summits. they say failure to get on the same page could mean the world loses out on tens of millions of jobs over the next couple of years. and some $4 trillion of economic output. white house correspondent dan lothian is in ontario. huge meet it is next couple of days. can you sum it up for me? what's at stake here? >> reporter: that's right. huge meetings. two of them happening, g-8 and g-20, at the same time. focussing on the issues such as child health, water sanitation. the bigger group, g-20, which the president will be meeting with other world leaders, that begins late tomorrow and then the rest of the weekend as well. the focus, obviously, is on the global economic crisis to ensure that all of the nations are doing everything they can to contain that crisis to ensure that the recovery happens as you pointed out -- >> dan, can i interrupt you?