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• Evacuations Prompted Oroville Dam Spillway Erosion Reduced, Residents Being Allowed To Go Home

  14-02-2017 22:56
  OROVILLE (CBS13) – Authorities have lowered the Butte County evacuation orders due to the Oroville Dam spillway incident to an Evacuation Warning.
  The change means residents can go back home, but need to be ready in case the situation changes.
  Authorities announced they had lowered the orders during an early Tuesday afternoon press conference.Breaking:Mandatory evacuation downgraded to evacuation warning.#Butte Co. Sheriff -allowing evacuated residents to return home #OrovilleDam
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• Woman Arrested, Faces Hate Crime Charge For Davis Mosque Vandalism

  14-02-2017 21:40
  
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  DAVIS (CBS13) – Authorities have made an arrest in the case of hateful vandalism of a Davis mosque.
  The Yolo County District Attorney’s Office filed a complaint against a woman named Lauren Kirk-Coehlo on Tuesday. She is facing charges of vandalism with a hate crime enhancement, according to the complaint, along with a charge of vandalism to a church.
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• Highway 50 In Sierra Expected To Be Closed At Least Another Day

  14-02-2017 20:17
  
  KYBURZ (CBS13/AP) – A key mountain route between Sacramento and South Lake Tahoe is closed indefinitely because of a series of mudslides.
  Caltrans said Monday that crews are clearing three major slides and several smaller ones along a 30 mile stretch of State Route 50.
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  The highway is closed in both directions between the communities of Pollock Pines and Strawberry in El Dorado County. Workers on steep slopes are contending with hillsides
  
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• Boy, 13, Riding Bicycle Struck, Killed In North Highlands

  14-02-2017 19:25
  
  NORTH HIGHLANDS (CBS13) – Authorities are investigating after a child riding a bicycle was struck and killed Tuesday morning.
  The scene is near Palm Avenue and Hillsdale Boulevard.
  California Highway Patrol says the incident happened around 8:18 a.m. The 13-year-old boy was reportedly riding on the southbound sidewalk of Hillsdale when he turned right on Palm Avenue.
  The boy went right in front of a moving car and was struck and pinned under. He was fatally injured in the incident.
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• Mysterious Light Seen Off Coast Of California Was Navy Trident Missile Test

  14-02-2017 18:29
  
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – If you think you saw a missile flying over Northern California early Tuesday morning, you are not alone – and not mistaken.
  Navy officials confirm that a Trident II (D5) missile test was conducted this morning.  A total of two missiles were launched from an Ohio-class submarine in the Pacific Test Range off the coast of California.
  While the missiles may have looked like they were flying over California, Navy officials say the tests were “conducted fro
  
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• Child Riding Bicycle Struck, Killed In North Highlands

  14-02-2017 18:06
  NORTH HIGHLANDS (CBS13) – Authorities are investigating after a child riding a bicycle was struck and killed Tuesday morning.
  The scene is near Frizell Avenue and Hillsdale Boulevard.
  California Highway Patrol says the incident happened around 8:18 a.m. First responders found the child under a vehicle.
  The child suffered fatal injuries. No details about the child, including the child’s age, have been released.
  CHP investigators are at the scene.
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• Crews Working Around The Clock On Damaged Oroville Dam Spillway

  14-02-2017 17:55
  
  OROVILLE, Calif. (AP) – Crews working around the clock atop the crippled Oroville Dam have made progress repairing the damaged spillway.
  Workers are hoisting giant white bags filled with rocks, and at least two helicopters will fly them and then release them in the spillway’s erosion. Dump trucks full of boulders also are dumping their cargo on the damaged spillway.Helicopters once again are being use in #oroville to lift bags of boulders to help the eroded emergency spillway pic.twi
  
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• Crews Work Through Night To Build Up Tyler Island Levee

  14-02-2017 16:50
  
  TYLER ISLAND (CBS13) – Sacramento County water reclamation district crews worked throughout the night to build up the Tyler Island levee.
  People who live in the area worked quickly to move their belongings out of harm’s way after voluntary evacuations were issued Monday.
  The evacuation on Tyler Island affects roughly 85 people in 20 homes. But with 8,500 acres of farmland at risk, local farmers spent most of yesterday focused on moving expensive equipment off of the island.Sun's comi
  
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• Despite Problems With Oroville Dam Spillway, Officials Say Flood Risk In Sacramento Negligible

  14-02-2017 15:42
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – The instability of the emergency spillway at the Oroville Dam is now drawing concerns about our flood system as a whole: Is it operating as designed? And with all this water in the system making its way downstream, is Sacramento at risk?
  Joseph Countryman – a member of the Central Valley Flood Protection Board – says with five years of drought and all the rain we’ve gotten, our flood system is actually behaving well.
  “We have a problem with one
  
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• Crews Work To Fix ‘Very Unstable’ Tyler Island Levee

  14-02-2017 09:00
  
  TYLER ISLAND (CBS 13) – Crews from Water Reclamation District (RD) 563 plan to work throughout Monday night to maintain the Tyler Island levee. Meanwhile, people who live in the area are working quickly to their belongings out of harm’s way.
  “This is not a break or a breach,” said Christopher Neudeck, an Engineer with RD 563. “We’re just in what we call a ‘very unstable’ condition.”
  People who live in the Walnut Grove area are worried about p
  
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• Oroville Dam Spillway Evacuees Search For Normalcy Amid Emergency

  14-02-2017 08:57
  
  CHICO (CBS13) – Uncertainty at the Oroville Dam stranded thousands of residents and forced them to seek shelter elsewhere.
  More than 1,100 people ended up spending the night at the Silver Dollar Fairgrounds.
  Even the men’s Chico State soccer team stepped up and donated their time to make every goal.
  “I wouldn’t want to be just sitting there and worrying if my house was going to flood, so if I have somebody to get my mind off of anything it’s just nice,” said s
  
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• Crews Work Toward Makeshift Oroville Dam Spillway Fix While Evacuees Wait

  14-02-2017 08:47
  
  OROVILLE (CBS13) — It’s repair work to prevent a flooding catastrophe.
  Crews are busy working on a makeshift fix, creating piles of boulders on the eroded Oroville Dam’s emergency spillway to prevent it from failing.
  Two helicopters raised 1,000 pound bags of the boulders, one by one. Delivering them minute by minute onto the eroded emergency spillway.
  The impressive makeshift air operation to prevent the emergency spillway failure, played out above an equally busy ground opera
  
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• 2005 Report Laid Out Potential Dangers Of Oroville Dam Auxiliary Spillway

  14-02-2017 08:22
  
  OROVILLE (CBS13) — State officials may have been aware of the dangers with the emergency spillway more than a decade ago. The 2005 report filed by three environmental groups describes the potential dangers with the spillway that unfolded over the weekend.
  As the main spillway pours into the Feather River, the emergency spillway is dry and being reinforced with large rocks.
  “This is a new, never-happened-before event,” said Bill Croyle the acting director with the Departmen
  
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• Oroville Dam Spillway Evacuations Leave City A Ghost Town

  14-02-2017 07:31
  
  OROVILLE (CBS13) — People in Oroville have packed up and headed out of town. Police vehicles roam the streets of the downtown areas. Businesses are closed and people sightings are few and far between.
  “Trying to get as much of the stuff out of here as we can,” said Jacob Smith.
  He and his brothers loaded everything they could from the family run jewelry business into boxes.
  “Came down to try and help mitigate any losses either from looters or, you know, if something does
  
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• Repair Crews Dump Boulders In Attempted Fix For Oroville Dam Spillway

  14-02-2017 05:32
  
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Repair crews are done repairing the backup spillway for the day, but still have a massive amount of boulders to deliver. And they haven’t said when the operation will resume.
  Repair crews spent all day Monday trucking in the massive boulders, using bobcats to lift them and fill bags, line them up, and prepare for the drops.
  Pilots are using heavy duty helicopters with slings underneath to lift the rocks –and dump them into the hole that formed in the s
  
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• Oroville Dam Evacuees May Not Go Home Until Spillway Repaired

  14-02-2017 03:45
  
  OROVILLE, Calif. (AP) – Nearly 200,000 people who were ordered to leave their homes after a damaged California spillway threatened to unleash a 30-foot wall of water may not be able to return until significant erosion is repaired, authorities said Monday.
  The officials who issued the hasty evacuation order defended their decision, saying it was necessary to ensure public safety in the region downstream from the nation’s tallest dam, about 150 miles northeast of San Francisco. Enginee
  
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• 7-Vehicle Crash At End Of Motorhome Pursuit Injures 5 In Roseville

  14-02-2017 01:49
  
  ROSEVILLE (CBS13) — A police pursuit of a motorhome ended in a seven-vehicle collision that injured 5 people in Roseville on Monday.
  A Sacramento County sheriff’s deputy spotted the motorhome just before 3 p.m. on Monday and noticed it matched the description of a vehicle in an earlier hit-and-run.
  Investigators say the RV went through multiple stop signs before hitting several vehicles at Baseline and Fiddyment roads.
  Five people, including the motorhome driver, were injured in the
  
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• Oroville Dam Managers Dismissed Flood Concern 12 Years Ago

  14-02-2017 00:47
  
  Environmental activists and local government officials warned more than a decade ago about the risk of catastrophic flooding below a major Northern California dam – the very scenario that threatened to unfold over the weekend, forcing the evacuation of nearly 200,000 people downstream.
  But those fears were dismissed at the time by the state and federal regulators, who said they were confident the hillside that helps hold back billions of gallons of water was stable.
  That decision has come
  
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• Call Kurtis Investigates: Know California’s Rules About Price Gouging During State Of Emergency

  14-02-2017 00:36
  
  4:50 p.m. UPDATE: After the Call Kurtis team reached out to his office, Attorney General Xavier Becerra issued a statement warning about price gouging:
  “California’s price gouging law protects people impacted by an emergency from illegal price gouging on gas, food, housing, and other essential supplies,” said Attorney General Becerra. “I urge hotels, gas stations, and other businesses operating in and around the evacuation area to understand and comply with the law, and I
  
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