 Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. More than one and a half million people across eastern Texas are without electricity. That's according to the site PowerOutage.us. Since Hurricane Beryl made landfall two days ago, a large number of people without air conditioning during extreme heat. Harris County Commissioner for Precinct 4, Leslie Briones, was at a Houston cooling center where many residents have gone to escape sweltering conditions. It is over 100 degrees. It's going to hit 106 degrees.