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Humanitarian corridors are opened now or going to be opened at some point today. allison, meantime, secretary blinken landed in poland literally moments ago. what would he see if he were to visit a border crossing there? >> reporter: he might come to a place like this. this is not far away from 21 of the border crossings, about a six-minute drive. you can see thousands of people are there. that sign in a lot of different languages saying you are here and at pun point welcome to poland, are you s...

Cooking hot food which, right now, you know and youve been doing some incredible reporting, it is freezing. i mean, truly, truly freezing. let me walk through this crowd of folks. everywhere you go you have to watch out because people have their bags. the things they could bring with them. then take a look at this. im going to try to walk a little faster, jerry if you can keep up with me. okay. so not only do they have food, not only do they have nutrients and sustenance and rides and offering p...

She tried to leave kiev. she is dead. >> just want to protect my son. >> did you leave behind? >> in the face of evil, theres still good in the world. heroes everywhere risking their lives to lead others to safety. cherries like project dynamo, rescuing people in the middle of this fighting, getting them out of the country. uber is offering free rides between they are in the ukrainian border, although they wont drive you there because it will start raining. [laughter] >> good for you! [laughter]...

>> reporter: statewide, school mask requirements will be lifted wednesday. >> given the decline in our rates, our hospitalization, strong vaccination rates, and the cdc guidance, my friends, the day has come. >> reporter: the latest announcements bringing more schools in line with the latest cdc guidance which says in most of the country, people can safely gather not side without masks, excluding those people at high risk. tomorrow, washington, d.c. is lifting its indoor mask mandate. masks will...

Free rides, work, and places to stay. >> we have to do something. >> reporter: preidrisch huttner drove are from germany and says europeans have been much more divided about taking in refugees from other, noneuropean conflicts. >> it is always a hard and bad word, but for a fact its easier to take in people, we are from the same continent. >> reporter: and there are reports of african and middle eastern refugees having trouble leaving ukraine. across the parking lot, natalia and her family loade...

That sort of thing, food for these people who have arrived with nothing, they have arrived with suitcases, whatever they could carry, to the border. and then you also have behind me, people holding signs and volunteers who are coming here, to offer free rides to different parts of poland, and offering free sim cards for people, so they can communicate with their family and friends. and there are these big red buses that you see every once in a while and theyre taking people to different processi...

Facing rampant discrimination prevented from crossing the border as ukrainian authorities say are prioritizing the passage of "ukrainian people" or "white people." a student speaking to a news outlet in french says when they got to the polish border, there were scuffles and looked like black students were effectively being singled out, shunned and facing that discrimination. another student who spoke to nbc news says that when they were with other students and they were able to cross into poland...

Medication. so theyre coming to this point. inside now, were actually not allowed inside because understandably these are refugees who are absolutely exhausted and have right now not much of a desire to speak to the media. and so they wait outside those. from here theyre able to get their rides to go on elsewhere, but as i was saying, theres a rhythm that starts to emerge in all these situations and the way that people end up arriving here, the way theyre received, that theyre being welcomed, mo...

That is largely because of this massive effort happening on the part of volunteers and also because of this rhythm that sets it itself into place, where refugees will arrive at the train station, get scooped up by volunteers offering free rides, warm places to stay. some will end up as these reception centers such as this one where they can get just about anything they need from diapers, sim cards, food, water, medication, theres a couple of medical stations here where some of those arriving hav...

Hours, walking and waiting out in the cold. the stories were hearing about these overnights in these freezing temperatures with no food, no water, no bathroom, with little children. as they get closer to the actual border crossing from the shear panic and the emotional agony of it all, it ends up largely being a free for all with people just trying to push through just to cross over to the other side. now, once they actually get here they are met at these various different makeshift reception ar...