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Generosity Overwhelms Quake-stricken Nepal

Time is running out to find more survivors of Saturday’s huge earthquake in Nepal, which the country’s prime minister estimates could have killed 10,000 people. But the effort to get critical support into the landlocked Himalayan nation has ironically been hampered by overwhelming generosity. VOA's Steve Herman reports.

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