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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. ....