Upset Win for Sanders in Michigan; Thousands Caught in Limbo as Macedonia Keeps Borders Closed. New
LU STOUT: Now let's turn back now to the big night for Bernie Sanders. Voters in the U.S. state of Michigan gave a big jolt to his campaign on Tuesday as he won a surprise victory in the state's primary. Now, Sanders's campaign manager spoke with CNN's New Day a short time ago.</s>ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: What the Sanders camp next move? Joining us now is Bernie Sanders campaign manager, Jeff Weaver. Jeff, great to have you here.</s>JEFF WEAVER, BERNIE SANDERS CAMPAIGN MANAGER: Great to be here.</s>CAMEROTA: Congratulations on last night.</s>WEAVER: Thank you very much. Thank you.</s>CAMEROTA: So, the polls and the pundits got it wrong but obviously you have internal polling you don't share with the public. Were you surprised by what happened?</s>WEAVER: Well, I made a private prediction to some reporters, including some of your reporters yesterday, that it was going to be in the negative 7 to plus 2 range. So I'm feeling pretty good today actually.</s>CAMEROTA: But you are the only person who had that kind of polling. Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was going to run away with it.</s>WEAVER: Well, I'm not sure that that's true. I think the Clinton campaign at the time was saying it was tighter than the public polls were showing, and the fact that the secretary spent so much time in Michigan I think demonstrated the fact they thought this was closing.</s>CAMEROTA: OK, let's talk how Bernie Sanders did it. What did he do so winningly in Michigan?</s>WEAVER: Well, I think he -- to him, winning Michigan was his clear message on the trade policies, right? Michigan is a state that's been devastated by bad trade deals. He's opposed every one and Secretary Clinton has supported almost every one. So, you know, people in Michigan know what the real impact of that this.</s>LU STOUT: Now, trade was the issue that gave him the state. That was Bernie Sanders campaign manager speaking to CNN's New Day earlier. Now, the two contenders on the Democratic side are set to meet head-to-head once again. And CNN will simulcast the Univision Democratic Debate in Miami, Florida. The growing number of U.S. Latino voters is likely to be front and center. That is at 10:00 a.m. Thursday in Hong Kong right here on CNN. Now, turning to the latest in the European migrant crisis. News agencies report Macedonia has completely blocked off what it calls illegal migrants. Now, it took in no refugees at all from Greece on Tuesday. This follows similar moves by Slovenia, Croatia, and Serbia. And the number of of migrants moving into these countries has already slowed to a trickle in recent weeks, leaving thousands stranded at the Greek-Macedonian border. A sea of tents there. Now others are stuck at a port in the Greek capital. And some have fled war in Syria and Iraq hoping to rebuild their lives in mainland Europe, but as Atika Shubert reports, for some the dream has so far remained out of reach.</s>ATIKA SHUBERT, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Piraeus Port, the gateway to Athens. But for many refugees, it is no longer the doorway to Europe. Most mornings, ferries arrive from the islands. The tourists come off first. Then the refugees. They carry bundles of blankets, s rolled up tents in one arm, babies in the other all with the same destination.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): Germany.</s>SHUBERT: Germany. There has been a lot of confusion and chaos here. Nobody is really sure where to go. There is a bus, but it really only brings people around the terminal. And there is no official here to tell them where to go next. We do see a single UN official attempting to figure out who needs what. But many refugees simply set up temporary homes inside the port. But where there are few officials, there are plenty of volunteers. Soliris Alexopoulos was laid off in the debt, so he turned to helping the homeless and now refugees. But since the borders north have been closing, he says, their work has changed.</s>SOLIRIS ALEXOPOULOS, VOLUNTEER: Food, clothing, and medical care. Snd then we would see them off on their buses to the board.</s>SHUBERT: But that has changed now.</s>ALEXOPOULOS: That has changed now, and this change means that we overnight we became a camp.</s>SHUBERT: Greeks, heavily in debt, deep in unemployment, know what it is like to need a helping hand. Athens residents stream in with donations. Nearby Johnson & Johnson sponsors a children's play area that also sevens as a waiting room for an on site pediatrician and a children's dentist. But the days are hot, the wait is long, and the border is still not open. This is a group of Afghan refugees demanding that Macedonia open up the border. But their demands are not heard. As governments bicker over what to do, ordinary Greeks do what they can to help. The refugees wait, facing a choice: stay in Greece and hope to be legally accepted is as an asylum seeker and relocated somewhere in Europe, or keep moving, whether illegal or not. Atika Shubert, CNN, at Piraeus Port in Athens, Greece.</s>LU STOUT: And despite the danger and misery, thousands of migrants risk their lives to reach the shores of Europe. We have links on our website to organizations that are on the ground working to go help. And you can also learn about what the refugees are going through. It's all at CNN.com/Impact. Now, Japan prepares to mark the grim anniversary of one of its worst nuclear disasters ever. CNN visits the survivors of Fukushima. And many say that they are still struggling.