they don t have the plans finalized yet for the temporary shelters they re going to build for these families. some are sleeping in tents, shen ap some outside with no cover at all. the monsoon season is going to make a bad situation much worse. good luck to all of the people over there. this has been a huge huge disaster in nepal. we ll take a quick break. there s another major news we re following right near in the situation room. we ll be right back. if you misplaced your discover card you can now use freeze it to prevent new purchases on your account in seconds. and once you find it you can switch it right on again. you re back! freeze it, only from discover. get it at discover.com. oh, i love game night. ooh, it s a house and a car! so far, you re horrible at this, flo. yeah, no talent for drawing, flo.
well the buildings around us started shaking. and you could hear all of the dogs in the neighborhood howling. that was something that really struck me. and that howling continued for several minutes. we could also hear people shouting. they were coming out into the streets. they were scared. some of them are actually still in their cars. they re choosing to sit in their cars. others just sleeping out in the open without tents or sleeping in sheds because they can t go back inside their homes, wolf. they re afraid the homes will collapse. all right. thanks very much. be careful over there. will ripley on the scene for us in nepal. let s bring in cnn s brian todd. he is talking to earthquake experts at the u.s. geological survey headquarters right outside of washington, d.c. brian, what are they telling you about this latest massive earthquake? wolf they re telling us it s a pretty freakish occurrence after a 7.8 earthquake we saw a few weeks ago. yes, they say smaller aftershocks
now, an indian helicopter flying in the area reports hearing radio chatter from the americans, that they were having some sort of fuel problem. at that point, three other u.s. aircraft were sent up to try and look for the missing u.s. helicopter before nightfall. they did not find it. they had to suspend the air search during the night, but nepalese military forces on the ground hiked in to the area in hopes of finding something. so far no word. there are two options here wolf that are very difficult in these hours for the u.s. military families and the nepalese involved. either the pilot had a problem and he was able to put the helicopter down and they simply cannot communicate their location they can t get a signal out over those steep mountains that is the hope of the pentagon because right now they have no sign of a crash or the helicopter crashed. but, again, the search will
and there were people sleeping in sheds lining the street who ran out into the street and now some of them are taking refuge in their cars. the nepal seismologist put out a tweet saying this was a 4.2 aftershock and the epi center was right here in kathmandu. you get a sense when you experience something like that the terror that people are feeling and the reason why they don t feel safe to be in their homes two and a half weeks after this earthquake. they ve had 140 joof h aftershocks, four of them today. and this was a five-story building until the biggest aftershock this afternoon. there were a lot of organizations provide humanitarian assistance search and recovery all sorts of aid already on the ground before this huge second earthquake. what s it like over there? are they competing amongst themselves? are they coordinating? how well organized is this humanitarian operation? reporter: they re certainly trying to coordinate. but it has been a challenge for the government here i
the epicenter was just east of kathmandu, about the same distance from the capital as the april 25th quake, which was west of the city. the latest one occurred about 9.3 miles deep which dampened the power of it according to the u.s. geological survey. the previous quake was more than five times stronger. it killed more than 8,000 people and left thousand morse homeless. i felt really scared this time. this time it was very big. and i was afraid that what happened to my house, something like hope nothing was happened in my home. so i just ran here. i was very scared. reporter: the nepalese government expects the death toll in this new strong aftershock to sharply rise wolf. and they say that s because they haven t yet been able to reach some of the more remote areas where they know there have been a number of building collapse home collapses, just like the one behind me on a saturday when many families were at home. wolf? tell us a little bit more about what it felt like to exper