Long Beach warns waterfront neighborhoods of flooding risk

Talking about dramatic, it's been a visual we've been watching in Long Beach, the peninsula there. But so far, the damage doesn't look like it's going to get worse to those oceanfront properties. Yeah, it really just depends where you are, right? Mario, right now standing by at the boardwalk with more on what's being done. Still a place where there's been so much action, Mario, as everyone there is still very much on edge. Yeah, there's still a lot of concern in the weeks and months ahead. As for this latest storm, this area received just under a quarter of an inch of rain. as of late last night and we had a few sprinkles overnight and into the morning so there wasn't a lot of rain so that wasn't a big concern but we talked about this earlier this is the amount of sand that has now been washed away by these powerful waves in just the last 24 hours because we showed you this area yesterday and we were able to walk out much farther here near the boardwalk so what they've been doing is bringing sand from the Alamitos Bay Channel area just down this stretch of coast here and trucking it in this morning. We've been seeing those trucks coming in one after the other and they've been rebuilding this sand berm out here. So let's show you the activity that you can see from up above and just how close these houses are to the ocean here. This is the stretch of coastline where residents have been forced to evacuate their homes. 13 homes have been red tagged and as we showed you yesterday, crews have been working to bring in more sand using a pipeline to help rebuild the beach and provide that extra buffer and last night there was a resident meeting here on the peninsula they gathered out here for a community meeting there were at least 100 people we've heard looking for answers about what's being done to protect the homes out here and this stretch of coastline not just for this storm but in the months and years ahead so we talked to one resident who was out there last night they've been watching closely what's being done to protect this area and this is what she told us about how she's prepping for the months ahead I'm getting the levels up higher on my sandbags and then my to-go bag you know it's kind of kind of random I'm making sure like I already have stuff in my trunk like my sleeping bag you know I'm gonna I mean I'm not gonna sleep outside I'm gonna probably stay at my daughter's if I need to but then I have my sleeping bag ready they don't have to do the blankets and everything and just just all that stuff and i'm thinking about uh you know having extra food and water oh my goodness yeah those waves have still been pretty strong out here this morning there's a beach hazard statement that's in place waves of three to six feet dangerous rip currents and the potential for minor coastal flooding and beach erosion which we've seen this morning and if we come back out here live you can see more truckloads of sand that are being brought in here a lot of the residents say that this is great to see them out here constantly working of course they're working around tides so when the water level gets lower they're more active but they worry that this is only a temporary solution because of course this is an issue that's not going away and the waves just keep washing this sand away each and every day each morning and night for now live in Long Beach we'll send it back to you in the studio that's going to be a bigger problem coming up. The season's just starting. Yes, just the beginning of it all. Mario, thank you so much.