BND - Flash floods damage bridges, sweep away homes in Nepal

🗞️ Story file #351

Flash floods damage bridges, sweep away homes in Nepal

Oct 11, 9 PM ET to Oct 13, 4 PM ET

10outlets carried it
🫏2 · 2 · 6🐘left · center · right
1.8 dayson the front pages
10front pages at once, at its peak
17 minof TV captions
1radio newscast

👣 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 11, 9 PM ETfirst on a front page: The Gateway Pundit
Oct 11, 9 PM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
Oct 12, 9 AM ETfirst on the radio: ABC News Update
Oct 12, 4 PM ETpeak: on 10 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 11, 9 PM to Oct 13, 4 PM ET (peak 10), by the outlets' lean: left · center · 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. 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: 1 outlet ran the AP, Reuters headline nearly word for word (Newsmax)

✏️ 5 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

AP (2 wordings): “Villages evacuated as flash flood from Budhi Gandaki River hits northern Nepal” → “Nepal rescuers reach flood-hit villages as at least 5 people reported missing”
BBC (2 wordings): “Buildings swept away as flash floods hit central Nepal” → “Homes and bridges swept away as fresh floods hit Nepal”
New York Post (2 wordings): “Nature calls Roaring flash floods wipe out entire bridge in Nepal in dramatic video” → “Flash floods swept through Nepal, the second natural disaster in the Asian nation in two months.”
Newsmax (2 wordings): “Villages Evacuated as Flash Flood from Budhi Gandaki River Hits Northern Nepal” → “Rescue Helicopters Race to Flood-hit Nepal Villages as 5 Reported Missing”
The Sun (4 wordings): “DISASTER ZONE Nepal hit by flash floods as homes swept away & locals urged to evacuate” → “TORRENT OF HELL Dramatic moment flash floods wipe out entire bridge in Nepal as 5 missing Horror footage shows raging waters batter the bridge as drone images show banks swamped in mud and homes obliterated.”

Every outlet's first headline (10), left to right by AllSides rating