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Now from abc 7, live breaking news. Breaking news, a massive evacuation effort is under way right now as more than 100,000 people are trying to get out of the way of a potentially catastrophic failure at the Lake Oroville dam. If that is not addressed and we dont take care of that and mitigate it properly, essentially what were looking at is approximately a 30foot wall of water good evening. Im eric thomas. Were waiting for the start of a News Conference on the latest of the situation at Lake Oroville dam. The dam is near chico 160 highs northeast of San Francisco. The problem is with an emerg...

Mike, what do we have for today . Pretty quiet. Okay. Thats fine. Yeah. Quite the other side of what theyre dealing with but they will have more rain. Ill talk about that in five minutes. Hi, everybody. Lets talk about high clouds showing up on live doppler 7 but no rain for today, tomorrow and wednesday. There you go. Some fog trying to develop. Heading to the day planner, the temperatures are mainly in the 40s. Well be in the 50s into the afternoon hours. Traffic cant wait. Lets get right to it. Ill take it from here, mike. We have a Traffic Alert here this morning, westbound 580 just before...

Low 50s by 7 00. Lets find out about your morning commute. Want to talk about mass transit. We do not have ace rail service out of the central valley. That is all day today and tomorrow. That is because a lot of track damage has been done. Union pacific having to reroute a lot of trains, and ace said, not worth it. Were not going to run trains the next couple days. Capital corridor are having to reroute a lot of the trains. Expect delays. 17 minute delay is the first so far today. Harbor bay for San Francisco bay ferry, itll be on a reduced capacity vessel. We have a couple blocking issues. Th...

Capacity 25 miles southeast of chico is the tallest in the country. Evacuation orders extend beyond butte county into yuba county. Paul chambers is in our newsroom. He has the latest developments in a few minutes. The spoke to steve paulson. Weather is a big factor. We have about three more days and rain is going to turn. The inflow has been coming down. That should lower the lake 4 or 5 feet. They need to lower it 50 feet. At least is not coming over the emergency spillway anymore. It picked out at 1 am sunday morning. The inflow has gone down. There is a huge snowpack still up there. That is...

This is business as usual in orville. No business. There are few places opened. Very few people running around. Not a complete ghost town but is one that is hard to find something if you need gas or something, you you would have to take a look. For the people not here there situation is wait, worry and wonder and see something happen. The the evacuation is in effect. The decision to release the evacuation and allow people to return to the area is equally difficult decision to make. The water has been released at one hundred cubic feet per second. Lake oroville dam was beneath the spillway sinc...