thank you for being on the show. good afternoon. >> thanks for having me, hallie. we're pleased to do this. >> tell me what your staff is seeing on the ground. >> so, we have about 2,000 staff working in nine provinces. and we're now supporting about 100 health centers around the country and what we're seeing is the consequences not just of the natural disasters you mentioned, but the economic squeeze put on the country since the end of military operations in august which was followed by the end of economic support for afghan economy. and malnutrition rates sky rocketing and a million kids of the 9 million at the brink of level four, level five is famine. enormous numbers of people who don't have enough food. over 90% of the population don't know where their next meal is coming from. the private sector is not able to function so the humanitarian aid system is struggling to keep up. >> what is going to help? what is the most important thing