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World News Tonight with David Muir

Full Episode: Sunday, Aug 31, 2025

World News Tonight with David Muir

ABC News

Daily News, News

3.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Faith Abubey has the latest on the deadly mid-air crash amid a flash flood threat disrupting travel in major hubs across the country, the delays come as officials in California say they've rescued hundreds after an urgent rip current warning, our weather team with your holiday forecast; The potential legal limbo for hundreds of unaccompanied Guatemalan children after a judge halted the Trump administration from trying to deport them, Selina Wang with the new details; Jaclyn Lee reports on the Minneapolis community healing and praying together at the first mass since the deadly attack; Dramatic and terrifying new video of a young boy walking high up on a monorail track at famed Hershey Park, Perry Russom with the latest; An urgent investigation at the "Burning Man Festival" after a death was ruled as a possible homicide; and more on tonight’s broadcast of World News Tonight with David Muir. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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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.

0:57.1

Listen now wherever you get your podcasts.

1:02.4

Tonight, several developing stories as we come on the air.

1:06.0

Dangerous weather, including flash flooding with millions on the move this holiday weekend.

1:10.7

And dozens of Guatemalan children loaded onto planes for deportation. weather, including flash flooding, with millions on the move this holiday weekend, and dozens

1:11.7

of Guatemalan children loaded onto planes for deportation until a judge stepped in.

1:17.9

We begin with the flash flood threat in the southern plains as a record number of Americans

1:22.2

are on the move. Highways flooded, planes halted in a major hub, and now there's word of a mid-air collision

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