Now from abc 7, live breaking news. Breaking news, a massive evacuation effort is under way right now as more than 100,000 people are trying to get out of the way of a potentially catastrophic failure at the Lake Oroville dam. If that is not addressed and we dont take care of that and mitigate it properly, essentially what were looking at is approximately a 30foot wall of water good evening. Im eric thomas. Were waiting for the start of a News Conference on the latest of the situation at Lake Oroville dam. The dam is near chico 160 highs northeast of San Francisco. The problem is with an emergency spillway designed to relieve pressure on the dam when its holding too much water. Abc 7 News Reporter Alisa Harrington is live with more on the previous News Conference they just held a short time ago. Very chaotic and scary day for people who live below the dam. Right now the goal is to prevent water from coming over the top of this emergency spillway. To do this, helicopters are doing drops
Severe weather alerts. Wmur s stephanie woods has our top story from lancaster. Stephanie 6 months after the circus tent collapsed here on the lancaster fair grounds the community is still reeling. Now osha has found that the tent company was negligent, but some say it s no victory. It was scary. It was very scary. Stephanie on august 3, joann rushed to the scene with her husband, the Lancaster County fire chief. There were kids crying because their parents were scared. There was still a little bit of wind and rain and it looked unreal. It was like a movie. Those things don t happen in places like this. Stephanie osha released a report thursday saying that the circus operator, Walker International events, failed to put up the tent properly and Miles Per Hour winds. It was not properly staked. The stakes were not of the right size or design. They did not follow the professional engineers design to specifically erect the tent. Stephanie osha also found that Walker International events wa
Facing 14 serious violations for last summer s tent collapse in lancaster. Two people were killed and good evening, i shelley i m shelley walcott. Federal Safety Agency osha revealed today that the circus did not build the tent correctly, and ignored seven Severe Weather alerts. Wmur s stephanie woods has our top story from lancaster. Stephanie 6 months after the circus tent collapsed here on the lancaster fair grounds the community is still reeling. Now osha has found that the tent say it s no victory. It was very scary. Stephanie on august 3, joann rushed to the scene with her fire chief. There was still a little bit of unreal. It was like a movie. T happen in places like this. Stephanie osha released a report thursday saying that the circus operator, Walker International events, failed to put up the tent properly and take it down amid warnings of 60 Miles Per Hour winds. It was not properly staked. The stakes were not of the right size or design. They did not follow the professional
On taxpayers dollar nor on over time, that was your question, has done any work in my home or any other place. Why were workers at your home . I dont know what youre talking about. City records Reporter City workerings er ers appear to show tax dollars paid for this. He tells us his best recollection is he was off the clock that morning and did not bill taxpayers. He says its possible a supervisor billed time on his behalf or that maybe he did city work at another time that day. Records show hanlan clocked in at 5 55 that saturday morning. He clocked out at 2 00 in the afternoon. Video shows him lugging this beer cooler into the mayors the second man is public works supervisor. He worked six hours of over time that saturday. But regards detailing the exact times he worked have not yet been released. Numerous city workers say the hours they billed were only for city business. That jobs like moving the mayors daughter were only personal favors on personal time. Jeffrey williams is one of
Philadelphia and 26 in millville and 28 in trenton and 27 in reading and allentown 22 and folk a night ski in the poconos, they have to be bundled up and the temperature is 18 degrees, the winds are not particularly strong but 10 to 12 Miles Per Hour out of the west northwest enough of a wind to create a bit of a windchill. Feeling like 21 in beach haven and trenton and the windchill is 16 in allentown. You will want to dress in layers and really bundle up tonight. But the good news is for the fireworks satellite 6 along with action radar showing we do not have a cloud in the sky so the visibility is spectacular. You just have to dress for the cold, your forecast for the fireworks tonight for penns landing is clear and cold and 9 0029 degrees and midnight slipping down to 28 and windchills will be in the low 20s and im tracking a storm system on the way this weekend and details on what to expect in the full accuweather forecast. All right thank you cecily now to action News Reporter An