Assessing damages from Tropical Storm Rachel in Long Beach

It was a really frantic weekend for people living along the coast in Long Beach. Remnants of Tropical Storm Rachel really hammered the shoreline. Those tides are still dangerous. Reporter Mario Ramirez, you're out in Long Beach right now to tell us and show us the latest. Good morning, Mario. Dave, good morning. We've had several days. This coastal event started Friday, and here we are Monday morning, and we've had high tide every morning and high tide every night that has caused some concern for residents, and I'll show you why. where along the Long Beach boardwalk, a century-old boardwalk and just look at some of the damage here that's been left behind over the weekend we've got thick sand that wasn't here days ago a lot of the windows here are boarded up and there are evacuation orders that remain in place for the next couple of blocks you can see all those sandbags in place and all the wooden beams here that were put in place as this part of the coastline has been getting hit with wave after wave now we have high tide which comes in around 10 o'clock this morning we've been watching the waves really been been building here even the residents are surprised that this this far out from high tide the waves are already this intense so the next couple of hours will definitely be tense for the residents out here dozens who evacuated we have nine red tag buildings 13 addresses where those families have been evacuated and you can see some of them are on the brink of collapse they're pretty seriously damaged here a lot of them boarded up so i want to show you the other side of the pier because that's where a lot more activity is happening as these waves continue to come up. You can see those crews there. They're putting up a sand berm. They're reinforcing a sand berm that continuously gets washed away with these big waves. They've been bringing in sand from other parts, other areas, and that's a big challenge as well. They're doing this work out here that's just getting washed away with all these continuous days and high tides that come in. So we've got a beach hazard statement and a coastal flood advisory in place through at least tomorrow. So there's the high surf, the strong rip currents, and then minor to moderate coastal flooding that's possible. And I'll show you quickly just down the street here. You can see all this thick sand that's been sent, Dave, all the way down the street. When we were here a few days ago, public works crews moved in quickly. They brought in pumps and started flooding out the street. And we can see this morning they are on standby in case that happens again again just a few hours away from high tide this morning for now in Long Beach I'm Mario Ramirez, we'll send it back to you now, no worries thank you for that update Mario thank you it is