First subject in today's commercial-free show takes us toNepal. Rescueworkers, supplies and funding are arriving there from around the world andjournalists are sending in pictures and video that show just how bad thedestruction is.
Homes, businesses, temples have been destroyed.
It's all because of a major 7.8 magnitude earthquake that violentlyshook the Southeast Asian country on Saturday.
Nepal's landscape is rugged, it's mountainous. There are villages nearthe quake's epicenter that are hard to get to, with roads blocked andunreliable communications.
Some areas are reportedly wiped out, either flattened by the quakeor buried in mud slides. The Nepalese government says it's sending helicoptersto try to reach people in remote places.
Dozens of people there were injured. AcrossNepallastnight, the death toll was approach 4,000. At least 72 people died inneighboringIndia.Chinareported 20 deaths.
Power blackouts in the Nepalese capital of Kathmanduweren't helping. It's hard to say how many people were injured. Officials saidthey numbered more than 7,000. Hospitals short on supplies are literallyoverflowing with patients.