President Joe Biden embraced a familiar role on his trip to Houston Friday, offering both comfort and federal support after a severe winter storm-battered Texas and left millions without power, heat or water. It’s a role past presidents have stepped into amid disasters and tragedies but also one that comes quite naturally to Biden, whose
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A woman driving home from her son’s baseball game was killed instantly when a tire flew off another vehicle and hit her car’s windshield in New Caney, Texas, on Thursday. CNN affiliate KTRK reported the 52-year-old woman was driving home from her son’s baseball game when the left front tire and wheel flew off a
Continue Reading As Texas hobbles back to normal life after a devastating winter storm, one mother is still trying to come to terms with a heart-wrenching and unfathomable personal tragedy. Jackie Pham Nguyen lost her mother, Loan Le, and her three children, Olivia, 11, Edison, 8, and Colette, 5 in a fire while trying to stay warm
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Texas (KTVT) — The extreme winter weather could cost more than any storm in Texas history. According to the Texas Tribune, the disaster could exceed 2017 damages from Hurricane Harvey — which cost the state $125 billion. A water tower looms over Interstate 30 after a snow storm
Continue Reading For Mason Ayer, the frigid winter storm that tore through Texas felt like yet another punch in the gut. Power and water outages made it impossible to operate Kerbey Lane Cafe, the small Austin-based chain of coffee shops where he serves as CEO. All eight locations were closed for at least a couple of days.
Continue Reading President Joe Biden will embrace a familiar role on his trip to Houston Friday as he seeks to offer both comfort and federal support after a severe winter storm-battered Texas and left millions without power, heat or water. It’s a role past presidents have stepped into amid disasters and tragedies but also one that comes
Continue Reading HOUSTON, Texas — A federal judge in Texas on Thursday ruled that the federal moratorium on evictions is unconstitutional, according to court documents. US District Judge John Barker, who was appointed by then-President Donald Trump to the court in the Eastern District of Texas, stopped short of issuing a preliminary injunction, but said he expected
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AUSTIN, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott said Thursday that Texas is looking at when it will be able to lift all statewide orders related to the coronavirus pandemic and that an announcement is forthcoming. Abbott made the comments at a Corpus Christi news conference where he was asked when the statewide mask mandate would end
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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott was in Corpus Christi Thursday and held a news conference honoring the local fire department for their vaccine program, which will now be rolled out statewide. The Corpus Christi Fire Department began vaccinating seniors in a partnership with Meals on Wheels through a program called “Save Our Seniors
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HOUSTON, Texas — A Texas woman has filed a proposed billion-dollar class-action lawsuit against electric company Griddy Energy that alleges the company engaged in unlawful price gouging during last week’s statewide winter storm and power outages, according to a statement from the law firm. Lisa Khoury, a resident of a Houston suburb, claims she was
Continue Reading The owners of a local bakery in Austin, Texas, are helping their community dig out from the devastating winter storms that struck last week by donating thousands of dollars’ worth of food to those in need. The storms left millions across Texas and the Mississippi Valley without power, water and access to food for days,
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SAN ANTONIO, Texas — A pair of El Paso natives are still trying to piece together their lives after losing everything in a massive apartment complex fire in San Antonio last week. Melissa Webb and her daughter, Felicia, had just left their apartment at the Cortland View at TPC less than an hour before the
Continue Reading While most Texans had more than enough to worry about in last week’s icy storm that led to power outages and water problems, some, like Tania Delacruz, had an added woe: Covid-19. For Delacruz, it started with body aches before the storm. Then, on the coldest night in south Texas, Delacruz’ oxygen levels dropped as
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AUSTIN, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott, speaking Wednesday evening in a rare statewide televised address, sought to reassure Texans that the state was moving aggressively to get to the bottom of the power grid failure that left millions of them in the cold and dark last week. “Tragic does not even begin to describe” the suffering
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AUSTIN, Texas — A sixth board member of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas – the entity that manages and operates the electricity grid that covers much of Texas – resigned Wednesday as the entity held its first meeting since more than 4 million customers lost electricity during a deadly winter storm, including many whose
Continue Reading HOUSTON, Texas — A federal judge has indefinitely banned President Joe Biden’s administration from enforcing a 100-day moratorium on most deportations. U.S. District Judge Drew Tipton has issued a preliminary injunction sought by Texas, which argued the moratorium violated federal law and risked imposing additional costs on the state. Biden proposed the 100-day pause on deportations
Continue Reading KILLEEN, Texas — Chris Wieland was scrolling through TikTok when he saw the devastation that last week’s winter storm wreaked on Texans. Within a few days, he had used the platform to raise $7,000 and drove to Killeen, Texas to distribute necessary supplies. “It’s the people of TikTok that came together and rocked this thing,”
Continue Reading Katrina Tanner typically pays around $120 a month for her electric bill during the winter. But last week, as a winter storm caused power outages for millions of fellow Texans, her power stayed on — and she saw online that her bill was $6,225. “I felt almost guilty with these people not having electricity that
Continue Reading AUSTIN, Texas — Five board members of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas — the entity that manages and operates the electricity grid that covers much of Texas — will resign on Wednesday, according to a notice to the Public Utility Commission. A sixth has withdrawn his application to the board. All six live outside
Continue Reading AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and his wife, state Sen. Angela Paxton, left Texas and traveled to Utah last week while the state was being rocked by severe winter storms. Paxton’s campaign spokesperson, Ian Prior, would not tell CNN when the couple had departed or returned but said the attorney general “did
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CONROE, Texas — The family of an 11-year-old Texas boy who died last week after a record-breaking deep freeze is suing the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) and Entergy Texas for $100 million. Cristian Pineda died of hypothermia, just one day after he saw snow for the first time in his life, according to
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CAMERON, Texas — A sheriff in central Texas said people living near a fiery train crash and explosion Tuesday were spared “by the grace of God” from an even worse result from the ordeal, ABC affiliate KTRK reported. According to Sheriff Chris White, of Milam County, which is an hour and a half outside of
Continue Reading For many Texans, basic necessities like clean running water and a stable electricity provider may seem like a pipe dream right now. It’s been a week since a frigid storm engulfed the state, knocking out power and water and leaving millions of Texans freezing in their homes for days. At least 29 Texans were killed
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HOUSTON, Texas — President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will travel to Houston on Friday as the state of Texas works to recover from major winter storms and power outages. “The President will meet with local leaders to discuss the winter storm, relief efforts, progress toward recovery and the incredible resilience shown by
Continue Reading Federal regulators are looking closely at the Texas energy market after natural gas prices rocketed during last week’s deep freeze. And they’re warning that extreme weather will continue to stress the power grid. “We are monitoring irregularities in the Texas energy markets following last week’s freeze,” Rostin Behnam, acting chair of the Commodity Futures Trading
Continue Reading HOUSTON, Texas — Monica Ware, a mother of four, says the broken water pipes that flooded her Houston home as winter storms pounded Texas last week have destroyed nearly all of the family’s belongings. “We used everything we had on (a) hotel this week,” Ware told ABC affiliate KTRK. “After this, it’s like, where are
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Matthew McConaughey (@officiallymcconaughey) AUSTIN, Texas — Actor and Texas native Matthew McConaughey is planning to hold a fundraiser for fellow Texans impacted by last week’s major winter storm that caused widespread power and water outages across the state. He made the announcement in a post to
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No. 17 Kansas (17-7, 11-5) vs. No. 14 Texas (13-6, 7-5) Frank Erwin Special Events Center, Austin, Texas; Tuesday, 9 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: No. 17 Kansas looks to give No. 14 Texas its fifth straight loss to ranked opponents. Texas’ last win vs a ranked opponent came against the then-No. 14 West Virginia Mountaineers
Continue Reading Electricity and gas provider Just Energy warned that the financial impact of the Texas winter storms could force it out of business. Just Energy said Monday that it could lose about $250 million from Texas’ deep freeze that left millions without power last week. The hit “could be materially adverse to the Company’s liquidity and
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story HOUSTON, TX (KTRK) — The family of a beloved 84-year-old grandmother who froze to death during the horrific winter storm is speaking out on the conditions of her death and hope to find who ransacked her apartment shortly after. Mary Gee’s granddaughter Nicale Spencer said police discovered Gee’s
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