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and the biggest rivalry in women s basketball gets ugly. angel reese cheering this hard foul on caitlin clark. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with jose diaz-balart. good evening. a crisis is unfolding across a major american city right now. much of atlanta does not have any water at all, and there is no end in sight. take a look at this. this is just one of the water mains that burst on friday. now more than 24 hours later it s still gushing. one major hospital is now diverting most emergency patients and has to transport others to different facilities. the city s aquarium shutdown. a major pop star s concert canceled. the mayor late today saying there is no time line for repairs. george solis starts us off tonight. reporter: tonight, a major american city is in crisis as a water outage wreaks havoc across atlanta.
trip currents still a major, major concern. thousands of people still vulnerable and it could stay ta way for weeks. of course, the buffalo bayou which you ve heard so much about, filled with water, still flowing. more than flowing. still gushing. cnn s alisyn cam mer rot ta on the bangings. reporter: you and i spoke exactly 24 hours ago. i will give you my report on what has transpired in the past day. the continues ever rapidly changing. i was in this spot yet but if i were exact lir in this spot i would have been chest deep in water. let me just walk you around. the i m about to be standing here on what is now, today, a sand dune. there s not normally sand here. this is normally just a walkway. in downtown houston, but obviously the bayou has brought
reporter: in addition to complaining about the impact that the oil has had on tourism and the fishing industry and even the oil industry, she says that she misses the things of every day life that she once took for granted, even used to complain about, what she describes as her rut. she says she wants her rut back, jon. jon: you ve got the tests on hold, you ve got the oil still gushing, what are they doing about it? reporter: they are calling for additional skimmers into the area to deal with the additional oil that they anticipate will continue gushing out of that weapon. they haven t offered any guarantees as to when the testing will begin or when even the attempts to shut down the cap on the well will begin, so they are calling in additional vessels to deal with collect being the oil as it rises to the surface, jon. jon: jonathan serrie in grand isle, louisiana for us, thank you. jenna: we talked a lot about this it s one of the world s
and then see if there are leaks in other areas of the well. so they may have a better idea of that tomorrow, shep. shepard: jonathan serrie live in new orleans. for viewers who are just joining us breaking news from the gulf of mexico, this may be the beginning of the containment cap, a new one being placed over that gusher in the gulf of mexico with hopes of containing all of the oil if not tomorrow, at least in the very near future. the lights down below on the left and a close-up version on the right. we are still waiting for anything from bp. unless we sound like groundhog day unless when we get something new actually there is a pan down now and that is down to what we believe to be the rest of the containment cap and still no firm indication of whether it s still gushing. when we know, we will take you back there live. caution, the next segment may be very offensive to some of you. the new mel gibson tapes are out and they are next.