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Emergency spillway. That extended beyond butte county and extended into yuma county. People are urged to move to higher ground. To give you an idea of where Lake Oroville is, it is at capacity sitting about 25 miles southeast of chico. The dam is the nations tallest. It was completed back in 1968 and can store as much as 3. 5 million acre feet of water. We are waiting for a live News Conference in oroville from department of water supervisor officials and the butte county sheriff to bring us up to date scheduled to begin at 9 00 tonight and then pushed back to 10 00 tonight. It still has not s...

On sunday officials noted a hole in that spillway is more water flowed into the lake. They thought it would fail so they issued an emergency evacuation for nearly 200 they thought it would fail so they issued an emergency evacuation for nearly 200,000 people. Extended beyond butte county in to sumter county. As they urge people in low lying areas to move to higher ground. The governor. Issued an emergency order. Experts are emphasizing the orville dam is not in danger. They want to stress the problem is erosion on the emergency spillway. Water Officials Say they need to lower the level lake by...

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...

Homes because of fear the emergency spillway could collapse. The danger has eased a bit. We are not out of the woods yet. We will have the latest on the situation as mornings on 2 continues. Monday morning february 13. We are starting 188 we are starting 188,000 people are under Evacuation Orders right now. State and local officials warned that the emergency spillway of the oroville dam might fail because of erosion. A lot of evacuees are at red cross shelters. Right now that spillway is holding. Crews took the pressure off of it. We showed you live a few minutes ago repairs on the spillway ar...

Water at the rate of 100,000 cubic feet per second. Lake oroville is a few feet below the spillway eroding when the water topped it yesterdays. 37,000 cubic feet of water running in the lake it is 1063 feet a second out of thelake. Our objective is to lower the lake level by fifty feet to prepare for future inflow of water due to storms and precipitation. Now this may take awhile because officials must monitor for erosion or any other change to spell trouble. Repairs to stabilize the situation could take awhile as officials decide exactly how to do it. Recently helicopters have been placing wh...