Anticipate a flood risk farce down into the system. Heavy rains swelled Lake Oroville and keeping matter moves toews pressure off the structure, and reduces the flood risk. Now to developing news and the growing impact here of our recent downpours. Problems range from sinkholes to roads covered with water that has no place to go. Abc 7s Cornell Bernard is live with the rundown from novato. Reporter caltrans sis 101 will not reopen until february 24th. Here is the deal right now. Water is being pumped off of roadway as you see behind me, but it keeps seeping back in from this field to the right. It keeps happening over and over this season, as you know, with a lot of heavy rain. In the east bay, a sinkhole nearly swallowed up a car today. This water is making things crumble down lately. Reporter katrina couldnt believe her eyes, a sinkhole almost swallowed up this bmw in oakland. Lucky this the car was towed out just in time. Dangerously deep. The man tells me its 30 feet down. Thats cr
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
Viewers like you, thank you. Yesterday, al jarreau died here in los angeles at the age of 76. The seventime grammy winner had recently announced his plans to retire, after being exhausted. He was here on the show many times and joined us on our very first night on this network back in 2004 and was kind enough to perform one of my favorite songs. Ill let al introduce it for you. As we say goodbye tonight im thrilled to have a dear friend who brought his unique voice along with him. To help us bring our first show to a close he has had so many hits and i have so little time. He is going to sing a song for us, my dear friend, al jarreau, take it away. Im sorry, we have to cut it short because of a tribute in the middle. To the new south africa. There is a dream of the tree and of the flowers will we a season of peace where were redeemed and history will crown us and would you say that its all right when the Children Play they always say that say were alike to the first and last who are al
Viewers like you, thank you. Yesterday, al jarreau died here in los angeles at the age of 76. The seventime grammy winner had recently announced his plans to retire, after being exhausted. He was here on the show many times and joined us on our very first night on this network back in 2004 and was kind enough to perform one of my favorite songs. Ill let al introduce it for you. As we say goodbye tonight im thrilled to have a dear friend who brought his unique voice along with him. To help us bring our first show to a close he has had so many hits and i have so little time. He is going to sing a song for us, my dear friend, al jarreau, take it away. Im sorry, we have to cut it short because of a tribute in the middle. To the new south africa. There is a dream of the tree and of the flowers will we a season of peace where were redeemed and history will crown us and would you say that its all right when the Children Play they always say that say were alike to the first and last who are al
Blessing. Thousands gathered at st. Peters to listen to his words. The pontiff spread his message of mercy in a world torn by war, poverty and extremism. He prayed that peace processes for syria and libya will succeed in entering the suffering of people in the countries. He praised the people that have taken in refugees. Dreams of a White Christmas has been put on hold. Were not complaining. Many people wearing coats in central park today. Nick gregory is here to tell us how long the weather will last. Nick Merry Christmas. Looks like the weather will be changing over nit night, trending to cooler weather. We did have record highs today. 64 in new york city. That tied the record set in 1982. Its 62 in the park. 50s to the north and west. Low 60s to the jersey shore. Upper 50s as you get across long island. We are watching some rain come in. As you look at fox 5 sky guardian, some showers have theyre moving across long island. A good batch of rain off to the south. That will be moving u