now, this is a gas line on fire in the middle of all the wreckage. emergency responders say they were slammed with 911 calls for d gas leaks and building collapses. we have a all hands on deck right now. all neighborhoods not just this nei neighborhood. my 25 years here, this is probably the worst damage ooi v seen. just catastrophic. cnn s rosa flores on the ground in pasadena, texas. you have been seeing the damage there. tell us about it, please, rosa. reporter: there were so many intense moments. that s what the people here say. and we re on the path of that destruction. i want you to look over my shoulder because what you re seeing here is some of the downed power lines at this height of this storm. you can see that some of the power poles were snapped like toothpicks. at the height of this storm, about 100,000 customers were without power. if you look beyond these power lines, you ll see there s a mangled mess back there. that s actually a gym. the owner of that
looks like a defeat on the battlefield could weaken him at home, but at some point he s going to have to make the calculation, does that flip and reverse and continuing the war perhaps weaken him at home. we re not there yet. maybe one day. what about the fact, though, that it was just last thursday that med ve avedev, he said the of a nuclear power in a conventional war can provoke the outpress outbreak of nuclear war. nuclear powers do not lose conflicts on which their fate depends. that s central to nuclear d doctrine, and something we have been thinking about all along. how do you help ukraine enough, and not get to that point. you don t want to signal that russian nuclear threats have real weight. what will that teach the russians and the rest of the world, that nuclear weapons are useful. how do you walk that line? you re a diplomat. in the moment, i think you push as we re pushing.