'It's essentially been one long day': A daughter details search for parents in Nepal

Woman talks about the search for her parents who are among the missing in Nepal Residents look at houses partially submerged in muddy water after flash floods in Trishuli Bazar in Nepal's Nuwakot district on Aug. 26. A massive flood swept through northern Nepal that day, damaging roads and power infrastructure as authorities worked to assess the destruction. Prakash Mathema/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Prakash Mathema/AFP via Getty Images Shreya Ahuja, a 30-year-old physician who lives in North Carolina, had spoken to her parents just hours before floods struck Nepal. They had finished a pilgrimage trek to Mount Kailash and were heading toward the border. The next morning, Ahuja began seeing messages from relatives about flash flooding. "I tried texting them. I tried calling them. And initially, I wasn't too concerned," Ahuja told Morning Edition. "I feel like everyone thinks, what are the chances that they were in that exact spot?" As of Friday, police in Nepal said more than 500 people had been killed on the Nepal side of the border, while more than 1,500 people in total were still missing after nearly 30-foot-high waves raced down a river between Tibet and Ne...