Their homes. Six Evacuation Centers opened up. One woman made it to an evacuation shelter but was worried about her daughter. I have a handicap daughter that cant walk and the ambulance wont come in and take her. They refuse not to come in. Shes got to get out. This is the first time the emergency spillway has been used after recent rains damaged the main channel. The emergency evacuation orders will stand until officials know the situation is safe. A team from the bay area is headed to help and theyre trained to assist in potentially dangerous swiftwater rescues. Amy hollyfield is live for us at menlo park. Everyone rushes out, and these guys rush in. The Swift Water Rescue Team got the call to rush in just as the evacuation orders were made. They took off last night. Theyll stage in chico and be ready to go if needed. People may not get out in time. Well be there to possibly assist in rescues. Swift water environment is very dangerous. You know, were trained to handle that. This team
Mike, what do we have for today . Pretty quiet. Okay. Thats fine. Yeah. Quite the other side of what theyre dealing with but they will have more rain. Ill talk about that in five minutes. Hi, everybody. Lets talk about high clouds showing up on live doppler 7 but no rain for today, tomorrow and wednesday. There you go. Some fog trying to develop. Heading to the day planner, the temperatures are mainly in the 40s. Well be in the 50s into the afternoon hours. Traffic cant wait. Lets get right to it. Ill take it from here, mike. We have a Traffic Alert here this morning, westbound 580 just before hopyard. Thats where we have the big rig that was fully engulfed. Fire crews tapping that out now. It is a sig alert. We have the two right lanes blocked. Jammed down to 9 miles an hour. Another problem with a big rig in the fremont area. The 680 ramp at auto mall parkway was closed down. Sounds like theyre working on getting the semi out right now. Well check drive times next. Thank you. The are
Low 50s by 7 00. Lets find out about your morning commute. Want to talk about mass transit. We do not have ace rail service out of the central valley. That is all day today and tomorrow. That is because a lot of track damage has been done. Union pacific having to reroute a lot of trains, and ace said, not worth it. Were not going to run trains the next couple days. Capital corridor are having to reroute a lot of the trains. Expect delays. 17 minute delay is the first so far today. Harbor bay for San Francisco bay ferry, itll be on a reduced capacity vessel. We have a couple blocking issues. Thats coming up in less than ten. The area around oroville dam is in a state of emergency and the Operation Center is at highest a i lert levlert level. Abc 7s rob mcmillen is live at the dam with the latest information. Rob . Must be a stressful night for tens of thousands of people who, given just maybe an hours notice, had to evacuate the area. A lot of people under Evacuation Orders. But there i
The second largest dam in the state of california. The water start today erode the sfil way below, that put it in danger of failing. Lets take a closer look at the dam now with the communities below, water from the dam obviously flows down. That goes by cities and towns such as oroville all the way down to yuba city and marys ville. People 35,000 people have been order today evacuate and 65,000 in yuba county. Tonight we have Team Coverage on the spillway. The evacuations and the crews from the bay area headed up there to help. We start with nbc bay areas Christy Smith live in butte county. Christy. Reporter well, the late est information that we have from state water managers in california is that one key what theyre really focusing on is trying to drop the lake level by 50 feet. What theyve done is increased flows out of water and what theyre saying right now is that there is no more water going over the emergency spillway. And that does bring some level of stability to the situation
Behind me. Ill explain coming up. Santa cruz mountain where crews are trying to clear mud slide from last week. Today in the bay continues right now. We have Team Coverage of the problem at orville dam this morning on left side of the screen. We have crew monitors to on the right thats live look at command center where we are standing by from updates from department of Water Resources. Thank you for joining us. A lot of happening this morning. Mike going to get to that in a second. First, critical time for folks in orville. Theres not a lot of time before the next storm system moves in. As we continue to get a lot of things in order with more heavy rain in the forecast for the week, as with you head outdoor, we still have clear conditions. Looking good to start out the week. 42 degrees in nasa. School in morgan hill fairfield. The satellite imagery shows you the clusters in the cloud. Right now, mike see changes in the fremont crash. Here what photographer live camera telling me, these