Shocking video shows Long Beach oceanfront homes on the brink of collapse

Now let's go to Long Beach, where a high tide has hit its peak just minutes ago, and you can see those waves just pummeling homes on the peninsula. Gabe Santos is live overhead in Air 7. Gabe? Yeah, Colleen, high tide was about 20 or 30 minutes ago, and it's been amazing over the past few days and weeks even to see the deliberate, methodical, and almost unstoppable power of these waves along the Long Beach Peninsula. There are eight homes red-tagged between 64th and 66th place here, and you can see what the waves are capable of doing, just slowly eating away at the land here. The seaside walk, boardwalk, completely gone, and now you can see the damage it's doing to these homes as the foundation from under these homes gets eaten out from under them. It's starting to cause cracks in the actual structure of some of these homes, and waves are pouring into the first level of these homes and taking a lot of pieces of the homes with them. So you're starting to see a lot of this destruction causing major damage to the foundations of these homes. And that could mean some of these homes could be a complete loss. We'll continue to keep an eye on it as these waves continue to batter the Long Beach Peninsula. But for now, live on Air 7, Gabe Santos, ABC 7 Eyewitness News. Guys, back up to you. Okay, Gabe, thank you very much. So hard to see that happening to people's homes. Let's go to Eyewitness News reporter Riley Carroll. She's live on the ground in Long Beach with more on those beachfront homes now on the brink of total collapse. Riley. Well, Phillip and Colleen, a really sad scene here on the ground. You can see and hear those strong waves behind me causing so much destruction. We're seeing lighter flooding today, but those waves are not giving the homes a break. Take a look behind me here. I want to show you. Gabe just gave you an excellent look from the air of some damaged homes, but this cracked home right here, This is mild damage compared to what we're seeing in some of the other homes. So just to give you a little bit of perspective here on the ground, as Gabe showed, we are literally seeing homes now where the ocean is in their living room. These oceanfront homes are taking a serious beating, lots of significant damage you can see. But even more dangerous is some of the damage that you can't see. That is the erosion of the foundation underneath these homes. That is what structural engineers say causes the serious shift of the homes and why they slide towards the ocean folks who live here say this level of destruction is just hard to fathom. It's unbelievable because here in Long Beach you think that you're safe from you know big huge waves and things because of the break wall and when you see the force of just a swell bringing those waves in and doing the destruction that they're doing it makes you realize that you just never know with mother nature. And just because your home isn't crumbling doesn't mean that it doesn't have serious damage. With the flooding in the streets, water is getting into people's garages and front doorsteps. I've seen several people trying to squeegee out that water as several inches sort of accumulate on their floors now. As of right now, officials say that eight homes are red-tagged. That's 13 individual addresses affected. But literally inspectors are here on the ground right now, so that number could change rapidly as they continue to assess. In fact, we just talked with the Long Beach Fire Department here who says that a house just one block away that Gabe showed you is nearly falling into the water. They tell me that they're surprised it hasn't fallen in already. For now, live in Long Beach, Riley Carroll, ABC7 Eyewitness News.