the county judge there, of harris county, rodney ellis, north texas, clay jenkins, k.p. george in fort bend, andy bend in travis county. the local leaders where government meets the road is where the accountability is. that's where the action happens to be as well, and i think that's one of the bright spots in a really tough week, and in the absence of statewide leadership, in the absence of leadership from our u.s. senators, one of whom went to another country in the midst of this crisis, so in the toughest of times, the best comes out of every day texans and we are seeing that across the board. in the wellness checks, the phone calls we're making, we talked to a gentleman in kaleen, texas, hadn't eaten for two days, could not get to a warming center. we got him to a center, and a warm meal. a gentleman last night, had a stroke after thanksgiving, was running out of water and food in his home, and was too embarrassed to reach out and ask for help.

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temperatures this is getting in early tomorrow morning and moving around freezing proportions of north texas but this is a fairly cold night for the next week or so before it warms up quite a bit. daytime ties in the 50s and 60s in dallas area and overnight lows mostly above freezing maybe getting down close but certainly much warmer weather and that will be good for people who don't have power in situations like that. otherwise across the entire region were looking at warmer air settling in this is for monday's forecasted high i take you into tuesday and i take you into wednesday and you're beginning to see a cooling in the middle of the country, the good news warmer weather both daytime and nighttime is just around the corner. eric: finally, thank you so much. arthel: we are going to go north were newark lawmakers say governor andrew cuomo should be stripped of his emergency powers and they are calling for an investigation into his handling of coronavirus deaths in-state nursing homes. democrat as well republicans are accusing governor cuomo of bullying tactics. >> a lot of his character g

north and east tomorrow making travel difficult if not impossible. >> look at some of those temperatures across the country's middle, fringe id readings all the way to texas. abc's marcus moore has more. >> reporter: hundreds of thousands of customers are without power from oregon to north carolina as a blistering winter storm makes its way across the country. icy conditions wreaking havoc in the south. in jackson, mississippi, this fiery crash blamed on freezing rain. this oklahoma city highway shut down in both directions sunday after multiple vehicle accidents, and a fire truck flipping over on an icy road. >> slow down, slow down. >> reporter: this 18 wheeler slipping off the road near austin. and near houston, some could see the coldest temperatures in 122 years. officials there declaring a disaster, residents are warned they may lose power. >> now is the time to hunker down. things might get uncomfortable. but anything is better than being out in the elements. our roads are not safe right now. >> reporter: the storm already leaving its mark on the northwest, ice taking down trees and power lines south of portland. seattle getting nine inches of rain

and that's how we were able to scale 13 food pantries across north texas and serve five times as manyhe pandemic and how we've been able to provide more than a million in rental assistance to keep people this their homes. so when we knew the wasn't storm was approaching -- the winter storm was approaching, we quickly mobilized and worked with municipalities such as the city of dallas, fort worth, arlington, plano to set up 24-hour warming stations or shelters to provide a warm bed, meals, water, restrooms for those whose homes became inhabitable or those who didn't have a home to begin with. eric: that is so important. what's the situation on the ground right now? are a lot of people getting the help that they need? what does the salvation army need? >> absolutely. so as of 6 p.m. last night, we still has upwards of 15,000 households without power in north texas, and water boil notices have been issued for several cities including parts of fort worth, arlington, denton and others. and while the temperatures are rising and no longer at life-threatening levels, these families still have

. >>> a multi-car pile up in north texas has killed at least si >>> a multi-car pile-up in north texasled at least six people incredible this happened this morning on interstate 35 near fort worth. officials say more than 100 cars and trucks were involved look at this crews working to remove the vehicles from the roadway even now. this cell phone video captured one of the crashes you can see a big fed ex truck slam into a pile of cars here. crews also transported dozens of others to hospitals. nbc's morgan chesky is there now. morgan, how did this happen? >> well, shep, i can tell you that investigation is underway we know that authorities have been gathering evidence here all day long as part of this just massive effort to figure out what led to this pileup. you mentioned they're still dealing with it as we speak, and we do know that they believe there are still bodies inside some of that wreckage, shep. we've seen the videos of those 18 wheelers that crushed car after car that are still in certain instances trapped beneath some of the debris on i-35 west in fort worth. we do know ice

i'm seeing that play out across north texas as well.'s good people working hard to help their fellow texans who are in a dire situation right now. as for myself, my staff and i have spent all week working to help our constituents with basic necessities of life, getting electric power turned back on in their homes, getting natural gas service restored in their homes. because one of the things we discovered a couple days ago is, yes, a lot of people were without electricity, but the natural gas system had taken a real hit. some people got power back on, but their heaters that are powered by natural gas wouldn't turn on. so their houses were still 40, 45 degrees inside or colder. and so we've been working to solve those problems house by house, constituent by constituent. and yes, we have -- i also represent the city of arlington, which is under a boil order because the water pressure dropped to a dangerous level a couple days ago. they hope that by sunday the water will be safe to drink again. but my constituents in arlington are facing t

north central u.s., northeastern u.s., part of europe and asia. in in case, this once in a decade event, the supercold air plunged deep to the southern part of the u.s., texas and gulf coast, area that is rarely see this weather event. that's happening right now. typically when the polar vortex plunges southward in the north central and northeastern u.s. we get events that last two or three days. for an event like this with subzero temperatures and ice storms to hit southern texas and last for days at a time, that's a generational occurrence. >> right. i mean when you get a few events outside of the norm, you know, that is to be expected. >> right. >> but when you get a lot more of them a lot more frequency, more intensity, then we're talking about what is the relationship to climate change, spencer, right? >> right and that's what the experts in climatology are studying right now they attribute this event we're talking about right now in part to just random natural occurrences in the atmosphere. but also in part to human caused climate change. as the atmosphere gets warmer we're likely to see climateologists more and more of these unusual events that used

right now, thousands of families in north texas are still without power.od news. a separate crisis is also looming for the millions who are now under a boil water notice. nbc's morgan chesky is in dallas. the freezing temperatures aren't letting up. apparently, they are talking about how this added challenge with the water supply is making things worse and harder for those families. bring us up to speed. >> reporter: you are absolutely right. we have seen some improvement overnight in the fact that for the first time since monday, those without power has dipped below 1 million. simultaneously, we have seen the number without clean drinking water or being under the boil water notice rise to 7 million people across the state of texas. that about a quarter of the population here. that's a significant number. the fact that we are still dealing with these frigid temperatures is only going to make matters worse. just to the west of us in ft. worth, there are water there are water distribution centers where people are having to stand in line in these subfreezing

a little bit earlier in the show bill karins mentioned the tragic scene in north texas yesterday.out to see is pretty tough to watch. here's nbc's morgan chess sky. >> reporter: cars flying. the crunch sickening. the chain reaction smashing more than 130 vehicles, sending 65 people in the hospital and leaving six others dead. by the time first responders arrived, that debris field stretched for a mile down the interstate. the view from above chilling. semi truck after semi truck scattered and in pieces on the highway. some cars crushed beneath, the victims still inside. one of those caught, blake deibel, whose parents stood in the cold searching for their son. after hours of waiting, their son somehow able to walk away but still visibly shocked. >> skid for about 100 feet or so. and hit the wall. and a few semis came through and plowed through a lot of people. >> reporter: tonight, heartbreak spared for some. >> our thanks to nbc's morgan chesky for that. as we wrap up a very long and incredibly historically significant week here in washington, when we see each other again on mond

reporter: just weeks ago the drug enforcement administration announced the largest meth bust ever in north texas. street value, a staggering $45 ion. >> cjng is our number one priority right now >> reporter: the d.e.a. says it was tied to cjng, the cartel jalisco nueva generacion, led by this man, nemesio osegura cervantes, known as el mencho investigators say his cartel's influence now extends to all these u.s. cities and is responsible for tons of meth and fentanyl flowing across the border each month. el mencho has filled the void left behind by the 2016 capture of el chapo guzman who ran the rival sinaloa cartel >> el mencho seems to be a lot more disciplined than chapo was. chapo liked to live the flashy lifestyle. the cars, women, nice restaurants, alcohol el mencho is content to stay >> reporter: cjng has risen to power quickly in guadalajara, one of mexico's largest cities, west of the capitol and some 600 miles from the u.s. border we traveled there right before the pandemic on the streets here there is a heavy police presence and in the last few years el mencho's cartel has earned a pa

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joining us by photocopy, because you lost power >> yes we are one of the nearly one million people in north texashout power. lost power before we were getting ready to go live to give you an idea, i never once thought i would be reporting, that it is colder in the weather conditions are more severe right notice, here in dallas, than in anchorage, alaska. bitter temperatures, parts of 254 counties in this state has been and still are under watches or warnings. >> the severity of the cold weather that is about to be experienced here in the coming days, is unprecedented in texas history >> reporter: crews are working around the clock doing everything that they can they don't have the tools to keep up with the storm this is not the kind of weather they are used to in tesas. mangled cars, trucks, lining ice-covered roadway, a dozen people have died in dallas as a result dozens more injured in accidents. police and forecasters urging everyone to stay off the roadways power grids across the state, overwhelmed by unprecedented demand leading to rolling blackouts, leaving millions without power some have

texas. just north of dallas jay? >> reporter: hey there, shep, for the last couple of days we've shown you what the ice, the snow is doing outside today we're going to take you inside, give you an idea of exactly what this winter storm is doing to some of the houses in this area, and it's devastating. the family here were out of town when the pipes broke, spraying water across the entire area now, as you can see, it has left a mess behind here and adding to all of this, they're out of town, so can't get home because of the conditions mother nature's relentless assault on texas continues and for many the attack has turned personal. >> so we moved the fridge really quickly, and the water's just flooding it's like the titanic in here. we're about to go down >> reporter: pipes are freezing and breaking across central and north texas right now, faster than plumbers can get out to fix them >> every plumber in town is backed up. the phones are ringing off the hook we're getting text messages, messages through the web site.

in central texas, officials in abilene and north fort worth issued notices urging people there to boil your water after the storm knocked down power to several water treatment plants more than 300,000 people affected by that the big picture, jay gray is covering the story for us in dallas jay, what canpeople there expect in the days ahead >> reporter: more bitter cold temperatures it is that way again tonight, we just started our second winter storm warning of this week more snow and ice is on the way hereafter setting a new record low early this morning of minus 2, leaving neighborhoods like this one covered in snow and froze in solid and many of them dark rolling blackouts have turned into outages for 24 hours. it could last for days and forcing millions across the state to find any way they can stay warm and safe >> you don't expect texas to ever have anything like this we'll ride it out. we are trying to find some water right now. get a little bit more for the snow coming tonight. just hunkering down and hope for the best >> reporter: water outages and frozen pipes or low pressure

it is missing the dallas forth worth area and parts of north texas. in central texas, austin, south texas, parts of the border believe it or not and also san antonio getting even more snow today. harris. >> harris: when you mention 11 million dollars worth of milk being thrown out a day it's heartbreaking when you think of people being hungry. we have food insecurity in this country. >> one of the big producers. >> harris: absolutely. texas energy crisis. let's keep that in focus right now. it is sparking a debate over who or what is to blame. a "washington post" column reads this way. republican leaders seemingly lied about the reasons for the disaster blaming the black-outs on the state supposed over reliance on wind power, nonsense. their plans rely on natural gas power plants and they are the predominant culprits in the current emergency, end quote. the "wall street journal" editorial board sees it very differently. here is their quote. an electricity grid that depends increasingly on subsidized but unreliable wind and solar needs base load power t

mike: how are things in your district in north texas following the power outage, extreme weather across texas this week? >> there is a lot of people who are hurting the temperature is back up and texas will be 70 - 80 degrees by the middle of the week. water supply is a big issue, a lot of pipes froze, this was hard getting word out that people need to consider turning their water off at their apartment or their house. and it was a consequence of a tremendous amount of damage from that and then water damage so those will be uninsured losses that will be helped by the disaster declaration of the delegation we are pushing to extend that from 77 counties to 254 counties in the state of texas because it was literally a statewide disaster. mike: for folks watching, is it best advice to boil water just to make sure the water is good to go? >> the water districts are issuing those orders so it depends upon where you are, the problem is when the pressure dropped from all of the pipes bursting in the water leaving the system the difficulty you can allow things in that normally would be kept out

in fact one town in north texas is urging homeowners to call for help to shut off the water to leaking. >> we want to control the meter boxes. instead of one house having no water, we have a whole street without water and a larger repair. >> public works officials are concerned that frozen and busted pipes are beginning to thaw. >>> a driver crashed into this water hydrant in tarzana in los angeles. it caused a huge mess. the water spilled out on to the street for an hour and a half. they could not determine where top turn off the water and there were concerns of sinkholes at the site. still to come on kpix 5 and the cbs bay area, the doorbell ditch that is not funny. >>> friendly neighbors lending a hand, what a group of neighbors are doing and why police have not cause the suspect yet. >> plus, cleaning up with come passion. one >>> neighbors in one orange county community are coming together to help out a family. it happened when teens in the area began harassing a new asian american family who moved in. >> reporter: you're looking at people running up to the home pounding on the do

it's all headed off to the north and east so yes, another area of low pressure that hit texas earlier is now rolling off to the north and east it's going to be a major ice storm for parts of virginia and north carolina on thursday a significant ice accumulation expected there then heavy snow around washington, d.c., baltimore and up towards new york city during the day on thursday. parts of southern new england, too, will see that on the lighter side as the storm rolls off to the east. how much snow are we talking with this? anywhere from one to three inches near paduhkacah and memp. will be heavy snow around new york city, five to eight inches on thursday, and then for southern new england anywhere from three to five, maybe upwards of nine inches of snow temperature wise around the county, can you see the large dome of cold air still sitting from chicago down to houston tonight. 38 in houston. 22 in memphis. 21 in erie 78 in miami. the only real warm spot. winter alerts stretch from central texas to the mississippi and ohio river valleys to the northeast. this is mainly for ice and s

. >>> well joining me now is texas state lawmaker jeff leach, a republican representing an area north of dallas. congressman, thank you so much for joining us. i know you heard jen and their plight there having to burn their own furniture for heat. and the power is coming back on and the issue now is lack of water. fema have arrived in fort worth near where you are. what are you doing to make sure that your constituents have what they need right now? >> well thanks for having me on. jen's story is the story of millions of texans including thousands in my own district north of dallas. what happened here in texas was unacceptable. the storm was unprecedented. it touched and impacted all of texas, 254 counties. but like i said, what happened was unacceptable. we are addressing the situation and working with folks just like jen to make sure the power gets back on, and make sure they have clean water and they don't have boil water for much longer and as we look forward, figure out a way and have tough conversations

whenever i was going to rescue the people, bringing them gas, i live up in north texas.ed something wind turbines, you know how many were spinning? not but 3 out of 100. every one of the was set in steel, they were not even moving, they are not getting a late electric power. let me tell you, you have a good call fire or gas-fired, you've got some energy going, because you have steam coming out the top, none of these generators were running, that is what i am saying, people are out of power. >> we are paying attention to the situation in texas, kind of jumped up, a lot of people in texas. we need to expect the unexpected, that is what -- what you think is happening in texas. >> it is 19 after the hour. a dozen people rescued after a boat.collapses overnight, the investigation into how it happened. todd: investigating andrew cuomo handling of nursing homes as. john lou joins us next on holding the governor accountable. todd: eight people shot, one critically outside philadelphia subway station, ranging 17-71 years old, one person taken into custody, two guns were recovered

forecasters are calling for up to a foot of snow in north texas, but the dangerous conditions extendingast. authorities are urging drivers to stay off the roads. i'm mike emmanuel, i'll be back in a half hour with an all new "fox report." ♪♪ greg: it's been almost a year and this pandemic and i can find myself saying, please god make this -- do we need a lucky charm to schedule a shot in the arm? we spent the last few weeks fruitlessly searching on line for a vaccine appointment you are not alone. after the distribution plan to the line for cabbage in the old soviet union. there's always a line for cabbage. to get an appointment most are sitting at the sitting at their computer with was several links open constantly getting refreshed hoping appointments will pop up somewhere sometime before the end of time. if you're not internet savvy you are out of luck. mike lames you know who. >> my predecessor was very long about it and did not do his job and getting ready for the massive challenge of vaccinating hundreds of millions of americans. he didn't order enough vaccines. he didn't mobilize

one in north texas, i spoke with their ceo about the steps they took, those kinds of best practices shouldd across the grid but we need to have some kind of back up plan where if we have to, maybe we can get some support. the biggest issue here is when we have this multiple stage collapse there was no back up. we're not tied into the federal system, and we could not draw on power from anywhere else. >> melting snow to drink. congressman, thank you so much for joning us, good luck out there. >> five decades after their deaths, the daughters of malcolm x and martin luther king come together to have an extraordinary discussion about their father's legacies and the future. after the break, the plan that democrats called a game changer for childhood poverty. ger for childhood poverty. we need to reduce plastic waste in the environment. that's why at america's beverage companies, our bottles are made to be re-made. not all plastic is the same. we're carefully designing our bottles to be one hundred percent recyclable, including the caps. they're collected and separated from other plastics, so th

another cold morning here if north texas. temperatures in the teens, the windchill in the single digits. . the federal aid in the form of food, generators and fuel for hospitals have arrived as people at home face new struggles in the midst of this crisis. this morning, the power is slowly turning back on in parts of texas, but millions are facing yet another crisis. after extended mass power outages led to pipes bursting across the state. this morning, more than 13 million are being told to boil their water if they have any. >> oh, my god. >> reporter: and with no water around 75 firefighters in san antonio left to battle this massive inferno well into thursday night at this apartment complex in impossible conditions. >> our main concern is water supply. all these hydrants out here are frozen and there's no water. >> reporter: firefighters forced to get their water down the street. those unrelenting flames ripping through the building. >> once we make a little bit of advance on the fire we run out of water. >> reporter: offi

cases what is truly dangerous about this situation is it might not reach above freezing here in north texasg outages, may be lasting until at least then the state governor of texas, greg abbott, calling for accountability and an investigation into the state's electric agency. he's describing them over the last 48 hours as anything but reliable there is still no firm timetable on when the power could be turned back on hoda >> morgan chesky for us in texas. thanks. >>> for more on when the folks might get relief and where the storm is headed next, dylan is in for al. what's the word? >> the storm is moving through texas, through arkansas, through louisiana today. we are going to see more ice continue to fall, and that's creating that weight on the power lines. it is also indicative the temperatures are below freezing. it is not going to get into the 40s until saturday we are looking for an icing situation, especially across northern louisiana, parts of southeastern arkansas, into, eventually, the mid-atlantic and the northeast, too we could end up with up to 3/4 inch of ice, making it very, v

the phone because you lost power >> yeah, contessa, we're one of the nearly 1 million people in north texasut power. just lost power right before we were getting ready to go live. to give you an idea, i never once, contessa, thought that i would be reporting that it's colder and the winter conditions are more severe right now here in dallas, texas, than in anchorage, alaska, but that is the case this area and really the entire state just not used to seeing the amount of snow and ice so many are dealing with right now, and just bitter temperatures parts of all 254 counties in the state have been and many still are under either winter storm watches or warnings. >> the severity of the cold weather that is about to be experienced here in the coming days is unprecedented in texas history. >> reporter: yeah, look, crews working around the clock here and doing everything they can. they really just don't have the tools to keep up with the storm. this is not the kind of weather that they are used to in texas not even close mangled cars and trucks, lining iced covered roadways. at least a dozen peopl

american, southwest, united have major hubs in north texas. auto production has stalled. ral motors and toyota plants remain closed. nissan kept the plants? texas and mississippi closed on wednesday. >> the storm and freezing weather hitting oil and gas production hard. refineries were forced to close across the region. cnn's john defterios joins us from abu dhabi. jo john, producing power in cold places happens all the time. what happened in texas was different. explain why. >> reporter: well, they like isolation, laura. they're fiercely independent. they thought they had so much energy, oil, gas, wind, solar, they thought they didn't need the national grid. they're so desperate overnight the regulator was suggesting they may have to go to rolling blackouts as a near-term solution. that old adage is hope for the best but plan for the worst. that doesn't apply to the energy system in texas, that is for sure. i'll tell you what, it's a supply and demand. deregulated market, it's good for consumer prices if there's nothing wrong. it doesn't allow for planning and investment.

we have 7,000 people in north texas without power.stly, that's because the transformers were frozen without the power to them and now they're broken. so our electric delivery company encore is out having to fix those transformers. that will take some time. there is not churntly any shed off of a grid. so there should be power to people as soon as those transformers are fixed. now, what's happened with the water, it's happened here and across the state is there are many different sources of water facilities. some of those treatment facilities are without power. so they weren't able to adequately clean the water. if you get a boil notice or a conservation notice from your city, you can do that dallas water utility that services most of this county is in good shape. we are not asking to you contev, boil. >> did you ever think it could get the bad in texas as this? >> yes. we have been warning the governor about this since 2011 when it was nearly this bad around the super bowl. you may remember the ice storm. there was a federal report th

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we have been to san antonio, austin, up to the rural part of north texas in rains county where it's eightd counting now and some texans do not have water. it's a manmade mistake, and the men who made it are still in power and have yet to be held accountable for it, and folks want answers. >> you can feel, in my conversations with texans through last week, this kind of dual sense of, i have to bear down and get through this and figure out a way that my pipes don't explode through my house and make sure my elders are warm, but like a rising rage coming up in everyone's throats really across the political spectrum of, how in god's name is this the situation in texas? >> it's interesting. we were in a small community called point, texas in rains county in the northern part of the state yesterday. i think it's pretty reliably red. one of the people who volunteered with us had a trump make america great again mask on as we were distributing water. but it's interesting, his dad lives on a property that doesn't have running water anymore because of the power outage and the failure of the local wa

sweep through the area the last 24 hours this is the heart of the system moving across portions of north texasllas seen that snow and a little bit of ice, this will lift up to the north and to the east over the next 24 hours there is the ground by the time we get into early tomorrow morning the heaviest snow mississippi valley ... up towards cleveland, the great lakes and out in front of that ice and nothing but rain, where is it going to be snow, where will the be ice in freezing rain anywhere from around austin up into the cleveland area this is widespread somewhere between 6 n front of that can be just as dangerous and then areas in front of that we have seen snow recently that will be nothing but heavy rain and this is all happening along the front this is a map i will leave you with everywhere you see the cold air if the moisture moves through your area you will talk about a lot of snow in freezing rain over the next 24 - 36 hours. eric: that means be careful for black ice and when you are driving we know how dangerous that can be. good to see you. thank you. arthel: the cdc giving school

very proud of the people in north texas.lutely failed us, you know, in weatherizing that system. but the people have come together and they are very, very resilient and working very hard to help one another. >> does that extend to your state's leaders? a lot has been made by the missteps, at least public relations-wise and policy-wise that your state's governor who found time to go on hannity and blame the green new deal. >> yeah. you can really put this at the foot of the governor's office because in 2011 you may recall at the super bowl in dallas that year we had an ice storm. we had hundreds of thousands of people without power and there were reports both from the state and the federal government coming out of that ice storm blackout saying we needed to weatherize our generation system and modernize our gas path line system or we will have extreme weather, gas pipelines will freeze and generators will shut down. and that's exactly what happened here. rather than doing what the report said, the governor made a decision to

but here in north texas, its may not rise above freezing until at least friday, making for another dangerous 24 hours ahead, leaders asking everyone to try and conserve power when millions of texans still don't have power. in fact, the city of houston issuing a boil water notice, but just checked, i know about 300,000 people there in that area don't even have power to likely boil water. so it's just one disaster piling on top of another right now, and the only clear end in sight is when it will warm back up and that's a long ways from now. andrea? >> morgan chesky, thank you so much. let's turn to nbc meteorologist bill karins. tell us why texas, the energy capital of america, is faced with this power crisis and where this massive weather system is heading. >> thanks, andrea. frustration has to be turning to anger at this point. this morning when i woke up it was 2.8 million people in texas without power. i checked seconds ago. an additional 500,000 people have lost power as of now during the day today. partially because of the ice storm that's ongoing, especially around the austin area. i s

he taught first at a university and after that at the university of north texas before moving to the other side of the dfw metroplex in 2003. he has told me on more than one occasion that life is too short to live in dallas. dallas has been good to gregg and vice versa. in the fall of 1976, gregg was the first of two fellows. another terrific historian of texas who i believe may be somewhere out there in the webinar audience tonight, perhaps even with her students, was another great first class. it was at smu where gregg finished his second book published by the yale in 1998, the first scholarly biography of the father of texas in more than seven decades. the book won major prizes and in its success was a boon to the center, a debt that we owe gregg still. the particular focus of politics and society. he has expertise in his latest book, “the people's revolt," which he will discuss with us this evening. gregg is the past president of an association. although i suspect that is an honor he would have traded for just one world series ring for his beloved texas rangers baseball club, who

it was the coldest in 72 years earlier in north texas not ever, but pretty doggone close. 4.2 million still without power, you've got the sort of rolling blackouts but you've also got blackout blackouts which is the inability to produce power rather than the choice to slow power down here. so you can have more power there. now, the government is starting to get involved. they're wondering what exactly happened here. there is a lot of things that are going on well, the house speaker for the state assembly of texas now calling for hearings to try to figure out exactly what's going on and luckily as we noted the temperature is going to warm up over the next couple of days not hot, it's going to be in the 30s but it's not going to be in the 5s and the 2s. that's the good news still going to be very, very cold all right. what happened today? well, you showed the natural gas price, morgan, on the way in, 3 bucks or whatever on the my next there was a trade done today, maybe more than one, but i know of one for sure, in oklahoma, spot natural gas market, $999 per million btu. not 3 like we s

across north texas. cials are asking people to conserve energy because of a record because of record electricity use, and texas is not it all used to that much snow or the freezing conditions. and for some regions. this is the biggest storm to hit in decades. fox news casey siegel has more now from dallas. millions of americans impacted by a dangerous winter storm pushing across the country, dumping snow and ice and bringing record low temperatures more than 150 million people under winter weather advisories, the. severity of the cold weather is unprecedented in texas history, folks in texas seeing some of the coldest temperatures in their lifetime, millions are without power across the lone star state as officials implement rolling blackouts to ensure the power grid can keep up, leaving people without electricity as the mercury plummets. those power concerns echoed across the region. we are asking our customers. impossible to conserve energy by lowering their thermostats for the next several days. thousa

ago, which is the second coldest temperature ever in north texas, in the dallas fort worth area.ly low on supplies. while ordinary texans were freezing, their senator ted cruz headed for the beaches of mexico. back now after a public outcry over his absence while his state was in crisis. lebo diseko, bbc news, texas. so much snow. the pictures, when you hear texas and see the snow. it doesn't quite compute, does it. of course, matt can make it make sense. that is gorgeous behind you. beautiful, pimlico in london, but at one point in the usa, this week, three quarters of it was covered in snow. . , . , three quarters of it was covered in snow. ., , . , , . three quarters of it was covered in snow. ., , . , ,. ., snow. that is incredible, such a rari . snow. that is incredible, such a rarity- and _ snow. that is incredible, such a rarity. and the _ snow. that is incredible, such a rarity. and the average - snow. that is incredible, such a rarity. and the average depth i snow. that is incredible, such a j rarity. and the average depth is around six _ rarity. and the average depth is

in north texas in dallas where i am right now we may not rise above freezing until friday and that's why we are definitely not out of the woods just yet. a fact you can hear firsthand with some of the residents in the southern part of the city. i had a chance to speak to earlier. take a listen to what they had to say. >> how much power have you had in the last three days? >> okay. so that's probably total of maybe four hours. >> four hours in three days? >> four hours in three days. >> we're huddled under all the blankets that we have, it's 45 in our house. >> she hasn't been able to eat regularly and take her medications. >> and that gentleman you just heard from, steve rivera, he had to move his wife from their home, roll her across the street in her wheelchair through the snow to a neighbor's home because they were the only ones they knew with a fireplace that they were able to keep somewhat warm with. the thermostat inside his house, hallie, when he left read 38 degrees. he's one household out of about 3 million without power. >> it is dire straits for people in texas. morgan, th