water in their home safely unless they boil it. after 700-plus water supply systems were damaged from the winter storm and the bitter cold that overwhelmed the texas power grid. the state s kcapital alone losta whopping 20 million gallons due to pipes that burst. those pipes damaged countless homes as well, as you can see in pictures we ve been showing you. this is just the basics of life that texans are struggling to find in the most energy-rich state in the nation about to pass a number of record lows. a woman burning her child s toy blocks as firewood. a daughter with a home flooded by a broken pipe, scared to stay with her parents who are high risk for covid. then there are people in that san antonio complex. firefighters doing what they could besides having to trek in water. my daughter, it s just me and her, and all our stuff is in there. i haven t been able to go to work all week long, and now everything we have in there is gone. but some stories are not of surviva
democrats from arizona turning on her. welcome to a new hour of american voices. thanks for being with us. i m alicia menendez. the trump family, the beloved family business. another, attack on the u.s. capitol. start with the civil investigation into the trump organization. two trump children, ivanka, don jr. and their dad, fighting subpoenas from new york attorney general letitia james. seeking documents and testimony as part of a civil tax fraud investigation into the trump org s business practices. the big question she is working to answer, did trump and his family inflate value of assets for tax breaks and loans? the trumps may be fighting, but attorney general james fighting, too. overtwo years won t stop our investigation. no one is above the law. as for investigating the attack on the u.s. capitol, the investigative committee want to know what ivanka knows. asked for voluntary testimony what was happening inside the white house that day and why it took so long for
arizona democrats turning on the senator, holding her on notice. welcome to a new hour of american voices. thanks for being with us. i m alicia menendez. we begin this hour with the legal fights facing the trump family on multiple fronts. two of them huge. one involving the beloved family business. another, attack on the u.s. capitol. start with the civil investigation into the trump organization. two trump children, ivanka, don jr. and their dad, fighting subpoenas from new york attorney general letitia james. she s seeking documents and testimony as part of a civil tax fraud investigation into the trump org s business practices. the big question she is working to answer, did trump and his family inflate value of assets for tax breaks and loans? the trumps may be fighting, but attorney general james fighting, too. she tweeted, quote, over two years of delay tactics won t stop our investigation because no one is above the law. as for investigating the attack on the u.s. c
social infrastructure bill. this week, the president and his top aides have been deeply involved around the clock in talks with the hill. here s what press secretary january psaki had to say about the state of those negotiations today. we ll work on finding that for you. the washington post laying out the stakes for the democratic party writes this, quote, the consequences for inaction remain great. democrats believe they seized control of the white house and congress in the 2020 election in part by championing biden s campaign pledge to build back better through sizable new investments in the country s inner workings. a failure to deliver could damage their standing in the eyes of voters ahead of the midterm elections in 2022. the gridlock, though, in congress comes at a perilous moment for the biden presidency, flagging approval ratings revealing a real serious need to turn the momentum back in his direction. new york times writes this. president biden s approval rati
named after them. but what about us latinos? we ve been here in this city, and we ve got every kind of latino. you want your puerto ricans? wepa. you want your cubans? dale! dominicans? que lo que tigre. colombianos? todo bien, todo bien. mexicanos? no manches, guey. and this is where i grew up, too. and when i was a kid, i don t know what the streets were paved with, but it damn sure as hell was not gold. but that didn t stop latinx new yorkers from making big contributions. basquiat, rita moreno puerto rican. cardi b dominican. supreme court justice sotomayor, nuyorican from the bx. even the very first non-indigenous person to live and work in the island of manhattan in the 1600s was juan rodriguez, a dominicano. mira eso, right from the start, we ve been here making this city great. now, i don t know what new york would be without latinos, but it sure as hell wouldn t smell as good, it wouldn t taste as good, and it definitely wouldn t sound as good. that s right, cause