or food insecurity. it's an issue that so many of us have worked on. i know you have in your works -- work as secretary, but also i want to thank you for the work that you did as secretary of agriculture and of course the work done by senator stabenow this year and others to provide more food assistance. we know the bime -- biden administration has made clear they are committed to addressing the executive order to expand the traditional assistance was an important first step but as you know mister secretary, there are significant additional investments that require congressional action and that president biden has called for in his am

chris: casey stegall reporting from dallas. casey, thanks for that.p freeze in texas and the breakdown in the state's power grid have renewed questions about climate change and how we produce the energy we needment needment -- we need. i sat down earlier with bill gates who's out with a new book, "how to avoid a climate disaster," and we began with the troubles in texas these last few days. bill, welcome back to "fox news sunday." >> great to talk to you. chris: millions of people were affected by the power outages in texas this week, and the governor, greg abbott, blamed it on alternative energy sources. here he is. >> this shows how the green new deal would be a deadly deal for the united states of america. if the biden administration is going to try to eradicate fossil fuels in the united states, every state is going to constantly have channels like what -- challenges like what america is seeing take place in texas right now. chris: the governor says that wind you turbines especially fad and created this crisis. your response. >> well, it's not at

casey? sen. casey: chair, thank you for your leadership in this committee. i want to welcome the attorney general and thank you for his continued public service not only to the people of his home state up until this point but to the people of our nation. your story is a great american story, story of your own success and that of your parents and we are grateful for that method of public service. i think you are well-prepared to lead this critical agency during the worst public health -- worst public health crisis in a century and a jobs and economic crisis. if you excuse my long predicate to my question i want to get a few things off the record. dealing with an important piece of legislation that both chair murray and ranking member per worked with me to pass, all hazards preparedness act. in the last reauthorization we extended a national advisory committee on children and disasters and that was a good step forward. we also created two new national advisory committees. one on seniors and disasters and the second national advisory committee on individuals with disabilities and disasters. they national advisory committee on children and disasters provided valuable recommendations for the federal government since it was first established in 2013 to respond to different types of emergencies that can impact children. in 2019 we passed the most recent reauthorization of pandemic all hazards preparedness. we included two additional advisory committees for those populations that are frequently left out of disaster planning. both seniors and those with disabilities. it has been a source of real frustration of mine that the last administration took no action at all to stand up these national advisory committees. one on seniors and disasters and the other individuals with disabilities and disasters. despite having the infrastructure in place, the advisory committee on children and disasters, the original advisory committee has also not been reestablished despite a call for applications last year. in a pandemic where seniors and people with disabilities have been disproportionately and adversely impacted, both have been overlooked and at the same time children's daily lives and their education has been disrupted. we have to take action to make sure these advisory committees are up and running. my question is simple. as secretary, upon confirmation, will you ensure that the department is fulfilling its obligation under the law to establish and maintain these three advisory committees? mr. becerra: thank you for the question and all the work you have done with your colleagues. you had me at hello on this one. absolutely on these advisory committees we need to move forward. my first job as an attorney was representing americans who needed disability services. i established a disability rights bureau at the california department of justice. we have a very aggressive and active children's justice bureau in the california department of justice that was established by now vice president harris. i will tell you that on this i look forward to the partnership if i'm fortunate enough to be confirmed. sen. casey: my second and final question in the interest of time is, throughout your career you have been interested in the question of social determinants of health and how the lack of life enhancing resources, whether it is food or housing or education or health care are considered to be among the root causes of the health disparities we have heard so much about. when you were in the house we worked together on this and i know you have worked with others. we have seen how covid-19 imposes a greater risk for people with existing conditions as well as to black americans and others who live in communities of color. if you speak about her desk can he speak about your interest in social determinants and how that will start to address the health for racial and ethnic disparities that confront our nation. sen. casey: it was a pleasure to work on the impact act and the social -- mr. becerra: was a pleasure to work on the social impact of health and addressing those disparities. we know we need the dat

casey? sen. casey: chair, thank you for your leadership in this committee. i want to welcome the attorney general and thank you for his continued public service not only to the people of his home state up until this point but to the people of our nation. your story is a great american story, story of your own success and that of your parents and we are grateful for that method of public service. i think you are well-prepared to lead this critical agency during the worst public health -- worst public health crisis in a century and a jobs and economic crisis. if you excuse my long predicate to my question i want to get a few things off the record. dealing with an important piece of legislation that both chair murray and ranking member per worked with me to pass, all hazards preparedness act. in the last reauthorization we extended a national advisory committee on children and disasters and that was a good step forward. we also created two new national advisory committees. one on seniors and disasters and the second national advisory committee on individuals with disabilities and disasters. they national advisory committee on children and disasters provided valuable recommendations for the federal government since it was first established in 2013 to respond to different types of emergencies that can impact children. in 2019 we passed the most recent reauthorization of pandemic all hazards preparedness. we included two additional advisory committees for those populations that are frequently left out of disaster planning. both seniors and those with disabilities. it has been a source of real frustration of mine that the last administration took no action at all to stand up these national advisory committees. one on seniors and disasters and the other individuals with disabilities and disasters. despite having the infrastructure in place, the advisory committee on children and disasters, the original advisory committee has also not been reestablished despite a call for applications last year. in a pandemic where seniors and people with disabilities have been disproportionately and adversely impacted, both have been overlooked and at the same time children's daily lives and their education has been disrupted. we have to take action to make sure these advisory committees are up and running. my question is simple. as secretary, upon confirmation, will you ensure that the department is fulfilling its obligation under the law to establish and maintain these three advisory committees? mr. becerra: thank you for the question and all the work you have done with your colleagues. you had me at hello on this one. absolutely on these advisory committees we need to move forward. my first job as an attorney was representing americans who needed disability services. i established a disability rights bureau at the california department of justice. we have a very aggressive and active children's justice bureau in the california department of justice that was established by now vice president harris. i will tell you that on this i look forward to the partnership if i'm fortunate enough to be confirmed. sen. casey: my second and final question in the interest of time is, throughout your career you have been interested in the question of social determinants of health and how the lack of life enhancing resources, whether it is food or housing or education or health care are considered to be among the root causes of the health disparities we have heard so much about. when you were in the house we worked together on this and i know you have worked with others. we have seen how covid-19 imposes a greater risk for people with existing conditions as well as to black americans and others who live in communities of color. if you speak about her desk can he speak about your interest in social determinants and how that will start to address the health for racial and ethnic disparities that confront our nation. sen. casey: it was a pleasure to work on the impact act and the social -- mr. becerra: was a pleasure to work on the social impact of health and addressing those disparities. we know we need the dat

casey, okay. senator casey, you're out there in cyberspace somewhere. >> i didn't think i'd have a chance. >> terrific. we will revise the state of play here and we will hear in -- hear from senator casey and after he has completed his questions, then we will take a 15 minute break and that is in accord with the wishes of both the minority and the majority. senator casey? >> thank you, mr. chairman. i think i may have jumped ahead, so the attorney general -- this has never happened before. so let me use my time wisely. mr. attorney general, thank you again for your public service and your willingness to continue public service on behalf of the nation by running a major agency of our government that's so important these days and that's the department of health and human services. i also want to thank you for the commitment of your family which i know is a major commitment by any family when you're in public service like you have been all these years. and yours is a great american story. i wanted to start with the issue of home and community based services. we know that one of the real tragedies within the larger tragedy of the pandemic now that we have reached that awful, awful number o

casey stegall live in dallas. casey, what are you hearing about the power outages? and i'm sure businesses are just crippled as well. >> reporter: liz, everything really is. and making matters worse on the ground here in texas is that the energy providers cannot provide customers with a timeline in terms of when they will get their power back on. and what's more, aside from some of the wind farms that are being frozen, the helicopter pilot who shot this video for fox news said that it appeared as if oil was leaking from some of those wind turbines. so it's likely that repairs could have to be made. governor greg abbott says that a mix, however, of wind, coal, natural gas and nuclear power plants are offline. but at one point wind production dropped from 42 to 8%. abbott has directed the state legislature to investigate, and federal regulators will too. meantime, many local leaders have joined the chorus in the lone star state angry and upset saying that they were warned only of rolling blackouts that would be temporary, but had they known this, preparations would have been much different. listen. >> we would have ordered evacuations, we would have warned people that they need to make other plans, but that's no what we were told. we were told short bursts, a little bit of discomfort and that's it. >> reporter: a lot longer than short bursts. last night part of the state got hit with another 3 inches of snow over parts of dallas/fort worth and more than a quarter inch of ice further south of us throughout austin. dozens of communities, community warming stations, warming stations have been opened at community centers and the like with covid protocols in place to give people a place to go who don't have power. and the numbers really do keep fluctuating wildly. earlier this morning outages were under 3 million. not by a lot. then throughout the morning we saw them pushing 3.3, 3.4 million. and just checked before we came on the air with you, liz, and it's now down to 2.9 million. so back under 3 million texans caught -- without power, but that's still a whole lot, liz, when it's this cold outside. back to you. liz: yeah. casey, it's rough. i don't know if we can take some of those wind stocks one more time, but part of the problem we were hearing was that texas opted not to buy the carbon-made wind turbines, those blades which, of course, reject ice. you don't have any stoppages or problems in canada with those wind turbines. are you hearing anything about that? >> reporter: there's a lot of discussion about how the grid was winterized, and that's something that's being talked a lot about on the ground here. keep in mind texas is the only state in the country that has its own grid, as you know, and so we don't get power from other places. and that means that federal regulators don't play with texas grid either. it's run at the state level. so to there are a lot of discussions going on right now, obviously, about why this is so prolonged. and, clearly, this is an historic storm, but still questions being raised about why not only the wind farms but also the natural gas wells that froze and other winterizatio

casey stegall from dallas. hey, casey being. >> hey, neil, officials on the ground in texas are now warning residents to be prepared for what they call disasters within a stacyer. disaster.this is clearly ongoind seeing several crises arise from these record temperatures and this prolonged cold snap, lots of people standing for hours in line at grocery stores. food banks and water distribution sites. many shelves empty. the nation's fourth largest city and all of austin under mandatory boil water advisories because of frozen pipes and equipment. frozen at water treatment facilities. what's more, parts of central and south texas like san antonio and austin getting even more snow today. if there is a silver lining, power outages have significantly dropped more than 2 million were without power we talked to yesterday. now that number is at 383,000. here is governor greg abbott by the way telling reporters that wind is not the only thing to blame here: the fact is every source of power the state of texas has access to has been compromised because of the ultra cold temperature or because of the equipment >> now, north of here, oklahoma also diggiwerful winter storm. lots and lots of snow on the ground in that state and six days after much of oregon was blanketed with freezing rain, ice snapping trees, downing utility lines, doing damage to infrastructure. more than 100,000 still don't have electricity and have been trying to survive. now the system is marching up through the mid-atlantic and setting its sights there on the northeast and the east, neil, it's up to you, now. back to you. >> neil: incredible. doesn't end, my friend. does not end. all right, our caseyome back -- yeah, i hear you. game stop not quite. if you thought that this sort of spanish inquisition of all these technology companies and others caught up in the great game stop furor, you thought this would be kind of serious and they would get -- will i have some bad news for you. not quite. >> size of the order only one factor. >> you are doing a great job of wasting my time. if you are going to filibuster, you should run for the senate. liberty mutual customizes your home insurance, here's something you shouldn't try at home... look, liberty mutual customizes home insurance so we only pay for what we need. it's pretty cool. that is cool! grandma! very cool. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ mornings were made for better things than rheumatoid arthritis. when considering another treatment, ask about xeljanz... a pill for adults with moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis when methotrexate has not helped enough. xeljanz can help relieve joint pa

casey affleck. how are you, casey >> hey, buddy, how are you >> seth: i'm doing well. it's very nice to see you. you know, i know you used to live in new york obviously, you grew up in the northeast. we're getting a lot of snowy weather these days do you miss it be honest. >> oh, man i miss it. i crave it i hate hearing about how much snow you guys are getting. i really hate hearing you guys complain about it. it makes me jealous. as you know in l.a., it's the same every single day. >> seth: yeah, see, i'm -- you know, obviously i grew up in new hampshire. i don't mind some slushy snow. i mean, the only thing about new york that's the downside is it's only beautiful for about 15 minutes before it turns like gray >> i appreciate it more than you do [ light laughter ] >> seth: so you even love the gray snow. >> i appreciate it about 20 minutes this is what you want. you want something that looks like this. >> seth: yeah. that's -- that's where you are right now. that's your life in l.a. see, that's so depressing to me. >> that's my backyard, yeah. [ laughter ] >> seth: it's really -- it's really beautiful, buddy. >> thank you >> seth: oh, great, this is a nice tie-in to your science fiction work [ laughter ] >> is that really fred armisen on the drums there >> seth: that's really fred armisen on the drums. by the way, like, i usually would say, "hey, you know, stop goofing around with the zoom backgr you have the most busted background of anybody who's been on our show. [ laughter ] where are you doing this in an abandoned school [ laughter ] >> this is -- it's the only room i got. it's the room in my house where the computer is. and i had a bunch of things pinned up there, but it just felt too personal, so -- how's that >> seth: there you go, i feel like that's the caseyd bill burr on yesterday. i really feel like this is the week of massachusetts royalty. and i asked him what it felt like to watch tom brady. how was it for you >> it was amazing. >> seth: yeah? >> i loved it. i mean -- i don't know anyone who's not rooting for tom. the great thing about massachusetts sports fans is, they aren't bitter they're just good sports fans. it was time for tom to go. here's a few things i'll say about tom. he's played in 10 super bowls. so everyone thinks that he's just always been the greatest. but he lost a lot. he wasn't always -- he wasn't always the greatest. and that makes him even greater. because he just keeps going. and -- and the other thing is that, you know, tom is smart enough to know that it's -- you can't win alone. you know, it's not the -- the team with the best players doesn't win the game, the players with the best team wins the game tom, he got leonard fournette and ronald jones and chris godwin those guys won the super bowl too. that was a

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casey stegall is in dallas. good evening, casey. >> bret, good evening. many parts of texas are getting the power on after days of no heat. 361,000 without. tonight, the governor, greg abbott, says he's working hard to get to the bottom of what went wrong. >> i'm taking responsibility for the current status. again, i find what has happened unacceptable. >> day four of the storm and a quarter of all texans were advised to boil their water. that is if they had water at all. >> my mother lives a mile down the road. two days ago her pipes broke and her house flooded. >> frozen equipment and busted pipes causing chaos. >> hundreds stood in line in austin, dallas and houston for water and other supplies. >> there's no way these stores will have enough food. nobody is coming in. nil is filling shelves. >> and there could be a larger problem. >> we're not equipped for these kinds of temperatures. >> farmers worked to save animals and crops. >> if we're not able to get animals to market to the processers, the processers to the stores, it's going to create a hiccup in the system. >> gas is in high demand and short supply. >> we stuck here. i have nine miles left to go. we have to find something within nine miles from here. >> texans aren't alone. people in oregon are still reeling from the storm there. >> charging my phone right now in my car. >> which hit well before it hit texas. >> i have not seen a utility truck. i haven't seen one truck. >> oklahoma was also hard hit with traffic brought to a standstill. in louisiana, ice blocked storm drains and led to massive street flooding. anger is murdering about the electric reliability council of text, which manages the independent power grid. as the only sliver of texas not on the grid like el paso fared much better. >> blame can be assessed soon. >> ted cruz found himself in the hot seat on thursday after pictures surfaced on social media showing him board ago flight to cancun as many of his constituents were left freezing. after being called out, he was seen on camera coming back to the u.s. >> we can tell you the senator just landed in houston not long ago before his flight. he released a written statement saying that with school out and with no power that his daughters asked if they could take a trip with their friends, and he said trying to be a good dad, he flew down there with them and flew back. bret? >> bret: casey stegall live in dallas. the piling on continues against andrew cuomo over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic and his response to the grows criticism. bryan llenas has more from new york. >> tonight andrew cuomo of being a bully by members of his own party. >> continue to yell and let me know that i haven't seen his anger. >> that after ron kim publicly accused cuomo of trying to cover up a growing covid-19 nursing home scandal. kim says cuomo threatened to destroy his career. kim is not alone in his thoughts of the governor. >> he's a bully. >> nobody is surprised by this. this is a governor that is very vindictive. >> the new york post called him a raging bully. new york city's democratic mayor bill de blasio doesn't believe it. >> that's classic cuomo. the bullying is nothing new. i believe kim and it's very sad. >> pressure is mounting on governor cuomo from all sides. his administration is reportedly the subject of an investigation by the fbi and u.s. attorney in brooklyn ov

casey is in dallas where they stand right now. hey, casey. reporter: neil, a awful lot of suffering taking place frankly here in the lone star state. the latest figure for power outages is nearly 3.3 million. it was under three million earlier this morning. then it jumped back up. this is now the third day in a row that many people are without power, without heat and without stove tops to cook on. parts of texas also picked up, even more snow and ice in the overnight hours and this morning. another three inches of snow around the dallas-ft. worth area while south of here it was more of an ice and freezing rain event. up to a quarter inch has fallen across austin and surrounding communities. countless texans also dealing with stuff like this. broken water pipes. they freeze, and then they burst. this one is at an apartment complex in austin. while others are trying to do their best to stay warm. power went out early monday morning at this assisted living center in georgetown texas. 13 seniors sharing one generator and three space heaters. >> we're trying to keep everybody like in the center of the house where it is warm. each resident has a shirt on, a sweatshirt, or, and then sweater reporter: meantime there is growing controversy how all of this happened. the governor, greg abbott is calling for an investigation. in charge of running the state's electrical grid. calling for leadership there to resign a lot of questions are also being raised about whether there is an overreliance on wind energy after frozen wind turbines caused the state's output to drop from 42% to 8% at one point, quite substantial. but officials attribute the outages, however to a mix of wind, natural gas, coal and nuclear plants all being off-line. they say, however essentially without the wind component, it exacerbates the problem taking so many megawatts off of the grid that so many people, neil, desperately need. back to you. neil: casey, thank you very much, my friend. casey stegall in the middle of all of that. this had reverberations in the economy. i told you about prices is soaring for everything from natural gas, home heating oil, that dissipated a little bit today. a number of businesses already have been directly affected, likes of ford, gm, toyota, shutting down plants in the areas affected by this storm for at least the next few days. fedex is saying that package delivery will be delayed. samsung saying right now, that its chip plant in austin is shut down until things warm up. then there is the vaccine. there is a sort of a joiner here, that it is delaying folks getting those vaccines because it is hard to get to these state has are experiencing these problems and people getting to those states to get the vaccines even if they don't have problems. jonathan serrie, following all of that from atlanta. hey, jonathan. reporter: neil, this winter storm is having domino effect, delaying vaccine shipments to many

casey stiegel reporting live. everything is bigger in texas, casey. >> you got it. we're in a place where people are normally tailgating. a very efficient operation going on. nowhere do you get a more clear picture how massive this operation is than by air. look at the aerial shots of opening day. this is again texas motor speedway, 16 lanes set up. all people coming through here have scheduled appointments. they drive through their various stations. more than 9100 vaccinated alone yesterday. the goal by the end of this week some 30,000. >> it's wonderful. really well organized. i'm impressed with how many people they're able to run through. >> officials tell us that it looks like they're on track to meet that goal and that they also have the capability to expand if, for instance, they get more doses for next week. they are just going to be playing this by ear. some 1,000 injections are happening here about every single hour, dana. >> dana: government efficiency is working there. casey you, casey. want to show you chicago now. waiting on the mayor talking about the school situation there. while we await that press conference to begin, maybe they got a deal, maybe they don't. senator john cornyn of texas joins us from capitol hill. congratulations to folks back in texas, a great operation there that we just watched. >> i agree. >> bill: we want to play a sound bite from michael bloomberg talking about schools. here is what he said. >> it's time for joe biden to stand up and say the kids are the most important things, and important players here and the teachers are just going to have to suck it up and stand up and provide an education. >> bill: his message directed toward the white house. what do you think he will get from that, if anything? >> well, i think he is right. we want to make sure that our kids can safely return to the classroom but according to the center for disease control and dr. fauci and all the experts, they can. this refusal on the part of some of t

casey stiegel is live for us in dallas. casey. >> harris, more than 14 million people is what that translates to currently under mandatory boil water advisories. we're talking about the cities of houston, austin, san antonio. houston's will last through at least monday according to the mayor as frozen pipes and equipment thaw out. people have been lining up for water, distribution sites like this one are set up and people are flocking to get bottled water. the water woes impacting we should tell you major texas hospitals. one in austin, for example, uses water to make heat. when the pipes froze they had to transport patients to nearby facilities. many have postponed non-critical surgeries as the number of people streaming into emergency rooms has gone up. >> we're starting to see some more and more hip fractures, broken bones and hard to discharge people from the hospital. >> the massive winter storm that smacked texas doing the same to parts of the central u.s., the east, northeast. snow blanketed the city of baltimore and they are expecting more today along with freezing rain and difficult travel conditions around cape cod, new hampshire, connecticut, nearly all of new england as this wintry blast continues for that part of the country. the bit of good news in texas, the temperatures are expected to finally start getting above freezing today and tomorrow. you can see the sun is out today. the first we've seen really in a couple of days. but harris, the food situation just dire on the ground here. people lining up at food pantrys, store shelves many are barren adding to the suffering and misery here. >> harris: i really want to get into that and i will now. thank you, caseyegel. 14 million people under a boil order. that's one half of the story. the other is the food. texas agricultural commissioner sid miller joins me now. he is joining by phone and we're fortunate to have him at all with the situation of communications in texas right now. commissioner, let me start with you have issued a red alert on the food supply chain. what is that and why did you feel it was necessary? >> well, i issued that several days ago because all of our ag processors can't process their product. we're dumping $8 million of milk every day in texas because the power is off at the milk processing plant. there is no natural gas. they aren't going to get any until next tuesday. it will be a long time before we're out of the woods on this. they need gas to pasteurize the milk and same thing in the poultry industry. baby chicks, they freeze to death. the eggs won't hatch and running out of feed for our livestock. an animal issue. we have dairies running out of feed, poultry houses

casey, okay. senator casey, you're out there in cyberspace somewhere. >> i didn't think i'd have a chance. >> terrific. we will revise the state of play here and we will hear in -- hear from senator casey and after he has completed his questions, then we will take a 15 minute break and that is in accord with the wishes of both the minority and the majority. senator casey? >> thank you, mr. chairman. i think i may have jumped ahead, so the attorney general -- this has never happened before. so let me use my time wisely. mr. attorney general, thank you again for your public service and your willingness to continue public service on behalf of the nation by running a major agency of our government that's so important these days and that's the department of health and human services. i also want to thank you for the commitment of your family which i know is a major commitment by any family when you're in public service like you have been all these years. and yours is a great american story. i wanted to start with the issue of home and community based services. we know that one of the real tragedies within the larger tragedy of the pandemic now that we have reached that awful, awful number o

casey stegall has the latest from dallas, good evening, casey. >> brief seven, 150 million americans are be -- underwent -- winter weather advisory in 25 different states and things are so bad in texas that president biden has approved a . >> winter storm pummeling the lone star state and crippling with snow and ice covered snows resulting in crashes in nearly every county. and only expected to get worse if you do not heed the warning to stay off the roads. >> subzero temperatures wreaking havoc on the states electrical grid with demand far outweighs supply, more than 3.5 million texans are without power. the bulk of those from scheduled blackouts, which could last hours through the end of monday. community warning centers have open with pandemic in mind. >> there were protocols in place, screenings, monitoring the temperatures and checking temperatures periodically. so there will be security in place. >> the storm blanketed the pacific northwest with wintry precipitation over the weekend here in seattle got 11 inches of snow while ice in neighboring oregon knocked out power to thousands and because this vote collapse. >> icy roads caused semi trucks to crash on sunday and catch fire outside of oklahoma city while extreme weather conditions and parts of virginia also knocked out power to tens of thousands and left streets a mess in fairfax county. >> icy roads, cars slipping. when you hit on the brakes, you don't stop. it's crazy. >> now that winter storm making its way to tennessee and ohio valley's. >> it is extremely cold especially when the wind is blowing but this is chicago. what do we expect? >> we don't expect it here and believe it or not yet another winter storm on the way, right behind this one. texas expected to pick up another several inches of snow wednesday. the mercury to climb above freezing not until at least friday. bret. >> bret: a casey washington agrees with the old administration about a foreign policy position. we will tell you what it is. but first, fox affiliates around the country cover tonight, fox s matter march through midtown manhattan turns violent. 11 protesters arrested friday night. new york police report, two officer suffered minor injuries during that protest, which is attended by about 100 marchers. fox 11 in los angeles is the host of the tv show "the bachelor" steps back from his duties. chris harris with ongoing racism controversy. harrison defended a cut participation in an old south themed party at a plantation in 2018. harrison says he takes full accountability for his actions and social media post saturday. this is a live look daytona international speedway from fox 35 in orlando. the big story there tonight storms through a crash scene on a final lap to win back the daytona 500 appear the race ended earlier today after numerous rain delays over a nine hour period. the first checkered flag in

casey stiegel is live on the streets of dallas today. casey, how is it looking there and how is everybody handling this situation? >> i have one word for you, brrrr. it is absolutely frigid. temperatures and windchills below zero in dallas. as you said unprecedented. texans are not capable of handling weather like this. we don't see it very often. virtually everything, i have to say, is shut down. a lot of folks are being advised to stay home. more importantly, stay off the roadways. you have to remember crews here don't have as many snowplows or pieces of special removal equipment like other parts of the country since we rarely get this. there is only so much they can do. as you heard the governor every county in texas impacted with snow and ice stretching hundreds of miles down through austin as far south as houston and san antonio. a federal disaster has been declared which helps open community warming centers. and the pandemic, of course, makes that a challenge. >> there will be covid protocols in place. we have screening at the entrances. we'll be monitoring for temperatures periodically. so there will be screening in place. there will be security in place. >> north of us up in oklahoma look at this. winter weather leading to some major accidents. yesterday multiple semi trucks caught fire near oklahoma city after crashing. the system is a monster stretching from the pacific northwest through the plains. now headed for the tennessee and ohio valleys before moving into the northeast. check out these pictures from branson, missouri. folks there dealing with the wintery mess, too. more than 100,000 people are without power in virginia right now. the bulk of the power outages here in texas, more than 2.7 million customers as of right now. the bulk of those scheduled rolling black-outs because the electric grid here is just so stressed. >> martha: thank you very much, caseyas for us. we'll keep an eye on that storm system as it moves across the country. then there is this. top communications aide for the biden white house resigned after he made threats to a reporter as critics say the administration isn't living up to what they have said the standard of conduct would be for misbehavior. "outnumbered" is coming up next. you don't want to miss it. great lineup. we'll be right back. free access to every platform. yeah, that too. i want to know what i'm paying upfront. yes, absolutely. now offering zero commissions on online trades. did you know diarrhea is often caused by bad bacteria in food? try pepto® diarrhea. its concentrated formula coats and kills bacteria to relieve diarrhea. see, pepto® diarrhea gets to the source, killing the bad bacteria. so, make sure to have pepto® diarrhea on hand. it's a new day for veteran homeowners with va loans. with mortgage rates at record lows just one call to newday can lower your payment and save you $3000 a year. th

casey stegall is in dallas with the latest on the impact. casey? >> hey, jerry. good to see you. i have to say texans are not used to extreme cold and extreme weather like this. we can handle 110 degree days all day long. when it comes to this, man, a lot of well are at home, everything is shut down. they're asking folks to stay off the road. you can see there's quite a few people out here in downtown glass. remember, the crews here just don't have the equipment and the special plows and such like other communities do to help clear the snow and the ice. they can only do so much, this is very widespread. every county in the lone star state impacted. snow and ice stretching hundreds of miles through austin, as far south as houston, san antonio. a federal disaster has been declared which helped open community warming centers and the pandemic is making that a challenge. >> there's covid protocols in place. we have screening at all the entrances. we'll be monitoring for temperatures and checking periodically. there will be screening in place and security in place. >> now, north of us in oklahoma, winter weather leading to major accidents. yesterday multiple semi trucks caught fire after crashing, this system is a monster stretching from the pacific northwest to the plains and now headed for tennessee and ohio valley before moving in to the northeast. look at these pictures from branson, missouri. again, a loss of ice causing conditions that are not desirable for drivers on the roads. the supply is outweighing the demand or the demand is outweighing the supply. the reason the supply is down is because wind turbines and natural gas generators are just frozen solid out in west texas. they're having a difficult time trying to get those thawed. they're trying to bring everyone back online as soon as possible. jerry? >> jerry: thanks, caseyng part of the reason is the outage is the wind turbines freezing. we're not quite ready to say good-bye to fossil fuels just yet. thanks. the southern boredler be open to thousands of asylum seekers with cases still pending. meet the border sheriff worried about that. understand why.agers don't (money manager) because our way works great for us! (naj) but not for your clients. that's why we're a fiduciary, obligated to put clients first. (money manager) so, what do you provide? cookie cutter portfolios? (naj) nope, we tailor portfolios to our client's needs. (money manager) but you do sell investments that earn you high commissions, right? (naj) we don't have those. (money manager) so what's in it for you? (naj) our fees are structured so we do better when you do better. at fisher investments we're clearly different. ♪ ♪ the chevy silverado trail boss. when you have a two-inch lift. when you have goodyear duratrac tires. when you have rancho shocks and an integrated dual exhaust. when

. >> on behalf of myself and senators casey and brown, i send a question to the desk. >> question from senator klobuchar, senator casey, senator brown to the house managers. the clerk will report. z. >> in presenting your case, you relied on past precedents from impeachment trials such as william belknap's impeachment. if we do not convict former president trump, what message will we be sending to future presidents and congresses? >> president trump engaged in a course of conduct that incited an armed attack on the capitol. he did so while seeking to overturn the results of the election and thwart the transfer of power. when the attack began, he further incited violence aimed at his own vice president even as demonstrated, his state of mind by failing to defend us and the law enforcement officials that protect us. the consequences of his conduct were devastating on every level. police officers were left overwhelmed, unprotected. congress had to be evacuated. our staff barricaded in this building, calling their families to say good-bye. so many of us like mr. raskin had children here. and these people in this building,

casey stiegel reporting live from dallas. hi, casey. >> good morning to you. now officials are warning texans to be prepared for what they call disasters within a disaster. you hit on this, dana. we've seen a lot of long, long lines, people waiting for hours in some communities just to get some groceries or water. they are standing in line for hours at food banks and also atwater distribution sites. many shelves empty. all of the houston metro area, the nation's fourth largest city and all of austin under mandatory boil water advisories thanks to frozen pipes and equipment atwater treatment facilities. south and central texas like san antonio and austin are getting more snow today. if there is a silver lining power outages have dropped significantly in the overnight hours from 2 million to a half million. texas governor greg abbott telling reporters that wind is not the only energy source to blame. >> the fact is every source of power the state of texas has access to has been compromised because of the ultracold temperature or because of equipment failures. >> north of here oklahoma also digging out from this powerful winter storm. lots of snow on the ground in that state and six days after much of oregon was blanketed with freezing rain and ice snapping trees and downing utility lines over 100,000 still don't have electricity and trying to survive the cold snap. the system is heading into the mid atlantic and setting its sights on the east and northeast. headed your way. >> dana: we're bracing for it. >> bill: snowing already outside. janice dean here, meteorologist, to tell us what comes next. >> for our friends across the south still below freezing temperatures. the ice and snow are going to remain in place over the next couple of days. we'll bring those temperatures up a little bit as we head into the weekend but really not enough to melt things and warm things up. look at the windchill. it is what it feels like with the wind. 11 in dallas, 9 in kansas city. minus digits across the northern plains. the folks in the hartland incredible to see this much snow coverage across the u.s. including much of texas and arkansas and louisiana and oklahoma. really incredible. as casey mentioned on the move. want to make mention we have the threat of severe weather with this system including tornadoes for parts of florida up towards georgia. tornado watch for several hours and the potential for strong storms moving into south carolina later this afternoon and the ice on the roads, power lines. power outages could be imminent for parts of the mid atlantic up towards the northeast where we expect 3 to 6 inches of snow. that icy mix is the one that really leads to danger on the roads and power lines. >> bill: when does texas melt? >> they will get into the 40s and 50s saturday and sunday and things look better next week. just to have these temperatures in place for close to a week is devastating. >> bill: thank you. >> dana: let's bring in fox news contributor karl rove from austin. the "wall street journal" headline is texas spins into the wind. electricity gried also needs nuclear or coal power. listen to one of your old friends former congressman beto o'rourke. >> t

casey stiegel is live for us in dallas as he has been on the storm. casey. >> harris, boiled water advisories in effect for more than 100 counties across the state of texas. that translates into about 7 million people, including the austin and houston metro areas. houston the fourth largest city in the country, pipes and other water treatment equipment have frozen because power has been out for so long in some of those places. one-by-one energy customers were happy to report are coming back online down from more than 2 million last night to just under 500,000 at the moment. plumbers are working non-stop. they are responding to calls of frozen and burst water pipes while thousands have stood out in the snow bundled up waiting to buy basic supplies at area grocery stores and hardware stores. many in search of propane and bottled water. hot commodities right now. >> stocked up on food. now i realize anything i stocked up to make i have to use water to cook. a multitude of problems we're facing. >> the historic storm crippled the agriculture industry from farms

casey stegall joining us live from dallas. hi, casey. reporter: david, this is an historic winter storm for the state of texas and let's be honest, texans are not really used to these kind of temperatures or driving conditions. virtually everything is shut down. folks are being advised to really stay off the roads if they can. you have to remember crews here don't have as many snowplows or special pieces of removal equipment as other communities to try and clear it. so really they can only do so much. every single county in the lone star state is impacted with snow and ice stretching hundreds of miles down through austin, as far south as houston and san antonio. a federal disaster has been declared which helps open up community warming centers. the pandemic is making that a challenge. >> there is going to be covid-19 protocols in place. we have screening at all the entrances. we'll be monitoring for temperatures and checking temperatures periodically. so there will be screening in place. there will be security in place. reporter: now north of us in oklahoma winter weather leading to major accidents. yesterday multiple semi-trucks crashed near oklahoma city catching fire. the system is a monster stretching from the pacific northwest t dumped snow on seattle and parts of ore gone and through the plains. it is headed for the tennessee an ohio valleys today before moving up to northeast. check out pictures from branson, missouri, folks there dealing with this mess as well. we can tell you more than 100,000 people are without power currently in the state of virginia but the bulk of the power outages, about 2.7 million customers, here in texas currently in the dark. the bulk of those are scheduled rolling blackouts because the electric grid is so stressed at the moment. david? david: wow, good luck down there. caseyorting from dallas. meanwhile the cdc releasing its guidelines to reopen schools. cdc director, rochelle with lines ski, speaking with fox news over the weekend. >> we know it is possible to reopen schools safely without getting all the teachers vaccinated. david: sean mitchell is a san diego school district parent and he says now is the time to get schools reopened. sean, the cdc is now saying that it is safer for kids to go to school than it is for them to stay home in terms of their dances getting covid. we heard from the biden administration if schools open in three months, it will be approximately one day a week. the rest will be more remote learning. what do you make of that? if they're supposed to be following the science, right? >> we've been talking about that since october, right? since september guidance. so that is super confusing for parents and kids. and, we're part of the unified school district. we're partnered with san diego. we're partnered with other groups across th

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casey: madam president, i ask that the quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: we're not in a quorum call. mr. casey: thank you very much, madam chair. it's good to see you in that chair and grateful for this opportunity. i just wanted to raise a couple of issues that are relevant to the budget resolution that we're going to be working on over the next few days and beyond. there are so many issues to highlight, i'll only mention two issues, two big issues. but i think most generally when i consider what we should do, i think it's my belief that we need a substantial, robust bill to meet the moment, the moment that we're in, which means dealing with the pandemic effectively and putting the virus behind us by accelerating vaccinations, making sure that we're taking every step possible to open our schools, to reopen schools i should say in some cases, and then thirdly, to make sure that we're helping those who are vulnerable, whether they are folks without a job or folks who are hungry and their families are hungry. so many other traumas that have been heaped upon our families. so a lot to do, and that requires a substantial investment, not a limited investment. i'll just mention two issues today. one is home and community-based services, and the other is child care and a ticktacks credit that's relevant. home and community based services, as many people know, have a huge impact on older citizens, seniors throughout the country, as well as people with disabilities. and even has an impact upon children. i'll focus most of the attention for purposes of today on the impact on seniors and people with disabilities. if there was ever a time when a care setting that's in the home or in a community was more beneficial to a senior or to a person with a disability, if there was ever a time, it is now. we know that if someone is living in a congregate setting, they're more likely to get the virus. and we know the horrific numbers, just about 40% of the deaths that have occurred because of the pandemic in the united states have occurred in long-term care settings. it's right now i think at last count approaching 150,000 americans who lost their lives from the virus who were in long-term care settings. so seniors, i think a lot of seniors, a lot of family members would prefer often that their loved one is in the, is getting care in a home or in a community setting. the same is true of course for people with disabilities. so we have a chance in this legislation to finally make an investment in home and community-based services. do those services exist right now? they do. how do they exist? pretty much in the united states by way of a waiver. so it is not the standard policy it is done by waiver. we want to make sure that it's a, more of a standard feature, really a choice that people have to get the care in the community or in the setting that they want. so, it's critically important that we have in the reconciliation instructions a commitment to home and community-based services. we have that now, and we want to make sure it remains in the bill in final form. the other benefit, or i should say the other priority here is not simply those receiving the care in home and community-based settings. it's those providing the care, those heroic frontline workers who often are not talked about enough who provide this care. most of the care provided in these settings are provided by low-income women of color who disproportionately make up the workforce and often are making about $12 an hour. they should have a decent wage. they should have benefits like sick and family and medical leave. and they should have access to p.p.e. protection so that they have the protection they need to do their job and to care for those individuals. i see the distinguished majority leader, if he wants to take a moment, i'll yield. mr. schumer: i thank the senator from pennsylvania, and i won't be that long. madam president. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the consideration of s. resolution 27 submitted earlier today. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: senate resolution 27, relative to senate procedure in the 117th congress. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding to the measure? without objection. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent the resolution be agreed to and the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. mr. schumer: madam president, pursuant to the provisions of s. res. 27, i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the consideration of s. res. 28 submitted earlier today. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: senate resolution 28 to constitute the jarrett party's -- the majority party's membership on committees for the 117th congress or until their successors are chosen. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding to the measure? without objection. mr. schumer: madam president, i ask unanimous consent that the resolution be agreed to and the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. mr. schumer: madam president, i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the consideration of s. res. 29, submitted earlier today. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: senate resolution 29, electing m. barry as secretary of the senate. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding to the measure? without objection. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent the resolution be agreed to and the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. mr. schumer: madam president, i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of senate res. 30 which was submitted earlier today. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: senate resolution 30 to amend s. res. 458 of the 98th congress as amended. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding to the measure? without objection. mr. schumer: i further ask that the resolution be agreed to and the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. mr. schumer: thank you, madam president. thank you, my good friend from pennsylvania, and i yield the floor. mr. casey: madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from pennsylvania. mr. casey: thank you, madam president. i will continue my discussion about home and community-based services. it is critical to have these services available for seniors and people with disabilities, and it's also relevant in the life of a child. we know, as the presiding officer knows well in her efforts to provide these services to those in the disability community and among seniors, we know it's important to children as well. medicaid home and community-based services provide over $4 billion right now in support so that children can receive therapy and other

casey stiegel is live in dallas with the fallout on this, casey. >> good morning. it was actually 13 games in fact. we're talking about preseason and then regular home games without the national anthem being played. however, last night's game with a dallas mavericks at the american airlines center against the atlanta hawks, well, it was played and that was after the nba stepped in yesterday saying that it was required to be played at all games with all teams and that was in response to word that the mavericks team owner directed it not be played. it went unnoticed. up until monday there were no fans at previous games. cuban's reason? >> listening to the community there were quite a few people that voiced their concerns or really their fears that the national anthem did not fully represent them. their voices were not being heard. so we've had a lot of conversations about whether or not we should play the anthem. >> cuban has been hit with much criticism over that. fans last night who all happened to be first responders in the stands, well they were pleased, they sai

the size of paul casey's trophy is a whupper— the size of paul casey's trophy is a whopper is — the size of paul casey'ss. last week the prime minister said schools in england wouldn't reopen to all pupils until march the 8th at the earliest. for head teachers and staff it means lots of work to provide help and support for those pupils that need it most. 0ur education correspondent elaine dunkley reports from one school in merseyside. egremont primary in wallasey. the school at the heart of the community. we've got 107 on average in school each day out of our 309. we are not turning children away but we are obviously needing to do what we are expecting to do in keeping our numbers are small. but it is a really hard job. morning, guys, can everybody see? good morning! the workload the teachers are doing has without question increased significantly. essentially, they are tripling what they are doing. they've got their live learning, they've got the google classroom, and they've got the paper learning, if you like. lockdown has been a challenging time for staff and pupils. i would say the children are quit

casey: madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from pennsylvania. mr. casey: thank you, madam president. i will continue my discussion about home and community-based services. it is critical to have these services available for seniors and people with disabilities, and it's also relevant in the life of a child. we know, as the presiding officer knows well in her efforts to provide these services to those in the disability community and among seniors, we know it's important to children as well. medicaid home and community-based services provide over $4 billion right now in support so that children can receive therapy and other necessary services to participate in school, and as i mentioned earlier, we know the impact upon seniors and people with disabilities. so that -- that's the reason why we're emphasizing, among many reasons why we're emphasissing the investment in this bill for home and community mf based service -- home and community-based services. in the context of the pandemic and the devastation of the virus. the second issue i'll raise because i know we're short on time, in add