rain could come to the rescue in tennessee. wildfires fuelled by extreme dry conditions and 80-mile-per-hour wind gusts are being blamed for three deaths. authorities say the fires are, quote, human cause. local flames destroyed hundreds of buildings and homes and forced thousands in the city of gatlinburg to evacuate. reporter: john and christine, the mayor of gatlinburg said this is the situation where people were basically running for their lives as they were trying to get out of town, trying to escape the flames. weapon talked to one man who escaped with his family on monday. he said that the smoke was so thick, that when he was caravanning out of gatlinburg with his wife ahead of him. he could not see his car. his 1-year-old daughter was
huge contract with the government. what implicit threat, if you re carrier, you don t want to enrage this administration. fascinating to find out what is in the deal. the details matter. like you said, it s a win for donald trump who said he was going to do this and to an extent has done it. and also a win for the 1,000 workers who likely not lose their jobs now. rain on the way in tennessee and that is a welcome development. wildfires there fueled by extreme drought. 80-mile-per-hour wind gusts are blamed for at least three deaths. authorities say the fires are, quote, human cause. we ll get the very latest from cnn s brian todd. all right. as you can see, it s just been really devastating there. you have dollywood and other places in gatlinburg closed. in the meantime, let s talk
they re getting ready to deploy. another fire truck here. a short time ago we saw them streaming out of here with fire sirens blazing. people have very little time to get out. this is a situation where high winds some as strong as hurricane force in the high 80s miles per hour were blowing embers, miles from where they picked the embers up and dumping the embers on to trees that were already like match sticks because this place has experienced a drought since april. i talked to a national parks spokeswoman a short time ago who said as of now there are 15,000 acres that have been charred. she says a very important piece of information she gave us. she said this was human cause. now, i pressed her on whether this was arson or not. she would not go there. she said she s not ready to say that. but they do know this is human cause and that part of this is under investigation. now, into wednesday, they re
sirens blazing. this came up so very fast that a lot of people just did not have time to get out. or very little time. this is a situation where high winds, some as strong as hurricane force in the high 80s, in miles per hour, were blowing embers miles from where they picked the embers up and dumping the embers ton trees that were already like match sticks because this place has been experienced a drought since april. i spoke to a national parks spokewoman, she said as of now there are about 15,000 acres that have been charred. and she says, a very important piece of information she gave us, she said this was human cause. now, i pressed her on whether this was arson or not. she would not go there. she said she s not ready to say that. but they do know this is human cause and that part is under investigation. now, into wednesday, they re expect something rain to come here. hopefully that will help douse some of the flames. with the rain, they re expecting
all right. we ve got breaking news for you out of alabama. you can see the pictures just coming into us. a deadly tornado ripping through jackson county just a few hours ago. this is in the northeastern part of the state. three people are dead. there are multiple injuries here. the county coroner s office telling crews are on scene right now. they re assessing the damage. just a few hours ago, a deadly tornado in alabama. three fatalities and injuries. wildfires fueled by extreme drought and 80-mile-per-hour wind gusts, they are blamed for at least three deaths in tennessee but rain is now on the way. authorities say the fires are, quote, human cause. the smoke and flames damaged 150 buildings and forced thousands