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With aids in africa, saved millions of lives. jimmy carter won a nobel prize working in africa doing crop yield increases or fighting guinea worm diseases. the clinton foundation doing enormous work. donald trump has a heart of stone, and he doesnt like these people. and i think we need to have religious leaders now speak out, people from the catholic church, mormon church. tonight, to me its some kind of tipping point. i know its just another trumpism, but theres no sane person who can say this...

Matter of time before it affects people. >> insects are important. i think everybody realizes that. theyre very important. and for birds, also for mammals and bats. theyre very important for crops. there is substantial loss in crop yield and profit if these wild pollinators are vanishing. so really is affecting us ourselves. >> reporter: now the team is racing to find the exact reason behind the vanishing of insects and the hope of stopping it before it is too late. atika shubert, cnn, germany. ...

Society. >> theyre holding good gmos. >> all were asking is this be labeled, nothing more than that. >> when they are labeled, would you still elect not to use them in your restaurants foods? >> right now, i cant tell. if youre buying organic, no, youre not getting gmo food. >> is there a taste argument here? >> i think theres a taste argument -- were talking about commodity crops, corn, things like that. were talking about animal feed and things like that. i think theres much of a taste differe...

What caused the problems. if your grocery bill creeps up over the next few weeks, the reason could be california. the state is facing a catastrophic drought, one that is hitting its massive agriculture industry. cnn meteorologist jennifer gray explains why the disaster may get worse before it gets better. >> reporter: just last week, we were roughly 25% in the extreme drought in california. now, about 60% of the state under extreme drought, and it looks like this is going to last for the next ...