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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...

Welcome back. i'm alex witt alongside ayman mohyeldin. nearly 90,000 people in southern california are under evacuation orders after an emergency spillway from lake oroville was deemed too close to failure. officials began to use the relief system after the dam's primary spillway also developed a hole early last week. the officials stress that the dam's main structure remains sound. and the president is likely to get a secretary of treasury today. they will vote on the nomination of steve mnuchimnuchin. mnuchin said he worked hard to keep many inside their homes during the financial crisis. ...