Firefighters, as well. Absolutely. Because when we see higher humidity that keeps those fires from spreading so rapidly and also lighter winds are key. But we havent had much in the way of much cooler temperatures. Usually were starting out our mornings in the mid 50s. Right now its in the mid 70s as we watch the conditions around the Santa Cruz Mountains for the czu lightning complex there that has been spreading into the areas across santa cruz and san mateo counties. Heading to the south bay where were seeing the fires over the hills as we look from the south bay as well as the east bay, were seeing weather conditions there with calm wind and temperatures at 70 degrees and the relative humidity is fairly low at 27 and for the north bay, were monitoring those weather conditions starting off 70s. A light wind but we havent seen a good high humidity in those areas. Well continue to monitor that. Well talk about air quality in a few minutes. Mike, how is it looking right now for the mor
Announcement is in the works. Breaking overnight, a plane carrying a soccer team crashes in colombia. A suggestion about what went wrong. Not only will it be a chilly day, but a breezy day for denver and the front range. Well talk about how much wind were expecting and what that means for the windchills this afternoon. A tough drive into the high country. At least i70 is open. Well look at the road weather indext five people survive a plane crash in colombia. 72 passengers are confirmed dead. A charter flight carrying 81 in total, including a Brazilian First Division soccer team crashed. The pilot of the plane declared an emergency around 10 00 last night because of an electrical failure. There were also poor weather conditions, mainly heavy rains. The fire in Green Mountain is far less visible this night. 300acres burned. That wildfire could be seen for miles. It is about 90 contained with crews expecting to mop up hot spots this morning. But it got worrisome. Cbs4s jamie leary live.
Reporter it is another windy start to the morning. Spread quickly yesterday. Evacuation orders have been lifted, but it was definitely a long and stressful night for People Living in this area. This is incredible video. This was one of the first pictures from our rooftop camera, that fire lit up the skies when it sparked on Green Mountain and quickly spread due to all the high winds. Wind from 5 acres up to 300 in an hour. People living nearby scrambled to to needed to get anything they might need initially in case they had to evacuate. Anyone with livestock needing additional time, they were told to evacuate immediately. That notice went on to say that it could be the last notice they receive, so definitely frantic moments for some residents. One man was checking out his sons home and said the fire was a close call. Had that fire about three years ago when they brought in the slurry bombers. And that was quite frightening. The fire on the different news channels and what not and you s
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
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