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New tropical storm watch after weekend's dangerous flooding 98%

7/20/2026, 12:28:32 AM

Topics: Video
Keywords: Youtube

BS Summary: This video contains 19 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Framing Effect, and Anecdotal, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 66.2% saturation with 190 hits. Analysis detected 1,110 faulty-reasoning hits from 287 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 96.8% and a BS Rank of 98% (481 of 18,784 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 97.40% of the video peer group.

Millions of Americans are bracing for a new round of severe weather to start the work week. 
Tonight, parts of the Southeast are facing the threat of severe storms and flash flooding. 
Flash flooding wreaked havoc across parts of New York City and the tri-state area on Saturday triggering dramatic rescues as vehicles were engulfed by fast-rising water leaving drivers stranded. 
Here's ABC's Morgan Norwood. 
>> Tonight, after a weekend of severe weather in the Northeast, another round of strong storms taking aim at the Southeast. 
The tri-state taking the brunt on Saturday. 
>> How deep is this water? Oh my god. Oh. 
>> Cars pushing through the floodwaters. 
In Woodside, Queens, residents wading through knee-deep water. 
And in Jersey City, New Jersey, relentless rain sending water up to the tires of cars lining this neighborhood street. 
On Long Island, powerful winds whipping through the area. 
Torrential rains pummeling parts of upstate New York toppling trees and scattering branches. 
And in Red Bank, New Jersey, a lightning strike exploding over this home during the storm. 
>> Holy 
>> Airlines still scrambling after Saturday's storms canceled more than 3,000 flights and delayed some 9,000 more. 
Already today, more than 1,200 cancellations ahead of storms in the Southeast with major airlines issuing travel waivers to passengers. 
And after days of hazardous haze, the rain finally flushing the smoke out of the Northeast from those Canadian wildfires. 
But those fires still burning tonight with millions around the Great Lakes dealing with unhealthy air. 
>> And Lindsey, tomorrow's storms will target the Great Lakes, but it'll also help clear out some of that toxic wildfire smoke, Lindsey. 
>> All right, Morgan. Thank you. 
Confirmation Bias
0%
Anchoring Bias
5.9%
Availability Heuristic
31%
Representativeness Heuristic
12.5%
Hindsight Bias
0%
Overconfidence Bias
0%
Framing Effect
43.2%
Loss Aversion
5.6%
Status Quo Bias
0%
Sunk Cost Effect
0%
Optimism Bias
8%
Pessimism Bias
12.2%
Negativity Bias
66.2%
Self-Serving Bias
0%
Fundamental Attribution Error
0%
Actor-Observer Bias
0%
In-Group Bias
0%
Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%
Halo Effect
0%
Horn Effect
0%
Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%
Recency Bias
19.9%
Primacy Effect
1.4%
Blind-Spot Bias
0%
Ad Hominem
0%
Straw Man
0%
Appeal to Authority
7.3%
False Dilemma
0%
Slippery Slope
0%
Circular Reasoning
0%
Hasty Generalization
14.3%
Red Herring
0%
Bandwagon
5.9%
Appeal to Emotion
66.2%
Begging the Question
0%
Post Hoc (False Cause)
32.4%
Tu Quoque
0%
Burden of Proof
12.2%
Appeal to Nature
7%
Composition/Division
0%
Anecdotal
33.1%
No True Scotsman
0%
Ambiguity (Equivocation)
2.4%
Gambler’s Fallacy
0%
Middle Ground
0%
Personal Incredulity
0%
Special Pleading
0%
Genetic Fallacy
0%
Unattributed Quote
0%
Quote-first Misdirection
0%
Biased Writer Voice
0%
Indoctrination
0%
Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%
Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%
Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
0%

287 words analyzed.

Analysis

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