deliberate and what they found in the truck. and then a deal to avoid economic disaster has not been reached yet. moments ago we heard from house speaker, kevin mccarthy. we will talk to jim clyburn about what needs to happen next. and then e. jean carroll, what the president said that has her asking for more money. and then a new wave of afghan migrants going on a dangerous journey to reach the u.s. southern border. we begin this very busy hour with our breaking news on the security scare in washington. a driver now in custody after crashing a u-haul truck into a barrier just one block from the white house last night. police say they believe the suspect crashed the truck intentionally. the law enforcement official telling nbc news the driver was making threats to the white house. investigators also seized a nazi flag from the scene. joining us with more is nbc news capitol hill correspondent, ryan nobles. ryan, what exactly happened? reporter: josé, first let me give
coming up on the whole story. just one enormous traffic jam of people through the jungle. maybe you die here. good evening. welcome to the whole story. i m anderson cooper. we re bringing you the best story telling from all over the world. one whole story, one whole hour every sunday at 8 p.m. tonight we take you on a dangerous journey through the darian gap. it s a 66 mile stretch jungle between colombia and panama for migrants hoping to get to the u.s. have to get through the darian gach first. that means trekking through rivers, mud, up steep mountain sides. along the way they face exhaustion, disease, drowning, the very real risk of being robbed, assaulted or killed. so far this year five times as many people have made this journey compared to the same period last year. a record number of them are children. to see what they face, cnn be s anything peyton walsh walked the entire route. some things are graphic and hard to watch. we want you to see the reality of
what you do and how you do it. let s talk about the group that you followed along with. how did they get to the daren gap to begin with? thanks for having me and including us in your report. the afghans making this journey first go to brazil. brazil is one of the very few countries offering a humanitarian visa for afghans that need a place to stay. from there they begin this journey towards the united states. how difficult of a journey is it? it s almost an impossible journey for anybody to go through that dairian gap. what drives them to take this route? sure. so we followed 54 people through the jungle, but we have interviewed about 100 people who have made this journey. nearly all of them say they are
a quarter of a million humans last year walked for four deadly days through this, the daren gap. an untold number do not make it. a much, much bigger number do, and with every moment of success, resilience mean cost in suffering and more will come. the world may be on the move because of climate conflict and corruption, but here is where the most of them are afoot. these are the stories of people from just five days. an endless trail on the jungle of pain, hope, loss, and grit. through the world s biggest hole in the fence. they gather under a glaring dusk as if to say good-bye to their old lives in the hope the dawn
they only walk when they re told to. the stories here are many, but there is only one goal, america. and the dream is just that, a reverie of hope, of conviction that they will be the ones to make it over danger, disease, dehydration, deportation. about this number every day, every year almost doubling. the daren gap is the only land corridor from south america where entry is easier to the north where it is not. there are no roads, only 66 miles of treacherous jungle from colombia to panama and onwards north, 3,000 miles to the u.s. border. we walked the entire route of the daren gap in february to document the suffering by people. what s startling is the sheer number of children on this trek as it begins on a route