It's been more than a week since Hurricane Barrel made landfall and utility repair crews across Houston are still working to restore power to the last 50,000 customers who have been without electricity through a brutal stretch of hot weather.

Some residents and local politicians say they've had enough.

William Bringham is here with more.

That's right Stephanie, a lot of that anger and frustration is being directed at the local utility in Houston, center point energy, after thousands of residents have endured a heat wave with no power and no air conditioning. At least half a dozen deaths have been

attributed to the heat and lack of power and emergency rooms have seen a surge of heat-related

cases. Amid rising anger against Centerpoint, there have been reports of residents threatening some of the utility's line crews.

Texas's governor, Republican Greg Abbott, gave the utility until the end of the month to develop a plan

to minimize future outages.

For the latest on this, we are joined by Doug Begley of the Houston Chronicle.

Doug,

thank you so much for being here.

As I mentioned, about 50,000 people still don't have power.

That's down from a quarter of a million a few days ago

and nearly three million when the storm first came.

But Hurricane Barrel was only a category one.

Yes, it's still a hurricane, but just a category one when it hit Texas.

Why is it that that storm did so much damage?

Well, I think that's one of the things that a lot of people here are wondering

is that a category one that surged inland and gained strength as it hit the coast had

extraordinary winds that came a little further than in the normal category one.

And I think if you ask

centerpoint energy they are seeing damage north of Houston that would be more

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