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McDowell County, West Virginia: Poverty and Water Crisis00:06

Drive 350 miles from the nation's capital to McDowell County, West Virginia, where affordability is the difference between buying groceries and heating a home. Clean drinking water is hard to come by here. A turn of the tap can look like this. This shouldn't be the case anywhere in the world, let alone in the wealthiest nation in the world.

Teaser: South African White Farmers and AI Art00:34

There is one group of refugees being welcomed to the United States. President Trump says white farmers from South Africa are victims of a genocide.

These are burial sites right here. Burial sites over a thousand of white farmers. We went to South Africa to see for ourselves. It definitely wasn't a burial site. I mean, those crosses were there for less than 48 hours. Rafik Anadol invited us inside this space at his LA studio. Every image that surrounds us, Anadol created using artificial intelligence. So, those are not real birds. Nope. Take it in. Whoa. A hypnotic flow of shapes and colors that can make you feel like Alice in Wonderland stumbled into Studio 54. Is this a party trick? I don't think so. I feel like it's a new form of art.

McDowell County: Boom Times Elsewhere, Survival Here02:02

For some, these are the boom times. 401ks are surging. The stock market has hit an all-time high. But drive just 350 miles from the nation's capital. And the conversation isn't about how to get rich, but how to survive. McDowell County, West Virginia, was once the nation's largest coal producer. It is now one of the poorest places in the country, where the food stamp program started and later the opioid crisis took hold. Today, one in three households there depends on those food stamps. And now the program that has fed families for decades is facing the largest cuts in history. We went to McDowell County last month and learned that this is an all too familiar pattern. Government help comes and goes. Promises are made and broken and the people are left behind. McDowell County sits deep in the southern coal fields of West Virginia, stretching more than 500 square miles across the Appalachian Mountains. There's just one traffic light and more churches than we could count. It's a place where clean drinking water is hard to come by. A turn of the tap can look like this.