a tragic irony unfolding in mississippi where just days ago record rains inundated the jackson area yet tonight that city finds itself in desperate need of usable water after failure of the main treatment plant. governor tate reeves declaring a state of emergency, saying the city cannot produce enough water to meet other critical needs and imploring residents to not drink this water tonight officials are struggling to distribute bottled water to the estimated 180,000 people affected as we reported last night, the jackson area has suffered water infrastructure issues for years most recently, boil-water notices have been in effect. the crisis now worsened by the recent floodwaters, and it is raining there again tonight. nbc is in jackson. reporter: tonight, a race to distribute water in jackson, mississippi. cars lined up for miles outside distribution centers full of locals hoping for water who left empty-handed after the supply quickly ran out. the water that they are giv
preparations for the major rollout. reporter: a new pfizer covid vaccine is rolling off the assembly line in kalamazoo. the first thing you notice is that the tops of the viles are not purple you notice the color change reporter: a new color because there is a new target, the omicron ba.4 and ba.5 variants but it still needs fda authorization, which could come as early as this week. we have doses ready virtually immediately. so, within 24 hours trucks will leave the facility reporter: so that could be people this weekend getting shots potentially. we are ready to go whenever the approval comes down reporter: pfizer s chief global supply officer gave nbc new an exclusive tour of the massive production facility first thing we want to do is make sure that every element of that vile is to perfection reporter: back in june, the fda asked both pfizer and moderna to develop shots targeting ba.5, which makes up most of the cases in the u.s
what are we looking at? everything from our co-2 emissions to our opacity, mercury. reporter: this is the coal fired plant in southwest indiana. when the plant was down for a scheduled outage, we were brought here for an exclusive tour. this is where it starts in it is. this is where we unload coal. reporter: the constant stream of coal means a constant stream of pollution. according to an investigation by the center for public integrity, in 2014, 22 facilities they call super polluters, industrial sites in the top 100 of either greenhouse gas or toxic air emissions, were on both lists. of those 22, four, including rockport, are in southwest indiana. rockport is in the middle of a massive project to reduce emons. what is the reasons you are
york city. look at it. that s pretty incredible, and it is attracting the richest people from around the world. felicia taylor has an exclusive look inside that building. reporter: souring over 1,000 feet above the streets of new york, west 57th street. when finished in early 2014 it will be the tallest residential building in new york city, and one of the most expensive places to live. it will have 92 luxury apartments with a price tag between 6 to $8,000 a square foot. the two duplex penalty house units are in contact between 90 and $100 million and they are not even finished yet. how big is this apartment? the development president gary barnett gave us an exclusive tour of what many call the billionaires building. what is it about this building that commands such incredibly enormous prices? central park, direct long view is the money shot, and there are none of the other
for mike pompeo, incoming cia director follow. that s about it. the trump transition is saying wait a second, in 2008, we had our political differences with incoming president barack obama but we confirmed seven of his nominees on the first saturday. i also, asked shawn spice bert first order of business in terms of what the executive orders would be. that donald trump when he becomes president will sign upon entering the oval office. he said they haven t figured out what the sequencing will be. some of the things donald trump has talked about is obamacare, sigs, and creating strong borders. likely wouldn t get to that meaty part of it until monday. he will sign some executive odds on friday, taking over the reins of power likely. i managed to spend the next hour inside the transition headquarters, john spicer took me on an exclusive tour, met the entire communications team who have been cracking out the