tonight. that is strangely turning out the political heat on texas senator ted cruz. casey stegall is in dallas. good evening, casey. bret, good evening. many parts of texas are getting the power on after days of no heat. 361,000 without. tonight, the governor, greg abbott, says he s working hard to get to the bottom of what went wrong. i m taking responsibility for the current status. again, i find what has happened unacceptable. day four of the storm and a quarter of all texans were advised to boil their water. that is if they had water at all. my mother lives a mile down the road. two days ago her pipes broke and her house flooded. frozen equipment and busted pipes causing chaos. hundreds stood in line in austin, dallas and houston for water and other supplies. there s no way these stores will have enough food. nobody is coming in. nil is filling shelves. and there could be a larger problem. we re not equipped for these kinds of temperatures. farmers wo
online. hundreds of thousands of people still in the dark, millions are under boil water advisories with another blast expected to engulf texas with more freezing rain, snow and dire temperatures. keeping warm right now, equal survivors. gas grills, even bonfires, essential. the texas power grid is now at a center of a debate for oversight, and this life or death moment includes a very sharp political edge as many texas democrats blake blackouts on poor planning and years of neglect by republicans who for four years have controlled most of that state. also a new trouble sign this morning for the american economy. first-time unemployment claims jumping again to 860,000-plus. continued claims stood at 4.5 million. the biden team says this new data underlines the urgency for the covid relief plan the president wants to speed through congress. we look at the situation and recognize this is a very precarious moment for the economy. covid relief is a big agenda item number 1. b
republicans who stand up to trump in congress continues. plus, the awful facts ron desantis ignores on another covid victory lap. there are a heck of a lot of students and families throughout the state of florida that are better off today. and can mark zuckerberg escape whistleblowers regulators and accountability inside the metaverse? yeah, just got to find something to wear. all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. the most powerful person in conservative america is 90-year-old murdoch himself. he is a founder and executive chairman of news corporation, controls fox news, the almost monopolistically powerful right wing cable channel where the vast majority of conservatives get their news. he has done incalculable damage to this country and world and he is responsible for what fox news says and does. rupert murdoch is the person responsible for the anti-vaccine nonsense coming out of fox that has led to unthousands of unnecessary deat
learning about history. we begin tonight with this image. joe biden is a devote catholic, the second in the nation s history to become president. the first jfk and today biden met with pope francis at the vatican and listen to what was discussed. can you address the climate in build back better? yes. what did you discuss about climate and build back better with him? yesterday, president biden announced a frame work on a pair of spending bills including an impressive $555 billion to combat climate change as the atla atlantic pointed out it will be a concentration of new and federal initiatives since lyndon b johnson with great society programs in the mid 1960s. here is the thing, what biden is trying to do is ambitious. it especially amounts to fdr plus eisenhower plus obama moon shot at once but the two bills being discussed are not created equal. on one side the bill is a much needed infrastructure and biden said help us to be more competitive. by itself, it will l
men. the issue of reproductive rights. now, that meeting and what message is sent specifically by the pontiff may mean as much back home for the biden as anything here. the buzz, the democrats, getting their way on spending bills that will did more for more people than we ve seen in a generation, still crying the bill by the price tag, which is $1.75 trillion. my feeling, that s part of the reason that public support for these programs isn t louder. the programs themselves are very popular but price tag politics, dicey, especially with independents. the real challenge for biden are the people in his own party, and he once again implored us to do the right thing. no one got everything they wanted, including me, but that s what compromise is. that s consensus. and that s what i ran on. the agendas in these bills is what 81 million americans voted for so let s get this done. will they listen to president biden? can speaker pelosi deliver the house? you know, she may want t