CBS Evening News - 2016-11-29
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[0:04] A race against the flames.
[0:07] >> Go, go, go, go, go, go.
[0:09] >> Wildfires turn deadly in the Great Smoky
[0:11] Mountains. Thousands run. Hotels and
[0:14] homes burn.
[0:15] >> This is a fire for the history books.
[0:19] >> Also tonight,
[0:22] a soccer team's Cinderella story ends in
[0:25] tragedy. Dozens were killed when their
[0:27] jet went down, but there were survivors.
[0:32] Donald Trump makes more cabinet picks,
[0:34] including the man who intends to blow up
[0:36] Obamacare.
[0:39] And why would they put a mop bucket in a
[0:41] museum?
[0:43] >> It seems like the proverbial drop in a
[0:45] bucket to do it once, but when you do
[0:47] it, you know, 17 million times, it
[0:49] really has an impact.
[0:54] >> This is the CBS Evening News with Scott
[0:57] Pelley.
[0:58] >> Good evening. Scott is off tonight. I'm
[1:00] Norah O'Donnell, and this is our Western
[1:02] Edition. The worst fire to hit Tennessee
[1:04] in 100 years has killed at least three
[1:06] people and sent more than a dozen to the
[1:08] hospital. 14,000 fled as a wall of
[1:11] flames closed in on Gatlinburg. One
[1:14] resort was destroyed. The Dollywood
[1:16] theme park, named for Dolly Parton, was
[1:19] spared. DeMarco Morgan is in Tennessee.
[1:23] >> Hit the gas. Hit the gas.
[1:25] >> You're watching cell phone video taken
[1:27] by two brothers as they escaped from a
[1:29] vacation resort area in the mountains of
[1:31] Gatlinburg, Tennessee. They say they had
[1:34] no warning as the wall of flames
[1:36] surrounded them last night, and their
[1:38] only choice was to ride through it or
[1:40] die.
[1:41] >> Please, Lord, let us get off this
[1:43] mountain.
[1:43] >> By early evening, wind speeds suddenly
[1:45] doubled, turning into hurricane-force
[1:47] winds that topped 87