Full Episode: Friday, September 19, 2025

World News Tonight with David Muir

ABC News

News, Daily News

3.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Whit Johnson reports on the chaos that unfolded at Dallas Love Field and Dallas-Fort Worth airports after air traffic controllers lost the ability to communicate with each other; Melissa Adan has the latest on the desperate search for a 2-year-old boy after torrential rain in Southern California triggered flash flooding that swept away a car in Barstow with a father and his son inside; David Muir shares how a AAA roadside service technician helping a father and his two young sons turned a road bump into a teachable moment for the boys – and earned 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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0:31.2	Tonight, several breaking stories as we come on the air, the chaos in the air,
0:34.9	a major radar and communications outage causing chaos at two major airports.
0:39.3	Air traffic controllers unable to communicate with each other.
0:42.3	We've lost all radar and phone communications.
0:45.3	Pilots forced to relay messages through a plane that did have contact and you'll hear it.
0:49.3	More than 1,000 flights canceled or delayed.
0:52.3	Tonight, the chilling images, the urgent search for a two-year-old boy swept away while in a car with his father amid horrific storms.
1:00.0	Tonight, major news when it comes to getting the COVID vaccine this fall, the vote just today, and the major change tonight,
1:07.0	suggesting people should decide for themselves.
1:09.0	The government will not be making recommendations from the CDC,
1:12.6	and there is reaction already coming in tonight.
1:15.6	Late today in the Oval Office, President Trump was asked about his FCC chairman, Brendan Carr,
1:20.6	who put pressure on some ABC stations to preempt Jimmy Kimmel.
1:24.6	Republican Ted Cruz comparing that pressure to that of a mafia boss, what the president
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