Rachel's pounding surf brings coastal flood warnings and beach closures
KTLA's coastal report draws nearly half a million views as Newport Beach updates access restrictions and Long Beach assesses damaged homes.
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Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 499,216 views a day, 26 times a normal first day on this channel (18,848).
Coastal flood warnings in place as high surf pounds Southern California coastline
Beach access is changing. Newport Beach initially closed all city beaches and piers because of flooding, then issued an update reopening beaches while keeping several locations blocked off, KTLA reports.
That changing picture sits alongside the station's broader report on coastal flood warnings, with Chris Wolfe, Kaj Goldberg and Hailey Winslow covering the wet weather, winds and dangerous flooding brought by Tropical Storm Rachel. The report drew nearly half a million views in less than a day. A regular KTLA upload usually attracts fewer than twenty thousand on its first day.
Other reports put the consequences in sharper focus. Long Beach officials have marked damaged beachfront residences too dangerous to enter. In a separate dispatch, Jennifer McGraw returns to the Long Beach Peninsula, where a resident named Heidi has been speaking with KTLA for months as successive storms damage sand berms and other protective barriers. This is not her first round of uncertainty about the shoreline.
The station's follow-up coverage has moved into damage assessment in Long Beach, adding the aftermath to a weekend of warnings, closures and continuing surf.
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- Channel
- KTLA 5
- Subscribers
- 1,510,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 17,376,000
- Channel views, pace per day
- 7,028,651 (on a normal day: 1,965,465)
- Video published
- October 11, 2026
- Video views so far
- 474,898 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 499,216
The numbers
The coastal warning report drew an unusually large early audience for KTLA. Several related flooding reports also attracted far more views than the station's usual uploads.
