because no one kills germs better than clorox. jon: a fox news alerts, crews added to the dam working around-the-clock to secure a road or parts of the spillway. as the region it embraces for even more heavy rain. officials telling nearby residents to be ready in case they need to evacuate the area again. imagine how that feels. it comes as a major storm system targets texas with an apparent tornado damaging more than a thousand homes near san antonio. we have team coverage on all of the severe weather. meteorologist is standing by in the fox extreme weather center. we begin with casey stegall. he is life in dallas. yes, the southern part of the state, when you re talking about the overnight storms that came through texas, hit the hardest. specifically as you said in and around the san antonio area. want to get right to the
oroville. reporter: it s raining again right now, which is why they re trying lower the level of the river behind the dam. we re going to push in and give you a closer look. the big plume is off the main spillway. all the water coming out of the dam, it s supposed to go straight down, it s not, it s hitting a damaged area and moving its way around. that s a damaged area. in addition to that, the merge spillway of so much concern is also damaged. however, they can t stop the water from coming out because of the rain that s coming right now. it s going to be raining from tonight, tomorrow, possibly into wednesday, up to 10 inches, what they need to do on the other side of that dam is lower the level of the reservoir, lake oroville, it s a delicate balance trying to empty out water as it s running over the damaged areas and lowering the water level of the lake and had to increase the output baufdz the rain, because it s starting. what they re trying to do is protect the communities belo
additional aggregate and cement. the pilot decided they are not going up in the air, it is way too dangerous right now with the wind and the rain, so that work has stopped. they have had to continue on the ground as much as they can, working around-the-clock. while all this is going on, there people downstream from the dam in oroville and community police are awaiting word from the sheriff s department to know whether they will have additional evacuation spirit they were warned by the sheriff when they were told they could go back to their homes last week that word could come any minute they would have to leave again, so folks right now are packed, they have their cards at my cars packed and are waiting to hear from the sheriff s department. were going to get an update from the department of water resources as well as the butte county sheriff s department here and a little over an hour to find out where exactly things stand with the erosion going on with the dam, how things are going o
can see here is the oroville dam. you see the lights on there. those are the crews that have been working around the clock. they ve been trying to shore up the both the main spillway as well as that cement emergency spillway. and we have video that was provided to us by the department of water resources that shows the damage that has been done to that spillway and you see this gray area. that is the cement slurry they ve been working since last week to pour in and shore up that area. the erosion was so bad and dangerous that it prompted those evacuations last sunday of 188,000 people. so right now i don t know if you can tell, shannon, back here live. it is windy out here right now and what we have been seeing all week is helicopters in the air helping drop some supplies down and some of the rocks. we re checking to see if the helicopters are even going to go up this morning because the wind is so strong. they re under a wind warning in this whole area. the work continues as the rain
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