Long Beach builds sand berms against Rachel's dangerous surf

KTVU's coastal update follows flooding in Newport Beach, where the city has declared a state of emergency.

Channel: KTVU FOX 2 San Francisco Story of October 12, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 151,551 views a day, 28 times a normal first day on this channel (5,384).

Southern California braces for more dangerous surf, flooding from Tropical Storm Rachel | KTVU

Floodwater has reached Newport Beach neighborhoods, and beachfront homes along Southern California's coast have been battered by powerful waves, KTVU reports. In Long Beach, crews are building protective sand berms as officials warn that the worst coastal conditions could arrive Sunday.

The station's Rachel update drew about 88,000 views in its first ten hours. That is already far beyond the few thousand a regular KTVU upload usually attracts over a full first day, making this coastal report a standout on the Bay Area station's channel.

It also continues a story KTVU covered in its earlier "Floods prompt state of emergency | West Coast Wrap." That report described high tides and rough surf affecting stretches of the Los Angeles and Orange County coastline, with properties and vehicles already damaged and Newport Beach declaring an emergency.

The new report turns attention to the protective work in Long Beach: crews building up the shoreline while the warning of more dangerous surf remains in place.

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The numbers

The coastal update has already drawn a much larger audience than KTVU's usual first-day upload. Here is how its early views compare.

the video's first day

usual first day here

5,384

this video

151,551

subscribers

388,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

441,290,818

views per day

363,202

typical day: 335,228

the video

views

87,512

likes

418

comments

90

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

WCCO - CBS Minnesota

421,000

FOX 13 Seattle

402,000

WSB-TV

389,000

KTVU FOX 2 San Francisco

388,000

CP24

380,000

CBS Boston

376,000

As of October 12, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.