The City of Houston has formally extended their disaster declaration for 12 months in the wake of last week's devastating storms.
The city council approved the resolution to extend the declaration on Wednesday. Normally the declaration only runs for one week, with local authorization needed to extend it.
This allows the city to continue accessing state and federal funds, as the recovery process continues.
In the meantime, Centerpoint has more than 9&% of those customers who lost electricity last week back online. Only 28-thousand are still in the dark.
All schools in the Spring Branch and Galena Park ISD's are open as of today. HISD welcomes all students back to class today, but some have been moved to different schools because of continued power problems.
Elsewhere, HPD announced the arrest of fifteen people who broke into businesses during the power outages; all of them face felony charges.