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PHUKET: The Darasamut Underpass on the bypass road will be closed from 8:30am to 4:30pm next Wednesday (Sept 21) so that workers can install new pumps inside the tunnel.

Part in p bedtime. he never thought the biggest danger would be the drinker water. >> can you drink out of the water fountain at school? >> no, im going to die. >> a 6-year-old worrying about death over the governments failure to ensure safe drinking water. >> i mean, do you have a heart? what god you serve? its an insult, the capital city of the state of mississippi. and this is what we go through. >> you dont have clean drinking water. >> no. >> reporter: wilson uses bottled water for drinking...

That took out the water treatment plant, where pumps had already been failing, leading 150,000 plus residents without safe drinking water. do you remember when the water seemed to go bad here, and jackson? >> ten, 12 years. >> more than a decades? >> it really got worse. >> families in jackson say the water crisis in the capital city of mississippi started long before long -- even the new head of the environmental protection agency knows that. >> just this year alone, were gonna make over ten bi...

Water fountain in school? >> no, i will die! >> a six-year-old worrying about death over the government s failure to ensure safe drinking water. >> i mean, do you have a heart? what god do you serve? its an insult to the state of mississippi. and this is what we go through. >> you dont have clean drinking water? >> no. >> wilson uses bottled water for drinking and boils water every day multiple, times a day, for everything else. >> this time, it was a flood that took out the water treatment plan...

Learning. in response, governor tate reeves mobilize the national guard. so far, troops have handed out millions of bottles, water bottles. they also promised that one of the damaged pumps well be back up and running later this week. but experts say jacksons water crisis was years in the making. and, as more evidence of racial inequality in americas infrastructure. joining me now is russel honore, a retired lieutenant general who served as a commander of the joint task force that responded to hu...

Well, those pumps are out being custom made by a machinimachini. custom made because theyre o old and outdated theres nowhere to go to get a new one or replace parts so they have to be remade from scratch. you heard the mayor talk about the pipes that are brittle. they are expecting more leaks that could happen. there was an ammonia leak happening at the facility just yesterday, just another one of those many problems theyre dealing with here in jackson and that boil water advisory continues, lo...

They are expecting another 36 truckloads to come through today to drop off more water. but the mayor of jackson is tempering expectations saying even if we get some of the problems at this water treatment plant fixed, other problems may pop up. take a listen. >> i do want to forewarn you another issue we may experience as theyre able to increase the pressure at the plant to levels that it has not seen in many years, the challenge then becomes whether we have pipes that rupture across the city. w...

Toys for kids. fri hard to believe thats true. but chris rufo has that story for us now. itris , thanks so much for coming on . is this does sound like something you made does up, buu didnt? >> it does. and unfortunately, itssituat actually true. and so whaiot the situation is , is that the lurie childrenslurh hospitalildr of chicago,he large the largest childrens hospital in the state of illinois, partnered with at least four public school districts promotinoug radical gender theoa as part of t...

This happened again roughly a month ago and we did it maybe five weeks ago and we did it for about 12 to 18 days at that point. we dont blink when they tell us its time to boil water. we dont flinch. were so desensitized to the fact that its such a common occurrence to boil water, you didnt hear anything about it and you wont. its not until the pumps have failed and the pressure is gone that theres really an issue that comes to light for everyone. >> its opened up the eyes of the country to the ...

Remarkable. in this country today, today marks the fourth day in a row, that more than 150,000 people in jackson, mississippi, state capital, are without safe drinking water. yesterday, car after car, lined up hours to get bottled water. >> a new rental pump has been installed at the failed water plant. but the governor cautioned there will be more interruptions ahead, calling this unavoidable. lets go back to our colleague in jackson. this facility is awaiting new parts to be shipped so crews c...