Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Odonnell good evening. Scott is off tonight. Im norah odonnell. The worst fire to hit tennessee in 100 years has killed at least three people and sent more than a dozen to the hospital. 14,000 fled as a wall of flames closed in on gatlinburg. One resort was destroyed. The dollywood theme park, named for dolly parton, was spared. Demarco morgan is in hit the gas hit the gas reporter youre watching cell phone video taken taen by two brothers as they escape from a vacation resort area in the mountains of gatlinburg, tennessee. They say they had no warning as the wall of flames surrounded them last night, and their only choice was to ride through it or die. Please, lord, let us get off this mountain. Reporter by early evening, wind speeds suddenly doubled, turninturning into hurricanefoe fire quickly spread in this droughtstricken area when burning embers blew and toppleled trees ripped down power lines. This commu
Really has an impact. Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Odonnell good evening. Scott is off tonight. Im norah odonnell. The worst fire to hit tennessee in 100 years has killed at least three people and sent more than a dozen to the hospital. 14,000 fled as a wall of flames closed in on gatlinburg. One resort was destroyed. The dollywood theme park, named for dolly parton, was hit the gas hit the gas reporter youre watching cell phone video taken taen by two brothers as they escape from a vacation resort area in the mountains of gatlinburg, tennessee. They say they had no warning as the wall of flames surrounded them last night, and their only choice was to ride through it or die. Please, lord, let us get off this mountain. Reporter by early evening, wind speeds suddenly doubled, turninturning into hurricanefoe hour. Fire quickly spread in this droughtstricken area when burning embers blew and toppleled trees ripped down power lines. This commun
Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Odonnell good evening. Scott is off tonight. Im norah odonnell. The worst fire to hit tennessee in 100 years has killed at least three people and sent more than a dozen to the hospital. 14,000 fled as a wall of flames closed in on gatlinburg. One resort was destroyed. The dollywood theme park, named for dolly parton, was spared. Demarco morgan is in hit the gas hit the gas reporter youre watching cell phone video taken taen by two brothers as they escape from a vacation resort area in the mountains of gatlinburg, tennessee. They say they had no warning as the wall of flames surrounded them last night, and their only choice was to ride through it or die. Please, lord, let us get off this mountain. Reporter by early evening, wind speeds suddenly doubled, turninturning into hurricanefoe droughtstricken area when burning embers blew and toppleled trees ripped down power lines. This community is at the edge of Great
System at the end of last week, we thought oh, this is it is one. This is the one. But then it was apparent yesterday this will not bring us a lot of rain. As it moves across the piedmont into our area its fizzling out. That said we will probably run go a tiny patch of rain but not enough to measure in the rain gauges. You will notice temperatures and that will be the impact. Cloudy in roxboro and it will remain cloudy. 64 in wake forest and 62 in holly springs. 59 in south hill and 64 in erwin and 63 in southern pines. Expect low 60s heading out the door and winds picking up, so expect gusts at 30, 35 Miles Per Hour out of the southwest, of rain. Another shot on wednesday night and well look at possibly Severe Weather at that. Mikaya has a look at the roads. A look at the live drive times, 40 westbound, that is taking drivers 18 minutes. Other spots on 40 are okay but we look at 40 westbound at u. S. 70 and were seeing plenty of brake lights, a typical spot in the morning but 40 seems
The health care act. Mitt romney is in new york for a second meeting with the president elect today. Meantime, the recount is on in wisconsin. Im confident that president elect is gonna win. Reporter its going to cost 3. 5 million. Green Party Candidate jill recount, said they raised the money overnight. Almost 140,000 donors stood up to say we deserve an election system we can have confidence in. Reporter but experts say that recounts in wisconsin, pennsylvania and michigan are not necessary. Its clear it was not widespread fraud. Reporter tracie potts, board crashed in a mountainous area, 76 died including one who was rushed to the hospital in colombia. The plane crashed near medellin. Heavy rainfall complicated the search. Players from a Brazilian Soccer Team to colombia for a championship and was on the way to the airport when it crashed. A fire chief is saying, quote f you are a person of prayer, we could use your prayers in tennessee as firefighters are fueled by wind there is vi