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three cats and a dog, some kids. we lost power, put the kids in a different location with family members and then we ve just been sleeping in the closet with my pets by candlelight. we put a sheet up over the door. but today it s just we got we re trying to get out to plano to my parents house. it s just ridiculous. can t find gas anywhere. i don t even know what city i m in right now to be honest. that s how people are living tonight. this afternoon one texas member of congress painted a dire portrait of the situation, saying member of his district, his constituents are now facing a harsh reality. we are facing a real crisis here in dallas where folks are worried about things like hypothermia, carbon monoxide poisoning. we have some folks who have been without power since sunday night. we don t have i think an accurate idea of when all the power will come back online. texas is the only state that has its own power grid. these failures are failures of our state ....
him, along with contact information about u.s. senators and representatives. amid all of this the house speaker nancy pelosi now says efforts to address security concerns are being hampered because, quote, i m quoting here now, the enemy is within the house of representatives. referring to the words and actions of some republican members. let s go to our cnn crime and justice correspondent vshimon prok prokupecz. tell us about the moves tounbelg on at the u.s. capitol. reporter: it s clear, wolf, a lot is going to change at our nation s capitol of the january 6th insurrection. one of the things that s being suggested by the acting police chief is permanent fencing across the capitol. the capitol has been an open it s been open for people to walk through and open field, a sprawling complex that people can get close to. well, now the acting chief is recommending that that change. in a press release she said, in light of recent events i can say vast improvements to ....
proceedings will lack drama with impeachment managers saying the former president of the united states incited rioters to ran sack the capitol. cnn s joe johns starts us off this morning on capitol hill. christine and laura, some members of the united states senate say they are reserving judgment until all of the evi evidence. for whatever reason, they said they were reluctant to convict donald trump in this trial that is expected to begin on tuesday. they are well aware of all of the support the former president has out in the country even though some of the latest polling suggests quite the opposite. an abc news poll says 56% of respondents believes the former president should be convicted and barred from holding office while only 43% say he should not be. but it s not up to the resp respondent s polling, it s up to the senate. if you believe he committed a crime, he can be prosecuted like any other citizen. impeachment is a political process. we ve never impeache ....
might be delayed and he may have a hard time getting moderate democrats to back that after the congressional budget office is out with a new report saying raising the minimum wage to $15 will put more put more people out of a job. millions would lose their job from it. 900,000 would be lifted out of poverty and add $154 billion to the deficit over ten years. some senate republicans says it will make stuff more expensive and hurt people they re trying to help. senator chuck grassley pleading this. including this harmful policy in covid relief bill would devastate same business people hurt by the people. others like bernie sanders are not letting that news burst their bubble. sanders say they should do it anyway. the news from the cbo proves his point that they could pass it through budget reconciliation with no republican support and 51 votes. he said this today. the good news from a bird rule perspective, increasing the minimum wage would have an impact on the budget. w ....
teamed up to screw our fellow americans. and the cdc says more schools can safely reopen, but for some teachers it s not that simple. i need to worry about not just what my students are facing, but also what my family and myself are facing. welcome to inside politics sunday i m abby phillip. to our viewers in the united states and around the world, thank you for spending part of your weekend with us. overnight we learned that former president donald trump s entire impeachment legal team is gone, with just days before the start of the senate trial, this is the reason, president trump s insistence that his lawyers focus on his false claims that the election was stolen from him. a person familiar with the departures tells cnn that trump wanted the attorneys to argue that there was mass election fraud rather than focus on the legality of convicting a former president after he s left office. more on that in a bit. but before senators can get to the impeachment tria ....