Flooding Near Grand Canyon National Park Prompts Evacuations
Heavy rains near the southern entrance to the Grand Canyon promoted officials to evacuate more than 100 people from the nearby town of Tusayan.
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Heavy rains near the southern entrance to the Grand Canyon promoted officials to evacuate more than 100 people from the nearby town of Tusayan.
After historic snowpack levels in California, the concern now is for how fast the snow melts and the rate of runoff's impact on farmland.
Damaged, too. and for the next few days we can expect the lake level to keep dropping about four inches an hour. the next storm that's moving in tomorrow night, early thursday morning is expected to be a colder system which means the snow level will drop, there will be less rain and less runoff but bill, the challenge, of course, is to build up capacity not just for the rains due to arrive this week but in the weeks ahead not to mention all of the snow runoff arriving this spring. >> bill: claudia is watching all of that today in northern california. >> shannon: new details about what led to t...
>> in this book you have a number of charming vignettes. the last one that was offered, i are to say, brought a tear to my eye, even thinking about it. >> the elk. >> tell us that story. >> well, i always learn something every summer in montana from nature. and especially from wildlife. four, five years ago in the springtime when the river running through our national reservoir because of flood stage because of snow runoff and heavy rain. i was standing at a high point looking at a bend in the river when a small herd of mother elk came out, cows with her newborn calves. couldn't have been more...