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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 o ....
Sometimes adults don t even survive. reporter: we heard john s son coughing all last night. but, still, they set out. whatever is ahead, haiti s heat, hunger, and hellish chaos is at least at their backs. there are the older two, 58-year-old maria, a teacher from venezuela whose monthly salary of $16 can t feed anyone. so she and her daughter are headed to houston, hopefully to relatives. we ve only been going a matter of hours and it just seems an endless series of river crossings, and the conditions are just constant water and pretty exhausting. manuel and tamara, like many ....