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Emergency spillway. That extended beyond butte county and extended into yuma county. People are urged to move to higher ground. To give you an idea of where Lake Oroville is, it is at capacity sitting about 25 miles southeast of chico. The dam is the nations tallest. It was completed back in 1968 and can store as much as 3. 5 million acre feet of water. We are waiting for a live News Conference in oroville from department of water supervisor officials and the butte county sheriff to bring us up to date scheduled to begin at 9 00 tonight and then pushed back to 10 00 tonight. It still has not started. As soon as it does we will go there live to get the very latest on whats happening at the dam. In the meantime we want to go to Monte Francis who has developing stories. Reporter heather and ken we know this is a ten this is ....
Has been set up. Or ohville has 16 o orovie has 16,000 residents. The 770foot dam is the nations tallest. We are waiting a News Conference from local safety and emergency management. Adam housley is on the scene. And he tells us there are reports of homes actually get this, being looted after people have evacuated them. So what a nightmare that created. The scenario as adam was reporting earlier on our previously update on this situation in the area. He went on to tell us he grew up in that area. One of the problems you have with this disruption in peoples lives because of the heavy rainfall that has now ensued with this smj spillway being damaged because of erosion. But adam wanted to report as people left, he saw 25 miles of traffic as people were leaving the area as he droifnt area to give as he drove into the area to give us more details. But getting back to the point, he went on to mention that police have been putting up ro ....