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>> reporter: we meet vincent, a one and a half year old who is so mal nnourished, he can no longer eat. >> his stomach is shutting down. no intervention, you will lose this child. >> reporter: so tiny for her age, she is also running out of time. >> we look at the color of their hair which changes with severe malnutrition. it changes to an orangey color. >> do you ever turn a child away? >> translator: there is nowhere else to go. >> well, theres little you can say about this except i do have a ...

And so many of you have already been tweeting me, writing to us on facebook asking how you can help. save the children points out that plumpy nut costs about 50 cents. $10 would feed a child for more than a week. you can learn much more on the "world news tonight" facebook page. and of course, much more of our journey tonight, on "nightline." theres still much more ahead tonight this tuesday -- the passenger brawl in the cabin. punches thrown. the flight attendants trying to break it up. just ...

Children, carolyn miles, another hour east. where they are now sending out mobile clinics to isolated villages deep in the desert, we find a little boy, so weak he cannot stand. they put a band on his arm, the red signaling severe malnutrition. >> its one of the worst crises that weve seen since world war ii. >> are you concerned the world does not recognize what is happening here? >> you know, i dont think the world has really woken up to this disaster at this point. they havent really realized...

Months old. he looks four or five months old. i have children myself and its tough to see children who just arent developing because of the lack of food. it is a problem. theyre doing their best. in some of these places the ngos are bringing supplies in. the numbers make that challenging. >> i know youve been all over the world and covered natural disast disaste disasters, droughts, wars. what really works to get the kids what they need? >> reporter: you need to find products that can be sustain...

dying because they dont have enough food. it is hard to believe and hard to take. that is what happens when you have the largest refugee camp in the world. the numbers are getting worse. they say 2,000 more people coming to the camp every day. 400,000 people are already here. keep the simple fact in mind. this camp was designed for 90,000 people. this entire situation made worse by the ongoing civil war in somalia. the militant groups have made it worse to get aid across the border. yo...

that they will find medical supplies there and relief there, but all too often they find doctors who are simply overwhelmed, doctor whose dont have the equipment, who dont have resources to adequately care for the children. so many of these kids are dying. it shouldnt happen on any day but it does, it happens every single day. we saw it for ourselves and youre going to see it tonight. aa. cording to the united nations, 600,000 children on the brink of starvation, 600,000. the world foo...

so many of these kids are dying. it shouldnt happen on any day but it does, it happens every single day. we saw it for ourselves and youre going to see it tonight. according to the united nations, 600,000 children on the brink of starvation, 600,000. the world food program now has less than three weeks of food aid left. were going to talk to u-2s singer bono. how you can help, how you can make a difference. 600,000, were telling their stories tonight. breaking news back home. jeopard...

single day. we saw it for ourselves and youre going to see it tonight. according to the united nations, 600,000 children are now on the brink of starvation, 600,000. as we learned last night, the world food program now has less than three weeks of food aid left. were going to talk to u-2s singer bono. we will show you also, how you can help hour, you can make a difference. 600,000 kids, were going to be telling their stories tonight. breaking news back home. a problem the developing ...

a meaningful handle on the deficits and the debt. now comes of course the federal reserve. we have ben bernanke here, which has used every tool in its box to keep credit flowing and interest rates low in the wake of the great recession. at 2:15 eastern, a little over an hour from now, the fed will tell us what if anything it plans to do in the wake of the downgrade, the debt snafu, the european debt snafu and the global stock freak-outs. in the meantime, i want to bring in richard ques...