everyone who relies on it remained the same you can shower or bathe. please make sure in the shower that your mouth s not open because, again, you do not want to ingest the water currently. reporter: with the boil-water notice now in place for the last month, the growing toll hitting hard. people are fed up they re running to bordering cities who have clean water to just bathe reporter: at a nearby medical clinic a loss in pressure temporarily knocked out a.c. units tankers are now the only source of clean water. it was hot. it was humid there was a lot of humidity in the building reporter: despite uncertainty being the only certainty, the city s mayor staying hopeful. when folks here in jackson ask, how much longer will i have to come pick up bottled water, what do you tell them? the good news is that we are seeing some good days today is a good day. last night was a good night. and we re seeing recovery in the system if that maintains, then we can see pressure restored
you can shower or bathe. please make sure in the shower that your mouth s not open because, again, you do not want to ingest the water. many schools are now remote and residents continue to wait in really long lines. sometimes for hours to pick up cases of bottled water. joining us from mississippi is nbc s guad venegas. is the water pressuring starting to return and how are people feeling about this warning, yeah, you can shower but you have to close your mouth? reporter: let me start by saying, when that press conference took place yesterday and the state official said, if you shower, you have to keep your mouth closed, we were working doing live hits yesterday. people started talking about that and some of us couldn t believe they actually made the announcement because that s been the conversation. they say the water is safe enough to water with, just don t open your mouth. it was a bit surreal to hear that but that was part of that press conference. when it comes to the water
building to wash dishes, that s where you run into the issues. when people can t shower before work and show up for work because you don t have water it creates a huge ripple effect for the entire community. trace: people don t realize we see on the right-hand side of the screen bottled water and sodas and so far. a bottle of water is not going to solve the fact you can t wash your dishes or bathe. that you are hesitant to boil water because you are not confident that it is still going to be okay to cook your food in. what do you tell these people and what are people in your society saying? we re asking everybody to band together. speak to our community officials and say it is not about what was or what has been. we need to come together and talk about how to fix this. we need to be open and honest. it is not about posturing or what has been going on the past decade. what will we do to move forward?
mayo clinic. you know where to go. all right, everybody. still keeping a close eye on the court hearing in west palm beach, florida. any minute a judge could decide whether or not to grant former president trump and lis his legal team a special master from the documents seized from mar-a-lago. for in our days, 180,000 in jackson, mississippi have not had any clean drinking water. four days. the water coming out of the taps is cloudy and officials say while its not safe to drink, cook or wash dishes, you can bathe in it under one condition. you can shower or bathe. please, make sure in the shower your mouth s not open, because, again, you do not want to ingest the water. tell you, the last time i was told that i was not in this
i ve heard in a lot of places, which is water. they re getting bottles of water again. they need running water. clean water to cook, to bathe, to clean in. it s very dirty. there s mud everywhere, but there s also concern about disease. there s trash everywhere. not just trash, these are people s belongings, people s lives that are just everywhere right now. they re concerned about their medicine. also, you know, just, again, the mayor is overwhelmed. i want you to take a listen to what she said. i wasn t prepared, but what can you do when your little town, little city is devastated? i mean, it was like a war zone. you can t help but cry, but it s going to be all right. we re going to be okay. we ll be back. reporter: police chief told me, pamela, he doesn t want people to think of them as victims, he wants them to know they are survivors but they do need help u, especially becausee