Persistent high surf and flooding threats along California's coast have residents on high alert a day after a major storm was blamed for one man's death and the partial collapse of a pier.

Three people were rescued from the wharf. The powerful surf also fatally trapped a man under debris on a beach in Santa Cruz, the authorities said.

The U.S. Coast Guard suspended the search for two missing fishermen after their vessel was discovered overturned in Southern California.

The search for two fishermen whose boat was found crashed and washed ashore the coastline of Palos Verdes has been suspended, the U.S. Coast Guard said Wednesday.

With dangerous surf and high winds roiling Southern California's coast, authorities suspended their search for two men whose capsized boat washed ashore along the Palos Verdes Peninsula. The men went fishing aboard a small boat on Monday afternoon,