ABC News98%
Rescues underway as deadly 'wave of water' inundates Texas Hill Country 85%
7/17/2026, 12:45:14 AM
BS Summary: This video contains 24 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Biased Writer Voice, and Anecdotal, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 62.4% saturation with 171 hits. Analysis detected 1,017 faulty-reasoning hits from 274 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 77.3% and a BS Rank of 85% (2,655 of 16,693 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 84.10% of the video peer group.
emergency you mentioned in Texas. A
deadly wave of water forcing evacuations there. Families pulled from their homes.
Water rescues taking place around the clock. ABC's Faith Abubet in Texas tonight.
Deadly walls of water inundating Texas Hill Country. Families rescued from addicts in the dead of the night.
Flood sirens sounding outside San Antonio.
The National Weather Service alerting the public that the large and deadly flood wave was rising fast on the Guadalupe River.
Search and rescue teams in Kurville navigating chest deep water and cars in trees, pulling families out of windows and into boats.
Richard Shelton's 11-year-old daughter, Ava, woke him up at 2:00 a.m.
>> The door broke open and more water came rushing in.
And so, we went to the attic.
The water got all the way up uh to within a foot of the attic.
I was scared the house was going to break apart and and I didn't know what would happen after that.
>> Receding flood waters revealing utter devastation.
And in this Kurville neighborhood, the power of the flood waters is just undeniable.
It rammed this SUV up the tree and another car into the house.
Not far from there, this RV park hit hard, but thankfully everyone evacuated before the flood.
And Mary, authorities say the level of flooding that they're seeing this time around is even worse than those deadly floods that devastated camps here last year.
This time though, they were prepared and so far those campers are safe.
>> and we are so thankful for that, Faith.
Thank you.
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