And after a whirlwind of political news, we turned out to the day's other headlines.

Stephanie Sigh is in Washington and has those stories.

Thanks, Sama and Jeff.

Houston's main utility company says the majority of power outages in the city should be fixed

by Wednesday.

That news comes amid growing pressure on Centerpoint energy as more than 200,000 customers remain without power a week

after Hurricane barrels swept through the area.

The Texas Public Utility Commission has launched an investigation into Centerpoint's storm preparedness.

A day after Governor Greg Abbott demanded, quote, specific actions to address power outages and

reduce the possibility that power will be lost during a severe weather event.

Beryl also left its mark thousands of miles away in Vermont.

Officials there are seeking disaster assistance from FEMA after flooding

knocked out bridges and washed out roads. In the Middle East, Israel has carried out

new attacks on Gaza following a weekend of devastating airstrikes.

Today in DARE-Albala in central Gaza,

local officials say an Israeli attack

killed three members of the same family,

including a child.

A State Department spokesperson said today that Secretary Blinkin expressed concern over

civilian casualties in a meeting with Israeli officials. We have seen civilian casualties come down from the high points of the conflict and even from where they were, say six weeks, two months ago, but they still remain unacceptable high.

We continue to see far too many civilians

killed in this conflict. We want to see civilian casualties completely ended.

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