text:  Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. More than 1.5 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, 108 with the heat index.