Video taking off 58x its usual first day

Floods overturn an RV and wash away a Colorado highway

NBC News' report follows National Guard rescues in Colorado before reaching coastal homes threatened by high tides in California.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 743,481 views a day, 58 times a normal first day on this channel (12,912).

Catastrophic floods force evacuations across the West

NBC News shows Colorado National Guard crews rescuing a couple and their pets after floodwaters overturn an RV. Nearby, a section of Highway 151 has washed away, while aerial footage shows neighborhoods inundated in Pagosa Springs.

Those scenes give the channel's continuing flood coverage a closer focus on rescues and damaged infrastructure. The Short, titled "Catastrophic floods force evacuations across the West," has passed 800,000 views, with an estimated first-day audience more than fifty times the channel's usual start for Shorts.

The report moves through New Mexico, showing damage from a possible tornado in Santa Fe and major river flooding in the state's northwest. An evacuated resident recounts spending 12 hours on her roof to survive the rising water.

California brings a different threat. After footage of flooded walkways at Disneyland, the segment reaches Long Beach, where some homes have been red-tagged and crews are reinforcing the beach against high tides and storm surge. A resident describes longtime neighbors being displaced from their homes.

Reporting from the shore, correspondent Dana Griffin explains the scale of the work: pipes are set to deliver more than a billion pounds of sand to help protect nearby properties.