and what will probably be a bumpy ride all the way to november 8th. president biden is talking about the normalization of political violence, the spread of big lies, and one ever-growing donald trump who is calling for lawlessness and promises, even promising pardons to those convicted of violent insurrection and crimes. trump took the stage last night for the first time since the fbi searched his home. he claimed that they searched the room of his wife and teenaged son, and again ramped up the dangerous rhetoric against president biden, and against law enforcement. because we should not forget the good news, the cdc recommending a new booster to fight the highly contagious omicron subvariant, and the economy guesting a boost with another solid month of job creation, and there may be some hope ahead for the residents of jackson, mississippi, who are now in their seventh door without clean water. in a moment, i will ask the head of fema about the progress made to end that cris
big red flashing lights that we are starting our descent into the midterms. what will probably be a bumpy ride all the way to november 8th, president biden is warning about the normalization of political violence. the spread of big lies. and one ever growing donald trump who is calling for lawlessness and promises, and even promising parties to those convicted of violent insurrection crimes. trump took the stage last night for the first time since the fbi searched his home. he claimed that they searched the room of his wife and teenage son. again, ramped up the dangerous rhetoric against president biden and against law enforcement. of course, we must not forget the good news. the cdc recommending a new booster to fight the highly contagious omicron subvariant. and the economy getting a boost with another solid month of job creation. maybe some hope ahead for the residents of jackson, mississippi. who are now in their seven 77th day without clean air and clean water. in a mome
fema now the ability to do a few things. first and foremost, we re focused on the immediate needs we want to make sure we can continue to support the mississippi emergency management with their effort to deliver bottled water and we will continue to do that. we can also, through this declaration, provide temporary repairs to keep the water pressure up, first build it back up, but then keep the water pressure up, so individuals and residents in jackson, mississippi, can at least flush their toilets. the other thing that i think is really important about what fema can bring to the table now is that we can bring in our federal partners and we already talked with the army corps of engineers and epa who will do an assessment to look at what it will take to get this water treatment facility back to a level that can provide dependable service to the residents of jackson, mississippi. and i think what we need to focus on is what those immediate
now. and so where fema is really going to have their attention is we re going to foundation on making sure we are all working together. when i visited on friday, what i saw was a really cohesive team between the federal, state and local officials really focused on understanding what it is going to take to fix this problem, and then we re going to be able to help figure out what are the right sources to bring in, to help get this to a, to a point that can support this community. we want to focus on the future right now and making sure that we re really hyper focused on helping the residents of jackson. for our audience who may not know, september is national preparedness month, and i know fema has brought this up with the mecca, howard university, and other black colleges on an initiative to promote disaster readiness in black communities. and in fact, you spoke at howard this week. and i saw you got some howard
but we absolutely need to show the american public, particularly black america, that this legislation that was passed is going to address this issue, and ask the black voters to remember who voted for the bipartisan infrastructure bill, and who did not vote for it, come this november. and we must make sure local officials bring that infrastructure bill money back into those communities that have been disproportionately impacted but you re right, if it wasn t for president biden and the democrats in congress, we wouldn t even have that. thank you thank you very much, congressman marc veasey. joining me now is fema administrator, deann chriswell. administrator chriswell, thank you for joining us tonight. and of course, i have to start with the situation in jackson, mississippi, where now roughly 150,000, mostly black residents, are headed into their second