delivered a very large part of the dislocation, possibly the one that water commissioner had previously said they needed to fix the break we re waiting for a particular part to arrive. we expect for their partner arrived here soon wants to have part arise. we think that this will be a routine repair and wants to repair is completed. we ll be able to restore water services immediately. hours after apologizing to the city mayor, andre dickens declared a state of emergency to be able to access resources to deal with this water crisis. he also explained what the city has done to help those impacted by the water outage. we have touched more than 30 senior communities, homeless shelters hospitals, and other centers across the city with vulnerable populations. two deliver fresh drinking water and flushing water impacting about 10,500 people. we have also heard from emory university hospital, midtown, which announced has
break we re waiting for a particular part to arrive. we expect for their partner arrived here soon. wants that part arise we think that this would be a routine repair and wants to repair is completed. we ll be able to restore water services immediately. hours after apologizing to the city mayor, andre dickens declared a state of emergency to be able to access resources to deal with this it s water crisis. he also explained what the city has done to help those impacted by the water outage. we have touched more than 30 senior communities, homeless shelters hospitals, and other centers across the city with vulnerable populations to deliver fresh drinking water and flushing water impacting about 10,500 people. we have also heard from emory university hospital, midtown, which announced has moved back to normal operations because water pressure returned to the heart hospital after several water main breaks in the area where repaired the
georgia. pryia is there with more. reporter: it s been an a few different water main breaks occurred not too far from one another in a very densely part of populated atlanta, essentially downtown atlanta, which sparked a water outage, for key buildings like the georgia supreme court, the capitol building, the hartsfield-jackson airplane was affected. the city didn t issue another update until about 12 hours later. mayor dickens want in atlanta when it happened.
anderson cooper 360 tonight at eight on cnn just a massive water outage is still affecting major sections of atlanta after several pipes burst over the weekend, the water main breaks virtually shut down. the city s bustling downtown area at force them mayor to declare a state of emergency summer schools and other programs were canceled today. and then there were a litany of other impacts, including one of atlanta s biggest hospitals relocating some of its patients. and megan thee stallion postponed thank her concert. cnn national correspondent ryan young is monitoring efforts to fix all this. ryan, what s the latest there ladies this is a lot of people who are starting to get really angry about this. briana. people are wanting to know when the status updates will happen in terms of when this will be all fixed, you have small business owners who are asking hey, when are we going to know when we can open our doors back again? because obviously the boil water advisory people are conce
that s what you see right now. and in the department of watershed management acknowledged a temporary disruption of water service. we re resonances and businesses may occur hours for apologizing to the city mayor, andre dickens, the clare dies state of emergency last night to be able to access resources to deal with this water crisis does he also explained what the city has done to help those impacted by the water outage we have touched more than 30 senior communities, homeless shelters, hospitals, and other centers across the city with vulnerable populations to deliver fresh drinking water and flushing water impacting about 10,500 people of course, a plan out tracks thousands of tourists every weekend, especially during the summer months, the atlanta united, the city soccer team announced earlier today that the game scheduled for 4:30 p.m. today will still be played, but there