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Top eight stories for today including the federal government mobilized two mass vaccination sites in California; Temperatures plunged into the single digits across Texas and frustrations grew for millions left without electricity; Italy’s government crisis may be over for now after a new prime minister was appointed over the weekend, and more.
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1.) The federal government mobilized two mass vaccination sites in California on Tuesday, marking a major policy shift against the Covid-19 pandemic with the White House taking the lead more than a year after the first cases were reported in the United States.
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A mass of arctic air is besieging the state, bringing snow and freezing rain that has knocked power plants offline and frozen wind turbines.
Icicles form on a citrus tree from a sprinkler system used to protect the trees from the freezing temperatures on Monday in Edinburg, Texas. (Delcia Lopez/The Monitor via AP)
HOUSTON (CN) Temperatures plunged into the single digits across Texas early Tuesday, and frustrations grew for millions left without electricity by a grid not equipped to deal with record demand and equipment failures triggered by a historic storm.
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which manages the state’s electric grid, had announced Sunday it would implement rolling blackouts caused by a shortage of electricity from people cranking up their home heating systems and a lack of supply as a storm that covered the state in a blanket of ice and snow had knocked gas-fired power plants offline and frozen wind turbines.
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