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Namche because people could trek around the area and base camp. we don t know what s happened in namche right now. it could be quite bad. if there are avalanches if you are talking close to everest, the last earthquake was a distance but still avalanches. now namche is just really the bottom of everest. if an earthquake hit around there, thenpotentially there could be a lot of avalanches. we are waiting to hear. sumnima udas thanks. the nfl bringing the hammer down on new england patriots tom brady. suspending him four games over deflategate deflategate. patriots fined $1 million. the agent for tom brady calls the discipline ridiculous. he says there was quote no fairness in the investigation. he promises to appeal. ....
Someone in his place, a vice leader of the group to try to run the day-to-day operations. you are right. this is something the u.s. cannot corroborate. first of all, it has no information he has been involved in an air strike and no confirmation he is not running isis anymore. certainly an interesting line again that has been coming out of the area. fred pleitgen thanks so much. let s get back to the breaking news this morning. another earthquake hits nepal. the u.s. geological survey reporting this one magnitude 7.4 earthquake. the usgs says the epicenter near namche is close to the border with china. this want is relatively shallow 11 miles deep. sumnima udas is returning from ....
Covering the earthquake in april. a quake which had widespread destruction in the country. here another one. 7.4. what do we know? reporter: this is the fear a lot of nepalese had. another big one would strike. a lot of people were camping out refusing to go back to homes. the aftershocks kept continuing while we were there. we felt three or four aftershocks a day. a lot of the homes there, even in kathmandu, the capital, which is cracked by the earthquake two and a half weeks ago. they are too scared to go back home or engineers said this is unsafe. a lot of people camping out in cities like kathmandu. presumably the death toll will not be very high because people were already outside. the epicenter of this right now the usgs is saying around namche ....
The scale of the earthquake. we know in kathmandu, a lot of chaos on the streets. a lot of people outside. a lot of people crying. that s what people on the ground are telling us. outside kathmandu, a few homes already cracked. they have now fallen. this was the fear of nepalese had while we were there two and a half weeks ago. people said another earthquake will strike again. a lot of the homes with massive cracks will fall. a lot of people were camping out outside. we are talking two and a half weeks since the previous earthquake. my family for example, is still living outside in a tent because of that fear christine. thank you for that sumnima udas. felt all the way to new delhi. so close to that area of the town of namche where the trekkers do to reach the himalayans. no word of any possible avalanches or snow damage. ....
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 ....