hundreds of billions of gallons of water. and has one-third of the water supply for the state s population. we know the damage across the main spillway. and why 200,000 people have been evacuated, if this damage continues, and they re trying to fix the situation, and water has to be brought down from the emergency spillway, and a significant amount, that will be an uncontrolled amount of water, that can be just as bad, if the emergency spillway fails. that would be just as bad if the dam were to fail. about 100 feet of water could come towards the town of oroville for one hour. that s why the town has been evacuated. they re trying to aleleviate th situation. showing the timing of the event. that could bring the water down. officials saying the threat for this is being minimized because
spillway would be the backup justice. 100,000 feet per second is being released. officials will see when they can give the all-clear for residents to come back in. michael? thanks. eric curry is a reporter for the san jose mercury news. joins us now. eric, thanks for doing so. we saw heavy machinery in that piece. what is being done to alleviate the situation? what is the risk of the worst-case scenario that exists? the problem is that the water coming over the concrete berm on the emergency spillway was eating at what is a dirt hillside. the danger is that the dirt can erode to where the berm itself can fail, which would send a lot of water going downstream. they re trying to shore it up. that s what you re seeing with all of the trucks and helicopters dropping the big rocks.
oroville dam in california. the tallest dam in the country. 188,000 people evacuated from surrounding towns after a hole discovered in the emergency spillway. the evacuation we mains in plre for three counties. let s get a check on the cnn money stream. nearly every available measure, the dow, nasdaq and s&p and russell 2,000 closing at an all-time high. even as political turmoil grips washington, futures are down. the darling of the dow is apple. up 15% this year. trading at a record high. the biggest gainer of the 30 stocks in the dow. slumping iphone sales caused investors to see it will be down. they were wrong.
spillway as well. and the emergency spillway isn t even really a spillway. it s just a hillside. and that there you go. that hillside even though it s supposed to be an emergency outlet for the water coming out of the lake, it did not hold up well this weekend. i think we ve got a shot of what the hillside looked like before this weekend. here s what it looked like by yesterday afternoon. yeah. and see the lake there is on the left side. if that erosion underneath the rim of the reservoir there gets so bad that it takes out basically the wall that s the rim of the reservoir, then all of that water s going to come down the hill. this is when the evacuation order went out this week, when they realized that erosion was that catastrophic on the emergency spillway, when they realized the sudden erosion was happening. when they realized it was happening to that hillside, they realized that concrete lip holding the reservoir could fail
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