The mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, is urging locals to “get out now” after the state was battered with record rainfall and the Pearl River swelled to devastating levels. “If you are capable of getting out now, get out now,” Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba said in a news conference Saturday morning. He said it’s possible for […]
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