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Cars, wherever they can. Abc 7 News ReporterLaura Anthony is live with more. Laura . Reporter well, hi, christine. This is the older part of downtown oroville. The lowlying area. At this point, its a ghost town. But as we are speaking, there are folks going by on their bikes. For the most part, though, theres nobody in this area. Now, fears have been eased somewhat, but in a worst case scenario, this part of town could be under 30 feet of water. So how long did it take you to get out last night . Five hours. Reporter its a trip that normally takes about 40 minutes, thats the drive from the southern county town to colusa where this family and their puppies are waiting out the ongoing emergency at the oroville dam. I didnt think it was real at first. And then i saw people evacuated actually. And i got scared because i didnt want to leave my dogs. That was the only thing i was wo ....
Get out of the central valley. Service canceled today and tomorrow. That has been extended due to the Poor Condition of those tracks. Live look outside at walnut creek. You can see the brake lights filling in here. Southbound 680, no blocking incidents in that area. Np 17, very slow and we have a very big crash in sunol on 680. The mandatory evacuations remain in place this morning for 188,000 People Living below the oroville dam. Officials want to stress the dam itself is safe. The concern is over the dams emergency spillway. Crews are racing to fill a giant hole that opened up in the earth. They hope to drop the lake by 50 feet before the rain returns. Right now, its down 10 feet. Fema has mobilized a task force to work with the other agencies and evacuees are being told to be prepared to be out of their homes for days, possibly even weeks. And no word yet from the white hou ....
Not price gouge on essentials like gas and hotels. Concerns over the situation have reached all the way to washington, d. C. , the white house just responding to the situation in oroville. Keeping a close eye on the oroville dam situation in california. We have worked closely with doug la m alfa who represents californias First District where the dam is located and other state officials to help people who have been impacted. The situation is a textbook kbam pl of why we need to pursue a major infrastructure package in congress. Dams, bridges, roads and all ports around the country have fallen into disrepair. In order to prevent the next disaster, we will pursue the president s vision for an overhaul of our nations crumbling infrastructure. Talking about crumbling infrastructure, efforts underway right now to try to sure up these damaged spill ways, kris. Reporter nbc bay area pete suratos is in oroville and has the latest. Reporte ....
Of problems. And well walk you through what went wrong. And whats being done to at least temporarily stabalize the situation. This is a daily mail map. The problem at Lake Oroville started last tuesday when a massive hole opened up here in the main spillway. Lets check out video of the hole from last week. It may be hard to tell here. But its 30 feet deep. 200 feet wide. That hole prompted water managers to stop using the main spillway. That meant water in the lake. Swollen from all this winters storms. Started coming over the emergency spillway. The emergency spillway. Built in 1968. Is just dirt and rocks. And yesterday water was coming over the top. And carving small craters in the land below. Which is not paved like the main spillway. The concern is that the dirt and rock at the top of the emergency spillway might collapse. And that would be catasprophic. A 30 foot wall of water would come charging down the hill. Like a tsunami ....
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