available resources. this hoe tel is being set up as place where migrants can rest, shower, go to the bathroom, sleep if needed for a night or two. they re also provided food, water, and medical care, and then they re connected with the services they might need. i want to show you what it looks like inside the hotel. you can see they ve set up different waiting areas and common areas for people to try and get on whatever journey they are trying to get on. many of the migrants being sent to new york city, do not intend to stay in new york city. some of them are trying to connect with other family members or travel to other parts of the country. and the city is trying to step in and do just that. but there are also some very real challenges when it comes to sheltering migrants. the city of new york has been running out of shelter space, and we watched today as a couple
of connecting them to the available resources. this hotel is set up so they can rest, go to the bathroom, shower, sleep. they re also provided food, water, medical care, and then they re connected with the services they might need. i want to show you what it looks like inside the hotel. you can see they ve set up different waiting areas and common areas for people to try to get on whatever journey they re getting on to. many who arrive in new york city do not intend to stay in new york city. some of them are trying to connect with other family members or travel to other parts of the country, and the city is trying to step in and help them do just that. but there are also some very real challenges when it comes to sheltering migrants. the city of new york has been running out of shelter space,
ed, do officials there feel like they have the resources they need to deal with this? reporter: no. the fact of the matter is they don t. they say we cannot get enough funding to spend our way out of this, whatever they re doing, they re basically kind of hanging on by a thread and doing the bare minimum that they possibly can to do this. this is a great deal of pressure not just on border patrol officials in these border communities, but as well as non-government organizations, like charities and shelters and churches that are helping with this. it really is they re trying to open up more space. there are efforts to either contract hotel rooms or open up other waiting areas where people can wait in safe places so they can catch their bus rides and flights out of town. but all of that stuff is not quite online yet from what we can tell in el paso.
artillery, these scenes of confusion and suffering could be just the beginning. rob cameron, bbc news, on the slovak ukrainian border. in a moment we can speak to our correspondent nick thorpe in hungary, but first let s speak to my colleague kasia madera, who s on the polish side of the border with ukraine. so many people coming through. how are the authorities managing to help them? every day, thousands of people are coming and every day, the local authorities and local volunteer groups are ready to welcome them, to bring them here. this is a przemysl train station, one of a number of places that has been transformed into an emergency welcome reception area. the ticket hall is full of people trying to work out what their next steps are, the waiting areas within the hall itself have lines and rows upon rows of camp beds where people can get some sleep but bearin where people can get some sleep but bear in mind, these people havejust crossed the border, coming from
take, like that lady on the plane that you were talking about a few minutes ago, who realized that i can t imagine sitting in an airplane bathroom for a couple hours, but whenever we develop symptoms, we need to be able to do some tests at home and not expose testing personnel and others. we just need a lot of rapid tests in every house. a lot of rapid tests. what about domestic travel? do you think there should be a vaccine mandate? i think we re probably heading there. the fact is that airplanes are safe and they circulate a lot of air, but quite honestly, we ve had plenty of people after airport exposures and all of the other stuff that goes with flying, that it makes sense to have a vaccine mandate. i think that s where we re headed. with all the delays at airports, you see people packed in like sardines in the waiting areas. doctor, thank you so much for coming on early. appreciate it. hope to see you in the new year. thanks, laura. now to our other top story, catastro