amy: that was richard engel three years ago. now, two years after being kidnapped in syria, nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel reveals he was actually seized by militants tied to the u.s.-backed free syrian army, not shia militias tied to the asad government. did nbc knowingly cover up the truth? we'll speak to asad abu khalil who openly questioned nbcl's -- nbc's claim back in 2012. then to the house the herman built. >> what you see before you is a model built to scale of herman wallace is cell. he spent years in solitary confinement for a crime he could not have possibly committed in louisiana. 27 of those years were spent in the cell. amy: we will speak to artist jackie summell about "herman's house," her collaboration with former prisoner and black panther, herman wallace. and we will get an update on the case of glenn ford freed from death row after 30 years. he is now dying of cancer in hospice care. while exonerated, he has not been compensated. but first, in an act of mass civil disobedience, tens of tho

richard engel reaches base camp where so many are reeling from tragedy. tonight, what happened when the mountain started shaking and where the search for the missing stands. >>> cockpit scare. a drone comes dangerously close to a commercial plane coming in for landing. a police hunt in the air to find it and whoever was at the controls. >>> and tracking your every move. a consumer alert for tens of millions of smartphone users. something you may not know about the apple or android device that never leaves your side. nightly news begins right now. >> announcer: from nbc news world head quarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news." reporting tonight, lester holt. >>> good evening. protesters have been on the move tonight again in baltimore. out of the wary eye of police and national guard troops just ahead of another night of mandatory curfew. it started late this afternoon when growing crowds of peaceful marchers headed en masse to train station and on to city hall where a large police presence awaited them. they're demanding accountability for the dea

our team is there tonight and we begin with ear chief foreign correspondent, richard engel. >> reporter: flying into kathmandu today on a plane full of turkish aid workers, it was clear that after saturday's massive earthquake nepal is bracing for worse to come. we felt an aftershock, a big one. outside the airport, tensions turned to scuffles. people here want out before the next quake hits. kathmandu is a poor and crowded city built of brick and cement. they're staying as far away from buildings as they can. with aftershocks still coming, people here understandably don't want to spend time indoors, with spend the night in their homes. they're camping out in the sidewalks and in the parks, any bit of green space is being occupied. on a blanket with his family, we met the this 13-year-old. >> i'm so nervous in bed for this earthquake. many people are running here and there for their life. many houses are falling here and there. many people are dying also. >> reporter: he thinks his family will sleep here for the next week. to the east of kathmandu, on mt. everest, climbers ran for their

. >> reporter: this is richard engel. warren weinstein wasn't the only american killed in the u.s. drone strikes. there were two others fighting with al qaeda. the voice on this video, experts say, belongs to adam gadahn. >> these heroes were not 19 armies from 19 countries but rather were 19 mujahadin. >> reporter: an american narrating a notorious al qaeda propaganda video of the 9/11 hijackers. born adam pearlman, his grandfather jewish, gadahn was raised on a goat farm in california converting to islam in his teens, attending this mosque and getting into trouble there in the mid-1990s for his increasingly extreme view. gadahn traveled to pakistan in 1998, at first hiding his face. but he was identified by u.s. officials and in 2006 became the first american charged with treason since the world war ii era. >> his death, the killing of adam gadahn, is a big blow to al qaeda's operations specifically in the recruitment of westerners. >> reporter: gadahn was al qaeda's most famous american, but this man also killed may have been more dangerous. ahmed farouk started out as an al qae

we want to start with richard engel. >> reporter: flying into kathmandu on a plane full of turkish aid workers, it was clear that after saturday's massive earthquake nepal is bracing for the worst. we felt an aftershock a big one, 6.7. immigration officials ran away from their stations. outside the airport, tensions turned to scuffles. people here want out before the next quake hits. kathmandu is a poor and crowded city built of brick and cement. the people are staying as far away from buildings as they can. people here don't want to spend time indoors, let alone spend the night in their homes. they're camping out in the sidewalks and the parks. any bit of green space is being occupied. on a blanket we met a 16-year-old. >> i'm feeling so nervous and bad. many people are running for their lives. many houses are falling here and there. many people are dying also. he thinks his family will sleep here for the next week. aftershocks triggered more avalanches and landslides. a british army climbing team pinned down. >> we can hear rocks crashing down around us but you can't see them coming.

lester. >> richard engel, thanks. >>> a lot of fast moving developments tonight in the investigation into the co-pilot who officials say may have deliberately crashed that plane into the side of a mountain. disturbing internet searches found on his tablet computer as recovery crews discover the second black box at the crash scene. nbc's katy tur with that report. >> reporter: today, in the french alps among the scattered debris recovery workers say they've collected 40 smashed cell phones, larger pieces of wreckage and, finally, in a ravine the normally orange flight data recorder looking so badly burned it was black. still investigators say they are hopeful the data remains intact. inside the germanwings flight 9525 second black box french investigators hope to learn what co-pilot andreas lubitz was doing when he was alone in the cockpit. and whether just before the plane began its steep descent the autopilot had been manually changed from 38,000 feet to 100 feet as the tracking site flightradar24.com suggested last week. meanwhile, inside lubitz's dusseldorf apartment, german inves

richard engel, nbc news, lampedusa, italy. >>> we have a lot more ahead tonight including the story of a brave little boy and his parents opening their home and their lives to share their story about what it means to be transgender. >>> and later, the crowded house party as tv goes back to the future. >>> tonight, we're taking a closer look at something that's been getting a lot of attention recently, the subject of being transgender. we've seen adults share their stories on television shows and in magazines, but rarely do we hear from the youngest members of the transgender community. tonight, our national correspondent kate snow is here with one family's very personal story. kate. >> lester, good evening. by some estimates there are 700,000 adults in the u.s. who are transgender. while we don't know the exact number of children, increasingly families are going public with what it means to be a transgender kid. 5-year-old jacob lemay is fierce. he loves karate and dogs and spaceships and playing with his sisters. so two sisters and you're the brother, right? >> yeah. >> reporter: were

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>> richard engel tonight. thanks, richard. >>> six men from minnesota are in federal custody tonight planning to go to syria to fight with isis. they're all somali americans ages 19 to 21. four were arrested in minneapolis, two others were picked up in san diego where investigators say they were trying to get fake documents to get into mexico then make their way to syria. >>> tonight millions are keeping a close eye on severe weather with tornado watches in effect across nine states in the east, the threat of severe storms from the northeast all the way down to the gulf. meteorologist dylan dreyer is monitoring it for us. dylan, what are we looking at here? >> reporter: there are major east coast cities under these tornado watches tonight. that includes philadelphia, washington, d.c., baltimore. it stretches all the way back down into atlanta. the situation is setting up like this. we have this cold front moving into some very unstable air. so even after midnight tonight we're still looking at the chance of so

our ch correspondent richard engel was there. >> reporter: around midnight these days the rescue boats come into port. this one had 92 migrants aboard plucked from a rubber dinghy. they're processed, bussed away and now in european hands. italy, especially in the south, has received more than 20,000 migrants so far this year. they're coming across these waters in record numbers. but the sea has been unforgiving. migrants have long tried to cross the mediterranean for europe and it's still been dangerous. even when there's just a little wind like today the seas can be quite rough in the water. but this year aid groups say 30 times more people have died compared to last year. abandoned by the roadside is a graveyard of ships. these are the wrecks that survive the journey. we came across a group of ethiopians. they arrived last week. so you came on a boat just like this? >> just like this. >> reporte on deck or down below? >> yes. >> reporter: insid >> inside. >> reporter: they left from libya, spent 25 hours at sea. everyone cramped like this. so you had to -- show me. you had to hold yo

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. >> richard engel is nbc's chief foreign correspondent. richard, how'd this happen? >> well, it seems that in january, according to u.s. officials who we've been speaking to at the pentagon and i've been speaking to by phone from here in italy, there were two separate drone strikes in mid-january. these appear to have been what are generally referred to as signature strikes, which means that the drone operators, in this case, the cia, didn't know exactly who they were targeting. they just knew they were targeting what they believed to be al qaeda compounds, so they believe they were legitimate targets, and that the people inside them would be al qaeda members or al qaeda affiliates. in the first compound that was struck, along the afghan/pakistan border, inside pakistan, the two hostages were being held, the cia didn't know they were being held there. one italian, one american, the american, dr. warren weinstein. one other american was also in that first target. an american al qaeda member, named ahmed farouk, who was the number two al qaeda leader in pakistan. then

>> richard engel tonight. thanks, >>> six men from minnesota are in federal custody tonight pl to syria to fight with isis. they're all somali americans ages 19 to . four were arrested in minneapolis, t others wer were tryin fake documents to get into mexico th their way to >>> tonigh are keep eye on severe weather with tornado watches in effect across nine states in the threat of severe storms from th northeast al down to the gulf. meteorologist dylan dreyer is monitoring it for us. dylan, what are we >> reporter: there are major east c cities under these tornado watches tonight. that includes philadel washington baltimore. it stretches all t the situation is setting up like th. we have front moving into some so even after midnight tonight we're still looking at the c of some st then by tomo morning mainly just rain across new england. but in this orange area, th enhanced chanc seeing not only isolated tornadoes b also large hail, damaging wind gusts up near 70 miles per hour and also dangerous cloud- if you'

our chief foreign correspondent richard engel reports from the italian island of lampadusa. >> r as the t bodies recovered off libya's coast were brought ashore in malta, disaster struck again. further east. a ship packed with syrian refugees ran aground off the greek island of rhodes. at least three were killed but more than 90 rescued. many dragged from the surf close to shore. those lost off libya this weekend had no such luck. their ship sank in deep water at night miles from shore. only a few dozen survivors have been found. a tiny fraction of the 950 one survivor wer on board. survivors say when this cargo ship approached many thought they were being rescued and rushed to one side to be seen. their boat capsized reportedly with hundreds locked below. just last week 400 migrants drowned when their ship capsized off libya. why so many now? conflicts in iraq syria and libya and across sub-saharan africa are pushing people to escape economic and political hardship. many are running for their lives. >> people fleeing in desperation aren't fleeing out of choice they're fleeing because t

nbc's richard engel is in kathmandu right now.munications in and out of nepal even by satellite have been very difficult today and tonight. we asked him to file this for us just tonight for his reporting today. >> rachel, what's amazing this about this story is even three days after this earthquake when we speak to military officials medical officials, they have no idea of the scale of the problem. they are all concerned that they're going to eventually reach some village or town cut off because the roads are blocked because it's inaccessible because of avalanches or land slides and that they're going to find that the town has been destroyed and all the people killed. they are very cautious about the death toll. now they talk about 4,000. but they are very worried that in the coming days as they learn more, that the number could rise dramatically. this is the moment nepal was brought to its knees. the jake left thousands dead. and much of this already poor country without power. short of clean water, centuries old temples fell. he

richard engel reports on that part of the story tonight. >> warren weinstein wasn't the only american killed in the u.s. drone strikes. there were two others fighting with al qaeda. s -- the voice on this video experts say belongs to adam gadahn, an american narrating a notorious propaganda video of the 9/11 hijackers. born adam pearlman, his grandfather jewish, his grandfather was raised on a goat farm in virginia, attending this mosque and getting in trouble in the mid 1990s for his increasingly extreme views. he traveled to pakistan, initially hiding his face. he was the first charged with treason since the world war ii region. >> his death was a big blow to al qaeda operations, specifically in the recruitment of westerners. >> gadahn was al qaeda's most famous americans, but experts say this man also killed may have been more dangerous. ahmed farooq rose throughs ranks to become their second in command in pakistan. farooq was at the same compound where dr. weinstein and the italian aid worker were held, an american keeping a fellow american hostage for al qaeda. the u.s. doesn't a

joining me now is nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel. joining me. i know we have a slight delay, so i'll get right to it. erbil is known as one of the safest cities in iraq. and i wonder how much this upends that perception dramatically? >> reporter: it is certainly something that u.s. military personnel, u.s. diplomats are going to be concerned about. they had felt that erbil was a relative pocket of safety. it is in the autonomous kurdish region of northern iraq. the kurds have been working very closely and have for many years with the u.s. government they consider very close allies. and it wasn't just in erbil it was in an area of erbil, a neighborhood very close to the airport. you do go to cafes. it is not like being in baghdad or parts of central or let alone northern iraq these days. we do have some new information about the casualties from that attack. a car bomb that exploded in front of the u.s. consulate there. a medical official in erbil has told us that an american woman was injured. that she has second-degree burns. that she

nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel is in kathmandu and filed this report this morning. >> reporter: kathmandu is a city where people are living outside tear homes. this is one of the biggest markets and it is a campgroundment people don't want to go inside buildings, sleep inside. so they are sleeping in open areas, in parks. almost evergreen space in the city has been turned into a campground. fans with cooking pots and their children are living on the sidewalks. they are living in the streets. they don't even want to be near the buildingsment a lot of oh buildings are made of brick, concrete. and because of the after shocks bits and pieces of the building, entire wall withes in some cases, are still falling down. so you don't want to be near them. we felt one of the after hock this is morning. quite a strong one. 6.7. we had just arrived in this country. we are still at the airport. the building started to shake. we were going through immigration at the timement the customs officials and immigration officials ran away. they ran for cover. but then after just a few mi

nbc news chief foreign correspondent over there, richard engel is in tel aviv with more on the mood in israel. they have a lot riding on this. here's richard. >> reporter: chris, i can't remember a stranger time in tel aviv where the government of israel seems to been aligned with many arab governments in denouncing what is going on in switzerland. normally this country is at great odds with the rest of the middle east, but now you have saudi arabia, egypt, morocco, even pakistan, saying that they are against the possible deal in switzerland, they don't want to empower iran. i spoke today to a senior member of the new israeli government, and he said that the deal in switzerland if it goes forward, encouraging iran to not dismantle its nuclear program, but to freeze it with some safeguards, and that's not what israel wants. israel believed that this process to enter into negotiations with iran would dismantle the nuclear program, similar to what happened in libya, where gadhafi said he doesn't want the nuclear program anymore and took it apart. instead they believed the program will be

let's bring in richard engel now, our chief foreign correspondent, standing by for us who has been following, first of all, do we have richard? >> reporter: we do. >> first of all, richard, let me get your reaction. haven't spoken since details of that deal were announced. general reaction to the deal how the deal itself is being perceived where you are. >> reporter: well first off, i'll answer the second question which is somewhat easier. in the arab world, in the middle east and in israel there's a great deal of skepticism about the deal. they feel that it empowers iran it let's iran improve its economy, develop a nuclear program, albeit a contained nuclear program, but it allows the nuclear program to go ahead with strict limitations. the israeli government have come out incredibly strongly against this. netanyahu today once again said this is a bad deal that puts the world at risk and there's this unusual confluence of events where you have arab states like saudi arabia and egypt coming out on the same side as israel. that's the official reaction. some analysts i have spoken to thought i

and switzerland would only be rewarding aggressive behavior. >> richard engel, thank you so much.joined by special correspondent with the daily beast. michael, good morning. >> hi jose. >> you say we shouldn't did i lewd ourselves thinking it will lead to changes regarding iran's behavior. explain that. >> you hear sometimes from administration officials and other supporters of the deal that if we strike this deal with iran, they hope it will change iran's behavior change the nature of the regime that it will modernize in certain other ways, and i don't think all of that is true. now, i support getting a deal for other reasons, for reasons for the deal on its own terms, but i don't think we should be under any illusion that it is going to change the regime in any ways for the better. they do all of the things richard engel said they do and deal or no deal i think they're going to continue to do those things. >> are they going to be strengthened if they get a deal certainly the optics in the middle east will be that iran is becoming a bigger and bigger player, in the future they ma

chief foreign correspondent richard engel just arrived in kathmandu. he and his team were rocked by an aftershock shortly after they got to the airport. richard, what can you tell us? >> peter, this is a city where people are now living on the streets. you can see behind me a park. in almost every green space, people are now set up tents. they brought their families. they brought cooking pots and they are living in these parks, on the sidewalks, in the streets, afraid to go back into their homes because there've been many aftersho shortly after arrival today, it was a 6.7 aftershock. it lasted for about a minute. we were going through immigration, we had just landed at the airport, and suddenly the building started moving. the airport officials ran away. the police went to find safer cover. we did, as well. but then just a few minutes later it was back to business as usual, although with this fear that you could have more aftershocks, or even another major quake, and that's why so many peopl the same is also true for foreigners. there are not that many

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first we go to our chief foreign correspondent, richard engel in the capital, kathmandu. >> reporter: this is the moment nepal was brought to its knees. the quake left thousands dead. and much of this already poor country without power. short of clean water. centuries old temples fell. here in kathmandu, the historic town center was devastated. many are staying outdoors in parks and on the streets, terrified of repeated aftershocks. two more big ones today. nepal has mobilized its troops for relief work. volunteers desperately dig by hand. this woman used to come here to have coffee in the shade of a temple. mostly they're searching for bodies in these piles. but sometimes there is the unexpected. a man pulled out alive today. international rescue teams have finally arrived. but getting outside the capital is a struggle. roads blocked, helicopters in short supply. nbc's ian williams reached one town just outside the capital. >> some of the worst damage is around these narrow alleyways where there are a few buildings which haven't been impacted by the quake. this one propped up precari

nbc's richard engel has the latest from mount everest. >> we spoke to three rescue pilots. all of them have told us they do not believe there are any climbers still trapped or stranded on mount everest, this most have made their way down to the base camp the place where we visited today, and are making their way off the island, off the base camp or they have already been evacuated. the base camp is where the main avalanche occurred and when we were able to visit it today, we got a real sense of what happened. on saturday, around noon when the earthquake struck a large piece of ice and snow and rock broke off of a mountain overlooking base camp. it fell with incredible speed. that avalanche swept through the middle section of the base camp taking away tents, sending some climbers hundreds of feet in the air. it also wiped out the only medical facility on the base camp killing at least 15, maybe 17 people, maybe more. they haven't been able to go through all of the snow banks, and there is still some efforts under way to locate the remains of climbers or sherpas in the area t

nbc's chief foreign correspondent richard engel has the details. >> reporter: the target of terror, reportedlye benedict himself. a plot to target the vatican, italian prosecutors say, by a major al qaeda-linked cell spanning italy, a cell broken up today with police raids in seven areas, recorded on police video. 18 arrest warrants, 9 sunts detained, 9 others still at large. the suspects are pakistanis and afghans. a key figure, prosecutors say, this preacher, arrested outside milan. it was a fund-raising cell for al qaeda in pakistan, investigators say, in direct contact with osama bin laden's inner circle. italy has been following this group for years, recording thousands of their phone calls. one investigator said that's how that 2010 plot against the pope was finally uncovered. >> this is a series of guys who are involved from sometime back. in some ways we're seeing a historical network being disrupted now. >> reporter: italy these days is on edge, and it's not alone. since the paris terror attacks in january, s american, while president obama is reinforcing his faith in the nation's spy

richard engel reports from kathmandu. >> reporter: this is the moment nepal was brought to its knees. the quake left thousands dead. and much of this already poor country without power short of clean water, centuries old temples fell. here in kathmandu the historic town center was devastated. many are staying outdoors in parks and on the streets. nepal has mobilized its troops for relief work. volunteers desperately dig by hand. this woman used to come to this very spot to have coffee in the shade of a temple. >> it's my place and my country and my people. >> reporter: mostly they're serging for bodies in these piles but sometimes there's the unexpected. a man pulled out alive today. international rescue teams have finally arrived but getting outside the capitol is a struggle. roads blocked. helicopters in short supply. in more remote and inaccessible villages the toll is still unknown. in a hospital in kathmandu, we saw workers take away dozens of unclaimed bodies to be cremated. a line of people hoping to identify missing loved ones. the embassy has opened its doors. you'll likely g

. >>> richard engel, thanks. we are learning the confirmed death toll of the everest avalanche has rised to 18 lives lost. a military plane is on its way carrying 70 people including members of an urban search and rescue team. a disaster assistance team and cargo. we have the latest from the heart of kathmandu. >> reporter: they search by hand brick, by brick. this team convinced they've located another body under the rubble around kathmandu's most famous temple complex. >> one of the people is buried there. >> reporter: this is what remains of the historic heart of kathmandu kathmandu. the buildings are too vulnerable to withstand the quake. the area around the square seems to have taken the brunt of the quake. some of the buildings date back to the third century. the nine-story tower has been reduced to a shattered stump. this was one of the most popular attractions commanding a panoramic view of the kathmandu valley. open spaces here are packed. the people who live through saturday's quake are too afraid to re

richard engel is there with more. >> reporter: this is the moment nepal was brought to its knees. the quake left thousands dead and much of this already poor country without power. short of clean water, centuries old terms fell. here in kathmandu the historic town center was devastated. many are staying outdoors terrified of aftershocks. nepal has mobilized its troops for relief work. volunteers desperately dig by hand. this woman used to come to this very spot to have coffee in the shade of the temple. >> it's my country and my people. >> mostly they're searching for bodies in these piles but sometimes there's unexpected. a man pulled out alive. international rescue teams have finally arrived by getting outside the capitol is a struggle. roadblocked. helicopters in short supply. nbc's ian williams reached a spot outside the capital. >> here there are few buildings which haven't been impacted by the quake. this one propped up precariously by pieces of wood. >> reporter: in more remote and inexcessive villages the toll is still unknown. we saw workers take away dozens of unclaimed

. >>> richard engel from nbc news and wound telephone first looks at mt. everest base camp today after the avalanche triggered by nepal's massive earthquake killed at least 18 climbers. much of the base camp was destroyed. investigators are still searching for bodies here as the camp clears out. most surviving climbers are opting to walk down the mountain out of respect for those who died. >>> there is growing frustration among the villagers in nepal over the slow trickle of aid coming in from around the world. those living near the epicenter of the earthquake say they are desperate. nearly 200 villagers were seen shivering under umbrellas and plastic tarps. helicopters arrived with sacks of rice but a u.n. official says that's not enough. he said the next shipment will have to include plastic sheets. the death toll from that earthquake has now gone beyond 5,000. >>> sale prices. we assume they're deep discounts for a limited time. but what if something is always offered at a sale price? consumer reporter erika gonzalez tells us why jumping at the word sal

. >> nbc's chief foreign correspondent richard engel is live for us in tel aviv. so richard, where do things stand as we speak? again, the deadline come and gone. >> i wish i knew frankly. if you listen to the russiasns and listen to the iranians they're sounding quite optimistic they're going to have some sort of framework agreement by the end of the day. it would basically be a political statement allowing the two sides to continue to negotiate. so a nonagreement or just an agreement to keep talking. if you talk to other countries, the european capitals they are less optimistic that there will be even that kind of nonbinding resolution reached by the end of the day. so frankly, we don't know where we are, but what we do know is that israel several arab countries have come out very strongly against the entire process. they don't like what they are seeing in switzerland. they don't like the fact that iran is being allowed to, as they see it, set terms of this deal. they would very much like to see iran being pressured with sanctions, with the threat of military act

richard engel is standing by in italy.al to see such a public explanation of these series of strikes that unfortunately killed two innocent hostages. >> reporter: i think once the u.s. knew about this there was really no choice but to go forward. al qaeda often looks for propaganda opportunities. just imagine the alternative. let's say al qaeda said it was an american air strike a drone strike that had killed two american hostages and then subsequently the president or some other u.s. official had to come out and say yes in fact al qaeda had it right. that would be a devastating blow. it would raise a lot of questions of credibility. there is some precedent for this. if you remember a few months ago there was an american woman who was being held by isis and isis came out and said that she was killed in a jordanian air strike and just showed a picture of a building it claimed was destroyed. they denied it. but if this had been true and as it appears to have been true after a u.s. investigation that these americans were inad

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nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel following developments from istanbul.ulate is the target. >> it seems that the u.s. consulate was the target or at least this car bomb. at this stage we can say it was a car bomb exploded right in front of one of the entry points into the u.s. consulate in the city of erbil, according to a statement -- according to a comment from a u.s. state department official who said that a vbid car bomb exploded right in front of one of the entry points. no consulate personnel were killed or injured in that blast. the same street where the consulate is located is lined with cafes and it seems that most of the casualties were in a cafe right next door. a cafe that caught fire and several cars parked cars in the area caught fire and it seems it was in that cafe which has been known for a place where consulate officials would go and other foreigners and aid workers in erbil would also go to to meet and discuss their work. >> just seeing new video into us here at nbc. we'll work to confirm the death report and injury report coming out of

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richard engel is on the southern italian coast in sicily. craig. this is the port in sicily, and this is where the survivors from this tragedy that occurred over the weekend are supposed to come. most of them aren't here yet, they are on their way, we are told, but frankly, there haven't been very many survivors for a disaster of this scale. so far only a few dozen have been pulled from the water, along with a few dozen bodies. hundreds, however, are feared dead and according to those survivors, and they have been speaking to officials in malta, they've been speaking to italian officials, this is what they say happened. a ship was, a fishing vessel made of wood, was badly overloaded, it was sent off from libya. the closest ship in the area, which in this case was a cargo ship, to see if it could respond to the distress signal and provide any kind of assistance. when the cargo ship vessel, the people onboard and there were hundreds of people on this ship below deck. the people on the deck saw this approaching cargo vessel, thought they were b

richard engel is there. richard?re back in kathmandu but earlier today we are at the mount everest base camp at 17,600 feet it's the main base camp climbers use to stage their equipment, to rest and then prepare for their assent to the upper camps and perhaps ultimately some so them to the summit of mount everest. when we were at the base camp we were finally able to understand what happened on saturday when that massive earthquake struck and rock sod many places and destroyed so many places in this country. when the earthquake happened around noon on saturday an avalanche broke off from the mountain overlooking the base camp. the base camp is long and thin and has several hundred people staying in it. and when the avalanche came crashing down with ice and snow and rocks, it tore through the center section of the base camp destroying the only medical facility at the base camp tearing up tents, sending some of the climbers hundreds of feet. we don't know exactly how many people died. of the estimates are 15 to 19 but

nbc's richard engel shows us how they're forcing people from their homes. >> reporter: with the aftershocks still coming people here understandably don't want to spend time indoors, let alone spend the night in their homes so they're camping out on the sidewalks and in the parks, any bit of green space is being occupied. >>> this frightening new video gives you a closeup of an avalanche that cascaded down mount everest following the earthquake. take a look. you can see people duck for cover right before a wave of snow and rocks descends on a base camp on that mountain. right before it happened a man recording the video said "the ground is shaking." the avalanche killed at least 17 people including three americans. we told you several countries are sending search-and-rescue teams to kathmandu. northern virginia sent one elite team there. take a look this is virginia task force one, part of the fairfax county fire department. we're following the group's progress through the department's facebook page. the team should arrive in nepal tonight. also tonight, students at george mason university w