At Least 50 Deaths Across 9 States Due To Winter Storms

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

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3.2 • 865 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Texans facing another night of record cold as the death toll climbs to at least 50 and a water crisis affects 14.9 million people. Texas Governor pledges to ensure power crisis "never happens again". Biden: "I believe we'll be approaching normalcy by the end of this year... but I can't make that commitment to you." House Democrats unveil $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill with minimum wage increase. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:11.0	situation room. Tonight, nearly 15 million Texans
1:14.8	are suffering as the storm-battered state faces another night of record cold
1:18.8	weather after days without power. The big crisis now, severe water shortages that are impacting
1:25.1	nearly half of Texas residents. On top of that, the governor just confirmed 165,000
1:31.1	homes still do not have electricity.
1:34.6	At least 50 deaths are confirmed in Texas
1:37.2	and eight other states hit by the brutal winter weather.
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