00:00And here is the part nobody wants to hear.
00:02Vesuvius is still active.
00:04It last erupted in 1944 and it will erupt again.
00:08Today, around 3 million people live in its danger zone in the city of Naples and the towns that have
00:15grown back over the ash.
00:17Hundreds of thousands of them live in the red zone, the area that would have to be evacuated in days
00:22if the mountain wakes.
00:24Scientists watch Vesuvius around the clock with seismometers and gas sensors and satellites.
00:31There is an evacuation plan, but the roads out of Naples are narrow and the mountain gives little warning.
00:37Pompeii is not just a story about the past.
