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>> heres atika shubert reporting in from munich. >> reporter: over the weekend munich saw a record number of refugees coming through this train station. 16,000. so noorly as many came in to germany in just one day. and this is why germany says they need to impose temporary border controls along the border with austria. what that means is they suspended a number of train lines. 000 operating again. however, police are going onboard trains checking for ids. those without any valid id may be turned...

Record number of migrants. 8600 people crossed the border from greece over the weekend. ivan watson is there. >> reporter: this is the border between grooeeece and macedonia informal crossing point through which refugees and my grants have been streaming through by the thousands. more than 8600 people in a single 24-hour period. hi. >> good morning. >> where are you from? >> syria. >> syria. >> syria. >> where are you going? >> finland. >> finland if. >> yeah. >> okay. >> so you hear these peopl...

And what is life like for ordinary syrian civilians? >> the world is focusing on this because these refugees are showing up in europe. you just gave 400,000 as the people who have kraffed the mediterranean to europe every year. thats a lot of people, but its less than one-tenth of one percent. its a number of europeans can handle. lebanon today, between 20 and 25% of the population is composed of syrian refugees. so the countries of the region have been accepting a much larger burden. but you wo...

Those migrants. were joint now on the phone by nbcs richard engel whos on the serbian side of the hungary/serbian border right now. give us a sense of what you are experiencing and most importantly what the migrants there are up against as they try to move toward europe. >> reporter: this came somewhat unexpectedly. we thought that hungary would close its border in about six hours from now. but just a short while ago, perhaps one hour ago, hungarian police stood in rows. they moved up to the bor...

Ha hungarian/serbian border. theyre waiting to get on buses bound for austria. thats where richard engel is standing by for us. richard? >> reporter: alex, things here are still quite tense along the serbian/hungarian border. police forces are corralling people so they can be loaded on to buses. a lot of these people do not want to get on these buses. they dont want to be fingerprinted, they dont want to be kept in these lines and they dont want to be separated from their families, because that ...

The hungarian/serbian border. >> we heard of one woman whose husband had a heart attack five days ago. he was taken to the hospital and shep doesnt know if hes alive or dead. theres a vast situation here at the border. and one of the problems is the hungarian authorities dont want to ask for assistance to treat the people properly. they have no interpretors or doctors. nothing to treat the people in the humane way. >> the migrants are trying to make it to hungary before this fence is finished al...

The source. hungary also warned as of next week people entering the country illegally will be arrested. nbcs chief foreign correspondent richard engel is along the hungarian serbian border and with a welcome to you, whats the scene like there today? >> well, a lot of work is going on to finish this border fence. the hungarian government is calling for billions of dollars to help it secure its border but the primary effort right now is to finish the last parts of this hundred-mile-long 12-foot-hi...

These are the faces of sheer desperation, people like you, these were doctors and pharmacists and mechanics and hairdressers running for their lives, leaving syria where it is war and isis that threatens their every breath and trying to make it to europe. today refugees at a holding camp along the hungarian serbian border decided enough. they broke through the police line and they ran for freedom with children and elderly. i mean, children, carrying children. cnns war damon was with them when th...

Evangelical voters theyre supporting donald trump who is not making such a big deal of kim davis. >> i think its kind of a george wallace moment where a certain group is galvanized, with him against integration, but ultimately -- and against civil rights, but ultimately equality won out. >> and i should mention that kim davis is a democrat, did you know? >> yes. >> she is a democrat. thanks, michael, for stopping by. now to the worsening migrant crisis in europe. right now thousands of familie...

Officer. and to step in and save that officers life, its so great. >> three guys stopped and helped. im going to tweet the link to the story and the good guys there because i want them to get the recognition. >> good morning. thank you so much for bringing us that story. "newsroom" starts now. and good morning. im carol costello. thank you so much for joining me. we begin with the escalating migrant crisis. moments ago refugees broke past a security line along the hungary-serbia border. our cr...