High surf leaves Long Beach homes red-tagged and access restricted
NBCLA's coastal coverage also follows Newport Beach pier closures and waves splashing into an Amtrak train bound for Oceanside.
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Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 134,911 views a day, 28 times a normal first day on this channel (4,862).
High surf batters Long Beach peninsula
NBCLA's Annette Arreola reports on the restrictions left behind by high surf in Long Beach: some beachfront homes have been red-tagged, and access to the peninsula has been limited.
Her Sunday report for Today in LA, titled "High surf batters Long Beach peninsula," drew about 93,000 views in its first twelve hours. A typical short on the station's channel attracts roughly 5,000 over a full first day, making this an unusually large early audience.
The coverage extends the coastal emergency we reported here as excavators built a sand wall against flooding in Newport Beach. In a separate Sunday report, Hetty Chang explains that Newport Beach's piers are closed until further notice while officials monitor the elevated surf. That update also drew an unusually fast start.
Another widely watched NBCLA clip shows the disruption reaching a coastal rail journey: waves splashing into an Amtrak train traveling from Orange County toward Oceanside. Alongside those reports, Shanna Mendiola's Sunday forecast describes a brief break from wet weather before another storm moves into Southern California.
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- Channel
- NBCLA
- Subscribers
- 424,000 ▲ 2,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 8,311,836
- Channel views, pace per day
- 2,831,865 (on a normal day: 771,086)
- Video published
- October 11, 2026
- Video views so far
- 92,623 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 134,911
The numbers
The Long Beach report drew far more views in half a day than NBCLA's Shorts usually receive in a full first day. The pier-closure and Amtrak clips also attracted unusually large early audiences.
