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Correction: China-Floods story

| July 20, 2020 9:27 PM

BEIJING (AP) — In a story July 18, 2020, about flooding in China, The Associated Press used the wrong unit to report how quickly water was expected to flow into the reservoir behind the Three Gorges Dam. The expected rate of inflow was 55,000 cubic meters (almost 600,000 cubic feet) per second, not square meters per second.

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