Cabot Phillips

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Morning Wire · Meta To Pay $18 Billion & Flash Flood Devastates Nepal | 8.27.26 · 27 Aug 2026 podcast

A wall of mud and water came over the building while people are trying to run, and then photos of the aftermath show buildings packed with mud up to the second floor and debris hanging from tree branches and power lines.

A search and rescue effort is underway, but a lot of infrastructure has been severely damaged and thrown.

Three helicopters actually had to turn back because of how bad the conditions still are as this effort continues.

So, the vast majority of folks who are missing are foreign nationals.

Um, there were a lot of tourists that travel to this part of the world.

It's a very beautiful place.

And initial reports say that 47 of the people missing are American, along with 133 Indians, 34 Australians, 24 Canadians, and 33 British citizens.

So people from all over the world.

And on top of that, this is the peak time for a sacred pilgrimage at Mount Kalosh in Tibet.

And the route.

Ran right through this impacted area.

A Hindu religious leader said that a group of 77 pilgrims sponsored by his foundation were all sitting at the local immigration office when this flash flood hit, and he still has not heard from a single one of them.

As for the missing Americans, we don't have much more information beyond just the numbers.

Uh the State Department said that right now it's working to account for all American citizens, but they've not released any information on the condition of those affected.

Yes, early on there were reports of an earthquake, but it turns out that that was wrong.

The floods were triggered by a landslide so massive that the US Geological Survey initially reported it again as a 4.4 magnitude earthquake.

That's how powerful this landslide was.

There's still a lot that is unclear about what caused that landslide, but the working theory among experts is that a massive chunk of ice broke off of a glacier at the same time a landslide was already occurring.

And as that chunk of ice fell into the valley with the landslide, it picked up sediment rocks that you can see in some of the videos.

And uh again, everything snowballed from there.

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