relief bill is among other things is right place and the right time and the right way to push a raise in the minimum wage. the minimum wage has not gone up in this country in 12 years. president biden says he s committed to raising the minimum wage, but publicly raised doubts if it can be done. this of course is a super consequential issue for the economy as a whole, but more importantly, for millions and millions and millions of americans who would be affected by this. we re going to talk with the congresswoman about that in just a moment. you may have also seen this developing story about sort of a nightmare scenario cyberattack on a water treatment plant at a small community in florida in the tampa bay area. it s a town in florida that s literally 12 miles from the stadium where the super bowl was held. in advance of this wednesday on friday, somebody hacked into a computer at this town s local treatment facility and used that computer they hacked into to tray to poison th
other things, the right place, the right time and the right way to push raising the minimum wage. the minimum wage has not gone up in this country in 12 years. president biden says he is committed to raising the minimum wage but he also has publicly raised doubts that it can be done as part of the covid relief bill they re about to pass in congress. this, of course, is a super consequential issue for the economy as a whole, but more importantly for millions and millions and millions of americans who would be affected by this. we will talk with congresswoman jayapal about that in a moment. you may also have seen tonight this developing story about sort of a nightmare scenario cyberattack on a water treatment plant in a small community in florida in the tampa bay area. it is a town in florida that s literally like 12 miles from the stadium where the super bowl was held this weekend, and in advance of this weekend, on friday, somebody hacked into a computer at this town s local
can you give us a status update on where things stand this morning with this crisis? well, this morning i understand we have about 3 million people without power around the state of texas. we were at 5 million people at one point, i think. here in my city in austin about a third of the austin energy customers are without power. we re just not getting enough power from the state, from the grid. i m in a community right now that is not only cold, but it is also scared and frustrated and confused and angry and i share in that. the grid has failed us here. we need better answers from the state as to when the power generation is going to come back on. what i m hearing is that it could be that that doesn t happen until things thaw here and that could be another two or three days. which i think to many people they feel like that is an unacceptable timeline. i m going to get to in a second, mr. mayor, the issues of how this happened, but continuing with what s happening right now
also this lunchtime. the number of people on hospital waiting lists in england, hits six million for the first time. england s isolation period for coronavirus is reduced yet again, if there are two negative results. the scale of our river pollution a damning verdict in a parliamentary report. and novak djokovic is in the draw for the australian open, but could he still be deported before start of play? and coming up in sport on the bbc news channel they re battling injuries, but mark wood says ben stokes and jonny bairstow are desperate to play for england in the final ashes test, which starts tomorrow. good afternoon, and welcome to the bbc news at one. borisjohnson s future as prime minister remains in the balance, despite his apology for attending a drinks party during the first coronavirus lockdown in 2020. some senior conservatives are calling for him to resign. but members of the cabinet have rallied to his defence, after he said yesterday, he understood the public