13/02/2017 Newsround


13/02/2017

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Stick around for some of this?

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Why Sir Bradley Wiggins is quitting The Jump.

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What's got Keelie ,the pigeon fancier, so excited?

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First, nearly 200,000 people in California in America have been

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told to evacuate their homes because of a big hole in part

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The Oroville Dam, which is holding back a large lake, has been

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weakened by heavy rain and, as Ayshah's been finding out,

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it's an emergency people there have never experienced before.

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The Oroville Dam is in northern California.

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It's the tallest in America at 230 metres, which is about the same

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as 15 double-decker buses stacked on top of each other.

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A dam is a barrier that's built to hold back water.

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It can be used to generate electricity, supply homes

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The Oroville Dam works by collecting rain water in a reservoir or a lake.

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But there's been heavy rain and snow recently,

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When something like this happens, an emergency spillway,

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which looks like a bit like a huge water slide, is used to release some

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But the heavy rain has damaged the spillway.

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Emergency teams are worried that the hole could soon cause huge

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amounts of water to fall into the river running below.

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This river runs through nearby towns, meaning people who live

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It's approximately a 30-foot wall of water that would be

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coming out of the lake, not the lake drain,

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That is why we took the appropriate measures that we did.

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Thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes.

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For now, the water levels in the lake have gone down

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but more rain is expected in the area this week.

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Straight now to some exciting cricket news

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because Joe Root has been named as England's Test captain.

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The Yorkshire batsman was the big favourite to replace Alastair Cook,

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Joe will be England's 80th captain and he says he's

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Ben Stokes has been given the vice-captain job.

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Next, we're meeting someone else who's flying high -

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12-year-old Keelie from Belfast, who's one of the youngest pigeon

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Hi, I'm Keelie and I'm a pigeon fancier.

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A pigeon fancier is someone who looks after pigeons and enters

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It's hard work looking after pigeons.

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Every day, when I come home from school and on the weekends,

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I have to clean up, I have to give them fresh water and make sure

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This is where we keep our champion pigeons.

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Last year, I won the title of Young Pigeon Fancier of the Year

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The things you need to look out for in a champion

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You need to make sure all the feathers are straight.

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You need to make sure their tail is pointing down to make sure

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And they need to have baths every week.

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But I've got to say goodbye for now as I've this year's

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This is the biggest pigeon show in Europe and this year is extra

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special because it is the 40th anniversary of the show. Now it is

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time to find that my pigeons have done. I won! I won! I am in class

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31. Oh, my God! Unbelievable, so happy! It is a real

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privilege to have won this award. So much of my hard work and effort has

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paid off. Pigeon fancying is so great and so unusual and that is

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what makes it so special. To showbiz now and Sir Bradley

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Wiggins has quit The Jump after breaking his leg

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during a training session The champion cyclist says he's

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gutted to be leaving but doesn't need surgery or plaster

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for the fracture. Olympians Beth Tweddle

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and Rebecca Adlington have also been Go to Newsround online for a look

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at some of the best pictures from last night's Grammy music

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awards in America and find out why Adele broke one

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of her prizes in half! Newsround's back right

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here tomorrow at 7:40am.

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