are fleeing after a mandatory evacuation in the city of goma in the drc. the first eruption destroyed at least 900 homes and five schools. >> this is playing out in realtime before our eyes, before the eyes of cnn's larry madowa. he's at the scene standing in a lava field behind him. larry, tell us what you're seeing. how quickly is this all moving? >> so we're looking at what essentially looks like a sci-fi movie. it's like a post-apocalyptic scene. this is what happens when the force of nature and the wrath of mother nature converge into a scene here. the active volcano, one of the most dangerous in the world. and that lava essentially, the deadly lava swept down this wooded area and swept everything in its path. what we have now is igneus rock. it's cooled off. it breaks like hardened egg shells. you can see that. what officials are telling us is the active magma underneath