Millions without power in Texas, death toll rising

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It's great to have you with us here on this Tuesday night

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And as we come on the Air Tonight, the emergency unfolding across several States Millions without electricity and Texas and elsewhere across the South no heat no water after this first storm and it's been deadly at

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least 15 dead

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The family members discovered trying to stay warm in their garage several dead after tornadoes as well in North Carolina and in Georgia one was an ef3 wins 160 miles per hour and this is all about

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to get worse already the coldest temperatures and More than a century now the second storm set to move right across the country hitting the same States yet again, and then right up into the Northeast and

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look at this image tonight

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This is not the middle of the country or the Northeast

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This is Houston snow-covered neighborhoods

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This is the Westbury neighborhood right up through the middle of the country tractor trailers pulling off I-75

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This is Lima, Ohio because blinding snow there a foot and a half of new snow near Chicago and tonight the most dangerous impact across the country the power outages and at least 13 A knife some

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4 million without power and this image right here sparking anger in Texas tonight Houston skyscrapers brilliantly lit while neighborhoods surrounding downtown are in the dark families without heat without power at least 140 cases of carbon

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monoxide poisoning in Houston alone that woman and an eight-year-old girl dying after authorities say they were trying to stay warm using the car in the garage and the tornadoes

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I mentioned the warnings as we came on the air last night here and so far at least five reported

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Has that confirmed ef3 and Brunswick County North Carolina killing three all of this of course halting vaccinations as well as Millions already suffering with no power now prepare for this next storm ABC's Marcus more leading

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us off tonight from Texas tonight Millions without power for a second day in Texas

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And the death toll is rising in Galveston County officials are preparing for the worst asking the state to bring in refrigerated trucks that can hold as many as 50 bodies

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We're not The anything but I'm afraid that I don't have a whole lot of room for optimism here the coldest temperatures in parts of the state and more than 100 years is bursting pipes and damaging

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homes while family shiver inside in Houston a woman and an eight-year-old girl dying of carbon monoxide poisoning after a car was left running in a garage to help generate heat a man and a seven-year-old boy

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taken to the hospital

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I know it's cold, but you got to be careful about using like say generators are car inside a garage or any Type of fire carbon dioxide it's odorless and it can kill people very easily Houston

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hospitals treating at least 140 patients six people from one family among them a mother and a child in critical condition

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They were heating charcoals indoors to stay warm and in Sugar Land a grandmother and her three grandchildren died in a house fire overnight

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The cause is under investigation back in Houston Frozen hydrants hindering firefighters as they battle the Flames at an apartment forced to rely on water

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The trucks for time and tonight outrage over the outages and images like these showing Houston skyscrapers lit up while much of the city was blacked out yesterday

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No one imagined then more than 24 hours people would be still will be without power Governor Abbott calling for the state to investigate power officials

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This is the winter version of hurricane Harvey and we will learn from this also

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This is the line to get into H-E-B long lines for food and supplies

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The restaurants and stores that are open here in Dallas Alexander troops as he hasn't eaten a hot meal in three days

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This is tragic

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This is this is worse than the pandemic because people are stuck in their homes right now this as the extreme conditions are straining the power grid across the region rolling blackouts now happening in at least

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14 states that share the grid with Texas and at least 19 states have had to Halt vaccinations and covid testing because of the harsh conditions here in Texas deliveries won't even begin arriving until tomorrow and

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even then delivery will be subject to conditions because there's another storm arriving tonight

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We're thinking about all these families and Storms own tonight and Marcus just as we were on the air last night news of the vaccine storage facility in Harris County Houston that lost power the rush to

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give out 8,000 doses before they went bad

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What are you learning in that front tonight? David Harris County officials said they managed to administer 5400 of those Doses and we actually have a striking image of people lined up at Rice University where they

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gave out about a thousand of those vaccines and after receiving guidance from her Darren of the unused doses about 3,000 of them were able to be refrigerated to be administered at a later time David Marcus

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more leading us off tonight Marcus

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Thank you

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