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In jackson, mississippi, today, epa tray store michael reegen vowed that the biden administration will do everything it can to help a city struggling with what he call aid public health, social justice, and economic crisis. he visited the water treatment plant at the center of this problem with local and state officials, including mississippi governor tate reeves, who offered this update. >> wither doing investigative testing on the water. if you're producing perfectly clean water out of the facility, it typically takes about three days to get the entire system flushed out with the water that ...

Americans. we thought that number was outrageous so we asked the epa administrator about the number today. he said, nope, that sounds about right and we need to fix it, as fast as we can. don? >> sara sidner in jackson, mississippi. sarah, thank you so much. i appreciate it. a 20-year-old black man fatally shot by police. he was unarmed, in bed. donovan lewis's mother is here speaking about -- we're gonna talk about that after this.

Provide stability to the system. this is why this administration fought so hard for the bipartisan infrastructure law and the historic investment will go a long way in rebuilding the infrastructure and trust in this country. >> reporter: the epa administrator knows that trust is going to be hard to come by because when jackson said the water was safe over the years, it wasn't. >> my son has adhd, he has emotional and developmental disorders and he's not caught up with his class. >> jackson had a number of violations from the environmental protection agency over decades. >> reporter: so ten mon...

>> and there she is, a person who got the story is -- joins us now. sarah, good evening to you. listen, i'm sure a lot of people are watching this wondering about their own water. my question for you is, what do you know about just how many people across this country are living with unsafe? water >> don, that is the thing that really set a lot of people off. there is a professor -- she looked at safety of the water across the united states and found that about 78% of the population is living with unsafe drinking water. that's about 20 million americans. we thought that number was outrageous so...

The mississippi free press in jackson, she wrote last year quote, many of our same prominent whites who proudly attended well funded public schools in jackson, before integration used the state legislator to control how much jackson can tax our own citizens in order to pay for our own needs. >> they won't support desperately needed fled mitigation for the city -- unless it provides betrayed people with water development. flood mitigation. when donna lad wrote that piece in march, 2021, heavy storms in jackson, mississippi had led to a water crisis where residents had no water to flush their to...