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World News Tonight with David Muir

Full Episode: Friday, October 31, 2025

World News Tonight with David Muir

ABC News

News, Daily News

3.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Matt Rivers reports on the Delta pilot who aborted landing at Boston's Logan Airport after realizing the plane was on a possible collision course with another plane; Pierre Thomas has details on the series of FBI raids launched in connection with what they feared was a deadly plot to commit mass murder on Halloween weekend in Michigan; on Halloween night, David Muir reports on our Person of the Week – the MOMbies return to dance the night away to raise money for breast cancer research, and how “World News Tonight” viewers helped them reach their fundraising goal; 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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Tonight, the breaking news, the alarming close call at Boston's Logan Airport. Also, the FBI says

0:35.6

it has halted a potential Halloween terror plot. First tonight,

0:39.5

two passenger jets and the near collision. That was close. Yeah, man. Not cool. A Delta flight with nearly 300

0:45.3

passengers and crew forced to abort landing just 125 feet from landing when another plane

0:50.4

barrels down an intersecting runway crossing its path. Air traffic controllers jumping in.

0:56.0

But tonight, with this government shutdown, the staffing levels are now at, quote, critical

1:00.0

levels tonight.

1:01.0

Thousands of flights canceled or delayed.

1:03.0

Air traffic controllers not getting paid, calling in sick.

1:07.0

Also tonight, the FBI says it moved in to hold a potential Halloween terror attack.

1:11.6

They say there had been firearms training and authorities intercepting communications referring to Pumpkin Day.

1:17.6

Tonight there have been multiple arrests.

1:19.6

Tonight, day 31 of this government shut down in just hours before more than 40 million Americans are set to lose federal food assistance, a federal judge

1:28.4

ordering the Trump administration to use emergency funds to pay for it.

1:32.9

And what the president is now saying tonight just moments ago.

1:36.2

The deadly storms the man killed in New York City, he drowned when water flooded his basement

1:40.2

apartment.

1:41.3

Another man killed, electrocuted as he tried to pump the water out.

1:45.0

And tonight, what's left of this storm, the heavy winds gusting up to 50 miles per hour

1:50.0

for those out with their children for Halloween.

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