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♪ ♪ it is just before noon in kathmandu, nepal, where the death toll from the devastating earthquake is now more than 4,800. rescue workers are losing hope of finding more survivors buried in the rubble. aid agencies are having a difficult time getting supplies to the hard-hit rural areas outside of the capital. rain is also making life miserable for survivors. the worst part here its that more bad weather is in the forecast. we get you updated on that later. as many as 200 people are miss...

Water or oxygen is more than most body can handle. it is exactly what drives these rescue workers. over the last three days, this hospital alone has taken car of 617 patients. and saved 584 of them. but those golden 72 hoursi comi. what makes matters worse, the rain. >> the rain has arrived. worst case scenario. worried this would happen. in the middle of the field. they created a field hospital. an army field hospital. doing whatever they can to take care of people injured in the earthquake. ki...

People who can still be rescued. were outside of this 72-hour period. the rescuers here know the likelihood of survival goes down after there. but there are still these rays of hope as you mentioned. and being here walking around some of these devastated villages you start to understand these peoples stories, what their lives were like. take a look. we know the official death toll here in nepal went up by at least one today. neighbors watch from nearby windows, still clinging to hope. after all,...

18-year-old and his 13-year-old brother just said good-bye to their mother. >> this is my wife. >> she is a victim of this terrible disaster. >> yeah. great loss for us. for our family. >> difficult happen to us. >> the embers dont even begin to cool before a new funeral procession arrives. there is a great deal of pain here. authorities are still trying to come to grips with the scale of the death and destruction. this is the grim dirty urgent work that is being performed all across this city. ...

Community needs to balance respect for police and the community. >> i think it comes down in my opinion fundamental trust, trust between the community and police will do their job effectively for the right reasons. and trusting the community and that their concerns are generational and very very valid. >> ill tell you this having lived through other situations like this, the men and women holding up their shields last night did their part. we know theres some videos online of cops apparently thr...

200 people trapped by the subsequent avalanche. in kathmandu, rescue teams are scrambling to pull survivors from the wreckage. alex marquardt is there for us. >> reporter: rescue workers pulling a man from a mountain of rock and debris. he was buried for two days. but when they move his arm, he responds. hes still alive. rescues across this battered nation. we saw crews working tirelessly knowing that time is running out. this rescue team from india is digging down into a collapsed fast food res...

Which havent been impacted by the quake, this one propped up precariously by pieces of wood. as many of a quarter of the buildings have been completely destroyed. this was your house. >> i lost my son. 21 years old. >> reporter: rescue workers are still searching for the body of his mother-in-law. they find a clutch of family photos. you have the memories. >> memories. >> reporter: nearby volunteers are providing food to survivors living in the open where they feel safer. they say theyve yet to ...

Well, that figure the latest guesstimate of 10,000 dead has come from the nepalese prime minister. but the assumption of rescue workers is that that is a guess because they have not reached the worst affected areas. and the damage becomes far more severe if you travel just a short distance out of kathmandu. amid grief and shock this small town is burpingning its dead on a river in the kathmandu valley. the destruction here is immense. some of the worst damage is around these narrow alley ways wh...

Part of the town where narrow alley ways and streets have collapsed. perhaps a quarter of the buildings completely. few of the buildings have been untouched. there were rescue workers there still going through the debris by hand. down below the village, a large area has been turned into a cremation site littered with funeral pyres, as they burned the dead. a small hospital there was overcrowded, overwhelmed, they said, theyve had hundreds of injured coming through, trying to send the more seriou...

A loved one. this is a scene being played out all across the city. one of the indian rescue workers i have spoken to here. he says there are more than 15 teams from india alone operating in similar location digging through the rubble. pulling out victims and sadly very few stories of survivors pulled from this. earlier, we were at a scene of hindu cremations along with the temple and there were more than a dozen cremation funerals under way. more bodies more victims being brought in literally ev...