Full Episode: Thursday, January 1, 2026
World News Tonight with David Muir
ABC News
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | David Muir, ABC's World News Tonight, America's Most Watched newscast, now streaming same day with all the breaking news of the day on Disney Plus, most watched, most trusted. |
| 0:13.0 | Now on Disney Plus every night. |
| 0:15.6 | Tonight, breaking news, 2026 rings in with extreme weather from coast to coast. |
| 0:20.9 | Snow and bitter cold from the Great Lakes to the northeast. |
| 0:24.9 | Millions waking up to frigid temperatures. |
| 0:27.4 | A heavy snow squall ripping through Pennsylvania into upstate New York. |
| 0:31.4 | While in the West, millions of Americans are under a flood threat as another round of heavy rain and mountain snow hits California. |
| 0:39.1 | The Rose Parade, a near washout. Our weather team standing by what's in store for the coming |
| 0:44.4 | week. The deadly New Year's Day tragedy in the Swiss Alps. Dozens killed in a fire at a bar |
| 0:50.7 | just after midnight. The frantic scene flames quickly spreading, people running for their lives. |
| 0:57.0 | The Swiss president calling it one of the worst tragedies the country has ever experienced. |
| 1:01.0 | Tom Sufi Burridge from the scene. |
| 1:03.0 | A new year and a new reality, health care costs soar for more than 20 million Americans, |
| 1:09.0 | ahead of the looming political fight over affordability, |
| 1:12.3 | and the dramatic reversal. President Trump abandons efforts to deploy the National Guard to three |
| 1:17.5 | major cities. Selina Wang reporting from South Florida. |
| 1:21.5 | Zoran Mamdani makes history, officially becoming mayor of the country's largest city. |
| 1:26.8 | The enormous challenges ahead and his message to New York and the world. Aaron Kuturski reporting. The new boat strikes, the Pentagon releasing video of one attack officials say killed five alleged drug smugglers and another deadly strike on a convoy of three boats. Survivors spotted in the water. Now the race to find them. |
| 1:46.5 | The urgent manhunt after a dentist and his wife are found dead. Their two small children located |
| 1:51.9 | unharmed inside the home. A dog dumped in a trash compactor comes up really lucky, how she found her |
| 1:59.3 | forever home. |
| 2:05.2 | And parents, this one's for you, the annual tradition still going strong after 50 years the list of words that wore out their welcome in 2025. |
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