Full Episode: Saturday, August 23, 2025

World News Tonight with David Muir

ABC News

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🗓️ 24 August 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Jaclyn Lee reports from Los Angeles, firefighters race to contain a wildfire that’s tearing through Napa Valley; Olivia Rubin reports from New York, officials are warning residents to stay inside and avoid contact with thick black smoke after a plant explosion in Louisiana; Katherine Faulders reports from Washington, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man mistakenly sent to a notorious El Salvador prison, may be facing deportation to Uganda. 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.
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1:02.4	Tonight, several developing stories as we come on the air,
1:06.1	the race to contain a wildfire that's tearing through California's wine country.
1:10.7	Major concerns about air quality near a Louisiana factory that's been burning for more than a day.
1:16.6	And news about a key figure in the immigration crackdown.
1:19.6	Could he be deported to Africa?
1:21.6	In Northern California, the urgent battle to contain a fire that's burned thousands of acres in Napa Valley.
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