they have not always had water in this area. today, we went to a business, the iron horse, they have some 90 employees. as you can imagine, several people are not showing up to eat there, because they re worried about the water situation. they said the water is safe, because they re trucking a lot of it in. listen to this business manager talk about the expense and going through this day by day. it has been really hectic, frustrating, costly. it s certainly had a negative impact on our business. from guests walking in and trying to make sure that can you come to jackson and have a great meal. we re very independent driven, so we don t have a lot of tourism here. so a lot of the locals are deciding to stay at home. it s a real challenge, because we have 90 employees, many of whom are bar tenders and servers that rely on tips. so without guests, they don t have gratuities. how do you convince these people it s going to be okay? give us more time. this has been going on since july 29t
reporter: think about that, this has been going on five weeks. if you re counting on tips and the idea of making money, and people are canceling some big-time events at restaurants all through jackson, because they don t want to deal with the water situation. one of the things they were harping on here, a lot of the moms are being impacted, so they can t count on kids go to school, so now they have to call out. so you understand the frustration when you are working check to check, they are worried about the long-term effects in terms of being able to pay rent and bills. and some people still have to pay a water bill. so you see the effects here, and so many people are worried. they re hoping more aid comes in. today is a great first step. this is only one location. you have to wonder if the greater jackson area is getting the water they need. really important reporting there from jackson, mississippi. thank you, ryan. turning now to the covid pandemic and the updated booster
will get done. reporter: a possible special meeting of the legislature to try to come up with the funding to fix the situation. i don t want to hypothesize on why it has taken this long. i m just grateful that the relief has arrived. reporter: frustrated residents hoping that this time it is true. whatever they have going on, they need to get that right. it is very frustrating. it is very frustrating to have to fight for some water. reporter: yeah, it was hard to watch, people sitting in their cars in 91 degree heat for hours. and sometimes not even getting the water that they were waiting for. something that people say that they really want to know when this water situation will end, but this will not be a short term fix. back to you. california officials are asking residents to cut back on their power usage over the long holiday weekend. more than 50 million people are under heat alerts from southern california to the pacific northwest through this coming tuesday. pedram
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
states senate. would you want president biden to come to arizona and campaign with you? hey, i ll welcome anybody to come to arizona, travel around the state at any time, as long as i m here. if i m not up in washington in session. and talk about what arizona needs. this water situation is significant. and right now we have some of the tools necessary to deal with it. i m trying to get some answers from the department of interior on more like what authority do they have to make some decisions themselves on this because, as i said earlier, the other states are not stepping up to help arizona deal with this. but if anybody wants to come to arizona and talk about arizona issues or issues that affect the country, i ll be here. that s not exactly an open invitation to president biden to come and campaign with you, even though he won the state of arizona in 2020, saying you d