president biden preparing to take a crack at his next legislative battle. there is a reasonable path to citizenship. but the president s more moderate politics on display on other issues. send a note to president biden because the answer is we need to do it right now. a live look at the white house there, president biden has sid that he will sign the major disaster declaration for the people of texas where this morning more than 79,000 people are still without powers. that brutal winter storm knocked out hoye power for days. temperatures are still below freezing in several parts of the state. more than 14 million texans either don t have running water or have to boil the water that they do have. and officials say it could be days before the water issues are resolved and the storm damaged several homes, shut down coronavirus vaccination sites and killed more than two dozen people. now, we do have good news for you. temperatures are expected to go up in the coming d
allysia, what happened here that caused the meltdown? so it was a con newspapers of bad typing confluence of bad time, bad weather and bad government policies. this is an historic freeze for texas with temperatures dipping down, plunging, for that matter, into the single digits. but the bigger problem is there just wasn t enough power to keep the grid running, and that s largely because the state has been forging more and more into wind over the last decade. the power that it derives from wind has more than doubled while the amount of power that it gets from coal has fallen by half. and coal and nuclear with the most steady sources of generation. and when you didn t have that to back up the grid amid surging demand for heating and other things, they had to resort to blackouts. paul: okay. so when you say baseload power, you mean reliable power that isn t intermittent like solar or to wind that you can count on when the chips are down, and that s predominantly coal and nuc
country. so there were things back then, as you go back and think about what you might have done, the kind of desperate responses of different states rather than having a unified approach, it was just bad, it is bad now. harris: dr. fauci is pushing for a national plan but critics are questioning whether they can trust him. let s watch. there is no need to change anything you re doing on a day by day basis. it came clear that we were in real trouble. that was probably towards the middle to end of january. people should not be walking around with masks. putting a mask on yourself, if everybody does that, we re each protecting each other. do you think americans will still be wearing masks, for example, in 2022? you know, i think it is possible that that s the case. harris: you re watching outnumbered. here today my co-host, emily compagno, ceo of situation room, joanna masko. joining us on the virtual seat until we re all together again civil rights attorney and fox
activity in what might appear to be a massive cover-up. senator ted cruz under fire today is here to respond to the criticism surrounding his recent flight to cancun to drop off his daughters for a trip with their friends, and yes, turn around and come right back home. here is what he told reporters earlier outside of his home. the last 24 hours, it has become a new story and a bit of a twitter sensation that i went with my family, traveled yesterday to mexico. i just got back. i flew out late last night. we had spent two days without power and the girls wanted to take a trip with their friends and frankly get somewhere where it was warm and heidi and i agreed. i took them down last night and i just flew back today. sean: he actually can be a father and senator at the same time. senator cruz will join us tonight from texas. protesters are outside his home. first, the hysteria on the left is apparently never ending. president trump now has been out of office for nearly a m
senator ted cruz under fire today is here to respond to the criticism surrounding his recent flight to cancun to drop off his daughters for a trip with their friends,cr and yes, turn around and come right back home. here is what he told reporters earlier outside of his home. the last 24 hours, it has become a new story and a bit of a twitter sensation that i went with my family, traveled yesterday to mexico. i just got back. i flew out late last night. we had spent two days without power and the girls wanted to take a trip with their friends and frankly get somewhere where it was warm and heidi and i agreed. i took them down last night and i just flew back today. sean: he actually can be a father and senator at the same time. senator cruz will join us tonight from texas. protesters are outside his home. first, the hysteria on the left is apparently never ending. president trump now has been out of office for nearly a month. democrats are still obsessed with hating all thi