And pose a real threat. Yellowknife is now blanketed in smoke and fires are burning close to the one major road into and out of the city. Rebecca alty is the mayor of yellowknife. She told us what things were like there. Right now, its residents are evacuating by road. As many people as possible are doing that. Theres also, for folks who dont have vehicles, we are starting the air evacuations, so flights. We still have commercial flights, so some people have booked onto a commercial flight, but we have the Evacuation Flights also starting at 1pm. So getting folks registered for that just began an hour ago. So folks have been good, theres long line ups i think there was kilometres worth of a line up, so a bit of a snail s place out of town, its just one road in, one road out. That highway is where the fire is, so the highway can close. But right now, it is open. If the conditions change, if the smoke gets too heavy, if the fire were to approach the highway, the highway would be closed a
This pilot, hovering above a swimming pool, now being used to douse the flames further down the hill. These homes, some distance from the destroyed coastal town of lahaina, are in the centre of the island where, last week, just before the fires, the cameras at this Bird Sanctuary captured a bright flash. Staff believe it is a tree falling on a powerline. Shortly afterwards, flames can be seen in the forest. Ross hart saw something similar before his home burned down. We could hear some trees falling here and there in the distance. One big one fell here on the bridge and it knocked over the powerlines. And then you saw the house. You could see it burn . I saw it begin to burn and they wouldnt let me stay to watch it. They were dragging me out because the embers were starting to come over my truck and stuff. Questions are now being asked about whether lives might have been saved. Should mauis power grid have been turned off . Could more have been done to Sound The Alarm . For many of tho
weekend. also tonight, ukraine s president marks 500 days of war. while the u.s. is blased for sending a controversial weapon to use against russia. plus, the president says bidenomics is working. but is a hot jobs market cooling? former president trump returns to the campaign trail this weekend as florida governor ron desantis campaign appears to stall. in california, a follower of charles manson moves a step closer to freedom after more than half a century behind bars. multi-state manhunt. police search for a dangerous fugitive who escaped jail using bedsheets. and later, it s a jumbo hot dog on wheels with a new name. meet the college grads getting grilled on how to drive an american icon. what made you want to drive this across the country? adventure and the mission. it s a dream come true. announcer: this is the cbs weekend news from chicago with adriana diaz. good evening. extreme dangerous weather has struck all over the country this summer and
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