Now from abc 7, live breaking news. Breaking news, a massive evacuation effort is under way right now as more than 100,000 people are trying to get out of the way of a potentially catastrophic failure at the Lake Oroville dam. If that is not addressed and we dont take care of that and mitigate it properly, essentially what were looking at is approximately a 30foot wall of water good evening. Im eric thomas. Were waiting for the start of a News Conference on the latest of the situation at Lake Oroville dam. The dam is near chico 160 highs northeast of San Francisco. The problem is with an emergency spillway designed to relieve pressure on the dam when its holding too much water. Abc 7 News ReporterAlisa Harrington is live with more on the previous News Conference they just held a short time ago. Very chaotic and scary day for people who live below the dam. Right now the goal is to prevent water from coming over the top of this emergency spillway. To do this, helicopters are doing drops of boulders to try and plug the eroding soil and crews are releasing 100,000 cubic feet of water per second on the main spillway to try to lower the level of the lake. At least 130,000 people were ordered to evacuate sunday afternoon after officials warned the oroville dams emergency spillway was at risk of failure. A breach could cause catastrophic flooding in nearby towns. Scary. Reporter some people had only minutes to flee their homes. Like this man. He did not grab any belongings, just his family. Our phone started going off. We just immediately loaded up the kids and took off. Reporter carol and garrett made it to an evacuation shelter in chico but worried about her daughter. I have a handicapped daughter that cant walk and the ambulance wont come in and take her. Shes got to get out. Reporter the mad rush out of town caused traffic jams. Officials with the California Department of Water Resources noticed something was very wrong when they found a hole at the head of the auxiliary spillway. They blame severe erosion. This is the first time the emergency spillway was used after recent rained damaged the main channel. But at a press conference about an hour later, they had better news. The erosion was not advancing as rapidly as they thought. We are dealing with Mother Nature and a very dynamic situation that is ongoing and moving. Reporter heavy boulders were bagged and loaded onto helicopters, being dropped into the crevice to plug the hole. Officials are also working to lower the water level of the lake by turning up the flow through the main spillway. That is not addressed and we dont take care of that and mitigate it properly, essentially what were looking at is approximately a 30foot wall of water that would be coming out of the lake. Not the lake draining, but a 30foot wall of water. Reporter and weve learned the governor just ordered an emergency order tonight to speed up response to the area. Reporting live in the newsroom, Alisa Harrington, abc 7 news. The county sheriff let me move on to the Evacuation Centers. As we mentioned several have opened, three in chico, the Neighborhood Church of chico, st. Johns episcopal church, and the Silver Dollar fairgrounds. Two are in paradise, the Paradise Alliance church and elks lodge. The Beal Air Force base in marysville is serving as an Evacuation Center as well as the fairgrounds in the orland. Lilian kim in melldica menlo pa Swift Water Rescue Team left an hour ago . Thats right, and theyll be on standby. They dont get called often. When they do theyre ready to go in a few hours, all hands on deck. 14 members of this menlo park Swift Water Rescue Team joining units from all over the state. People may not get out in time. Well be there to possibly assist in rescues. Swift water environments, very dangerous. You know, were trained to handle that. Reporter this team has been through this before. Most recently 11 years ago in louisiana where they performed roughly 1,000 rescues in the aftermath of hurricane katrina. Before that it was the floods of 97 near yuba city where they rescued 14, a situation that could be similar to where the crew is headed now. You had propane tanks on the ground, or water. Animals, cattle that were in trees and dead in the water. It was a pretty horrific sight. Reporter this time theyre bringing two personal watercraft and three inflatable boats. Equipment they hope theyll never have to put into action. But i certainly hope that we dont end up getting used. Nobody wishes harm. We dont wish harm on anybody or anybody getting hurt or stranded or stuck. Reporter a caravan of rescuers heading to an emergency where they may or may not be needed. Even if you dont live near the oroville dam or have family or friends there, theres reason to be concerned about whats happening up there tonight. Its a wakeup call. This is a very major, important structure. And clearly the potential impacts were not really fully considered. And unfortunately this is not a unique situation. This will require a fairly critical review of many, not just state dams but i think dams in the west. Uc berkeley engineering professor nicholas sitar says theres probably no way to anticipate a problem of this magnitude, which was brought on by the rainy weather. He warns the next few hours and days will be critical to finding a solution before the next storm hits. You can see what a difference just one day makes. On the left, looking at drone video shot yesterday at the oroville dam. On the right, you see video from early this morning showing much more water rushing over the dam towards the auxiliary spillway. All our recent rain storms and water from melting snow have swelled the Feather River with a high volume of water. Meteorologist drew tuma is here with more. The National WeatherService Advisory for the Lake Oroville area . We have a Flash Flood Warning in effect around the oroville dam. A Flash Flood Warning is put in effect any time water is forecasted to rapidly rise, whether a river overflowing its banks or water spilling over part of the oroville dam. Lets get you down to street level. Theres the dam on your right. Theres the auxiliary spillway that is of concern at this hour. Well pull out a little bit. If that water were to overflow the spillway once again, downstream, the area of concern is oroville itself. Its for that fact the National Weather service has that Flash Flood Warning posted for that area. Mother nature is not going to cooperate, unfortunately. Rain the next seven days, storms are going to return. We get you back down to oroville, 2 to 4 inches of rainfall is expected in the next seven days. We will see a return of storms here locally in the bay area. Well detail that hour by hour coming up in the full accuweather forecast. Thank you. Well have more on whats happening at the oroville dam later in the newscast. Also go online for new details, download the abc 7 news app and enable push alert forth the latest information. In San Francisco police are urging witnesses to come forward after a shooting left one person dead and sent two others to the hospital. Bullets littered the scene at third and quesada avenue around 4 00 this afternoon. Investigators have not revealed what led to the shooting. Theyre looking for Surveillance Video from nearby businesses to identify any possible suspects. South San Francisco, police need your help to catch a hitandrun driver. Witnesses say a silvercolored fourdoor car hit a woman while she crossed Memorial Drive next to orange park around 1 00 this afternoon. The driver kept going along orange avenue before turning onto myrtle avenue. The victim suffered serious injuries, being treated at a trauma center. Were learning more tonight about a man gunned down during what Milpitas Police believe was a robbery. The victim died after being shot inside the garage of an apartment complex late friday night. The 26yearold was a native of india and about to finish his masters degree in Computer Science at a local university. An indian news outlet reports the victim was probably going to move home, possibly to start a new job. Milpitas Police Arrested a suspect following a short chase. Theres much more ahead on abc 7 news at 11 00. After a weekend in florida, President Trump is back in the white house tonight. And another controversial executive order on immigration could be coming as soon as tomorrow. 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The governors been closely following all of this and has been in contact with the officials that are managing the incident throughout the weekend, and again has had conversations with us here tonight. Within the last hour, he has issued an emergency proclamation for the situation. The proclamation will give us the ability to take all actions necessary to protect Public Health and the health of local officials in their effort in doing the same. We also activated the state Operations Center which you see behind me this afternoon when the department of Water Resources realized the problem was developing at the auxiliary spillway. Our 24hour California Warning Center has also been sending notifications to counties downstream that could be affected by any potential rising water and or evacuations. Our Law Enforcement branch has also deployed a number of mutual aid Law Enforcement assets to assist butte county sheriff and others with the evacuations of individuals. And our fire and rescue branch has deployed a number of Swift Water Rescue Teams from throughout the Northern California area to assist with any evacuations that are necessary or any high water type of situations. Weve been also working very closely with our Partner Agencies in state government, all state agencies that have a role have been activated and are here in the state operations there. This is a combined effort in support of butte county and surrounding counties. And the red cross has also been engaged to support with shelters of displaced residents. Part of that has been the folks you see behind me, im going to let each one of them talk. California Highway Patrol has been very much engaged with Traffic Management in support of local authority. The California Department of forest and fire protection, cal fire, has been very engaged with their Incident Management Teams and the California National guard has been engaged with deploying resources at the ready, both air assets and Ground Forces as necessary to support the situation. So with that im going to turn it quickly over to each one of the leads from the various agencies. First im going to turn it over to chief ken pamlock, director of cal fire. Good evening. As director mentioned, cal fire deployed an Incident Management Team to work directly with the department of Water Resources as early as thursday evening weve had Incident Management Teams jointly colocated, embedded with Water Services engaging in all the operations, working towards mitigating the incident. In addition to that, theyre not just working on plans for the facility and the operations there, but they have been very actively engaged in Contingency Planning well outside of and downstream of the facility. And the evacuations and the processes that occurred today was direct result of Contingency Planning and theyre prepared to provide that notification to make those evacuations based on the planning and the efforts that had gone on. This is something cal fire is well practiced at with Incident Management Teams not only on wild land fires but all hazard emergencies around the state. In addition to the management team, cal fire as part of the mutual aid system has numerous fire engines, hand crews, and helicopters deployed and available to respond should they be needed. Youve been listening to a News Conference about the situation at the oroville dam where a spillway, auxiliary spillway, is having erosion problems. There were fears it could collapse and cause flooding. As one official put it, a 30foot wall of water. Things have eased up a bit. But still more than 100,000 people have been advised to evacuate from oroville and the valley floor of union yuba coun. You see some of the state agencies involved, cal fire, Highway Patrol, National Guard. Well bring you the very latest on how this is affecting people up there later in this newscast. You see the dam right there, the water spilling over the top. President trumps advisers say there could be a new executive order on immigration as soon as tomorrow. With three weeks on the job, the president returned to washington tonight after his second weekend at his private club in florida. He continued meeting with japanese Prime Minister shinzo abe. He also went on twitter to defend a weekend crackdown on undocumented immigrants around the country. Critics say the federal raids have targeted those who pose no threat to national security. Let us know whether the people theyre targeting are in fact violent, dangerous criminals or whether theyre going after peaceful people who have been here raising their families, paying their taxes. President trumps earlier executive order that had briefly banned people from seven muslim countries to travel remains suspended after a court upheld an order blocking it. The Trump Administration says all options are on the table to keep the country safe from terrorism. In the sierra, cal trance says landslides could keep highway 50 closed through at least monday night. There have been three slides in a 12mile area, including this one friday. The closure is from just east the pilot pines to west of the turnoff for sierra at tahoe resort. On i80 a major slide near blue canyon is clear and the highway is open. But the chp picture shows westbound 80 from the state line to truckee is down to one lane indefinitely because of work on another slide up there. Accuweather enjoying a brief break from the wet weather. Sunshine returns, mild temperatures, that will continue tomorrow. Live doppler 7, its quiet, giving us the allclear tonight with this brief break in the storms. Out there right now we have fallen into the 40s and 50s. 51 San Francisco. 48 novato. 49 hayward. 50 san jose. 46 in fairfield. Monday, notice most spots starting with your wakeup temperatures in the 40s, a couple of spots inland may drop into the upper 30s, if that happens could be a little bit of patchy frost. The afternoon, do not worry, we warm up nicely. By 4 00, the sunshine, the sky with clouds. Temperatures very similar to where we were today. Hghs on your monday. You like the mild temperatures. Enjoy this tomorrow. 62 in oakland. 65 san jose. 64 san rafael. 68 fairfield and San Francisco up to 59. Well get you into tuesday, and yes, that is valentines day. Your friendly reminder. 7 00, sun is up, lots of sunshine on valentines day. You have evening plans, leave the umbrella at home. Grab the light jacket, we remain dry. Temperatures do cool off rapidly, by 11 00 most spots are cool in the 40s. We bring back the storm impact scale. This begins thursday. Thats when the wet weather will return across the region. If youre with us yesterday you do remember the storm was ranking a 2. But today we have downgrad