of the hungary/serbia border. what are you seeing from refugees and migrants that have been trying to get through? reporter: well, today, hungary said would be the deadline. midnight, which is just a few hours from now, when hungary would fully seal its borders and not allow any more refugees or migrants to come in. we saw hungary take very dramatic steps, it is finishing a border fence, it put several new sections of that fence in place, but hungary has not completely sealed its border yet. what you can see behind me is a line of riot police and migrants and refugees are being funneled into a very narrow passageway and they are being allowed in a few at a time. the prime minister of hungary said a few hours ago that many of the people who are going into the country right now through this very narrow passageway,
treatment of refugees. one says this resembles animals fed in a pen. arwa damon shows us what happens near the serbia border. reporter: the sandwiches carelessly thrown into the crowd by hungarian police. the activist who filmed this on september 9th could not believe what she was seeing. surely the hungarian police could not be distributing food like this to refugees and migrants who just trekked for weeks. people who fled war, ab jacket abject other things, but sadly this treatment is the norm. it happened here in this blue building, one of the main
people having breakfast. but police say a tenant was storing licensed exiplosioves i the building. rescuers are still searching for survivors. we turn now to the latest in the migrant crisis. thousands more migrants are flocking into austria and hungary right now. this video shows them waiting in grim conditions at the hungarian/serbia border. they are expected to see thousands of migrants before next week. they are expected to make it there before the fence is done by october to stop the influx. the barbed wire fence is 175 kilometers long and 4 meters high. a video that emerged in hungary is raising concerns over the
this and start to put their lives back together. john and christine. will ripley, those pictures are amazing. i appreciate it. the white house under pressure to do more with the migrant crisis unfolding in europe. the u.s. is prepared to take in 10,000 refugees in the coming year. no let-up at the hungary/serbia border. the government mobilizing the military now presenting a problem for the migrants trying to make their way west to austria and germany. austria has suspended rail service with hungary. let s go to the serbia/hungary border. let s bring in correspondent arwa damon. arwa, what are you seeing there? reporter: good morning. austria is suspending rail service. that does not mean it shut its border down to those trying to make it through. it means they are walking across
temperatures will continue to drop. this is not just what people are facing here. scenes similar, if not much more worse, than what you are witnessing are unfolding throughout the entire route that these people are taking as they cross through europe. they often times find themselves out shelter and sleeping on the streets and on the pavement and forests. as the european leaders are getting together to figure out how they will divvy up the responsibilities when it comes to taking in these refugees mostly from the war zones of iraq, syria and afghanistan and economic migrants as well. perhaps another very pressing issue right now is how to build up the much-needed assistance at the various critical transit points along their way. arwa damon for us on the hungary/serbia border. new concerning about the russian