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By Dan Donahue, NBC Nightly News

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.

Here is what’s in our Nightly Rundown.

Mississippi governor declares state of emergency over Jackson water crisis

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has declared a state of emergency and activated the National Guard in response to the water crisis in Jackson.

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.

Reeves said the state emergency management agency will take the lead in distributing drinking water and non-drinking water to residents.

“We need to provide it for up to 180,000 people — for an unknown period of time,” the governor said in his statement.

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.

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.

We’re tracking severe storms moving to the east after leaving a deadly and destructive path through the Midwest and Great Lakes on Monday.

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.

Today, the same cold front is bringing storms capable of damaging winds and torrential rain to the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast.

The severe weather is expected to arrive during the evening rush hour along the I-95 corridor in cities such as Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia, and after sunset for cities like New York and Boston.

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.

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.

A Florida federal judge had suggested last weekend that she is inclined to grant Trump’s request.

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.”

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.

DOJ says it may have recovered from privileged documents from Mar-a-Lago seizure

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.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met today with the delegation, headed by International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi, according to Ukraine public broadcaster Suspline.

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.

In the south, Ukraine has launched a long-awaited counteroffensive to retake territory seized by Russia during the six-month conflict.

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.

Texas has reported what may be the first death from monkeypox in the U.S.
President Joe Biden is making remarks on combating gun violence this afternoon in Pennsylvania, ahead of his prime time speech on Thursday on what a White House official has described as “the continued battle for the soul of the nation.”
A woman at a California senior living home died after residents were mistakenly served dishwashing liquid instead of juice, officials for facility said.
Serena Williams advanced to the second round in singles play at the U.S. Open, in what may be the final tournament of her career. She’s also expected to play in doubles this week with her sister Venus Williams.

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