it s terrifying to think about people dying from this condition and we don t want to be one of those statistics. and check out your screen and some of the pictures that have gone viral through this whole thing. icicles forming on a ceiling fan. you can see a pot of water with frozen snow in it. they re actually boiling the snow, because they have no running water in their house. we have the politics of this, too, governor greg abbott walking back comments, blaming 14 energy for the crisis and you want to hear what the former governor said on this, too, with more on the way with the mid-atlantic and east, sleet and freezing raynhamering more than 100 million people. i m hallie jackson in washington along with our team on this thursday morning. morgan chesky is in dallas. we will be joined in a moment by a couple live guests from texas as well, morgan, yes, we are seeing improvement in the number of power outages? more people are getting their power back. more are in for a
the situation is desperate. searches for basic supplies are growing more difficult there. what are you hearing from people you are talking to in houston about how they are dealing with the crisis? reporter: jeff, people here in houston are exhausted and they are emotional. now that the roads have improved, people have been driving around town looking for water, food supplies, checking in on family members that they are concerned about. this has been going on now for days. there s a little bit of good news. center point energy says 98% of their customers should have power restored now. some of the customers are people at home who do not have water. if they have water, they are like everyone else under a boil advisory in order for that water to be safe to consume and use. people remain panicked here even as the incremental improvements have been seen. the city says that there should be fixes to the water supply throughout the day today and tomorrow. they can t provide an exac
don t they like. a national emergency, a big problem requires a big solution. you can talk about the dollar amount, but let s talk about the harm that that is designed to address. this is what governing looks like. this is what a public messaging campaign looks like. biden and harris want to go big, and they are betting on the proposition that addressing an exhausted nation like adults, explaining that help is on the way, and not getting caught up in d.c. partisan squabbling is how you deliver the ultimate victory. if you happened to catch the beat say last night, we are actually reporting on another piece of news after another divisive election we all lived through and a very rough january, it was news that joe biden was surging to the highest presidential approval rating in four years. it s not only news, it also cuts against some of the talk that the country is hopelessly and inevitably divided on everything. now, when we reported that to you, we did it like we do a
really starts coming down again. listen, we are all together getting ready to witness yet another historic week on capitol hill. former president donald trump s second impeachment trial begins in two days on tuesday. this is the first senate trial of an ex-president. it seems highly unlikely that the former president trump will himself make an appearance. we should learn within the next couple of days what the ground rules are for the proceedings and get clarity on the strategies of the house managers and the former president s defense team. now, this morning we are seeing new video from the capitol hill riots that president trump is accused of inciting. yeah, this video you are going to see shows the moments after several rioters left the senate chamber and underscores how closely some of these insurr insurrectionists were taking their cues from the ex-president. reporter: how did you get out? the senate? reporter: yeah. cops walked out with me. reporter: they
said. mary bruce standing by at the white house tonight. this evening, the omicron variant in the u.s. what they re now seeing in this country. and this question tonight, how long has it been here in the u.s. and how they figured this out. tonight, the january 6th committee now asking former president trump s daughter, ivanka trump, for a volunteer interview about her time in the oval office as her father was putting pressure on former vice president pence, and what she allegedly said in the oval office. and the new headline from georgia tonight. the prosecutor there asking for a special grand jury after the election. jonathan karl standing by. news tonight about a passenger in first class forcing an american airlines flight from miami to london to suddenly turn around, about 500 miles out, after refusing to wear a mask. new developments tonight in the 5g wireless rollout. what we re now learning from the faa. the 19-year-old pilot touching down and landing in the r