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many of these shops, but certainly nobody home here. it appears most people have heeded the evacuation order. but we did find some who decided to stay. dana lamb and her family decided to stand their ground in downtown oroville. so no thoughts of evacuating? no. we have family that lives outside of town, so if anything hand, we would just go that direction. reporter: are you satisfied with the way it s been handled? i feel like the priority is being taken care of. reporter: both work at a local grocery store. it was chaos down there. all of us as employees, we have to stay calm and think probably nothing is going to happen. it seemed like everything was okay. reporter: in the meantime, in the older part of town, a low-lying section of downtown, the streets are empty. and tens of thousands of evacuees are doing their best to ride out the emergency. what s going on at the dam? it s pretty crazy. al the traffic we saw. some came better equipped than others. ....
it s been a little more than 24 hours since an emergency evacuation order went out, saying the homes of nearly 250,000 people were at risk because a spillway at the oroville dam was expected to fail. this map shows all the cities that are affected. some far from the dam itself. like oroville is 70 miles north of sacramento and 160 miles from san francisco. right now water is gushing out to bring the water level down. saturday, water overflowed on the emergency spillway for the first time ever. and sunday, engineers noticed damage along the wall. if the wall failed, a wave of water 30 feet high could have overrun everything down river. newsom toured the operations vin center earlier today. he warns the shasta dam has similar problems. close to 200,000 people have been evacuated. laura anthony met some of them today. and she joins us live with their stories. reporter: we re in downtown oroville, the lights are on and many of these shops, but certainly nobody h ....