ERCOT faces class-action lawsuit, resignations in wake of Texas power outages
peterschreiber.media/iStockBy MORGAN WINSOR, ABC News(HOUSTON) — Texas’ embattled power grid operator is facing lawsuits and resignations after more than 4 million customers lost electricity last week during a deadly winter storm.Morgan & Morgan, a Florida-based national law firm with over 700 attorneys, filed a class-action lawsuit on Tuesday against the Electric Reliability Council of Texas…… read more »
Tanker trucks, National Guard dispatched to Jackson, Mississippi, water crisis
MivPiv/iStockBy BILL HUTCHINSON, ABC News(JACKSON, Miss.) — The governor of Mississippi said he’s dispatching the National Guard and more tanker trucks to the state’s capital city to help bring an end to a water crisis that emerged following severe winter storms that crippled the community’s aging infrastructure.Many residents of Jackson, a city of more than…… read more »
Spring-like weather across much of US, possible heavy snow in Rockies and parts of West
ABC NewsBy MAX GOLEMBO, ABC News (NEW YORK) — It is starting to feel like spring from California to New York and around the rest of the country.Record high temperatures were broken on Tuesday in the San Francisco Bay area with Oakland reaching 84 degrees and Napa hitting 81.In Dallas, Texas, temperatures reached 81 degrees…… read more »
FAA orders inspections of some Boeing 777 engines after United failure
TommyIX/iStockBy MINA KAJI, ABC News (NEW YORK) — After an engine on a United 777 failed minutes after takeoff in Denver this past weekend, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is ordering operators to conduct high-tech inspections of all Boeing 777s powered by the same Pratt and Whitney engine that failed “before further flight.”More than 100…… read more »
Woman trapped for 10 hours under collapsed backyard awning in frigid weather lucky to be alive
Schiller Park Fire Department/FacebookBy JON HAWORTH, ABC News (CHICAGO) — A woman is lucky to be alive after being trapped for more than 10 hours under an awning in her own backyard when it collapsed on top of her after being weighed down by heavy ice and snow.The incident happened at approximately 12 p.m. on…… read more »
Wreckage of TWA Flight 800 to be destroyed 25 years after crash
Alex Wong/Getty ImagesBy SAM SWEENEY, ABC News (NEW YORK) — The National Transportation Safety Board said it will destroy the remaining wreckage of TWA Flight 800 after nearly 20 years as a training tool.TWA Flight 800 grabbed the world’s attention when shortly after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport in July 1996, the Paris-bound…… read more »
