we're about 30 miles down south of oraville.e threat we face is if there is a catastrophic failure of this spillway, we're looking at the river possibly breaking our levee or overflowing into our town. so everybody here's leaving. the evacuation efforts have been going all right. i've been in the car now for about four and a half hours and i'm just now on the outskirts of town. i've made it ten miles south of the town center, so it's not going that quick, but we're starting to move a little bit better now. >> we were looking at video moments ago, if we can show that again. you see the highway there, the road that so many people are traveling. you do get a sense that traffic is backed up. there are many people trying to get out of the way, you know, until this situation becomes more stable. i do want to get a sense, though. have you been told of a place to go? where people can, you know, seek shelter? wait for this to play out? >> caller: there was an evacuation center set up in chico, california, which is north of oraville, so i

last week officials spotted a 200-foot gash in the main spillway of the oraville dam. crews are loading rocks into bags kill helicopter -- that helicopters dropped. 23,000 strong are on stand by to deploy if needed. >>> coming up, the controversial bill to protect drivers the they hit a protestor who's blocking the roads. >> up next, the controversial reason police say they did not arrest the parents of a baby left alone in a locked car. >>> caught on camera, viral video of a baby left alone inside a locked car is sparking conversation on social media. people walking by called police after they saw the baby strapped in the car seat in that parking lot of a movie theater saturday night. officers found the parents inside the movies with another child, their 4-year-old daughter. it's illegal to leave a child in a car unattended. the parents were not arrested. >> what they found out is the family is from saudi arabia. they said this is culturally acceptable for them. that's normal. >> no urge which as which -- no charges in this case. police say if the parents had grown up

this is oraville lake, and look at it. we can give you an interesting perspective.t more than two years ago you could walk parts of this lake. you could walk the lake bed, wolf, and now it's completely filled with water. they have had so much rain here over the past few months. the good news as we pointed out, the lake level is dropping. they needed to drop even more before the next storm hits so they could assure everyone's safety. back to you now, wolf. >> we'll take the good news for now. paul, thanks very much. >>> right now the president and the canadian prime minister justin trudeau, they're having lunch ahead of their joint news conference scheduled for the top of the hour. looking at live pictures from the east room of the white house. when we come back, my panel will weigh in on how these two very different world leaders will try to narrow their difference on key issues, including trade and immigration. stay with us. i should take a closer look at geico... you know, geico can help you save money on your homeowners insurance too? great! geico can help insure

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. >> reporter: water continues to surge out of lake oravile. california officials are confident the spillways will hold. >> it is safe to reduce the immediate evacuation order currently in place to an evacuation warning. >> officials say the main spillway is damaged but stable. when the lake overflowed into the emergency backup spillway, it washed away the land next to the reservoir's wall. this is how the hillside looked prior to sunday. more than 125 construction crews are now working around the clock to reinforce that hillside. they're loading the spillway with 1200 tons of heavy rocks and bolders every hour. even with the mandatory evacuation lifted, for the nearly 200,000 people living below the dam the threat remains. >> they have to be vigilant. stle to pay attention to what is going on. and there is the prospect that we could issue another evacuation order if the circumstances change and the risk increases. >> reporter: for this pastor, dennis day, returning home is a mixed blessing. >> you think there will be some people who are now un

the oraville dam. this spillway. >> whoa. >> gave way yesterday. they are releasing all of this water. they said the amount of water going in there is the same as the amount of water from the mississippi going into st. louis. the amount of water is incredibly. they may have to use an emergency spillway which the emergency spillway is the side of the mountain so it's cutting down trees and all of this water will release. the bottom line there will be huge floods downstream ofuddy water and trying to rescue a million salmon. >>> in the east it's cold. you felt it last night as you were cleaning up. now what we deal with in the days ahead is a little snowstorm coming down saturday through the areas of the northeast. only one or two inches. the rest of the country is beautiful and warm. 85 in oklahoma city. but by the time we get to sunday, it begins to rain in new york and mixture in boston but then the storm is going to really blow up off the coast of the cape code. this is monday morning. we are looking at the possibility of three snow days in a row