here? about 2 1/2 hours. reporter: now, there s a state of emergency affecting as many as 180,000 people. the water is not safe to drink. i would even say it s not safe to brush your teeth with. reporter: emergency crews have been scrambling to get the water treatment plant back online. floodwaters overran the pumps. how are you? have a great day, ma am. reporter: desperate residents now on the hunt for water to drink and cook with. they re moving cars through here quickly. it s just one case per car. they say they have enough for 600 cars, but by the looks of the line, it runs for several miles. we do have a plan in place to potentially bring in an additional rented pump which will allow us to pump at least four million gallons of water additionally, hopefully, which will be installed by tomorrow morning. reporter: the water system in the state s largest city has been in crisis for years. jackson has been under a boil water advisory for a month, andd
give preference those indicators over fake numbers like gdp, unemployment, inflation, no, certainly that s a very good point, tucker. i butnf we also have literally mountains of data for months now that have beenn pointing toh a recession and the white house and frankly, many of the commentators on tv have just blatantly ignored the data day after day tda after day.ag and again, the middle class,ai i is very evident that they have been getting absolutely crushed. if you look at average incomes ,for example, average earnings since biden took office areff down the annual equivalent of thirty four hundred dollars per person because of inflation. thatth is just devastating. that s more than some people spend on food in a year. that s just that s unbelievable. wouldn t it be and i m i know you re an economist. ask you a question, but very quickly, wouldn t it be smarter for the white house to say, look, we know how bad it is andd we re doing everything we can to help you? why do they persis
single investigation of him his son hunter, his brother james. and the rest of the biden crime family. is this not a massive cover-up by the media and democrat party? it is a huge problem. just in historical contact, imagine if you have jimmy carter family during cold war or ronald reagan s family, where family members did deals with russian businessmen whoyo were linked to kgb and received 31 million dollars. there would be alarm bells going off, rightfully so, that is the situation we re have. only it involves the bidens. andd involves china, and not the soviet union. but all parameters are there. and it is a frighteningcircumstance, is to me there is so little curiosity, it was in the day when these scandals erupted
single investigation of him his son hunter, his brother james. and the rest of the biden crime family. is this not a massive cover-up by the media and democrat party? it is a huge problem. just in historical contact, imagine if you have jimmy carter family during cold war or ronald reagan s family, where family members did deals with russian businessmen whoyo were linked to kgb and received 31 million dollars. there would be alarm bells going off, rightfully so, that is the situation we re have. only it involves the bidens. andd involves china, and not the soviet union. but all parameters are there. and it is a frighteningcircumstance, is to me there is so little curiosity, it was in the day when these scandals erupted
could have been much different. i just wish it hadn t come to this. reporter: pete muntean, cnn, mendon, missouri. thanks for that report. still ahead. a former distance runner after her career was over she became depressed and now she s turning her personal pain into purpose. look how nice they are. the moment you become an expedia member, you can instantly start saving on your travels. so you can go andd see all those, lovely, lemony, lemons. and never wonder if you got a good deal. because you did.