morgan radford >> reporter: using bucket to collect rain water to get by >> collecting it here to flush the toilet >> reporter: 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 worke

later the city bears the scars from the virus that's hit its black community especially hard morgan radford♪ >> reporter: a once vibrant city fueled by music and mardi gras, now reeling from the effects of tragedy how was your organization impacted by covid >> well, we lost 17 of our members. >> reporter: it's a story that's become all too common for the members of the zulu social club, one of the oldest mardi gras fraternal clubs in new orleans. a city where the per capita death rate from covid was once the highest in the u.s and where black residents account for 60% of the city's population but 72% of its covid-related deaths >> the devastation was highly concentrated on us >> reporter: do you think enough was done to stop the spread in the past year? >> this reminds me of like a katrina type of situation where you have so much catastrophic damage to businesses but it's not surface damage >> reporter: how does the pandemic compare to your experience of katrina? >> with katrina we saw the end and knew what we needed to start a new beginning. with this we haven't gotten to the end and nobod

morgan radford, thank you. joining us now, dr. zika, a member of the president's covid advisory board during the transition. doctor, thank you for being with us. we're seeing these states at this hour alabama's governor announcing they're keeping it on another four weeks. what can we do to let these people know what a big mistake this is? >> it is a huge mistake for two reasons. i think as one of the people interviewed said, we're celebrating in the third quarter. we're nowhere near done. the country has 66,000 new cases a day. between 1100 and 2000 deaths a day. and their 14-day trend in texas is down, not up. they're going in the wrong direction. they're not even in the third quarter, and mississippi had a decrease and now it's also going back up. these are no times to reverse. that's the trend. but even worse is we're expecting this big dissemination of the b.1.1 .7 from england. we know it's more deadly and more transmisable. a colleague said that variant got into a nursing home there and literally overnight, every patient in

joining us now from atlanta with more on this is nbc news correspondent, morgan radford. it's unique, unusual, and unlike anything that i have ever seen before. this is an all-black militia. and they say they were created because they feel like especially given the race relations in the country during the trump administration, they felt like they needed to respond. because they said the u.s. government and law enforcement, simply put, was not doing enough to protect black people in this country. and so they decided to take matters into their own hands. but what's interesting, kasie, is that this is a movement that is growing. according to their leader, grand master jay, he says they now boast recruits in now every single state. you may have seen them even marching by the thousands, for example, in louisville, kentucky, in september. they were demonstrating in support of breonna taylor. and they also said that they wanted answers. so they basically move around the country to places where they feel like black people are being targeted or have been mistreated. and they're the

>> morgan radford on the nfac. morgan, do keep us posted.e go, folks. i just want to clarify a story from a few moments ago quite possibly the most important story of the day for many of you, that krispy kreme story, you remember the one i told you about a few moments ago you get vaccinated and you get a free krispy kreme doughnut. folks, it's a doughnut every day if you'd like. you have to provide some sort of documentation that you've gotten your shot. if you do, a doughnut every day from krispy kreme through 2021. we do not have time to talk about the potential other adverse health effects one might experience if you eat a doughnut every day for the rest of the year. that's for some other time, but you get your shot and you get a doughnut and that's going to do it for me this hour. up next, andrea mitchell will talk to jake sullivan about his trip to afghanistan and new tensions between russia and china. o afghanistan and new tensions between russia and china. - [narrator] at southern new hampshire university, we're committed to making co

morgan radford is in new orleans are some members of the black community say the pandemic has done more hurricane katrina. morgan, it's frustrating to cover in this respect. we hear all the right things when it comes to vaccine equity from the government, we've heard all the right things from the medical groups and from local leaders. yet it hasn't mattered whether -- it hasn't mattered who is in charge of a city or a state. these inequities continue to show up. do we have a good answer? >> chuck, you nailed it. it's an incredibly frustrating thing to see play out on the ground. i think that comparison to katrina says it all. nearly every person we've spoken to on the ground has made a comparison to the effects of covid and the effects of katrina. the reality on paper the effects of covid has been far worse. 8 times the number died from covid compared to katrina. and unemployment numbers, at the height of unemployment is worse after covid and during covid than after hurricane katrina. what you're seeing is that both of these catastrophes have been playing out on the ground here and they

here's nbc's morgan radford. >> for the pedana family, the pandemic meant losing a generation of loved ones jennifer lost her mother maureen to covid-19 last april 18 days later, she lost her father kenneth. >> the very last conversation i ever had with my dad was him begging me to not let him die. then her husband's father died too. >> basically within ten months, we have lost three of our four parents. >> reporter: a story playing out nationwide more than 80% of covid deaths are among people 65 and older. more than 80% of whom have grandchildren, that's an estimated 1.2 million children losing a grandparent just in the last year. >> reporter: they got the virus, the coronavirus, and it made them pretty sick, huh. >> yeah, and the doctors couldn't fix their hearts. >> reporter: the loss experts say could affect children in unexpected ways. >> some children may have nightmares, we often might exhibit them having more clingy behaviors, and certainly we may also see some behavioral changes where a child might be more withdrawn. >> reporter: dr. barry's recommendations, use clear, simple

morgan radford is with us. morgan, you talked to this militia.hey said that was about defense. it was specifically about defending black americans. they felt like the government and law enforcement simply was not doing enough to protect black people, so they said they're willing to do it by any means necessary. what's interesting is that their movement is getting a specific number, but they said they have new numbers popping up in every single state. when we went to an undisclosed nation here in georgia, we saw so many people out there training with long rifles for what they say is the cause. take a listen. the sound of war right here at home. this is the nfac, an all-black militia with a mission to defend the black community by any means necessary. so this is training for one of the new factors? >> yes. >> training from georgia to louisville, kentucky, protesting killings and for what they believe is a threat for right-wing militia. the movement started in 2017 by this man, grand master jay johnson. is the movement growing? >> by leaps and bound

morgan radford is in jackson this morning. how are folks coping? >> reporter: it's hour by hour.ng able to brush your teeth or wash your hands or take a shower for three weeks in your own home. this is how the city is getting by. donation sites like this. you can see the national guard tanker trucks filled with water at a local high school in jackson, mississippi. they have been waking up to a nightmare. every day waking up to a boil water advisory, which means that the water that's coming out of their pipes they can't trust. that's if they have any water at all. right now, nearly 200,000 residents here in jackson, mississippi, do not have drinkable water. they get by with donations, bottled water people are driving up to receive to get to the basic daily functions. listen to what some of the residents told us. how are you with this family of five getting by right now? >> we don't know what's coming out of the water. i don't feel comfortable bathing in it. i don't feel comfortable brushing our teeth and cooking or anything else like that. >> we were without running water for 15 d

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nbc's morgan radford live outside a church in jackson, where people are handing out bottled water. reporter: shepard, good evening. you can see the people driving up here now to collect these donated bottles of water, but i have to be honest with you, the bottom line is this is a city in crisis we're talking, for more than two weeks, nearly 200,000 residents here in jackson who have not had drinkable water, and that's not to mention the thousands more who simply do not have any running water at all as you mentioned just earlier, we spoke to people who were putting out buckets on their back deck just to catch the rain, others who were boiling these plastic bottles of water just so they could brush their teeth or wash their hands in the middle of a pandemic take a listen to what dr. barbara howard told us todaybars today. how long have you been >> how long have you within been collecting these buckets of water? >> so, this rainwater came on monday and i had been praying for the rain so i wouldn't have to go to distribution sites to collect water. i brush my teeth and wash my hands wit

morgan radford is going to show us how this got started. >>> then 30 minutes on the "3rd hour of todayme more rest. here's what you need. sound machines, maybe a spray for your pillow. we'll have the editor of "real simple" magazine revealing their best in sleep awards. >>> first, let's get a check of the weather. >> all right. don't sleep yet. let's show you what we have. looking ahead toward the week, we have wet weather from the gulf coast all the way to the mid-atlantic, some snow in interior sections of new england and new york. dry out west. cold in the central plains. then it becomes mild by midweek. a rain threat starts to increase through southern california. heavy rain along the southeastern atlantic coast. as we head into friday, we're looking at another shot of cold air in the northeast. above average temperatures in the plains. a storm coming into the pacific northwest. that's what's going on around the country. here's what's happening in your >>> good morning, i'm meteorologist kari hall. checking the temperatures for the inland areas, upper 60s today. still nice and sunn

joining us now from atlanta with more on this, nbc news correspondent morgan radford. t this group. >> mika, good morning. the bottom line is this group says that the u.s. government as well as law enforcement simply does not do enough to protect black americans in this country, which is why they say they're taking matters into their own hands. and interestingly, mika, this is a group that is growing. they say they now boast recruits in nearly every single state. so we decided to go and embed with them and see exactly what they're doing and why. take a listen. >> reporter: the sounds of war, right here at home. this is the nfac. an all-black militia with a mission to defend the black community by any means necessary. so this is training for one of the new chapters? >> yes. >> reporter: appearing by the hundreds at protests from stone mountain, georgia, to louisville, kentucky, demanding justice for police killings and countering what they believe is the threat of right-wing militias. it's a movement started in 2017 by this man, former musician and army veteran, john gra

thousands of families in jackson, mississippi, are still without clean, running water morgan radford e being distributed to families in jackson to get through the day, the basic necessities like washing their hands or brushing their teeth. but the reality is they're waking up this morning to another boil water advisory. which means they can't trust the water that's coming out of their pipes if they have any running water at all this morning, a city in crisis >> my faucet, nada >> stores don't have water >> we're suffering in the city of jackson >> reporter: nearly 200,000 residents in jackson, mississippi surviving without drinkable water for more than two weeks. thousands have no running water at all after a sudden freeze wreaked havoc on the city's aging water pipes. >> that's all the way up. >> reporter: this man is struggling to keep his entire family how are you with this family of five getting by? >> we don't know what's coming out of the water i don't feel comfortable bathing in it. i definitely don't feel comfortable cooking or brushing our teeth. >> reporter: he's not alone.