Report reporter tremain lee. Miss michigan is here with me. Well hear from those in the bar tonight about what they think of the president. Our Special Coverage continues tomorrow night when we bring your our town hall with flint native Michael Moore. You do not want to miss that. But we begin tonight with a stark illustration of just whats at stake with the potentially catastrophic hurricane now bearing down on the east coast. Prompting mandatory Evacuation Orders from more than a million people. The president of the United States today sat in the oval office and bragged about his performance in dealing with the biggest disaster he has overseen as president , the hurricane that devastated puerto rico. I think puerto rico was incredibly successful. Puerto rico was actually our toughest one of all because its an island. So you just you cant truck
things onto it. Everythings by boat. We moved a hospital into puerto rico, a tremendous Military Hospital in the form of a ship. You know that
intentional, there is an disinvestment in black communities, and we see that in mississippi. oftentimes, with federal funding, it goes through the state s first. if you have, for example, a state government who is not, necessarily, thinking about the residents of a majority black city, and they are able to ensure that those individuals are not able to get funding. we can see that with decades, and decades, now, we are in a place where jackson mississippi is going to cost billions of dollars, to be able to fix their water infrastructure system. we see that in flint, we see that another majority black cities as well. until we continue to see more funding, stream straight into black communities, this will continue to be a problem. regarding the jackson residents class action lawsuit. how strong is their precedent?
hearing from officials fool ya. we ve been dealing with boiled water notices long before this flood ever showed up and long before america ever saw what was happening to us here in jackson, mississippi. the capital of the state. they are furious that they are not getting any kind of idea as to exactly a timeline as to when they re going to be able to trust the water coming out of their taps and at this point, because they have been going through this for so many years, i think that trust has been eroded and that trust might be eroded indefinitely just like when they re going to get clean water. i was going to say, it seems like the kind of situation where ultimately like the people you spoke to in flint, the trust is just permanently broken between many between these people and their governments. sara sidner, thanks very much for your reporting tonight. sure. we ll be right back.
toward infrastructure issues around there. how do you feel about what s happening and how do you fix something like this when it feels like it s racially targeted? well, it is not only feels like it s racially targeted. if you look at the history of those communities and cities that have suffered this kind of infrastructure failure, they ve always been majority black or people of color. flint, michigan being one everyone can recall, but it s more than that. you must remember that the mayor has done a good job and his father before him who was mayor have been raising these issues before. and then when we see them come about, we act as though we did not understand that they were in trouble when they were saying that we are any day now going to face this. if this was in a wealthy white community, it would not be tolerated, and it should not be
tolerated in jackson, in flint or anywhere else. where we re now having to find ways to try and get bottled water there to help them and the response has been reverend dr. jamaal bryant called me this morning, his church, and he s calling others and his church sending four trucks down, we re sending two from the action network. but where s the response from the government, federal and state? clearly the infrastructure bill has sent money into the state. the priority ought to be where there was disproportionate neglect and jackson was disproportionately neglected, it ought to be disproportionately helped. you re talking about what should happen and you re talking about the national action network sending some help itself. do they have the organizing power right now to make those demands, to put that pressure on the state government and the federal government, which says it s helping, to make sure that