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Officials in Hawaii orders some 4,000 people living near an aging dam on the island of Oahu to evacuate the area immediately, following severe rains that have battered the region. The century-old Wahiawa dam in the north of Hawaii's third largest island, which is home to the state capital Honolulu, 'is at imminent risk of failure,' the local emergency management agency warned. 'The biggest concern, of course, is if water ultimately goes over the top of the dam. It can compromise the structure of the dam,' explains Hawaii Governor Josh Green

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00:29Yes, sir.
00:30So just to give you an update on the heights of the dam, so the dam goes all the way
00:33up to 90 feet just for the top of the dam. 88 feet becomes a very critical threshold also where
00:40we have concerns. And then 85 feet, that's when we trigger evacuations. But because of the rate of rise, we
00:46wanted to be out a little bit ahead of that. And that's why we started moving people steadily now that
00:51it was daylight.
00:52The biggest concern, of course, is if water ultimately goes over the top of the dam, you can compromise the
01:01structure of the dam. You can start losing material and that we can't have. Or at least we certainly can't
01:06have that with any people in the region. So that's why we're asking people to calmly move out of the
01:12area and evacuate.
01:13We'll get a lot more updates from this.
02:07You
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