coming up on the whole story. just one enormous traffic jam of people through the jungle. maybe you die here. good evening. welcome to the whole story. i m anderson cooper. we re bringing you the best story telling from all over the world. one whole story, one whole hour every sunday at 8 p.m. tonight we take you on a dangerous journey through the darian gap. it s a 66 mile stretch jungle between colombia and panama for migrants hoping to get to the u.s. have to get through the darian gach first. that means trekking through rivers, mud, up steep mountain sides. along the way they face exhaustion, disease, drowning, the very real risk of being robbed, assaulted or killed. so far this year five times as many people have made this journey compared to the same period last year. a record number of them are children. to see what they face, cnn be s anything peyton walsh walked the entire route. some things are graphic and hard to watch. we want you to see the reality of
coming up on the whole story. this is just one enormous traffic jam of people through the jungle. [ speaking non-english ] good evening, welcome to the whole story. i m anderson cooper. starting tonight we are bringing you the best of cnn s storytelling from our reporters and anchors all over the world. it s one whole story, one whole hour every sunday at 8:00 p.m. tonight, we take you on a dangerous and difficult journey through the darien gap, the only land route connecting south america to central america. it s a 66-mile stretch of jungle between colombia and panama. so migrants hoping to get to the u.s. have to get through the darien gap first. that means trekking through rivers and mud and up steep mountainsides. along the way they face exhaustion, disease, drowning and the very real risk of being robbed, assaulted, or even killed. so far this year, five times as many people have made this journey compared to the same period last year, and a record number of them
he s actually done. so there s never any upside in letting joe biden speak injo public. d but unfortunately for the white house, sometimes you don t have a choice. disasters happenn ha. and when they do, the public expect somebody to pretend to be president. the american economy a is currently a disaster. therefore, joe biden had to h talk. so his aides dutifully let him out to the podium today to say something edifying about it. what happened next has got to be one of the weirdest presidential briefings ever conducted. new economic numbers show has declined for two quarters in a row. that s the definition of a recession. we re in a recession. that s why joe biden had tofi hold the briefingng. and yet biden never once mentioned those numbers, not a single time other than that, mrs. lincoln, how was the play? it was completely bizarre. instead, biden simply announced that there is no recession in the united states no matter what you may have noticed aboutt your own country. i
but he s here now and they re trying to figure out a way forward. so a full day of meetings begins now with the leader of iraq and we re hoping to have some details from inside their at some point later on today ashleigh. okay, peter , you see who is traveling with the president on his mideast trip. peter , thank you so much. will be coming back to you once we get more details. but later on this morning, president biden will also speak to the leaders of egypt and the united arab emirates before heading back to washington. i m ashleigh strohmeyer in order to send you back to regular programing already in progressve. ha can you be sure that anothr incident, another murder, tumultuous joe biden won t happen again? god love you. what a silly question.ggi how could i possibly be sure of any of that? the president is under enormous pressure to bring downo the surging gas prices with thed trip with democrats in his own o party getting tired of hiswn inflation spin. think that w
sides. along the way they face exhaustion, disease, drowning, the very real risk of being robbed, assaulted or killed. so far this year five times as many people have made this journey compared to the same period last year. a record number of them are children. to see what they face, cnn be s anything peyton walsh walked the entire route. some things are graphic and hard to watch. we want you to see the reality of what s happening on the trek, a migrant trail to america. sometimes a dream turns into a nightmare first. beauty is deepest in a place you may never get out of. and the need to keep moving is the only thing left to carry.