Excessive heat warnings were in effect for wide swaths of Louisiana and Texas, pushing many cities to open cooling centers. Here's more.
AUSTIN, Texas — More than 300,000 customers in the southern U.S. remained without power Monday following damaging weekend storms, leaving residents searching for relief asAt least one person in Oklahoma died due to the prolonged outages, officials said.
One person who used a respirator died because of the power outage, Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum said at a city news conference.
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