hear whether the inspectors will be able to get to that plant. it is the fighting, the shelling that is precisely why it s making it so necessary, alisyn and victor. all right, melissa bell in kyiv. thank you. let s bring in now retired brigadier general steve anderson. he just returned from ukraine. general, you were talking to people there about the logistics and the maintenance or the weapons systems they ve received from the u.s., and other countries, we should say. what are the biggest issues that they re facing at this point in the war? well, really, there s two issues, victor, that they re facing right now. first is frontline leadership. they ve taken tremendous casu casualties in the front line. their junior leader, small unit leaders have been perhaps 30% to 40% have been killed over the course of this war, so, they ve got to replace those. but the other big issue is logistics. and my ten days on the ground, i got to see this firsthand. the big issue, really,
Officials host bottled water donation drive to help residents of Jackson, Mississippi, Saturday Sept. 3, 6 AM to 6 PM. State Rep. Cyril Nichols, State Sen. Elect Willie Preston, and 18th Ward Alderman Derrick Curtis are hosting a daylong public water collection event to distribute bottled water to residents of Jackson, Mississippi where the water system has collapsed.
all schools are closed and moved to virtual learning. the city s water supply has been plagued with issues for years, but after days of flash flooding, the state health department discovered the pumps at jackson s main water treatment plant have been severely damaged. we ve been actually lifting up our persistent water challenges for the better part of two years, crying out for any assistance that we could get. the good news is that we have seen persistent gains in our system overnight. there are residents who did not have water yesterday that their pressure is being restored. but we won t be satisfied until every resident has their water restored to them. state rep ronnie crudup jr. represented jackson, mississippi, the state s largest city. he s also the executive director of the new horizon ministry. representative, thank you so much for being here. 180 people in jackson cannot flush their toilets or drink the water or brush their teeth.