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Severe storms in the Midwest turn deadly 75%

7/12/2026, 12:07:33 AM

Topics: Video
Keywords: Youtube

BS Summary: This video contains 6 faulty reasoning types, including Pessimism Bias, Framing Effect, and Availability Heuristic, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 24.7% saturation with 98 hits. Analysis detected 215 faulty-reasoning hits from 396 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 70% and a BS Rank of 75% (3,600 of 14,328 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 74.90% of the video peer group.

Tonight, search and rescue teams on the ground and in the water as they scour through the devastation left behind by the severe storms that struck southeast Missouri. 
Ferocious floodwaters sweeping buildings off their foundations. 
You see it there. 
>> This water came up the fastest of anything I've ever seen. 
>> KSDK's Melanie Johnson is on the ground. 
>> I want to show you more of the damage. 
This car, a mangled mess, pushed onto this tree, completely destroyed. 
>> Other vehicles encased in mud and debris. 
In the middle of that chaos, daring rescues. 
Black Hawk helicopters evacuating more than 200 children and counselors stranded at camp. 
>> Half the camp was flooded. 
Like, it was just like the river had become the camp. 
I was freaking out. 
Everyone was freaking out. 
>> And a desperate search for missing 23-year-old Faith Gregory. 
>> We've been out here all day >> Yeah. >> watching for something. 
>> Tragically, we learned today Gregory did not survive. 
Authorities discovering her body nearly 2 miles downstream from her home. 
The water's so powerful, even first responders ran into trouble. 
Watch the moment an emergency boat capsizes. 
Those two troopers made it out safely. 
And the danger not over yet. 
Much of the area at risk for more flooding. 
>> We are flooding in mid-city. 
>> And south of there in New Orleans, heavy rain flooding streets today. 
As much as 5 inches of rain expected in the Crescent City. 
>> Unbelievable. 
>> In other parts of the country, heat is the concern with some 50 million people under heat alerts. 
In the west, the Summit fire raging out of control in rural Los Angeles County. 
Prompting evacuations as firefighters battle not just the flames, but extreme heat expected to last for days. 
Temperatures nearing 100° this weekend. 
>> And Camilla Bernal joins us now from Los Angeles. 
Camilla, authorities are warning that heat will be unrelenting. 
>> That's right, Jose. 
Triple digit temperatures in many areas and heat alerts will remain in effect not only here in the Los Angeles area, but across the mountain west and the upper Midwest through Tuesday. 
Jose. 
>> We thank you for watching and remember stay updated on breaking news and top stories on the NBC News app or watch live on our YouTube channel. 
Confirmation Bias
0%
Anchoring Bias
0%
Availability Heuristic
7.1%
Representativeness Heuristic
0%
Hindsight Bias
0%
Overconfidence Bias
0%
Framing Effect
7.3%
Loss Aversion
0%
Status Quo Bias
0%
Sunk Cost Effect
0%
Optimism Bias
0%
Pessimism Bias
10.4%
Negativity Bias
24.7%
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
3%
Primacy Effect
0%
Blind-Spot Bias
0%
Ad Hominem
0%
Straw Man
0%
Appeal to Authority
0%
False Dilemma
0%
Slippery Slope
0%
Circular Reasoning
0%
Hasty Generalization
0%
Red Herring
0%
Bandwagon
0%
Appeal to Emotion
1.8%
Begging the Question
0%
Post Hoc (False Cause)
0%
Tu Quoque
0%
Burden of Proof
0%
Appeal to Nature
0%
Composition/Division
0%
Anecdotal
0%
No True Scotsman
0%
Ambiguity (Equivocation)
0%
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%

396 words analyzed.

Speakers

2speakers12%attributed speech349writer words
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Selected voice

Melanie Johnson

100%flagged-word coverage
10 attributed words21% of attributed speech53% writer coverage

No manipulation-pattern hits were found in this speaker's attributed words or the writer's voice.

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

Analysis

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