Full Episode: Friday, September 5, 2025

World News Tonight with David Muir

ABC News

Daily News, News

3.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Mary Bruce has the latest on the weak jobs reports, with U.S. employers adding just 22,000 jobs in August as unemployment rises; Pierre Thomas has reports on DHS detaining hundreds of South Korean nationals during a raid on a Georgia Hyundai plant, marking the latest in the Trump administration's deportation efforts; Martha Raddatz has details on The New York Times reporting that during nuclear negotiations between Pres. Trump and Kim Jong Un in 2019, SEAL Team 6 snuck onto North Korea's shores to spy on the world leader – but the mission failed and unarmed civilians were reportedly killed; 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 Vanished. What happened to Vanessa? A new series from ABC Audio in 2020.
0:57.0	Listen now wherever you get your podcasts.
1:02.6	Tonight we have breaking news as we come on the air.
1:04.8	Millions of the East are on alert for severe weather.
1:07.5	A line of storms targeting major cities, Philadelphia, New York City, up into New
1:11.3	England, damaging wind gusts, heavy downpours, and lightning expected. We're also tracking tropical
1:16.4	threats to both the East Coast and the West, Lee Goldberg standing by. Also breaking
1:21.2	tonight, President Trump late today, is asked about the economy amid the disappointing new jobs
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