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
to donald trump s lawsuit requesting that a special master review documents retrieved from his palm beach home. donald trump sued the justice department last week to stop the review of those documents, in a move many are seeing as a delay tactic. in that lawsuit, trump s lawyers claim that he always gave the government complete cooperation. the justice department has until midnight tonight to respond to those claims, and by all accounts they sure have a lot to say. yesterday, the department asked the judge permission to go beyond 20 page filing limit, and submit a 40-page response. 14 pages to trump s lawsuit. the government said it needed the extra pages to, quote, adequately address the legal and factual issues raised by trump s motion. again, that filing can come literally any moment now. that doj filing could potentially shed more light on the government s criminal investigation, and will no doubt serve as a 40-page rebuttal to donald trump s claims of complete cooperatio
and can you see the countdown at the top of your screen. look at the vice president and her husband will be there to speak. this is the first time a woman and a person of color has gone to the moon. steve: that is ultimately the goal. this particular flight though will be unmanned. they will have three test mannequins strapped in to figure out what radiation effects and everything else. you will see it live if it goes off on our show. it s all about the heat shield, they say because it s a test flight. the idea is to make sure that the heat shield can protect the people inside and they really won t know that until it comes back. brian: yeah, i mean, you got to you are going to watch two rockets disengaged and then ultimately just be the orion craft that will go into the moon s orbit, whip around a few times and then come back octobe. so that s a 42-day mission. and we ll probably cover all 42 days. steve: you know what, brian, you are probably right. we will mention i