Huge Southern California Waves Cause Damage

Southern California is seeing the kind of epic surf usually associated with Hawaii or Tahiti. Beaches are thronged with wave riders and crowds are coming to watch the action, even as seaside communities try to stave off damage from the ocean onslaught. The waves caused at least one death, a surfer in his 40s who died Tuesday at a hospital after he was rescued by Los Angeles County Lifeguards at nearby Surfrider Beach, reports CBS Los Angeles. And a well-known lifeguard cottage known as Cove House crumbed into the water, the station says.