get the funds we need. everyone is staying out of our way and allowing us to go directly to the people. the little girls and boys, women and families that are in grave dire consequences right now. dana: how much money are you talking about? where is that coming from? is everyone pitching in or is there deficiencies? it is a complicated situation with the taliban being an adversary, even an enemy. it is, dana. here is what s so sad. because of conflict, climate and now covid the number of people marching toward starvation around the world has doubled from 135 million to over 280 million people. now you come into afghanistan, a nation already very poor and struggling and now you ve got crisis numbers. we re talking about 220 million per month to reach 23 million at 50% rations for those in what we call crisis stage and 75% rations. where will the money come from?
it may be that the body is not on the one place either. we will find out soon. sandra: i am sure we will get an update. john, great to be with you. all right, thank you for joining us. i m sandra smith. john: i warned you it would be jam-packed. and john roberts, we will turn it over to martha maccallum now who will continue with the news breaking as it martha: thanks, guys. good afternoon. i m martha maccallum in new york. we have two really big stories that are unfolding right now. on the one hand, you have president biden who is heading to his hometown of scranton right now facing the lowest job approval numbers of his presidency under a lot of pressure with his supply chain breakdown that is impacting companies, businesses all across the country. the border crisis numbers that we haven t seen in 30 years. rising inflation is not slowing down. so he s going to make a sales pitch, moments away for a
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