 Quit threatening linemen. HPD is present at our staging centers. We'll escort linemen to their workstations. Beryl knocked out power to nearly 3 million people in Texas, mostly in the Houston area. As of Wednesday morning, more than 50,000 homes and businesses were still without electricity. I'm Donna Water. The U.S. Supreme Court granted a stay of execution for a Texas man shortly before he was to receive a lethal injection and a killing decades ago.