What he said on the stand, answering his own attorney. Good evening. And its great to have you with us here on a tuesday night. And we begin here with the stunning images coming in from tennessee. Several major fires fueled by 60mileperhour winds, and we have just learned tonight that the fires are now turned deadly. It is hard to grasp the true scope of this disaster, just look through the windshield of this car, surrounded by flames there on both sides of the road. Tonight. An entire city evacuated. The flames creeping towards a cabin. A surveillance camera capturing it all. And Tennessee State troopers guiding families away from their homes through the thick smoke and fallen trees. Abcs linzie janis leading us off from tennessee tonight. Hit the gas hit the gas reporter tonight, the race to escape the flames. Go, go, go, go, go reporter embers flying over the windshield. That [ bleep ] going to melt reporter Michael Luciano riding shotgun as he and another man drove through the mass
Attacking pitbull. Someone had cut the leash on her dog coming up the back way there. Reporter he tells me the incident started moments earlier. Another person came in to steal her generator. He got bit on the bicep and wrist. Reporter deputy bray responded to the dog bite call. Her body camera recorded everything. Hello . [ barking ] reporter suddenly the pitbull attacked. Better stay there, get back. [ growling ] shot my finger off. I just shot my finger. Reporter in trying to fend off the attack deputy bray shot the dog and part of her left ring finger. I dont want to look at it. Reporter bleeding and in pain. Mold on. Get in my car. Lets go. Reporter another deputy put her in his squad car. Why didnt you put him out of his misery . Who lives in this tent in the woods doesnt believe the deputy had to shoot. Her neighbor disagrees. I would say it was the dog or the female deputy. Reporter its important to note that deputy bray has three pitbulls herself, so shes very familiar with th
Hour of our tuesday already above average in many locations and heading up near records this afternoon. 77 degrees right now. Beautiful out of the lakeland auto mall in polk county, just a few high clouds and fair weather clouds welling on up. The predominant wind direction is out of the southeast pumping up some of that warm humid area. 80 in bartow. Venice check out the dew points low 70s already thats muggy stuff especially for this time of the year and youll notice that moving on through the afternoon hours. Theres your wind direction at about 10 to 15 Miles Per Hour. Already seeing gusts this morning up around 20 Miles Per Hour, so it will be breezy through the second part of the day. Max defender 8 is completely clear, breaking news this morning as the sun has risen over the Great Smoky Mountains in east tennessee you can see wildfires moving dangerously close to the resort towns of gatlinburg and pigeon forge. Both of those towns under mandatory evacuation orders. More than 30 h
Gatlingburg, tennessee. Take a look. This is gatlingburg where thousands of evacuees are staying in shelters and more than 250 buildings so far burned. Reporter out of control wildfires force thousands to flee. Go, go, go. Reporter some have to drive through the flames to get to safety. Its crazy. Reporter more than a dozen fires threaten the Great Smoky Mountains of eastern tennessee. But instead of mountainside, people feel hot flames and smoke being pushed by strong winds. The power went out. So it was very dark. The smoke was so thick, we couldnt breathe. Our eyes were stinging. So we just grabbed a blanket and took off running. We just watched a building go down in flames to the right of us. And we pulled in front of another building but the firefighter got us. I thank him so much. Reporter the fires damaging or destroying homes and businesses. House. But, you know, thing cans be rebuilt. Its difficult to go out into a community and try to protect and serve others when your own pr
Been stolen, what if anything has been stolen because they have not been able to locate the owner of this property, definitely concerned about that this morning. Theyve been out here for two hours trying to piece together what happened here. You can see a lot of denial to the storefront damage to the storefront. They dont have any Surveillance Video from the outside and it appears no witnesses here, so this is a very active, ongoing investigation. I just spoke with a deputy here on the scene, and he says major concern here is that if weapons were stolen from this store, not only is this a safety hazard for the general public but also these deputies who work the streets every day. Of course well continue to be out here throughout the morning gathering more evidence. You can see investigators inside right now looking at that Surveillance Video trying to piece together any sort of suspect information they can. Well be back live at 6 30 with updated information. For now reporting live in t