you said the regions most at risk are the arab world, subsaharan africa, and subcontinental india.e the challenges in each of these regions in particular? why are we highlighting these? >> well, india, if you look at the indian subcontinent, the population is 1.4 billion, same as china, which includes bangladesh and pakistan of it. it's a lot of people in a small area, but they're running out of water, particularly in india. they're overpumping their aquefers, their wells are running dry. and they're projected to grow by 1 million people in the years ahead. subsaharan africa has morelan l, but its population is growing very fast, and it doesn't have the resources to develop the productivity of the land fully. so that's the problem there. and the hunger and malnutrition in the world is concentrated in the indian subcontinent and subsaharan africa. >> do you think the rest of the world -- there's been a big call from the u.n. to say, we need to help these people. is there help available in the rest of the world with the economy teetering the way it is? a lot of countries saying we'd

laughter) so, folks, just remember even if we default on august 2 we'll be no worse off than subsaharan africa. but i don't even buy that august 2 cutoff date. and i'm not alone. jim? >> is that august 2 deadline really a deadline? >> this is the fourth time they have set this artificial limit. >> here we are up against an august 2 deadline. >> these are arbitrary dates made up out of thin air. >> these dates and times are made up! >> stephen: yes! it's made up! it's just another arbitrary madeup government date, like thursday! (laughter) does it really is to happen right after wednesday? couldn't we move it back to the weekend so we have more time to enjoy it? (laughter) but if august 2 is an arbitrary date, why are president barack obama, the major ratings agencies and every u.s. financial expert putting so much weight on it? it must be a conspiracy! (cheers and applause) think, colbert, think. why would the president insist on an august 2 deadline? help me out, manatee of the airwaves. >> obama's out there pushing this magic august 2 deadline to get this thing done. that's because ramadan s

. >> you find them in subsaharan africa. >> they don't like to be out in the day.e nocturnal. they like to dig. if you can get a look at the paws. look at these paws. >> can you say manicure. >> they can dig faster than seven men with a shovel in the same period of time. >> really? >> yes. they can dig down ten feet and go 40 feet in and that's where they stay. >> he went into this posture where he totally tucked his head under his rear. that's a typical posture? >> that's a typical posture. his parents do the exact same thing when they're curled up. >> thanks for sharing. next time you'll explain why they have two as at the beginning of aardvark. thanks so much for coming on. this is great. >> fabulous. >> you never know what you're going to get. >> a stellar day here. >>> up next from breaking out thermometers, how reporters cover the heat. tag, you're it! ♪ would you like to be my friend? ♪ ♪ i can run just like the wind ♪ i will hide up in that tree ♪ no one will ever find me ♪ wish this day would never end ♪ ♪ would you like to be my friend? ♪ ♪ everybody's tr

places like subsaharan africa and other places are particularly at risk. further reserge is needed to protect u.s. military readiness and decrease treatment costs for the department of defense health infrastructure. the bill provides $24 million above the request, including $8 million in the defense health program and $16 million in research, development, test and evaluation army, related to h.i.v.-aids research this funding will enhance efforts to prevent new h.i.v. infections, develop better tests and dream options for military personnel and health care beneficiaries an provide for a comprehensive program of research and development on preventive h.i.v. vaccines. i urge my colleagues to reject this amendment and yield pack my time. the chair: the gentleman from washington yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from florida rise? mr. young: i move to strike the last word. the chair: the gentleman is rex niced for five minutes. mr. young: i rise in opposition to the amendment that would eliminate all the funds for the army's military h.i.v. resea

that the planet is warming and in parts of the planet, the arctic, subis he hairan africa -- subsaharan africa, dangerously slow. the role is like the role that paul revere played. the scientists are saying climate change is coming. it's intensifying. it can do great harm to our planet and to the security interests of our planet. and so this amendment basically strikes right at what it is that the rest of the world expects our country to be which is the leader on science. and if we look at it in the totality -- mr. woodall: will the gentleman yield? mr. markey: where they cut the funding for solar, for wind, for energy efficiency, for geothermal, for biomass, for plug-in hybrids, for all-electric vehicles, it's all part of a pat he were where they slash the -- pattern where they slash the budgets of the programs that can help deal with the impact of global warming. in this same bill, increasing the budget for oil and coal and gas, that which is creating this global warming, the man-made gases that we know are dangerously warming the planet. so the green generation, the young generation look on