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Oroville and quickly live oak, yuba city and marysville. The water in oroville wouldve been 100 feet deep within an hour. Reporter it didnt happen water officials diverted water away from the emergency spillway. The plan is to use helicopters to drop rocks onto the craters hoping to plug the hole. No water is going over the spillway at this time. Reporter more rain is on the way later this week. There is still a lot of water in the reservoir behind the dam. They are bailing out the wants of our ...

Mass evacuations yesterday evening explaining the spillway was in danger of collapsing. It was like 0 to 60. Reporter i asked the sheriff today. That had nearly 20,000 people leaving their homes and ari. When this incident occurred, we needed to act quickly. Reporter the sheriff said the facts on the ground changed weekly. The holes were discovered and he felt the need to call for the emergency evacuation and people need to continue to stay out of their homes. Getting this people home is importa...

Be colder and slower. That erosion was starting to creep backward and if it had grown significantly underneath the concrete wall back toward the lake, it could have caused the spillway to collapse. The big question here that nobody really wants to say outloud is did officials overreact on sunday when they got so many people out here nearly 200,000. Officials are a little defensive about this. But they insist that they were just reacting to the facts on the ground. The facts sunday looked like th...

President trump declared an emergency freeing up federal funds specifically to deal with the potential failure of the oroville spillway. Now fema already has people and supplies in place and ready to go. Dr. Ashsa tribble has the latest. We have responders out there prepositioned to support. Reporter theyre also activity delivering supplies. 13,000 cots and more than 40,000 meals. With more rain expected later this week, a fema Emergency Response team is set in california and the Oakland Office ...

Problems. Here is the San Francisco Fire Department while they were putting it in position for it to continue its operation, a strut that holds up one of the portions of the crane, a 30ton crane, failed and leaned the crane towards the northeast direction. Everybody is looking up. Reporter now, they are finding a Structural Engineer flying in a Structural Engineer from Washington State. We got some information from the Building Company behind the project at 41 tehama. They say it happened betwee...

Alexander acosta and said to expect a new executive order next week to replace the suspended travel ban. He was also asked about daca. He promised during the campaign to roll that back. Today he answered in an open ended way saying only that it was a difficult issue. At the white house, craig boswell, kpix 5. The president s press Conference Also included an exchange on race after a reporter asked him about his policies to improve the inner cities. Are you going to include the Congressional Blac...

Earthquake rupture the dam. But draining a third of the water from the countys largest reservoir is no quick and easy task. It takes time. But as soon as we get that down to those restricted level we can breathe a sigh of relief. Reporter if anderson tops its banks, the district says lowlying areas of coyote creek could see flooding. Scott gill lives downstream and would never admit it to his wife but he is worried. If you had to pick flood or earthquake . Neither. [ laughter ] but when i know t...

Homes, most of the apartment buildings are spray painted with an x on the wall or garage, meaning the city deemed it unsafe to occupy. We didnt get any warnings, so, they kind of just let the water out and, you know, this happened. So if they would have gave us a warning, close out the lease or something. Reporter neighbors began cleaning and salvaging what they could. But not all homes in the flooded area are red tagged. Lorraines apartment had a couple of inches of water, she will lose carpeti...

Would inundate the citys rock springs neighborhood. This was never characterized as a 100year storm event. But in essence the flows that came out of anderson replicated a 100year event. Reporter Anderson Reservoir reached capacity sunday, sending water cascading over the spillway for the first time in more than a decade. The havoc it would create in communities miles and miles downstream seemed to catch emergency officials flatfooted. We werent expecting to have issues at rock springs for many, ...

To flood. One of the theories is the creek was so clogged with debris that it reduced its capacity and thats not an academic pursuit with more wet weather. The receding water has left a muddy mess at the south bay Mobile Home Park along coyote creek. It has gotten most of the standing water out of that area but much of the park is in for days of clean up. More residents finally going back home only to arrive to another stressful situation. The three red areas are still under mandatory orders of ...