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Hernandez lopez.s mud hut, the beans simmering in the pot, its their food for the next 24 hours. lopez tells me he has ten children. and before the droughts came and the crops failed, his little farm here yielded enough beans and corn to feed the family. these days, it offers only hunger. >> reporter: what youre seeing across this hillside is the failure of yet another crop. corn here, which is the staple, what people eat, has failed for two consecutive seasons. it means people here do not have ...

Want, as long as we dont take real bold action right now, in reducing the emissions at the source, then it doesnt really mean anything. >> reporter: one big remaining question here, of course, is how to hold the international community and the u.s. accountable to reaching these new targets. something that the white house says they hope will come out of a new summit this fall in glasgow. david? >> all right, mary bruce live at the white house tonight. mary, thank you. and with the president and...

The other side of the mountain where we found children wielding machetes, using their slingshots to bring down unripened mangos. it was lunch. >> reporter: so, nelson is 11, aldin is 12. and they are about the size of my 6-year-old. these children tell me that none of them have ever tasted meat or chicken. >> and matt gutman with us tonight from guatemala city, you can see the presidential palace right there behind him. and matt, we know vice president kamala harris is set to meet virtually with...