Of problems. And well walk you through what went wrong. And whats being done to at least temporarily stabalize the situation. This is a daily mail map. The problem at Lake Oroville started last tuesday when a massive hole opened up here in the main spillway. Lets check out video of the hole from last week. It may be hard to tell here. But its 30 feet deep. 200 feet wide. That hole prompted water managers to stop using the main spillway. That meant water in the lake. Swollen from all this winters storms. Started coming over the emergency spillway. The emergency spillway. Built in 1968. Is just dirt and rocks. And yesterday water was coming over the top. And carving small craters in the land below. Which is not paved like the main spillway. The concern is that the dirt and rock at the top of the emergency spillway might collapse. And that would be catasprophic. A 30 foot wall of water would come charging down the hill. Like a tsunami. Some would quickly fill up the the Feather River belo
Im steve aveson. And im pam moore. The federal government has just approved aid to support the rebuilding effort. Grant lodes is tracking the latest developments in oroville. He joins us now. Grant tonight fema actually approved two of governor browns requests for federal aid. One was aunrelateda to oroville. It was to help communities hurt by januarys destructive storms. But another was to help with the crisis at lake oroville. As crews work feverishly to shore up that emergency spillway. All day. Helicopter s. Working in tandem. Carrying bags of rocks and sand. To fill holes in the lakes emergency spillway. And that work appears to be going well, because the biggest news this afternoon came when the sheriff lifted a mandatory Evacuation Order for those 190thousand People Living downstream of lake oroville. He says the risks of a catastrophic collapse off the dams emergency spillway has been reduced significantly. And the water expert hopes the compromised emergency spillway will not
Involved and are conducting their own investigationi talked to a mother of one of the students being harrassed online. And as you can imagine, she is anot happypkg an Instagram Account with racist statements, and photos, was circulating. Targeting minority students, and a basketball coach from albany high. Sot coach and a student with nooses around their neck weve blurred the photos due to their graphic nature. Some were too explicit to show. Sot im disgusted by it. I think its completely unacceptable the mother of one of the students being targeted says a fake Instagram Account was created by a number of juniors at the school. Sot my daughter didnt even know these peopleshe is emotionally hurt, but they have a good support systemsot were dealing with it the best we can. We have the right support in place. This is not something you expect your child would have to deal with Sarah Francis says the School District is taking this very seriously, but she believes there needs to be severe co
After a Family Member from San Francisco called police in sacramento for a welfare check. Unfortunately that gut feeling that something was wrong, proved right. At least one person was taken into custody from this building behind me. Pkgall day long, investigators have been combing the scene inside this Sacramento South land park home. Sot neighbors are completely shocked that a quadruple homicide happened on this normally quiet block. Police say the 4 victims included a woman, 2 children, and a relative. Neighbors didnt hear any fighting, gunshots, or suspicious behavior overnight. But they woke up to a crime scene and Numerous Police officers on their street. Sot police say the victims knew their attacker. A neighbor tells us, one of the victims was going through a divorce. It isnt clear if that had anything to do with the gruesome crime. Sot by afternoon San Francisco Police Detained a suspect, and also a woman living on pierce street near alamo square. Her connection to the case is
Victim has not been released. Right now there have been six homicides in san jose, this body found today is being investigated as a suspicious death at the moment. If that changes to a homicide it would be the citys 7th of the year. Reporting live in san jose, Lydia Pantazes kron4 news. lydia jrs also in the south bay this afternoon kron 4 was the only station there when a car chase ended near highway 101. Kron 4s Stanley Roberts shot this video of Menlo Park Police in action as they made two arrests. You can see they had their guns out as all of this was going on. The highspeed chase took police past whipple road and ended at ralston road. Police say four people were in the vehicle and were armed with a gun. Three of those four were arrested. One suspect got away. Tonight at least 8 families are without a place to call home after flames tore through an apartment complex in Pleasant Hill. This afternoon we received all new viewer video. Youre looking at the side of the apartment buildi