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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 a ....
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 ....