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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...

Hoover dam. it is sound. the problem is all because we've had the heavy rain this winter. this is lake oroville and all the water has been flowing in. eventually we've gotten to 100% capacity, it goes down and the levees protect the stream and that's a perfect world. as they began to let the water out faster, cracks in spillway led to this huge crack and erosion. as they release a ton of water, they concerned. and they decided to open up the emergency spillway. so 901 feet is the magic number. when it reached 901 feet, it started going over the emergency spillway and this was going fine for ab...

Maybe the top 10 to 30 feet of the lake, that's what they needed to avoid. they didn't know if that was going to happen so they told everyone to get out of dodge. then they opened up this spillway about as fast as they possibly could. and then they said, forget the hole towards the bottom, we'll deal with that problem later. at 5:00 p.m., the lake level was at 901 feet. they doubled what was going on here. this was the output here. so this was about 54,000 cubic feet per second. and then they opened this up to about 100,000. so that dropped the lake level, whether is located here, to 901. this...

To blame for flight 901. >> everybody has got opinions, but a lot of the evidence just has never been considered. >> but one thing both reports agree on, weather was a key factor. >> the record shows that they had thought they could get into clear air below the cloud at about 2,000 feet. >> a weather condition called sector whiteout made the flanks of mount erebus seem to disappear. the optical illusion caused the approaching sound to look identical to the approach they believed they were flying over, mcmurdo sound. >> they were seeing what they expected to see, a cloud base above them, a bay ...

It was negative, no one had heard anything. >> it's late afternoon when the missing jet makes international headlines. coming up, the mystery of what happened to air new zealand flight 901. >> when we came around the side of the mountain and saw the total devastation, i was shocked. it just did not look like a plane.