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Invasion of cyprus which took place in that ye, or it may have been due to some earthquakes that we know took place at that time. lazarus disappears until late in the ninth century when a rumor spreads through the christian world, his relics have been discovered. and in 901, knights come to cyprus in search of the bones of jesus' beloved friend. >> the emperor sends his agents to the island of cyprus. >> he entered the church there dedicated to st. lazarus, and proceed to go down into the crypt where they find the remnants of the saint. >> they then make their way back. >> in exchange for the ...

Catastrophic flooding. dump trucks and helicopters continue to reinforce the battered hillside with boulders and concrete even now in the rain, and again, lake level now down to about 860 feet from a high on sunday of 901 feet. engineers want to get it down to 850 feet so about ten more feet to go. back live here at the main spillway, they've begun to scale back relief from the reservoirs so the crews can start fixing the damage caused by severe erosion here. debris pushing water into places it should not be, and this big spray you're looking at is water standing against a massive crater in th...

Produce enough water. if they can continue to release the water at the rate they are now, which is over 100,000 cubic feet per second, the water coming in even with heavy rain will not equal that. this is nighttime video of the main spillway. the backup spillway, the one they're worried about clansing, the water is below that. the lake is down ten feet from its peak on sunday. it's going down four inches an hour. they're going to continue to pour this water out. they don't want to have to use the backup spillway again. the emergency spillway is used when the lake level gets to 901 feet. curren...

At 901 feet. as of 11:00 a.m. saturday morning, the water was 6 inches over that limit and started to pour over the emergency spillway. by 3:00 a.m. sunday, the reservoir surface crested at over nine hundred two feet. six hours later, lake levels were dropping and are continuing to drop tonight. >> continued to fall. that's also an important point in our objective is to lower the lake level by 50 feet in order to prepare for future inflow of water. >> more than 180,000 people were ordered to evacuate. sparking traffic jams and concern among residents. >> multiple accidents with injuries on the...

50 feet below, and the dam is right over here. they want to get it 50 feet below the spill level. obviously it had crested and gone above it, 901 feet, tallest in america, just the other day. >> paul, cnn weather is predicting there could be more rain coming to the area later in the week. would the dam be prepared for that? >> reporter: that's what they're trying to do, shore up the dam. there is, as you pointed out, a breach in the spillway. also this extra spillway that they built. they're bagging up rocks. smashing rocks. they intend to dump it into the breach. also, the big move behind me,...