office just this past january. born in wilmington in 1969, his childhood was marched pi a tragic car accidents. my mom took us to buy a christmas try tree. my mom and sister and my brother hunter and i were seriously injured and hospitalized in weeks. i was just short of 4 years old. one of my earliest memories was being in that hospital. my dad always at our city side. beau biden and i remained close. i went out to a parent teacher kind of thing on saturday night and my mom and dad baby-sat. they baby-sat the weekend before. as delaware s ag, beau biden took his talent into the law serving for a year.
there signs progress is made? reporter: tamron, this was the first day we heard optimistic words from both sides as they went into the talks a little more than four hours ago. the union president said out of scale of 1 to 10, she rated the chances of an agreement today at a 9. both sides, the city side, the school board side said unless things go absolutely nutsy, they would have a deal. apparently there was a great deal of progress made yesterday in talks that ended around midnight. they say the big difference was that they made progress on the issue of teacher evaluations. that s been one of the big stumbling blocks. how much of the teacher evaluations would be based on standardized testing. they said that they really drilled down the details and the talks yesterday. they made a great deal of progress. they felt there was enough progress they could reach a deal today. however, karen lewis, the union president said if there was a deal today, it would still have
580,000 customers have been restored. at this point, 96% of customers in electric service. those who don t, you re a priority for us, we want you to know, and as conditions allow we will be getting that service back on. one final point families help families and neighbors help neighbors. if you ve been without service and know people who have electric service and need access to that, please, help each other. thank you. i want to underarunderscore,s a storm of historic proportions not just to the city of houston and not just to harris county but the entire region. the city of houston is serving as a hub center, if i can use that. not just for the people of houston. but the people that are in the area. and so, for example, not turning anyone away. and george r. brown coming from our city side of houston.