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 important to me. I have to synchronize the situation. If its raining and theres more water coming, i cant in good conscious believe those people are safe. Reporter michael and his family were prepared but many others evacuated abruptly leaving valuables and pets behind. They would like a better explanation. I still dont have a clear idea of what their actual danger was. I dont know exactly why we cant go home. I wish they would communicate that better. Reporter in the meantime, they are trying to be as patient as possible as they wait for the next message. Certain things will have to happen, what are those things to be sure it is safe enough for everyone to go home . Reporter the First Priority is patching up the emergency spillway. They have been dropping rocks and there with trucks and flying over with helicopters in dropping and topping small rocks on top. That is a priority and they are releasing water from the dam, theres a lot of water in the reservoir behind the dam and another storm is approaching. Its going to be kinky until odd until the next strain next rain. They will have to do multimillion dollar work to fix up the dam and in the process they hope nothing catastrophic happens. A birds eye view of the evacuation zone. First in the line of danger is the tone of oroville just downstream. Officials worry flood will tear across yuba city. Everyone is cleared out of oroville. Reporter there is plenty of action near the dam where folks are trying to shore it up. Just downstream in oroville its a much different more solitary situation. Its a scene from the movie except there is only an empty set in a warning to keep out in case of a flood. Its a ghost town. Nobody is open. Ive never seen it like this. I grew up here my whole life. Its really strange. Reporter christina and her family are still here because they think you live far enough out of harms way. People along the Feather River have been told to leave. We are coming back to get everything that we can to make sure we will be all right. Reporter they are staying with friends. The Evacuation Order remains in place and the only traffic allowed on the highways are those that were headed out. In town, storefronts remain shuttered silently waiting for what happens next. Honestly, i feel like we are very close to the clear zone. I would not be here. I would take every precaution had a con. Reporter nothing is certain at this point which is why the order is still in place. You can see the heavy equipment working to get those rocks in place. In the last half an hour the helicopters have been flying. We will be here through the night and we will have more. Emily turner. Kpix 5 the butte county jail is in the danger zone. Hundreds of inmates are being moved to alameda county. There going to the santa rita jail or the glenn dyer detention facility in oakland. Officials at the Oroville Hospital are operating normally but they moved to hundred patients to the second floor as a precaution. We want to give you a better look at the two problems going on caused by too much water in the lake. There is this huge hole in the spillway which is to the left of the dam. Releasing the water into the spillway made that whole bigger. Closing the spillway to inspect the damage make the lake level rise, eventually that sent water into the emergency spillway causing more erosion and the evacuations. When the force of that water gets halfway down the spillway it rips away at the huge hole making it bigger. The violent torrent ultimately ripped away the sides of the spillway and no longer confined, water erodes the earth barrier and swells the sediment river below. When the lake crested, the emergency spillway with no concrete channel to contain it water took everything in its path. amatrice, rocks and the road that ran parallel to the dam and below both spillways. Today with the lake level dropping work crews could get out and whats left of the road to inspect the damage and tried to come up with a game plan for protecting the hillside should the lake level rise and come violently cascading down the emergency spillway again. For every 750,000 gallons of water being let out of the lake , 300,000 gallons is still coming in. More rain is on the way later this week. The break in the storms, even with the damaged spillway is letting them lower the lake level as much as 30 feet they have by wednesday night. They hope it will be enough, last weeks storms brought the lake up 50 feet. More than a decade ago environmental groups warned the emergency spillway was vulnerable to catastrophic erosion. In 2005 three organizations including the sierra club said the spillway should be strengthened with concrete. They said fast rising water and winter could overwhelm the main spillway and flow down the emergency spillway. They warned about the potential for roshan that could cause a failure and 10 communities downstream. A federal Civil Engineers said those communities were overblown and he agreed with state water officials that up grades were unnecessary. How ready is california to deal with this large of a process . We are at the state Operation Center in math or just east of sacramento. Reporter the governor was just here moments ago. This is the nerve center for planning for disaster such as this and we asked him was he concerned about those early reports that raised questions that this could happen in a heavy rainfall . It was not part of the record before that at least the record that i saw. We have a lot of stuff out here, the delta, bridges and dams and spillways. There is more to come. We are in a complex society where things can go wrong. Reporter any idea when people can go home . We are not making that announcement tonight. The sheriffs will Say Something tomorrow on that. Reporter you heard. The latest as we will get an update going back tomorrow morning. Here at the Emergency Center, Lieutenant Governor was here and we asked him about the impact of this, not just on this area but the rest of the state as well. Lets listen. This is without precedent the fact that you are calling in evacuation of the scale and scope. Reporter that was Gavin Newsoms assessment of the oroville evacuation after being briefed where representatives of every state agency including the National Guard are monitoring the oroville dam and other potential hotspots across the state. Merced county is facing some challenges. Reporter while dealing with the situations at hand, he said an unanswered question is why the concerns about the oroville beltway eroding in heavy rain were not addressed years ago. It means we need to dust off all of the warnings and every one of our reservoirs and dams. Shasta is near capacity right now. Thats a point of obvious concern. We worry about the levees here and other reservoirs in the state. Lets not wait until something happens to address it. Lets make sure that if there is a report, repair it. We need to make sure those patches are actually secure and those warnings are heated. Reporter at the Emergency Center, the focus remains on the immediate threats. Most areas acutely affected if the spillway fails within hours are already in the of actuation evacuation zone. Its sacramento and davis. Worst case is we tell people to go home and then days later the we say go home get out. Reporter thats where the governor is saying no decision right now. We asked the governor about federal relief. As a been in touch with the white house about help for california . Its no secret the governor and the president are not on the same page on a number of issues including immigration and climate change. On this, the governor said he was put directly through to a cabinet and he has himself committed to the paperwork starting. Fema is already here working with the state. At the Emergency Center in mather california. We have more coverage ahead on the danger at oroville dam including a look back at the grand opening. 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The feds and put a big dent in the drug operations of one of the most notorious gangs in the world. The Court Documents hint at a much deeper story of fats, cash, weapons, drugs and nicknames. Colorful nicknames of the suspect like medusa, choco, chino and diablo. Seven of them and threatened local drug dealers in the santa cruz area who were violent and extorted money from them. The other three were charged with possession of meth with intent to sell. They think they have a strong case. Have you ever heard them and died someone without a strong case . Reporter we are learning more about one of the men in particular. He has a long rap sheet that includes dealing meth and heroin and illegally reentering the country. The fed say he is a highranking member of ms13 and has been deported four times between 2002 in 2010. This investigation picked up steam about a year ago well before President Trump took office. Law enforcement sources tell us this was not a crack down from the trump administration. We did ask the us attorney general if these guys were bad hombres and they just laughed and said no comment. It is so nice to see some sunshine. It felt good but it wont last. Get outside and enjoy it. We know that time is fleeting. We dont need it. Its the first time in five years i can say we dont need the rain thats coming this week but we are going to get it. Lets peek at the radar and its their. Dont be surprised around healdsburg or cloverdale if you get showers this evening. The weak system passing to our north. We will remain dry until thursday morning. More on Lake Oroville. When the water hits that and it did on saturday and sunday thats when water breaches the emergency spillway. As of 6 00 this morning all of the outflow you are seeing on television is dropped the level to 897 and in the past 11 hours last reading was at 894. 2 and continuing to drop. They want to drop it as much as possible because we do have more rain moving in later on this week redwood city your high today 64, concord in santa rosa 64, San Francisco the low 60s. Theres another storm coming and its taking most of the storm energy north. It will take time, another 60 hours before it gets here. That is the low heading up to the gulf of alaska. Bringing rain back by thursday morning. Monday night will be mostly cloudy, north bay and south bay you may have it again tomorrow morning fog is likely. 42 degrees livermore, 44 degrees and mild tomorrow with a mixture of sun and clouds. The highs will be close to 70 degrees in nampa, santa rosa, vallejo, san jose 63. Rain does return later on this week specifically thursday. Your extended forecast tumor mild days between now and when the rain begins tuesday and wednesday. Thursday wet in the morning and then it looks like it will pour for five straight days, we will have quick moving storms in and out in a couple of hours. 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We go back into the ark of archives. High expectations. How storm damage is causing an unexpected disruption for thousands of commuters this week. ,,,,,,,,,, emergency repairs underway at the oroville dam. Right now emergency repairs are underway at the oroville dam. Crews are rushing to shore up emergency spillway with rocks and boulders as nearly 200,000 people wait to find out when they can return home. Within the past hour the governor is saying that an announcement could come tomorrow. Its very difficult. Its hard to understand how people have been able to evacuate so quickly. Just know that the government is doing everything they can and we will continue to do whatever it takes to make sure we have a safe dam up there. The governor visited the state Operations Center near sacramento. He says he has been in touch with the white house. It all began when a 200 foot long hole opened up in the dams main spillway last week. This weekend came the decision to rely on the emergency spillway. Yesterday, that began to show erosion. Joe vasquez is live at the oroville dam. Reporter right now we are in a waiting mode. It is frustrating for those 200,000 people evacuated from their homes. Then to check they are trying to find out whats going on and what is going on is that water officials have spent the diet day analyzing the break in the dam. Last night that you wish to issued the notice to evacuate because they were worried about the possibility that a sonoma me could be unleashed tsunami could be unleashed. If it had collapsed it would be a 30 foot wall of water descending on the town of oroville and quickly gridley, live oak, yuba city, marysville. The calculations of the water and oroville wouldve been 100 feet deep within an hour. Within an hour. Thats a catastrophic collapse. It didnt happen. Thank god it didnt happen. Thats why they ordered the evacuation. Reporter this evening call of copters have been dropping rocks into the craters hoping to patch it up because more storms are on the horizon. The helicopters have stopped the