American PLEADS to find missing father after Nepal-Tibet floods

THAT NEXT. THE DEATH TOLL AFTER THE. CATASTROPHIC FLOOD IN NEPAL. RISING AS RESCUE CREWS CONTINUE. THEIR EFFORTS, 600 PEOPLE ARE. DEAD AND THOUSANDS MISSING. INCLUDING AMERICANS. STEPHANIE BENNETT IS TRACKING. THESE DEVELOPMENTS. STEPHANIE:THE US STATE. DEPARTMENT SAYS 90 AMERICANS. ARE UNACCOUNTED FOR.

FIVE HAVE BEEN TAKEN TO SAFETY. THE PRESIDENT OFFERED SUPPORT. FOR CHINA AND NEPAL, WARNING. SOME OF THESE VIDEOS ARE. GRAPHIC. IT HAS BEEN FOUR DAYS SINCE. WEDNESDAY'S DEADLY CATASTROPHIC. FLASH FLOOD. BURIED COMMUNITIES ALONG THE. HIMALAYAN BORDER, TIME IS. TICKING. IT IS MONSOON SEASON, SEARCH. AND RESCUE OPERATIONS WERE. TEMPORARILY SUSPENDED BECAUSE. OF RAIN AND HEAVY FOG. AUTHORITIES ARE MONITORING TWO. LAKES FORMED BY THE DISASTER,

ONE OF WHICH WAS OVERFLOWING AT. TIMES. CHINESE AUTHORITIES SAY IT IS. SLOWLY DRAINING BUT MORE RAIN. IS ON THE WAY. SCIENTISTS SAY THE DISASTER WAS. TRIGGERED BY A GLACIER CALL'S. WHICH CAUSE STORIES HIGH WAVES, ICE, DEBRIS HURTLING THROUGH. THE MOUNTAIN RIVER SYSTEMS. NEWLY RELEASED FIGURES SAY A. 669 PEOPLE WERE KILLED IN. NEPAL, SEVEN IN TO BET. BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES 3000. REMAIN MISSING WITH 4000. RESCUED SO FAR. IN THE LAST HOUR THE RED CROSS.

TOLD FOX NEWS IT WILL TAKE. TIME, MONTHS OR YEARS TO. SUPPORT THESE COMMUNITIES. >> ONLY TODAY WERE WE ABLE TO. SEND THROUGH THE RED CROSS, TO. GET TO THE MORE IMPACTED AREAS. AND ONLY BY FOUR BY FOUR. WE ARE SENDING TRUCKS OF. SUPPLIES, WE WERE ABLE TO DO. THREE LOADS OF THAT TODAY, BUT. THE NEEDS ARE SURPASSING WHAT. WE CAN GET TO AT THE MOMENT.

STEPHANIE:THE FINANCE MINISTER. SAYS IT WILL COST BILLIOIONS A. BILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO REBUILD, THERE'S ALSO CONCERNS ABOUT. WATERBORNE DISEASES. RICH: THANK YOU. 90 AMERICANS ARE AMONG THOSE. MISSING AS RESCUE EFFORTS. CONTINUE IN NEPAL. I'M JOINED BY SONNY PATEL. TELL US ABOUT THE LAST TIME YOU. SPOKE TO YOUR DAD.

SONNY:APPRECIATE YOU HAVING ME. ON. WE TALKED TO MY DAD ON TUESDAY. EVENING, WEDNESDAY MORNING IN. TIBET. OUR BEST GUESS, BEST ESTIMATION. ALTHOUGH WE HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE. TO CONFIRM, THAT HE AND HIS. GROUP CROSSED INTO THE TIBETAN. BORDER WEDNESDAY MORNING AT. 8:00 AM. RICH: NEPAL IS A SPIRITUAL. DESTINATION.

WHAT WERE YOUR DAD'S PLANS? SONNY:THEY WERE HEADING UP TO A. PLACE WHERE THOUSANDS, IF NOT. TENS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE GO. EVERY YEAR ON A SPIRITUAL. PILGRIMAGE. THAT IS WHERE THEY WERE HEADING. THAT MORNING, THEY WERE. SUPPOSED TO BE THERE THE DAY. PRIOR AND HAD SOME CAR TROUBLE. FROM WHAT WE CAN MAKE OUT AND. ENDED UP AT THE IMMIGRATION. CENTER ON THE 26TH, WHICH MAY. BE MADE OFF OF DIFFERENT. THEY WERE HEADING UP TO MOUNT.

PILOSH TO A PLACE CALLED SAGA. TO GET ACCLIMATED TO THE. ELEVATION AND CONTINUE THEIR. JOURNEY. RICH: WHEN YOU SAW THE FIRST. REPORTS OF WHAT HAPPENED DID. YOU MAKE THE CONNECTION THIS. WAS WHERE YOUR DAD WAS SUPPOSED. TO BE? SONNY:I DIDN'T AT FIRST. I WATCHED THE VIDEO AND THOUGHT. HOW HORRIFIC IT WAS AND. PROBABLY 30-SECONDS LATER, IT. REGISTERED THAT WAS A. POSSIBILITY.

I TEXTED MY MOM AND SHE WAS. HOPING WE HADN'T SEEN THE VIDEO. BUT IT WAS VIRAL BY THEN. SHE RESPONDED AND SAID THAT IS. EXACTLY WHERE HE WAS. THAT IS WHEN ALL THOSE THOUGHTS. AND EMOTIONS CAME FLOODING IN. MY WIFE AND I FLEW TO NEW YORK. RICH: WHO HAVE YOU BEEN. COMMUNICATING WITH? HAVE GOVERNMENTS BEEN HELPFUL? NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS? SUNNY: WE'VE BEEN TALKING TO A.

LOT OF STATE AGENCIES. THE FRUSTRATION FROM OUR END, FROM WHAT WE CAN ASSUME, MY DAD. AND THE TOUR GROUP WERE ON THE. TIBETAN SIDE OF THE BORDER. WE CANNOT GET A TON OF. INFORMATION FROM THEM, THE. CHINESE SIDE, ABOUT WHAT IS. HAPPENING. OUR ASSUMPTIONON AND OUR. UNDERSTANDING AS THEY CROSS THE. BORDER. WE TALKED TO THE EMBASSIES IN.

NEPAL, KATHMANDU, BEIJING, THE. STATE DEPARTMENT IN THE US, FILED MISSING CASES REPORTS BUT. WITH EVERY AGENCY WE CAN THINK. OF, SOME OF THEM ARE. RESPONSIVE. IF THEY ARE ON THE TIBETAN. SIDE, TRYING TO GO ON THESE. MEDIA SEGMENTS AND GET. AWARENESS OUT THERE THAT THERE. ARE PEOPLE ON THE CHINESE SIDE. THAT WE AREN'T GETTING A TON OF. INFORMATION ABOUT. THE NEPALESE GOVERNMENT ISIS. PUTTING OUT MISSING PERSONS.

REPORTS BUT THE LACK OF. INFORMATION FROM THE TIBETAN. SIDE IS THE MOST FRUSTRATING. PART. RICH: WE KNOW YOUR DAD'S. ADVENTUROUS AND SPIRITUAL. TELL US MORE ABOUT HIM. SUNNY: THAT'S TOUGH. HE IS THE KINDEST PERSON I. KNOW, THE MOST GENUINE PERSON, BELIEVED IN THE GOODNESS OF. EVERYBODY TO A FAULT TO BE. HONEST. HE IMMIGRATED HERE IN 79, BUILT.

AN AMAZING LIFE WITH HIS WIFE. THAT YOU SEE THERE, MY MOM. HIS BROTHER AND I, THREE. AMAZING GRANDKIDS HE LOVES. SPENDING TIME WITH. JUST REALLY THE KINDEST PERSON, LOVES SPENDING TIME WITH. PEOPLE, LOVES PLAYING GOLF, REALLY A GENUINE PERSON THAT. GOT ENERGY FROM BEING AROUND. HIS FRIENDS AND EVEN STRANGERS. QUITE FRANKLY. LIVED WITH KINDNESS AND HIS. HEART. HE ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS SAID. GOD IS GOOD. HE HE WOULD SAY I AM THE BEST, GOD IS GREAT.

HE WAS THE MOST UPBEAT POSITIVE. PERSON. RICH:SUNNY PAT.