Helicopter partnership with abc7 news. The road is completely washed out. It was announced this afternoon around five oclock. Although we dont know when exactly the road washed out. But you can see there a steep dropoff when the road just gave way. Chp says this happened near las cumbres road. People were out looking at the crumbled road despite the pretty dangerous conditions. There is no esitimated time for when it will reopen. This just in to the kron 4 newsroom. The chp has opened one southbound lane of highway17 in the santa cruz mountains. A twoway traffic switch is currently letting some northbound traffic pass by as well. One northbound lane is expected to reopen tomorrow afternoon. Engineers are still discussing the best way to clean up the mess. And re open all lanes. While minimizing the chance of yet another mudslide in that already compromised area. The project has proven to be very dangerous so far. Yesterday two contractors. Working for caltrans. Were run over by a dumpt
This is bear creek road where drivers ae now rerouted because of the closure thats adding more than an hour to their commute depeding on when their going. Pkg this is whats left of skyline road just west of las cumbres road. The video courtesy of santa cruz resident jake gould who was on the scene when it happened. A gaping wide hole split open as the road succmbed to heavy saturation. The region that sits in the middle of Ella Sogomoniannow you cant really see behind me but this is now where that road ends. The hole is estimated to be 200 feet wide and a quarter mile deepwith sr 9 and 17 closures as well drivers are having to detour up to an hour away using bear creek and black roads. That portion of skyline is no closed indefintiely. Love in Santa Cruz County Ella Sogomonian kron 4 news. The southbound side of highway 17 in the santa cruz mountains. Is open tonight. After a massive mudslide shut down the highway. Caltrans crews are astill managing the flow of traffic by holding cars
Many of these shops, but certainly nobody home here. It appears most people have heeded the Evacuation Order. But we did find some who decided to stay. Dana lamb and her family decided to stand their ground in downtown oroville. So no thoughts of evacuating . No. We have family that lives outside of town, so if anything hand, we would just go that direction. Reporter are you satisfied with the way its been handled . I feel like the priority is being taken care of. Reporter both work at a local grocery store. It was chaos down there. All of us as employees, we have to stay calm and think probably nothing is going to happen. It seemed like everything was okay. Reporter in the meantime, in the older part of town, a lowlying section of downtown, the streets are empty. And tens of thousands of evacuees are doing their best to ride out the emergency. Whats going on at the dam . Its pretty crazy. Al the traffic we saw. Some came better equipped than others. We have our cats right now. We have
Its been a little more than 24 hours since an emergency Evacuation Order went out, saying the homes of nearly 250,000 people were at risk because a spillway at the oroville dam was expected to fail. This map shows all the cities that are affected. Some far from the dam itself. Like oroville is 70 miles north of sacramento and 160 miles from San Francisco. Right now water is gushing out to bring the water level down. Saturday, water overflowed on the emergency spillway for the first time ever. And sunday, engineers noticed damage along the wall. If the wall failed, a wave of water 30 feet high could have overrun everything down river. Newsom toured the operations vin center earlier today. He warns the shasta dam has similar problems. Close to 200,000 people have been evacuated. Laura anthony met some of them today. And she joins us live with their stories. Reporter were in downtown oroville, the lights are on and many of these shops, but certainly nobody home here. It appears most peopl
Kellogg, a retired Lieutenant General as acting chief. He worked for oracle and earned his bachelors degree from santa clara university. Im ama daetz. Im dan ashley. The crisis at orville dam. So far its holding. Thats why the evacuation is in place because there is uncertainty. Already damage and stretch to its limit and more rain on the way. Now lets give you the very latest. The imminent threat of a breach in the spillway, a wall has diminished considerably. No water is flowing over the emergency spillway right now. Lake levels continue to fall. The goal is to lower the lake level by 50 feet. All right. All of the States National guard is an alert ready to assist if need be. Lets show you a map of the 11 communities down stream, all under Evacuation Orders right now. This is the image that started the alarm. Water rushing over a giant gaping hole. Now the race to reroute the water causing bigger problems. The damage and erosion so severe, emergency officials feared the worst. If the