my book, he killed them all. i am -- they are telling me to stop. kelly: this is a fox news alert. i'm kelly wright in new york. 130,000 people are being told to get out of their homes in california because of the threat of a dasm break. this is the oroville dam you are looking at in california it's 80 miles north of sacramento. an emergency spillway has eroded thanks to recent heavy rainfalls which is causing the threat of the break. thousands of people were ordered from their homes. you can imagine what that would have looked like, 130,000 people getting out of the area to move to higher ground. many were told to go north to the town of chico. i'm told an emergency shelter

has been set up. or ohville has 16 -- o -- orovie has 16,000 residents. the 770-foot dam is the nation's 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 people's 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 roadblocks to make sure no one can get into those areas. but he was -- which was surprising was concern about the crime, he was reporting about the crime element that exists. criminals, every opportunity they can possibly get their hands on. as a result some of the homes have been reported to be looted. the issue at hand is that the oroville dam, the emergency spillway, not the dam itself, but the emergency spillway where a lot of rainfall was let off

the lake in order to lower the lake levels, they discovered that there was some erosion. there was a gaping hole in that knowledge spillway. now, we also understand through adam's reporting, that helicopters are actually going to be flying in there in the dark of night. picture this, if you will, to drop rocks into that emergency spillway in homes of being able to plug that hole so that they can alleviate any more pressure or threat to the community, some 8 cities that have been evacuated because of this threat. and the precarious situation resulting from this emergency spillway having some erosion. this is anen dam, it spans 770-feet tall. at that height it's the tallest

in the nation. the construction on that dam began back in 1961. it was opened may 4, 1968. it never had a problem like this before. but because of the rig rainfall, the deluge of rainfall, because of the winter terms that affected the west coast, and we on the east coast have seen how the storms have affected the situations here. you can imagine getting all that rainfall in this particular area, it caused some problems. because they wanted to lower the levels of the lake itself. they resorted to using the emergency spillway and they never encountered a problem like this before. engineers are trying to be on top of the situation. the good news we heard from our last report is we think they have been able to stop the problem. they have been able to alleviate the pressure on that emergency

spillway. if that is the case, then that means they will be able to hopefully, hopefully say all is clear. that's premature on my reporting there. we want to wait and hear from the people on the ground. but that is what they are hoping. having said that, that does not mean the people that have evacuated will be allowed to turn back around and go home. because they are also anticipating more heavy rainfall this thursday. as a result of that you don't want a situation, an emergency situation like this, you don't want people returning back to the area only to have to flee again should something like this happen once more. so those are the developments as we have been following them. it is an earth-fill embankment dam on the feather river east of the city of oroville and 8

cities have been impacted. 130,000 people evacuated. this is the first time in the dam's history engineers have had to deal with this situation resulting from the emergency spillway due to the winter storms and the damage to the emergency area. police have been on the scene. some 2,000 miles of waterways could be impacted if this does not work. the operations as we understand will happen sometime tonight. but even in the daytime it could be bad. i'm told now by my producer that we have a news conference going on. let's go to that right now already in progress. >> operational updates on the waig we are facing with the dam. currently right now on at main spillway we are releasing 100,000 csf, cubic feet per

second. that's the amount of water we'll keep flowing for long we can. the ultimate goal we are working closely with dwr, we'll continue to maintain that goal until we can get the lake to drop approximately 50 feet. 5-0. 50 feet. if we can continue to do that, that's great. that brings calm to what we are trying to accomplish. we are dealing with mother nature and a dynamic situation that is ongoing and moving. we are dealing with soil erosion taking place on the emergency spillway, that's why we upped the -- we increased the release of water over the main spillway over 1,000 csf. that is the goal. when we have water coming over the spill wait was beginning to

erode the ground. when you start to erode the ground, the dirt starts to roll off the hill and undermine itself. it has nothing to do with the indictment self. but if that is not addressed and we don't take care of that and mitigate it properly what we are looking at is approximately a 30-foot wall of water coming out of the lake. not the lake drain. but a 30-foot wall of water. that's why we took the appropriate measures and implemented the evacuation process. so a couple of quick thing i share with you. currently right now these are some numbers i can share with all of you. in beaut county we are look at 335,000 residents under evacuation. yuba 30,000. yuba city, 76,000 under evacuation warning.

marysville city, 12,000. >> i'll bring up the director from the department of water resources to make a comment. i do want to say this. we have been getting questions from various media sources asking whether or not there has been looting or shots fired in any of the cities we evacuated. i can tell you i have speaken to the chief from the oroville police department and he assures me there is no looting going on in the city of oroville. we think the rumor about that probably stems from the fact that near the beginning of this incident when we began to talk about evacuations, an individual broke into a business.

that is -- there is no indication that that criminal act was motivated by anything related to this particular incident. i have also spoke to the chief michael bryant of the chief of police department. he assures me there is no rioting or looting or anything of that nature going on in chico. he has plenty of law enforcement officers in the city of chico to assure peace is being kept. i think that any time you take on a situation like this where you seek to evacuate thousands of people on very short notice, it can be a chaotic situation. we understand that. but based on the reports i have been receiving to this point, things have been going fairly

well, taking into account how chaotic and difficult this situation is to begin with. i think i'll take an opportunity to invite chief brian up to tell you about what's going on in chico in terms of the evacuation centers. we have a number of them open. our evacuations are continuing and we are moving into a situation where we have law enforcement resources, law enforcement resources patrolling the various areas that have been evacuated to insure the community is safe and those places are secured. chief? >> as was mentioned, my name is michael brian. i'm chief of police in the city of chico. i want to provide an update on the shelter situation. not only in chico, but elsewhere in butte county.

paradise. silver dollar fairgrounds in chico is at capacity. we are not taking any more evacuees there. the cma paradise alliance church is open. and that's on clark road, 6491 clark road in paradise. the elk's lodge is open. that's off of clark road. the neighborhood church. 2801 is open for evacuees. the glenn county fairgrounds in glenn county is also open. the st. john's church in chico also open as well as the vfw in paradise open for track weefs as well. -- for evacuees as well. this is a fluid situation and if we need additional shelters that

will occur. that's being evaluated. we'll provide that information as it becomes available or necessary. most of the hotels in chicago koa are full. not all. so if there is anyone that wants to gone it a hotel, i would suggest making a phone call. but most of the major hotels in chico are full. >> we are also aware of the fact any time you try to evacuate a large number of people in a short period of time, that can cause problems with the roadways. traffic issues. so i have lieutenant mark stokes, commander of the area chp to give us information about that. >> thank you. mark stokes, the california highway patrol. i'm commander of the oroville chp area.

to give you have a quick report on the condition if as far as the roadways and closures we currently have. we have a number of them. we have a closure at state route 99 at 149. preventing from trafficking from coming south. a closure at 70 at 191. we have a closure on the 70 at 149. we also have a closure on 99 in marysville area. 99 at 20th. and again on the south end we have a closure at the 70 and 18th street. and another one on 70th and woodruff to prevent traffic coming in from the east and continue north. as far as our exit routes, we are encouraging traffic and people leaving the area to continue north on 99 or on the

70. thank you. >> some developments have occurred since we last talked at 9:00. you may have gone the this information. but i think we -- this was covered by chief lawson. one of the significant things that has happened, i'm thankful for is that the efforts by dwr to lower the lake level by utilizing the spillway to reduce the water has been effective. and now there is no more water going over the emergency spillway. that is a very positive thing at this point. but as you also heard, although it brings some stability to the situation, there is still a lot

of unknown. we need to continue to lower the lake level. and we need to give the department of water resources time to evaluate the situation so we can make some decisions as to whether or not it is safe to repopulate areas. i can tell you that we have staff looking at the various areas that evacuations have been ordered in. and making a determination based on bert analysis as to what areas are clearly in danger and what areas may be less vulnerable. but that analysis still need to be done. so we are going to continue in our current status until we have some better information about whether it is safe to bring

people back in. with that i would like to invite the director bill quill up from the department of water resources to give us -- he's a subject matter expert in this and he can give us a better idea of the current status. >> thank you, sheriff. i'm the acting director of the california department of water resources. tonight to confirm the adjustments to the flood control structure increase in the flow from 55,000 acre feet per second up to 100,000 acre feet allowed the department to withdraw more water faster so we could take the head off the top of the emergency spillway. the idea behind that strategy was to reduce the erosion. now the water is starting to

drain out. the breut county sheriff, we have been able to put our engineers in the air and visually inspect that area in detail tonight. we have some things we want to make sure we get back in in the morning and address specifically on the ground with our resources. we have developed our contingency plans and as soon as we can get out with first light. resources are being brought into the area to address those concerns. with -- one of the things we are sensitive to is the condition of the existing damage flood control structure we have been working on this week in our unified structure with a number of agencies and expert that have been brought in to address the assessment, monitoring and evaluating current conditions

and allowing us to address some of the thing coming up. one of the key things for us is we need to evacuate some of the water that's behind that reservoir so we can get ready for the incoming storm. right now the inflow into the reservoir is 40,000 cfs. we are making additional flood control storage. we need to do that for a length of time to make room for the anticipated storm later this week. if we can keep this discharge rate up and not compromise the flood control structure, then we are going to do it. if we can do that for a day we can move out 1.2 million acre feet of water. we need to get down as indicated earlier almost 50 feet to get at a level we would normally operate this reservoir to, giving this kind of a year with

the snow pack. one thing i might mention, this is a wet year. we are very aware of our snow pack and we want to make sure we are looking at everything whether it's hydr it's high hyd. with our multi-agently approach we are doing that. >> today was an example. it was a tough call to make and it was the right call to make to protect the public. >> as i told you earlier we have had the commitment of substantial resources from both state and local partners. i have had the opportunity to to converse with the governor's office of emergency services this evening. they committed their resources.

and we have the chief from oes. >> good evening. i think it sheriff identified that we have all been working close together at the local, state, federal agencies involved. currently the law ebb forcement community here in the county and surrounding counties, the better part of 250 law enforcement officers from different parts of the state either on scene or currently en route to assist with their efforts for security and keeping things safe for us as far as the people who evacuated. we are also working closely with the fire agencies in the area. an example is butte county requested 13 auto teams currently en route here to

assist if necessary. there is additional engine strike teams that have been requested that will assist as well. i think beside the cal fire management team directly assisting dwr with this incident, there is a management team that will assist them and continue to evaluate the situation in butte county and the surrounding counties. on top of everything else, water placement in the state. we are dealing with the entire resources to local, state and federal level are working together to make things as safe and secure as possible and we would like to thank the red cross for their assistance as well. with that i'll turn it back to the sheriff. >> so, folks as you can tell, we

are still quite early on into this situation. there is still a lot of information yet to be gathered, analysis to be conducted. we are certainly doing our best to get that information gathered, analyzes and disseminated in a timely fashion. i appreciate your cooperation and understanding and patience in this particular time. i'm very thankful to have the support of a lot of agencies and community members in this really difficult type. i recognized how tough this situation is on people. i recognize that we have had to dismiss a lot of people. but as you heard tonight, we needed to do that to insure the public safety. and that's the most important thing. that's the thing we'll continue

to focus on going forward. we'll take some questions. >> can you gives an update on the erosion of the -- kelly: they are talking about the situation in california. adam housley is standing by there. he's been on the ground there following the developments all night long. adam, can you assess what the sheriff and other members of his team have been talking about tonight in terms of getting people back to the region safe and sound? >> yes, i think from hearing that, i don't want to say a sigh of relief is the proper word. but for the short time the decision to call for the evacuation of more than 100,000 people was the right thing to do. i thinking about here now in yuba city where we are located, i'm streaming, hoping to pull that up. i'm on the feather river, one of

the brinls over the feather river which would be directly affected if that dam -- you take a pencil and draw a line from the dam straight down to sacramento * all the towns along that river have been evacuated. yuba city, marysville, down toward sacramento. the worry was the days actually an earthen dam. the special spillway that was being used as an emergency spillway, it's just a lower area that would allow water to go over and basically down the side it's not meant to be a long-term solution. so when you had water going over for more than 24 hours, that's where some of the erosion took place. what they have been able to do is lower the water coming into

the dam was more than what was going out. so the water level kept going up and up. they have been able to lower the water to where it's below the emergency area. they are dropping large rocks in bags to try to short up. we'll have three to four day to the get as much water out of that lake as they can. because next storms come in here. the hardest rains we are told will be friday and saturday. water won't reach the lake for 12 to 24 hours. they are worried about saturday and sunday. they need to shoirp as much as they income that area and get as much water out as they can because more water will be coming in. if they don't do that, you will have a situation we are dealing with right now come back in four days. i don't know if you can see this.

an plains going by me on the bridge. kelly, can you see the live stream yet? here is the feather river bridge. it connects the bridge that connects yuba city to marysville. you can see the water is right up to the edge of these levees. people may not realize sacramento all the way up to oroville is basically surround by levees. the delta area has 2,000 miles of levees. that water i can tell you from being here the last through to four days is all the way up to the top. if you were to have a significant release from that dam it will cause problems not only for the 100,000 evacuated here, but also downstream. they have been able to stop the water from going over the emergency release point and they are trying to spree pair as much as they can. but they will have to repair it

as quickly as they can and try to get as much water out of that lake as possible. normally this time of night this bridge would be full of cars. i have been told the toinls 70% evacuated. kelly: the sheriff said there has been no looting. he was talking about the fact that people could have started reporting there had been looting because of one man who attempted to do some sort of break-in after the evacuation had taken place. reporter: way was being told -- what i was being told earlier, they were worry about the fact they were expecting it because there is no way they can cover the amount of households here. on a normal day they have issue ofs with looting and other problems going on in yiewb a city and marysville.

they have been dealing with some stuff. they were worried that they don't have the manpower. they have to watch for breaches in the levees. they can't respond to hundreds of homes that have been evacuated in the last three our four hours. here comes a line of emergency vehicles. this portion of the state of california is shut down. if you want to go north or south, you have to go west over interstate 5. right now they are stationing. let's hope they don't have to respond to anything. kelly: lieutenant mark stokes, he discussed the emergency operations. a number of road closures in the area have prevented traffic from coming south to the area you are now located in. and that's for people's safety. reporter: if you don't know the

north state. from stawment north you have mountains on both sides. the coastal range on the left side, the sierra on the east side. it's a true valley. you have two major free ways that go forth. interstate 5 and 99 on the east side. 99 and 70 are completely shut down. the only way to go north is interstate 5. i have been told the traffic there is significant. people can't get anywhere around these cities. as the media we can get access to some of these places. we were told if you want to get to or ohville you will have to go to or ohville. it would be a 150-mile route.

this is the first major location. if there was an issue with the indictment would reach here in four hours. kelly: 8 shelters were mentioned in chicago oh alone. he says if they need to open up more shelters, they will. he also mentioned hotels are almost full with only a few vacancies now. tell me what that's like where chico is located and the area that has been evacuated. >> chico is 35 to 40 minutes from where i'm standing. a great little town.

cal state chico is there, a popular place. in the summertime, it's a great outdoors area. these are smaller towns but a lot of folks are here for generations. chicago kois out of the woods in the sense it won't be an issue with the flooding. when you are in oroville, just about everybody went to chico. we can't get a hotel room in chico. we are going to have to sleep in our cars. for 5 miles i saw cars -- cars bumper to bumper. i have never seen that in california. 25 miles of bumper to bumper

southbound. horse trailers. they told them to get out. in this area they had no choice other than to get out. also semis coming north. several of them carrying zodiac boats. something you would need if there were some sort of evacuation necessary. the good news, it sounds like a little bit after sigh of relief. but you can hear tonight their voices how dangerous the situation was and still is. and also they think they have it held until later this week. you can hear they have to get a lot more water out of that lake which will put more stress on the levee situation. if people hadn't heard before what i said. there are 2,000 miles of levees. that's not counting the levee 50 miles north of sacramento. they are all the way up to the dam. there are a lot of levees that keep these towns dry.

if one of those levees goes, you are talking about a lot of water and a lot of homes. if that were to happen, it would tax the levees even more. i have seen 9 water basically a foot or two from the top. we haven't seen this kind of water in 20 years. and there hasn't been a lot of work done on the levees because the infrastructure wasn't pthiss you can't get east-west, north-south. over 100,000 people were asked to evacuate. and they believe 70% are out of this area. >> when you say 70%, that lead you to believe some chose to remain? and on they can answer why. but hopefully no one has remained in that region and will not return to that region. so they are given the all clear from the california authorities.

>> that's a problem a couple sergeants i was talking to. when i started in tv news, they started in the police department. we have some things in common. they said when do they get to come back? they don't care if you have residency here or not. with potentially having to do this all over again friday night? or do you hold them away until you know for sure they have enough water out of that lake. depending on who you talk to is how threatened the dam is. state officials -- i think they have been downplaying it which is evident which you can see because a few days ago they were saying everything was fine. i think because this evacuation happened, they are saying it

wasn't because whole dam would come down. but the portion of the emergency spillway would have sent a 20-foot wall of water that would have taken out hundreds of homes. >> that would have taken out a lot of homes and a lot of lives. i want to update people who might have just tuned in. i'm speaking with adam housley who is based in our l.a. bureau. he's reporting on the ground in the oroville area in terms of what unfolded here. officials ordered 130,000 residents in the oroville dam in the northern part of the state to evacuate the area immediately. they have. because as they put it, a hazardous situation has been developing, an emergency spillway on the 50-year-old dam has become severely eroded due to heavy rainfall, and it could possibly fail unleashing

uncontrolled floodwaters toward homes in the valley below. on the phone with me is adam housley who grew up in that area. he started his television career in that area. he knows the people, he knows the land, he knows what's going on, and he's been keeping up to date. moments agree there was a news conference from authority who went on to say that they had the situation as they hoped right now to be under control. but adam we understand through the department of human resources the person that spoke here said that at first morning light, they will have a chance to go out and get a closer look at that emergency spillway that we have been talking about that had erosion and that was the cause for the alarm. and one of the things that was going in the back of my mind is what are they potentially fearful of because this is something that was so serious they caused people to evacuate

because they were so concerned about what could have gone wrong. >> the best way i can explain for people at home to put it in an example is let's say you have a plant in your front yard and build a minnesot -- build a moad it. if you opened up a spot the water would leak out and you wouldn't have water around the plant. what they were worried about where they had lower which is considered to be an emergency spillway. which isn't really a spillway. it's basically an emergency leak area is a way of putting it. it's only suppose to be for a short time. for 24 hours at least that water was going over and that started to wear away that earthen area.

that moat that was built to hold the water back had so much area started basically collapsing itself. which if that was to go, that opens up a much larger hole and potentially the water could seep intort parts of the dam. so that's what they were dealing with. they seem to have held it because they were able to get enough water out of there. the opinion flow, the inflow had slowed down because we haven't had rain here. i have been up here for 3 1/, 4 days and it's been sunny and beautiful. it rained here until wednesday or thursday and they had more water coming in than going out up until last night. so that rain, two days later is coming into that lake. right now they are trying to get much water out. more rain is coming. more friday, that means talking to the officials i have, they are worried about friday night,

more saturday-sunday really. so the key is they will have three days, four days to repair as much as they can, that part that was damaged and get as much water out of that lake as they can to accept the water coming in for the next storms. kelly: i understand they want to get that lake to drop 50 feet. they are dealing with mother nature. mother nature can be quite unpredictable. adam, stay with us throughout the night as much as you can. we appreciate your live reporting. we are going to take a break in about a minute. but we'll be back with more at the top of the hour. hopefully you can stay with us and keep us updated on the situation on the ground in oroville. again for those of you have following us. some breaking news developments out of california where officials are definitely monitoring the situation at the oroville dam. the spillway that has been eroding.

and they evacuated 130,000 people to make sure that they are safe. they sent many of them to higher ground. many of them going to chico where there are some 7 or 8 emergency shelters keeping them safe and sound throughout the night. they don't know when they will return home. beer following all the developments. for more details stay with us on fox news. weave take to you fox report.

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>> the 59th annual grammy awards are just minutes away. before the show kicks off let's get you a preview of tonight show down. between beyoncé and adele. the big questioncapture one of the r awards missing from her trophy case said that his album of the year. michael, host of in the fox life in fox senior vp of marketing is live on the red carpet. that's it is much nicer than mine. >> you should be here. this is your name all over it. the red carpet is just heating up. lady gaga lady gaga has made her way in, katie perry is performing tonight. adele is up for five nominations walked earlier.

it's music's biggest night of the year. here's a look a look at what you can expect. >> music's biggest names are taking center stage for the 59th annual grammy awards. >> the show is just loaded. adele and bruno mars, katie perry, these great duets with people like carrie underwood and keith urban. >> as attributes and do it right , the unique it grammy moments with unexpected bearings and unique performances. any time and artist steps on the grammy stage they want to give the performance of a lifetime. >> it beyoncé leads nominees with nine. followed by kanye west, drake and rihanna with eight nominations each. all eyes will be on adele and the major category.

>> it's really going to come down for album of the year to adele and beyoncé who are also up and record and song of the year. >> i think lemonade by beyoncé will win album of the year. in record and song of the year formation will be up. i think in those categories it's going to go to hello by adele. a song that no one could escape from this past year. a great song, instant classic. >> for the first time late-night talkshow host is hosting the show. >> i'm incredibly honored to be a part of it. really going to try her best to make it a great show were told tonight that adele will be opening up a show with a special tribute to george michael and i predicting once again the big prize will elude beyoncé, i think adele will take it, but there's more to go. just saying and on a scale of

one to ten, how political do you think the show will be? >> plan on a lot of hollywood hysteria tonight. the ep of the show spoke to the variety yesterday and he was saying a he encourages a lot of artists to go "off script" when they receive their award. it's sort of in standard, this award season with meryl streep and i don't expect it to be different tonight. >> i think people get it at this point. maybe maybe they'll take a cue from lady gaga and just perform. that's that's what we want to see. we love that. do it the right way. exactly. we need a break. thank you so much. >> brazil knows how to party. i've always wanted to see this. early celebrations are underway. we will take you there, coming up.

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these little guys are learning how to survive in the wild. it is a learning curve along the way. there he goes. the party is on in rio as many as a million people partake in colorful street parties to celebrate carnival early. they are dancing around the city. this year's theme is the goddess of the sea. it scheduled to start up in a little over a week, february 24. that's how fox reports this sunday february 12. thanks for watching. "watters world" is coming up next.

kelly: this is a fox news alert. i'm kelly wright in new york with break details. we are keeping an eye on a potentially deadly and dangerous situation in california. 130,000 residents were evacuated near the 770-foot tall oroville dam in the northern part of the state because as they put it, a hazardous situation has been developing. an emergency spillway on the 50-year-old dam has become severely eroded due to heavy rainfall. they have been experiencing heavy rainfall due to the strong winter storms that hit that west coast area. and it