Really has an impact. 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 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 hour. Fire quickly spread in this droughtstricken area when burning embers blew and toppleled trees ripped down power lines. This commun
We do say hello on what is turning out to be a busy Tuesday Morning. Im kendis gibson. And im drjashton in for diane macedo. Fast moving wildfires forcing evacuations in a popular resort area of tennessee. 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. Blinding smoke racing across the tennessee mountains. Oh, my god. We need to leave. Reporter the wildfires engulfing the resort towns of gatlinburg home of dollywood. We relocated 19 families that were staying with us in our Cabin Properties and then relocated about 50 of our guest reporter officials ordering everyone to leave calling the fire unpredictable. Were dealing with a situation here that is very dynamic. Its changing every moment. Reporter dramatic video posted online showing people evacuating. The roads barely visible from the smoke and the flames
We we do say hello on what is turning out to be a busy Tuesday Morning. Im kendis gibson. And im drjashton in for diane macedo. Fast moving wildfires forcing evacuations in a popular resort area of tennessee. This video from inside one popular hotel, you can see the flames surround the building. The dry and windy weather there fueling the fires over 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 home of dollywood. We relocated 19 families that were staying with us in our relocated about 50 of our guest room guests here at dollywood. Reporter officials ordering everyone to leave calling the fire unpredictable. Were dealing with a situation here that is very dynamic. Its changing every moment. Reporter dramatic video posted online showing people evacuating. The roads barely visible from the smoke and the flam
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 room guests here at dollywoods dream world resort. Reporter officials ordering everyone to leave calling the fire unpredictable. Were dealing with a situation here that is very dynamic. Its changing
We do say hello on what is turning out to be a busy Tuesday Morning. Im kendis gibson. And im drjashton in for diane macedo. Fast moving wildfires forcing evacuations in a popular resort area of tennessee. 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. Blinding smoke racing across the tennessee mountains. Oh, my god. We need to leave. Reporter the wildfires engulfing the resort towns of gatlinburg home of dollywood. We relocated 19 families that were staying with us in our Cabin Properties and then relocated about 50 of our guest reporter officials ordering everyone to leave calling the fire unpredictable. Were dealing with a situation here that is very dynamic. Its changing every moment. Reporter dramatic video posted online showing people evacuating. The roads barely visible from the smoke and the flames