climbtories tell me that tom was dead. i guess he was blown abay way by the blast and buried in any rubble. reporter: historical buildings, iconic symbols of nepal demolished. the high tower, a landmark tourist attraction completely destroyed. at least 50 bodies pulled from its ruins. oh my gosh what incredible pictures sanjay is showing us. you saw there, the earthquake triggered a massive avalanche on mount everest caught on this heart pounding video. at least 17 people were killed there. many are still trapped on the mountain. our coverage continues with cnn s correspondent. reporter: first let s give you an idea of where we are, alisyn. this is one of the many make-shift camps that have sprung up among cat pan did you. these are all people simply put
footage, alisyn. that s been sort of ongoing now for 48 hours. sanjay we know you were called into action there because there were not enough doctors to go around. can you characterize the injuries of a little girl you worked on. i know there was mortgages brain surgery and what other injuries are you seeing? reporter: you know the types of injuries that we are seeing here really are a result of significant crush injuries from the earthquake. homes tumbling to the ground. some of the homes, especially in remote areas made of concrete. they tumbled. they literally fell to the grounds during all this a little girl we saw earlier, sell narcs she s 8-years-old. she lives there a remote area. it s tough to see the buildings the rocks sort of fell on her head. she had a skull fracture with a blood collection underneath that skull fracture. her parents whereabouts are not known. her brother is injured.
i guess it s possible. they ve talked about this. it got a lot of attention in social media in the clout of the economic clout of the people leading this backlash can t be denied. we will follow this as it goes forward. alisyn the new york post story if you haven t read it this morning, that says in the relative new future you might have a new preacher in town. president obama after he goes may want to go to colombia. interesting, we should start booking that right now. thanks so much for that. we are getting back to our breaking coverage of the devastating earthquake in knell nepal. we will be talking about the science of predicting quakes. what the cloud enables is computing to empower cancer researchers. it used to take two weeks to sequence and analyze a genome;
members waiting for family members inside being treated. undergoing surgery. it s just sort of hard to describe what is happening. they continuously bring in supplies from various other places. patients come in in all sorts of different ways by helicopter. by ambulance, by taxi. sometimes carried in by friends and family. it s a part of what s happening here behind me. i don t know how much you can see behind me alisyn. you got the stretchers and everything sort of in the distance. people waiting outside. just a couple floors up. there is a balcony, which is not covered, not protected. there may be anywhere up to 100 patients out there as well inside those doors is where a lot of medical triage is just happening. this is what s going on over here. it s the lobby of a building literally, it s one of the safer buildings, which is why it s being used. this building is told they can withstand an earthquake up to 9.0 magnitude. you are looking at some of this
critical to find survivors. we hope they can do that. thank you for that. we want to bring in dr. sanjay gupta live in kathmandu at a hospital helping to work on some of the victims. sanjay can you hear us? reporter: i can hear you, alisyn. i am hat a hospital the largest hospital here in the city. it is a chaotic scene. i will tell you they are taking in hundreds of patients. they had a big influx right after the earthquake. what i was told then for several hours, they didn t have as many patients. that was probably during some of the rescue missions ivan was describing. there are ambulances coming in around this area. they ve had to use the open area in front of the try yanl area. they came out akd and took