Good evening tonight. In nepal, desperation is turning to despair as more violent aftershocks rattle that region. For the first time were seeing dramatic video from the top of the world, base camp at mt. Everest, the moment the massive earthquake struck. The ground is shaking. The quake triggered a huge avalanche, climbers sent scrambling for safety. It was the deadliest day of nearly 100 years of expeditions on the worlds highest peck. The death toll is rising tonight. More than 2,500 dead, including at least three americans, many more injured. Our team is there tonight and we begin with ear chief foreign correspondent, richard engel. Reporter flying into kathmandu today on a plane full of turkish aid workers, it was clear that after saturdays massive earthquake nepal is bracing for worse to come. We felt an aftershock, a big one. Outside the airport, tensions turned to scuffles. People here want out before the next quake hits. Kathmandu is a poor and crowded city built of brick and cement. Theyre staying as far away from buildings as they can. With aftershocks still coming, people here understandably dont want to spend time indoors, with spend the night in their homes. Theyre camping out in the sidewalks and in the parks, any bit of green space is being occupied. On a blanket with his family, we met the this 13yearold. Im so nervous in bed for this earthquake. Many people are running here and there for their life. Many houses are falling here and there. Many people are dying also. Reporter he thinks his family will sleep here for the next week. To the east of kathmandu, on mt. Everest, climbers ran for their lives during the earthquake. Today violent aftershocks triggered more avalanches and landslides. A british army climbing team pinned down. We can hear rocks crashing down around us. Unfortunately you cant see them coming. Reporter a few dozen have been rescued from the mountain, at least 17 have died including one american. Marisa eve girawong from new jersey, a doctor at the base camp. Dan fredinburg worked for google in california. He described himself online as an energetic engineer. And tom kaplan also from california who was filming a documentary. Back in kathmandu, tourists are stuck as well. It was the first day of our stay in kathmandu. Reporter this woman slept last night in her hotel lobby close to the door in case theres a new quake. Today were thinking of being in the states right here. Reporter the medical officials tells us they have no real idea how many have died or how big of a disaster this could turn out to be. Richard engel, nbc news kathmandu. In kathmandus historic district, buildings that had stood for century were flattened in a matter of minutes. In an area thats popular with tourists, many will witness the destruction and ian williams is there tonight. Reporter they search by hand, brick by brick. This team convinced theyve located another body under the rubble around kathmandus most famous temple complex. This is what remains of the historic heart of old kathmandu. The buildings here are too fragile and vulnerable to withstand the quake. The area around the square seems to have born the brunt of the 7. 8 quake, at least in the city itself. Some of the buildings here date back to the First Century and include the former residents of nepals former family. The ninestory tower has been reduced to a shattered stump. This was one of the citys most popular tourists attractions, commanding a panoramic view of the Kathmandu Valley and yesterday it was packed. 150 people are coming for visiting and 70 people are dead. Reporter open spaces here are packed. The people who lived through saturdays quake are too afraid to return to their homes. Preparing to live outdoors right now, their terror heightened by another aftershock on sunday. The most powerful of more than a dozen over the last 24 hours. They huddle with family and friends dreading the moment the ground will start moving again. You feel safer here . Yeah, more than our house. Reporter old kathmandu was a magnet for tourists and this was the height of the tourist season. Will clemmons from san diego was two days into a tour when the quake struck. It was chaos. Nobody knew what to do. They were trying to find people but it was just absolute chaos here. Reporter nearby, a rescue Team Shifting through the remains of a temple pulled out another victim which they said was probably a tourist. Dusk was falling and the search went on. Ian williams, nbc news kathmandu. Off the coast of alabama tonight, search efforts are under way for a group of missing boaters. They were in a sailing competition when a powerful storm hit the area causing several boats to capsize. Two people were killed and tonight families are holding out hope that that toll does not go higher. Erica hill has our report. Reporter violent rain and winds in excess of 70 miles an hour capsized ten vessels off the coast of mobile, alabama. More than 100 sailboats and as many as 200 sailors forced to tackle the rough waters while participating in the Dauphin Island regatta. Ive been sailing the bay a long time. Its the worst thing ive ever been through out there. Josh edwards captured it all as the severe storm rolled in, witnessing waves up to 14 feet. Ive watched the video a lot today and it sank in how lucky we are because not everybody came home. Reporter at least 40 have been rescued after this treacherous night at sea. I thought it was going to die actually. I was really scared. I thought that the water would keep coming in. The boat was going to sink and that would be the end. Reporter two people now confirmed dead, five are still missing. We continue through the night and today to employ a maximum number of aircraft with fixed wing and helicopter. Small boat assets and two patrol boats. Reporter desperate family and friends are taking to social media. Thoughts and prayers to family and friends of those missing. Still shocked by this. Hopeful those lost at sea will be found safe. This is an awful tragedy. And our hearts go out to the families. Reporter rescuers are working tirelessly to bring the missing home. This is a team effort. Were all giving 110 . Reporter tonight, the fair hope yacht club sponsor of the race is heartbroken over what happened. Some are asking why these boats were out on the water knowing a storm was rising. Were learning startling new details tonight about a cyberattack that may have penetrated the west wing during a breach of the computer system. Russian hackers got ahold of some of the president s email. Kristen welker has more tonight. Good evening. Reporter cybersecurity is the new frontier in national security. And now were learning that a recent cyberattack was more extensive than originally thought and that is raising questions about the governments ability to protect the president s correspondence. Its a case of digital spying that went all the way to the top. According to the new york times, russia yn hackers who breached the white houses Computer Systems last october were also able to access some of president obamas emails. The white house wouldnt comment today but the times says hackers received access to the email archives of people within the white house with whom president obama regularly accumulated. The hackers only got unclassified email, still even those files can contain sensitive information, like the president s schedule. Theyre going to find out who is the president talking to, what kind of diplomatic sanctions they may be coming up with through its allies and other countries that it cares about. Reporter nbc news first reported on the hack last october. It occurred just as the u. S. Was in a bitter standoff with russian president Vladimir Putin over ukraine. The defense secretary stressed the urgency in preventing such an attack. The first is protecting our systems. Theyre no good if theyve been hacked. Reporter president obama uses the email and fought the secret service to hold onto his blackberry even though he was hacked by the chinese during his campaign in 2008. The government needs to act preemptively. Always treat your network as though hackers are in it, compartmentalizing data, communication and evidence. Reporter now one intelligence official says hackers try to breach the governments computers almost every day so it is a pressing problem especially with terrorists increasingly looking for new ways to attack. Peter . Kristen welker, thank you. Baltimore remains on edge tonight, one week of the death of freddie gray, the young man who died while in Police Custody. Late yesterday police in riot gear clashed with protesters after some demonstrators smashed windows on stores and police cars. Nbcs ron mott has the latest. Reporter a violent chaotic end last night to what had been largely peaceful yet vocal protests throughout the day in baltimore. Business were vandalized, Police Cars Damaged and at least Six Police Officers slightly injured in clashes. When it was over, at least 34 arrests, 1,200 Police Deployed in all, some in riot gear to restore calm. The vast majority of residents out here did a good job. The vast majority of people came out and voiced their opinion and voiced with a they wanted to do. Just a small number of people who felt they had to turn this into an ugly event. Reporter today storefront windows were boarded up as friends and family of 25yearold freddie gray gathered for his wake one week after he died in Police Custody from a spinal cord injury. Last night, joined by the mayor, his sister called for order. Yall please, please stop the violence. Freddie gray would not want this. Freddies father and mother does not want no violence. Violence does not get no justice. Reporter Officials Say one of yesterdays demonstrations turned tense outside camden yards, home of baseballs orioles. Fans were told to stay inside the ballpark until it was safe to leave. This afternoon in maryland capital, a small rally in support of police. We feel its time to say thank you to our officers. Reporter a funeral for freddie gray is scheduled for tomorrow. Ron mott, nbc news new york. It was a terrifying rampage killing dozens of people at a colorado movie theater. Tomorrow Opening Statements will begin in the trial of james holmes. Its an unusual case for a jury deciding the fate of a shooter that survived such an attack. The question question, was he sane . Heres nbcs jacob rascon. The movie premier just started when james holmes entered theater nine heavily armed and dressed in tactical gear. First responders found hundreds of panicked movie goers and dozens of victims. You heard little kids screaming for their mom. You heard people trampling over each other. Im hearing him and then you just hear the rounds going off, just boom, boom, boom. There was really nowhere to hide. Reporter holmes killed 12 people and injured some 70 others before his rifle jammed. He told police arresting him he was the joker. Nearly three years and 9,000 prospective jurors later, the capital murder trial is set to begin tomorrow in centennial, colorado. Instead of jail garb wide eyes and red and orange hair holmes is expected to appear in civilian clothes with a trimmed beard and combed hair. The question is, does it ride to the level of insanity under colorado law . Could he tell right from wrong . You have a right to remain silent. Reporter holmes pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. His defense attorney saying he was in the throes of a psychotic episode during the mass shooting. Prosecutors say he carefully planned the attack for weeks and apparently wasnt finished. Authorities has to disarm explosives inside holmes booby trapped apartment after the rampage. This apartment was designed to kill whoever entered it. Reporter prosecutors rejected rejected holmes offer to plead guilty for life in prison charging him instead with 167 counts of murder, attempted murder and weapons charges. Were going to get a very morbid, tedious and sad resuscitation of all of the injuries suffered by the people in the movie theater. Thats going to be obscene and sad and morbid but the prosecution has to go through it. Reporter a onetime neuroscience docket ral student with no prior criminal history now facing life in prison confinement in a Psychiatric Institution or death. The trial itself is expected to last through the summer. And if a jury finds holmes guilty, there will be what amounts to a second trial. The sentencing phase. Which will determine whether or not holmes should be put to death. Opening statements are scheduled to be given tomorrow afternoon inside the courthouse behind me. Peter . Jacob rascon in colorado tonight. Thank you. When nightly news continues on this sunday a new wave of Cuban Migrants making the dangerous journey to this country but why now . Incredible images of a volcano and fears of another eruption could be on the way. Its an unintended consequence of americas improving relationship with cuba. A flood of migrants trying to reach the u. S. Illegally. In just the last week the coast guard stopped 13 boats carrying nearly 150 people. Some are making the dangerous journey now fearing a special u. S. Immigration policy could soon end. Heres nbcs mark potter. Reporter from the north coast of cuba the coast guard says its seeing a steady increase in cubans sailing rickety boats to the United States. The trips often financed by their families in the u. S. Last year more than 3,600 were spotted. Several children and a couple of boats on the pontoons. There is a smuggler and a network thats building the boats and organizing what people can go in the boats for each trip. Reporter this grainy cell phone video shows a boat secretly being built on cubas south coast for passengers hoping to eventually reach the United States. There are three main routes by which they come to the u. S. Without visas. By boat to honduras or the yucatan for again a dangerous land trip through mexico. By far, most of the cubans now enter the United States at the Mexican Border in texas. In 2014 we had 1,700 cubans that were processed. Reporter outside the u. S. Port of entry in brownsville, texas, buses take newly arrived cubans to cities across the country with many arriving in miami. They hope to improve their lives economically. This woman says i need to be free, independent. Under a unique law from the cold war era designed to protect against cuban political oppression, almost all cubans arriving in the United States are allowed to stay here indefinitely. This shift in u. S. Policy represents a turning point for our entire region. Reporter but with better diplomatic relationships between the u. S. And cuba some wonder whether that law should be restricted eded to longer accept those just seeking a better life. The Obama Administration has no current plans to change the protective law but the debate is growing. Mark potter, nbc news, brownsville, texas. Still ahead, a big catch for a group of fishermen and we mean big. Stunning new time lapsed images of the volcano in chile that erupted last week for the first time in 40 years, while it is quieter now, Officials Say the volcano is still unstable. Volcanic ash spread to areas more than 1,000 miles away and theyve forced evacuations of more than 6,500 people. How about this deep sea discovery. An enormous manta ray, weigh 1 ton measuring 26 feet across was accidentally caught by a group of fishermen off the coast of peru. They were traveling in a homemade wooden boat when the massive creature got tangled in their net. A wiley coyote led police on a child twohour chase before finally being caught. The officers tailed the animal on foot and by cruisers. Before cornering her in an outdoor cafe in lower manhattan. The coyote was taken by patrol car to an animal care facility. Up next he lost nearly everything but now one man is getting a Second Chance thanks to a complete stranger. We end tonight with a story of one man who owes a debt of gratitude to a total stranger. The mudslide last year robbed him of everything he had. But in a cruel twist he was left with a big financial burden, that is until someone he never met stepped in. Heres nbcs joe friar. Reporter when tim ward woke up on march 22nd, 2014 he was living on a fiveacre farm raising chickens and turkeys with the love of his life, brandy. Within 30 minutes, our life was forever changed. That morning in washington, a wall of mud came cascading down the hill and tim rand toward his wife. From the moment her voice left her body, she left the man she had been with for 38 years to be with the son of god that shell be with forever. Reporter in that single moment the mudslide took tims wife and four of his five dogs. The one that survived, blue, lost a leg. He was trapped beneath a stack of cedar trees for three days. And tim was severely injured, his pelvic crushed. On top of his recovery, hes been trying to negotiate a settlement of his mortgage for a home that no longer exists. Knowing that mortgage was still hovering over you had to be stressful. It was like the elephant sitting on your chest. You knew it was there. You knew you still had to take a deep breath. But it was very hard. Reporter the mortgage was owned by the Veterans Administration and serviced by chase bank which recently received an unexpected call. Our customer who wishes to remain anonymous said, i really want to do something. And he basically said, i want to pay it off. Reporter pay off every cent of tims 360,000 mortgage. Does it feel like that elephant is off your chest now . It does. And once again i want to reemphasize, this person who stepped up, thank you. Totally thank you. Reporter a selfless gesture giving tim and blue a chance to move forward and create a new home. Great way to end the night. Thats nbc nightly news for this sunday. Lester holt will be here tomorrow. Im Peter Alexander reporting from new york. For all of us here at nbc news, have a good night. Right now at 6 00 wab shocking crime in the east bay. A 9yearold stabbed to death. Tonight police say they have arrested the suspect. We have the latest. Good evening everyone im terry, mcsweeney. Im peggy bunker. 18yearold William Schultz is in custody. He was caught after a person recognized him from media reports. Neighbors say he lived with his family. N nbc bay areas Marianne Favro has more of the
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