Full Episode: Monday, August 25, 2025

World News Tonight with David Muir

ABC News

Daily News, News

3.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Mola Lenghi has details on the powerful explosion in a neighborhood north of St. Louis, Missouri, that leveled multiple homes and injured at least three people; Trevor Ault reports on the record-breaking heat fueling large wildfires across three states, forcing thousands to flee; James Longman has the latest on outrage growing after Israeli airstrikes on a Gaza hospital killed five journalists, who were among at least 20 killed and dozens more injured – Israel says they were operating against Hamas and journalists were not specifically targeted; 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.
1:03.0	Tonight, the breaking news, the home explosion up in flames,
1:05.7	igniting multiple homes in the neighborhood.
1:08.1	The images coming into powerful blast leveling homes,
1:10.7	one home igniting
1:11.6	two more, then two additional homes going up in flames. Authorities on the scene at this hour,
1:16.9	the public being told to avoid the area what we know so far. Also breaking as we come on tonight
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