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Nearly 400 Travelers Missing in Nepal after Massive Flood; Decoding Dolly Parton: The Inspiration Behind the Music; Remembering Dolly Parton: Musician, Philanthropist & Icon; At Least 98 Dead, Hundreds of Tourists Missing in Flash Flood; Deadly Flash Flood Hits Nepal-China Border, Hundreds Missing; Fans in Nashville Remember Music Legend Dolly Parton. Aired 11a-12p ET

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LYNDA KINKADE, CNN HOST, ONE WORLD: Live from Atlanta, I'm Lynda Kinkade. Zain is off today, and this is "One World". Devastation on the border

between Nepal and China. It's almost nine in the evening there, and Napoli officials say catastrophic flooding has killed at least 95 people.

But I have to warn you, footage of the moment a wall of water overwhelms the border post is disturbing. You can see a perfectly clear day. Then the

water engulfs an entire area. There are fears the eventual death toll will be far higher than initial estimates. Right now, hundreds of people are

unaccounted for.

Chinese state media are saying there could be a major casualty on the Tibetan side of the border as well. Now, according to Nepal's foreign

minister, the flooding seems to have been set off when an earthquake triggered a landslide. The U.S. Geological Survey has registered a 4.4

magnitude quake in the region.

Gage Goulding is tracking the breaking news joining us now from Hong Kong. Good to have you with us, Gage. So, we've seen that incredible, shocking

vision of this wall of water, literally overwhelming villages, roads, even a hydropower plant. What do we know about the casualties and those missing,

including the hundreds of foreign tourists in the region?

GAGE GOULDING, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yeah, you know, I want to start with the thing that's the hardest to consume. As you see these videos, you see that.

I mean, the dramatic video of the water just flying over that multi-storey building there on the border of China and Nepal, you would think that this

was caused by catastrophic historic rains.

But no, it's actually a beautiful day there, and some of the videos you can see the sun shining. And it's hard to grasp that amount of water was caused

by a landslide. And that's the thing that's really kind of at least for me is difficult to understand. You said it there.

The USGS reporting a 4.4 magnitude earthquake caused a landslide and shoved earth into a river there, and just then this wall of water came down. And

you can see this is incredible video here. People running, and then all of a sudden, there's this water that comes through and will wipe away these

tour busses, this parking garage, this building like it's nothing.

The latest number right now, we have 95 people killed, and there are hundreds. I think that's the safest word we can use right now. Is hundreds

of people that are still missing. This video here. I want to pause. If we can bring the audio up, just listen to what is happening.

You can see these people are -- they're driving away and they're in a better position than some of the folks that are on foot. Because they

actually are -- I'm assuming we're OK because this video got out. But you can see the fear of people running for their lives. But at the beginning of

the video, it's beautiful.

People were not fear struck, and they were looking around, assumingly hearing what is eventually coming down the gorge there, and this just

incredible. Because a lot of, unfortunately, the reality is a lot of people in this video did not survive. There's an alternate angle of this as well

that kind of shows from a top perspective of what that water looked like as it rushed down.

If we have that, I'd love to show that because it kind of paints a different. Yeah, this right here it paints a different picture and just how

high the water or the bridge was above the water, and then this bridge eventually gets wiped away because of the force of the water. It just

absolutely it's hard to put words to it.

Because I don't think I've ever seen flash flooding like this before. Because this is something that we typically don't see. And mind you, that

there was flooding in this region just last year, nine people killed, 24 people missing. It's not rare, especially in these high-altitude regions,

to get flooding, but typically, from what I said, was rain.

Some of the information that we're getting right now from the Nepal Tourism Board is that there are roughly 400 people missing from about seven

different nations, including the United States, the United Kingdom, India, Australia, Netherlands, just to name a few. And these are people that were

out exploring the region that had no idea that this was coming.

And you know, especially from the video of the water coming over that building, it just nobody knew that this was coming. And those people were

running for their lives again. But there was no way that they were going to make it to safety.

So, I want to leave you with this, the numbers that we have right now, 95 killed and hundreds missing. I do fully anticipate, Lynda, that that number

is going to skyrocket in the coming hours, especially as the sun rises in Nepal.

KINKADE: All right, Gabe Goulding, appreciate you staying across this for us. Thank you. Well, I want to stay on this story. My next guest is a

helicopter pilot who witnessed the flash flooding from the air, Aman Budathoki is on the phone right now. Aman, we appreciate your time.

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You were flying overhead as this landslide occurred. Just take us through what you saw.

AMAN BUDATHOKI, HELICOPTER PILOT IN NEPAL: Hi, Lynda. Thank you for having me. So, this morning we had a scheduled flight to the border of China. The

place is called Timure. So, it was a beautiful day. We flew off from the Capital Kathmandu, and 15 minutes later, we were around.

We were five minutes off of the landing place. So, as we were flying off above the river, we could see some dust far away. And I was flying with

another Captain Subat (ph). So, he pointed out, and he asked me if it was a landslide. And as we looked over there, we could see the dust like flying

off from the river.

And on closer look, we noticed it was a flash flood. So, we tried to contact the authorities as soon as possible, but we were inside a gorge,

inside a valley. And inside valleys communication is really hard with the ATC. So, we couldn't get in exact contact on that moment.

So, we went for a wreckage around the places there. A lot of villages we knew previously swept away. We could see the fuels that were imported from

China. Those were being swept away. And the whole scenario it was horrendous. It was uncanny. Anything like you've ever seen before.

We even saw some houses and some trees being swept away and everything like that. And we could see every infrastructure, all the hydro powers, all the

infrastructure, all roads that were developed by the government being swept away live. And it was a horrendous situation. We tried to contact anybody

around, but we couldn't.

And we tried to go to the border side, but due to the flash flood, the thick dust, the thick dust smoke had covered the whole visibility. So, we

tried to drive it back, and about 15 minutes later, we were in contact with another airplane that was flying near the vicinity of the flooding.

We contacted that guy, and the pilot from the air contacted Kathmandu ATC, and then relayed our message about how devastating the whole situation was.

So, Nepal went through a lot this morning.

KINKADE: Yeah, certainly. So, the dust was so bad after that landslide that you lost visibility, had to leave the area. Have you been able to return?

BUDATHOKI: Yeah. So as soon as the floods hit, we were right above the flood. We could actually see the dark water from the flood with the debris

and the fresh water from the river mixing together. So, we were on the site of the flood within like two to three minutes of it entering Nepal.

So, we couldn't descend down because the dust was thick down in the landing site, but we were about 1000 or about 1500 feet high. So, we just diverted

back and then we tried to contact the authorities as soon as possible. And about an hour later, we initiated our rescue missions.

Nepalese army along with Nepalese police personnel were deployed like within 30 minutes of us reporting. And then in the next hour, there were

about 20 Nepalese helicopters that landed on various sites, and we were off the rescue then.

KINKADE: So, take us through those rescues. We haven't seen a lot of images of the rescues at this point in time. We saw some cranes moving in to help

people that have been swept away by the water. So, you're seeing the Nepalese army and other local helicopters, commercial pilots like yourself

have been part of the rescue operation. How many people have you been able to rescue?

BUDATHOKI: I couldn't give an exact figure on that, but there are a lot of people that were transported from the dangerous areas to safe areas. And

till six in this evening, we were transporting doctors, security personals, as well as other daily supplies that would be necessary for them to at

least survive for the time being.

KINKADE: And for those that you've been able to rescue, can you give us a sense of the ages, the nationalities? We know that hundreds of people in

the area that have been reported missing were also foreign tourists.

BUDATHOKI: Yes, exactly. Hundreds, I fear, even more people have been involved in this horrendous event right now. A lot of people that we could

rescue, we brought them back to hospitals. Some even back to Kathmandu Airport, from where people were transported by ambulance. So, the situation

is really dire in the current scenario.

KINKADE: And you also transported medical officials, doctors, nurses to the region, and I suspect you know people from the Red Cross and other charity

groups.

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Can you give us a sense of the injuries? Because this was obviously such a horrific, instantaneous flooding event. I can only imagine some of the

injuries that you've seen.

BUDATHOKI: Yes, we did transport a lot of doctors, a lot of nurses as well. And this transporting was going up until 06:00 p.m. this evening.

Unfortunately, at about 5, 05:30 ish, the weather turned in bad, so a lot of helicopters were forced to divert back to Kathmandu.

And I just got my flight program for tomorrow, and I see a lot of rescue flights happening tomorrow as well. So, all of these rescues, all of these

bringing the victims back to the base, back to Kathmandu, back to safety is going to continue tomorrow as well. So, a lot of work more to be done over

here.

KINKADE: So, what time will you be back in the air tomorrow? And can you give us some sort of perspective on the extent of the rescue and recovery

mission that will take place tomorrow?

BUDATHOKI: So, it's scheduled to be around -- see the helicopters in Nepal, we fly from sunrise to sunset. So as soon as the sun rises, maybe around

06:30 ish, the helicopters are going to take off tomorrow, and the same thing is going to happen tomorrow as well. We're going to take doctors,

we're going to take security personals, and bring as much as victims, as many victims as possible, back to safety.

KINKADE: Aman Budathoki, we appreciate having you on the program and all the work that you are doing there right now. All the very best to you and

all the people there.

BUDATHOKI: Thank you so much. Thank you for keeping us in your memories. Thank you.

KINKADE: Well, I want to turn to the other heartbreaking story right now, out of Islamabad, Pakistan. Authorities say at least 40 newborn babies have

died in one of the deadliest hospital fires in recent decades. Now the fire broke out Wednesday morning in the maternity ward at the government-run

Pakistan Institute for Medical Sciences.

Sources say this tragic incident was apparently caused by an air conditioning compressor explosion inside the nursery. In recent years,

Pakistan has battled several major fires, including in hospitals, which often run on outdated electrical systems. One woman shared how she saved

her infant nephew's life.

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MUNEEBA, RESCUED INFANT NEPHEW AND SISTER-IN-LAW FROM FIRE: At around 06:00 a.m. the fire erupted, but the staff and doctors did not inform us about

this. Rather, they fled the scene and saved their own lives.

There was a lady who screamed and informed us. When I went upstairs, the fire was spread so much that it reached our room. Then I first rescued my

nephew. Then I evacuated my sister-in-law.

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KINKADE: Sources say hospital workers were able to rescue one child. Pakistan's Prime Minister has ordered an immediate investigation. Well,

still ahead on "One World", the tributes of love are pouring in for Dolly Parton. After the break, we'll look back at the incredible legacy she left

behind in music, philanthropy, and much more. Also ahead, the latest on Prince Harry and his family after their return to Britain.

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KINKADE: Well, that is the military band of Buckingham Palace paying tribute to the late Dolly Parton with their rendition of her hit Nine to

Five. The British Royal Family said in a statement, Dolly brought joy, comfort, and inspiration to many. Ady, we will always love her.

Well, that's just one of the countless tributes pouring in for Dolly Parton, who passed away Tuesday at the age of 80. Her publicist says she

died after a brief battle with cancer. In an interview with People Magazine published Friday, Dolly said she had some health issues that she neglected

while caring for her husband Carl Dean, who died about a year ago, her nephew says she's now with Carl and the rest of her family.

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BRYAN SEAVER, DOLLY PARTON'S NEPHEW: I've imagined the heaviness of this moment, but haven't truly felt it until now. It is an honor, an honor that

is mixed with absolute pride and great sadness. But sadness lies with us, not with Dolly. Dolly has lived in the light, and is in the arms of Jesus.

Surely met by Carl, her parents, and countless others who have watched her and longed for her to meet them in the heavens.

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KINKADE: At Dolly's request, her funeral will be small, private, and intimate with just immediate family. That's according to an official

announcement. Dolly told Entertainment Weekly in 2014 what song she wanted played at the funeral, and surprisingly, it wasn't one of hers.

She chose "If We Never Meet Again", a country gospel song about being reunited with loved ones in the next life. And this is Seville, Tennessee,

Dolly Parton's hometown. You're looking at a live. You're looking live pictures of a statue of her outside the county courthouse that's filling up

with flowers and balloons.

She grew up there as the fourth of 12 siblings, and as a young girl, was singing on the radio in nearby Knoxville. Her hometown fans remember her as

a role model.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Dolly, she's a legend and an icon. She's who you know us girls we looked up to growing up. You know we love everything about

Dolly, everything she stands for.

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KINKADE: While Dolly Parton made an impact on so many lives off the stage, it was her music that brought people together. Tom Foreman shows us how

Dolly rewrote the Great American Songbook.

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TOM FOREMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Before the fame, the philanthropy, the dazzling Dolliness of it all, Dolly's songs of working

people were everything. Her lyrics told the tales of their struggles on the job, in the home, and of course, in the heart.

Many of her most memorable tunes, including her greatest commercial hit, were about failed relationships. But there was so much more, songs about

jealousy and longing. Songs about poverty and pride. Her message could be tough too when white supremacists rose in the news, she took the name Dixie

off an attraction at her amusement park. She supported LGBTQ rights and the Black Lives Matter movement.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Do we think our little white asses are the only ones?

FOREMAN (voice-over): She promoted reading, access to medical care, education. Her career, life, and lyrics were a constant campaign for

women's rights.

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She met Richard Nixon, performed for Jimmy Carter, was honored at the Kennedy Center by George W. Bush. And turned down the Medal of Freedom from

both Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Through it all, she gently pushed away from any partisan claim to her fame.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: My joke is that my daddy was a Republican, my mom was a Democrat, and I'm a hypocrite.

FOREMAN (voice-over): Yet, even in tumultuous times, she embraced all who wanted to join her in the kindness and caring of the Dolly Party. If Dolly

Parton had done nothing but write songs, she no doubt would have still been a huge impact on the industry. But for so many people who love storytelling

and love music, and love Dolly she did an awful lot more. Tom Foreman, CNN, Washington.

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KINKADE: And who didn't love Dolly? I want to welcome Music Journalist Holly Gleason. Holly is also the author and editor of Women. "Woman walk

the line: How the women in country music changed our lives". Great to have you with us. Appreciate your time today.

HOLLY GLEASON, MUSIC JOURNALIST: Thanks for having me. So, -- it was better circumstances.

KINKADE: Yeah, I know. I mean, Dolly is such a legend in every sense of the word. And just days before her death, Dolly, you know, had given an

interview to People Magazine, saying what she still wanted to accomplish in her life. What does that tell you about the way she lived right up to the

very end?

GLEASON: Well, that was Dolly. I mean, she came from very little. She gave everything she had. Nothing in her life or her dreams would falter because

she didn't show up. So, you know, you don't take a kid 1 to 12 in a one room cabin and scale not just the music business, but films. She has a

Broadway show coming later this year. The numbers of businesses, amusement parks, truck stops, that she did by taking a day off.

KINKADE: And incredibly, she came from next to nothing. She was from a really big family in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. Grew up in poverty.

Even wrote about you know the colors of her coat that a mother had stitched together for her using rags. How remarkable is it to see that rise from

really not much to become this extraordinary, larger than life, hugely successful woman?

GLEASON: Yeah. She shows the ability to do what some people would find shameful. That jacket that her mom kind of patched together because they

didn't have another option. And instead of feeling hurt or cowed because people made fun of her and they were pretty brutal when she went to school,

she chose to see the love that her mother crafted something one of a kind.

KINKADE: Yeah.

GLEASON: And to hold on to the love instead of the biting mockery.

KINKADE: And crucially throughout her entire life, she seemed to know her worth. Even when Elvis Presley wanted to record her song "I Will Always

Love You, and wanted the rights to that song, wanted at least 50 percent of the right. She said no. She turned it down.

She later said that she cried about it because she, you know, she was wondering whether she'd given up her big break. Yet, in hindsight, this was

one of her biggest blessings. This song went on to be a hit decades later with Whitney Houston, right?

GLEASON: Well, and the two things that people miss in that story was she was successful. She was on her way to Hollywood. She was going to be a

movie star. They didn't know that then. But Elvis Presley was the defining artist of a couple generations. He was Bruce Springsteen.

He was Michael Jackson. He was Madonna. And she told him no, but that song was the song that she wrote to tell Porter Wagner, whose tutelage she had

left. She'd been the girl singer on the Porter and Dolly Show, and it got really messy between them. He sued her like crazy.

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And she wasn't going to let that bitterness be part of her journey. So, she let him go with love, and that song was her heart, and that was not for

sale. And 14 weeks later, Whitney Houston, another pop titan, creates history with the song.

And it's interesting because to that Dolly effect, we had an album called Slow Dancing with the Moon. I was the label publicist for it. We were in

New York doing press, and the Whitney run was just coming to an end, and people kept wanting to talk about it, and she was resistant.

And I said to her, you know, that's such a big thing. Why won't you claim it? And she said, because this is this is Whitney's moment, and this is

Whitney's life, and she deserves to stand in that light. And I don't need to be shoving myself in there. And it just it spoke so heavily to me the

way she could share. And wanted everybody to succeed and win and see the light.

KINKADE: So many old interviews have resurfaced since she passed away. And she was often asked about her hair, her body, her looks, and you know this

dumb blonde image. And she spoke about you know what it meant to be underestimated. What does it say about her ability to rise above all of

that, but also while remaining that, while keeping that warmth and that sense of humor throughout her entire life?

GLEASON: I think being underestimated was her superpower. Because she's one of the smartest women to ever walk through Nashville, maybe the world. And

she understood that she could use all those attributes. If she made the joke first, she took your power away. If she made you laugh, you were in a

place where you were more amenable.

And then she kind of got what she needed or wanted. And she kept everything very genial. There's nobody that doesn't like Dolly Parton, to my

knowledge, and she was able to say things nobody else could.

KINKADE: Yeah, such an incredible, successful, interesting woman who gave so much back as well right throughout her life. We'll have to leave there,

Holly Gleason. We appreciate your time today. Thank you so much.

GLEASON: Thank you so much.

KINKADE: Prince Harry, his wife Meghan, and their two children have arrived back in the United Kingdom, according to multiple British media reports.

News about their move from California was revealed last week. Telegraph Newspaper says the family landed at Birmingham Airport a few hours ago.

They've been living in the U.S. for six years and are returning now as private citizens. So, CNN's Anna Stewart is joining us from London with

more on all of this. Anna, great to have you with us. So, six years ago, they fled because they were worried about security.

They didn't want to be in the eye of the public. They've now returned. Has anything changed? What are the security arrangements like now?

ANNA STEWART, CNN CORRESPONDENT: As far as we know, there are no changes in terms of the decision to not give them sort of taxpayer-funded security.

That said, they did only announce that they were moving back to the UK less than a week ago, so there hasn't been much notice for that.

But as far as we are aware, as they are not working members of the Royal Family. There hasn't been any change in terms of the security, but we'll

see whether that changes going forwards. What will happen now? Where are they living? Where will the kids go to school? It'll be really interesting

to see how much information comes out.

They are going to have fairly private lives, particularly the children, of course. Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, their faces are never shown on

social media. I don't expect we will see much or anything of them in terms of you know their first day at school or anything like that.

In terms of Harry and Meghan, though, this could be very interesting. It'll be a much greyer area. We'll see them with some you know profile in the UK.

They will be returning to British society, and I'm sure they will want to use their profile and the media to draw attention to their charitable

initiatives.

Prince Harry has the Invictus Games in Birmingham next year, so I'm sure we will see a lot more in terms of Harry and Meghan in the press. But not as

working members of the Royal Family. And I do question whether it will be tricky for the Royal Family in this sense, simply because attention may be

split.

What if Prince William has a charitable initiative that he wants to bring attention to on the same day as Prince Harry? How will everyone get along?

I think that's where a lot of the interest will lie in the coming weeks, Lynda.

KINKADE: Yeah, that is what everyone will be looking for. Anna Stewart will talk again very soon. Thanks so much. Well still ahead on "One World",

we've got some disturbing footage from the border between China and Nepal. We're tracking the rescue efforts after catastrophic flooding in the

Himalayas.

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KINKADE: Welcome back to "One World". I'm Lynda Kinkade. Here are some of the headlines we're watching today. Hundreds of people are missing and many

fear dead after a massive flood hit villages on both sides of the border between Nepal and China. Chinese state media are saying there could be

major casualties on the Tibetan side. Search and rescue efforts are getting underway.

Authorities in Pakistan say at least 14 newborn babies have died in one of the deadliest hospital fires in recent decades. Sources say the fire may

have been caused by an air conditioning compressor explosion inside the nursery. Pakistan's Prime Minister has ordered an investigation.

Officials say Iran and Oman have discussed a framework to establish a temporary shipping route through the Strait of Hormuz. But according to

Iran's semi-official Tasman News Agency, the country's Islamic Revolutionary Gaga claims the U.S. is obstructing the agreement process.

Meta has reached a deal to settle a lawsuit ruled by 29 U.S. states, which claimed its social media platforms harm young people's mental health. The

owner of Instagram and Facebook has agreed to make changes to its apps, including daily time limits for teenagers. California's Attorney General

says today's settlement will make social media less dangerous for children.

Well, back now to our top story, the devastating floods that have engulfed villages on both sides of the border between China and Nepal. Hundreds of

people are missing, and the current death toll of 95 is expected to rise. And I need to warn you, the video you're about to see is disturbing.

Shocking security camera footage shows the moment a wall of water smashes into the border post. Water, rocks, and debris cascade down the narrow

valley. Multiple communities have been overwhelmed. Nepal's foreign minister says the flood was unleashed after an earthquake triggered a major

landslide, blocking the path of a river that throws through Nepal and Tibet.

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CNN Meteorologist Derek Van Dam joins us now. And Derek, this happened during monsoon season, but there are no reports of rain leading up to this

event. Just what do you is your understanding about how this unfolded?

DEREK VAN DAM, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Well, that's the question mark here. We're trying to put all the puzzle pieces together Lynda, did the

earthquake trigger the landslide? Did that landslide send debris into a swollen river from the monsoon season, sending a cascading wall of water

down to the valleys below?

Or did it dam up the river, eventually pooling the water behind that dammed-up river, allowing for it to eventually burst its bank and spill

down in that raging torrent? A lot of clues that we're trying to piece together here. This is a difficult area to receive information out of.

This is the earthquake location. It actually occurred just north of the border of Nepal into China. We're going to kind of take you on a Google

Earth tour to give you an idea, a lay of the land. The border here indicated with that shading of yellow. There are thousands of glaciers that

line the Himalayas across this area, and because of global warming, we have seen destabilization of these glaciers over time.

That includes the rock bed below it. And so, what we're going to show you is the river that flooded, and we're going to take you closer down into

some of these areas that you might be familiar with. Notice this crossing. This is the gate that, or the port rather, that we've seen the video, which

I'll show in just one moment, that has people running for their lives as the water traverses down one of the tributaries and into the river below.

Here it is. That is the Google Earth location, and you can kind of see how the topography aided in that water and the debris that funneled below it. I

mean, look at the rocks and the melted glacial water from upstream. Again, from those behemoths of mountains that traverse over 7,000 meters in some

locations.

Then there's this, the same location. There's the river in the background, but again, the dammed-up water behind it getting released in one major

torrent. And you can see these wires here. This is interesting. Is this the earthquake or the shaking from the water arriving, or was that from the

landslide still piecing together these ideas?

One thing's for sure; this is horrific, very disturbing video to watch because that moment of that water taking these buildings and people running

for their lives. Now I want to take you further downstream as we show the progression of this wall of water. We'll call it an inland Tsunami because

it happened away from the coast, right?

These areas here, look at how populated this part of Nepal is? And this location here. I'm going to show you one of the videos that we see coming

out of this area. That was a bus full of school children watching the raging torrent of water come down that river. And how quickly they tried to

escape from this this dangerous, dangerous position that they were in, including the people behind the bus as well.

So, you can imagine the debris that has piled up behind it, not only coming from the mountain sides below, but from the buildings and the bridges and

the trees and the rocks and everything that it's taking along down the river with it as well.

So, this is really what we're trying to piece together here, but the cause of this is we're kind of narrowing in right now, Lynda, on whether or not

this is the earthquake or the landslide which was it, Lynda?

KINKADE: All right, we will speak to you again very soon, Derek Van Dam. Appreciate it. Thank you. Well, earlier my colleague Becky Anderson spoke

to Dhananjay Regmi from Kathmandu. He's a Member of Parliament and the Former Head of Nepal's Tourism Board, and an expert on glaciers.

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DHANANJAY REGMI, MOUNTAIN GEOMORPHOLOGIST & GLACIOLOGIST: Nepal need a lot of support from everyone who can help at this moment. Government has

already requested the Chinese government and Indian government to support, and they have already given a commitment.

Whatever the help is needed, they are going to provide. But just Nepal is not asking for the help. Nepal already deployed all the maximum number of

the doctors. They activated all the health center nearby. And now we are even vacating the number of the hospitals for the people whom we are going

to rescue from this flood.

So, government has -- even the home minister himself was working since morning. Even he could not come to explain in the house, and he sent the

foreign minister to explain about the situation. And he himself was working in the field and tried to rescue the people. And even the prime minister

called the emergency meeting even just after half an hour.

And so, this you know now I mean the whole system is working together. Even the doctors, hospitals, everybody is preparing themselves to for any sort

of the situations. People, doctors who were on the leave, they were come back. It is kind of an emergency, and every part of the system is now

working together.

So do even after saying this, obviously, this kind of disaster we certainly need the support from our neighbor and from the international community and

government have already requested, I think.

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And wherever because at present we cannot say at what level we need what kind of support. But we are -- we activated every system. By tomorrow we

will come to know more that how many is the available hospitals enough for them, for them or not, or if we need a more?

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KINKADE: Well, that was Dhananjay Regmi, the Former Head of Nepal's Tourism Board and the Founder of the Himalayan Research Expeditions. We're going to

continue to follow this story as it develops.

Well, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is confirming that an agreement has been reached with Oman on the Strait of Hormuz and the

sharing of its revenues. That's according to the semi-official Tasman News Agency, but it says the U.S. is obstructing the agreement process. Now, the

proposed deal comes after officials say both countries have discussed a framework to establish a temporary shipping route and launch an effort to

de mine the Strait.

Now, oil prices are sinking amid hopes that those talks will lead to the reopening of one of the world's most critical energy choke points. Right

now, there you can see Brent Crude and WTI both down under $90 a barrel. WTI, of course, the U.S. benchmark is at 82, just over $82 a barrel right

now.

Moving ahead, the Trump Administration is working to dramatically expand its immigration crackdown. It's now targeting asylum seekers and plans to

revoke visas from people who can come to the U.S. legally on temporary visas and then claim asylum. CNN's Jennifer Hansler reports.

JENNIFER HANSLER, CNN SENIOR NATIONAL SECURITY REPORTER: The U.S. State Department is moving to revoke the visas of potentially hundreds of

thousands of foreigners who have applied or are seeking asylum in the United States. The move would go after those who came to the U.S. on

temporary visas meant for things like tourism or business, and then stayed and applied for asylum here.

State Department Spokesperson said that they are working with the Department of Homeland Security to identify those who would be subject to

those visa revocations. And he said that those who come here on a temporary visa and then apply for an asylum case are committing quote FISA fraud.

Now, a source familiar with the matter said that these revocations would not be done in quote one fell swoop, and they described the number as

dynamic. Now, this all comes as part and parcel of the Trump Administration's broader anti-immigration policies, as they've sought to

crack down both on who is coming to the U.S. and those who are already in the country.

An immigration attorney and a former consular official told CNN that the revocations would not likely result in the immediate deportation of these

individuals. The attorney explained that if there is an asylum case, at the very least, they would have to go before an immigration judge before they

could be removed from the country.

They said that this is all part of the administration's efforts to claim that this is a visa system that has been abused and that it is more

symbolic than anything else. Still, we have seen a large number of visa revocations under the Trump Administration. Earlier this month, they said

they've revoked more than 170,000 visas.

We also saw them crack down on attempts to have people use that temporary visa to come into the U.S. and apply for asylum. In order to apply for

asylum, you do have to be here in the country and fleeing persecution, Jennifer Hansler, CNN, the State Department.

KINKADE: We're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back. Stay with us. You're watching CNN.

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KINKADE: We'll be a world-class stage directly on a Portuguese beach presents incredible challenges, but it hasn't stopped tens of thousands of

music lovers from flocking to Afro Nation, a celebration highlighting global Black music culture. As Adefemi Akinsanya tells us in our Africa Inc

Series, live African music now commands an international audience.

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OBI ASIKA, FOUNDER, THE MALACHITE GROUP: You know, we're a festival. You know, if you want your foot will be on the sand for the whole time. It's

not, you know, it's not the beach over there and the festival is over here in the background. It's you are on the festival.

And with that comes lots of costs because it's very difficult to build on sand, and it's also and it's we also have to be very careful with the

environment of it being a blue flag beach.

ALEXANDRA JAMES, HEAD OF LIVE OPERATIONS, THE MALACHITE GROUP: We broke ground on the beach around the 25th of May, so that's about four weeks pre-

production and build-up. You're building on an uneven surface. It's constantly moving and changing. The wind blows it away. It gets hot. So,

there are huge challenges around that.

ADEFEMI AKINSANYA, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): But none of those challenges seem to deter fans from flocking to this site, or from paying

the premium cost to attend.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I come from Switzerland. It's my third time here in Afro Nation.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm coming from Miami.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'm from Singapore. My first time in Afro Nation.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I am from Senegal, but I live in France.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The ticket? I took the golden ticket because it's really worth it. It was around 700 euros.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We got the golden ticket, the most expensive. We bought it kind of late, but we spent about $1,000 on the ticket.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: For the ticket, 600 because --

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: More than $1,000, Singapore.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: But nothing like it, like it doing it in Portugal.

AKINSANYA (voice-over): Depending on when you buy and the level you want, 3D passes can range from 325 to over $1000, and they go fast.

NATASHA MANLEY, CEO, THE MALACHITE GROUP: 180 plus countries come to our show, right? 90 plus percent of countries on earth come to our show. Often,

we go on sale with what we call a blind pre-sale, so that's without any artist mentioned at all. Not many brands can do that.

We just look at who is buying and how they buy. We also track how they are? When they're buying on the customer journey? So, from entering the site on

a pre-sale to how they move through the site, where do they dwell? Where do they drop off? What puts them off? What engages them? What makes them go to

the basket? Pay in the end. Who doesn't pay and why?

AKINSANYA (voice-over): It's a massive job catering to the thousands of attendees at Afro Nation, but the performing artists and their teams need

just as much attention.

JAMES: We host up to 300 artists and touring party per day here at the Artists Village. We have 19 dressing rooms here in the backstage. We host

artists here all day at the Artist Village, so they get to use space for the cabins all day. They receive the hospitality riders, and we feed them

some really good West African-inspired food by our partners Jonathan Mama.

Everything's new. We've grown so quickly, and Matt, it's like flying a plane and building it at the same time, right? Because you've got to make

it all work, and you've got to keep on finessing it to keep on adapting it and making it better and better. So that's why I enjoy coming back each

year.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Africa Inc in association with Dangote.

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KINKADE: Welcome back. I'm Lynda Kinkade. Tributes continue to pour in for country music legend Dolly Parton, who passed away on Tuesday at the age of

80. Rapper Pitbull shared a heartfelt message about the late superstar during a concert last night.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: But there's someone that was very special to me and showed me love and believed in me when a lot of folks did and gave me an

opportunity. And her name is Dolly Parton. So, to all the powerful women this is dedicated to you all. But more than anything that will live

forever. Dolly Parton.

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KINKADE: Fellow Country Crossover Artist Taylor Swift shared this message about Dolly Parton, saying in part, she was truly the gift they kept on

giving. I am so grateful for all of it, for the melodies and lyrics she wrote that thawed even the coldest hearts.

And Beyonce also paid tribute, writing on her website, you are the barometer, the north star, bold and brilliant, talented and tenacious.

Beyonce covered Parton's hit song Jolene on her album Cowboy Carter. Well, fans in country music, the Capital of the World, Nashville, Tennessee,

remembering the Queen of Country. CNN's Shimon Prokupecz is there.

SHIMON PROKUPECZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Here in Nashville, where Dolly meant so much to this city, and this city meant so much to her. This is the city

that she really became who she was and who she is. And many of the people out here who are celebrating for different reasons and partying and

listening to rock and roll and listening to country music all had the same thoughts.

They were happy, happy to talk about Dolly, and happy to talk about what she meant to them and their families, and what she meant to the world. Take

a listen to what some of them told me.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We are so blessed to be in her hometown tonight. We feel so blessed to be part of. Feels a little closer to Dolly.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We used to dance a lot in my mom and dad's kitchen, and we danced to Dolly. She was an icon.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: My mom is 91. She sent a family text out. She goes, I don't know of any person on the planet that has given more than Dolly

Parton, not just to East Tennessee, but to the world.

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PROKUPECZ: The celebrations and remembering Dolly here, who's really the Queen of country, will continue.

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Flowers placed outside her home. Other vigils planned for all across the city as people continue to remember Dolly Parton.

KINKADE: A musical icon, a gifted songwriter, and a beacon of kindness, Dolly Parton will be laid to rest in a private ceremony, she was 80 years

old. Stay with CNN. We'll have more of "One World" after the break.

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