More flooding could come after 'disastrous' Nepal flash flood

E. BACK QUICKLY OR DAYS INTO. DELIBERATIONS? JOSH, THANK YOU. >> Jacqui: RIGHT NOW NEPAL IS. BRACING FOR A POTENTIAL SECOND. WAVE OF FLOODS AMID RESCUE AND. RECOVERY EFFORTS FOR HUNDREDS OF. PEOPLE MISSING IN THE REGION. INCLUDING SOME 90 AMERICANS. STILL UNACCOUNTED FOR. >> I SPOKE TO THE. STATE DEPARTMENT THIS MORNING. AND THEY HAVE RESCUED A HANDFUL. OF AMERICANS AND WE WILL. CONTINUE TO DO THAT AT THE U.S. EMBASSY IN NEPAL IS IN CLOSE. CONTACT WITH LOCAL AUTHORITIES. ON THE GROUND AND OF COURSE THE.

SECRETARY HIMSELF IS CLOSELY. MONITORING THIS. >> Jacqui: FOREIGN. CORRESPONDENT JEFF PAUL REPORTS. LIVE FROM LONDON ON THIS. HEY, JEFF. >> AS RESCUE CREWS WORK AROUND. THE CLOCK TO FIND ANY SURVIVORS. IN NEPAL THERE'S REAL CONCERN. MORE FLOODING COULD BE RIGHT. AROUND THE CORNER. NEPAL'S DISASTER AUTHORITY. AWARDING A LAKE THAT FORMED FROM. A BLOCKED RIVER COULD SOON. BURST. IN CHINA AT ANOTHER LAKE, OFFICIALS THERE ARE WARNING THE. EQUIVALENT TO ROUGHLY 1200. OLYMPIC SIZED SWIMMING POOLS OF.

WATER ARE EXPECTED TO FLOW INTO. THE LAKE IN THE COMING DAYS. WITH SO MANY STILL MISSING THERE. ARE FEARS THE DEATH TOLL WILL. ONLY KEEP RISING. RESCUE CREWS HAVE REPORTEDLY. FOUND BODIES HUNDREDS OF MILES. OF DOWNSTREAM FROM SOME OF THE. MOST DEVASTATED AREAS AND FOR. THOSE WHO HAVE MISSING FAMILY. MEMBERS, THEY ARE DESPERATE FOR. ANY NEW YORK. >> "WE TRIED CALLING HIM AGAIN. HIS PHONE WAS UNREACHABLE. THEN WE HEARD THAT A LANDSLIDE. HAD COME DOWN. WE STILL DON'T KNOW WHETHER HE'S.

ALIVE BECAUSE WE HAVEN'T BEEN. ABLE TO REACH HIM. MY BROTHER HAS ALSO GONE THERE. BY CAR TO SEE IF HE CAN FIND OUR. FATHER. WE STILL HAVE HOPE THAT OUR. FATHER MAY BE ALIVE.". >> MANY ROADS AT THE MOMENT ARE. BURIED IN MUD AND DEBRIS AND. DOZENS OF BRIDGES HAVE BEEN. QUITE LITERALLY RIPPED APART. THAT'S ONLY COMPLICATING THE. DANGEROUS RECOVERY EFFORTS WHERE. SOMETIMES THE ONLY WAY TO GET. HELP IN IS BY HELICOPTER. NEPAL'S ARMY SAYS THEY'VE. RESCUED MORE THAN 100 PEOPLE AND. COUNTING BY CHOPPER.

EXPERTS SAY TIME IS RUNNING OUT. >> I MEAN, THESE AREAS ARE. DIFFICULT TO OPERATE IN IN THE. BEST OF TIMES. THESE ARE VERY STEEP VALLEYS. FILLED WITH GLACIAL SORT OF. RIVERS. YOU CAN ONLY ACCESS FROM THE. NORTH AND SOUTH AND LOOKING AT. THOSE IMAGES RIGHT NOW, ROADS. ARE DOWN. BRIDGES ARE DOWN. THE RESPONSE EFFORTS ARE. SERIOUSLY HAMPERED BY THOSE. BARRIERS. >> TIBET'S SPIRITUAL LEADER, THE. DALAI LAMA, HAD ISSUED A.

STATEMENT OFFERING CONDOLENCES. TO THOSE IMPACTED BY THE. FLOODING. HE SAYS WHETHER IT'S CLIMATE. CHANGE OR OTHER FACTORS, HE'S. HOPING ACTION WILL BE TAKEN.