water crisis across texas after five straight days of record low temperatures. broken water pipes have left nearly half of the residents of the state without clean drinking water. power has been restored to all but 192,000 people but around 13 million texans are still under a boil water advisory. and take a look at this. this is video just into cnn. more than 80,000 bottles of water delivered from the travis air force base in california to the city of galveston, texas, trying to help those struggling. the winter blast is also causing serious delays in vaccine distribution and in several parts of the country. soon president biden will head to a pfizer manufacturing plant in michigan. this comes as his administration said the nation has major work to do to try to make up for this lost time because of the extreme weather. so let s begin this hour with our colleague natasha chen in houston with more on the ongoing crisis across the state. it is so far beyond a weather story. to n
work with its allies again after four years of donald trump s america first policies. this happening as the u.s. officially rejoins the paris climate agreement and just one day after the state department said that the u.s. is ready to restart nuclear talks with iran. we ll bring back of these events to you live when they happen. but we start this hour with a crisis in texas. we re nearly 200,000 people are still without power after this week s epic winter storm. and while that number is a major improvement, millions of texans are still dealing with food and water shortages in the aftermath. 13 million residents are under boil water advisories. that is nearly half of the state s population. the conditions catastrophic for families who have been suffering for days. it s like one of your worst nightmares. like you never, ever imagine that this is going to happen to you. so for me to walk in there and just see everything that we have just being destroyed when it could have been