ABC News99%

Boat fire in San Francisco Bay 69%

7/15/2026, 12:30:38 PM

Topics: Video
Keywords: Youtube

BS Summary: This video contains 25 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Appeal to Authority, and Ambiguity (Equivocation), with Availability Heuristic as the most egregious example at 26.3% saturation with 100 hits. Analysis detected 942 faulty-reasoning hits from 380 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 61.9% and a BS Rank of 69% (6,934 of 21,886 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 68.30% of the video peer group.

This morning, a desperate search in the San Francisco Bay after a boat sank near Alcatraz. 
At least one person is dead 
and three people are still missing. 
>> Looks like multiple people are in the water, typically unconscious. 
People are trapped in the boat. 
>> The cabin cruiser was between the Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz Island. 
>> The location is Alcatraz Island. 
This is one Alcatraz Alcatraz Island. 
>> Officials say 20 people were on board, most believed to be members of the same family. 
>> Our understanding was there was some kind of memorial service that they were engaging in and that's why they were using this particular vessel. 
They were hit by a wave or took on water and the boat capsized. 
>> Coast Guard racing to the scene, but by the time they arrived, the bottom two levels of that three-level cruiser were underwater. 
It's unclear if anyone was wearing a life vest. 
>> Some people were in the water, some people are on the boat, some people are just falling to into the water. 
Initial injuries that we are hearing about are mostly impact injuries from falling as they fell into the water. 
>> One passenger rushed to shore was later pronounced dead. 
13 passengers were safely rescued. 
Three people were taken to the hospital with injuries. 
Captain Kirk Miller was on the water at the time and was one of the first to arrive on the scene. 
>> It's likely that a massive amount of water came in quickly. 
They may not have had what's called a high water alarm 
that will alert when a bunch of water comes in. 
That water got into the vessel without them knowing. 
>> Nearly a dozen boats were deployed there. 
Rescue swimmers and scuba divers are now searching for those three people still missing with helicopters looking from above. 
>> So right now we are in full rescue mode. 
>> And officials have said that the waters have been very choppy and rough. 
That has complicated their search efforts. 
They've also been using some computer modeling overnight to make their best estimate as to where those people still missing may have drifted in the water. 
George 
>> Okay, Trevor. Thanks. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 8.9%ABC News: 2.2%Confirmation Bias8.9%This article: 7.4%ABC News: 0.7%Anchoring Bias7.4%This article: 26.3%ABC News: 3.0%Availability Heuristic26.3%This article: 10.3%ABC News: 0.9%Representativeness Heuristic10.3%This article: 3.7%ABC News: 0.5%Hindsight Bias3.7%This article: 14.7%ABC News: 1.1%Overconfidence Bias14.7%This article: 6.8%ABC News: 6.8%Framing Effect6.8%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.3%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.4%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 7.1%ABC News: 2.4%Optimism Bias7.1%This article: 1.6%ABC News: 1.0%Pessimism Bias1.6%This article: 23.9%ABC News: 7.7%Negativity Bias23.9%This article: 6.6%ABC News: 1.5%Self-Serving Bias6.6%This article: 2.4%ABC News: 0.7%Fundamental Attribution Error2.4%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.8%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.4%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 5.5%ABC News: 2.2%Halo Effect5.5%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 11.6%ABC News: 1.3%Recency Bias11.6%This article: 5.0%ABC News: 0.4%Primacy Effect5.0%This article: 2.4%ABC News: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias2.4%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.5%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Straw Man0.0%This article: 20.0%ABC News: 3.3%Appeal to Authority20.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.9%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.3%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 12.4%ABC News: 2.8%Hasty Generalization12.4%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.4%Red Herring0.0%This article: 7.6%ABC News: 0.4%Bandwagon7.6%This article: 8.4%ABC News: 4.3%Appeal to Emotion8.4%This article: 8.9%ABC News: 0.7%Begging the Question8.9%This article: 10.3%ABC News: 2.1%Post Hoc (False Cause)10.3%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 4.5%ABC News: 0.4%Burden of Proof4.5%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 15.0%ABC News: 1.2%Anecdotal15.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 16.6%ABC News: 1.8%Ambiguity (Equivocation)16.6%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.0%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 1.9%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 1.0%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 3.1%Biased Writer Voice0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.6%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.7%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 1.0%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

380 words analyzed.

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2speakers5.8%attributed speech358writer words
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Selected voice

Kirk Miller

100%flagged-word coverage
21 attributed words95% of attributed speech94% 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.

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Analysis

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