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Climbers are up there. and how much longer it will be. at the time of the confirmation, i cannot report anything. >> understood. >> arjun, thank you so much. were glad youre okay, speaking to us from mount matalu 19,000 feet up. as we hear what is happening on mt. everest in a 7.8 magnitude earthquake. we know that 16 aftershocks from 4.5 to 6.1 at one time was the estimation there. but were hearing reports that people are possibly trapped in buildings. we have a journalist in kathmandu who repo...

Morning? >> about ten people. we have to get a confirmation on the amount of people on the mountain. as we said earlier, we havent been able to establish communication with the people up there. this is the base camp, the last few problems weve had is contacting them. so we still havent gotten in touch. i will update it. >> arjun, what can you tell us about any possible rescue efforts? >> rescue, its going to be difficult. again, were at a certain altitude in which rescues are not possible becaus...

And come down and check the weather forecast. and rescue operations here well see whats going on in the mountain. >> arjun, i know you said again you need confirmation of these ten or so people who headed up. you talked about the rough weather. youve also described some avalanches, based on what youve seen over the last couple of days and when this quake happened, whats your degree of optimism that this ten people are somewhere okay waiting for rescue? >> according to what i think, im quite opti...

Quench the fire. and so that was a very, very different situation. here you have destroyed or damaged spent fuel and reactor fuel. and one doesnt know whether the spent fuel would heat up farther and whether it might cause more damage in terms of it going through the bottom of the spent fuel pool. >> we have this animation that shows what the inside of the reactor looks like. and these rods that everyone is so concerned about. but i had a nuclear engineer on with me yesterday, arjun, who told me...

Chernobyl was a very different kind of reactor. it had a big graphite carbon block that was on fire and the sand was put in really to quench the fire. in this case, you have a meltdown where the melted fuel will be very, very hot and youre releasing radioactive materials already and your main job is really to contain the heat. and im not clear, i mean, presumably theyve done the calculations and theyre considering it. i think there can be negative consequences like melting from the floor if you ...

Damaged to some extent. then there is the fifth spent fuel pool in reactor number five where the water levels have been dropping for one day. so i think the management of this situation in a highly radioactive environment, i think this is much worse both from emergency management point of view and to the extent we can tell from the radiation released so far. >> there are a lot of people around the globe that would agree with you. arjun, thanks for coming on today. united nations decision to es...