us. while much of the focus around baby shortage has been focused on babies, it s also necessarily necessary for others. joins us is liz cruz, her son needs formula to maintain a healthy weight. how has this crisis affected you? how is it for you and your child? it s a very bad crisis because he is an 11-year-old. he does eat by mouth. the issue is he doesn t maintain enough calories in order to gain weight. he needs pediasur 1.5 in order to maintain his weight. we have been having tremendous issue getting this formula. not only at home but also when he was admitted in the hospital in april. he spent, i understand, most of the month of april in the hospital. liz, this company shut down its factory in february, right?
you? honestly, in my opinion, when it comes to older kids like my son, it s not enough because they re speaking about, oh, you could use cow s milk or do this temporarily, but we re talking about an 11-year-old. and are you going to get this going within the next week? liz cruz, thank you so very much. i thank you for being with us and all the best to you and to prince. that lovely young man. now to what could be, what very well could be, another dismal day on wall street as we learn more about how inflation is affecting the entire economy. we re down 260 points. look at the jump. this is just moments after it opened. now we re down at 280. this is really dropping. the dow jones is dropping one day after falling more than 1,100 points for its biggest loss in two years. the nasdaq and s&p 500 also saw
injured in the crash, two transported to the hospital with trauma alerts this after that red suv took a direct hit with a mom and her two toddlers inside. they re doing all right after receiving precautionary treatment. mmiraculous you re travels in the vehicle, the driver with the two toddlers, and head of on collision with an aircraft. reporter: in a series of videos posted to social media, bystanders can be seen filming smoke billowing for the aircraft, with concern for their safety a single engine cessna lost engine power and crashed into the bridge with three people inside the plane and three in the car that it struck the federal agency says the plane took off from ft. lauderdale airport with a planned destination of key west the surreal sequence unfolded the faa and the national transportation safety board will inves investigate. sam brock, nbc news, miami-dade county. coming up, the new manhunt for an escaped killer after his dramatic getaway
low-income families and import formula from abroad. milk banks needs skyrocket. have you ever had a surge in demand like this this is the most surge and demand i have ever seen we have a need for donors to step up. babies need to be fed. reporter: babies and older kids with special medical conditions, like prince green it s good for me that i have pediasure. reporter: a mom of three from the bronx, liz cruz is trying to keep her 11-year-old out of the hospital. he s already been twice this year. his body has trouble absorbing nutrients. cruz has five days left of the formula her son needs. is it wild to you to see something so critical like baby formula run so low yes it s just major. i believe that it s worse than it was during the pandemic. reporter: a
washington, d.c. when ford s son, jason, got his gift. i got legos i love building legos. to help other people going through this, she s a superwoman i m very grateful to her. that s a minecraft one. reporter: sully shields was buddies with mason and says this work is exactly what his friend would have wanted. at the end of the day, we re helping someone in his name. hi, austin. i m kelly. how you doing today? reporter: a mom honoring her son s legacy by turning heartache into action. i will live every day doing this for mason and all the other children that are faced with these unforeseen battles kelly and bob, extraordinary parents. extraordinary people last week, by the way, would have been mason s 11th birthday. to continue his mission, kelly hopes to expand mason s strong village efforts to other states in the future that s nbc nightly news for this saturday kate snow will be here