The lingering impact of Hurricane Burrell starts the day's other headlines.

More than 800,000 customers in the Metro Houston area still don't have power.

That's left many hot and frustrated during what has been a blistering heat wave this past week.

With no power and no air conditioning and perhaps none before next week,

many residents in and around Houston are reaching their own boiling points.

How in the world can it take almost a week and then you're talking till Saturday,

maybe Sunday, maybe next week. How is that possible?

Center Point, the primary electric utility in the area, which is working to restore power,

said more than 400,000 businesses and homes might not have electricity even by early next week.

Many are struggling to find refuge from the sweltering heat or have access to food and clean drinking water in some cases.

I'm about to lose the resources that I have and I'm about to lose all the energy that I have

trying to survive.

I've been here since 2000 something, I went through Rita and Ike and Nlda

Harvey and then this year my complex has lost power twice without hurricanes.

So sort of used to it.

It's really frustrating.

Many Houston area hospitals and emergency rooms

have been jam-packed for days days since many patients could not be released

home safely. And some were treated at makeshift clinics at the N. R.G. Park,

Sports Complex, centerpoint says it's restored power to over 1.4 million customers faster than other utilities

have during similar storms.

It also says it pledges to restore power to 80 percent of those who were affected by Sunday night.

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