Mayor of Houston Sylvester TurnerSylvester Turner The preview is shown on Sunday: the reopening of the CDC school sparks debate; Texas battles freeze winter, a mural honoring George Floyd on leaving the alma mater of the institute in Houston, Houston will send residents checks of up to 200 for pandemic relief (D) said Sunday that he did not believe a visit to Texas before President Biden
Joe Biden: Nearly 70 deaths in states with severe winter weather: Two more confirmed deaths in Louisiana related to severe winter weather are reported. The lawyer who filed a lawsuit to reverse the 2020 election results, referred by the judge by discipline it would be a “distraction” after winter storms devastated the state’s energy grid.
“We would definitely welcome it and it wouldn’t be a distraction, [nor] a charge, ”Turner told CBS’s“ Face the Nation ”Sunday.
The mayor told CBS’s Margaret Brennan that the city’s most needy areas consisted of restoring plumbing infrastructure affected by the winter weather.
“With so many homes across the city that have pipes bursting due to the cold weather and major leaks, water damage, we need a lot of plumbing materials and supplies right now. We have a number of licensed plumbers, but we could use it even more, ”he said.
NEWS: @SylvesterTurner, explains the mayor of Houston, an energy mecca and the fourth largest city in the country @margbrennan “We need to open our Texas network,” to allow it to get power from generators outside the state. He says the state should pay the “exorbitant” bills of the residents pic.twitter.com/pBZvM5IMOW
– Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) February 21, 2021
Turner continued to rebuke the state’s autonomous power grid, which was not wintered against these conditions, for much of the aftermath.
“Everything that happened last week was predictable and preventable,” said Turner, who noted that as a state lawmaker, he had introduced a failed bill a decade ago that required the public service agency to the state will guarantee adequate reserves.
“Our system in Texas is designed primarily for the summer heat and not necessarily for a winter event … the reality is that climate change is real and these big storms can happen at any time,” he said. . “We need to air-condition the system, we need to maintain adequate reserves and we need to open our Texas network. Right now we have a closed network, we can’t get generations from outside the state because of our system ”.