Newport Beach floodwater raises questions about cars on the road

ABC News' footage of Tropical Storm Rachel's coastal impact drew an unusually large audience for a short report.

Channel: ABC News Story of October 11, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 224,473 views a day, 10 times a normal first day on this channel (22,330).

Coastal floods rise as Tropical Storm Rachel impacts California

Should cars be driving through that water? Beneath ABC News' Newport Beach flooding clip, viewers are asking whether the vehicles could be damaged and whether the water is salty.

"Coastal floods rise as Tropical Storm Rachel impacts California" shows flooding in the coastal city as Rachel affects the region. The brief report reached about 106,000 views in eight hours, already well beyond the channel's usual full-day audience for Shorts.

It is one part of ABC's storm coverage, with a separate weather emergency also featuring in Saturday's Good Morning America broadcast: Hurricane Isaias brought downed trees, power outages and damage to the Gulf Coast. That full broadcast is drawing an unusually large audience too. For the Newport Beach upload, though, the conversation is more immediate: what floodwater means for the cars traveling through it.

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The numbers

The Newport Beach clip has already surpassed ABC News' usual first-day audience for Shorts, before its first full day is over.

the video's first day

usual first day here

22,330

this video

224,473

subscribers

19,900,000

▲ 100,000 in the last 7 days

total views

19,107,156,050

views per day

6,763,029

typical day: 6,894,599

the video

views

106,024

likes

725

comments

115

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

BBC News

20,100,000

ABC News

19,900,000

CNN

19,900,000

Fox News

15,500,000

Inside Edition

13,800,000

Vox

12,700,000

As of October 11, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.