jackson residents have been bracing for something like this. boil water notices, outages, those have just been a routine occurrence here. there s a lot of excitement about the bipartisan infrastructure deal that passed last year. mississippi is a poor state with a lot of infrastructure problems. the problem is, ali, though, is that there is red tape. it takes time for that money to get out the door. cities and counties have to come up with plans and they have to give those plans to push out the funds. again, all of that has time, all of that takes time that jackson really doesn t have right now. and even then, it s unclear if jackson s share with the enough to fix all of this. jackson s mayor, chokwe antar lumumba, says it could cost billions of dollars to resolve the city s water problems. we don t have a final tally yet on how much it would cost to fix the water treatment plant that s the root cause of this, but what we do know is it s unlikely that jackson s portion
a temporary type is restoring some water pressure in jackson mississippi today. it s been six days since a major water plant failed and left thousands of people without clean water. yesterday national guard troops handed out over million bottles of water. joining me now is jackson s mayor, chokwe thank you so much for joining me. tell me about the situation right now in jackson. what advisories remain in effect? first and foremost, thank you for having me. thank you for lifting up this challenge. there is good news. we are seeing pressure buildup in many of the tanks that have not registered pressure and some days now we re still not out of the woods and they re still persistent effort taking place. even with the state team that s their they ve been fighting
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