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Stick around for some of this? | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
Why Sir Bradley Wiggins is quitting The Jump. | :00:10. | :00:12. | |
What's got Keelie ,the pigeon fancier, so excited? | :00:13. | :00:26. | |
First, nearly 200,000 people in California in America have been | :00:27. | :00:28. | |
told to evacuate their homes because of a big hole in part | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
The Oroville Dam, which is holding back a large lake, has been | :00:33. | :00:38. | |
weakened by heavy rain and, as Ayshah's been finding out, | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
it's an emergency people there have never experienced before. | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
The Oroville Dam is in northern California. | :00:47. | :00:48. | |
It's the tallest in America at 230 metres, which is about the same | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
as 15 double-decker buses stacked on top of each other. | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
A dam is a barrier that's built to hold back water. | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
It can be used to generate electricity, supply homes | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
The Oroville Dam works by collecting rain water in a reservoir or a lake. | :01:05. | :01:11. | |
But there's been heavy rain and snow recently, | :01:12. | :01:13. | |
When something like this happens, an emergency spillway, | :01:14. | :01:19. | |
which looks like a bit like a huge water slide, is used to release some | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
But the heavy rain has damaged the spillway. | :01:23. | :01:28. | |
Emergency teams are worried that the hole could soon cause huge | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
amounts of water to fall into the river running below. | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
This river runs through nearby towns, meaning people who live | :01:39. | :01:40. | |
It's approximately a 30-foot wall of water that would be | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
coming out of the lake, not the lake drain, | :01:47. | :01:48. | |
That is why we took the appropriate measures that we did. | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
Thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes. | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
For now, the water levels in the lake have gone down | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
but more rain is expected in the area this week. | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
Straight now to some exciting cricket news | :02:05. | :02:06. | |
because Joe Root has been named as England's Test captain. | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
The Yorkshire batsman was the big favourite to replace Alastair Cook, | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
Joe will be England's 80th captain and he says he's | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
Ben Stokes has been given the vice-captain job. | :02:19. | :02:27. | |
Next, we're meeting someone else who's flying high - | :02:28. | :02:29. | |
12-year-old Keelie from Belfast, who's one of the youngest pigeon | :02:30. | :02:31. | |
Hi, I'm Keelie and I'm a pigeon fancier. | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
A pigeon fancier is someone who looks after pigeons and enters | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
It's hard work looking after pigeons. | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
Every day, when I come home from school and on the weekends, | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
I have to clean up, I have to give them fresh water and make sure | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
This is where we keep our champion pigeons. | :02:56. | :03:02. | |
Last year, I won the title of Young Pigeon Fancier of the Year | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
The things you need to look out for in a champion | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
You need to make sure all the feathers are straight. | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
You need to make sure their tail is pointing down to make sure | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
And they need to have baths every week. | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
But I've got to say goodbye for now as I've this year's | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
This is the biggest pigeon show in Europe and this year is extra | :03:24. | :03:41. | |
special because it is the 40th anniversary of the show. Now it is | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
time to find that my pigeons have done. I won! I won! I am in class | :03:45. | :04:00. | |
31. Oh, my God! Unbelievable, so happy! It is a real | :04:01. | :04:16. | |
privilege to have won this award. So much of my hard work and effort has | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
paid off. Pigeon fancying is so great and so unusual and that is | :04:20. | :04:20. | |
what makes it so special. To showbiz now and Sir Bradley | :04:21. | :04:22. | |
Wiggins has quit The Jump after breaking his leg | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
during a training session The champion cyclist says he's | :04:26. | :04:27. | |
gutted to be leaving but doesn't need surgery or plaster | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
for the fracture. Olympians Beth Tweddle | :04:31. | :04:32. | |
and Rebecca Adlington have also been Go to Newsround online for a look | :04:33. | :04:34. | |
at some of the best pictures from last night's Grammy music | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
awards in America and find out why Adele broke one | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
of her prizes in half! Newsround's back right | :04:45. | :04:51. | |
here tomorrow at 7:40am. | :04:52. | :05:01. |