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India News: India has sent an emergency aid package to Nepal in response to the magnitude 6.4 earthquake that struck the country. The first consignment of relief
a u.s. surveillance plane flew over china's military build up and land projects in the south china sea. that disputed area has been the focused of overlapping claims with several neighboring countries. we'll take a short break here. when we come back, it's been one month since a deadly earthquake hit nepal. and the death toll in india is rising amid a heat wave. we've look at whether there's any relief on the way. you know the importance of heart health. you watch your diet, excercise...
philadelphia, we're told cranes have now arrived on site and are preparing for a lift. we'll, of course keep an eye on the scene and bring an update in just a few moments. those images are striking. i can't get those out of my head. my goodness. you think about how much those cars, in fact weigh. all right, now to our other top story in nepal, where search efforts are ongoing for a missing u.s. marine helicopter carrying six americans and two nepalese soldiers. the chopper, similar to the one seen here was on a relief mission, when around 7:00 p.m. nepal time it suddenly lost all communication with the ground. there was reportedly brief radio contact about a fuel issue before communication went down. the helicopter was delivering relief supplies near the village of charikot after a second major earthquake hit nepal. it's just weeks after that massive quake there that killed 8,000. here's nbc's chief foreign correspondent richard engel with more. >> reporter: the earth moved
>> he said i do not have a phone, i have a gun, i shot george zimmerman. >> could have killed him easily. this is "new day" with chris cuomo, alisyn camerota and michaela pereira. guilty or not guilty everyone. welcome back to your "new day." we do have some breaking news to report to you out of nepal. at least 29 people dead after a 7.3 magnitude earthquake rocks the region. this happened near mt. everest. watch the intense shaking as the quake rattles nepal sending people running for their lives. >> the region already in ruins and obviously structures are vulnerable. more than 8,000 lives have been lost. and now this. let's get right to cnn senior international correspondent ivan watson live in hong kong with more. ivan what's the latest? >> reporter: good morning, chris. this is grim news. it's only been about four hours since the 7.3 magnitude earthquake hit nepal and already the nepalese government saying the death toll has grown to 29 dead and more than 1,000 people
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early right now to say, to talk about any sort of impact. >> and talk about namche. it is a small village, i did a quick check, what, about 1600 people live there, there is an airport there that is not used, at least commercially. but what more do we know about this part of nepal? >> reporter: so the main airport is considered one of the most difficult airports to land in because of a tiny, tiny landing strip on the cliff of this very high up, actually. i think it's about 4,000 meters, roughly. so people arrive and you have to walk about two days to get to namche. that's the hub for the whole everest trekking expeditions and trekkers in general. now something to mention, actually, everest expeditions
sleeping, entire families in their cars or under sheets of plastic on the side of roads. anywhere they could find an open space that wouldn't be in danger of something falling on them if the earth starts to shake again. what's harder to hear than the numbers of dozens of people killed in nepal, at least 17 people killed across the border in india by this earthquake and more than 1,000 people injured, is just the shear fear of those people that survived this and people so psychologically and emotionally traumatized by what they experienced a little more than two weeks ago when a 7.9 earthquake hit nepal, the deadliest earthquake in generations, and then this happens when they just barely started to wrap their heads around the damage less than three weeks later. a very difficult night for people. if there's a silver lining here, it's that a lot of aid and assistance flooded in after the april 25th earthquake.
on the ground? >> reporter: in general, rosemary, while we were there, it was mostly the people who were injured who were coming back, because, again, you can't just come back to kathmandu. you have to be airlifted with these helicopters. and the army, the police, they were only airlifting or evacuating people who were injured who needed to get back to, who needed to get to kathmandu asap. so a lot of people who had lost their homes but were fine, they were left behind. but there were still, obviously, many of them living in tents, sleeping outside in kathmandu. my family is still sleeping outside because of that fear. so, you know, it's, again, because no, most people were sleeping outside, a lot of people may have survived this because it happened in the daytime. you know, a lot of people would be outside anyway. that's something a lot of people kept talking about in nepal during the earthquake two weeks ago. they felt lucky that it happened
vietnam war. but he's come under controversy for these stories that rely on unknown sources. he also spoke with other consultants to the special operations command and pakistani leaders. jake tapper, cnn, washington. more now on that breaking news out of nepal. the earthquake, the aftershock we believe it is an aftershock which happened a short time achlgt you can see it on the map. it's about 130 kilometers to the ooefls kathmandu. it's been upgraded to a 7.4 magnitude. initially they said it was 10 kilometers. now they're saying it is 9 kilometers below the surface in kathmandu, according to reuters, people ran from buildings in fear. this quake was felt all the way
into new delhi, a powerful quake that comes two weeks after that 7.8 earthquake in nepal which left more than 8,000 people dead and hundreds of thousands homeless right now. >> and we'll have more on this. we will talk to our reporter from nepal. she's in new delhi. we will talk to pedram javaheri. let's take a very short break. we'll be back in just a moment.