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Deadly flash flooding tears through multiple states, forcing rescues 95%
7/24/2026, 12:40:20 PM
BS Summary: This video contains 22 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic, Anecdotal, and Ambiguity (Equivocation), with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 67.7% saturation with 157 hits. Analysis detected 971 faulty-reasoning hits from 232 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 90.8% and a BS Rank of 95% (1,261 of 21,886 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 94.20% of the video peer group.
This morning, parts of North Carolina facing a multi-day flash flood threat after heavy rain pummeled the region.
As much as 5 in of rain falling in 24 hours in the central part of the state.
One tree crushed this vehicle outside Charlotte, trapping a father and child inside. Trevor Tompkins helped pull them to safety.
>> I had to fight through the trees. I had to I was I was standing on top of that branch that was behind the car. We pulled them out.
And uh everyone's okay.
>> An oak tree also crashed into this Raleigh home, shattering windows and punching through the roof. That same system bringing deadly flooding to West Virginia earlier this week, killing at least two people.
at least two people. Search and rescue crews still working to clear debris and reopen roads.
>> Hey, there's car. >> Oh my god, no.
>> This as we are seeing new images of destruction. A car in Buckhannon sucked underneath a bridge by raging floodwaters.
And in Weston, a hotel lobby filled with feet of muddy water.
Meanwhile, overnight Bertha dying off after making a second landfall near the Texas-Louisiana border.
Now, people here concerned for more dangerous weather and the impacts will have more of this continue through Saturday.
>> All right, Leslie Lopez, thanks so much.
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