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After the cold snap of 7,000 megawatts worth of power plants shut down, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the network operator, the second most populous state behind California, declared an energy emergency.

ERCOT has asked the state energy suppliers to around 4,000 megawatts worth of power demand in the early hours of the day is clear - right around 2.9 million households.

The operator lowered the interview that about 3,000 MW of mid-morning, a few generations, since the operation again.

"We expect that rolling outages to continue until an appropriate amount of production back online," ERCOT said in a statement. "We continue to appeal to saving energy."

Blackouts and left houses without heating up the dark for one hour, caused a number of schools and businesses to close and put a few traffic snarls traffic lights stopped working.

There was no sign of major failure in a large refinery row "Houston complex, about 13 percent of U.S. refining capacity covers.

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Boy, that was fun, right? If you are one of the lucky ones to Austin, you know what I'm talking about: a big football game, a big party before the game, great BBQ and an amazing night in Austin.For those who only observe from your living room, maybe you missed one of the most amazing experiences I think I had as a Bruin fan (located in the Ben Ball Warriors win in Oakland and Adam Morrison, Gonzaga 13 - 9). Also big props to all the Bruins, who came, crossed the 100 heat, the sun is bad, the sticky humidity and cheered their hearts out for the Bruins. Meet the players could hear us, hiding in our corner of the upper deck of the stadium, really made it special.

More on my journey to the heart of Texas, after jump.Before go, I have to give special recognition to the fans of the Texas Longhorns and the good people of Austin. I have a lot of games in college football and I've never met a group of fans who were so kind, polite and smart as the people wearing orange in Austin. I'm not sure that our schools are very similar (large academic institutions with elite athletics) or if our mutual hatred for U $ C (thanks to Vince Young!), But I've never had a better interaction with an opposing base of fans that I did this weekend.

In a rapid destruction of the burnt orange Coeds were great. Let's say I'm a big fan of short skirts and jeans boots.Before the game, Texas fans were very friendly, talk football, congratulating us on the demolition of Houston (which is definitely the redheaded stepchild of Texas, at least Longhorn fans agree), and more than willing to drink beer with us. After wandering from bar to bar and back-to-back (with HT uclaron1 to its long list), I was ready for the game.

Of course it is easy to be friends with an opponent weaker non-conference is expected to get around and sacrifice. If your team loses, it's a completely different story for most sports (especially some of the crashes in other programs Pac-10), but not in Austin. Even if the BCS national title hopes and dreams evaporate before their eyes, yet fans of Texas, kind and congratulations.

Two examples really bring the message to me. During the game, some drunk jackass Frat type species are not too far from me and some other Bruin fans. As the game went on, more and more belligerent and uses a wide range of unpleasant homophobic insults, racist, or just flat-UCLA fans in his section. Every school has kids like that, but not all schools are treated as Texas does. Sometime during the quarter, a fan of older people in Texas approached the officer told the authors, and, like his days in DKR was done. As fans entered early, a couple passed by the UCLA group of people who were with and apologized for the classless trash drunken Frat boys had said. That was pretty impressive.

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A gunman wearing a ski mask and brandishing a shotgun entered a library of the University of Texas at Austin today and shot several times before taking his own life, causing a blockage around the campus and fears that a second shooter may be on the loose.

Shortly before noon, central time, a campus lock in place for about 8 hours rose, ending a search for a possible second suspect. "The armed suspect is dead. No other injuries were reported," UT President Bill Powers wrote in a campus e-mail.

The gunman was found dead on the sixth floor of the library apparently self-inflicted wounds, police said.An email and SMS alert sent to students and teachers about 8 hours, as the day of the first classes began warns that an "armed men were reported recently in Perry Castaneda Library" and telling students to stay in place.

"I went to class a little late," said senior Robby Reeb ABCNews.com. "I ran out of the business school, and a man running past me screaming, 'There's a man with a gun." I looked up and saw a man with a ski mask, a suit and carrying an assault rifle. And I called 911. "

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A gunman opened fire Tuesday at a campus library at the University of Texas and then fatally shot, and police are looking for a possible second suspect, the university police said.A man fired an automatic weapon in the sixth floor of the Perry-Castañeda Library early Tuesday, UT police spokeswoman Rhonda Weldon said.

"He then shot himself. He is dead," he said, adding that no one else was reported injured.Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo said in a press conference that police are investigating what they described as a means of crime outside the library where shots were fired too.Randall Wilhelm, associate professor of law at the university, said he was heading to class when he saw that "students begin pursuing revolver trash cans, trees and monuments ", and then a young man with an assault rifle, running down the street.

"It was a cross for me ... and shot what I thought were three shots ... not for me. In my address, but not me, of course not for me," said Prof. Said goalkeeper Guillermo . The opportunity to shoot several students and Wilhelm, but not.Police patrolled nearby buildings with bomb-sniffing dogs to find the second suspect as possible and ensure that no explosives were left behind.

"What we are doing so methodically eliminating the second suspect," said Acevedo.No shots were fired by police, university officials said.Police Acevedo and urged students to stay home. The university canceled classes for the day. "Suspect shot dead in the PCL library. The police are looking for a second shooter possible. Locking doors, not leaving the building," the university said in an e-mail alert to students and staff. Weldon said there is no report that the possible second suspect may be armed, but police are taking all precautions and keep the campus closed.

Investigators trying to determine what led to the shooting at the UT campus in Austin, which is one of the nation's largest with about 50,000 students.Law maintaining the campus police, police in Austin and the Department of State for Public Security raided the campus The first reports of gunfire. armored tank and is placed near the library. A DPS helicopter around the campus overhead.Jennifer Scalora, who works in revenues, was in his office about 100 meters from the library. She said police, SWAT teams and helicopters are swarming the campus, but in reality are the only ones around.