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IrelandAn ocean rescue and airport footage shape CBS LA's week
The fishermen's account and a small plane overturned by jet blast each drew more than two million views.
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Newport Beach fishermen find Royal Caribbean cruise employee treading water miles off coast
Sean Norton and Grant Garrett were returning from Catalina Island when they spotted someone in the water. Their account of pulling a cruise ship pianist aboard became CBS LA's most-watched upload of the week, reaching about 2.4 million views.
Zach Boetto's Newport Beach report gives the rescue its human detail. "Grant and I each got an arm and lifted him up, and he was in total shock," Norton says. Officials put the man's time in the ocean at approximately nine hours. The Coast Guard was investigating, and his name had not been released when the report aired.
That story and footage of a small plane being flipped by a commercial jet's blast at John Wayne Airport account for much of the week's viewing. The airport upload passed two million views, and both reports remain the channel's strongest daily draws. Together, they have attracted far larger audiences than the other recent uploads shown here.
CBS LA's broader schedule kept its local focus: Laurie Perez reported on a rapid responder's conversation with an ICE agent, while Hunter Sowards covered the removal of neighborhood security warnings in Valley Glen. Another report examined an unauthorized Air France turn during takeoff at LAX.
Subscribers increased over the week, and daily views are running roughly half again above their usual level. Among nearby local-news channels, KTLA 5 also had substantial weekly viewing. CBS LA had the largest weekly views gain in this group, with the offshore rescue and Orange County airport footage continuing to bring in viewers.
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- Channel
- CBS LA
- Subscribers
- 1,170,000 ▲ 10,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 7,111,858
- Videos published this week
- 37
- Video published
- November 8, 2026
- Video views so far
- 2,396,038
- Views on its first day
- 1,625,026
The numbers
Here is how CBS LA's audience and viewing changed over the week.
