Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:

Over 1 million Houston area Centerpoint and Entergy power customers remain without power or AC amidst sweltering heat this morning: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-weather/hurricanes/article/hurricane-beryl-power-updates-houston-heat-19563819.php

...Centerpoint's outage map shows that as of now, about half of the affected area has not yet seen actual repair work begin: https://abc13.com/post/centerpoint-energy-outage-map-when-will-power-come-back-beryl-houston/15048348/

...Entergy, which serves the non-ERCOT sections of the area, predicts restoration to be largely compete by the end of this weekend: https://www.khou.com/article/weather/hurricane/beryl/entergy-texas-beryl-power-restoration-effort-update/285-2e4add87-21d5-4402-ac81-0a924d125fbe

...Houston city leaders are up in arms with Centerpoint: https://apnews.com/article/houston-power-outages-beryl-ceb5fdc1db4d89d2376abb22bfd45d99

...NRG Stadium is now holding discharged hospital patients who can't return to their sweltering homes: https://www.texastribune.org/2024/07/10/texas-hospitals-beryl-power-outages/

...The state's response to Beryl, in particular its requests for federal help, came much more slowly than in prior hurricane situations: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-weather/hurricanes/article/greg-abbott-hurricane-beryl-19565079.php

Ken Paxton predicts that the Texas House General Investigating Committee is planning to recommend impeaching him a second time: https://www.texastribune.org/2024/07/10/ken-paxton-texas-attorney-general-impeach/