A frantic search is underway for the more than 1,300 people believed missing — including at least 700 foreigners.

Images from hard-hit mountain villages where rescue and recovery efforts continue. More than 900 deaths have been confirmed, while nearly 4,000 remain missing, following powerful floods triggered by a glacier collapse on August 26.

As the death toll from the Nepal floods surges over 900, some Americans with loved ones among the 4,000 people missing are still hoping for miracles.

“Taking [the warning] lightly could mean the loss of hundreds of lives,” recalled Rajendra Dawadi, the principal of Tribhuvan Trishuli Secondary School

Nepal's flash flood toll rose to 939 as rescuers searched for nearly 4,000 missing people. The disaster has turned into a complex tunnel rescue and forensic identification effort with international support.

Events like the Nepal flash floods are highlighting the potential rising impact of climate change. Dr. Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the California Institute for Water Resources, joins CBS News with more insight.

Follow live updates as rescuers search for hundreds of people missing after a catastrophic flood hit the border between Nepal and China’s Tibet region.

The flooding has so far impacted regions in the north of the country, as well as areas of China's Tibet region across the Himalayan border.

Dozens of people gathered at a park in Everett Saturday night to remember those killed by horrific flash flooding in Nepal.

The devastating flash floods in the Himalayan region swept so many people downstream that authorities in one Nepalese district have begun burying bodies in temporary graves before they can be identified.