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World News Tonight with David Muir

Full Episode: Friday, January 23, 2026

World News Tonight with David Muir

ABC News

News, Daily News

3.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2026

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

As a dangerous winter storm threatens more than half of the United States with heavy snow, crippling ice, and brutal cold, Morgan Norwood reports from Dallas, Lee Goldberg tracks the system and Whit Johnson has the latest on travel and flight cancellations; in Minneapolis, Matt Rivers has details on the massive city-wide protest against ICE underway with more than 20,000 braving the brutal cold; four days after Indiana Hoosiers quarterback Fernando Mendoza won the national championship, David Muir reports on the Heisman Trophy winner entering the NFL Draft and earning World News Tonight’s Person of the Week; 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.

0:16.3

Tonight, the breaking news on this Friday night, nearly 200 million Americans bracing for this major storm, heavy snow, dangerous ice, freezing rain and brutal cold.

0:24.6

At least 17 states already declaring emergencies tonight.

0:28.6

The massive storm building in Texas and Oklahoma stretching 2,000 miles across the south into the Carolinas, right up into the northeast.

0:36.6

Washington, D.C. to Philadelphia, up to a foot of snow possible in New York City in Boston.

0:42.3

And because of the ice, millions told to prepare for possible power outages.

0:46.3

Then the dangerous life-threatening cold coming in across much of the country right after this storm.

0:52.3

Lee Goldberg has the forecast, the potential ice

0:55.2

and snow totals, depending on where you live and we'll go through it. Also breaking as we're

0:59.9

on the air tonight a massive protest now underway at this hour against President Trump's

1:04.1

immigration crackdown in Minnesota. Tens of thousands in the streets, hundreds of businesses

1:08.7

shutting down, closing in protest over ice.

1:12.4

Tonight, one of the FBI's most wanted now under arrest, alleged drug kingpin and former

1:16.8

Canadian Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding captured, surrendering to authorities accused of shipping

1:22.0

tons of cocaine into the U.S. more than a decade in hiding in where he was finally caught.

1:27.3

Tonight, President Trump

1:28.2

igniting a firestorm with America's closest allies after the president said the U.S. has never

1:33.2

needed NATO, saying of the war in Afghanistan after 9-11 that they stayed, quote, a little

1:38.8

off the front lines. More than 450 British soldiers died in Afghanistan, what the British Prime Minister is now saying tonight.

1:46.0

This evening the arrest after a judge and his wife are shot through the front door,

1:50.0

and now we learn one of the suspects was allegedly at their door days earlier, saying he had a food delivery.

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