plus breaking news from oroville... we'll show you what the red cross message to people is this morning and hear from evacuees. three cameras are live from the oroville dam. you are looking at a youtube stream of it now. we are continuing to follow this breaking news story throughout the kron four morning news. breaking news... we are continuing to follow the the situation near the oroville dam. this is new video from the c-h-p. you can see just how much water is gushing over the spillway. lake oroville had water levels so high, that the emergency spillway was used for the first time in almost 50 years on saturday. the main spillway was damaged during recent heavy rain. a california national guard official says they will provide eight helicopters to assist with reconstruction. helicopters will also be available for search and rescue today. the california national guard also put out a notification to all 23-thousand soldiers and airmen to be ready to deploy if needed. the last time an alert like this was issued for the e

towns there could include oroville, palermo, thermolito and the oroville dam area and oroville east. i believe i'm saying that correctly. >> marysville also as well. >> once again, this has been happening here just for only about two hours is when the alert went out. they said over and over again this is not a drill and they want residents to take it seriously and now the big issue that we're hearing from resident, getting out and they're heading to the main thorough fare and they're trying to leave. you see the backups and one side, the one direction where you can see the backups and at one point a resident said we're trying to leave, we're not moving. we're just stuck in traffic. >> where they're evacuating to, well, there is an evacuation center set up at the fairgrounds in chico. so this is going to impact communities to the north away from the water and of course, to the south should that spillway give way. we're getting word from yolo county which is south of sacramento count they there is no concern there for any problems with any kind of flooding and sacramento down to yuba a

more on lake oroville. when the water hits that and it did on saturday and sunday that's when water breaches the emergency spillway . as of 6:00 this morning all of the outflow you are seeing on television is dropped the level to 897 and in the past 11 hours last reading was at 894.2 and continuing to drop. they want to drop it as much as possible because we do have more rain moving in later on this week redwood city your high today 64, concord in santa rosa 64, san francisco the low 60s. there's another storm coming and it's taking most of the storm energy north. it will take time, another 60 hours before it gets here. that is the low heading up to the gulf of alaska. bringing rain back by thursday morning. monday night will be mostly cloudy, north bay and south bay you may have it again tomorrow morning fog is likely. 42 degrees livermore, 44 degrees and mild tomorrow with a mixture of sun and clouds. the highs will be close to 70 degrees in nampa, santa rosa, vallejo, san jose 63. rain does return later

dam failing.of the oroville and the threat evacuations and the threat of the oroville dam failing. let's start with will tran who is live in chico this morning. will. i am in oroville where the spill way is overflowing forcing thousands of people to evacuate. and to keep up to date with this breaking news story you can download the free kron 4 mobile app.. we'll keep you updated through breaking news push alerts. and push alerts. breaking news you updated we'll keep mobile app..free kron 4 download the you can news story this breaking up to date with and to keep and to keep up to date with this breaking news story you can download the free kron 4 mobile app.. we'll keep you updated through breaking news push alerts. and officials are holding a news conference at 10-am this morning... we will stream it live on our mobile app, facebook, and com. we continue our coverage of the breaking news this morning... nearly 200- thousand people are under evacuation orders as the emergency spillway at the oroville dam welcome back to the kron 4 morning news... every morning at 7:45 we talk sport

this shows the oroville dam and what crews are dealing with. behind it... that's lake oroville. all the water you saw rushing just a few seconds ago... it is going down the spillway... and there is the emergency spillway as well... it goes... and we could see an absolute catastrophy. that is why emergency action has been taking place all day to prevent a catostrophic even.. kron 4's haaziq madyun was on the scene today at the oroville dam .. he shows you what is being done to keep the dam from overflowing these two helicopters are lifting off from the lake oroville overlook carrying these white bags full of dirt to be used to shore up the dam's emergency spillway, which was recently compromised due to erosion"that emergency spillway was built in 1968 when the dam was built it is just bare and earth watr flowing down, it has never been used before, so water flow down there created a gauge that was working itself back up to the top toward the face of the reservoir, if it continued on there was a possibility there could have been an uncontrolled release of water"that prompted an em

especially folks in oroville. an. >> looking several inches by sunday and monday because we are not dealing withing one system but two or three and maybe four and i will explain that. lee jordan look at storm tracker 2 where we are covered in clouds at this hour. it will provide for a pretty sunset. about an hour away from now. mid high level clouds continuing to sweep through the bay today. we get sunshine and we get cloud cover and filtered sunshine and any case. it has been pleasant for most. here is a look at futurecast. on the back end of the forecast we want to talk about the next possibility of rain. tuesday is a dry day and wednesday is a dry day and a few sprinkles in the picture by wednesday and thursday, here we are system number one moving to the bay area. it looks early on and could actually impact the morning commute. storm number one on thursday. friday afternoon another system develops and most of the bay area and we are left with wet roadway and impact the evening dry and saturday in between day.

evacuation orders lifted for people who live near oroville... we have the latest on the crisis and the next steps ahead. armed, dangerous and on the loose in the bay area... the bank robbers police are looking for this morning. and wet weather is returning to the bay area. meteorologist anny hong is in the weather center with what you need to know. the kron 4 morning news starts right good morning... it is wednesday, january 15. fletcher. toss to weather and traffic. high pressure aloft will maintain dry weather and seasonably mild temperatures into much of the day wednesday. an active weather pattern then returns late wednesday night into thursday as a cold front sweeps across the region bringing widespread rainfall and stronger winds. two additional systems are forecast to impact the region on friday and again sunday night into monday with widespread rainfall and increased winds possible. while unsettled conditions will likely continue into at least the first half of next week, brief periods of dry conditions can be expected. no major hot spot

at the oroville dam. i've been in close contact with emergency personnel, managing the suit -- situation through the weekend. it is clear the circumstances are complex. and rapidly changing. i want to thank local and state law enforcement for leading evacuation efforts and doing their part to keep residents safe. the state is directing all necessary personnel and resources to deal with this very serious situation. the gov.'s office of emergency services activated the state operations center to its highest level. they are working with emergency personnel and or avail along with state and federal officials. you can get the latest developments on the emergency spillway 24 hours a day on our website. you can also find the latest information on evacuations and shelters locations. >>> police investigating the death of 2 people whose bodies were found in berkeley over the weekend. they were called to a home at haskell street police investigating the death of 2 people whose bodies were found in berkeley over the

the water is seeping through underground. >> the oroville dam is above the city of oroville. the city is located in the sierras, 25 miles south of chico. the dam was completed in 1968. this is a live look at the dam. lake oroville can store 3.5 million-acre feet of water. right now the amount of water leaving the dam is slowing and is expected to stop monday. conditions changed this afternoon when the evacuation order was issued. the oroville dam is the tallest dam in the united states, taller than the hoover dam. dwr officials said it's a strong possibility that there will be flooding so people are encouraged to leave and head north. >> that's what we saw in the live pictures. thank you lee, the threat of the spillway failing is causing some concern in sacramento. the fire department's public information officer took to twitter saying that the situation could have downstream febilities in sacramento. >>> lets check in with mark -- effects in sacramento. >>> lets check in with mark. >> that dam has been there since 1968. they have never seen anything like this. >> when they a

the oroville dam is in fine shape. nothing wrong with the dam. the spillway, the main spillway in here in damage but in use. they closed off the spillway to assess the damage and that is where this began. yesterday when the lake peaked above 900 feet they decided to use the auxillary spillway being called the emergency spillway and erosion began and that triggered the evacuation and this is a where it left us last night. this morning due to the spillway in use. the lake fell below 900 feet and they stopped using the auxillary spillway. that is the good news and that continues to be in use because we have been talking about, they are hoping to drop the lake level by 40 or fifty feet. with the days ahead. that flow is one hundred thousand cubic feet per second and continue over the next few days because we have more rain coming back to the bay this week. i will detail that for you coming up. >>> still a lot of uncertainty for the tens and thousands of people ordered to evacuate with no warning. many people have been worried tonight. reporter: hundr

fingers crossed up here in oroville. live in oroville, j.r. stone kron 4 news. though officials are releasing water from the oroville dam ... more rain is on the way. kron-4' chief meteorologist brittney shipp joins us now with how much rain the area is expecting. more rain in the forecast with a series of storms starting wednesday night. you can track what's happening in oroville online and through our mobile app. find updates on the spillway repairs at kron-4 dot com. and stay connected on breaking news with push alerts on our free app. new at 8, commuters in the north bay endured another day of detouring around a flood prone section of highway 37. that roadway has been closed for most of the past few months and now caltrans is stepping up efforts to get it back into service.kron 4's charles clifford is live for us tonight in the north bay with details. charles, does caltrans think they can get the flooding problem fixed before the next round of rain arrives? natsit's the detour that won't go away.sotit's a little bit of a painfor yet another day, commuters in

water continues to cascade out of lake oroville ... threatening to flood towns along the feather river,tens of thousands of people now living in cars and cots in evacuation centers after the emergency order to get out.and then the sirens started goin' offfire trucks were screaming get outthe only thing i thought at that moment was 'get out' now at 8. mass amounts of water unleashed from the oroville dam. a race against time for crews trying to repair the dam and ease the swollen water levels before the next storm. all this as the damaged spillway threatens to flood communities.. already forcing nearly 200-thousand people from their homes. thank you for joining us i'm steve aveson. and i'm pam moore. tonight we are tracking the upcoming rain which could make things worse for oroville. and spencer blake is at an evacuation center tonight. but first, our grant lodes is here with what the governor is calling for tonight? grant ? governor brown is asking the federal government for assistance for the three counties affected by this emergency

nearby evacuation centers are filling up. >>> alex savage is in oroville. >> reporter: oroville itself is empty. we just drove through town to get to the area of the lake where all the work is going on. oroville empty for the most part except for law enforcement and emergency workers. who are working on trying to put a fixed in place for the erosion problem on that emergency spillway. the situation seemingly has stabilized somewhat with the lake level dropping. but still a very active seen this morning at the lake where they are filling up those large bags with boulders. a helicopter will place those bags along the top portion of the emergency spillway to try and deal with the erosion problem. even once they put that into place more rain is on the way. there is still a lot of concern about the integrity of both of those spillways. the evacuation orders remain in place. shelters are set up across the area. we were at a shelter at the silver dollar fairgrounds in chico this morning. one of many places where people have gone after they were evacuated yesterday afternoon. because of the pr

in oroville, we'll get two inches, all going to lake oroville. we have to keep an eye on that. hopefully they can get water out of there before it happens. temperatures mainly in the upper 30s to mid 40s. as we head throughout the day today, it is going to be a lovely day with high clouds and sunshine and temperatures in the low to upper 60s. >>> mike, thank you. three environmental groups predicted this scenario. 12 years ago, they warned federal and state officials the spillway could erode during heavy winter rains and cause a catastrophe. the mercury news reports the environmental groups including the sierra club filed a motion with the federal government in 2005. they were urging federal officials to require that the dam's emergency spillway will armored with concrete rather than remain an earth and hillway. the commission rejected the request after the state department of water resources and other water agencies said the upgrades were unnecessary. >>> because of its location and size, helicopters are playing a key role in keeping nearby cities safe. >> jessica is at the li

a back-up spillway to let water out of the oroville dam. this is about 70 miles north of sacramento where this is happening, has some erosion, some damage to it. in fact, it sort of looks like a sinkhole in this auxiliary spillway, so that's why they're saying uncontrolled water now flowing out. anyone in low-lying areas, they want to evacuate. >> they want oroville to evacuate. a few thousand more. maybe 20,000 plus affected by this evacuation order. rob, you've been checking the levels on this. >> it's about 100 cubic feet per seco second. >>> on this sunday night, border wars. president trump faces big protests in mexico over trade and his plans for a wall while his administration defends the travel ban and plans its next moves. >>> russia's ambitions. how moscow is targeting other elections, this time in europe, trying to boost far right candidates there. >>> painful legacy. the name on a building evokes slavery and caused protests, and now yale university finally agrees to a name change joining others that have done the same. >>> and d

again, i do not have specifics on things with oroville. it is my understanding that obviously there have been years of drought and record low levels in those reservoirs. but all of the storms they have been experiencing in recent times and runoff from the itself has ae dam large watershed. all of that is coming in to fill up the reservoir. good idea of how much flow was coming in based on the rainfall they are seeing and how much snow melts they know they are experiencing. the snowpack, or whatever is in the mountains. based on that, they have an idea of what is coming in. the reservoir fairly quickly. they know what they need to discharge in order to get it down. today"nother "usa headline says 20% of dams in the country in populated areas lacked an emergency plan. how emergency plans are supposed to work and what is the significance of 20%? guest: an emergency action plan with a dam is a plan put in place, a cooperation between the owner of the dam, the dam safety regulator, local emergency responders and emergency management officials.

on the right, this right here that's the oroville dam. not in any damage but next to it is the spillway where the water is being let out and over here, that is the emergency spillway, the darker area and the spillway was used last night and the good news is there is no longer any water over that emergency spillway and the water level has dropped so there is no danger. if you look at the emergency spillway it is rock and dirt. it is supposed to be used as only a last resort. but once all of the water started to pour out last night you can see the damage it caused. once was a dirty hillside looks like a rocky canyon. emergency crews were worried that the erosion was happening so quickly it could tear apart the hillside and in a worse case scenario the concrete lip at the an top of the emergency spillway. the worst case scenario, afraid it might crumble and if that happened it would lead to catastrophic flooding. the problem started when the original spillway was damaged last week. the main outlet for water to be released from the dam. as yo

evacuations empty out the city of oroville. tonight nearly 200,000 people want to stop living out of their cars and go home. >>> gaping holes in a roadway. the south bay won't be back to normal any time soon. >>> and a levee has broken and people living in the area are asked to get out. >>> getting those people home is important to me. i want that to happen as absolutely soon as possible. but i have to be able to sleep at night knowing they are back in that area. >> and that area is downstream from the oroville dam where water is rushing over a damaged spillway. roughly 200,000 people are evacuated this evening. >> right now they still have no idea when they might be allowed to return to their homes. good evening, i'm dan ashley. >> i'm christine zee. thank you for joining us. we'll get to the very latest now. the imminent threat of a breach wall has receded. >> no water is spilling over the reservoir right now. the goal is to lower the lake level by 50 feet. all of the the state's national guard is on alert ready to assist if

this is a parking lot near oroville dam. what they're doing is delivering large rocks to this area and we have heavy machinery. they're putting them into bags and the choppers are going to put them in place to try and shore up the emergency spillway. now the good news is the immediate threat has diminished somewhat. that's because they have been able to release the significant amount of water through the main spillway overnight so the lake level has dropped. the water is no longer coming over the top of the emergency spillway causing so much concern and triggered the massive evacuation order we saw yesterday with nearly 200,000 people ordered to leave their homes. people living all across the feather river basin, there was concern about a wall of water rushing into those communities. that immediate threat has subsided. now you have this race against the clock. they're working in this tight time window trying to shore up the emergency spillway and get it to a point where they're comfortable. steve talked about the weather pla

back to you. >>> you mentioned oroville. we continue to follow message efforts crews have been working around the clock to make repairs to the damaged spillways. >> it was damaged during the recent rainfall. it was used for the first time in 50 years. but it is mainly made up of earth and started to erode. >> we have team coverage of the spillway concerns and evacuations. pete suratos is live near the dam with repair efforts. >>> the excavators bagging up the rocks. a helicoptering doing air drops to the eroded areas of the spillway. let's show video from chp. evacuations are still in place for 200,000 residents. the lake levels are dropping. they can continue to stabilize the emergency spillway. i'll tell you what, guys, crews are work to go make the repairs before the rain comes in. governor jerry brown during a press conference said said he will request federal aid. he said he was unaware of a report that raises concerns about this spillway. >> we didn't even think about it three days ago. but it happened. we have the oth

the oroville dam crisis. the water level has dropped two feet in the last seven hours. >> that means it's about 10 feet below the lip of the dam is the goal is to get down by 50 feet ahead of the approaching storms. 188,000 people living below the dam are still under a mandatory evacuation. the emergency spillway is at risk of failing and crews are racing to fill a giant hole that opened up. >> we're going to continue to work on the challenges that we have with this facility. as indicated, we're working to really dig down into the reservoir and move as much water out of that reservoir so we have space for the storms that we expect to come in as well as the snow runoff later this spring. >>> the white house has yet to respond to governor brown's request for emergency funding. >>> we are getting a unique perspective on the situation in oroville this morning. chp releasing video which shows what the dam looks like at nigh, using night vision. i'm wondering if we can get to that video. the infrared cameras help t

(ad lib) where an evacuation in oroville...(ad lib) wheran er >>> we are monitoring the situation in oroville, of course, where an evacuation order has been issued for more than 100,000 people after an emergency spillway at the oroville dam overflowed causing erosion below leading to a very real concern that the spillway could give way. that would have sent a wall of water rushing down the feather river. since that ee vak order about 5:00 this evening, the erosion has slowed. more water being released from the dam. the situation has improved, but the evacuation order is still in place and right now there is a news conference going on near the dam involving the california office of emergency services and we will keep -- we're monitoring that. we'll let you know if they have any big announcements coming out of that press conference. >> we are hearing right now they have just announced governor brown has issued an emergency order tonight of course trying to get more people here to help with the state's response to the situation in

talking about oroville. agencies all over california are helping with the oroville dam crisis. >> joining us on the phone is sergeant ray kelly with the cal immediate accounty sheriff's office. thank you for joining us, sergeant. >> good morning. >> i understand that the jail has 8,000 inmates. did alameda county reach out or were you custody on butte county -- were you asked by butte county. >> we have one of the largest jails in the state of california. it made sense for us to take the load that some of the other counties couldn't. so we were asked and we stepped up. and our staff has been working around the clock to get everything done. it has been a good transition. >> i was going to ask you, with all of the jails we know that overcrowding is an issue and staffing is an issue. how has the adjustment been. >> we're fortunate that our jail is 50% of what it was in the early 2000s. we don't have a lot of people in custody. we do have the room available. so overcrowding is not an issue for us right now. so t

i'm the commander of the oroville chp area. and to give you a quick report on the conditions as far as the roadways and the closures. i'll start at the top with the -- we have a closure at sr70 at 191. we have a closure on the 70 at 149. and we also have a closure on 99 in marysville area. the southern area. 99 at 20th. and again on the south end of the closure up i-70 and 18th street. and another one on 70 and woodruff to prevent traffic coming in from the east and to continue north. but as far as our exit routes we are still encouraging traffic and people that are leaving the area to continue to update their northbound 99 or onto 70. thank you. >> since we last talked at 9:00, we may have gotten misinformation. but i think this is covered by chief watson. but one of the significant things that has happened and i'm thankful for is the efforts by vwr to lower the lake level by utilizing the spillway to reduce the water. it has been affected. and now there is no more water going over the emergency spillway. that is a very positi

first off kpix5's joe vazquez who is at lake oroville. joe? >> reporter: ken, you can see all these big trucks behind me. clearly they are hard at work trying to put these big rocks onto the broken spillway and trying to fix it. what is not so clear tonight is the degree to which communities downstream are still in harm's way. >> it's very difficult. it's hard to understand how people have been able to evacuate so quickly and the disturbance to their lives. >> reporter: california governor jerry brown says the situation along the oroville dam is serious and potentially dangerous and he's asked the white house for help. >> just know that their government and their representatives are doing everything they can and will continue to do whatever it takes to make sure we have a safe dam. >> reporter: how did we get here? last week's storms started the process in motion after the main concrete spillway started breaking apart. as that hole got bigger, engineers decided to use the emergency spillway for the first time in the dam's 48 year history. that

i want to give you live pictures now from sky fox over the oroville dam. about an hour ago, we are expected to get an update at a news conference with the department of water resources. alex savage has been live there. what's going on mow? >> good morning, just got off the phone as a matter of fact with the representative from the california department of water resources. ahead of the news conference an hour from now, essentially what i got from him is there's a far less concern this morning about a kol lapgs on that auxiliary spillway when the water was cresting over the top. the lake level came down four feet below the crest point where we're spilling over the auxiliary spillway that is eroding and caused so much concern yesterday and triggered the evacuation orders. an improving situation over night, still doing a lot of work out here this morning to try and put a temporary fix in place. we'll take you first to a live look from sky fox and show you what things like up above. they were able to relieve the pressure overnight because they ramped up the amo

in oroville, laura anthony, "abc7 news." >> thank you very much. the good news is that the water level at lake oroville continues to recede. officials are releasing about 100,000 cubic feet per second to create a little bit of breathing room. so far everything is going as it should. >> public official safeties did their job and we were able to get people evacuated out of the community in a timely fashion. at the same time, our partners at the department of water resources were working to save that structure and prevent further damage so that we could go on. >> trucks have been bringing in broken pieces of concrete and being put in giant bags to shore up the eroded spillway. a federal official reveals that the dam has been running under a series of temporary licenses for about ten years. its old permit, which was good for 50 years, expired in 2007. a new permit was applied for. the federal agency says it just received all the information it needs this past december. >> the oroville dam is 770 feet tall, the tallest in the nation, ating the hoover da

mandatory evacuation orders lifted near the oroville dam. not everyone is feeling good about going home. it is because of this next wave of storms moving in quickly. a race to fix issues at the two oroville spillways before the rain makes the situation more complicated. >>> freeways causing damage to commuters's cars because of recent rain. a fix could be a little bit later down the road. today in the bay starts now. >>> mudslides, crumbling roads all a result of this storm. >>> a break today from the storms. boy, they will ramp up once again, kari? >> yeah. we have four storms expected the next seven days. it is about to get really busy here. take a break, breathe, and enjoy the last a little bit of this mild weather and dry conditions too. as you step out the door, 50 degrees in san jose. 54 degrees in san francisco. getting the kids ready for the bus stop. mainly clear. feeling the milder temperatures. this will be the last dry day at recess. by the time they head home, a mix of sun and clouds wa

the pictures from lake oroville. we'll take a specific look at the water levels, at the height of all the drama yesterday. when the water was going over the emergency spillway. at 902.59 feet. the emergency had trigger is had 890 feet. they've been able to get it down to 894.2er feet. it will continue to drop four to five inches per hour. again, it is a race it's again time. as we get a look at what to expect. we'll have dry weather for the next 48 hours but a new storm on thursday. and really, as we look at it. four storms over the next eight days with three to four inches of rain. we'll get another look across the bay area. >> we'll see you shortly. all of this is happening about 100 miles to the northeast of us among big concerns, could this happen here? some of our local dams are at high hazard. where are the trouble spots in the bay area? >> actually all over. we've dove into inspection records for dams. for all 1585 dams throughout california. and we found about 100 dams here in the bay area listed by the u.s.

we have more coverage on the situation in oroville ahead. coming up 10:30 -- a look at the warning signs years before the breach -- and why nothing was done about it. and our coverage of this big story also continues online.on kron-4-dot-com...we have a complete list of the evacuations centers. harrowing stories from evacuees who aren't sure when they will be able to return to their homes.and how you can help..we have a link to the red cross. breaking news:michael flynn is now one of the shortest-serving senior presidential advisers in modern history.the embattled white house national security adviser resigned tonight. his resignation comes after less than a month into the job. his departure comes after reports surfaced ... the justice department warned the trump administration last month, that flynn misled administration officials, regarding his communications with the russian ambassador to the united states.. the department added flynn was potentially vulnerable to blackmail by the russians. flynn was not able to debunk the story that his

you are looking at the main spillway of the oroville dam. within the last 15 minutes or so the chopper stopped flying but the dump trucks are still going back and forth. no word on how long they're going to work into the night. but again rain is expected at the end of the week so there's a real urgency to get this done. the sheriff of butte county will not allow people back into this area until he can sleep at night knowing that they're safe. reporting live in oroville, jodi hernandez, nbc bay area news. >> okay. jo jodi, a lot to deal with. the evac wouees were told yestey that their properties could be flooded in an hour. they fled asap. hotels are packed and so are the evacuation centers. people young and old looking for safety. nbc bay area's tom generjenson oroville. what are you seeing tonight? >> reporter: well it's really eerie downtown. a complete downtown empty like a ghost town. empty for the real reason, the real danger of a major flood. we found people who stayed home despite the warnings to evacuate. this is why nearly 190,000

we continue to monitor the oroville dam... the latest on evacuees, the status of the dam, and governer jerry browns message to the state and to the president. and less than a month into the job... national security advisor michael flynn has resigned. the latest turmoil inside the trump administration. plus parts of a major bay area highway remains closed this morning. what crews are doing to prepare for the next round of rain. the kron 4 morning news starts right good morning... it is monday, february 14. i'm james fletcher. toss to weather and traffic. .dry and mild conditions will persist into tuesday as high pressure remains aloft. increasing clouds and southerly winds can be expected on wednesday in advance of an approaching upper level system. this system will result in periods of moderate to locally heavy rainfall and gusty winds late wednesday into thursday morning. showers will linger into thursday night with another system set to arrive on friday with more wind and rain. subsequent storm systems are forecast to push a

crews in oroville are working around the clock... we take a closer look at how much it will cost to repair the dam. and kron four's averi harper joins us live from the scene. no major hot spots. bay bridge wb 80 is less then 30 min from the maze to sf. san mateo bridge less then 30 min from 880 to 101. golden gat bridge drive time less than 30 min from 37 to the toll plaza. richmond bridge drive less than 20 min from the toll to 101 our top story this morning... people who live near the oroville dam are returning home but they are being warned to be ready to leave again at a moment's notice. james fletcher is here with a look at the emergency repair effort this morning, and the rain expected to soon hit the area. james crews are working around the clock to repair the emergency spillway, which had been in danger of collapsing. trucks and helicopters are dropping 1,200 tons of rock per hour onto the eroded hillside. hundreds of workers are mixing concrete slurry to help keep those rocks in place. in addition to filling the holes in the

our concern is for oroville in the lake oroville area they have five straight days of a chance for rain fall. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, live pictures now... we have cars on fire at a disneyland parking garage. no word on how i juries. >>> we are following a situation from anaheim right now. these are live pictures coming in and we have what we are told are one vehicle on fire at disneyland in the parking garage. we don't know if it is in the structure are outside. the emergency vehicles are below that is where we suspected started. we have no reports of any injuries.>>> that is for kpix 5 at 5:00. >>> we of the latest news and weather always on cbssf.com . sponsored by cbs >> pelley: mixed signals from the white house. >> yes, general flynn does enjoy the full confidence of the president. e pelley: then the president sends word that he's evaluating his national security adviser, who reportedly misled the administration about his contacts with russia. also tonight, after a north korean missile launch, the president convenes his top advisers in a public dining room. cbs news investigates an exha

the level has dropped now to 48 feet in lake oroville. waiting now for the storm watch to see what happens next. bryan. >> the don pedro reservoir is also filling up. the county has began taking on water. some people there are already evacuating their homes. >>> and with the threat of flooding around california, there are questions on how much we can handle all this rain. the cracks exposed in our system and what california needs to do now to avoid flooding. >>> if you're still planning to head up if -- heading up for the holiday, be sure to check road conditions before shut down tonight after a deadly crash. it happened just before 7-30 at the spencer avenue exit. drivers in the area should expect delays. c-h-p officials have not said when the lanes will reopen. a gruesome discovery in santa cruz county: the sheriff's department is investigating after a man's body was found... ... wa -- road conditions before you leave. >>> the sheriff's department is investigating after a man's body was found. it was washed up along the shore of the san

lake oroville is northeast of the city of oroville. the dam affecting so many different communities. it is a laundry list here of cities that need to be evacuated. so many people having to race out of their homes last night at a moment's notice. in fact, i want to show you this new video we have here from a viewer. this is the situation they were dealing with late last night. traffic jams everywhere. most of the streets there only one or two lanes, even the highways. right now, we have shelters set up in the area. there are folks that are opting out. i mentioned earlier that hotels are at capacity. those are mostly in sacramento. i also learned that even campgrounds are full, too. people using every resource they can if they don't want to stay in the shelters. reggie and natasha, back to you. >> thank you. as we mentioned, people given minutes to pack up and leave. in fact, one woman made toit a shelter in chico but she was worried about her daughter. >> i have a handicapped daughter that can't walk. the ambulance won't come in and tak

let me show you the four-day forecast for oroville. moderate rain on thursday and moderate to heavy rain on friday and lighter showers on saturday and sunday. when all is said and done and we get to sunday, nearly three to five inches of rain is going to fall. and that is going to mean a lot of rough-off into lake oroville. now if there is anything we learned from this back here at home, it is to always have your most sacred documents in a weather-proof case that you could grab quickly and your medicine. because they had absolutely no warning. so many in shelters with nothing but the clothes on their back. >> that is tough. thank you, mike. >>> oroville is 150 miles northeast of san francisco. so what impact could the situation unfolding there have here in the bay area? abc 7 news reporter matt keller is tracking the possible effects in santa clara county. matt? >> reporter: right now three of the ten reservoirs here in santa clara county are spilling over. but when i talk with people here with the water district, they told me they don

i'll have a live update from oroville coming up. right now at 6-30: as thousands >>> right now at 6:30, thousand of evacuees tart returning to their homes in the oroville area, the battle to shore up the spillway gets a boost from president trump. the president approved an emergency declaration. the white house using this as a platform to call for spending on infrastructure. >> the evacuees, many of them are back home tonight and so happy to be there. hearing that the immediate threat is over. jodi hernandez has been in oroville for the past two days and the evacuation has been lifted and now there's a warning in place. people still have to be vigilant. >> reporter: that's right. people are being allowed to return home tonight. but that warning is still in effect. people are being advised they may be asked to leave again if necessary. now the mandatory evacuation order was lifted in part because of the massive, massive repair operation that has been under way here. these big bags are filled with rock and sand and crews have been rac

a look at the dam in oroville right now. coming up, what's keeping crews in oroville from fixing the emergency spillway and the problems the dam has had before. ==sam//2 shot== we continuour breakincoverage. coverage-- a mandary acuation der for nearly 200- thousand people is sll . >>> we continue our breaking coverage. a mandatory evacuation order for nearly 200,000 people is still in effect as there are concerns about what more rain this week may mean for the spillway at the oroville dam. >> engineers and crews are working to relieve the pressure on the dam as more rain is headed that way on wednesday. nbc's steve patterson in oroville with an update. >> officials here are trying to avoid catastrophe. a predicted 30-foot wall of solid water that could come if one of the spillways collapses. the emergency evacuation order was given out quickly on sunday night. nearly 200,000 people told to evacuate their homes. many of them we have been speaking to simply threw their belongings in plastic bags, threw the plastic bags into c

for the people near oroville. you can be the first to know the news as it happens by downloading our free abc7 news app. it's available for apple and android devices. >>> here in the bay area, so many of us drive across bridges for our morning and evening commute. >> we've been talking about infrastructure a lot recently because of the dam and you have some bad news, jess, about infrastructure in general. >> yes. i have been poring over this new report that was just released and i can tell you it says 56,000 bridges nationwide deficient, 14 of those most traveled are here in california. and you can bet i did find some here in the bay area. in fact, it calls out specifically the 680 over monument boulevard in contra costa county, 880 alameda, 280 at lawrence expressway in santa clara and highway 101 in san mateo at cordillears creek. just north of the whipple exit. the report was real estaleased moments ago. don't panic quite yet. they say bridges that they labeled deficient are not necessarily in immediate danger

the oroville dam spillway. good evening i'm steve aveson. and i'm vicki liviakis... pam moore is on assignment. we do have a new development tonight... not just the change with the evacuation order. just about 45 minutes ago... governor jerry brown announced the state's request for federal aid has been approved. he made the request over the weekend as oroville dam crisis worsened and potential for monumental disaster increased. so help is on the way tonight from washington. it remains to be seen what exactly the government is providing. this comes as crews are feverishly working to shore up the crumbling spillway. it is that spillway that we have been focusing on and has had all eyes on oroville. this shows you where it is relative to the bay area. kron four's dan kerman is at the command post in oroville tonight... with why the decision was made to let tens of thousands of people to return home. dan. sot kory honea, butte county sheriff 00-09tuesday afternoon, authorities lifted a mandatory evacuation order fo

we saw at the top of this newsc scene at the oroville dam.more . this from the c-h-p... >>> it is still very active at the oroville dam. this is from the chp. this is a helicopter crew flying over. they are hoping to make enough repairs before thursday's rain. we have the updated forecast in about five minutes. >>> all of this wet weather causing problems for pets. it is helping spread a potentially deadly bacteria. dogs are getting sick and some even dying. this is a serious illness. >> reporter: it is. we are talking about leptosporosis. they say they have seen five confirmed cases and several suspected cases. two of the dogs didn't survive. a hidden danger in water logged parks is making dogs sick in san francisco. >> basically they urinate and excrete the infection in their urine and dogs go out and drink the water and are infected that way. >> dogs are getting infected with lepto. it is normally present where there is wildlife but the rain and puddles are helping spread it around. veterinary specialists has seen five cases in three months comp

in the bay area from oroville. this team shows the 15 firefighters leaving sunday night. they're train in the swift water rescues and they were called up in case the spillway collapsed. in 1997 they rescued 12 people. >> things will be changing quickly. today's spectacular weather will give way to rain in the next 48 hours. that will hit oroville. >> jeff ranieri tracking the water level. >> and it has start to go down as we have heard. it was 902.59 feet. we've seen it drop down to 885.57. we do think this could get as low as $868.49 before the storm system arrives on thursday. that's why confidence is up, to let people back in. as we just heard, we may be ordered more evacuations, depending on how things rewakt the wet weather moving in. >> bottom line, the next 24 hours here. a new storm system thursday and a total of four storms over the next seven days would add three to four inches of water across lake oroville. >> we're tracking the bay area forecast. that's in about 15 minutes. >> okay. the white house toda

and a very dire situation in oroville. do you think politics will play a role will in federal money flowing to our state? >> reporter: it simply is not part. there are always fights. and there are always folks from alabama that say why are we paying for california'set quakes. but then alabama has tornadoes and these things even out. trump has been very critical of california. remember last week he complained that maybe berkeley should have its federal funding withdrawn. california was not a big trump country when it came to the national election. we will see. jerry brown asked for this on friday be the emergency declaration. we haven't heard anything yet from the trump administration. if there is anything but a swift declaration of federal funds, then something has changed dramatically in this white house. the war between california and washington is certainly out there. it shouldn't effect disaster funding but we'll find out. >> all right the waiting game continues. mark in washington, d.c.. thank you for the insight as a

in the meantime, downtown oroville is mostly evacuated. the lights are on but all but a few businesses are closed. local police are among a few vehicles on the road checking to make sure that looters do not move in while thousands of residents are moved away. many evacuees from various towns are heading from places like chico, anywhere that is out of the way of the potential disaster. >> my daughter wanted to give me a place to stay, maybe three or four days to work it out. >> reporter: all of them aware that there is another round of rain heading their way. >> i would not say that everything is going to be fine, because we know a storm is coming. we don't know how big it will be. >> i don't think we're out of the woods yet, the weather we have had is just phenomenal. thankfully, we don't have the reservoirs that we had then. >> reporter: the repairs are well under way, the lake level is dropping and officials said they do have a repopulation plan in place, but with no time frame for implementing it perhaps out of a healthy dose of respect

in oroville, laura anthony, "abc7 news." >> thank you very much. the good news is that the water level at lake oroville continues to recede. officials are releasing about 100,000 cubic feet per second to create a little bit of breathing room. so far everything is going as it should. >> public official safeties did their job and we were able to get people evacuated out of the community in a timely fashion. at the same time, our partners at the department of water resources were working to save that structure and prevent further damage so that we could go on. >> trucks have been bringing in broken pieces of concrete and being put in giant bags to shore up the eroded spillway. a federal official reveals that the dam has been running under a series of temporary licenses for about ten years. its old permit, which was good for 50 years, expired in 2007. a new permit was applied for. the federal agency says it just received all the information it needs this past december. >> the oroville dam is 770 feet tall, the tallest in the nation, beating the hoover

these are the scenes in oroville. many of these places putting up sandbags in front of doors just in case the water comes into town. the county has set up several sandbags loegs. as you know, there is more rain on the way. >> we will continue to keep an eye on the situation in oroville and send out updates through the abc7 news app. if you download it and enable push alerts, you will get updates sent straight to your phone or tablet. >>> new this morning a pedestrian is dead after getting hit by a car on 580 noefrrd overnight near pleasanton around 1:00 this morning. chp now investigating. the driver involved was the one who called police and is cooperating. >>> a fremont b.a.r.t. station is not even open yet. no trains, no passengers, but it does have plenty of staff. >> we're talking about full-time staff. several employees, including two janitors, who are showing up every day to clean an empty station. abc7 news reporter matt keller is live at the warm springs station. good morning, matt. >> reporter: good morning,

things are picking up here in oroville next to the dam. you can see the helicopter and they're starting to move those white bags we showed you all morning long, some of it gravel, some of it rocks, some of it sand. they're going to put it in places where there is erosion. i did get a chance to speak with someone from the california department of water resources who gave me an update on where things stand now. crews worked through the night and into today on the emergency spillway, 200 personnel between cal fire and water resources are on the ground as we speak. the levels continue to drop, they're able to reinforce the erosion in the emergency spillway and doing so by one of the options i showed you just right now, by air lifting bag of gravel and boulders into the spillway to reinforce it with a slurry mixture. with the possibility of rain in the forecast as we've been talking about all morning long, guys, they understand time is of the essence. >> we have wet weather coming up in the next couple days. we don't expect the spillway to be a

in the meantime, downtown oroville is mostly evacuated. the lights are on but all but a few businesses are closed. local police are among a few vehicles on the road checking to make sure that looters do not move in while thousands of residents are moved away. many evacuees from various towns are heading from places like chico, anywhere that is out of the way of the potential disaster. >> my daughter wanted to give me a place to stay, maybe three or four days to work it out. >> reporter: all of them aware that there is another round of rain heading their way. >> i would not say that everything is going to be fine, because we know a storm is coming. we don't know how big it will be. >> i don't think we're out of the woods yet, the weather we have had is just phenomenal. thankfully, we don't have the reservoirs that we had then. >> reporter: the repairs are well under way, the lake level is dropping and officials said they do have a repopulation plan in place, but with no time frame for implementing it perhaps out of a healthy dose of respect