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Quiet. theres a curfew now in place. as we were making our way outside the capital, it wasnt until about 25 miles outside of the city that we saw the first check point. there has been a number of check points along the highway. heavily armed ukrainian troops stopping cars, checking peoples paperwork, and then allowing them to then move on. weve also seen long lines at gas stations. long lines at supermarkets, people stocking up on supplies. weve also seen villages preparing for battle. weve seen...

For another four hours. for the masses of people here, its worth the wait. now those yellow city buses there, weve seen already this morning a convoy about five or six of them headed to the border, theyre allowed to skip the check points here. as for the status of those corridors, there is another round of negotiations between the ukrainians and russians happening at about five hours from now. yesterday, the red cross made very clear to both parties if theyre serious about making these corridors...

Of ballistic missiles and that kind of stuff that the russian military has and that theyre capable of raining down on ukraine. it just -- i feel like were at the edge of watching something pretty bad. >> i definitely appreciate the point youre making and concern you share. and before i get into the larger sort of cold war with the professor, we have promised one more such ground report. this is from cal perry live from ukraine. cal, go ahead. >> reporter: this conversation i think is the convers...

Raising the suspicion everybody is not who they say they are. the military is stopped at check points. this city has gone into basically a lockdown. we are under curfew and i am 350 miles from the ukrainian capital. i am only 50 miles from the polish border. people never thought this place would be the place to go in lockdown and a curfew. the american diplomat corps moved here and planned to stay here and so unstable and that they are going to remain in poland. they were commuting back and fort...

Touch with different types of authorities and its pretty difficult also because of lack of fuel for -- for cars and because of curfews and because of check points. however, i worry most about my family, because my family has been blocked in the city of kherson in the south of the country and they are on verge of humanitarian crisis. they already have food shortages and dont have electricity and they dont have transportation. they cant leave the city and they cannot -- the atms, you cant send mon...

Need to bring more to the table. the russians can finally feel that no matter how much they throw in, we will still keep fighting. >> youve been posting photographs of yourself armed, ready to help your countrys fight. what has that fight been like for you? what have you encountered? have you fired that gun? >> well, the skirmishes in the city which i was a part of. there was plenty of incursions. the russians started into the town at the beginning of the invasion. every single one of them repor...

Have a safe point in the polish country. they have family from ukraine. >> reporter: the food, the people you see here, all of this stuff has been donated by members of the local community, hoping that they can do something here to help. you see people cross through these check points. they are often in tears. grateful to be reunited with their loved ones. the people on this side grateful to see them make it across safely. remember now in ukraine men are not able to leave the country if they are...

In less than 24 hours in normal circumstances but so many check points along the way. another family from there as well. three trains and then a bus and crossing the border on foot and of course, many people are also trapped in cities. so once, if these humanitarian corridors pan out and if people are allowed out of places like mariupol, you could have hundreds of thousands of more people fleeing for the border and once people get to the border, kate, as we found out yesterday, the journey still...

Like where you are right now, erin. >> reporter: so what happened was, pamela, to get here it took another 16, 17 hours, and we passed various border crossings. we also, you know, one checkpoint alone took us over 6 hours because theres military check points in the towns. men are building up concrete. theyre putting big piles of tires presumably in case they need to burn them to stop a russian invasion. so you have that and just lines and lines of people all of them trying to head for the border...

Thanks for joining us. how many people are we seeing come across the border just over the last 24 hours? and how many more are expected to arrive? and where are they going? >> reporter: so, in poland, the polish government says theyve seen 100,000 ukrainian refugees cross into the country really in the last 48 hours. they expect those numbers to continue to rise. this is one of eight check points in poland, where people can come from ukraine to cross over. at this check point, you are only able ...