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mike: texas agriculture commissioner sid miller is pushing, greg abbott not to forget about the lone star state as they work on getting lights back on. but talk about the challenges facing texas ranchers and farmers right now. here is your former governor and former energy secretary rick perry's assessment. >> the most important thing to have it is a baseload that you can count on. that will be natural gas, coal, and nuclear. >> is he correct? >> is exactly right but we've been through this before. in the 80s, we didn't lose power, we were fine, we had natural gas power, coal power and nuclear power and we had 0 wind turbines and 0 solar but that's not the only thing, we have an agency that runs the grid. it goes back to governor greg abbott, the buck stops with him. he appoints public utility commission, they appoint 15 members, 5 of and don't even live in texas. the chairman lives in michigan, the last chairman in california, one in germany, one in canada. that too is running the texas grid. they did not contract, knowing we were facing one of the most severe winters we ever had. t

i spoke a short time ago with sid miller, from the texas deferment of agriculture. >> early on i senternor to move the agriculture processors upon the priority list so we can get food into the grocery stores. crickets, i haven't heard one word back from the governor. we got shelves just like i predicted, empty shelves, this is covid all over again. so you know, we need to get rolling here and it's going to thought out today but it's going to be a while before we can get the stores restocked. >> harris: and more, some are taking issue with president joe biden's response. he now says he wants to accelerate a major disaster declaration for texas but critics say that he waited too long to act, only yesterday did he authorize fema to start sending supplies that could take days to arrive, sean hannity went after the president over the lack of response. >> where is our commander in chief, that new guy? that's right, this morning he decided to take a snow day, the guy ultimately in charge of fema and all the country's emergency resources and federal agencies took a day off in the middle of th

sid miller, we wish you and the great people of texas all the best. thank you. >> thank you, god bless. to. >> mike: god bless. breaking tonight, massive flames and up apartment complex in san antonio and firefighters are having trouble containing the fire due to limited water supply. shuttling any water they can. to speak of the fires are continuing. the problem is, we get a little bit ahead and then the water runs out. you know, these are only running about 3,000 gollancz -- 2000-3000 gallons apiece. we make some good headway and then we have to shuttle back and forth. we are trying to keep the supply up, but it's difficult. they said that they needed to get out of the freezing temperatures and find another place to say at least for tonight. school re-openings are causing problems for the biden administration. dr. in texas republican congresswoman weighs in on that messaging, next. lar depression. it's a dark, lonely place. this is art inspired by real stories of people living with bipolar depression. emptiness. a hopeless struggle. the lows of bipo

i spoke with texas agriculture commissioner sid miller friday and he pointed out that the republicans what happened pretty much needed a warning that consumers across the board were going to pay a price. we're seeing what that's like now but let's take a look. >> us republicans run the state and we dropped the ball on this one. starts with our governor. the buck stops there. they okayed raising the price of energy on our consumers when they can least afford it. our farmers, everything is backed up in the supply chain so they will receive record low prices again and consumers will pay record high prices when they can least afford it during the pandemic during this record freeze. >> harris: representative arrington you gave us so much transparency just then and members of your republican party are in charge in texas are in agreement that going forward things need to change. how do you fix that now, though? how fast can you do it? >> well, it will be as fast as this week. it is number one on the legislative agenda. we're in session as a state and they've got to stop and put a moratorium

reliance on renewable energy and what the future might look like texas agricultural commissioner sid millerupposed to be rolling blackouts right in texas. that didn't happen. i can tell you my house was lucky enough to never lose power , why were others out for four days? >> well, i actually had my house was out for four days. the pipes froze, and busted and flooded the bottom floor. you know, it's poor management. that's it. there's no excuse. us republicans, we run texas. we messed up. i'll just admit it. poor leadership and we had some of them had rolling blackouts, some of them was out for days. we still aren't going to have gas to our agricultural processors until next tuesday, so we still can't pasturize milk to get to the grocery store. we can't process juice that's all down in the valley so we're not out of the woods yet. we're still pouring out about $8 million worth of milk each day here in texas. will: what about water, sid? right now, half the state seems to be under a boil waterman date it's not safe to drink it out of the faucet for some 14 million texans. when do you expect t