Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170213:14:42:00
Rainfall into this lake system. that lake system became overwhelmed. the dam started to become overwhelmed. there's two avenues for the water to flow out, a primary spillway and a secondary spillway. earlier this week, engineers find a catastrophic hole in the primary, 250 foot wide that no amount of shoring up would have solved. for the first time in the dam's 48-year history, since the 1960s, the secondary spillway was used and engineers found a crack in that. the operation is to shore that up, get the water level in the lake lower. the mandatory evacuation is on for hundreds of thousands of...
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