Water emergency declared in Mississippi capital

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A state of emergency has been declared for Jackson, Mississippi, due to the growing water crisis in the state capital. Residents are without safe drinking water and virtually no running water after recent storms damaged the city’s water treatment plant. Janet Shamlian reports.

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39 Comments

  1. Why would Mississippi allow their water system to go so long without repair, why would anyone want to to live in Mississippi, there seem to be real with the people that live in that swamp.

  2. there used to be a saying "water water everywhere but not a drop to DRINK", and you used to think it meant a stranded guy out in the sea or on a deserted island.. nope its in USA.

  3. With all the money sent to Ukraine 🇺🇦…. That problem could’ve been fixed.

    We got money for wars but can’t feed the poor -(2pac)

  4. MITT ROMNEYS RINOS HATE AMERICA!!!!!!!!! IF TRUMP RAN MISS THIS STATE WOULD BE SO FULL OF DRINKABLE WATER YOU WOULD BE SICK OF ALL THE WINNING!!! MAGA!!!!!!! HANNITY!!!!! TRUMP!!!! TUCKER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE WOKE RINOS MUST GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  5. $15 billion to solve the water crisis in Flint and in Mississippi. Yet our government just sent another batch of money to Ukraine? Ukraine has so far received $54 billion dollars from the United States Government. How much money has Mississippi and Flint Michigan received?? ZERO DOLLARS $

  6. What will happen is that the city will sell out to a water corporation so they will eventually get clean water and eventually end up paying more per month for water my prayers are with them all and that God watches over them

  7. They are in a terrible flood zone so why would anyone want to live there and then water problems for years anyways…..now last minute scramble around like chicks with heads cut off for clean water???

  8. Damn can't flush the toilet how does this happen in the state largest city. This sounds like mismanagement after mismanagement for decades.

  9. Pathetic to see the WOKE Mississippi liberals relying on the socialists Biden emergency rescue. The entire country is broken when the so called "conservatives" are so woke. A joke. 40 years ago the WOKE Mississippi people would make their own water. Now they are tuned into CNN and MSBNC and calling their WOKE congress people for help. LOSERS as DONALD J TRUMP would say.

  10. So sad. MS is full of socialists who want government hand outs. Instead of embracing the free marker and the church they are RINOs like Romney who beg for handouts and cannot pull themselves up by their own bootstraps. Reagan Hannity and Trump would hate them. PATHETHIC!!!!!!!!!!! Lower their taxes and they would solve their own problems. As Ronald said when govt shows up to your door shoot them in the face (Cheney agrees!) A bunch of LOSERS as Donald J Trump says who cannot solve their own problem without the liberal woke Biden feeding them money. SAD

  11. "Flood waters overran the pumps." CBS, you forgot rule #1 of journalism. The most important information comes first and the least important information is last. Do you want to know the piece of information that is the most critical bit of your story: How it happened. It is extremely unusual for a water treatment system to fail such that an emergency for a large area is declared, which means the most important piece of information that everyone wants to know is how it happened in the first place. We don't need 1 minute 45 seconds of fluff prior to that singular piece of information. And then you don't simply blow past that piece of information as the briefest of factoids to get back to the stopgap measure of bottled water and the three people who would be willing to talk with you on camera. Now I'm going to have to wait for Brady of Practical Engineering to produce a video on how this went down because you couldn't be bothered to do your job properly. The dangerous part of this is when the system gets back online, if the system is as old as is implied, the backpressure from the pumps could be the final straw and blow the whole system to kingdom come. Shutdown and startup of a citywide water system is already an extremely rare occurrence because of that danger. I don't even remember the last time anyone did a full water system reset for a large city. It's that rare. I get that you aren't engineers, but you have contacts with all kinds of people.

  12. Where’s Biden and his green new people? Why haven’t they gone to help out? He’s too busy eating ice cream 🍦. Build back better right? But their water treatment plant has had issues for the last two years. Don’t hold your breath for the Biden administration to help out. 🙄

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