of the 1,700 homes in the village have been flattened. but amid the devastation, there are signs of hope. this nepalese man was rescued tuesday after being stuck under a collapsed building for over 80 hours with three dead bodies and nothing to eat or drink. in katmandu vendors have begun to return to the streets, and on mount everest, nbc news captured these exclusive images of the peak s base camp. officials believe they have rescued all the climbers from the cliff s upper reaches, but many are still stuck at base camp, 17,000 feet above sea level, and a one to two-week trek from major towns. joining me now from katmandu nepal, how long is it estimated until climbers can leave base camp or get evacuated out of base camp? reporter: hi, alex. it s already started, really.
any of crimes that occur in the city. anyone else? okay we ll continue to brief every hour hour and a half. we ll see you all in a little bit. thank you all very much. that was baltimore s police department spokesman providing an update on the situation in baltimore, where the streets have remained peaceful today. joining me now is msnbc s national correspondent joy reid. if there s a takeaway from that it seems to be that the report that a lot of us were expecting is not going to be a report, per se but the police department is going to transfer its findings to the state investigators office is that what you were hearing? yeah. and that is what we do understand now. and that is not what i have to say, quite frankly, alex any of us have understood up until now whether it was just maybe characterized maybe not accurately before. i think there s an anticipation not just among journalists here in baltimore, but really among citizens that friday was an important day when there would
the prime minister says even though the officially the figures are 5,000 dead most of them in the rural areas, the death toll could go up to maybe 10,000. that would make the 1934 earthquake, which was back almost a century ago that would beat that terrible record of that death toll, if that sessment is correct. and getting aid out to those people, getting those numbers in from those regions is getting increasingly complicated. and the weather, alex is disruptive. it s not helping. especially we ve talked to the military here. we ve talked to helicopter pilots. they can t land those birds down there and help those people out. and out of that is coming a bitterness. and people we ve heard reports about people in the western districts essentially blockading these military truck, which are supplying these relief goods, blockading them and even looting them. that s the sort of bitterness
marco rubio says being gay is not a choice but that doesn t mean gay americans should have the choice to marry each other. more on that coming up next but first, jane wells has the cnbc market wrap. hi, jane. hi alex. i guess investors had the choice to buy. the stock market buying back from friday. the dow up 208 points. the s&p up 19. the nasdaq up almost 63. down over 200 points friday up over 200 points today. i can t keep it straight.
it s impossible to imagine that being implemented. i mean chris, even generally, the talk of money in politics has become a foregone conclusion. the fact that this presidential cycle, $2.5 billion are expected to be spent on just part of it. i mean hillary clinton is talking about a constitutional amendment to reverse the ill effects of citizens united. do you think that is in any way something that could come to fruition? no. full stop. look i m virtually certain about almost nothing, alex. but i would say that i m virtually certain about this because the problem we always run into and i don t want to just sort of reiterate things we already know. but one thing we always run into with campaign finance reform is if you ask people is there too much money in politics everyone virtually says yes. the problem we ve run into in the past and the past is not necessarily predictive but in the past the problem that politicians have run into is yes, people think there s too