Gatlinburg. What you see burned out was part of an Amusement Park and ski resort there. Overall, a hundred structures have been destroyed or damaged by fire, including an apartment complex. At least 14,000 people have been evacuated, many in the middle of the night. The fires overnight burned close to the resort towns hotels and other tourist attractions. Guests were trapped inside a outside. No one knows what they will come home to. My personal pictures, stuff cant be replaced. This cant be replaced. Joining us now is lieutenant don zimmerman. If anybody knows about wildfires, its mentor firefighters who have had to battle fires like this. Thanks so much for being with us. I wouldnt say fires exactly like that. Light up. Give us an idea how hard it is to fight wildfires like this. Well, the thing is, you know, some basic fire chemistry, you need heat, fuel, and oxygen to have a fire. Take away one, the fire goes out. But if you add one of them and supplement it, it gets kind of crazy
Sold 525 sheep or so to sail newly so much salem. We understand salem has criminal past. Reporter yeah he is has been charged with food stamp fraud twice in the 1990s and so this is certainly something that is not new to him although whoa have not seen anything like this before with the slaughterhouse and with potentially selling bad food. All right andrew horas horansky. Poison is believed to have killed a couple on buck trail this morning. Firefighters say they found very high levels of Carbon Monoxide surrounding an indoor pool. New tonight three people were shot at popular akron barbershop this morning. It happened before 11 at Rp Blade Academy Barbershop on west exchange. Amani abraham is live with more on the victims. Shot multiple times in the abdomen chest and arm a 17year old shot in the ankle and 49 yearold imagine shot in the shoulder. And now police are pointing the finger at a customer as the alleged shooter. The shooting late this morning inside rps Blade Academy barber s
Well, the next 90 minutes, we have a whole lot of cleveland. A beautiful look across rio. The summer olympics continue in full swing. This is the scene as olympics shine brightly as they continue to grab gold medals after gold medal. Tuesday down in rio, a couple of close calls americans have been strong olympic park in rio. Hi there, brian. Yes, of course, everyone is obsessed with Michael Phelps in that fantastic womens gymnastics game. Right here, right now, there are a lot of other golden opportunities. It wasnt the only close call im obsessed with Michael Phelps and the williams gymnastics team. To the williams gymnastics. The rights has to be inspected once but that is it. We keep the seats close. Part of the company that owns and runs the ride is posted your own inspection every day and when they find problems they close parts off. Its the thrill of the spin or reporter whatever the best part is for you you want to feel it. We did have a chance to go up there and check out a par
Have so many problems on the roads because of that very heavy rain, and there is a lot of slowmoving traffic on the manger art ris around Greater Cleveland so if youre expecting folks home, they will have to take their time around the area. We do have another round of storms coming tomorrow and even heavy rain potential in weekend forecast. Ill have details on that in just a little bit. See you soon. At this hour thousands remain without power at northeast dont know the exact number. After storms earlier this week, our colleague is on the east side with a look at damage in Cleveland Heights which took the brunt of this storm on tuesday. We go to you. Were talking a lot about storms happening right now. There have been a rough couple of days for local communities. This part of Cleveland Heights was hit hard tuesday night. The power lines have been down for almost 48 hours and are feeling the effects of recent storms as well [ horn blaring ] in parma crews have to cut off the bottom of t
Involved in that with the heavy rain and gusty winds as well. And also there is a little line of rain that extends from out around lakewood area, down through central portions of cuyahoga county, parma and whatnot. That will continue to move to the east. They are trying for an on time start at progress funneled field. But the heavy rain will be blocks from the ballpark if they dont end up getting a heavy rain shower coming in. Euclid at 7 30. We could see that firing up a little bit as an out flow boundary starts to interact there. We also have heavy rain that continues to fall in southern portions of huron county, northern richland county. I a concerned about flooding there in those areas where theyve gotten over probably an inch or two of rain out of that batch that continues to move off to the northeast. And then farther east and southeast, there has been a few hit or miss showers. As we go through the rest of the evening, whether continue isolated rain showers that could put down h