schools closed, cars crashed, hospitals canceled surgery. in fort worth, people had to boil their water because of no electricityy it couldn t be purified. the ironically named electrical reliability council had no solution to any of this and told people to stop using so much power to keep warm, so hundreds of shivering texans headed to the civic center like refugees to keep from freezing to death. some people almost certainly did freeze to death day and that s what happens when it gets that cold. we will learn just how many more were killed by carbon monoxide poisoning as they triedd to keep warm with jerry-rigged heaters and barbecues and car exhausts. that happens every time. when the power goes out, even advanced societies become primitive and dangerous. people die. we ve seen it happen repeatedly in california for years now. rolling blackouts and at purportedly first world state that is living steadily into chaos, but in texas? who saw that coming? not just because texas
air strikes in iraq as the u.s. punishes a militant group for an attack on u.s. service members, but the strikes are also raising fears of this escalating into a bigger war with the u.s. caught in the middle of it. those attacks come as the u.s. and israel are trying to get on the same page as far as the war against hamas. a top adviser to netanyahu meeting with u.s. officials as outrage grows. exonerated and home for the holidays. i speak to a man who is wrongfully convicted about what it means to be free and the top challenges on the outside for others who are exonerated. we re following these major developing stories and more coming into cnn news central. today in for the holidays, boras sanchez is off. with fears of a widening war in the middle east the u.s. executed its own strikes against iran backed militants in iraq. this happened yesterday. there s video here showing theafter math. the move is in retaliation for a drone attack on american forces hours before at a