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Potentially deadly situation. officials ordered 130,000 residents near the 770-foot tall oroville dam near the northern part of the state to evacuate the area immediately. that evacuation has begun because as they pit a hazardous situation is has begun. the dam is severely corroded due to heavy rain fall. the dam could fail unleashing floodwaters towards homes and the valley below. joining me now, adam housley joining us by phone. you grew. grew up in that area. can you tell us how dangerous that situation might be? >> we are in resuma city. 25-30 miles from the dam.

Soaring 770 feet, it sits above several communities in butte, and yuma counties. officials say if the emergency spillway was actually to give way, a 30 foot wall of water could cascade. that is why the concern is so high. the 188,000 people remain evacuated for now. the bad news, bill, we are expecting, as you know, another rainstorm midweek. they have to release more water to make way for the rainfall we are going to get. >> the storm wednesday and one on saturday. miguel, the good news is since the evacuation order took place, the lake is down three feet. it's no longer eroding the bay. they...

Thanks for visiting, mr. governor, give it pride of place somewhere. like if you moved into a new apartment and the landlord triumphantly handed you the vacuum bag from the old tenant. here's the original dirt from the former occupants of these rooms. congratulations. pride of place. but the oroville dam, they dedicated in the 1968. it's a big deal. it's huge, it's taller than hoover dam. it's the tallest dam in the united states. it's 770 feet tall. it was completed in 1968, took them almost a decade to build. it's one of those unimaginably large things we have made. you can see here the gian...

The former occupants of these rooms. congratulations. pride of place. but the oroville dam, they dedicated in the 1968. it's a big deal. it's huge, it's taller than hoover dam. it's the tallest dam in the united states. it's 770 feet tall. it was completed in 1968, took them almost a decade to build. it's one of those unimaginably large things we have made. you can see here the giant reservoir created when they built the dam, lake oroville, one of the two biggest reservoirs in the state of california. and that reservoir, lake oroville, it's the central thing in the grand plan that made califor...

>> in 2010, the world of archaeology was galvanized by the discovery in bulgaria of a relic whose date and dna are compatible with those of john the baptist. in oxford's archaeology lab, tom and george wait for the results of this new test. as they work to build up a comprehensive date map of john the baptist's relics across europe, could this latest test match the individual from bulgaria? >> here's the actual date between 661 to 770 a.d. >> right. >> so that's much younger than john the baptist. it's not john the baptist. >> so it's not the same finger that we looked at in bulgaria. >> the r...