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World News Tonight with David Muir

Full Episode: Friday, December 26, 2025

World News Tonight with David Muir

ABC News

Daily News, News

3.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Faith Abubey has the latest on the whiteout conditions moving into the Northeast as millions head home from Christmas and millions more head out for the new year, and Lee Goldberg tracks the dangerous winter storm; Selina Wang reports on the new video released from the Pentagon showing a U.S. warship firing one of more than a dozen missiles targeting ISIS in Nigeria, an official told ABC News; Andrew Dymburt has details on Ashlee Buzzard, the California mother charged in the shooting death of her 9-year-old daughter Melodee Buzzard, pleading not guilty to murder charges at her arraignment; 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

David Muir, ABC's World News Tonight, America's Most Watched newscast, now streaming same day with all the breaking news of the day on Disney Plus, most watched, most trusted.

0:12.7

Now on Disney Plus every night.

0:15.6

Tonight, coast-to-coast storms heavy, snow and ice in the northeast and the deadly flooding in California.

0:22.0

The major winter storm on the move, states of emergencies declared in New Jersey and New York.

0:27.8

Travel disruptions as thousands of flights are canceled and delayed during one of the busiest periods of the holiday season.

0:33.3

And the catastrophic flooding and mudslides in California after that record rainfall.

0:38.3

Lee Goldberg is here with the forecast.

0:40.5

U.S. forces strike ISIS targets in Nigeria on Christmas Day.

0:44.4

U.S. and Nigeria forces say they work together to carry out the deadly strikes.

0:48.5

Several alleged terrorists killed.

0:50.6

The U.S. now warns more strikes are coming.

0:53.1

The new details coming in tonight.

0:55.2

High stakes meeting. Ukrainian President Zelensky says he's meeting with President Trump on

0:59.4

Sunday to discuss the latest draft of the peace plan is a deal to end the long war close.

1:05.6

The mother now charged with murder and what authorities are calling the calculated killing of

1:09.8

her nine-year-old daughter

1:10.9

in court today entering a plea of not guilty. The students being called heroes for rescuing their

1:16.7

bus driver after she had trouble breathing, possibly saving her life. Also tonight a mother's

1:22.2

heartbreak. Her family is in the headlines and at the center of a post-row abortion law in Georgia.

1:28.5

A young nurse is pregnant but legally dead on life support for months until the baby is born. Rachel Scott's

1:33.9

emotional interview with her mother. Did Travis Kelsey play his final home game in Kansas City?

1:40.4

His emotional moments with his fans. His fiancé Taylor Swift also at the game.

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