Full Episode: Thursday, August 28, 2025

World News Tonight with David Muir

ABC News

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3.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

While a motive in the Annunciation School mass shooting remains under investigation, Alex Perez has the new video showing the chaos inside the church as gunfire erupted during Mass and the father of the 8-year-old killed in the attack speaks out; Mary Bruce has the latest on the dozens of workers who walked out and the four top officials that resigned in protest at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention following the ousting of the agency’s director; Victor Oquendo has details on the horrific alligator attack in New Orleans that police say has left a missing 12-year-old boy dead; 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.
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1:02.8	Tonight, chilling new images of the deadly Catholic school shooting in Minneapolis.
1:07.5	A parent capturing haunting video showing the moment children raised from inside the church
1:12.0	where two students were shot and killed, 18 children and adults wounded.
1:16.6	Authorities describing disturbing details about the suspect, saying the shooter wanted to kill
1:20.7	defenseless children.
1:22.5	Police say the suspect fired 116 rounds from a rifle, three rounds from a shotgun.
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