Full Episode: Friday, August 29, 2025

World News Tonight with David Muir

ABC News

Daily News, News

3.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Morgan Norwood reports on the intense turbulence that rocked a Houston-bound United Express flight, sending two passengers to the hospital; as internal changes at the CDC spark a leadership crisis, Selina Wang has details on the FDA’s new restrictions on COVID vaccines creating confusion over how and where Americans will get the vaccine; twenty years after Hurricane Katrina left a trail of pain and destruction along the Gulf Coast, Robin Roberts returns to the region to speak with the children impacted by the storm about the enduring emotional toll that's followed them into adulthood; and more on tonight’s broadcast of World News Tonight with David Muir. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm John Quignores. Vanessa Guillen, a 20-year-old soldier,
0:05.0	vanishes while on duty at an army base in Texas.
0:09.0	Her family demands answers.
0:12.0	How can she go missing on a military base?
0:14.0	That's too ridiculous.
0:16.0	The search goes on for months.
0:19.0	Where is Vanessa? And a dark story. Search goes on for months.
0:25.6	And a dark story starts to unfold.
0:29.6	She told her family that she was being sexually harassed and wasn't reporting it out of fear of retribution and retaliation.
0:34.6	What investigators finally uncover is horrifying.
0:40.0	Find out how one soldier, a beloved sister and daughter, ignited a movement and sparked
0:46.5	a reckoning in the U.S. military.
0:50.0	Listen to Vanished.
0:51.7	What happened to Vanessa?
0:53.6	A new series from ABC Audio in 2020. Listen now,
0:58.1	wherever you get your podcasts. Tonight, a passenger jet rocked by turbulence. The plane diverted
1:06.4	as millions travel for the Labor Day weekend. The United Express flight from Aspen to Houston flying into turbulence.
1:13.9	Passengers tossed around the cabin, oxygen masks dropping from overhead.
1:18.9	The plane descending more than 4,000 feet in less than a minute.
1:22.5	The pilot reporting injured passengers and requesting a stretcher.
1:26.9	It comes at the height of what is
1:28.3	expected to be record travel over the holiday weekend. Also tonight tracking thunderstorms
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