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.
Latest. Hey, ashton. Hey, alan. Good midday. Were not going to see snow in the denver area until next week. Just will be chilly over the next couple of days. A bit windy outside as well. Camera over at the library pointed to the u. S. Flag, you can see it whipping around. 38 degrees the temperature right now in downtown denver. Degree colder at the airport, 37. Boulder at 39. Factor in the wind and of course it feels colder. Windchill at the airport is feels like 24 in both fort collins and greeley. The wind is the strongest on the eastern plains. Burlington and sterling both experiencing wind gusts over 50 Miles Per Hour. The strongest the wind will get in the denver area is around 30 Miles Per Hour. Thats where it is now out at dia. Golden has 22mileperhour gusts in the foothills. Heres the plan through the rest of today, highs around 41. With the wind blowing of course it will feel colder than that. Through the afternoon with more cloud cover than sunshine. Then once the sun sets ar
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And we do say hello on what is turning out to be a busy Tuesday Morning. Im kendis gibson. And im Adrienne Bankert in for diane macedo. We start with breaking news. Fastmoving wildfires forcing evacuations in a popular resort area of tennessee. And this video from inside one popular hotel, you can see the flames surround the building. The dry and windy weather there fueling the fires overnight. One fire now on the edge of dollywood where people are being brought to safety. Overnight, fierce flames and blinding smoke racing across the tennessee mountains. Oh, my god. We need to leave. Reporter the wildfires engulfing the resort towns of gatlinburg and pigeon forge, home to Dolly Partons theme park, dollywood. We relocated 19 families that were staying with us in our Cabin Properties and then relocated about 50 of our guest room guests here at dollywoods everyone to leave calling the fire unpredictable. Were dealing with a situation here that is very dynamic. Its changing every moment. R
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