issue, this long-standing issue, and i know that mayor lumumba is also hopeful it will be a matter of days, and not months, that the water is restored in jackson. you were mayor of a city. can you imagine what the people how the people in your city would feel? i cannot begin to imagine. to be faced with something that is as basic as water and not be able to access clean drinking water in a major american city, but i know that mayor lumumba is a very strong believer and he s very passionate about the people of jackson and the needs of jackson and i know with his leadership, if there is a chance of getting this right, it will be done under his leadership and with the support of president biden and the federal funds that are flowing into jackson. it is our hope that it will happen sooner rather than later. president biden gave a speech in pennsylvania yesterday, going back again tomorrow, spending a lot of time in pennsylvania. it is worth noting. this was a speech to talk about
deployed to assist, but yesterday residents could be seen waiting in lines more than a mile long just for one case of bottled water. joining us now, with the latest, we have the mayor of jackson, mayor lumumba to tell us what is happening. can you give us a sense of when this water situation may be resolved and if you re going to have enough bottled water today because i know that they ran out yesterday. well, first and foremost, thank you for giving me an opportunity to lift up the challenges here in jackson. we believe and are optimistic we can see water restored to our residents within this week. but there is a huge mountain to climb in order to achieve that end. but they are working persistently to restore the pressure, to refill the tanks across the city. we had significant gains yesterday and true to form for a very fragile system that we