so this is garan hassan's house. it's just the tent they built.accompany a save the children medical team for a welfare check. oh, no, she's cold. does she have a fever? they are taking her to the stabilization center? the ambulance is coming. right now, save the children staff have determined that a day later, malaika's even sicker, so cold to the touch it's a little scary. they're going to take letter to the hospital right now. >> reporter: her older brother. nadifa, is also very sick. >> the children are very serious. both of them, they had different disease. the little one has acute malnutrition. the other one has pneumonia. this case is really severe and may cause death. >>> when we come back, the desperate efforts to save malaika and her brother. whee ulcerative colitis persists... put it in check with rinvoq, a once-daily pill. when uc got unpredictable,... i got rapid symptom relief with rinvoq. check. when uc held me back... i got lasting, steroid-free remission with rinvoq. check. and when uc got the upper hand... rinvoq helped visibly r

her name is garan hassan. her baby is malaika, 18 months old. malaika's arm barely two inches around. they weigh her in that bucket. too sick to stand, too weak to cry. garan says her husband died from hunger-related illness. the staff recommend malaika be hospitalized, but garan says she can't right now. she has six other children to care for. but despite what's happening here, the somali government has yet to declare a famine. >> for me, the declaration of famine, it's irrelevant. because right now -- look, look, around you. what is this, if this is not famine? >> reporter: the next day, the save the children staff check on her. in the family's tent, malaika's brother, nadifa, is also sick from starvation. he is 3, and the size of a 1-year-old. oh, my god, they're freezing. they rush them out the tent, through the camp. these kids are too sick to be here and they need immediate care. at the hospital, they are weighed again and admitted. a nurse props nadifa on his lap. he drinks cup after cup of easy-to-digest formula. and for the first time in