Cuomo going on the defensive about his handling of the states Nursing Homes at the outset of the coronavirus pandemic. And an earmark in the house version of the new Stimulus Bill thats raising some new objections. Critics claiming an underground Railroad Project in the Silicon Valley has nothing to do with coronavirus. Were going to take a rook at those stories in a moment. Live Fox News Team coverage for you, Aishah Hasnie is following Governor Cuomo in new york state, but lets begin with Grady Trimble live in dallas w9 ongoing crisis among so many millions in the Lone Star State. Reporter eric, that major Disaster Declaration applies to 77 counties here in texas. The county where we are is one of them. They are in great need of food and water, and to illustrate that, well, were at a mobile food pantry. It doesnt open for another hour, but all of these cars are here to get some sort of food that they can provide here. Among them is rick berry who i talked to just a few minutes ago. R
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 wasnt enough power to keep the grid running, and thats 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 didnt 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 isnt intermittent like solar or to wind that you can count on when the chips are down, and thats predominantly coal and nuclear, i guess, but
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