Averted, the sheriff of butte county warned residents they must remain on alert. Sot in addition to filling the holes in the emergency spillway, the department of Water Resources has increased the amount of water released from the primary spillway. Which has caused no additional damage that has reduced the level of the lake sot bill croyle acting director, dept of Water Resourcesand while authorities believe the risk has been reduced to acceptable levels, they say this Emergency Repair is just the beginning of whats to come. With the all clear the thousands of people who were evacuated are now making their way home. Kron fours alecia reid is live in yuba city where she met with people who were forced from their homes. Alecia, how relieved are everyone tonight . In Washington White HouseSpokesman Sean Spicer says President Trump is keeping a close eye on the Public Safety crisis in oroville. The situation is a textbook example of why we need to pursue a major infrastructure package in congress. Dams, bridges, roads, and ports around the country have fallen into disrepair. In order to prevent the next disaster, we will pursue the president s vision of an overhaul of our nations crumbling infrastructure. We hope everyone remains safe as the evacuations continue and we will be working alongside fema and appropriate Government Entities to make sure we are doing everything we can to tend to this matter. Water levels in Lake Oroville have since receded, lessening the danger of catastrophic flooding. Our coverage of the oroville dam crisis continues online. There are still some road closures in effect creating lots of traffic tonight as people return to their homes. For a list of road closures head to our website kron four dot com. We will also be posting traffic updates you can received traffic alerts straight to your phone by downloading the free kron four mobile app. And opting in for push alerts. Although the Evacuation Orders have been lifted in oroville theres still more rain headed for the area. Lets check in with our chief meteorologist Brittney Shipp who is closely monitoring the situation in oroville brit, how much rain is headed that way . More rain in the forecast with a series of storms starting wednesday night. Tonight, a bit of good news to report in the Santa Cruz Mountains where a massive mudslide has closed northbound lanes of highway 17 for a week now. Kron fours rob fladeboe is standing by live in Scotts Valley to bring us up to date on the story. Rob . . . No earth was moved but there were signs on tuesday that crews are once again mobilizing to resume work on the rock and mud slide that has blocked the northbound lanes of highway 17 for a week. Commuters meantime are bracing for more wet weather and so is the chp. Sot officer Trista Drake Chpwork on the slide came to a halt last thursday after an accident involving a subcontractor killed one man and injured another. A spokesman for caltrans says a new safety plan demanded by cal osha is now in place. But the lane closures and 2way trafffic in the southbound lanes will continue indefinitely. Sot officer Trista Drake Chpwhile highway 17 is open, the number one alternative route, soquelsan jose road, is now closed due to another slide. Commuters and locals alike are looking at detours of two hours or more. Sots mos commuterssoquel san jose road and virtually every other alternative route through the mountains are plagued by slides that could grow worse with more wet weather and there is a growing problem of people ignoring road closures. At their peril says the chp sot officer Trista Drake Chp in the north bay. California highway officials are rushing to stabilize highway 37 in marin county ahead of the strong storm expected to hit thursday. Kron4s jeff pierce explains. Repair crews are planning to literally the road. The water that has kept highway 37 in marin closed has finally receded and today caltrans has begun assessing the damage to the roadway. Crews have been going along that part of the roadway that was flooded, drilling out sections to take core samples. They actually use a circular drill to drill out a part of the highway itself, the pavement, that way we can examine the pavement to find out the extent of the damage. It is not a highly technical assessment. Hit it with a hammer and if it has a good resonate ring to it, its in good shape. If you hit it with a hammer and its kind of a thud then you know the pavement probably should be replaced. Caltrans is looking at a number of short term fixes. Maybe adding a little pavement to raise the profile a bit, or actually going in putting in some light weight concrete underneath the road bed and new pavement on top of that. The pumps brought in to drain the flood waters are silent today and caltrans intends to replace the small diameter drainage pipes that made them necessary. Were going to be replacing them with either twenty four or twenty six inch drains so theyll be able to handle a lot more water. Work on those temporary solutions have not even begun, so traffic will continue to crawl at the atherton road detour, a situation not soon remedied. Its going to start raining again tomorrow night so thatll just put us back to square one. On highway 37 in marin county jeff pierce kron four news. A mysterious white light illuminating the bay area sky did you see it . Coming up on kron four news we investigate what it was. After getting several reports from kron four viewers wondering about it. Plus, President Trumps National Security adviser is out. New details tonight about Michael Flynns abrupt resignation. And next, a road rage incident in the east bay turns deadly. We are hearing from the victims family as the search continues for a gunman. That story after the break. The Hydrogen Fueled mirai. Its only emission is water. Toyota. Lets go places. In the east bay. The wife a deadly road rage shooting incident is asking for the publics help in identifying the person who killed him she says she was in the car with their two children when the shooting occurred. She describes the terrorfying incident to kron4s Haaziq Madyun he was the love of my life, my best friend, my everything Leilani Millard is referring to her husband 45yearold Wardell Taliaferro. He was the victim of a deadly road rage shooting incident just before 10pm sunday night here on marina blvd in san leandro. We were in our car driving to a friends house his wife and their two small children were in the car when taliafeero got into a verbal altercation with someone in another vehiclehe got a little irritated because one of the cars behind us was tailgating a little too close when the two vehicles reached the intesection of marina blvd and verna court the altercation escalatedthey sped up, said you want some more . Then they just started firing, they caught him in the head and in the shoulder and he was gone right then and therethinking quickly, leilani grabbed the steering wheel. I pushed him out of the way, got underneath him so i could drive with one foot, but by the time we got there he was already goneWardell Taliaferros family is having a difficult time trying to make sense of his sudden loss of lifehe is my older brother, he was a very giving man, a very loved man. He is just going to be missedsan Leandro Police say they have very few leads on the shooter in this casewe have no leads, anybody who was in the intersection please come forwardif you have any information on the shooting death of Wardell Taliaferro. San Leandro Police would like to hear from you. In san leandro Haaziq Madyun kron4news chp investigators are now looking into why a car hit and killed a pedestrian this morning. It happened in cherryland in the hayward area of unincorporated Alameda County. Officers say a white honda officers say a white honda was travelling west on hampton road near boston road when it hit the person who was in the road. The driver remained on scene. The area has since re opened to traffic. The victims identiy has not been released. A woman suspected in the hitandrun death of a pedestrian in petaluma over the weekend surrendered to police this morning. This is video from shortly after the collision. Officers say 48yearold June Humphrey of petaluma was arrested in connection with the death of 70yearold linda bartizal. Bartizal was struck by a van around 7 30 saturday night in the intersection of south mcdowell boulevard and caulfield lane. She died a short time later at the hospital. Humphrey has been arrested on suspicious of felony hit and run. Getting to lake tahoe this week is going to be more difficult after a series of mudslides on highway 50. This is video of crews working to clear three major slides and several smaller ones along a 30 mile stretch in el dorado county. No word on when that highway will reopen. To the north, interstate 80 has also seen intermittent closures because of heavy snow and mudslides. Taking a closer look outside. Where it may feel like spring, but were due for another winter storm. Meteorologist brittany ship is here to run it down for us. More rain in the forecast with a series of storms starting wednesday night. Everybody grab your pillows because in about a half hour the great San Francisco valentines day pillow fight begins. It kicks off at the Justin Herman plaza just before 6 pm and everyone is welcome. Take a look at the scene from last years event. Organizers tell participants to only hit other people armed with pillows. And encourage synthetic pillows because ones with feathers cause a bigger mess. It costs the city about 5thousanddollars a year to clean up the mess left behind. Still ahead. We are now learning just how powerful last years el nino really was. And how Climate Change is changing our beaches. The sobering report. Coming up. And next, its been one year since authorities in the east bay saved a baby horse that fell more than 100 feet in a ravine. Weve got an update on this story next. My name is danita seaton. Im a Gas Service Representative for pg e here in oakland. When i work in oakland, i feel like im home, because i grew up here in oakland, my family still lives here. 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You may remember this story a year ago today. A newborn baby horse was rescued from an east bay ravine. These are images from when the incident happened. The horse which has been named valentine was found 150 feet down a ravine in fremont off of Morrison Canyon road. After crews were able to rescue him he was in pretty bad shape. Valetine had a broken hip and pelvis. Eventually his owner came forward but surrendered him to the city of fremont. About a month later valentine was able to find his forever home. He was taken to a home near chico. And today the Fremont Police department tweeted this video of valentine. You can see how big he has gotten and how hes been able to make a full recovery. President Trumps National security adviser abruptly steps down. Still ahead on kron four news at five. There are still a lot of questions surrounding Michael Flynns forced resignation. What the white house is saying. After the break. Plus, more on our top story mandatory Evacuation Orders lifted for thousands of people near the oroville spillway. What we are learning about the situation now. Jon batiste has mastered new ways to play old classics. With chase atms, he can master new ways to deposit checks too. Easy to use Chase Technology for whatever youre trying to master. Now at 5 30. An update to a story weve been following since last week. We told you at the top of the show a mandatory evaucation for nearly 200 thousand people who live below the nations tallest damn has been lifted. Today authorities determined the risk of a catastrophic collapse of the oroville dams damaged spillway had been significantly reduced. And we have just learned that federal aid has been approved to support the rebuilding of the oroville dam and help the affected communities. Last week, governor jerry brown requested a president ial disaster declaration for california. To reinforce Recovery Efforts following january storms that caused flooding, mudslides, Power Outages and damaged Critical Infrastructure across the state. The governor thanked fema for moving quickly, saying the federal aid will get money and resources where its needed most. Last years el nino is now being called the most powerful weather event of its kind ever recorded. The u s g s says californias coastline suffered erosion to a degree never seen before,and it may never recover, natpounding waves and crumbling cliffs. The winter of 201516 saw the Pacific Ocean crashing into businesses. Destroying decades old icons the uss palo alto, otherwise known as the cement ship. Is founderingthe researchers focused on seasonal changes on 29 beaches along about 12 hundred miles of the west coast they used 3d surface maps, gps topographic surveys and measurements of sand levels along with wave and water level data from each beach between 1997 and 2016. The average erosion was 76 percent above average, way above the previous record of 49 percent. Natlast years el nino generated unusually powerful waves. Monitoring buoys at point reyes and monterey reported historic high numbers. And nowhere are the results more evident than in the cliffisde community of pacifica. As we reported in january of last yearwith each wave and each el niqo driven storm, more and more of this retaining wall meaning bad news for these apartments in the manor district of pacifica. Historically, beaches rebuild themselves during la nina years. Mainly though river runoff. But the u s g s says Climate Change is interrupting that cycle. Global warming means el ninos will occur more frequently and they will be stronger. And california rainfall, reducing river all of that, for the along the nat more rain in the forecast with a series of storms starting wednesday night. A major blow to President Trumps administration. After just a few weeks in thw white house. His National Security advisor Michael Flynn abruptly ended his brief tenure last night after questions about his contacts with russia reached a fever pitch. With more on the firestorm and the fallout. Reporter Kristen Holmes is in washington with the latest. President trumps embattled National Security adviser is out. Sean Spicer White House press secretary evolving and eroding trust. Is what led to the president asking for resignation of Michael Flynn after revelations he misled Vice President pence and other white house officials about a conversation with the Russian Ambassador concerning us sanctions against russia before President Trump took office. The Vice President then vouching for flynn on National TelevisionVice President mike pence those converstations that happened to occur around the time that the United States took actions to expel diplomats had nothing whatsoever to do with those sanctions. Now evidence emerging todayreports the Justice Department warned the white house alast montha that sanctions were rasied during that conversation and flynn could be vulnerable to russian blackmail. Sean Spicer White House press secretary immediately after department of justice notified the White House Council the White House Council of briefed president and small group of advisers. Yet