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Getty Images/Linda Wooderson/EyeEm(CALIFORNIA) Over 8,500 residents have been urged to evacuate immediately after a 100-foot-wide breach emerged along California's Pajaro River around midnight Saturday morning as the state has faced a series of storms. The levee break comes as the state faces unrelenting rain, which could last until Wednesday. "My heart hurts tonight for the residents of Pajaro. We were hoping to avoid and prevent this situation, but the worst case scenario has arrived with the Pajaro River overtopping and levee breaching at about midnight," Luis Alejo, chair of the Monterey County Board of Supervisors, said in a tweet. During the breach, Monterey County Water Resources Agency and the California Department of Water Resources were conducting onsite flood-fighting efforts at the levee due to the rising waters. After the levee break occurred, the sheriff's office did 60 rescues from the area, according to Monterey County officials. Four high-water ve

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