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
that allowed the u.s. to expel migrants and two texas counties issued disaster declarations in preparation. today, however, there s no evidencef a rush at least not an immediate one. this video from the u.s.-mexico border is probably the besteds of that. on the left you saw the it was yesterday with migrants camped outside it, on the right the border as it was today. there s a lot of theories where those people went. we ll get to that in a moment. a source tells cnn according to a count by border patrol around 2,300 migrants were in custody this afternoon. that s slightly lower than earlier this week. nevertheless the administration is still preparing for more migrants seeking asylum. i.c.e. is adding 5,000 detention beds. there s also political chaos and the biden administration saying it s trying to sabotage its effort on the border after a federal judge s ruling in florida. reporter: after title 42 ended late thursday night some migrants discovered they didn t make it in
that s why their whole life they started chasing it, right? right. reporter: do you think that the services that san francisco offers people who are on the streets encourages people to come to this city and stay in the city? ah homeless people? reporter: yeah. yes. i don t know. i don t know. reporter: what makes you so certain about that? because i know people, it s common knowledge, go to san francisco i don t think it s the housing that encourages them to come. reporter: no. i think it s the cheap drugs. i think it s hearing about what you can buy for how much money and how you can use outside and not get arrested. all new episode of the whole story here sunday 8 p.m. only on cnn. in case you missed it you can catch the episode of the whole ststory starting right now.