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Helped locate man eight landmines in cambodia. he has died at the age of eight. millions of people in afghanistan are now �*on a march to starvation'. that's the un's assessment of the humanitarian crisis there. it's calling on international donors to dig deep to fund life—saving assistance for the people of afghanistan. the un says it needs at least five billion dollars. half of that is desperately needed just to provide enough food. it's the un's biggest ever appeal for aid in a single country. here's the un making that announcement. this is a stopgap, and absolutely essential stopgap me...

The deadline later this week. >> joining us now, co-founder of punch bowl news, jake sherman, he is an msnbc political contributor. jake, as always, great to see you. let's start there. first question, is there any chance the government is going to shut down, and secondly, senator blackburn, hold on the stopgap measure to keep the government open is directly tried to the controversy of the drug paraphernalia and the government services program and walk us through what is going on there? >> marcia blackburn is convinced based on conservative media reports that the u.s. government is set to give...

Tests and vaccines, and other things to help drug addicts, but they have said they are not giving crack pipes out, which has not assuaged blackburn, she is waiting on an answer from hhs, from the department of health and human services, to say that they are not giving out crack pipes but as you say in your lead-in, john, they can do, blackburn could slow this down. the senate needs basically universal cooperation to get this stopgap measure through the congress by the end of the week, by february 18th, to fund a deadline, but it is not only that, mike lee, republican from utah and a bunch of o...

Organizations there, people on the ground helping funnel folks to different destinations, getting them the supplies they need, getting them food, getting them water, getting them housing? who is directing it all? >> reporter: absolutely. i wouldn't say organizations, though, it's mostly a band of volunteers here. people with signs saying, hey, i can help you, i can take five people to my house, i can help a family be fed here. here is what they're doing just as a stopgap measure on the ground here, you can see bread, soup, just a warm meal for a lot of people who tell me they haven't had one i...

He said no, absolutely no. i don't know the capacity to deal with the large of a people. and it's not just people, its children. it's families, it's people with special needs. he told me they're looking at some of them right now for tense, mothers and children specifically tonight. just hours before the curfew was put into place, i never have to come of the streets. nobody was stopping going inside these facilities. that mother you're looking at right there on your screen was inside that tent. she was sleeping in that ten tonight, and she is the right now with her three daughters. she doesn't ...