A massive pipeline fire in suburban Houston has been shooting a giant plume of fire into the air for hours. First responders evacuated a surrounding neighborhood where some homes have caught fire. Officials say the firefighters were dispatched at 9:55 a.m. on Monday in Deer Park and La Porte. Video footage from KTRK showed a park near the fire had been damaged and firefighters pouring water on homes near the blaze. The pipeline is operated by Dallas-based Energy Transfer. The company says the 20-inch pipeline is shut down but local officials say it will take hours more, if not into Tuesday, before residual natural gas liquids flow out of the pipeline.

A utility company executive warns that about half a million Houston-area homes and businesses still won't have electricity into next week as wide outages from Hurricane Beryl drag on. The acknowledgement Thursday led Texas' lieutenant governor to describe the pace of power restoration as "not acceptable."The Category 1 storm knocked out power to around 2.7 million customers when made landfall in Texas on Monday. Affected residents have grown frustrated that the relatively weak storm could cause such disruption during the height of summer. CenterPoint Energy says power has been restored to more than 1 million homes and businesses and the company expects to get hundreds of thousands of more customers back by Sunday. Others will wait much longer.

Frustration is mounting that Houston appeared to buckle under a storm not as powerful as previous ones. Officials said Tuesday that wide recovery efforts are underway after Hurricane Beryl left millions still without power as temperatures soar. Officials say restoring power is the No. 1 priority. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre says President Joe Biden approved a major disaster declaration. Emergency crews hope to have power restored to an additional 1 million people by the end of the day. Beryl made landfall early Monday as a Category 1 hurricane and has been blamed for at least seven U.S. deaths and 11 in the Caribbean.

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