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this is the "cbs evening news." >> axelrod: good evening. i'm jim axelrod. we begin tonight in nepal where the police say more than 1,000 people are dead after the worst earthquake there in more than 80 years. the quake hit nepal, a small impoverished nation sandwiched between india and tibet in the himalayan mountains, around noon today. to give you a sense of just how strong this earthquake was the magnitude of 7.8 makes it 16 times more powerful than the earthquake that devastated haiti in 2010. mount everest is in 53 nepal, and the quake caused a deadly avalanche at the climbers' base camp. tens of thousands of people in nepal are now spending a chilly stormy night out in the open. here's charlie d'agata. >> reporter: it was just after noon when the killer earthquake struck and triggered chaos on the streets of the capital kathmandu. brick by brick, rescuers raced

against time in a desperate search for survivors and any sign of life. but throughout the day, the death toll kept climbing. a security camera captured the terrifying moment the quake hit the earth below and everything above trembles violently for a good 30 seconds. survivors describe scenes of pan and i can mayhem as people scattered on to the streets to avoid being crushed by toppling buildings. world vision's deepesh paul thaka says he was lucky to be alive. >> i'll tell you it was a very horrifying situation. we barely were able to move out of the house. we held ourselves together just praying to see and witness the walls just inside our house collapsing in front of us. >> reporter: the quake ripped through roads centuries-old temples and monuments came tumbling down. this is all that's left of the historic early 19th century

dharahara tower in central kathmandu. it had stood at more than 200 feet. now those who chose today to pay a visit lie trapped beneath its ruins. 100 miles away from kathmandu at mount everest, shock waves triggered a massive avalanche sending a sheet of snow, ice and bolders that swept the face of the mountain and flattened part of base camp, killing more than a dozen people. among the dead, american climber dan fredenberg a google executive. in a post on his stansport account, his sister said he died from a head injury adding, "he was and is everything to us." several more climbers are injured, missing, and trapped. aftershocks rattled the region throughout the day and as night fell survivors felt safer in the open air than in the shelter of their own homes.

nepal's interior minister has declared a state of emergency, jim, and warned the death toll is likely to rise as search teams recover more victims. the u.s. embassy in nepal is currently conducting accountability checks of u.s. and advised americans to shelter in place if they're in a safe location. >> axelrod: charlie d'agata reporting on the tragic situation in nepal. charlie, thank you. >> reporter: according to the u.s. geological survey, the most dangerous quakes are those considered shallow where the plates less than 12.4 miles underneath the crust of the earth. this one was roughly 9.3 miles deep. the united states government immediately put dozens of american first responders on alert some now are waiting orders to go to nepal are from los angeles and carter evans is with them. >> reporter: it takes just a matter of hours for this elite search-and-rescue team from los angeles county to mobilize and head straight to a disaster zone. they've been sent around the world and pulled survivors from

the rubble of several deadly quakeses that l.a. county fire chief john trip. >> this team responded to japan. this team responded to new zealand. and when we went to haiti with buildings that collapsed, there were people found in void spaces. >> reporter: some of those rescues in haiti took place more than a week after the 2010 quake left much of the country's capital in ruins. battalion chief robert harris was there. what's that like? >> very rewarding because, you know, you're there and we were there to make a difference, and to, you know, help people and save lives. >> reporter: it may be hard to imagine survivors, but harris says he sees it over and over. >> if you were to simply just roll out of bed and the whole floor or of roof came down on top of you it would create a void space right there by your bed, and that area would be a survivable space. >> reporter: and it may take several days just to get to them, he says, because of the sheer magitute of disaster. >> you're getting pulled in a lot of different directions when

you have, you know potentially thousands of people that need our assistance right now. >> reporter: when deployed this team is prepared to be tyler sufficient sufficiency for up to a month. jim, they even bring their own doctors with them in case a member of the team is injured during the rescue operation. >> axelrod: carter evans in los angeles, carter, thank you. now to baltimore where protesters have been scuffling with police today. in baltimore, right now, it is a tense scene near the camden yards ballpark. demonstrators aredemonstrators areang about the death of freddie gray the 25-year-old who suffered a severe spinal injury while in police custody on april 12, and died a week later. here's mark albert. >> reporter: the anger filled the street from curb to curb on saturday, the crowd large and loud as they marched three miles to baltimore city hall. the protesters are demanding to know what happened to freddie gray who died after a week in a coma. police still have not said specifically why he was stopped or what happened after this

now-infamous video showed police dragging him into a van. 30 minutes later, he could no longer move or speak. police commissioner anthony batts admitted fridays his officers violated policy by not putting gray in a seat belt and ignoring his pleas for help. >> our police employees failed to get him medical attention in a timely multiple times. >> reporter: mayor stephanie rawlings blake: >> the officers knows better, so the fact that they didn't follow procedure and we are here again having to explain to a mother why she has to bury her child is unacceptable. >> reporter: the city was already under a department of for a series of police brutality cases stretching back years. >> we're in a state of emergency. >> reporter: tawanda jones' brother, tyrone west died after a struggle with police in 2013. the city decide not to prosecute the officers involved, and jones is now suing. >> we are not the enemies. i'm tired seeing this.

it's too much. it's gone too far, and all i'm begging them to do is hold these cops accountable. >> reporter: it has been peaceful all day including here at city hall, but within the past few minutes, protesters and police have clashed clashed with bottles and cones being thrown. it's happening about a dozen blocks from here at camden yards where the baltimore orioles play. jim. >> axelrod: mark albert reporting for us tonight in baltimore. thank you, mark. severe weather is whipping up trouble today over a wide section of the country. let's bring in meteorologist eric fisher of cbs station ws about in boston. eric, who is getting the worst of it. >> jim it was a stormy morning and now we're transitioning into a stormy evening. two distinct areas, one towards the ohio valley, this is where the tornado threat is greater the other is the gulf coast. the storms will be heading towards the east coast by sunday morning. a tornado watch here, lower ohio valley. this is where some of the more violent storms will develop this evening heading east-southeast.

severe thunderstorm watches along the gulf coast. the storms that came out of new orleans are creating a lot of issues for jazz fest as well as the p.g.a. tour golf. one sweeping across southern georgia and the low country of south carolina, the other area moving down the cumberland plateau and raleigh by morning. jim, stormy night. pay attention to warnings issued and make sure everyone stays safe this weekend. >> axelrod: eric, thank you. it was a $45 billion deal that faced high regulatory hurdles from the moment it had been announced 15 mongst ago. but now that comcast has pulled the plug we're left with a lot of questions that jill schlesinger is here to answer. remind us what happened. >> it became clear regulatores were going to ploct deal simply because of the sieftz combined entity. this would have reached tens of millions of homes 57% of the broadband market. you can imagine a company that big could actually hike prices

control content even maybe alter the way we use the internet. >> axelrod: okay, but in this 15 months from the time the deal was announced until the time it was killed, streaming became much more popular. did this increase the pressure on the regulators? >> ting probably did. and we saw these content providers like netflix really push back against the deal. also saw the content creators themselves through the writers guild of america push back. the fear was this big company would bully them in negotiations and actually the content wouldn't get to consumers in an efficient way. >> axelrod: so this merger will not happen. what do you see as far as trends go that will affect consumers? >> well, obviously, streaming services are really becoming more popular whether it's amazon prime or it's netflix or newer services hbo or cbs also have new versions here. we're look at this idea of cord cutting, basically saying good-bye to your cable company and using your internet to get content. right now, it's a small percentage of the low single

percentage point of total viewers but as cable bills continue to increase more and more people are going to reach for those scissors and cut the cable. >> axelrod: jill schlesinger thanks for the insight. >> great to be here. >> jim: the university of florida has now suspended one of its fraternities after members of zeta beta tau were accused of shouting insults and spitting at veterans and that wasn't even the worst of it. as vicente arenas reports, this is the latest trouble to ununfold in panama city beach area, a community hit with a wave of spring break problems this year. >> reporter: wounded veterans gathering bay warrior beach retreat in their honor ended up on the wrong end of a drunken frat party. students threw cans at them and urinating on flags. >> they spit on me and my service dog as well, and that's just so disrespectful, and it's-- it hurts. >> reporter: linda coke who organized the retreat, called the police. >> it was heartbreaking for me

as a mom because these men, so many of them have sacrificed so much. >> reporter: this was only the latest incident in an unusually depraved spring break season for panama city beach. a few weeks ago, this cell phone video uncovered an alleged gang rape of a passed out 19-year-old woman on a crowded beach. >> trauma emergency gunshot wound. >> reporter: and in march, seven people were shot at a house party. the sheriff says arrests have more than tripled compared to last year. suspects considered armed and dangerous have increased six-fold and sexual assaults have nearly doubled. the police had to set up a spring break mobile jail. >> it's got to stop. it's time for it to stop. >> reporter: keith the panama city beach council member. next month they'll decide whether to ban drinking on the beach. >> i'm not doing away with spring beach. i'm away with excessive alcohol of the number one most abused drug in our country. >> investigators are now

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made with a 3d printer, and check it out a device to help kids with cystic fibrosis dry their nebulizers. >> mom feel. >> axelrod: daniel does most of her inventing at vanderbilt children's hospital in nashville, tennessee where she spends a lot of time because at the age of 14, daeyln james has c.f. herself, a chronic lung disease. >> sometimes i'm scared to admit it, but then sometimes i'm completely open about it. >> reporter: diagnosed at the age of four, she's often hospitalized in isolation for two to three weeks at a time. >> i would go crazy because i'm not allowed to go out of my room, so i'd just be stuck in here with nothing to do. >> what can we use that for? >> reporter: when is where gokul krishnan comes in, a volunteer at vanderbilt children's, his own imagination was spacialgd by another-- sparked by another young patient one say day. >> she said imagine if we had a space that would allow us to

leave our bed move around. >> so he came up with the mobile makerspace to get kids moving more. it's a cart equipped with a camera, a touchscreen computer, circuit-building kits, and the 3d printer. holly dyer built this doorbell for her nurses and a pill case with an l.e.d. light, so patients can find their pills at night. it rotates, too. why? no particular reason except that holly's 8, and that's an appealing design feature for an eight-year-old. >> where the mobile makerspace the kids are a lot more active. they're designing collaborating. >> axelrod: dr. rebekkah drown browne is daeyln's doctor. >> she's up and out of her bed more often which is helping her treatments be even more effective. >> axelrod: daeyln, who usually takes less than 300 steps a day at the hospital, takes more than 1500 when the makerspace is in her room. >> it's just been overall a

positive experience, especially for her mental health. >> you can't let a little disease bring you down. >> axelrod: no, she can't at least not judging from this picture she drew with help from the mobile makerspace, a pair of lungs looking like a butterfly's wings. >> one day i'm hoping that our lungs will fly free. >> axelrod: daeyln lists her goals as wanting one day to get married, have kids, become a cosmoatologist and inspire people. she can cross that last one off the list already. and that cbs evening news for tonight. later on cbs "48 hours." for now, i'm jim axelrod in new york, and for all of us here at cbs news thanks for joining us and good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

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