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It sever will fa itself will fail, but this is still a risky situation. >> we had water coming over the top of the emergency spillway. it was beginning to erode the ground. it starts to undermine itself. but when it's doing that, it starts working its way back towards the emergency spillway. that portion of it has nothing to do with the dam itself, a large portion, but if that is not addressed and we don't tarah ta -- take care of that and mitigate it properly, what we are looking at is a 30-foot wall of water that would be coming out of the lake. >> joining me on the phone is eric curry, a re...

Get overtopped and run instead down the hillside all the way downstream and see what happens to california or you keep thundering water down that broken sinkhole concrete gutter and see how long it holds. it started off as a 300 foot long gash, it's kept on spreading and spreading, look. they say presumably it will split down to the bed rook. but what are you going to do? they have to keep running water down that thing. they don't have a choice so they're running the destroyed spillway. they're running it to complete failure. hope for the best, the best option. pray for dry days. this happened...