or hit by debris. tents were flying off. when the avalanche hit and i couldn t outrun it, i hid behind stone where i could hardly breathe, but i could stay until the avalanche was over. that probably saved your life, don t you think? it did. i was just 20 minutes from the camp. if we had come down go ahead, please. if we had come down, we were trekking down from camp one. we met some people going up when we came down. immediately after the avalanche hit and we saw injured come into our camp. we have a camp that is furthest away. we were the most safe place. we could set up a temporary hospital and treat the injured people here. so, we thought immediately about the people we met coming up. there was a big army team trying
to go up to camp one when we came down. there were stuck in the ice fall when the avalanche hit. oh, my goodness. that s the worst place they could have been stuck. another avalanche nope, i can t see it. it has been snowing for the last many days. so, we haven t been able to see the mountains very well. you mentioned this most recent aftershock, there were sherpas on the way trying to reach camp one and two. yeah, i don t know they told us our base camp has a
situation on mount everest. about a thousand climbers were believed to be in that area when this earthquake and subsequent avalanche hit. that s according to the governments tourism ministry. we understand that ten are believed to be dead on mount everest with an unknown number missing. two tents are filled with the injuries. communications are extremely difficult particularly on the mountain. they re having trouble contacting people. people are having trouble contacting friends and family to let them know that they re okay but the situation on mount everest does not sound good. we heard from two climbers one said he was on the mountain when the earthquake started. he felt the tremor he and another person hid behind a large bolder in order to protect themselves from falling rocks. another man was caught up in the
ropes when the avalanche hit. the man accused of shooting on the kansas city highways is being held on a $1 million cash bond. edward whitaker was charged and he would file a pistol from his car and speed away. a huge break came from someone found a box of ammo beside the road and police say whitaker s fingerprints were on the box. a 19-year-old accused of urinating in the portland water supply says i didn t do it. dallas swann says he relieved himself against the wall. i m trying to clean it up as best i can. regardless, the city flushed away 38 million gallons of water. he, by the way, was cited. just that reminder. you think you are a teenager and you know what you are doing. nope. don t do that.
board landed safely yesterday afternoon. the fbi did question some passengers at a remote airport location, and then allowed most of them to go on their way. that story is developing. in los angeles, police have arrested a suspect who threatened to start shooting at the l.a. times building. the man did work for the newspaper, but for another company in the building. he said he had been depressed, didn t mind killing someone. a big piece of ice fell off the mountain. that s what a sherpa who survived an avalanche said. the avalanche terrifying on mount everest. the death toll has climbed to 13 with three still missing. all of the victims are sherpas. a group of about 50 people were preparing camps above 20,000 feet when the avalanche hit. rescue teams are searching for the missing. it could be days before a decision is made on whether to plan expedition will go ahead. victor and christi, can i only imagine the fear that must have paralyzed those folks on the mountain as it came ba