Four Corners region experiences ongoing flooding after heavy rain and storms

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Four Corners region experiences ongoing flooding after heavy rain and storms

Oct 24, 6 PM ET to Oct 27, 3 AM ET

10outlets carried it
🫏9 · 0 · 1🐘left · center · right
2.4 dayson the front pages
9front pages at once, at its peak
32 minof TV captions
3radio newscasts
21people retold it online
1 of 2parts of a saga

📰 read it at: HuffPost The Guardian ABC News AP CBS News NBC News NPR The Independent USA Today The Epoch Times

👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

Oct 24, 6 PM ETfirst on a front page: The Independent
Oct 25, 12 AM ETfirst on TV: Fox News
Oct 26, 2 AM ETpeak: on 9 front pages
Oct 26, 6 AM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
Oct 27, 8 AM ETretold online by 21 people

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 24, 6 PM to Oct 27, 3 AM ET (peak 9), by the outlets' lean: left · right

Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline, and a headline swapped for a new one between our hourly looks runs on to it. A gap means a look found the story gone from that front page. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

📡 Wire copy

2 outlets ran the AP headline nearly word for word

NBC News, The Epoch Times

📌 Linked by aggregators

1 Google News

aggregators linking to it from their front page (they don't count as outlets covering it)

✏️ 3 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

AP (5 wordings): “Rooftop rescues and evacuations as severe flooding soaks Four Corners region” → “Flood-weary US Southwest eyes forecast for more rain”
NBC News (4 wordings): “Severe flooding soaks Southwest region, prompting rooftop rescues and evacuations” → “Flood warning lingers in Four Corners as inundated towns face sewage-tainted waters”
The Guardian (2 wordings): “Severe flooding in US west triggers rooftop rescues and evacuation orders” → “US south-west braces for more storms after enduring days of rain and flooding”

📰 Every outlet's headline 10left to right by AllSides rating

HuffPost🕒 Oct 26, 2 AM ET More Flooding In Parts Of Southwest After Storms Bring Heavy Rain And At Least One Tornado
The Guardian🕒 Oct 23, 3 PM ET Severe flooding in US west triggers rooftop rescues and evacuation orders
ABC News🕒 Oct 25, 4 PM ET Flash-flood threat continues in the Southwest, but outlook is improving
AP🕒 Oct 23, 6 PM ET Rooftop rescues and evacuations as severe flooding soaks Four Corners region
CBS News🕒 Oct 25, 4 PM ET Four Corners region faces more flood threats following days of heavy rain
NBC News🕒 Oct 24, 12 PM ET Severe flooding soaks Southwest region, prompting rooftop rescues and evacuations
NPR🕒 Oct 24, 5 PM ET Flooding in Four Corners region displaces residents, as storms move southeast
The Independent🕒 Oct 24, 6 PM ET Severe flooding in the Four Corners region prompts evacuations and rooftop rescues
USA Today🕒 Oct 26, 11 AM ET Flood warnings active across Four Corners region after damaging storms
The Epoch Times🕒 Oct 24, 8 AM ET Rooftop Rescues and Evacuations as Severe Flooding Soaks Four Corners Region

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

leans left
center
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minutes its captions were on screen, by channel; the disc is the network's lean

hourly newscasts that carried it, by show; beside the count, how often it was the lead story, or the highest it came in the running order

podcasts, newsletters and streams that talked about it, by show; the bar is episodes; the disc is the show's lean by reputation

🐘 The Megyn Kelly Show 1

🕵️ investigative reporting on it and 🃏 satire joking about it (jokes, never counted as coverage); the bar is pieces

🕵️🤷 No investigator or satirist matched to it yet.

what people online made of it

🧶 Retold online

Parents are asking for help to provide food, water, and medicine for their children and families. Oct 27: told by 21 people

On Folklore: the latest in full, with their motifs and who is telling them.

🗣️ Names in it

Four Corners regionSouthwest regionUS westFour CornersSouthwest

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Flash floods trigger evacuations in Southwest

Four Corners region experiences ongoing flooding after heavy rain and storms (this story)
Oct 24, 6 PM ET
Flash floods trigger evacuations in Southwest
Nov 2, 12 PM ET