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Claudia cowan is live at the top of the dam. good evening. >> good evening. the situation here in orovilles fluid appeared we understand that the water level here in the reservoir is dropping. its about 6 feet below the rim. thats good news, dropping about 4 inches every hour and that emergency spillway that was teetering on collapse yesterday is holding. the problem is officials need to get this lake level lower. they need to do it fast. engineers are focusing on repairing oroville dams emergen...

Come in. it looks like an inch or two. the lake level will level out. maybe the water in will equal the water going out. we shouldnt see lake levels rising too much. then we still see a little bit of rain thursday but the heavy stuff is more wednesday night, thursday morning. rainfall forecast, this is through sunday. another storm over the weekend is a total of three to four, maybe five inches of rain. yes, theyre trying to get things done in a hurry but i think were going to be okay. so that g...

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Produce enough water. if they can continue to release the water at the rate they are now, which is over 100,000 cubic feet per second, the water coming in even with heavy rain will not equal that. this is nighttime video of the main spillway. the backup spillway, the one theyre worried about clansing, the water is below that. the lake is down ten feet from its peak on sunday. its going down four inches an hour. theyre going to continue to pour this water out. they dont want to have to use the ba...

Of the amount of water going over niagara falls is whats going over the spillway at every minute. thats an incredible amount of water. where theyre patching and dropping stuff by helicopter is up here where the emergency spillway is. were ten feet below that level. as long as were draining it on the main spillway, were okay. we have a tornado threat from vick for ye victoria to houston. mid morning to late afternoon. this is 10:00 a.m. to about 2:00 p.m. in the houston area. thats when well trac...

Over the past few months. the good news as we pointed out, the lake level is dropping. they needed to drop even more before the next storm hits so they could assure everyones safety. back to you now, wolf. >> well take the good news for now. paul, thanks very much. right now the president and the canadian prime minister justin trudeau, theyre having lunch ahead of their joint news conference scheduled for the top of the hour. looking at live pictures from the east room of the white house. when...

Of unknown. we need to continue to lower the lake level. and we need to give the department of water resources time to evaluate the situation so we can make some decisions as to whether or not it is safe to repopulate areas. i can tell you that we have staff looking at the various areas that evacuations have been ordered in. and making a determination based on bert analysis as to what areas are clearly in danger and what areas may be less vulnerable. but that analysis still need to be done. so w...

Claudia cowan is live at the top of the dam. good evening. >> good evening. the situation here in orovilles fluid appeared we understand that the water level here in the reservoir is dropping. its about 6 feet below the rim. thats good news, dropping about 4 inches every hour and that emergency spillway that was teetering on collapse yesterday is holding. the problem is officials need to get this lake level lower. they need to do it fast. engineers are focusing on repairing oroville dams emergen...

Maybe the top 10 to 30 feet of the lake, thats what they needed to avoid. they didnt know if that was going to happen so they told everyone to get out of dodge. then they opened up this spillway about as fast as they possibly could. and then they said, forget the hole towards the bottom, well deal with that problem later. at 5:00 p.m., the lake level was at 901 feet. they doubled what was going on here. this was the output here. so this was about 54,000 cubic feet per second. and then they opene...

Dam, but the spillway unleashing uncontrolled floodwaters from laklake oroville to homes below. from a news conference we learned it could be 30 feet of water. earlier today they held a news conference, lets listen. >> one of the significant things hat happened and im thankful for is this. the efforts by dwr to lower the lake level by utilizing the spillway to reduce the water has been effective. and now there is no more water going over the emergency spillway. that is a very positive thing at t...