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Up first, honoring the service and sacrifice of americas fallen. People across the country are pause on this memorial day to pay tribute to those who paid the ultimate price. On the Hallowed Ground of Arlington National cemetery family members are leaving messages and mementos on the graves of their loved ones. In the solemn stillness, tears, hugs and moments of reflection. Vice president mike pence placed a wreath at tomb of the unknown soldier. In his remarks he shared the stories of three Service Members who died fighting for this country. We can never repay the debt of gratitude that we ow...

To what is believed to be altitude sickness, and that is actually what caused most of the fatalities this year. the nepalese government is saying that this was because of the backlog is baseless, but mount nearing experts that we've been talking to lent saying it couldn't be one of the key factors and that the nepalese government needs to do more. this year they issued a record number of permits and there's concerns about the experience level of climbers that are growing up and about how commercial this ten tire expedition has about, and one mountaineer, pope works we were talking to is very e...

And this is funny to say as an operator myself, but we definitely need government regulation of commercial operators on the mountain. we need to require certain levels of experience and safe measures, things like communication and oxygen supplies, and if a company can't provide those, they can't operate on the mountain. >> aidian ballinger, thank you so much. you're there and we appreciate it. so sorry again that we've had to see these deaths. thank you, adrianne. >> absolutely. thank you so much. >> pretty remarkable to hear from him right there at the base camp. ahead fours, a hiker lost f...

Zone. can you talk about conditions there because you're already dealing with one-third of the oxygen that you would get at sea level. >> that's right. we call any part of the mountain above 26,000 feet, we call the death zone and that's because humans aren't meant to exist there, so even when using bottled oxygen and supplemental oxygen there's only a certain number of hours that we can actually survive up there before our bodies start to shut down, and so that means if you get caught in a traffic jam above 26,000 feet and you can't get to more oxygen or can't get down to thick airport conseq...