High Tides expected to cause costal flooding in SoCal

King tides over the next few days could produce the highest on record and cause some coastal flooding. Yeah, here we go again. Mario joins us live from Newport Beach with more. Good morning. Yeah, Jen, Bob, we are on this massive sand berm, 20, maybe 25 feet here along the Balboa Peninsula and Giovanni, right? Yes, yes. You and your family live here. You're just a block away, you said. Talk to me about how you're feeling with the king tides coming up. Well, we're nervous, but I think the city's doing a good job. They're proactive. They're notifying everybody what we need to do. we have sandbags i actually bought bladders the bladders seem to work a little bit better um but we'll see i mean we're going to experience this three times today's the first of three different big high tides that are coming you know i'm not sure how well it's going to work because we still have the bay on the bay side there's no berm so we might get we might save ourselves from the ocean but on the other side this right you know few yards on the other side is the bay and the water's coming over the little wall there so and this is constant work that we see with this sand berm and it's not going to stop because we have never seen this this is new this is like the great wall of newport beach they're doing a great job um i think it does help people with their anxiety but we'll see, we'll see in the next few hours what happens um but i think the big one is coming in november and that one they're saying is like eight feet so So that one, this won't work, you know. So you're saying your kids live here in Newport Beach? Where do they live? They saw flooding too, right? So I have a, my son lives here on 9th Street, and that got impacted the worst because they got from the bay side and the ocean side, there's no place for the water to go. He had about maybe eight inches of water inside the house. My house, I built it three feet above grade, so you would have to have a 12-foot tide to get me. But it's a newer build. It's an older home, a newer build, and it sits above the ground three feet. So we'll see. Yeah, kind of on edge, right? Like I said, it's scary. I know this calms people, their nerves. And they made two. So we actually have two walls. You see one here. But between Island and 15th Street, there's a double berm. But when the water came on that Friday, it was kind of strange because where you see waves, that day the water just kept on coming. And there's almost like a mini tsunami, because the wave did not stop. But it came in like a river. I mean, people are on bicycles and knock people down. So we'll see. Like I said, we'll know in the next two hours how this holds up. You've been here your whole life? I've been here a long time. We used to vacation here and now I live here, but I've never seen it like this before. Never, ever, never, nothing like this. During COVID, but there was no berm. During COVID, this all flooded out. I think even boats washed up on shore. But that was expected where this is kind of different. This is what that that little tide underneath, you know? Yes. Appreciate it, Giovanni. Thank you. That's one local. We're hearing from several here throughout the morning. We'll keep checking in, but that's the latest here. High tide coming up at 9:15 this morning.