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The eruption destroyed more than 500 homes.

Mt. Nyiragongo eruption forces nearby residents to flee Mount Nyiragongo in DR Congo erupted for the first time in nearly two decades. The government issued an evacuation order for nearly 2 million residents in the nearby city of Goma. Watch video 01:13

Information from authorities in rwanda saying about 3,500 people have entered the country of rwanda from the drc. you can imagine this is because of a memory and not so distant memory. back in january of 2002 the same volcano erupted killing 250 people, displacing over 200,000 people. it was a big event. and people are fearful of a similar event. now, this same volcano erupted 7:00 p.m. local time on saturday evening. and again, as michael just said, the lava appears to be flowing away from the ...

Steep slope profile. and more of a conical shape. and i want to show you where goma is located. its this population density right on the lake shore of lake kuvi. that is, again, an area that is away from the actual volcano. and according to authorities, the lava is flowing, again, away from the populated density areas. but thats good news because this area is a highly populated area. you can see rwanda, burundi, and the eastern sections of congo with that dark shade of red and orange. were talki...

People were fleeing last night and some people died. were working to confirm the details and what happened to those who might have been injured. >> keep us posted on all of that. thank you very much for joining us. joining me now is derek van dam with a closer look at this volcano and this eruption. derrick, hi. you heard larrys report on the ground. give us your sense of what you expect over the next 24-48 hours. are folks in the region and nearby in the clear just yet? >> absolutely not. onc...

Werent informed that an eruption was forthcoming. so it was rather like seeing a huge orange light, if you like, hovering above the town last night, and no one knowing for certain where the lava was going to go, and people in this country know all too well just how dangerous volcano eruptions can be. in 1997, for example, 600 people were killed in a volcano eruption here. so people know the dangers, but it was the uncertainty i think surrounding the eruption that was so frightening. >> and you j...

Volcano. there was another eruption in 1977 as well. unfortunately, fatalities with both of those. i want to recap what happened. nyiragongo erupted at around 7 p.m. that is away from the town of goma and were going to talk a little bit about the specifics. theres goma on the edge of a lake in the eastern sections of the drc. this is what is called a strato volcano. you can see the town of goma or city of goma is away from the city. its flowing towards rwanda. away from the metropolitan areas. n...

Thankfully those eruptions subsided later in the evening and the lava flow stopped. larry la doe joins me from amber city park in kenya with more on whats happening with this volcano. certainly devastating images. good to see you. >> reporter: devastating images, one government official telling us the lava seems to stop outside of the city of goma, many of them evacuated last night local time, where the rwanda emergency ministry said about 3,500 people were there, though they have started to mak...

Republican. >> actually, there were many liberals in the gop. like governor nelson, rockefeller of new york. he demanding that his party denounce extremism. >> extremism on fear, hate and terror. they encourage this unity. >> the crowd quickly turns hostile. >> he starts being booed in a remarkably vicious way. >> the governor is entitled to be heard for five minutes. he cant be heard for five minutes if we have constant eruption. >> conservative republicans

As i say, the cease-fire is holding and there is the hope that despite other issues, whether its clashes in jerusalem or the west bank or this court case coming back to the supreme court, that it will continue to hold. >> thanks for that live in jerusalem. thank you. now the conflict and its aftermath has sparked an outpouring of sympathies for the palestinians. large rallies took place in london, paris and new york. more than 90 pro palestinian events have been planned in the u.s. this weeken...