Nepal-Tibet floods: What recovery really means

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In Nepal, hundreds of families are still waiting for someone to come home.

Hundreds of people remain missing after the catastrophic floods that swept across the Nepal-Tibet border.

But this story is already moving into a different phase.

For families, it's about waiting for news.

For survivors, it's about returning to what is left.

And sometimes the scale of that becomes clearest when you simply listen to them.

All these members from my family have escaped the floods and there are four of them who survived the floods.

There are five to six members missing from my family.

I was helpless.

The water flow was so strong that in a fraction of seconds it destroyed my home.

I also saw it take my aunt.

Five or six missing from one family, another survivor watching relatives swept away.

And beyond the grief are difficult questions about what happens next, how Nepal rebuilds, whether its vital tourism industry takes another hit, and why communities had so little warning of what was coming.

I'm Genevieve Wu.

Joining me is senior correspondent Jack Bord in Kathmandu and correspondent Rebecca Vanden back in Mumbai after reporting from the worst hit areas.

Rebecca, let's start with you.

Those are voices coming from your reports.

Now, you were at hospitals where the families were checking the lists and putting up missing posters.

You saw survivors returning to communities where almost nothing was left.

You know, beyond the scale of that destruction, talk to us about one encounter that hit you the most, that stayed with you.