the lingering impact of hurricane beryl starts the day's other headlines. More than 800,000 customers are still without power, that has left many hot and frustrated to bring what's been a blistering heat wave this past week. Reporter: 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 about maybe Saturday, maybe Sunday, maybe next week? How is that possible? Reporter: Centerpoint, 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. So I went through Rita and Ike, and Imelda, Harvey. And then this year, my complex has lost power twice. So I'm sort of used to it. It's really frustrating. Without hurricanes. Reporter: Many Houston area hospitals and emergency rooms have been jam packed for days since many patients could not be released home safely. And some were treated at makeshift clinics at the nrg park sports complex. Centerpoint says it has restored power to over 1.4 million customers, faster than other utilities have during similar storms. It also pledges to restore power to 80% of those who were affected by Sunday night. >> I know it's hot, we're thankful for the rain. To cool things off. Everyone is exhausted, but we will continue to work around the clock to get everyone restored as soon as possible. Reporter: But the company is getting heavy criticism from residents, businesses and lawmakers who argue it should have been better prepared. Lieutenant governor Dan Patrick, who is acting governor while governor Greg Abbott is away on a work trip, says he plans to hold centerpoint accountable for their mistakes. >> Right now, I want every person at centerpoint to have one job -- get the power back on. We'll talk about what happened before the storm later. Just get the power back on. Reporter: Hurricane beryl is the latest in a number of storms that have wreaked havoc in the Houston area in just a few weeks. A series of winter storms in 2021 also crippled Texas's -- also crippled Texas' energy grid and left millions of people without heat or power for several days. Michael Webber, a professor of energy resources at the university of Texas at Austin, says climate change is accelerating the problem in Texas and for the national energy grid, too. >> A lot of our grid was built up decades or a century ago, when the weather was milder and the weather is becoming more intense and frequent with its storms, which includes wind and water and drought and freeze, the heat wave, and everything. And so we have to build that grid of the future. Reporter: Centerpoint is proposing a $2 billion resiliency plan to improve the grid. Webber says steps like strengthening transmission poles with steel or concrete or moving some power lines underground may be necessary. But to do that, he says, voters and politicians have to acknowledge and confront the realities of climate change in a state where that's not always popular. >> The investments to harden the grid are expensive. They cost billions of dollars, but they save lives and they avoid outages, and they save money in the long run. And we have to choose between paying money upfront to make this system better, or paying money later when the system fails. Reporter: After thunderstorms this weekend, which could slow repairs, temperatures are expected to return to the 90s starting on Sunday. The lasting effects of beryl are also being felt nearly 2000 miles away in Vermont, where cleanup has started after devastating and deadly flash floods. Beryl dumped a half-foot of rain on parts of the state this week. At least two people died when their vehicles were submerged in the floods. Entire neighborhoods are still underwater. Where the floods have receded, roadways had fallen into sinkholes, and communities were caked in mud. Vermont was hit by flooding at exactly this time last year. >> What I'd say is that anybody that denies climate change can get a dose of this and decide for themselves. Geoff: Vermont's governor says it will take several more days to know the extent of the damage. In the Middle East, Israeli forces have pulled back from gaza city, leaving behind scenes of destruction. Fires were still burning today as Palestinians returned home to check the damage. Civil defense workers say that dozens of bodies were found on the streets and in collapsed buildings. Earlier in the week, Israel ordered all Palestinians to leave the area, saying hamas militants had regrouped there. Most of gaza city's population fled earlier in the war. But the U.N. Estimates that some 300,000 people remain in the surrounding area. AT&T said today that a security breach in 2022 affected nearly all of its cellular customers and many users of its landline and wireless networks. The company says roughly 109 million customers' accounts were affected. Their data was downloaded to a third-party platform over a five-month period in 2022. AT&T says the compromised data includes records of phone calls and texts. But it does not involve the content of those calls or sensitive information like birthdays or social security numbers. In New Mexico, the judge and Alec Baldwin's involuntary manslaughter trial has dismissed the case against him. Baldwin's defense team argued that prosecutors hid evidence about ammunition that may be related to the 2021 death of the cinematographer on the movie, "Rust." Baldwin was holding the gun when it went off during rehearsals. The judge agreed with the defense saying the sanction of dismissal is the only warranted remedy. Baldwin faced up to 18 months in prison if convicted. 66-year-old had pleaded not guilty saying he did not know the revolver contained a live round. Officials in Tulsa, Oklahoma have announced details of the first person to be identified from a mass grave stemming from the city's 1921 race massacre. C.L. Daniel was a World War one veteran who was passing through Tulsa at the time of the attack. Forensic experts have collected DNA from a total of 30 sets of remains. They're from the more than 120 graves that were found during searches that started in 2020. As many as 300 people were killed when a white mob destroyed what was then known as black Wall Street. City officials hope today's announcement will bring some comfort to his family. >> As a parent, I can't help but think about his mom, Mrs. Daniel. Who knew her brave son had been killed, but never knew what became of his remains. Today, I hope that this generation of tulsans can appreciate that you've helped this family find their relative after he was missing for 103 years. Geoff: The city of Tulsa and field experts will start a fourth excavation at the oak lawn cemetery starting the week of July 22. On Wall Street today, stocks rose on bets the federal reserve will cut interest rates in September, the Dow Jones industrial average touched an all-time high during Friday's session before closing just before the -- just above rather the 40,000 point level. The NASDAQ jumped more than 100 points to close near an all-time high. The S&P 500 also posted gains to wrap up the week. And a passing of note, from the field of health care. Gail Wilensky has died. Wilensky oversaw the medicare and medicaid programs during president George H.W. Bush's administration and was a senior adviser to the president. She appeared many times on this program, including this clip from 2009 with Judy woodruff. She would join us to discuss the affordable care act, medicaid expansion, and more. Gail Wilensky was 81 years old. Still to come on the news hour, the death of a black man killed by security guards in Milwaukee draws comparisons to George Floyd. David brooks and Jonathan Capehart weigh in president -- weigh in on president Biden's campaign. And a concert celebrates nato's 75th anniversary with music from its member nations. ♪♪ >> This is the pbs newshour from weta studios in Washington and from the west from the