| By Dan Donahue, NBC Nightly News |
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| Good Tuesday afternoon. Nearly 200,000 people are without clean drinking water in Mississippi’s capital, the DOJ is facing another deadline in the battle over documents seized from Mar-a-Lago, and the U.S. has reported what may be its first monkeypox death. |
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| Here is what’s in our Nightly Rundown. |
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Mississippi governor declares state of emergency over Jackson water crisis |
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| The state’s capital is without reliable running water, after heavy rain and flooding forced the city to cut production at its main treatment plant. |
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| Reeves said the state emergency management agency will take the lead in distributing drinking water and non-drinking water to residents. |
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| “We need to provide it for up to 180,000 people — for an unknown period of time,” the governor said in his statement. |
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| Jackson’s water problems began well before the recent storms and flooding. As our Stephanie Gosk reported on last night’s broadcast, the city has been under a boil water notice for weeks. |
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| In 2020, the EPA cited a long list of problems with the city’s water system, including failure to replace lead pipes, faulty monitoring equipment, and inadequate staffing. |
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Severe storms moving into East, heat alerts in the West |
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| We’re tracking severe storms moving to the east after leaving a deadly and destructive path through the Midwest and Great Lakes on Monday. |
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| A girl was electrocuted by a downed power line and a woman was crushed by a tree when the powerful line of storms slammed Michigan, Ohio, Illinois and Indiana yesterday. |
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| Today, the same cold front is bringing storms capable of damaging winds and torrential rain to the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast. |
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| In the West, 52 million people are under heat alerts. In California, today marks the start of a long-duration heat wave that’s not expected to peak until the weekend. |
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DOJ faces deadline to respond to Trump’s special master request |
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| The Justice Department is facing a deadline today to file its response to former President Donald Trump’s request for a special master to review the documents the FBI recovered during the search at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago home. |
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| But on Monday, the department said it had already completed its initial review of the documents, and identified a “limited set of materials that potentially contain attorney-client privileged information.” |
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| Trump’s legal team pushed back. "We have a lot of problems really accepting at face value everything that's coming out of the DOJ these days, it's a very politicized place I'm sad to say,” said James Trusty, one of Trump’s attorneys. |
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| DOJ says it may have recovered from privileged documents from Mar-a-Lago seizure |
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U.N. inspectors arrive in Kyiv ahead of nuclear plant visit |
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| A team of United Nations inspectors has arrived in Kyiv ahead of their planned visit to a Russian-controlled nuclear power plant in southeastern Ukraine later this week. |
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| Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met today with the delegation, headed by International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi, according to Ukraine public broadcaster Suspline. |
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| Both Ukraine and Russia have blamed each other for the shelling attacks near the power plant that have raised international fears of a nuclear catastrophe. |
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| Zelenskky has said he is confident that Ukrainian forces will push Russia’s military back to pre-2014 borders, when Moscow annexed Crimea. “We will chase them to the border,” he said in a video address on Monday. |
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What else we’re watching: |
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