I'm Victor Black. Well, this is CNN tonight. Right now, we are waiting for the Justice Department's

Rebuttal to Trump's legal team on the Mar-a-Lago documents. And we will talk about that later.

Because at this same moment, more than 150,000 people are waiting for water in a major American

city, a state capital, Jackson, Mississippi. Tonight, families there cannot be sure their

toilets will flush. That there's enough water to brush their teeth, the shower, even send

their kids to school. Instead, they spent the day in lines for hours to get one case of water

until the water ran out. And after spending their day like this in 90 degree temperatures,

many were turned away from the distribution event at Hawkins Airfield. Now, the director of the

state emergency management says that seven distribution sites will be set up by Thursday.

In the meantime, people turn to stores where the shelves are nearly bare.

It's very frustrating. It's very frustrating to have to fight for some water. You know what I'm

saying? You gotta mess around by five cases of water just to stay hydrated. It's just kind of

scary because we don't know if anything's gonna get done or when it's gonna get done. After work,

I get off late and you come in the store and it's empty. Water we're talking about. Let's back up

and talk about how we got here. Moderate flooding in Jackson, Mississippi crippled the city's largest

water facility. National Guard troops trained for the devastation of hurricanes. They've been

deployed, but this is not a disaster. Some once in a lifetime a storm. American citizens in 2022,

struggling for the most basic human need is the culmination of decades of failure to fix a system

that dates back to the 1950s. This failure is so foreseeable that the president mentioned Jackson

by name more than a year ago. Never again can we allow what happened in Flint, Michigan and Jackson

Mississippi can never let it happen again. That was part of the celebration for the Senate

passage of the Infrastructure Act. It allocated billions of dollars for Mississippi, including

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