Right now, those levels are hovering at 358 feetless than two feet below full pool. Utility representative eric boomhower, water is being released through spill gates to create more space for more water expected to flow in. The operation is completed through the saluda hydro plant. Anytime we run that power plant, it actually releases water from lake murray into the lower saluda river as part of our continue with the goal of trying to create enough storage capacity. The full pool level of 360 feet level is mandated by federal law. Boomhower says if the dam reaches emergency levels, local Law Enforcement will notify neighbors if they need to evacuate. If you havent applied for fema aid in the wake of octobers flood, you are running out of time. Were just a few hours away from process deadline. Allie spillyards is live at one Columbia Disaster Recovery Center allie registration here is closing right now, but if you still need to apply you have 6 hours to get it done. You can apply by pho
Impact on the temperatures today, because highs will again reach the upper 70s. Wednesday and thursday will also feature periods of rain which could aggravate saturated areas that have recently flooded due to heavy rain. Highs will settle in the middle 70s to finish out the year. The new year will start with cooler and drier rivers are keeping up their work to take advantage of natures beauty, as nature deals them setbacks. Even with this years floods and now our newest round of rain, the three rivers greenway is still growing. Jack kuenzie joins us live from West Columbia with more. CharlesWest Columbia, caycethe city of columbiaall have portions of the greenway to both brag about but also maintain. Todayits more of the maintenance side as much of the greenway or riverwalks are either underwater or close to it. The very first section of the greenway to be completed back in the 90scolumbias granby parkwas taped off today due to mud and high water. Other sections are completely inundate
Sadly, images like we were where the normal. Were going to examine the ongoing Recovery Process i am Darcy Strickland along with jim gandy who is going to take us through the events of this historic flood. Jim, we were first here on that first day when the rain started it makes sense that we are wrapping this up this year together. Its interesting because it took an amount of extraordinary circumstances to produce the rainfall that we saw. Let me carry you through what was going on leading up to that. We had been concerned about hurricane walking walking but, what was happening in the it was right here and it was sinking towards the southeast. And it was stationery across the coast. These would change over the course of 24 to 36 hours. By the time we got to friday, the lowell was tapping moisture from the coast. They were producing heavy rains. Meanwhile, the hurricane is beginning to move away from the bahamas and as it did, it began to factor in. By saturday night, this upper level l
We catch up with return host Ricky Gervais. His biting humor has more in hollywood a little bit nervous. Why he says he couldnt resist coming back for more jokes and jabs today, friday, january 8, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer live from los angeles and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to a special split edition of today on a friday morning. Im matt lauer in los angeles. Savannah is back in new york, and savannah, the people in this town are getting ready for the big event this weekend. Yeah, absolutely. Hopefully it will be a dry red carpet. I see Ricky Gervais is sharpening his knives. I bet we will gasp as he put it. Exactly. I was not talking about the globes. I was talking about your arrival here. Excited about. Please have the lavender tealights ready for me, matt. We will. Look forward to it. Lots to get to this morning. Lets start with the top story. Two terrorismrelated arrests, one rig
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