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: she's one of 200,000 residents of jackson, mississippi, who's been without drinkable water when the sudden freeze hitting the pipes. >> reporter: is your water brown? >> it is brown we don't have drinkable water. >> reporter: they are struggling to take care of a family of five >> we should not have to be living in these kinds of conditions >> reporter: the entire city is under a boil water notice with many residents lining up donating plastic bottle the aging infrastructure says he needs state funding to meet >> reporter: the pipes have been a problem for decades. why is it so long to fix? >> there is constant investment going on >> someone take responsibility and be a leader. >> reporter: morgan radford, nbc news, jackson, mississippi. >>> new developments on the highway horror in california the 13 people killed in tuesday's crash were among 40 migrants who entered the u.s. they're believed to be apart of a human smuggling operation. a mom says hospital workers missed her cancer diagnoses and falsified their records to hide their mistakes could it happen to you? >> reporter: kimberly johnson adopted three children after raising five of her own.

. >> reporter: she is 1 of 200,000 residents of jackson, mississippi who have been without drinkable water since february. >> it's browne water. >> reporter: struggling to take care of a family of five. >> can't use the water to brush our teeth. we shouldn't have to be living in these kind of conditions. >> reporter: tonight the entire city is under a boil water notice with many lining up for donated plastic bottles. the aging infrastructure a problem that he needs state funding to fix. it sounds like officials have known the pipes were a problem for decades. >> absolutely. >> why has it taken so long to fix? >> nbc news reached on out to the governor's office and hasn't reached a response, leaving residents stretched out to dry. >> someone take responsibility and be a leader. >> coming up, profiles in cowardice that you are going to want to see. profiles in cowardice that you are going to want to see. ♪ ♪ ♪ easy tools on the chase mobile app. simplicity feels good. chase. make more of what's yours. this is the planning effect. as carla thinks about retirement, she'll wonder, "what if i could retire sooner?" and so she

brown communities in the city. amy: the capital of mississippi is beginning its fifth week without safe drinking water. most of jackson is about 80% black, remains under an order to boil water.

jackson war collective to connect black businesses to resources. >> the first challenge you face as a black business owner is access to capital. >> make sure she's on the list. >> reporter: before brownld open the doors in 2019 she says her loan application was rejected by three different banks. >> i was red-lined. they didn't see that we'd be able to obtain the finances to pay them back. just based on the area we were on. the amount i was asking for i had more than that in the assets i had. that often makes me think, you know, maybe they just did not want to take the chance on me maybe because of the color of my skin. >> and then one of the collective says she's too often hears. >> i'm here for three month assessment. >> on this day is checking in with dr. brown. >> this is the only black and women-owned in the city in the middle of the pandemic so i imagine she needs support. >> she administers potentially life-saving vaccines for covid-19, she is having trouble qualifying for new loans to allow her business to grow. >> we're creating jobs here and paying taxes here, if there's any opportunities for businesses like mine. >> yeah because i know your overhead -- >> -- it's expensive,

the black parts of jackson don't have any water, just like places in texas. this will hit poor people, black people, brown people the hardest, right? >> no question whatsoever. we've already seen -- we talked about the national disparities, joy. in parts of mississippi, there is literally no place to go get a vaccine where you can't -- you have to drive basically at least an hour and a half one way. that's unacceptable. and that, by the way, when people ask about systemic racism, and jason taught me, you've taught me. this is what we're living. this is day-to-day. this is 2021. i hate to say it this way. when these things unfold, joy, it feels like nobody cared. when you see health professionals being slapped down, it feels like nobody cares and that's how texans, mississippians are feeling tonight. >> i'm sure, the doctors are exhausted. there is a term called necropolitics, basically the politics of who gets to live and who gets to die. these states what they have in common is they have structures that say black and brown lives matter less. all that matters is that the black and brown people get into th

brown communities in the city. amy: the capital of mississippi is beginning its fifth week without safe drinking water. most of jackson, which is about 80% black, remains under an order to boil water. some don't have any running water at all. this in the midst of a pandemic where washing hands could be a matter we will speak to jackson of life and death. we will speak to jackson we will speak to jackson mayor chokwe antar lumumba about the roots of the crisis from climate change to white supremacy. then deb haaland is being sworn in as secretary of the interior becoming the first native american to serve in a u.s. presidential cabinet. we look at one major issue confronting her -- the toxic legacy of thousands of closed uranium mines, many on native land. >> uranium mining harms the health of our population, the environment, and our economy. the was government has refused to clean up the mess it has made in mexico. amy: then we look at a remarkable new podcast about a man sentenced to life in prison as a juvenile and a journalist who befriended him and chronicled his story all the way to unexpected freedom. amy: we wi

being limited within black and brown communities and the methodology with which we've been providing vaccines to communities is reflective of that. that is why the city of jacksonr covid task force we've assembled of local medical professionals, wanted to step in and see how we could make improvement to those numbers. it is extremely alarming when you know that mississippi, the black population, is approximately 40% of the population. and to only see 25%, which is an improvement from the earlier days where it was about at 13%. and so we're stepping up to make it available. there have been a lot of questions about fear and concern around the vaccine. but i think that that has been overblown blown overblown. more so i think it was attributable to the issue of access within the community. >> there is also concern about moving forward without the mask mandate. the governor rescinded that mask mandate. we've talked a lot about texas but also that's happening in mississippi. you say that in the city of jackson, the mask mandate stands. what have you heard from business owners there about what the governor has decided, your executive order, is your decision as well, a

residents of jackson, mississippi who have been without drinkable water since mid-february when a sudden freeze hit the city's aging water pipes. your water just started tricking in. >> yes. >> is it brown it drinkable? >> it's brown. we still don't have drinkable water. >> struggling to take care of a family of five. >> can't use the water to brush our teeth. we shouldn't have to be living in these kind of conditions. >> reporter: tonight the entire city is under a boil water notice with many residents lining up for donated plastic bottles. the amging infrastructure a problem he says he needs state funding to fix. it sounds like officials have known that the pipes have been a problem for decades. >> absolutely. >> so why has it taken so long to fix? >> there's constant investment going on, but it's still insufficient, and we're looking at more than a billion dollars worth of problem. >> reporter: nbc news reached out to the governor's office and has not yet received a response, leaving residents feeling left out to dry. >> someone take responsibility and be a leader. >> reporter: morgan radford, nbc news, jackson, mississippi. >>> coming up, profiles in cowardice that you're going to w