Cbs news correspondent henna daniels has the very latest on this situation. Reporter the devastating earthquake leveled buildings and flattened the capitol city of katmandus historic center. Witnesses describe a scene of chaos and panic as hundreds scrambled onto the streets to get away from the buildings collapsing around them. The relentless tremors are making many afraid to go back inside. The quake toppled temples that have stood for centuries. A 19th century landmark in katmandu the nine story tower has been reduced to rubble. People searched for survivors trapped underneath the popular tourist site. We feel not too happy because we were in the middle of the square but then when we come back here, we feel happy. Reporter hospitals in the city are so crowded that the injured are being treated in the open. Many are children. Tens of thousands of people will be spending the night on the streets. The nepalese government is appealing for foreign aid that is starting to come in from aro
From the cbs Broadcast Center in philadelphia this is cbs3 Eyewitness News. Right now at 11 00 oclock devastation in napal. An enormous earthquake shatters the capital city of cat man do and the separate search for survivors continues. Good evening im natasha brown. Thanks for joining us. More than 1800 people are confirmed dead and that death toll is expected to rise significantly in the days to come. Among those killed a google exec theyve was climbing mt. Everest everest. Magnitude 7. 8 quake is the worse to the hit napal in more than 80 years. The destruction spread to neighboring countries with casualties reporting in india tibet and bangladesh. Local hospitals are overwhelmed with injured people. United states has pledged aid to napal. Search and rescue team from the Los Angeles Area is now awaiting orders to go to that region. The team responded to new zealand and when we went to haiti with buildings that collapsed, there were people found in void spaces. As the rescue effort co
Everest. Magnitude 7. 8 quake is the worse to the hit napal in more than 80 years. The destruction spread to neighboring countries with casualties reporting in india tibet and bangladesh. Local hospitals are overwhelmed with injured people. United states has pledged aid to napal. Search and rescue team from the Los Angeles Area is now awaiting orders to go to that region. The team responded to new zealand and when we went to haiti with buildings that collapsed, there were people found in void spaces. As the rescue effort continues family from our area is praying that their relatives will be found safe. Eyewitness News Reporter matt rivers spoke with the family today who says the home they once shared it is now gone. Reporter most of us they are images of destruction in a far away place. Heartbreaking, gut wrenching scenes from a distant country. But for this man its different for him napal is home. And this is so painful. Devastating. I mean its so how can i express . Reporter hes a Sm
Bad either. So temperatures right about where they should be this time of the year. Yesterday we stopped in the upper 50s, far column err than it should be this time of the year. But today getting closer to the normal mark. And that would be about 67 degrees, i dont think well make it today at 67, but we will couple of those days on that seven day forecast. Right now, we have 46 degrees no winds as we take a look from the palmyra grove nature park looking over at the city of philadelphia, across the delaware. Our storm scan3, showing some clouds overhead. And you can see those really from trenton areas to the sugarhouse showers even farther than that. Temperatures that where you have the clouds, they stayed up, where you dont have the clouds, those temperatures dropped. Notice allentown 36 degrees. Poconos, at 33, very cold out there this morning with frost advisories until 8 00 in morning those areas. Fortyeight in philadelphia, 43 millville, atlantic city, as well. And here are the a
The sky beyond that, it is clear, looks really really pretty out there. Storm scan3 showing right now we are dealing with clouds, that are on their way out and they will be thinning out as we go through the afternoon, i dont know that theyll be totally gone still we should be finding some sunshine out there, in a couple every clouds, not bad day at all. Beach patrol down in margate right now extremely quiet as we watch the waves kind of roll in gently. Not a big day, in the ocean and that way you can make it maybe a big day on the beach if you wear a jacket, because temperatures will be in the 50s today. At the shore, 49 right now in philadelphia, 48 in trenton 49 degrees in wilmington, and all of those temperatures to the north were in the 30s now in the 40s, that frost advisory for the north has expired, because the temperatures are coming up. And theyll continue to do that. 58 degrees by noon, by 3 00 p. M. , 64 degrees, mixture of sun and clouds, and our computer models says get ou