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Over the past few months. the good news as we pointed out, the lake level is dropping. they needed to drop even more before the next storm hits so they could assure everyone's safety. back to you now, wolf. >> we'll take the good news for now. paul, thanks very much. right now the president and the canadian prime minister justin trudeau, they're having lunch ahead of their joint news conference scheduled for the top of the hour. looking at live pictures from the east room of the white house. when we come back, my panel will weigh in on how these two very different world leaders will try to n...

Of unknown. we need to continue to lower the lake level. and we need to give the department of water resources time to evaluate the situation so we can make some decisions as to whether or not it is safe to repopulate areas. i can tell you that we have staff looking at the various areas that evacuations have been ordered in. and making a determination based on bert analysis as to what areas are clearly in danger and what areas may be less vulnerable. but that analysis still need to be done. so we are going to continue in our current status until we have some better information about whether it...

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...

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...

Dam, but the spillway unleashing uncontrolled floodwaters from laklake oroville to homes below. from a news conference we learned it could be 30 feet of water. earlier today they held a news conference, let's listen. >> one of the significant things hat happened and i'm thankful for is this. the efforts by dwr to lower the lake level by utilizing the spillway to reduce the water has been effective. and now there is no more water going over the emergency spillway. that is a very positive thing at this point. but as you also heard, although it brings some stability to the situation, there is sti...