plus the virus devastating effect on some children. water emergency. millions in texas still without safe drinking water. one week since the first storms hit. houston lifting its boil water alert. but now many families are assessing the damage. and more texans faced with skyrocketing electric bills. one man charged $17,000. capitol riot investigation. more than 200 charged since january 6th. and now the man who could lead that investigation, president biden s pick for attorney general, merrick garland, on capitol hill himself. gun store shootout. three dead after a man opened fire inside the store. other customers and staff returned fire. what authorities said led up to the deadly scene. honoring a trailblazer. the rocket launched into orbit. how this celebrated one of america s legendary black mathematicians. and the virtual honor for a very special group of eagle scouts. good evening. thank you for joining us. i m linsey davis. we begin tonight with breaking ne
people were running it. as we speak there are still more than 500,000 homes and businesses without electricity, heat, in some cases even water. there has been at least 21 weather related deaths in texas alone that we know of. residents there are furious. they just want their lights on and their heat. but even as some officials are trying to make that happen, other leaders are spending their time getting political, trying to place blame and turning this human crisis into some sort of nonsense political debate. one analysis in the texas tribune asks this question, do state leaders even know what they are doing? i want to start with antonia hilton in houston, texas where people there are still suffering through this brutal cold. antonia, what is going on there and do you have heat where you are? reporter: hey, stephanie. i do have heat, thankfully. i was able to find a hotel that is still in decent shape although they re not sure that is going to last, necessarily, through the
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
he believes it creates good paying union jobs. but we are going to focus at this point in time on the res you plan. the vice president said peaking of vaccines and distribution, he said in many ways we are starting from crash on something raging for almost a year, but they said we re not starting from scratch but there istivity in the distribution. i believe it was 892,000 doses administered in the final week before the president took over. is that the best message saying they started from scratch when they are going out the door and folks like dr. fauci saying that is not the case. many don t think it was handled effectively. when the president and the vice president came in there was not enough vaccines, there was not vaccinators, or vaccination locations. they have taken significant steps to address all of those issues. in the week prior there was about 800 to 900,000 doses being given ber day. the average was about 400 to 500,000 prior to that. last week the average
her policies led to economic turmoil. cbs ramy inocencio with the familiar face that could replace her. and a record drought and worker shortage has one company turning to a different source of labor. reporter: picking strawberries is backbreaking work, but not for these robots. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us on this busy thursday night. we want to begin with some important health news for families. in recent weeks across the country, there has been an alarming increase in illness among young children. and it s not covid. it s something called r.s.v. hospitals in at least 33 states are seeing a dramatic rise in cases of children suffering from the respiratory virus. cases have more than doubled in 25 states over the last month, and it s putting a strain on hospitals. some healthcare facilities are so overwhelmed, that they re running