 A rising number of heat-related deaths in Texas among residents who lost power during Hurricane Beryl has now pushed the storm's number of deaths to at least 23. Most Houston area folks have had their power restored after over a week of widespread outages in the nation's fourth largest city. At the peak of the outages, Storm Beryl knocked out electricity for nearly 3 million people in Texas. Hospitals reporting a big increase in heat-related illnesses during that period.