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Anderson Cooper 360

More than 14.9 million Texans impacted by water distribution

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

News

3.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Approximately 165,000 Texans remain without power and more than 14.9 million have been impacted by a water crisis as the state braces for another deep freeze. While Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has been dealing with the fallout over his quick trip to Cancun, Mexico, two of his Democratic opponents, Beto O’Rourke and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, have been raising money and offering resources to Texans who are struggling after the winter storm. Amanda Carpenter is the former Communications Director for Cruz. She tells Anderson Cooper she thinks the Senator has “lost sight of what it means to represent Texans.” Plus, President Joe Biden toured a Pfizer vaccine manufacturing facility in Michigan and said “I believe we’ll be approaching normalcy by the end of this year” but warns “things can change.” The White House announced that bad weather has created a backlog of about six million Covid-19 vaccine doses. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer hosted the President while he was in Michigan and tells AC360 she thinks the vaccine roll out will catch up and make up for lost time.   Airdate: February 19, 2021   Guests: Amanda Carpenter Gov. Gretchen Whitmer 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

And good evening for one last night, major parts of Texas are under freeze warnings, but

0:05.8

even as Texans look forward to a warmer tomorrow.

0:08.0

Millions are still facing days, weeks and months of misery from what's been a punishing

0:12.1

week of broken water lines, flooded housing, gas and power outages and all the misery that

0:17.3

comes with it.

0:20.0

This has been a hard week, okay?

0:22.5

I've dealt with Harvey.

0:24.7

I've dealt with social civil unrest, the coronavirus for almost a year and now dealing

0:30.8

this week.

0:31.8

This has been a hard week.

0:34.1

Houston's mayor also waited on Senator Ted Cruz's trip to Cancun.

0:39.5

For people who are fighting to stay warm, take care of their families, looking for a way

0:44.7

to move forward.

0:46.6

If nothing else, they expect for their leaders to be where they are, to remain on the ship

0:52.9

and not to abandon the ship because you can have some comfort.

0:58.1

Senator Cruz is also still trying to explain what he did today, but before we get to it,

1:02.2

let's just take a look at exactly the kind of comfort he violated CDC COVID travel guidelines

1:06.8

and jet it off to.

1:08.4

Not just, well, it was the Ritz.

1:11.0

The Ritz Hotel perfectly perched as it builds itself on its website along the aquamarine

1:15.8

waters of the Caribbean.

1:17.7

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