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 tennessee. 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 winds that topped 87 miles per hour. Fire quickly spread in this droughtstricken area when burning embers blew and top
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
Suspects 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 who imagine and his message about what 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. We heard from him. 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. I can only imagine. Heres an incredible image coming out of tennessee overnight. They battle those blazes in burning all across tennessee right now. We begin with breaking news, plane crash in colombia. 81 people on board including a soccer team. At least five
What he said on the stand, swering his own attorney goodevening. And s great t have you with us here on a tuesday night. And we beginere with the stunning image coming in from tennsee. Several marir fueled by 60milepeur winds, and we the fires are now turd deadly. It i hard torasp the true scope o this dist, just look thrghhe windshield of e on boid of the ad. By flas cabiflames creeping towards a itl. Rveillance camera ctu anden sta troopers guiding families ay fromheir homes through the thick ske andle trees. Linzie janis leadi ofom tennessee tonight. Itas hit thgas repr ight, the rac toscape e flam. , go, go, go, go reporter embs flying over hat [ bleep ] going m ring shoun as he and anoer ugh n ovthe massive fire in the great smoky motains. Winds gustinto 60 miles pe hour fanning the flame lice rhing door to door, entire city of gatlinbu the polpounded he do andaid, you got to go t reporter the wall of fe eng. Terrified guests trapped inside the park vista hotel, as the o ne dr eru
10 to15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph. Tonight. Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. Southwest winds upto 10 mph. Wednesday. Partly sunny until Late Afternoon then becomingcloudy. A 20 percent chance of light rain in the afternoon. Highsin the mid 40s. Southwest winds 5 to 15 mph. Wednesday night. Cloudy. Chance of light rain through nd 3 our top story this morning. Authorities in ohio are trying to figure out what motivated a somali refugee. To carry out a bloody knife attack at Ohio State University. University. It happened yesterday. At least 11 people were hurt. The suspect was shot and killed by a University Police officer. Hena daniels has the latest on the investigation. Natsstudents at Ohio State University came together in prayer last night. Many had rampage fresh on their minds. Minds. sot clara young osu student we were moved to a classroom in the basement that could lock it was kind of scary because we didnt know much and couldnt get service natsambulances people on campus