Millions remain without power in frozen Texas

Laura Coates Live

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3.9 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

More than two and a half million families and businesses are without power in Texas and have no indication when the lights will turn back on. Chris talks with a family impacted by the state-wide power outage and gets their take on how state officials are responding. Chris later chats with Dr. Leana Wen about how the Biden administration is handling vaccinations for teachers and whether the 100 day plan to reopen schools should be abandoned. Finally, Chris talks with actor and producer, Daniel Dae Kim about the rise in violent cases against Asian-Americans and what the Biden administration should do to combat it. 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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0:00.0	I am Chris Cuomo and welcome to Primetime.
0:02.3	Today is Ash Wednesday, right?
0:05.4	Why is mine so good this year?
0:07.0	Because I did it.
0:08.2	The Catholic Church has the priests
0:10.5	spreading the ashes on my head.
0:12.9	I said, no thanks.
0:13.8	So you had an option to do it yourself.
0:15.4	Here we go, the beginning of Lent.
0:17.3	And it begins with a reminder, what is this about?
0:19.9	We're all dust.
0:21.6	From dust we come into dust we return.
0:24.0	And in that way we are all connected.
0:26.6	We have to remember that.
0:28.0	Maybe the crisis in Texas will help us reconnect.
0:32.0	Our brothers and sisters there are hurting.
0:34.5	And there is no end in sight.
0:37.0	More than two and a half million families and businesses
0:40.0	are still without power.
0:42.1	They've had no power for days.
0:44.6	They have no timeline for when the lights will come back on
0:48.8	for many of them.
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