a tragic irony unfolding in mississippi where just days ago record rains inundated the jackson area yet tonight that city finds itself in desperate need of usable water after failure of the main treatment plant. governor tate reeves declaring a state of emergency, saying the city cannot produce enough water to meet other critical needs and imploring residents to not drink this water tonight officials are struggling to distribute bottled water to the estimated 180,000 people affected as we reported last night, the jackson area has suffered water infrastructure issues for years most recently, boil-water notices have been in effect. the crisis now worsened by the recent floodwaters, and it is raining there again tonight. nbc is in jackson. reporter: tonight, a race to distribute water in jackson, mississippi. cars lined up for miles outside distribution centers full of locals hoping for water who left empty-handed after the supply quickly ran out. the water that they are giv
protection against serious disease. reporter: pfizer s original vaccine was initially shown to be 95% effective at preventing infection, but over time, the potency wore off boosters were necessary. demand has dropped just over 108 million people have the first booster. only 23 million have gotten the second. even so, pfizer says it has 30 million doses of this new booster ready to go out the door stephanie, let me ask you this late last week moderna announced it s suing pfizer for patent infringement for its covid vaccine. how is the company responding reporter: lester, pfizer says it s surprised by this lawsuit. adding that the technology it based its vaccine on was developed by biontech, that s pfizer s partner company in germany. all right, stephanie, thank you president biden traveled to battleground pennsylvania today, saying in a fiery speech he s determined to ban assault weapons in the u.s he also defended the