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
“Not marble nor the gilded monuments of princes shall outlive this powerful rhyme,” is the opening line from William Shakespeare’s "Sonnet 55", read by Yamahni Duncan, a Las Plumas High School senior and winner of the Butte County Office of Education’s 2023-2024 Poetry Out Loud competition.