PICO RIVERA, Calif. \u2014 Around 3,000 people remain missing, and more than 670 people are dead following the catastrophic flooding along the Nepal-China border. Southern California also faces the risk of dangerous flooding, right in our backyard.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s why there\u2019s the Whittier Narrows Dam. But years ago, it was determined to be at high risk of\u00a0failure<\/a>\u00a0during extreme\u00a0flooding<\/a>. Construction on safety improvements is now expected to begin this fall.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PICO RIVERA, Calif. \u2014 Around 3,000 people remain missing, and more than 670 people are dead following the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[5997,2997,7,48,52,51,47,50,49,101271,177570,13,1492,5999,5996],"class_list":["post-448503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-app-local-state-politics","tag-app-public-safety","tag-california","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-maryssa-rillo","tag-news-all-day","tag-politics","tag-public-safety","tag-socal-what-you-need-to-know","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}