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Flash Flooding Overwhelms Nepal, and Jury Deliberates in Lindsay Clancy’s Murder Trial
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Devastating flash floods and mudslides wreaked havoc along the Nepal-China border this week, leaving hundreds dead and more than 1,000 missing. More than 500 foreigners are among the missing, including, by one estimate, roughly 65 Americans. NBC News correspondent Janis Mackey Frayer explains why the destruction happened without warning and what role climate change may have played. Then, jury deliberations are underway in the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, who killed her three young children. While Clancy doesn’t dispute the killings, her defense team is arguing that she shouldn’t be held criminally responsible because she was experiencing postpartum psychosis. But the prosecution insists…