Full Episode: Thursday, August 14, 2025

World News Tonight with David Muir

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🗓️ 15 August 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Mary Bruce reports from Anchorage, Alaska, on the eve of the high-stakes summit as Pres. Trump says he believed Russian Pres. Putin “will make peace" with Ukraine, while Putin praises the administration's "energetic and sincere" efforts to end the war; Matt Gutman has details on the group of heavily armed border patrol agents that conducted an immigration raid outside the venue as Gov. Gavin Newsom announced his plan to have voters approve a new redistricting map in California; Victor Oquendo reports on the newly released body camera video showing neighborhood heroes rescuing a family of four from a small plane that crashed in a residential community in Pembroke Pines, Florida last month; 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,
0:58.1	wherever you get your podcasts. Tonight, breaking news, less than 24 hours now until this high-stakes
1:06.1	summit, what President Trump is now predicting about the potential outcome and what Vladimir Putin said about it today.
1:12.0	Also tonight, the new track, this tropical storm now set to become a major hurricane, the potential
1:17.5	paths very close to the East Coast. First, less than 24 hours before this face-to-face meeting,
1:22.7	President Trump, Vladimir Putin in Alaska, what will come of this summit and what could this mean for the
1:28.3	future of Ukraine? Also tonight, Tropical Storm Erin gaining strength at this hour set to become
1:33.4	the first major hurricane in the Atlantic this season. The potential paths tonight bringing it
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