An unbreakable bond inspiring america. Nightly news begins right now. Good evening, there was so little time to flee as near 90mileanhour wind gusts and plunging humidity set a wildfire exploding overnight into a deadly and destructive rampage outside gatlingburg, tennessee. Thousands fleeing their home, with little more than the clothes on their back. Homes and businesses left in smouldering ruins. We learned today, at least three people have been killed. Its happening southeast of knoxville, around the popular resort areas of tennessees great smokey mountains. Thats where Kerry Sanders has the latest. Wow. Reporter the fire storm exploded in seconds. Hit the gas, hit the gas thought they were safe, until they looked out their windows. Panic. Thats all we had was panic. We could feel the heat coming off it was nothing but red. Oh, my god, its so hot. Reporter the escape was complicated by narrow mountain roads, flames everywhere. Michael reed separated from his wife and two children i
Theres one road to get down the mountain from the hotel, and it was ungulfed in flames. Well, we are keeping fingers crossed for you and your family, just stay calm, and i know the firefighters have their hands full, but we will hope for the best. Thank you so much, logan. Thank you. Yeah. And the good news is theyre supposed to target the fire getting a little bit of rain. So hopefully that helps. Zone. We have a storm system moving through bringing heavy rain. The Second System is expected this evening, so, of course, well continue to stay on top of the breaking story from tennessee. Other major story now from south america where theres been a deadly plane crash in colombia. 81 people were on board the plane chartered by a Brazilian Club soccer team when it went down on the way to the airport. There were nine crew members on board, and Officials Say at least six people survived the crash. Electrical problems before the crash, but because of weather conditions, the crash site can only
And we do say hello on what is turning out to be a busy Tuesday Morning. Im kendis gibson. And im Adrienne Bankert in for diane macedo. We start with breaking news. Fastmoving wildfires forcing evacuations in a popular resort area of tennessee. And this video from inside one popular hotel, you can see the flames surround the building. The dry and windy weather there fueling the fires overnight. One fire now on the edge of dollywood where people are being brought to safety. Overnight, fierce flames and blinding smoke racing across the tennessee mountains. Oh, my god. We need to leave. Reporter the wildfires engulfing the resort towns of gatlinburg and pigeon forge, home to Dolly Partons theme park, dollywood. We relocated 19 families that were staying with us in our Cabin Properties and then room guests here at dollywoods dream world resort. Reporter officials ordering everyone to leave calling the fire unpredictable. Were dealing with a situation here that is very dynamic. Its changing
He was trying to hurt as many as he could. The hero officer who stopped him and new clues about the spects past. The message he left online. And breaking right now, the abc news exclusive. The abducted supermoms husband speaking out for the first time to gma. Why he says nothing could have prepared him for the moment he finally saw his wife, calling the reality more shocking than anyone could imagine. And his message about hat he calls rumors, assumptions, and lies about his wife. The stunning new details about the kidnapping only on gma. And good morning, america. We have a lot to get to this morning including that impassioned plea from Sherri Papinis husband. Yeah, we heard from him for the first time. He said officers warned him to brace himself before he saw his wife. What an incredible ordeal she went through. Well hear from him directly coming up in a bit. I can only imagine. Also get to those terrible the Mass Evacuations in a moment. Heres some incredible images coming out of t
Machines, suggesting the procedures that wisconsin does to secure its machine simply arent enough. We will have more as the hearing continues well into this evening. Toya thank you. As kent was mentioning there is , a new price tag associated with the recount. Patrick 12 news terry sater has been crunching the numbers. Hes live in milwaukee. Terry, what did you learn . Im live near kk and becher on the cities south aside where , recounting its ballots. This is the milwaukee election commissions warehouse and the , ballots from each municipality will be delivered here for the recount. We have over 440,000 ballots that need to be recounted, and thats simply a time consuming process. Milwaukee county clerk Joseph Czarnezki has the most ballots to recount with an estimated cost of more than a half million dollars. Divided by the number of a hand recount could cost even more. Well have approximately 100 people a day working on the recount. Thats a lot of people looking over each ballot begi