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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 real ....
on our house in terms of what we will end up doing to our fellow human being. if you think of a scale, on one side of the scale it s like the current situation in venezuela, which is quite dire, as it is in cuba, what would we do to even the scales, to get to a point where what we were doing produced an equal amount of desperation. yes. it s unthinkable. a quarter of venezuela s gone. staggering, thank you my friend, as always. thanks to at-home for joining us this hour. on november 4th of 2008, america elected its first black president. senator john mccain had called senator barack obama to concede the race, and as he began to deliver his concession speech before a crowd in phoenix, arizona, this happened. a little while ago, i had the honor of calling senator barack obama to congratulate him. [crowd chanting] please. to congratulate him. on being elected the next president of the country that we both love. john mccain. gently, but firmly, and managing a cr ....
the race, and as he began to deliver his concession speech before a crowd in phoenix, arizona, this happened. a little while ago, i had the honor of calling senator barack obama to congratulate him. [crowd chanting] please. to congratulate him. on being elected the next president of the country that we both love. john mccain. gently, but firmly, and managing a crowd of republicans for booing the election of our nation s first black president. at the time, this was seen as an important moment, it wasn t as though statesmanship was exactly the norm in the republican party. it was sort of the opposite, actually. remember, john mccain s running mate, sarah palin, who was a proponent of birtherism, that conspiracy theory that unfounded racist fearmongering that undermined the historic election of our nation s first black president, and that turned conservatives against barack obama, that you could probably hear in the booing of senator mccain tried to hush that night. mc ....
later this hour, for now, let s go to rosy flores. it s a little grainy, a little difficult to make out, but my goodness, what it tells you is these migrants were the folks who were waiting here on the side of the street there, really didn t have any chance whatsoever to get out of the way, it happened that fast. reporter: it was so fast. and i talked to the director of the shelter. he says that he was able to capture a different angle from his shelter, and he says what he witnessed happened at about 8:30 central time this morning. he said that it captured about 20 to 25 migrants who had just minxed breakfast at the shelter and had crossed the street and were sitting on a curb waiting for a bus. then the video shows a 2007 range rover at a very high rate of speed ran the red light and hit the curb about 30 feet from where the migrants were and the vehicle got out of control. this director said some of the migrant witnesses say it looked like an intentional act. i aske ....
people from asking for help. we begin with breaking news from russia, where the kremlin claims ukraine tried to assassinate vladimir putin in an overnight drone attack. this video, purports to show an explosion over the kremlin. wait for you. it you see it in the middle of your screen. russia has provided no clear evidence to back up this claim. a spokesperson for ukraine s president told local media that kyiv had nothing to do with this alleged incident and called it an expected trick from our opponents. moments ago, secretary of state blinken was asked about this during a press freedom day event. i can t in any way validate them. we simply don t know. i would take anything coming out of the kremlin with a very large shaker of salt. let s see. we ll see what the facts are. it s hard to comment or speculate without knowing what the facts are. joining us now to take a closer look, chief foreign correspondent, richard engel, and military analyst, barry mccafrey, and ....