this week. in the forecast. mandatory evacuation orders remain in effect. this is certainly going to be one of the biggest fix-it jobs this part of northern california has ever seen as well as one of the most expensive. more than $200 million just to make repairs on the main spillway here at the oroville dam and perhaps you can see this break coming off as the water pounds against some of the damaged concrete due to erosion. there s also a chance that spillway will have to be replaced altogether. going to be very expensive. back to you. bret: claudia callan, live on top of the oroville dam. thank you. a federal judge in washington has denied a request by two native american tribes to halt construction of the final segment of the dakota access pipeline. lawyers from these standing rock and cheyenne river sioux claimed drilling threatens clean water
emergency spillway and continuing the erosion. looking at some of that today in the light of day, yeah, it was really serious last night. fortunately, when they were able to open the main spillway gates, they began to lower the reservoir level because the river water coming into the reservoir was about half of what they were able to expel down the main spillway. so it s stabilized. but nonetheless so they did make the right call last night. now, the next call will be, can this thing be patched up sufficient to withstand the storms that are clearly out ahead of us, one coming up later this week and even more as we move into march and early april, which are the heavy storm times here in the state. so we ve got a lot of let s call it tight time ahead of us. what happened before and why did
ainsley: hand it over to heather. happy valentine s day. heather: major story out of california. fox news alert. a potential life or death emergency at the dam in oarville, california. oncoming storms vital repairs werkers are doing trying to fix that crumbling main spillway. racing against the clock to fill the holes after hundreds of gallons of water chewed through the con crease. 200,000 people had to leave everything behind fearing that the spillway will fail at any moment. janice dean will give you the latest. achebe guantanamo bay in business i letter to president trump continue using that facility in cuba. a move a major reversal from former president obama who worked hard to try to close that facility before he left office. 41 prisoners now remain at get know.
of the amount of water going over niagara falls is what s going over the spillway at every minute. that s an incredible amount of water. where they re patching and dropping stuff by helicopter is up here where the emergency spillway is. we re ten feet below that level. as long as we re draining it on the main spillway, we re okay. we have a tornado threat from vick for ye victoria to houston. mid morning to late afternoon. this is 10:00 a.m. to about 2:00 p.m. in the houston area. that s when we ll track those storms. here s the timing of it. as we go through 7:00 a.m., as we watch the line through the houston area, noon, lunch hour there. the only other story is we had our huge snowstorm yesterday up in maine, one spot reported 30 inches of snow. they re under another snowstorm. they re expecting another
dangerous situation in the northern part of the state. a damage spill where the oroville dam is threatening to unleash a catastrophic flood. nearly 200,000 nearby residents have been evacuated already, and authorities won t allow them back home until the spillway is fixed. no word yet on how long that might take. he stood by his father as the former penn state football coach was tried and convicted for sexually assaulting ten boys. now, back to red eye . tom: walk i would want to get married these days? the modern world has every thing set up purposely for single guys to be able to while away their adulthood playing video games and having commitment list sex.