6:00 a.m. follows the teen violence and mob attacks. minors and parents could face fines up to $300 for the first offense. $500 if they are picked up again. i'll be back with more news at the top of the hour. dr. sanjay gupta is on the frontlines in kenya. sanjay gupta starts now. welcome to a special edition of sgmd. the frontlines of kenya. we are over the border from somalia. we heard reports of people literally starving to death here. 30,000 children over the last three months. millions more at risk of simply

dying because they don't have enough food. it is hard to believe and hard to take. that is what happens when you have the largest refugee camp in the world. the numbers are getting worse. they say 2,000 more people coming to the camp every day. 400,000 people are already here. keep the simple fact in mind. this camp was designed for 90,000 people. this entire situation made worse by the ongoing civil war in somalia. the militant groups have made it worse to get aid across the border. you come to the camps and meet the mothers and fathers and daughters. they are not too different from people in your neighborhoods. i met a father whose love for his boys demonstrated what any father would do. it will make you truly understand what desperation is. what you are looking at is the most desperate place on earth.

vulnerable children. thick with misery. i don't know if you can tell when you see a baby here. take a look. the baby's fontenel is so sunken in. this is what happens when the baby has had no food or water. >> basic necessities. so hard to come by. dust and starvation nearly everywhere you look. >> this is also what happens when you are at the largest refugee camp. all of these folks waiting to see one doctor here. as you look at the images, consider this simple fact. these are the lucky ones. lucky because they made it here at all. this family of five made it out of somalia just yesterday.

>> i came out here to the middle the desert. they walked for 30 days and 30 nights. walking at night because it was cooler. carrying those three kids. sometimes carrying a kid and going back with another kid and doing this over and over. 30 nights worth. they crossed the border and they get robbed. bandits take what little possessions they actually have. the bandits did not take the father's dream and the drive to keep his children alive. it will not be easy. >> this is ago thing you see here a bit. this child, obviously, three months old. he is looking liftless. look at the breathing. specifically. breathing with his abdomen. not so much with his chest. this is something that is tiring for a baby. he has whooping cough. pertussis. that is because the child has never been vaccinated. he will need oxygen and food and

water. all of it may come too late. so painful to realize that every one of his ailments could have been prevented. unfortunately, that hardly ever happens in the most desperate places on earth. >> the sad truth is people have known for months and months this was going to happen. people could have prepared. as i said, many of the problems could have prevented. it was the worst drought in 60 years which caused people to lose their crops and livestock and they had no food and water. they had to walk tens of kilometers 30 days and 30 nights sometimes. it was challenging. it was difficult. the whole problem was compounded by the fact that there is a civil war ongoing. a group called el shabab made it difficult to get into the places. bandits would rob people across the border as you just heard. no one knows the story better than amanda lindhoud.

she was a journalist and kidnapped in august of 2008 and held for ransom. listen. >> i'm in a desperate situation. i'm being kept in a dark windowless room in chains without any clean drinking water and little or no food. i have been very sick for months without any medicine. and i need my government and fellow citizens to assist my family and paying my ransom. >> she was held captive for 15 months. only after friends and family raised the ransom money. many would say enough. they would not come back. she said if she got out alive, she would come back to somalia to help the families here. >> it is remarkable to think you were in captivity for 15 months.

what happened next? >> when i was in captivity and i hit the darkest periods of that, i was lit cerally chained in a black room. i began to nurture the idea to make somalia a better place for the people who live there. i saw the teenagers who kidnapped me, 14 or 16 years old, were a product of their environment. when i was released, i was able to do that. i started the global foundation and we are dedicated to using education to improve the lives of somalis. >> this is the first time you have been back since your release? it must have been hard to come back? >> yes. last thursday was the last time i was back in somalia. my family paid a ransom for my release and i was able to go

home. it was personally confronting to go back to somalia. i felt it was important to show that food can get into somalia and to do that by showing by example and lead the first food convoy that crossed border. >> this is a big deal. people have to walk incredible distances. getting aid and resources to them is the name of the game. >> it is eventual. it is frustrating that more aid is not getting into south central somalia. there are about 20 somalia ngos that have been operating. i think that aid can be channelled through them and distributed to the people. it is something the bigger ngos are looking at now and they should have looked at it three weeks ago. >> you are saying the kids in the refugee camps, they come here in search of a better life.

after a couple of years, they realize this is all there is. that is when the idea of joining a group like el shabab is attractive. >> you have the kids that are idle. they are targets for extremists groups to come in. el shabab is big to recruit. when you speak to the parents of the young people up in somalia and you ask them the question, if those young people had the opportunity to have an education, would they have gone? the answer is always no. >> up next, a truly dire situation in the world's largest refugee camp. hundreds of thousands of kids literally on the brink of death from starvation. there is a race on to save them. ♪ [ male announcer ] you like who you are...

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program said the funding and food will run out in three weeks or less. what they know and what you are about to learn is the children don't have the time to spare. in the middle of the famine, the sickest of the sick come here. ahmed. he is 6 years old and he has spent the last ten days walking in the sun. his tiny body robbed of nutrition for too long. his doctor only hopes he arrived in time. >> what happened if he wasn't here at the facility? >> this child probably in a few weeks or so, will have lost the child. >> you would lose the child? >> yes. >> when the doctor talks about death by starvation, it is neither quick nor painless. when you come to a place like this, you see it just about everywhere. you can hear it sometimes, as well. you can also smell it.

it is the acrid sweetness of the body trying to digest itself. little kids like ahmed stop growing. the tools to save him are basic. it is not like they have much choice, but they do work. i want to show you something else that is important here. this is what doctors use. a measuring device. you can tell if a kid is malnourished. you take this and put it around the arm. you measure this. if the number comes back below 11, that means the kid is in real trouble. in her case, you can see here the number is actually about 9.5. that is part of the reason she is getting the feedings through an ng tube through her nose.

ahmed's was 10.5. one in five kids will not survive with a reading that low. it is grim duty for the doctor. the only doctor caring for all of the children. >> i have three kids. you have a 5-year-old. how do you do it? how do you see these kids who are suffering so much? >> it is difficult. especially with the suffering they are going through and we are trying to reach beyond kids. what keeps you going is you have to come back and do something great for them to survive. >> ahmed was one of the estimated 600,000 kids on the brink of death by starvation. but today, that may have changed. ahmed may have been saved. he made it here just in time. there is no way to talk about death by starvation in any kind of dignified manner. it is tough to talk about. your body starts to digest

itself, as i mentioned. it goes to the liver and then the fatty tissue. a person becomes a skeleton of itself. the body tries to find muscle. even the heart muscle. that is why these people look lethargic. it is happening way too often. one of the things you see around the camp quite a bit is something as plumpy nut. it is about 500 calories. it is something that kids can eat and absorb quickly. they hope they can put on some weight after these journeys. if you look around the place, it looks rough, but it is the last best hope for so many people who have fled their home countries to come here to find a better way of life. as we are about to show you and you will learn that there are things here that are of great risk after the refugees finally make it here. you name it.

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we are back with the special edition of sgmd. we are here for the people of somalia. who for sometime have been spilling out to kenya and ethiopia and beyond. this is a country that has not had an effective central government for nearly 20 years. this is a country where millions of people are at risk of starvation. tens of thousands of people have already died. the militia controls the aid getting to people who need it the most. there are horrifying realities. i can tell you as a dad, there is nothing more horrifying than to bury your own child. that is happening here over and over again. although there are solutions in plain sight. the kids here will melt your

heart. >> how old are you? >> wow. how old am i? 41. they impressed me with their english. i spoke a little somali to them. they loved it. rare smiles in a place of heart break.1-month-old daughter addison came here, fighting to hard not to starve to death. new bit end it made little difference, she lost the one thing in the world that came more than anything else. we are walking to her daughter's grave. they are really just piles of dirt with no name plate, no flowers, no remind is of their lives. just small sticks with colored plastic trash flowing in the wind. she said she brought her healthy baby girl here with dreams of new beginnings. but addison died within a month. what went wrong?

she started vomiting, she said, and then diarrhea and wouldn't stop for days and days. diarrheal illness, the major reason 30,000 kids have died here over the past three months. so many tiny little graves, like this one. part of the problem is even after you get to one of these camps there's still not enough food here, not enough water, and there's plenty of infectious diseases. the viral illnesses, per us the cess. something else that is frightening in a camp like this. this is ozman, 14 years old. you can tell he really doesn't feel well. people were concerned here that he has measles, high five ver, the characteristic rash, con junk vitis in his eyes. he never got vaccinated. measles, as you know, is very, very contagious. he has nowhere else to go. and so, hundreds of thousands more of these adorable children,

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i want to take a short break from somalia now and give you a update from stories i've been covering for more than a year. fers of all, right there that is diana nyad, you probably know her, 61-year-old long distance

swimmer and one of the fearless people i know. we've bb following her along for two years as she's been train for a swim from cuba to florida. you heard that right, cuba to florida, 103 miles with no assistance, not even a shark cage. as it turns out, you need to have perfect weather conditions to execute a swim like this. on the day those conditions became perfect, results for the day i left for somalia which is why in't with her. she did get into the water and started an epic swim. but the seas became rough, her shoulder started to hurt, she developed asthma attacks while in the water, and she started vomiting. eventually it all became too much, but she swam for more than 29 hours, more than 50 miles before they literally had to pull her out of the water. shortly after she did get out of the water i called her from somalia. take a listen. diana, you mentioned you needed to have ideal weather conditions for it to really work. can you just explain for one second what that means?

it's not simply that the water has to be warm enough and it has to be a nice day outside. there are several things at play here, right? >> oh, yeah, many things at play. you don't beat mother nature. when you're at the stage of getting atop mt. everest and a storm is coming in, you don't say, well, my schedule doesn't match that, i'm going to go anyway. you don't do that. the straits between cuba and florida, the doldrums. that means that you have not a whisper of wind. that's what i was looking for and waiting for. the prediction we had was not quite the doldrums but very, very light. under five knots, which is doable. and that just didn't happen. that prediction was wrong. so to put in all that time and not come up with the end prize, i have to say it's a bitter pill to swallow. >> just listening to that, i'm sure you will agree, she's got a lot left. 61 years old and she's got a lot of dreams. with documented the entire swim. you can can watch our special

called "diana nyad, extreme dream." i also want to give you an update on our six-pack. many of you at home know our six pack. they are six ruers from around the country that decided to train and yoin me for the new york city triathlon. i couldn't make the triathlon because i'm here in somalia but i'm happy to report this. every one of our six-pack members finished the triathlon and served as huge inspirations to their friends and family. and if they're listening to this right now as well, a huge inspiration to me. we'll give you more updates on them. i did want to give you one sad note about the new york city try@on this. two people lost their lives while competing in this event approximately as it turns out a 64-year-old man and a 40-year-old woman both lost consciousness during the swimming part of this event, which is the first part. it's very sad. it's obviously lrs important to remember that this is a grueling event. we don't take this lightly. for example, every single one of our members of the six pack had to undergo a thorough medical

exam before undertaking this. and if you watch this and decide you want to do a triathlon you should probably see your doctor, as well. back here in somalia, i wish you could have seen what i have seen these last few days, men, women, children. the types of lives that they lead. as i said before, i'll say it again, their lives really aren't too much different than the lives you may lead at home if things they want in their lives, the things they want for their families may be exactly what you want. it is desperate at times but there are bright spoths. like something over here, something i never thought i would see before. this is a greenhouse in the middle of the desert. it's put on by the organization c.a.r.e. they grow crops, literally, again, in the middle of this camp. these crops provide food to many of the refugees in the area. and the farmer are given a little stipend, a little money for doing this. they are also given something else, they're given a sense of purpose. a sense of purpose that they can be valuable, a sense of purpose that they might be able