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Absolute remarkable job and doing the best they can to make it feasible for children and their families to be stable, to have hope and to be safe and to help them move on to the next place they're going to go to, so the whole thing has been an incredibly inspiring situation for karen and i as we tour these facilities in poland. >> we're grateful to you, although i have to say the worst part about this is that we keep having these conversations and i would like a day when disaster preparedness and children is obsolete. irwin redlenner. >> me, too. >> he is an msnbc public health analyst and wit...

[ tires squeal, crash ] when owning a small business gets real, progressive gets you right back to living the dream. now, where were we? [ cheering ] as we mentioned a moment ago more than 5 million people have fled ukraine since the start of the russian invasion, the majority being women and children. according to unicef two-thirds of ukraine's 7.5 million children have been forced to leave their homes while nearly half of those who remain in their homes may not have enough food. i want to bring in a friend of the show, dr. irwin renlenner he's been on the screen for the last two years info...

Redlenner, founder of the new york city's children's health fund. an msnbc public health analyst and you've seen irwin on tv a lot and we've relied on his expertise when it comes to covid-related matters and he was part of joe biden's task force when he was elected to figure out thou deal with covid and i've known irwin for a lot of years and his specialty is something else. he's a pediatrician with extensive experience working in child advocacy on the national and international stages particularly as it relates to children in crisis. some of those crisis involve children being refugees. irwin...

Escaped over the border to poland. about 157,000, nearly 12% have fled to where i am, hungary. roughly 8% have found sanctuary in moldova, 5% to slovakia, 5% to romania and russia and those are russian-speaking people who have sought safety in russia. volunteers are doing their best to bring in sense of normalcy, one refugee camp in romania, emergency services personnel managed to throw a surprise party for a 7-year-old ukrainian girl. ♪ happy birthday to you ♪ ♪ happy birthday to you ♪ ♪ happy birthday, dear irina ♪ ♪ happy birthday to you ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> joining ...

Support and i think we're looking at incredible crisis that will create longlasting traumatic experiences for a lot of children and families and this is a real problem and not to mention other things. you mentioned my work on covid. well, there are people with covid that are trying to evacuate that will be crowded in trains, in busses, wherever they're going when they get to their host country and this presents yet another danger for people, an expansion, a surge of covid throughout this crisis. it's really a very sad and traumatic event for everybody trying to escape this horror story in ukra...