Abbott. They failed. Thats what she said. And she gets so frustrated when she hears from conservatives saying, well, its the Wind Turbines and green energy. And its not that at all. We know what it is. Coal, natural gas. That stuff froze. And it froze because they didnt take care of it. They didnt winterize it. It was up to the states. And so him trying to cast the blame on the Green New Deal and the squad and all that stuff, its just absolutely ridiculous and embarrassing. Even in a crisis. Can you believe it . Today yesterday was fat tuesday. Todays ash wednesday. You know, hence this. The reason its so good, i did it. The priest wanted to put it on our head because they dont want to touch anybody right now or you could get your own little packet and do it yourself. Im not catholic but i went to catholic school. My fiances catholic. But i usually get it and i come away with the big smudge. I was at the church right around from your house. You know what . And i got hit on the way out. On the way out this couple stopped me, older couple, and they said, you know, what is it with you . Why did you hate him like this . Why do you hate him . You know, youre a white guy and why is he treated like all white people are terrible . I was worried about making the show. I said you know what . I cant walk away from this conversation. These people live in my community. And i just had to explain to them, it took maybe five minutes, where they realized thats not who i am, thats not what were about, thats not what were doing. And theyve never even heard anything but that about me. And thats what it all is. Abbott is playing to advantage because thats what is working there. People are attacking old asianamericans first of all, where is just your sense of pride in yourself . Decency. As a young guy you run up and push an old guy . You think that that gives you hype, that makes you something . I mean, what a crisis in confidence in who we are that we are relying on this kind of enmity. I just ive never seen this here in our lifetime. This is 60s stuff. 50s, 60s. The extension of jim crow. And here it is again. Well, you know, i thought the insurrection on january 6th would change things. It did for some people. I think it did for a lot of people who are in law enforcement. Because i have a lot of Police Officers saying hey, you know, the stuff that ive heard about you from conservative media, i thought you hated cops. You handled that story so beautifully and our men and women in uniform. I said no, i dont hate Police Officers. I just have to report the news. I dont hate donald trump. I just have to report the news. I dont hate republicans. Im not a republican or a democrat. I dont hate either party. But i have to report on the lies. And right now there is one party who is responsible for the bulk of the lies in this country. Theres politics as usual, and were used to that. Democrats and republicans fighting ideology. But there is something very toxic going on on the right. And im not exactly sure how you correct that. And i will say it over and over. Until people hear it and until its fixed. That you cannot expect if you want democrats to meet you in the middle or come to your side, then you must be living in reality. And if you want me or anyone whos any minority or any part anyone who is part of an Underserved Community in this society, if you want them to meet you somewhere in the middle or whatever it is, then you have got to embrace that group. And you cant say, well, these people shouldnt exist, these people shouldnt have the same rights as i do, these people should not be able to get mayor quid, these people should not be able to get a cake, these people should not be able to do this, these people should not be able to kneel, when we accept the people who beat up cops with Blue Lives Matter flags and american flags. Dave chappelle said very succinctly the other day, did you see january 6th . Did you see that mob that told Colin Kaepernick he couldnt take a knee before a football game, attack the capitol . And believe that they were right to do so. That is the sense of mindless division. And it is spreading. But heres the opportunity. Most people are not this way and most people think the rest of whats going on is crazy and they want to be heard. Theres another opportunity here. Those people in texas right now who are struggling, whos hearing them . Whos helping them . Whos speaking to them . Thats the mission of leadership. Lets see who and thats our mission. And thats what im going to do. But listen, most people are not this way. I think you have a right if you guys could fix my prompter, please, i would appreciate it because my eyes you have young eyes. You can read that small type. I did before i saw your suit. Now my eyes i dont know whats going on. I think most people, yeah, maybe most people arent that way. But even if you dont believe you are that way, even if you dont believe youre that way, you still should examine yourself. Because youve lived in america. And america has taught you certain things and much of it is not true, whether you want to believe it or not. And there are certain people in this society who have an ease that other people dont. And it is time for you to accept other people and to hear other voices and not just to live in your bubble. You said you were in my neighborhood, in my community. I was. There aint a whole lot of folks who look like me in my community. Used to be. There used to be. But what happened . Gentrification. There you go. Same thing in harlem. When i moved to harlem years ago, gentrification was starting. But now many of my neighbors if not most of them are caucasian. And the black folks and hispanic folks cant afford to live there anymore. You know. But you can reach out to people. They dont have to be living on your block. For me to get yelled at with somebody with this on their head, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, everybody who has this on your head, you are flawed, we are weak, and we are desperate for salvation and one man did that for us through grace. Forgiveness we didnt deserve. We should practice it. So for lent i would say for people even if youre not catholic, if you want to give up something, give up thinking that you know everything. And if you want to i think people should start instead of giving up something they should take on something. They should add understanding. Add listening. Yes. Add shutting your mouth. Lent isnt diet time. Do more for others. Do more. Try doing something different. So instead of saying, well, listen, i believe everything that trump says im going to do, maybe for the 40 days you suspend your belief and think like, well, maybe theres something else. Be open. Maybe im believing wrong. Be open. I love it. Ive got to go. I love you, dlemon. Sign of the cross for you. Thank you very much for the blessing. Love you too, brother. Ill see you later. So all that said, texas. Man. This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. Yes, were in a crisis right now and it is our breaking news. That crisis is in texas and the crisis is deepening. Millions and millions of people without power right now. They have no heat. They have no water. Theyre facing another freezing cold night of record low temperatures. Its dire. Its serious. The situation there. Many going without power since sunday. Imagine that. In some cases theyre burning Household Items just to stay warm. Some people im told taking their wooden fences in their yards and throwing them on the Back Yard Barbecue Grill to stay warm or in the fireplace in their homes. Just to stay warm. Some have even gotten sick. Theyve even died from Carbon Monoxide poisoning. People are being forced into community warming centers. If theyre available. Wherever theyre available. And there is no good timeline when those Power Systems will be back on line. Watch this. Every source of power the state of texas has access to has been compromised because of the Overcold Temperature or because of equipment failures. So Governor Greg Abbott warning texans tonight that temperatures wont rise above freezing across much of texas until saturday. At the earliest. Water pipes freezing in many homes, are bursting, sending Water Cascading into already frozen homes, only adding to that misery. Disruptions in Water Service across texas are affecting nearly 12 Million People. Texans are suffering right now. And theyre suffering due to a massive failure of the power grid that was not designed to withstand this kind of weather at all. And there appears to be plenty of blame to go around. Were going to have more on that in a moment. So make sure you stay tuned for that. But people are freezing because there are problems across the board. The governor admitted that today. But not before going on sean hannity last night and saying this. This shows how the Green New Deal would be a deadly deal for the United States of america. Our wind and our solar got shut down and they were collectively more than 10 of our power grid. And that thrust texas into a situation where it was lacking power in a statewide basis. It just shows that fossil fuel is necessary for the state of texas as well as other states, to make sure that well be able to heat our homes in the wintertime and cool our homes in the summertime. Okay, so he told on himself right there. 10 . Come on, man. 10 . Usually they use the Wind Turbines just so you know is when there is a crush on the power system. Usually in summer when there are heat waves. So hes making stuff up as he goes along to try to shift the blame and also capitalizing on division in this country. So what is failing right now . What is failing right now is the majority of the power source. And that power comes from what . Oil and gas. Weatherizing this equipment is voluntary in texas. And guess what they didnt choose that option. Only in 2021 could we be told that in a state rich in energy this is texas, right . Oil country. That the root of the problem is wind or solar. And some people are just eating it up. Buying it. But it is a lie. Wind turbines not the problem. The Green New Deal, not the problem. The real problem is right in front of their eyes. The agency that runs most of the power grid in texas reports that the natural gas and coal generate more than half of the states power. Wind power is minuscule compared to that. And yet the governor is making this massive and very dangerous and deadly outage all about politics. Fossil fuel is necessary to heat homes. So Governor Abbott, where is the fuel to heat homes all across texas . Where is it . Where is it . Wheres the fuel to keep gas stations up and running, Governor Abbott . Instead of politicizing it on conservative tv. Where is it . Or to keep food and household supplies on supermarket shelves. Where is it . Because a lot of those shelves are empty right now. We knew for a week that this was coming. Why werent we ready . Our house is 32 degrees inside. Were worried about the pipes. Why werent you ready . Even lets just say youre right about the Wind Turbines, and youre not. But shouldnt you have been ready . The mayor of austin like so many local officials worried about the people in his city. Im in a community right now that is scared and frustrated, confused, angry, and i am too. But Governor Abbotts not taking responsibility. Aside from blaming the Green New Deal initiative, hes also blaming the manager of the states largest power grid, ercot. Ercot stands for electric Reliability Council of texas. And they showed that they were not reliable. Okay. So heres what president harry truman famously said, that the buck stops here. In other words, on his desk. Greg abbott is not familiar with that saying. Maybe he and his administration should have kept on top of ercot to make sure that the grid would withstand Winter Storms and the blast of arctic air across most of the state. Maybe so, right . Governor. Buck stops with him. It could not. And now millions of people are suffering in freezing temperatures. No relief in sight. For days. The other major problem in getting heat to the people of texas, most of the states power grid is not connected to the national grid. Republican lawmakers made that decision over the last few decades to keep federal regulators at bay. Thats why they did it. So they didnt want to regulate it. Didnt want regulation. Dont want nobody telling them what to do. Now it sure looks like oversight was needed there, right . Sometimes you dont know more than the generals. Or the experts. But former Texas Governor rick perry had the audacity to say this. Texans would be without electricity for longer than three days to keep the federal government out of their business. Senator ted cruz and Lieutenant Governor dan patrick might want to rethink some shade that they threw californias way when it experienced massive blackouts due to a heat wave last summer. Patrick tweeting this. This is what happens when democrats are left in charge, why californias liberal Climate Policies are causing electricity blackouts. Cruz tweeting, californias now unable to perform even basic functions of civilizations like having reliable electricity. Democrats want to make californias failed Energy Policy the standard nationwide. Hope you dont like airconditioning. Disgraceful remarks when people are suffering. About the problem in texas . Tweeting ive got no defense. A blizzard strikes texas and our state shuts down. Not good. Stay safe. Really . Thats the best you can come up with . Only thing right in that tweet is there is no defense for this. Theres no power. Theres no gas. Theres no heat. Theres no Running Water. Can you imagine . This is america. Millions of people in a lifethreatening situation. Were live in dallas. Were live in houston. We got you on this one. Next. soft music announcer this is chet. He loves monday through friday but lives for the weekend. Hes put some miles on his truck and now, its time for something new. So he came to truecar and saw what other people paid for the same truck he wants. Now, he can recognize a great price. Truecar was so easy, chet was in and out and got right on back to the life he loves. Before you buy a car or truck, see what others paid for it with truecar. Wanna build a Gaming Business that breaks the internet . That means working night and day. And delegating to an experienced live bookkeeper for peace of mind. Your books are all set. So you can finally give john some attention. Trusted experts. Guaranteed accurate books. Intuit quickbooks live. So we have more now on the widespread emergency in texas. As i said, we got you here. Because this is look at that. This is outrageous. This is the United States of america. People should not have to deal with this. A winter storm, brutally Cold Temperatures knocking out power all across that state. More than 2 Million People without power tonight while people are forced to huddle together under blankets, burn Household Objects to heat their homes. Firm answers from State Leaders on when power will be restored hard to get. I want to go to cnns ed lavandera. He is in dallas. This is a catastrophe, ed. Again, as i was telling chris, i was speaking to one of my friends tonight. She has no water, no power. She said theyre rolling water and rolling power. She hasnt got enany information. I understand that you have got some new information. And i hope some people in texas are watching us on their phones or if they happen to have power give us that information so theyll know whats going on. Reporter right. Well, the organization youve been talking about, ercot, which is the semiprivate agency that oversees the state power grid system, theyre saying tonight that theyre hoping that by tomorrow morning they will have enough power back on line that they can resume the rolling outages, which is whats supposed to have started been happening since sunday late sunday night into early monday morning. This is a little bit to essentially spread the pain of all of this across more people. Theyre saying that those rolling outages could resume by some point tomorrow morning because that has not been what has happened here in the last three days. Its really been just extended period of outages, of Power Outages where you see some people who have been without power 36 hours. Thats supposed to start tomorrow. Again, well see what we wake up to, don. And just imagine, your pipes burst. Right . And then youve got Running Water and your house is just freezing and theres nothing you can do. Theres no you dont have any heat to your house is just ice. As were looking at the picture now, this womans house is just straight up ice. Texas generates heres the thing. Go on. Sorry. Reporter no, i was just saying thats the ultimate misery. And real quickly i just wanted to say this i think is a problem were going to see even in a more profound way tomorrow because the fact is that there are some parts in the southern part of the state where temperatures are starting to get above freezing but were still in most parts of the state maybe a day or two away from seeing temperatures rising above the freezing level. So that water issue is going to be a bigger problem well hear more about tomorrow and the next day i suspect because a great deal of damage is going to come from that. I just want to put this up before we get to the chief. Lets put up this chart that we have for our audience. It shows the source of the power in texas. This is the source of the power in texas according to ercot, which is the power grid. 40 of the power from natural gas. From wind is 18 sorry, from wind 18 . Coal, 11 . From nuclear 8 . Listen, the governors talking about all of this, oh, well, its wind and its that. Its not. Its natural gas and its coal and its the other things. And wind makes up a small percentage. 23 here. Im hearing its actually maybe even lower than that, ed. Reporter well, the fact of the matter is the state Power Grid Officials are saying that if you look at the amount of power the power that has been knocked off line in the last three days, about 60 of what has been knocked off line, the missing power if you will, comes from oil and gas reserves, or sources. And about 40 from solar and wind sources. So look, this is this shouldnt be a very political situation. The facts are is that there are problems across the board. The majority of the issues right now are coming from oil and gas power generators. And thats the fact of the matter. How it got turned into that this was all caused by frozen Wind Turbines and that sort of thing is beyond me. But if you look at the facts, and thats what were trying to look at here, it really has there are problems across the board. But the majority of those problems are coming from oil and gaspowered generators at this point. And thats according to the state Power Grid Officials. Ed, thank you. Its coming from the same you know, the election was stolen and rigged crowd. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. So joining me now is art acevedo, chief of the Houston Police department. Chief, so happy to have you on. Thank you so much. Listen, its a terrible situation there. Officials are warning residents that it could be days until power is restored. You heard eds report, theyre trying to get it fast, maybe back tomorrow, hopefully. But things arent expected to get any better, get above 40 degrees until friday. Whats the latest . Whats happening in houston right now . Well, you know, unfortunately we continue to have Power Outages here in houston. And tonight we had rain a lot of the day today. A big part of the day today. Cold, freezing rain. We expect our highways will start freezing tonight probably at about 1 00 in the morning, we should hit about 32. 31 degrees. So we expect more freezing. And sadly we have this is a workingclass city. Its a city that is comprised of just hardworking, middleclass people. Theyre hurting. And i think theyre hurting because our State Leaders that quite frankly half the time are busy meddling in local governments, more interested in running local governments than do what theyre supposed to do, which is keep the lights on. Right. They failed their constituents. They failed the state. And i dont see anything changing for the next two to three days. That should have us all worried because we wont have a break, a true break until late friday here in houston. Were going to have some more freezing temperatures tomorrow night as the forecast stands right now. You ask any politician, especially a mayor, in a big city in the midwest or in the northeast or wherever that gets snow, you dont plow the streets youre not going to be mayor next time. Thats how it works. So people are dying of Carbon Monoxide poisoning trying to stay warm in their cars without ventilation. And Car Accidents on icy roads. Theyre desperate. How are you getting this message out and warning that its dangerous when there is no power . Well, weve been fortunate that mayor turner has done a great job at the local level of actually opening up warming centers. Our churches have come up to help us. Our private sectors come up to help us. And so weve been using a lot of social media. Thank goodness for iphones. Neighbors have been helping neighbors as power on one side of the street can be on, the other side its not. What houstonians do is whether its Hurricane Harvey or whatever we face we come together. Were very fortunate that in americas fourth largest city weve only had one traffic collision. And thats because people trust their local leaders. When we told folks to stay off the highways, they did. But sadly, weve had several deaths from Carbon Monoxide poisoning. We had a small child, a girl and her mother, another young boy is in critical condition. And so you know, its it could have been a lot worse. If people had not heeded the warnings. But i think the emotional capital that we have built as a community of trusting one another is paying dividends once again as it does every time we deal with a Natural Disaster here in houston. Trusting one another and also helping your neighbors. Check on your neighbors, make sure youre all okay. Chief, ive got to ask you about minority communities, often the hardest hit in Emergency Situations like this. They dont have the resources to deal with it. Is that happening in houston . And whats being done to help lowincome neighborhoods of all ethnicities . Well, you know, were led by a guy that was raised by a mom by herself after he lost his dad with ten brothers and sisters at a young age. So hes very sensitive to this community. So i can tell you that our city has set up the warming centers. Weve got bus service to get people to these centers. And now because of the disruption of the water as a result of this storm were actually preparing to distribute water across the city. And so it really is an all Hands On Deck approach. To help the community. But at the end of the day whats great about this city, this big melting pot, the most diverse big city in the country, is that were showing that when the going gets tough houstonians come together and despite the failure of the State Government to prepare for a worst Case Scenario they decide to go it on their own. And when youre on your own, guess what, youve got to accept the challenges and you have to accept the consequences of the things we experience. Weve got to see what the lessons are learned because we cant afford to have this again. Chief, thank you so much. Ive got to tell you this, chief. Im so glad that you come on. Every time you come on when theres an emergency or something, something happened, you always come on and youre very candid with the American People. And i really appreciate that. And ive got to tell you, i cant tell you how many personal messages ive gotten and also on social media for people who are saying my 80yearold parents havent had electricity for three days, my mom is there, we havent had electricity, this reminds me of when i lived in puerto rico and i moved to texas and now its the same situation, we dont have power, we dont have water, what is going on . Thanks for telling the truth about this. This is they should have been prepared. And i think that youre right on. What happened to the preparation, chief . Well, lifes about choices. And i think governance is about leadership. And we focus a lot on political theater in this state, as you can imagine. We make decisions. We talk about secession one minute. I dont think it will work out very well if you judge by how were doing right now. Look at el paso. El pasos decided not to go it alone. Theyve decided to be part of a national grid. And el paso is doing just fine. When we, our State Leaders decide to do things on their own because they can do it better, then those State Leaders better make sure that they are always prepared for a worst Case Scenario. And at the end of the day when you deregulate and you dont winterize to save money, this is what happens. And you know what i love about texans is that they appreciate straight talk, they appreciate the truth, they recognize when theyre here, and regardless of what people think, people dont want they dont want shortcuts when it comes to their safety. And providing electricity and power is really critical to the lifeline of texans and to the American People and all people around the world. And when thats the commodity and thats what youre dealing with, he we need to make sure we dont take shortcuts because now were suffering the consequences. And my heart goes out to all the folks. Weve been doing well. I got an email from a gentleman in peru, 90yearold grandfather. Couldnt find him. So we went on a mission to find him and we did and made sure hes in good shape. Thats what our men and women in blue are doing, out and about transporting people, checking on homes. And now were checking to make sure as we see water coming out from broken pipes that we can get them turned off because we need to get the water up and running which some of its up now thanks to the hard work of our public works department. Hopefully the rest of it will be up tomorrow. Well, chief, God Bless You and the folks who are helping out. And thank you. We really appreciate it. Thank you. So if youre watching chief acevedo in houston. If youre watching and you have loved ones, relatives, friends, whatever in texas, weve got you. Were going to keep you informed. And if you happen to be in texas watching us online or you have power were not going to stop covering this story until we get . Answers for you. We want your feedback. We want to know what you need, whats happening in texas. And were going to carry that information for you. Okay . So this is happening. We cannot forget in the middle of a pandemic. Mass Vaccination Sites are shut down because of this. Shipments are delayed because of this. The weather is Wreaking Havoc on getting shots in arms. Theres going to be a longterm effect. And well talk about that next. quiet piano music comfort in the extreme. The lincoln family of luxury suvs. To support local restaurants, weve been to every city. Including little rock and even worcester. And tonight. Ill be eating the chicken quesadilla from. Tonys tex mex. In. Katy. doorbell giggle do ya think they bought it . Oh yeah. We must remember were in the middle of a pandemic and in harsh Winter Weather hurting the progress of coronavirus vaccinations all across the country. Mass Vaccination Sites closing in several states including texas. And states are far and states as far away as new york are complaining of delays in vaccine deliveries. Lets discuss now. Vaccine scientist and dean of Tropical Medicine at baylor, dr. Peter hotez. Doctor, so good to have you on. Again, the middle of a pandemic. The freezing weathers having a huge effect on these vaccinations. Including in houston where you are. All Vaccination Sites shut down there. How far behind is this going to put texas and the country, as a matter of fact . Yeah, don, the original hope was it was just going to be a day or so and thats what we originally thought. But this is going on and on as days go on without power. And thats a real concern. You know, the urgency of course is that were trying to race ahead of the new United Kingdom variant, the b117 variant. Thats going to start to accelerate in march and april. And so were trying to get as Many Americans vaccinated and texans vaccinated ahead of that variant because we know its much more transmissible and the mortality rates going to start going up. Were in a race against time. This is a terrible time to have this kind of delay. These Power Outages impacting the actual vaccines themselves since they are so temperature sensitive and they need to be kept in deep freezes, is that correct . Yeah, and also delays in shipments as well because people you know, they dont want to ship to sites where they think you might not be able to maintain specific temperatures. Theyre pretty fragile, these new mrna technology vaccines. Theyre kind of fussy in terms of their temperature requirements. So its unfortunate that the logistics of the first vaccines out of Operation Warp speed are the most complicated. But that is the reality. So hopefully, we can get back online pretty soon. Yeah, i think i said deep freeze. I meant freezers obviously. Could delay up to two weeks. Whats the effect . The deliveries. Well, hopefully it wont be two weeks because if it is then were really going to lose a lot of ground. We were just starting to get up to a point where we were getting a significant number of people vaccinated. We just hit 5 million texans. And we really have to accelerate at a much faster rate. Remember where we want to go. We need to get to 3 million americans a day. In order to get ahead of these variants. And were only at about 1. 5 million americans a day. So any delays the timing could not be worse. Dr. Hotez, i always appreciate your time. Thank you so much. Thanks so much, don. Biden says republicans are making a mistake. Were going to tell you why. Thats next. Facing leaks takes strength, so heres to the strong, who trust in our performance and comfortable, longlasting protection. Because your strength is supported by ours. Depend. The only thing stronger than us, is you. At jackson hewitt, we offer safe and easy ways to file with a skilled tax pro. Securely drop off your documents, have them picked up, or upload them, and work with a tax pro online from home. Safe and easy ways to file that work around you. Oh no. I thought i just ordered tacos. Nope . Ramen. Burgers. 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I learned based on the polling data they want everything thats in the plan. Not a joke. Everything thats in the plan. I the fact is that id like to i ask a rhetorical question. Those who oppose the plan, what dont they like . What particular program dont they like . So our political director, mr. David chalian, is here. And our senior Political Correspondent miss abby phillip joins us as well. Shes now the anchor of Inside Politics sunday morning. So good to see both of you. Thanks for joining. David, im going to start with you. President biden is sounding pretty confident about that massive stimulus rescue plan. The way he sees it, voters are on his side, republicans are making a mistake. Yeah, this comports with what weve been hearing from white house advisers for a couple weeks now, which is to not only think about the support for this bill in terms of the votes its going to get in congress but to take the support that it has broadly with the American People and most of the components are pretty popular, and then take that to congress and try to apply some pressure. Mike donlin, the Senior Adviser to the president , had a memo issued to senior white house staff, and conveniently of course leaked to the press because they want they want to flip the script a little bit and say republicans should start thinking about whether or not it may cause them some political peril at the end of the day by being against a bill that is going to get direct Stimulus Money into peoples pockets, thats going to help vaccinations roll out more smoothly, thats going to help get schools open safely. All of those popular things, don. And so i dont think were going to see a groundswell of republicans joining on to this 1. 9 trillion bill. But i dont think it is out of the question yet, don. Especially on the house side. That some republicans in vulnerable districts may think they should be on this bill thats getting help out to the American People. Abby, lets talk a little more because President Biden, hes talking about getting back to normal by christmas. You heard him in the town hall last night. Thats still a long way off. And people are exhausted. They want to see their lives improving as soon as possible. Is he setting a far off goal, you know, after all this is overpromise i think. What is it, overpromise, underdeliver is the saying . Underpromise underpromise, overdeliver. Right, right, right. Yeah. Its something that this is not the first time that youve seen them seeming to do that. They did the same thing on their vaccine goals, saying they wanted 100 million doses in 100 days, which was something that they would easily have done. If they kept up the pace that they started with at a million doses per day. And now youre seeing it with the end goal of when, quote unquote, back to normal will happen. I mean, i think its notable. I was just looking this up. Even before biden was inaugurated dr. Fauci was saying back to normal by the fall, by late fall, you know, by the end of 2021. So thats not exactly an ambitious goal. It was one that was set even before biden became president. And you have to wonder if theyre worried that if they dont meet those goals theyll be held responsible. But i also think maybe they could be they should be worried about somebody else too, which is that americans want to see results. They want to know that they elected a new administration thats actually going to move the ball forward in a more aggressive manner. So if you dont give them something i think you may risk people just saying, well, whats even the point of doing all of this stuff . What are we getting out of this new administration . I think thats the risk here for the Biden Administration in making these sort of lowball promises in an effort to try to exceed them at the end of the day. But also, david, folks as well saying listen, we heard a month ago or four weeks ago when he was elected that we were going to move this and get this done quickly. And then three weeks. And then two weeks. And now a week. One week, two weeks, three weeks, four weeks in. And they keep saying the same thing but nothing is happening. And people want this they want the money. They want help. So when is he going to deliver on it . Especially saying most of the people, polls show, in america want everything thats in the bill. Why not just get it done . Well, theyre moving through congress, right . I mean, thats no easy task. And as you know, they started the process to be able to do this with democratic votes alone. Youre going to see the house vote on this bill next week, probably by the end of the week according to steny hoyer, the House Majority leader, and then it will be over to the senate, where he has to keep every single democrat on board, the president does. Theres no margin for error if indeed its going to pass with just democratic votes in the senate. His goal, circle the calendar, march 14th. That and that is we lost david oh, there he is. We lost you for a moment. March 14th circle march 14th on your calendar. Thats when federal Unemployment Benefits run out, don. And or some of them. And thats when joe biden wants to sign this bill into law. So hes got a few weeks here to get this done. Its a huge piece of legislation. And he wants to meet that march 14th deadline. Abby, ive got 20 seconds here. Hes got to get this done. If he doesnt, then it doesnt portend well for the rest of his agenda. No, not at all. I mean, they took an All Or Nothing approach with this trying to do as much as they can, the biggest bill possible. So if this doesnt go through, its not to say that nothing will happen, it is a bad omen for this narrowly divided government. It would seem to suggest that biden does need to work in a bipartisan fashion. Not just relying on Public Opinion to get him to the bipartisanship part of this. David, you broke up for a little bit but i think our viewers got what you were talking about. Thank you. Its that your fault. See you soon. Tmz dropping to life threatening temperatures with another storm moving across the country. Weve got the latest forecast for you. Tonight, ill be eating the al pastor burrito from Boca Burritos right here in aurora. doorbell rings excellent as a local access show, we want everyone to support local restaurants. Right cardi b . Yeah eat local trill sound you can try to predict the future or you can create it. Were driving it. Everywhere. 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Were watching this economical and humanitarian challenge just unfold right before our eyes. 2. 7 million customers without power across the u. S. At the moment. Focusing in on texas, were talking about 12 million texans impacted without power at the moment. And you think about this. Water pumps need electricity to run and function, not to mention the burst pipes. So 141 of the 254 counties in texas impacted by water supply issues at the moment. Were talking about temperatures 30 to 40 degrees colder than where they should be this time. Year. It is brutally cold from dallas to houston. There is some relief in sight. You can see the temperatures warm but that means a thawing of the im that within texas. O the northeast. An ice tomorrow moving across. Thank you very much. We appreciate that. Millions in texas without power for days on end. Well speak with a mother of four in a dire situation. Thats next. When you drive this smooth, you save with allstate. 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