Flooding wednesday with victims inside. Inside the civic center. Look at this. We are inside. The people all in the bleachers. Reporter back in houston, more shelter space has opened up. There are 230 shelters operating. And many thousands remain swamped with 49,000 homes now damaged or destroyed. In the past week, they have made more than 8500 rescues, more than 26,000 evacuations. At this point, fema says 200,000 people have started the process of seeking help from the federal government. Harvey is bringing misery to the gulf coast, well go to our chief meteorologist in the Weather Center with more on where the storm is heading. Its out of the houston area which is great news. Its on the border between texas, eastern texas and louisiana. Its raining hard there are also. The system has been downgraded and the wind dying off. Its still potent with rainfall. You can see how fortunate they are. If there were 70 or 80 miles east, this rain would come down. Heres a system tracking off. The
Evacuation order would probably be lifted after about 1 30 this afternoon. Then they got the word, of course, here back in oroville as were standing here. Things are slowly returning back to normal. People are, of course, grateful but they are also aware that another emergency could force them to evacuate once again. Good to be back. Janelle wilson and her family were among the first to arrive back in oroville after the mandatory Evacuation Order was lifted. I can sleep in my own bed. I dont have no sleep in a motel room. Everybody just scrunched in one room, it was not fun. Its been a roller coaster. Still, theyre going to be working on that dam. Im just hoping we dont have to leave again. I just want to be home. The extended family of seven and their dogs have stayed in a hotel for two nights and were trying to find a longer Term Solution at the Evacuation Center in chico when they learned the order was about to be lifted. So they packed up and headed out driving south from the Evacu
15pound rock 20 feet in the air. Reporter but chp says it found no evidence of anyone throwing anything onto the highway. Meantime caltrans said it subjected contracts for emergency projects. The work will be for approximately five miles of 680 southbound and one mile of state route 24. Weve had four, five months of heavy rain, inclement weather that further deteriorates the roadway. Reporter due to the heavy rains, caltrans says maintenance crews have conducted sweeping operations approximately ten times since late december to clean up loose materials. In walnut creek, melanie woodrow, abc 7 news. To developing news now. A threeday ordeal is over tonight for evacuees living near the oroville dam. Butte county officials lifted the Evacuation Order for nearly 200,000 people in the oroville area south of chico. We learned a short time ago that fema approved governor browns request for federal assistance with the flooding threat. Officials say the damaged main spillway has been stable for
Damaged along the same stretch of road. Good evening on that you for joining us. Im ama daetz. And im dan ashley. No one hurt but dozens of people said theyve had their windshields and sun roofs smashed while driving. The damage is clustered around highway 24 outside of chestnut creek. The chp thought someone was throwing objects down onto the freeway. They revealed the cause is something else. Reporter Melanie Woodrow shows you the answer came when they looked in a different direction. Reporter shattered windshields, broken glass, and a deafening sound. I immediately thought it was a gunshot. Reporter not once, not twice it was such a scary moment, and i can still hear the sound. It was just awful. Reporter but dozens of times since december. Today we had about 55 repo reported to chp. Reporter where interstate 680 meets 24 near an overpass. Luckily no one was seriously injured. Now chp says its not someone who is responsible, its something. All of the evidence weve gathered through o
Have a great deal of work ahead of us. Reporter saturday, a search team scouring an abandoned property in virginia found human remains, eight miles from where 18yearold gri ham disappeared. I believe got wanted us to find what we found. I dont know how else to explain it other than something inside me told me just continue to look. Reporter shortly after Charlottesville Police relaid the news of the discovery to grahams parents. Forensic tests need to be conducted to determine the identification of those remains but nonetheless we wanted to be quick and timely to share that information with the graham family. Graham vanished in the early hours of september 13 from charlottesvilles downtown mall. Last seen in surveillance videos with 32yearold Jesse Matthew. Matthew is the only person detained in connection with grahams disappearance. He is behind bars, charged with abduction with intent to defile. The remote location where the remains were found is within miles of the farm where the bo