situation is horrifying. and i'm looking around now at a sea of people lying on the floor or the gravel. there's nowhere for them to sleep other than a cardboard box. they are cold, it's very chilly, there's no blankets. the bathrooms here are in a very bad state indeed. and there's no sense of how long these people are going to be here. because for over eight hours today, no u.s. plane even left. so there's now even more of a backlog and a bottleneck than there was, jake. >> is there any sense of order when it comes to the effort to determine who gets to come into the gates into that last perimeter where the u.s. is and who does not? >> reporter: i think in the initial process -- you know, there are so many nodes along this chain. initially it's sort of like who can flash a document in the air and who can push the hardest/who