Oroville, California (CNN)A day after 188,000 people were evacuated from the towns surrounding Northern California's Oroville Dam, officials sounded a note of cautious optimism about containing the threat of flooding.
The music is still playing but no people on this low-lying street in evacuated downtown #Oroville #OrovilleDam #OrovilleSpillway #abc7now pic.twitter.com/vPLVG4y8kn
Some video of the river taken 2/13/2017 #emergency #evacuation #cnnnews #weather #nature #like4like #weatherchannel #weatheryes #orovilledam #spillway #oroville
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CNN's Eliott C. McLaughlin and Emanuella Grinberg reported and wrote from Atlanta. CNN's Paul Vercammen reported from Oroville. CNN's Madison Park, Sheena Jones, Chuck Johnston, Azadeh Ansari and Carma Hassan contributed to this report.
Source: CNN
