 has now pushed the storm's fatality count to at least 23. Most Houston area residents have had their power turned back on after over a week of widespread outages in the nation's number four city. The peak of the outages saw a barrel knocking out electricity for nearly 3 million people in Texas hospitals, reporting a big increase in heat-related illnesses as well. A 12-year-old Tennessee girl is charged with murder, accused of smothering her 8-year-old cousin as the younger girl slept.