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Vast experience covering conflict. you were last there in june. how do they compare now? >> its a completely different city. if you didnt know there was a warks you wouldnt know. if you scratched just a little under the surface f you go looking, you can find more. theres not very many men around the city because the men are on the front. if the men want to come back, they have to have a pass and permission to do so. there are check points that vountd the city. but life is returning to normal. ki...

Photo journalist noticed as we were coming in here. you have check points set up eight months ago. and eight months is a short period of time unless youre in the middle of the war and then its forever. these check points have been here so long they are starting to sprout plants. they are becoming like many potted plants because they are becoming a part of that background at a country thats been at war in the east is now a country that is at war with one end to the other. >> whats your assessment...

Trooper presence. >> sure. one thing you have to understand about these areas is these are folks that are already accustomed to living under some kind of law enforcement. the border patrol is there. they have check points about you know, 100 miles or so from the border that they have to go through and declare that they are american citizens. so theres already something of an acceptance of having to subject yourself to a little bit more query. that sort of thing. but there are ranchers on the bor...

Possible. maybe someone else was trapped or something, but he got off and we started again. >> wow. >> during my trip -- yeah. during my trip, i passed ten check points until i arrived in kabul. >> how many -- >> i didnt sleep all night -- yeah? >> im sorry to interrupt. the story is just so incredible and intense by one seat you were essentially saved from being killed. im just wondering, what -- did you and any of this journey, get assistance from anybody, the government of the united states, ...

Crisis nap is being conducted by federal authorities. theyre working with local and state officers on that investigation, but it was the mexican government as you mentioned this morning the president of mexico, every morning he has a press conference where he talks about issues that are affecting the country and you can expect about sorts of issues to be discussed. but they decided to share all of the details they have including a photo of the suspect. they also showed a map of the route the tru...

575 miles. how are women supposed to get to a clinic? out of state. >> its incredibly difficult. what were going to see is that a small percentage of people will be able to make the travel necessary. the rest of the community is probably going to be forced into unwanted pregnancy. forced into parenthood. it is very difficult to arrange travel. not only within the state but outside of the state. texas is very vast and difficult to travel. were also take into consideration there are a lot of immig...

Water. in spite of all of the challenges, though, there are humanitarian aid groups still making every effort they can to get to people who need help the host most. we were able to follow one of those groups, an american organization called convoy of hope. we followed them from poland to ukraine. heres some of our report. how risky is the journey to get aid to eastern ukraine? >> very risky. >> reporter: a drive of check points on a route we cant show you because doing so could make a risky driv...

Buildings that are around the capitol. these are where the lawmakers and their staffs going to work every day and then they take these tunnels to get into the capitol to vote and go to the floor. >> thats right. i should have said that. and then the third one appears to be another tunnel between the rayburn building, another house office building and the capitol. ive been in this building working every day pretty much for 12 or 13 years. ive never seen anybody take those photos that led tours of...

Laredo sector is known for stash houses. and the folks who come here will be in stash houses and transported in trains, trains, even dump trucks and put the migrants at risk and puts our resource toss a greater task and thats the police department. they respond, along with our state agencies because border patrol doesnt have the people to patrol the border. you know, i was recently told by the border patrol folks that -- the border patrol personnel are tasked with patrolling the border the other...

That seems to be continued. despite all of this there are still thousands of civilians trapped in that city, but because of the intensity of the bombardment many of them cant leave, but given the uncertainty about the situation many people are leaving this area in general. in fact, as we were driving eastward we saw long lines at check points of cars of people fleeing to the west. one person who did actually come to the east overnight was president volodymyr zelenskyy, who actually came to the t...