City Manager Spencer Cronk: As a City, we are doing our best to help those in need.
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City Manager Spencer Cronk: As a City, we are doing our best to help those in need.
How can people without power get to warming centers if they're asked to stay off roads?
Ortiz: If you need to get to a warming center, make the decision now and go when it is still daylight. If you wait, it's going to get more complicated.
Sargent: We have some situations where we've had some outages and we're including that in our load shed requirements. Right now, that is all wrapped together to meet those requirements from ERCOT.
Sargent: We are working with our Utility Contact Center to back up @ATX_311. We are working in conjunction with our City IT and they're working very diligently to restore those services.
Sargent: We are making those requests. We have reached out to specific groups of customers and they are responding by conserving. The thing I talked about that individuals can do - lowering thermostat, closing blinds, will help us.
Sargent: That is not the case. The outages are across the system. They are designated by specific circuits and those are circuits - if you look at the outage map, they're across our service territory.
Sargent: If we see that continue across the entire footprint, across our state, that we'll continually to have challenges to meet the demand. Asking customers to conserve will continue to be critical.
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I could create an entire twitter feed of things Facebook has tried to cover up since 2015. Where do you want to start, Mark and Sheryl? https://t.co/1trgupQEH9
Ok, here. Just one of the 236 mentions of Facebook in the under read but incredibly important interim report from Parliament. ht @CommonsCMS https://t.co/gfhHCrOLeU
Let’s do another, this one to Senate Intel. Question: “Were you or CEO Mark Zuckerberg aware of the hiring of Joseph Chancellor?"
Answer "Facebook has over 30,000 employees. Senior management does not participate in day-today hiring decisions."
Or to @CommonsCMS: Question: "When did Mark Zuckerberg know about Cambridge Analytica?"
Answer: "He did not become aware of allegations CA may not have deleted data about FB users obtained through Dr. Kogan's app until March of 2018, when
these issues were raised in the media."
If you prefer visuals, watch this short clip after @IanCLucas rightly expresses concern about a Facebook exec failing to disclose info.

Ok, here. Just one of the 236 mentions of Facebook in the under read but incredibly important interim report from Parliament. ht @CommonsCMS https://t.co/gfhHCrOLeU

Let’s do another, this one to Senate Intel. Question: “Were you or CEO Mark Zuckerberg aware of the hiring of Joseph Chancellor?"
Answer "Facebook has over 30,000 employees. Senior management does not participate in day-today hiring decisions."

Or to @CommonsCMS: Question: "When did Mark Zuckerberg know about Cambridge Analytica?"
Answer: "He did not become aware of allegations CA may not have deleted data about FB users obtained through Dr. Kogan's app until March of 2018, when
these issues were raised in the media."

If you prefer visuals, watch this short clip after @IanCLucas rightly expresses concern about a Facebook exec failing to disclose info.
A company as powerful as @facebook should be subject to proper scrutiny. Mike Schroepfer, its CTO, told us that the buck stops with Mark Zuckerberg on the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which is why he should come and answer our questions @DamianCollins @IanCLucas pic.twitter.com/0H4VMhtIFu
— Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee (@CommonsCMS) May 23, 2018