we went even along to the vietnam/cambodia border, helps a couple thousand with the aid we brought.'s always more. there are millions of people that live in this kind of poverty and not only do we bring food aid but also clothing and shoes to help children like that that you see right there. and that's really essential, too, because this is a shot of us handing out some shoes. many of these children are walking around bare foot. a lot of them can't even go to scho school, and you were asking a moment ago about them and being able to survive like that. you build up an immunity. from the canals, bathing, using rest room and fishing. >> what do you take away from this, in nine years? >> that there is hope. despite all of it, you saw the little girl with only a second grade education. when ask you what do you want to be when you grow up? she says i want to be a teacher. despite what they don't have, they do have an abundance of hope. sometimes that will take you over what is needed to get to the where you want to be. >> i'm sure going to take you back there a tenth year? >> absolutely,

this trip was special for me because we went so far into the interior that we even reached the vietnam/cambodiak at some of the children we were able to help, not just food aid but also shoes. this was a little girl, a recipient of tennis shoes. a lot of these children don't have shoes, toys. they don't have access to education and barely enough food to survive. this is why this is so important and something really near and dear to my heart. for more information, you can go to help the hungry.org. we've got the website up right there. and also going to have more information on this throughout the morning. it's really a special journey for me and one that means a lot. >> i remember it like it was yet last year's piece when you came back. you've been doing it nine years. >> nine years. >> are conditions getting worse, better? what makes this year different from years past? >> i wouldn't say necessarily they're getting better because this is a third world country so poverty is just rampant, especially in those rural areas where you have farmers basically living off of the land and doing the best t

in this case, it is vietnam, laos, cambodia, give the information, give us the archives to give us what we need to go back in find the witnesses, like we did in this case and be able to read us back to crash sites or gravesites, not only for vietnam, but for we are getting significant accountability for world war ii and korea now as well. so to me, there is hope for anybody who has someone missing and unaccounted for. >> this is your brother. when you look at this image and when you hear about the news of the family, speicher's family getting this news that remains have been positively identified, you don't know the speicher family but you know the agony the family has been through because you experience it had for your brother. give me an idea what the family has been going through for 18 years based on what you have been going through for 37 years? >> we made a decision early on to be involved. i want bobby to be proud of what we've done. i want him to know we did everything we come i'm a housewife from georgia but i worked very hard. i have taken four trips to southeast asia, lobbyin

did we go along the mekong delta and help village after village but we went all the way to the cambodia/vietnamre a lot of people there that don't get any sort of aid. it was important for us. there's a picture right now, to be able to help those that are often forgotten. beautiful children, children with bright futures, they just don't have the means to get the kind of education, the kind of health care, that will sustain them and this is a shot of us not only providing food, but providing shoes. many children don't even have that. it goes back to the story the little girl i showed you, they live in a hut, five of them. three children, their two parents live in a hut that is so small, they can't even stand up inside of it. that puts the poverty in perspective when we talk about those in need around the world. >> those pictures that you see their faces light up, i'm sure even those images don't do it justice. >> it doesn't. i remember one year this lady came up to us after we had given out all of our aid supplies and she was crying and i felt so bad because i had nothing else to give and she sa

that continues to play out as we go from village to village all the way to the vietnam/cambodia border. but this is life for the people who live here. this is a difficult life. and no matter how much we bring and how many times we come, you never leave feeling like you've done enough. there's so many people in need here. which is why we continue to come back, year after year. proving the poor are not alone in their struggle, and maybe, in some way, it will instill the kind of hope and determination needed to rise above seemingly impossible odds. it is indeed a difficult journey, and for more information on how you can help, please go to help-the-hungry.org and you can join us on cnn saturday morning that's tomorrow from 6:00 to 8:00 a.m. eastern. >>> here's what's up next on "cnn newsroom." health care reform is boiling over, with those on either side of the issue trying to outshout each other. we'll show you one that turned violent. >>> and gi uniforms meant to provide brief but critical protection against fiery explosions, just who will make them? >>> and battling street violence. do

. >> oliver: the french colony of indoe china included vietnam, laos and cambodia.ands of french migrated to asia in search of wealth, made second class citizen nz their own country, the vietnamese resisted french occupation with violence. at the end of world war i, american president woodrow wilson envisioned a new world forum. founded at the paris peace conference in 1919, the league of nations was intended to be a new arena for people and countries to hash out their differences. this high minded concept appealed to one young man in particular. >> he showed up at the paris peace conference, wanting better treatment for vietnam and he was basically told, shoo, shoo, go away. that's for white people. >> oliver: the man ignored would later become known to the world as ho chi minh, loosely translated it means bringer of light. morn in 1890, the youngest of three children. he witnessed his father's frustration at the repression he felt under french rule. at age 21 he traveled to france as a ship's cook to see how the other half lived. ho chi minh would dedicate his lif

his writing about the wars in vietnam, the death squads in latin america, what happened to vietnam in cambodia, what is happening today in israel and palestine, his opposition to the wars in iraq, his relentlessness that is such an inspiration to us all. i think, looking at the essential chomsky edited by anthony arnove, this bookcase that is on the cover is filled with noam chomsky's books. he has written over 100 of them and you is not just writing. because, when he explodes the allies, he is saving lives, because the lies take lives. i don't know who said this quote, but someone once said, i think back on my life at all the times that thought it went too far and i realize now i didn't go far enough. well, i think noam chomsky has clearly gone the distance, and as we celebrate his 80 years, i am encouraged by a woman, who told me about celebrating her grandmother's 106 the burke the ander grand mother stood up at your party and said, to be 100 again. we look forward to hearing noam chomsky for many years to come, beginning with tonight. noam chomsky. [applause] [applause] [applause] >> thank

the senator's trip also took him to loose, thailand, cambodia and vietnam. i asked him why he thought the reclusive burmese leader met with him, released the american prisoner and let him talk with with aung san suu kyi. >> the communications that went back and forth in preparation for our visit, there was a lot of, i think, testing on both sides going on beforehand and i believe all those things went into their decisions. most important thing, actually right now is that we have an opportunity here to try to construct a new formula and it's vital for the interests of the united states and southeast asia that we reengage across the southeast asian mainland. we are in real danger ole losig our position with the expansion of china with the this whole series of countries that i visited. >> warner: now, in an op-ed in the "new york times" this week you wrote the u.s. should lift sanctions on burma and you said the ultimate object is to encourage myanmar to become a responsible member of the world community and you talked about having it under an open political s