water officials now say they have drained enough water from the orville reservoir so it should be able to handle more rain from storms expected tonight and tomorrow night as well. the overflow on sunday forced the evacuation of nearly 200,000 people downstream and the situation highlights our nation s aging infrastructure, more than 90,000 dams across the country and nearly one in five of those dams is considered high hazard. and they lack any emergency action plan, joining us now as a project manager for the association of the state dam safety officials, great to have you on the program, we were not talking about this at all before the situation and oral bill, it is scary to hear about what could potentially happen to the folks living around that dam give us a sense, what are our nations dams like? there are a variety of dance around the country, this is one of the largest in the country, many dams are not that large, but still have, can have an impact on their community whether or
and this study that came out last month showed that just in the last nine years, farmers, everybody who uses ground water has sucked out approximately the equivalent of two lake meads from under the colorado river basin, which lake meade is the largest reservoir in america. imagine taking two of them away you don t have very much left. the problem is it takes ground water tens of thousands of years to repop late to allow the water to seep into the aquifers. so we re using water that won t be there for another several my len ya. then you have the issue of the snow packs. there s very little snow. so last week governor brown went up with a bunch of water officials, they do an annual sight check and they went up to one of the snow fields and they put a ruler on the ground and there was nothing there. you couldn t even see any snow around lake tahoe. also across california the snow
hours in freezing water officials fear that number will rise. paula hancocks is live in jirks ndo, south korea. chris, night isle fa for a second time and relatives of those 287 still missing are desperately wait for any news. many parents here waiting to see if their child is even still alive. the weather has not been cooperating today. there have been very strong currents. three divers at one point were carried away. they were picked up and safe, but they had to suspend the diving for some time. beneath these frigid t waters nearly 300 people, mostly teenage students and teachers remain missing. the ship s captain with his head down telling police, i m sorry, i m at a loss for words. overnight three bodies were recovered from the sunken ferry bound for a resort island. the miraculous rescue of a
the local water officials, yes, based on epa guidelines. despite those assurances, most people are sticking with bottled water until they are completely sure what is and what is not flowing through their homes. cnn conducted their own test in homes this week, including the home of emily, the results mchm is still coming out of her taps, though only in trace amounts. safe, says the water company, no way says emily. there s just not a lot of information out there about this. we don t know what the long-term effects are going to be. yes rnths yes, it may not kill us but i m concerned about what our kids are buying now. she is not drinking the water and may never again. wolf, there s going to be a congressional film here and i m going to be there.
on, we re going to have to tighten the screws on what people are doing. reporter: the san francisco bay area has seen less than 10% of the rainfall it ordinarily sees by this point in its rainy season. forecasters say rain would have to fall heavily every day through may to bring conditions back to normal. water officials in southern california are looking into offering consumers rebate for water conservation. the water district is doubling its budget for those rebates. things are slowly getting back to normal in the south after that nasty ice storm blamed for at least a dozen deaths and widespread chaos. cars and trucks abandoned along atlanta s roadways have finally been cleared. georgia s governor pointed to faume faulty weather predictions but yesterday he changed his tune. i m the governor. the buck stops with me. i accept the responsibility for it. schools in the area remain closed for a third straight day.