El Niño flooding grips Newport Beach in a vise. 'Mother Nature comes to collect some tax'

A mix of astronomical and tidal events are converging with unusually warm waters off Southern California's coast to push the tides higher than ever before, sending surges of water into beach cities like Newport Beach and Redondo Beach.
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