Good morning, Playbookers. I'm Kara Tabor. It's Thursday and the first day of September.

Today, Alaska rejects Sarah Payland while Mississippi confronts a water crisis. This is your

Politico Playbook Daily Briefing. There's been a shocker in Alaska as Democrat Mary Peltola won Alaska's special election on Wednesday, making her, quote, the first Alaska native in Congress.

The Anchorage Daily News is Iris Samuels reports.

Peltola is also the first person elected via the state's new ranked choice voting system.

Quote, Paltola topped Republican former governor Sarah Palin, after ballots were tallied,

and after votes for third-place GOP candidate Nick Begich III, were redistributed to his supporters' second choices.

Peltola, a Yupik former state lawmaker, who calls Bethel home,

is now slated to be the first woman to hold Alaska's lone U.S. house seat, unquote.

Peltola, Palinand, and Begich will face off again in November for a full term.

Thank you. in November for a full term. While Washington chews on headlines about President Joe Biden's pre-midterm road blitz and former President Donald Trump's legal jeopardy,

an American city of more than 150,000

people is struggling to deliver clean drinking water to its residents.

There's no clear end in sight to the crisis in Jackson, Mississippi, which was sparked

by record rainfall that flooded the Pearl River, but is rooted in much more persistent issues

of public disinvestment, political

neglect, and racial inequity. As with Hurricanes Katrina and Harvey, as well as the water

crisis in Flint, Michigan, majority of black communities are left bearing the brunt of

the dysfunction, not just during a crisis, but for years before and after.

On Wednesday, Biden called Jackson mayor Chouquet Antar Lumumba and offered help just hours after declaring a federal emergency, allowing agencies to surge resources into the stricken

city.

Arhanna-Northy reports that officials have, quote, pinned Jackson's current water woes on a

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