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Claudia cowan is live at the top of the dam. good evening. >> good evening. the situation here in oroville's fluid appeared we understand that the water level here in the reservoir is dropping. it's about 6 feet below the rim. that's good news, dropping about 4 inches every hour and that emergency spillway that was teetering on collapse yesterday is holding. the problem is officials need to get this lake level lower. they need to do it fast. engineers are focusing on repairing oroville dams emergency spillway which suffered severe erosion damage over the weekend. convoys of trucks delivered bo...

Come in. it looks like an inch or two. the lake level will level out. maybe the water in will equal the water going out. we shouldn't see lake levels rising too much. then we still see a little bit of rain thursday but the heavy stuff is more wednesday night, thursday morning. rainfall forecast, this is through sunday. another storm over the weekend is a total of three to four, maybe five inches of rain. yes, they're trying to get things done in a hurry but i think we're going to be okay. so that gets us to today's big weather story. texas is getting soaked. great news. we like the rainfall in...

Washington and among media. more than one pro putin senator said flynn was a victim of those who wanted to see this. they said, quote, while flynn is leaving, the russian problem remains in the white house. he said that trump will be the next target. now flynn's departure is the latest casualty of trump's very public affinity for russian president vladimir putin. they resigned and manafort a high level person in the campaign. it's too early to tell whether trump's presidency will successfully heal moscow's rift with washington. breaking news we're just getting in right now. the british gover...

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...

Of the amount of water going over niagara falls is what's going over the spillway at every minute. that's an incredible amount of water. where they're patching and dropping stuff by helicopter is up here where the emergency spillway is. we're ten feet below that level. as long as we're draining it on the main spillway, we're okay. we have a tornado threat from vick for ye victoria to houston. mid morning to late afternoon. this is 10:00 a.m. to about 2:00 p.m. in the houston area. that's when we'll track those storms. here's the timing of it. as we go through 7:00 a.m., as we watch the line th...