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Intensive care unit in south carolina. she's allergic to dairy, to soy. there isn't much she can drink. she had one formula that was working out fabulously for her but her parents couldn't find it. she ended up getting quite sick. the diagnosis is failure to thrive. she has a feeding tube in her stomach so she can be fed directly that way. it's really an issue. i would like to introduce you also to 3-year-old alexis tyler, she is in massachusettss. she has autism and she has a lot of feeding issues and will only take one formula. her parents can't find it. she is getting a feeding tube at a ho...

>> you know, we're not -- obviously there's been no studies on this, it's all happening so quickly, but we're hearing not from a parent or one or two parents, but parents across the country whose children ended up in the hospital because they weren't able to get the right formula. these are children we've been hearing about who drink sort of special formulas and they haven't been able to find it and so their children have become sick. i want to introduce you to, for example, 3-month-old clover wheatley in the pediatric intensive care unit in south carolina. they drank just one formula and her ...

Department of defense helping to fly formula in from overseas, and also the fda and abbott, they've agreed on steps that need to be taken to reopen that shuttered michigan plant. kate, you will notice in the wording here, these are things like trying to ease or making plans, most of this is not going to happen right this minute. it's going to take a while for these things to kick in. parents are still going to be suffering for weeks to come, possibly even longer. kate? >> and you talk about the suffering, elizabeth. the nightmare scenario that was feared is playing out for some families. there...

Care unit in a hospital in south carolina. she has feeding issues. she's allergic to dairy. she's allergic to soy. there was one formula that was working great for her, but her parents couldn't find it. they kept trying others. it didn't work. she has had a failure to thrive, a failure to grow, admitted and now is on a feeding tube. 3-year-old alexis tyler in massachusetts, she has autism and has feeding issues. again, like this baby we just met, she really had one formula that worked well for her. her parents couldn't get it. she now also has been admitted to a hospital and is on a feeding tu...

Jadon's has his eyes open, and he's -- he's tracking, you know, with his eyes, and he's moving his -- he wasn't moving his left side there for a little while. but now he's moving his left arm. >> jadon, i mean i think he just smiled at me. i'm almost sure he just smiled. under all that, yeah, and he's looking me right in the eye and he follows you. it's -- it's awesome. and he's trying to pull all his tubes out. >> yeah, usually it's a good sign if they're trying to pull the breathing tube out themselves. it's usually time for it to come out. >> yeah, he is ready for extubation. >> anias has a...