breaks were discovered that officials say could impact even more residents and businesses as crews are already focused on the two brakes that happened on friday. for a quick timeline, on friday, there were two major water main breaks in downtown atlanta in midtown atlanta. just for context, that downtown water main break happened at a location that services the intersection of three different water lines, so as you can imagine, that meant pretty widespread water outages. as of today, city officials say that specific line has been fixed, and that means critical areas like atlanta s hospital, atlanta s jails, atlanta s airport all have enough water to carry out their services, but that second major water main break in midtown atlanta has still not been fixed as the entered day two of this crisis, and crews are working nonstop in order to rectify an issue. this is the problem here is 80+ year old pipes that have decayed and eroded, making it harder to identify the specific issue here. atl
he can t take a shower. he can t take a bath. reporter: this map from officials appears to show about half of atlanta impacted. the city declaring a state of emergency and issuing a boil water advisory. emory university hospital diverting ambulances and relocating some patients saturday. even megan thee stallion s two sold-out concerts canceled. we could have done a better job over the past day. for that, i apologize. reporter: the city says crews have made significant progress, but officials criticized for being slow to respond. signs reading, quote, we don t have water, has anyone seen or heard from mayor andre dickens? u.s. infrastructure is notoriously aging. the american society of civil engineers reports 240,000 water main breaks each year in the u.s. one every two minutes. they estimate 6 billion gallons of treated water is lost each day, enough to fill more than 9,000 swimming pools. linsey, more than two days since
do we know about this latest potential break yeah, we don t know for sure, jessica, what caused it, but the city s water commissioner was explaining earlier that when they re say any water main break the pressure in the whole system becomes unstable, which in turn may cause even more brace a little bit. the way you described it before, like a game of whack-a-mole, by the way, earlier this hour, the water department said statement that that s six inch water main has been turned on after emergency repairs were completed, restoring service to 35 homes and four hydrants overnight. city officials said one of two major water main breaks located just west of downtown area was fixed. but as you can see behind me crews are working on the second one that has been gushing water for well over 36 hours now actually closer to 48 hours now as thought were workers delivered a very large
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united states, those essential glue without us, none of this happens. we must be involved and we will be involved part of the first phase of the deal also would be to provide 600 trucks daily of humanitarian assistance. that s crucial for the people in gaza right now so you can see the united states play being a critical role throughout the process to make sure that all of our allies in the region israel, jordan, egypt, saudi arabia, you name it, that they come to the table and help to reconstruct gaza after this war joel rubin thanks for all the information for your to have you on. thanks, allison are coming up. we re falling breaking news. a sentencing verdict has been reached in chad daybell s triple murder trial we ll have all the details coming up for you plot the citywide water outage and atlanta after two major water main breaks in just one day, we had the latest details so what s happening there straight ahead russia is we re trying to spy on us we