>> more than 4,000 people now cross the border from hungary into austria. hello from doha everyone, i'm kamal santa maria. just how the continent will respond. in other news, the united arab emirates declares three days of national mourning for 43 soldiers killed in yemen. in ethiopia, four and a half million people could need food aid. so the situation right now is that austria has opened its border to refugees and the numbers of growing. more than 4,000 people have already crossed from hungary after that very difficult journey which we've been highlighting over the last 24 to 48 hours. we're going to talk immediately to mohammed jamjoom who has been making his way towards that border. how far are you now and what's happening? >> reporter: well, kamal we're about ten kilometers away from the border with austria but as you can see behind me there is a huge line of cars that goes on for kilometers behind us as we well. hungarian media is quoting hungarian officials saying that austria has closed off the border to anybody except the refugees that have gone th

hungary. and they asked repeatedly if the prime minister does not want them here, why doesn't he let them go. those who have crossed over into use tree i can't say--austriaay that they're glad to get out of hungary and they are close to reaching the life they want. >> 25,000 refugees on the greek island of lesbos. more people arrive every day. hundreds, sometimes thousands of refugees land on the shores of lesbos every day. they arrive on overcrowded boats from turkey. the majority are syrians. often entire families are on the move. they're stressed and tired. >> i didn't want to leave, but these are my children. they stopped going to school in university. there is no more life. only fear. we had no choice. >> a few meters away another boat on the horizon. and another and one more. this rubber dinghy's engine was broken, so they were adrift. we could hear them scream and shout for help. and for a moment there is an outburst of joy. but there is also so much anxiety. in a faint voice she says, i'm scared. no one cares about us. >> we have no value any more. we have to come as a commodity. people make money off our back. we're a trading commodity. >> the e

for days they have been held in hungary, uncertain of whether they'd be allowed through to austria and into the e.u. rob reynolds reports from munich, where they've been met with a warm welcome. >> reporter: weary but happy, refugees arrive at a german train station at last. for thousands those steps represent the finishing to a harrowing journey stretching thousands of kilometres. germans gathered at the station to cheer and clap as refugees went through a temporary processing center. there they went through the first step of applying for asylum. >> translation: it's running smoothly in an ordinary manner. we had several meetings with the crisis management team. the governmenters police and aid organizations are managing this in an impressive way. >> reporter: german officials estimate that 800,000 refugees arrived in the country before the end of the year. the refugees waited in line to register and receive new clothing, water and food. some families faced many days of hostility in hungary, before being allowed to move on to germany. >> my house bomb. i decide to go from syria. i hope to

yesterday, as we were about to cross over into austria from hungary, we found a woman from syria. she said she and her children almost drowned crossing turkey into greece and how she's so grateful to have gotten into austria on this desperate journey. here's her story. >> the road has been longer and more dangerous for her than she ever could have imagined. >> terrible, terrible, bad situation. >> never worse for the english teacher from syria than when she, her husband and three children found themselves on a boat that started to sink after they'd set off from turkey, but before they'd reached greece. >> when we were in the boat in the sea, i was standing on one leg and raising my son on the other one in order to get him up from the water, because the water was still here and the surface of the sea was up to here. >> rescued by the greek coast guard, she and her family then set off again. a few days back, they wound up in hungary. >> they took us to the camp, to one of the camps as if we are in a prison. >> every setback has only made her more determined to reach germany. >> yeah,

>> liz mcdugal is general >> more than 4,000 people now cross the border from hungary into austria. hello from doha everyone, i'm kamal santa maria. just how the continent will respond. in other news, the united arab emirates declares three days of national mourning for 43 soldiers killed in yemen. in

but they may not be as lucky when they try to cross from hungary into austria. this crisis is laying bare some fundamental positions between eu states. several eastern european countries have said imposing conditions won't work. but if countries want the privileges of eu membership, they need to accept the responsibilities. even as europe closes some of its doors, new refugees continue to arrive on the shores of greece. they are overjoyed at surviving the crossing, maybe unaware of the obstacles and hardships that lie ahead. >> winter is coming. and europe needs to be prepared for that so we can fulfill our obligation towards those who flee war and persecution, so that we can also fulfill our obligation against those who want us to do a better job of protecting our borders. >> reporter: opinions are reached through consensus. common ground is hard to find. a political commitment exists to relocate the refugees. translating that into action is another matter. >>> russia appears to be expanding its support for the syrian president assad. moscow positioned tanks at

it's key that they cross out of hungary, get into austria and make it to germany. the concern at the hour is what will happen to them in hungary, because they heard the tales of wow from other refugees, as far as the stance of the hungarian government. >> also, we heard from the european parliament that there was a plan to relocated 160,000 people, refugees. from where you have been standing for the last few days, it doesn't seem as if that number coming in will let up. there'll be a lot more people than 160,000 looking for help. >> it's a good point. although the european union wants to accommodate that, the fact of the matter is more are expected. even today officials are telling us that they are expecting there could be as many as 5,000 refugees trying to cross into "hunky dory" -- into hungary. unclear at this point, and we heard from my colleague andrew simmonds about thousands trying to cross in, and some prevented from doing so. thousands more will attempt to cross into hungary, a lot of chaos and confusion. there's so much pressure on the european union to g

the rejoicing will come at the moment they go out of hungary and into austria, john. >> arwa damon forow with people hoping to got out of hungary into austria after a journey that simply, harrowing, death-defying, for them. in some cases, brothers, many have lost their lives on the journey. arwa damon, thank you so very much. coming up for us, 360 exclusive, justice department launches a fraud investigation involving billions of dollars in government contracts supposed to go to helping severely disabled get jobs. ♪ hi, tom. hey, how's the college visit? you remembered. it's good. does it make the short list? you remembered that too. yea, i'm afraid so. knowing our clients personally is what we do. it's okay. this is what we've been planning for. thanks, bye. and with over 13,000 financial advisors, we do it a lot. it's why edward jones is the big company that doesn't act that way. choose, choose, choose. but at bedtime? ...why settle for this? enter sleep number... right now all beds are on sale. sleepiq technology tells you how well you slept and what adjustments you can make. you lik

. >>> refugees coming in in hopes of being granted asylum. 11,000 have crossed from hungary into austria in just the last 24 hours. >> in jordan a devwaevastating message went out to the refugees. ian has the food been cut off as of today or will it be tapered off soon? what are these refugees going to do for food? >> reporter: they've been cut off since september 1st. let me give you a scale of the refugee situation in jordan. imagine the city of phoenix, 1.5 million people becoming refugees. that's how many they say are in jordan. 220,000 of them are without food assistance. that's because the world food program has run out of money. it really doesn't take a lot to keep this going. one person takes roughly $14 a month to give them the food they need. that's less than 50 cents a day. they need roughly $230 million for the refugees in and around syria. the question is what are they going to do if they aren't given food? believe it or not, some have returned to syria. others are looking to go to europe. there's 229,000 of them who are not getting food who are making those decisions right

hungary. one migrants said they will be taken into hungary and take into camps on the hungary-austria border. sources are saying it will be taken straight into austria. there is not yet full clarity. it seems as if something is moving, at least some sort of partial solution found to get hundreds of migrants out. anchor: the croatian government saying it can't cope. what is the feeling amongst ordinary croatians you are speaking to? reporter: at least here people feel very sympathetic. a quarter of a century ago, we were refugees too. that bearsmall town the scars of croatia's war with serbia. they feel very sympathetic to people who have been fleeing wars in syria and afghanistan and iraq and other places. nor themhe migrants think this is any place for them to stay. i think the migrants and local people are hoping a solution is found to resettle them somewhere where they might have more of a chance of finding a home. anchor: thank you again. tensions are still running high in burkina faso. unrest has fled to various parts of the country following a coup earlier in the week by a general still

thousands of people crossed into austria at the border with hungary. began walking after waiting for days at a train station in budapest. vowing to travel the more than 240 kilometers or about 150 miles to vienna on foot. or wa damon traveled the route with many of the migrants, eventually joining on a bus to austria. >> reporter: they're coming across the border right now. they have to walk the last portion of the trip. it is raining. it is pretty miserable but very few of them care because finally, they have left hungary behind. they have left the horrific conditions they say they were living in there behind. now they're walking here into austria. they will be boarding buses, taken to a registration center, not too far away from here. in that building they're being given tea, clothing, blankets. these people just today have had such a long journey. they left the train station in budapest, the collettety train station, they walked for eat or nine hours deciding to do the trek because they were simply fed up for waiting aaround for the various politici

but they may not be as lucky when they try cross from hungary into austria. they risk getting caught in limbo. this crisis is laying bare some fundamental divisions between eu states. several eastern european countries have said that imposing refugee quotas won't work and they won't seven them. but germany and france are arguing that if countries want the privileges of eu membership they must accept the responsibilities. even as some close their doors more refugees arrive on the shores of greece. they are unaware of the obstacles and hardships that lie ahead. >> as they say, winter is coming and europe needs to be prepared for that so that we can fulfill our obligation towards those who flee war and persecution, so we can also fulfill our obligation against those who want us to do a better job of protecting our borders. >> in the european union decision he are reached through consensus but in this case common ground is hard to find. ministers say a political commitment exists to relocate the refugees. translating that professed commitment into action is anoth

. >>> hundreds of migrants crossed the border from hungary into austria on foot earlier this morning, welcomed there by charity workers after germany and austria are offering asylum to ease the strain on hungary. and afghanistan. hungary is the first port of call for many migrants arriving, many trying to flee the countries that have been absolutely devastated by war, and it's shaping up to be the largest refugee crisis since world war ii. i have said it all morning, the image of i think a 3-year-old little boy washing up in the water that has proven to be a tipping point in that something needs to be done. turning people away is not option anymore. >> it doesn't seem to be. >> rob, thank you. >> still to come on this saturday morning, rescue efforts resume this morning for a blue whale that has been entangled in a fishing net. i will have the latest on that for you. >> it's a beautiful day to do whatever you need to do outside. check it out. coming up here, including beautiful weather to play golf. coming up here. the director of the professional athletic performance center is here w

people want to be able to get out of hungary into austria and then go on from there into germany. >> hungary is part of the european union. are you getting any sense of how hungarian authorities plan to house more refugees through a quota system? >> stephanie, i think we may have lost the connection if you're speaking to me. >> ok. if you -- reporting live from the serbian-hungarian border. we do have more on this with ambassador richard murphy. do we have him joining us now from lebanon? ok. ambassador, i just want to bring in another issue that we've been talking about here, which is that there's been a lot of criticism not just on the u.s., but particularly on persian gulf nations for the fact that they have not been receiving any refugees. you'll recall the photo last week of the little beaulieu drowned. in an editorial in an arab newspaper, they wrote this, the picture of the drowned syrian child is an arab scandal. he is holding the powerful arabs before the europeans responsible for what he that endured. ambassador, are gulf nations not doing enough to address the refugee crisi

what happens more refugees go across the border from hungary into austria and then come here. right now you can see more buses are arriving right now with additional refugees. so in order for there not to be a major bottleneck, you can see the lollipop allocation waving. actually moving as the refugees are waving to the locals here. there's been a massive donations drive that started early this morning because it was on short notice that people realized refugees were coming here. they donated water, food, medication. they set up a center here where the refugees can get clothing. it has been amazing to see the lollipop allocation here really step up and welcome these people. but it hasn't really thinned out, it's waves that come and go. what authorities are doing is they it a for people to come across the border. the train station is pretty small. they don't want too many people here at the same time. so they keep them in a larger holding area then bring them here where they can get on trains fairly quickly and then move them over further into austria and then many of them, of

that if they could just be allowed to cross from hungary into austria, things would be fine. but that clearly is not going to happen. we have seen refugees on the road going to the makeshift site all day today. how serbia is going to deal with that is really going to be telling. >> indeed. and what about the presence of the humanitarian agencies, the international organization of migration, what about the people who are there to provide help and assistance to these people? what sort of presence have you noticed? >> we're seeing more u.n. officials, unhcr officials throughout the day in serbia. they are trying to [ inaudible ] we are seeing charities. we are seeing aid workers, medics, but there is going to need to be more. [ inaudible ] border. they know that they are going to [ inaudible ] they have been calling endlessly almost on the e.u. to let them basically take over logistics when it comes to this crisis to help set up a receiving point, and that hasn't happened, and that's one of the reasons why this crisis is spiralling out of control, because there has not been a un

buses took thousands of migrants from hungary into austria this morning. a simple border crossing.s was a hard fought victory which they had to earn one step at a time. from there, many were quickly loaded on to trains for vienna. friday, the migrants and refugees mostly from syria finally got fed up in hungary. and decided to head for the austrian border on foot. 100 miles away. the hungarian government had been given them a hard time. corralling them into camps, sometimes beating them and forcing them off trains. ahmed wears a prosthetic and he was angry and confused as to why the government was hassling instead of helping them. we bought train tickets but they won't let us travel he said. but with reporters following every step, and babies in the sun, children two to a stroller, it all became too embarrassing for the hungarian government. which finally gave the migrants and refugees what they wanted -- passage out of the country so they could head further north and west to wealthier parts of europe. this crisis is in no way over. the hungarian government says this was a one-time

but now they have made it out of hungary into austria and today this one syrian family will reach germany and their relatives. so many more still on the way. terry moran, abc news, vienna. >> you just got back yesterday covering the story at the front lines. extraordinary reporting but what moments stood out. >> three things i won't forget. i was standing on the beach on an island in greece and watching entire families jammed into boats rickety boats for this potentially fatal journey. people have died making it right there on the beach with them talking to these families as they came off, another thing i remember, the middle of the night i was with several hundred refugees here it is crossing over into hungary. they were really nervous about what was going to happen with the police when they got there. we were walking through farmland here in the middle of the night. it was very, very hard to see. some of these people we followed we then got to austria with them when they were safe and to my great surprise they actually pulled out a selfie stick and took a picture of themselves. >> a sel

hungary and austria, and for days kept in hungary, but now allowed to go through. there are thousands of others waiting to make that trip. near the southern border with serbia, police are moving them into a new transit camp and say they will seal the area with a high fence. for many, the perilous trip is now over. we have this report from munich. >> destination, he were something knee, another train carrying refugees pulls into munich's central station. men, women and children tumble out. many escaped the civil war in syria. even the youngest gets a warm welcome from a volunteer. the refugees appeared weary as they made their way under police escort to a reception area. we asked how they felt to be in germany. >> thank god, we are in a country as developed as germany. >> this woman said she made nearly all the journey on foot. >> i want for it and i come into germany because -- >> she said it is her dream to stay in germany and to get to the end of her life in germany, because it is a land, a country of blessing and humanity. >> volunteers helped shepard the refugees through the station and deal with the language barrier. >> we need all the help we can get. every voice counts. >> as th

buses took thousands of migrants from hungary into austria, a simple border crossing but this was a hardght victory which they had to earn one step at a time. from there many were quickly loaded onto trains for vienna. friday, the migrants and refugees mostly from syria finally got fed up in hungary and decided to head for the austrian border, on foot, 100 miles away. the hungarian government had been giving them a hard time, corralling them into camps, sometimes beating them and forcing them off trains. this man lost his leg. like many he was angry and confused as to why the government was hassling instead of helping them. we bought train tickets but they won't let us travel, he said. with reporters following every step, and babies in the sun, children two to a stroller it all became too embarrassing for the hungarian government. which finally gave the migrants and refugees what they wanted, passage out of the country so they could head further north and west to wealthier parts of europe. >> alex, this is certainly not over. hungary insists this is a one-time effort that it is not going

syrian refugees, groups trying to figure out a way to get smuggled into other countries so they can avoid hungary and get into austria. it's still dire. the situation isn't getting better here in hungary. i just spoke to a representative from unhcr, there are seven tents here at this unofficial border crossing, but there are no refugees. the representative said they hoped to be able to start helping the hungarian government process the refugees. but they are going to try to go to another location and help other refugees getting into the country by other measures. >> just when you thought it couldn't get any worse. thank you for that. >>> this is the first port of call for many refugees. they are often escaping political unrest. we visited a refugee camp in rome where 90% are from artrea. >> reporter: this is a changing population of people on the move. fleeing their homeland was the hard, much easier staying under the radar is italy. authority seem pretty relaxed about enforcing. there is a silent agreement with the local police. >> translator: sometimes they will come over and ask us if everything is fine. if there

after days being held back, at least 6,500 migrants crossed from hungary into neighboring austria today, with several thousand continuing west, hoping to reach munich, germany. hundreds more who did not board the hungarian buses and trains began walking the 100 miles from budapest toward vienna. german chancellor angela merkel said today every asylum seeker arriving in her country will get a fair hearing, and there is no cap on the number germany will accept. the journey over land comes after people typically leaving from war-torn syria, libya, iraq and afghanistan arrive on the continent by boat. 2,500 migrants who made it this week to greece were ferried today from a refugee station on the island of lesbos to athens. >> it's difficult. there is shortage in water. we have kids, we have small babies. we have a shortage in all kinds of service. >> stewart: the desired destinations for the migrants vary. germany is granting asylum to the most refugees and expects to welcome as many as 800,000 by year's end. we get more now from i.t.n. reporter james mates. >> reporter: 2:00 in the morning

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effect in hungary where hundreds are now on the move once again, crossing the border farther south from serbia into hungary and then again walking that same route through hungary and up into austria to you. >> images are so powerful in that story. it is an annual tradition but this year a pillow fight at the u.s. military academy caused some serious injuries to more than two dozen cadets. the school superintendent said 24 cadets suffered concussions during the fight on august 20th. there were other injures including a broken nose, dislocated shoulder and hairline fracture. some cadets put hard objects in their pillows. the academy may be taking some disciplinary action. >>> thomas jefferson once said i cannot live without books. and today the art of the written word was celebrated at the 15th annual library of congress national book festival. more than 170 author, poets and illustrators were on display at the washington convention center. people lined up to immediate some of their favorites. lots of us here at news4 were part of the fun. nbc 4 is a proud sponsor of the book festival. >>> and we're here on this labor day weekend the unofficial end to summer. no more white pants. t

refugees finally crossed from hungary into austria over the weekend. there are many who still have a ways to go before they feel the sense of safety. conditions for thousands of refugees on the hungarian serbian border are only getting worse. we have this report. >> just down there, you can see that very little changes here, 14,000 refugees have crossed into austria over the weekend. now, here at the other end of hungary, the situation is the same. they're still coming in. look at that rail line, beside it a stream of people. up to 3,000 a day will be coming in here and if we get the camera the other way around, you can see the problem that's getting worse. it may be relief for so many refugees getting to austria and germany, but refugees here are facing appalling conditions. what's happening here is that the hungarian police are segregating the syrians or arab speaking people from other refugees. most of the people you see here are afghans. they are only supposed to be at this assembly point as it's described for a few hours, but these people have bee

this weekend, at least 12,000 refugees have crossed by train and bus from hungary into vienna, austria. but hundreds who have registered for asylum in hungary have been placed in refugee camps. germany is the desired final destination for many asylum seekers, and as itn's sangeeta kandola reports, so far the country is offering a warm welcome. >> they were greeted by cheers, banners and sweets across germany. the estimated 6,000 refugees who had made the exhausting journey by foot, bus and train to get here. in a country which says it can't cope with the influx. >> they were on the receiving end of scenes like this, relief. >> great, i feel great. >> finally. >> after days of confrontation with police, hungary opened its borders with austria and bussed and trained thousands of people who had begun walking to the frontier. those arriving in munich and vienna, mostly syrians fleeing the war there have been sent to reception centers to be registered, to seek food and clothing. >> german chancellor merkel is to hold talks with her coalition partners on a crisis that has divided the eu, the

austria this morning. nbc's richard engel has more this morning from budapest. >> reporter: jonathan, this is the place that all those migrants and refugees want to reach. they want to leave hungary and go intoria. you can see traffic here is backed up for miles. this after the hungarian government coming under tremendous pressure decided to finally relent and help the people pass through this country. they made it. they won. buses took thousands of migrants from hungary into austria this morning, a simple border crossing, but this was a hard fought victory which they had to earn one step at a time. from there, many were quickly loaded on to trains for vienna. friday the migrants and refugees, mostly from syria, finally got fed up in hungary and decided to head for the austrian border on foot, 100 miles away. the hungarian government has been giving them a hard time, corralling them into camps, sometimes beating them and forcing them off trains. a med lost his leg in an air strike in syria and wears a prosthetic. like many he was angry and confused as to why the hungarian government was hassling instead of helping them. we bought train tickets, but they won't let us travel, he said. but with

and on this last stretch out of hungary and into austria, a country that has welcomed refugees, neitherr injury could hold them back. nuzha, a palestinian refugee from aleppo, syria, had sent her children ahead with relatives to munich, germany. every step i take gives me joy, she tells me, because i'm getting closer to them. i miss them so much. son amir in his arms, adnan, from damascus, finally sees light at the end of a long tunnel stretching back to his homeland in ruins. >>: i feel relieved, he says, even though the grueling nine- day trek from turkey has left him penniless. >>: despite what we've been through, we made it. >> reporter: as a last gesture before they stepped out of hungary, local aid groups weighed the group down with refreshmentsafter days, indeed weeks, of frustration, false starts and closed borders, some good fortune, and good food, was finally abundant. >> reporter: these are the lucky ones: they've reached the promised land, they've arrived in austrian territory. from here on in there is no guarantee that life is going to be easy in europe, in fact it's probab

ashley: trying to get through from serbia into hungary, into austria and into germany. border as have the serbian so you have the hungarian police, the situation has been going on getting tense as they try to break through, migrants trying to break through. at one point at the border that lead to the flight from the hungarian police. we are hearing reports that some of these migrants decided to head west and try to go through croatia and that way north through australia and germany and having some success getting through on the croatian border. it is very hard to stop this wave of humanity do it moving northward to your. stuart: like a wave of humanity, small army marching across europe to try to get in, baking on the door to get in. ashley: complete lack of coordination in the e.u. how to handle this, some saying we should welcome these refugees, all playing our part, others saying we can't handle them. stuart: let me see the video from earlier today where they were firing low water cannon, where they break up. it is used to disperse the crowd and later they used water

somewhere around 1,500 migrants crossed from hungary into austria. hungary doesn't want them, they want to keep moving many toward germany. but they represent a fraction of the refugees currently in hungary, not to mention those still back in croatia and serbia. that's the dilemma. everybody wants to get rid of them. but nobody wants to take them. at this crossing from croatia into hungary, the croatians have been trying to move on the 17,000 they say have come into their territory latter part of this past week. along the croatian border with slovenia, another route to the west a standoff is underway. the slovenians don't want them either. and even beyond these bottlenecks the future is uncertain. austria says it reserve the right to send people back and even germany the most welcoming so far is trying to slow the flow down. any lurch forward is good news to the refugees. whose fits and starts trek has been going on for weeks. mahmoud's family of 17 are from damascus. >> we are really -- we're so happy. maybe -- maybe the entire two weeks, maybe fini

refugees have crossed the aegean sea to greece, they head to the border with macedonia, then into serbia, hungary, austria>> thank you, thank you. >> from kos, the germany is more than 2,400 kilometers, around 1,500 miles. the massive numbers of refugees and migrants means there's safety numbers. but also, overwhelms local police, whose governments failed to prepare for this type of influx. in late august, macedonia closed its border with greece, creating a bottleneck, leaving thousands stuck under the rains with no shelter and no one to help them. when the border opened again, chaos. panic swells, the police launch smoke grenades. this woman got her son across, but she was pushed back. shock, dismay, despair that europe would be treating them like this. those who make it keep moveing north. at a train station in macedonia, we find 20-year-old mohammad. a man we first met after we towed his dinghy to shore. >> this train will carry these migrants and refugees through macedonia. their next stop, the border with serbia, a country many say is the next hospitable of all the nations they have crossed, this is

they come through turkey, then to greece, macedonia, and serbia in the balkans, into hungary, finally austria, germany, and the rest of europe. at least 350,000 refugees and high grants have illegally entered europe just so far this year. that's nearly triple the number all last year. and many have perished along the way. more than 3,000 migrant deaths so far this year. even for those who survive and make it to europe, the crushing realization that they are not welcome. countries buckling under the influx. chaos in hungary. the budapest train station, men and women squeezing through windows, others pushing, pulling, climbing their way into train cars. >> too many people in the train. children and girls, little families. >> reporter: many more stranded on the platform for hours on end. no help comes. thousands of refugees fighting to board, hoping to get to germany. >> most of the people say that this train is going to germany. so therefore we can't use this train. >> reporter: the train stops at a hungarian village an hour later. desperate families wrestling with police, ordered by european l

into austria bringing migrants trapped in this country. it is creating expectations. they made it. they won. buses took thousands of migrants from hungary into austria this morning. a simple border crossing, but this was a hard-fought victory which they had to earn one step at a time. from there, many were quickly loaded on to trains for vienna. friday, the migrants and refugees, mostly from syria, finally got fed up and hungry and decided to head for the austrian border on foot. 100 miles away. the hungarian government had been giving them a hard time. corralling them into camps and sometimes beating them. one lost his leg in an air strike. like many, he was angry and confused why the hungarian government was hassling. he said we bought train tickets and they won't let us travel. with many following in step, babies in the sun, two in a stroller, it became embarrassing for the hungarian government, which finally gave the migrants what they wanted. passage out of the country so they can head further north and west to wealthier parts of europe. erica, this crisis is in no way over. the march yesterday was so powerful and embarrassing to h

and on this last stretch out of hungary and into austria, a country that's welcomed refugees, neitheraustion nor injury could hold them back. >> palestinian refugee from aleppo, syria had sent her children ahead with relatives to munich and germany. >> every step i take gives me joy she tells me because i'm getting closer to them. i miss them so much. son a miles an hour in his arm, there's light at the end of a long tunnel stretching back to his homeland in ruins. i feel relieved he says even though the grueling nine-day trip from turkey left him penniless. despite what we've been through, i'm happy because we made it. >> as a last gesture before they stepped out of hungary, local aid groups waved them down with refreshments. after days, indeed weeks of frustration, false starts and closed borders, some good fortune and good food was finally abundant. these are the lucky ones who reached the promised land. they've arrived in austrian territory. from here on in, there's no guarantee that life is going to be easy. in fact, it's probably going to be difficult. at least their journey is

thousands of migrants who were trapped in hungary are granted free passage into austria and germany.an europe handle the growing flood of refugees? >> we must go stand with kim davis. >> axelrod: outside a kentucky courthouse a show of support for the clerk in jail for her defiant stance against same-sex marriage. a pillow fight among cadets at a u.s. military academy gets bloody. and cameras are sent into the flame to help firefighters understand how fires behave. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> axelrod: good evening. i'm jim axelrod, and this is a western edition of the broadcast. thousands of migrants, mostly from war-torn syria, finally crossed into austria today. they'd been stuck for a week inside hungary, living in squalid conditions. hungary has been overwhelmed by the flood of migrants escaping violence and poverty in the middle east and north africa, who are trying to begin new lives in europe. we begin our coverage with charlie d'agata in vienna. >> reporter: not far from the border with hungary, the migrant arrive in a place a world away fro

activist, concerned citizen in austria, protesting the treatment of refugees in hungary, many planning to drive into hungary, trying to find refugees trapped in hungary and bring them into austria. the desperate journey going on for so many more. one lady i spoke to, a syrian refugee, being in her familiway about to cross over into austria. she told me that they narrowly escaped the crossing from turkey that greece for a personal story. >> reporter: for this woman, the road is longer and more dangerous than she could have imagined. >> terrible, terrible. a bad situation. >> reporter: never worse, the english teacher from syria, than when she, husband and three children found themselves on a boat that started to sink after they set off from turkey, but before they reached kos. >> when we were in the boat in the sea, i was standing on one leg and raising my son on the other one, in order to get them up from the water. because the water was here. and the service of the sea was up here. >> reporter: rescued by the greek coast guard, the family set off again. a few days back, they wound up in hungary. >>

german police expect 10,000 asylum seekers on saturday, across the border from austria into hungary. 4,000 crossed the border saturday morning into austria. as they continue their journey west across europe, some of these people are meeting in luxembourg. e.u. foreign ministers looking for a more unified response. let's start with john howard at the meeting in -- jacky rowland at the meeting in luxembourg. we use the word unified response. difficult for the parties involved. >> yes, really, they are trying to develop a policy in response to the crisis, generally things can move slowly. there's a way in which decisions are reached through consensus, meaning everyone has to agree, and these things can take days and days or weeks and months. on this occasion there's a clear and urgent need. the fact that there is an e.u. policy regarding asylum seekers, which is out of date given the current situation. at the moment, e.u. rules are if you are an asylum seekers, and you are in the european union, you must claim asylum in the first country you arrive. that doesn't work. countries like gree

those refugees who have crossed into germany have come from austria where there are many thousands of people waiting to get off. this is the town of nicholsdorf, between hungary and austria, hundreds of people have started to board trains that will then take them across austria and into germany. our correspondent in there who is there is mohammed jamjoom. and the contrast between the experience of the refugees in hungary and that which they are experiencing in austria couldn't be more stark, could it? >> oh, absolutely not, martine. in fact every refugee i've spoken with here, many of them waking up for the day, hoping to board the train behind us and get to vienna, all of them have said it's been so much easier once they got into austria, they were provided with clothing blankets and tents, even though many of them have had to sleep outside, it couldn't be more different than the horrendous experience they had in hungary these past few days. so there is a real palpable sense of relief here this morning and we're starting to see some hope emanating from these refugees who have been through so much on their desperate journey. i met one lady from homs, syria, a

thousands of migrants surged across hungary's border into austria and germany.y are predom nationally from syria, iraq and afghanistan and were greeted with unexpected hospitality as they arrived. >> in kentucky saturday hundreds demonstrated in support of kim davis, the clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, she's being held for contempt of court after defying a series of court rules. now back to "lockup." >>> due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. ♪ how long must it be ♪ oh how i've waited for so long ♪ >> let them go! you guys on the top bunk, sit up! >> sergeant sandoval has been employed at pnm since 1975. from the riot in 1980 to jimmy kinslow's 1987 escape,s' seen it all and sandoval is no stranger to life and death situations. >> we're transferring inmates to texas to make room because we are so overcrowded. he walked into the office. the inmate had his hands in his pockets. he had his head down and started talking about, you know, he didn't want to go to texas. if he went to texas, that he was going to hur

into hungary. there'll be another exodus into germany and austria may not happen. nothing changes. it's getting worse. hundreds of refugees spent three days in the field, guarded by police, waiting for buses to take them to a camp to be registered. police are refusing move. there's real anger, not just among the men, but the mothers, the children that have been here for three days, and it's really cold at night. this man brought his family from afghanistan. eventually they are lined up, preparing to board a bus. then this. >> stand up. go back. >> reporter: excuse me, this is this man's children. >> go back. >> go back. >> reporter: what do you make of this? >> you see the situation. we are not a good people. you are not human, treated as animals. this is not a human being. nearby syrians have gathered, that man complaining he's been stuck here for two days. >> they take the people to another village, another camp. >> reporter: scuffles break out after the people decide to protest, trying to breakaway from the assembly point. this woman says she was beaten with a baton. exhausted s

and will not accept a simple no from a country in europe and will find a way to get around hungary and into austrianto germany even though there are border controls, a situation that really doesn't seem to be ending soon and a crisis that does not seem any where near over, julie. >> thank you for that, mohamed in rushka there, let's bring in michael from the european council on refugees and he is live for us from brussels and good to have you with us, michael and we had the meeting yesterday with eu ministers as predicted and fails to be consensus on a long-term plan for relocated refugees throughout the country and throughout the eu, countries like hungary as we saw opposed to take refugees and imposing border controls. >> absolutely. we are very concerned by that and we are very concerned by the fact that the eu member states were not able to come to a decision, were not able to show solidarity and trying to take action and trying to deal with what is now becoming a greater humanitarian tragedy. >> michael, what is the legal status of refugees who arrive asking for asylum in the eu, do they have

hungary, poland, serbia and czechoslovakia, over the hungaryn border, people were held back from boarding friday. train had been brought in to transport rchtio refugees to vi. but things soon got chaotic. almost 4,000 refugees crossed into austria from hungary, but just 450 were actually allowed on the train. hungary is facing mounting criticism over its treatment of refugees. as mohammed jamjoom reports from rusk in thrisk in therocske hund about what they are going to face once they get in. many fear what will face them when they get in. i'm trying to get into holland but i hear germany is the only country that will take rivelings who have been rowed and firpted here. how exactly will they be treated? conditions inside the camp are appalling. >> hungarian government has the capacity nor the political will to address the needs of these people. >> men and women fenced in desperate to leave. he says they look more like prisoners than refugees. >> so these are thoroughly miserable conditions. >> absolutely, yes. people are just crowded in like animals. >> attempting to send a message by deliberately treating refugees. >> they want to make their lives as miserable as possible. word gets out, many thousands still planning this jour