Full Episode: Thursday, January 15, 2026

World News Tonight with David Muir

ABC News

Daily News, News

3.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2026

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Whit Johnson reports on the winter storm triggering pileups and hazardous conditions from the Great Lakes to the Northeast, and Lee Goldberg tracks the storm and frigid temperatures sweeping East; after two ICE-involved shootings in Minneapolis sparked clashes between protesters and federal agents, Faith Abubey has the latest on Pres. Trump threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act, which would give him the power to send military troops to Minnesota; Aaron Katersky has details on the dozens of college basketball players charged with allegedly taking bribes from sports bettors in what officials called an “historic” point-shaving scheme; 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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0:50.9	Tonight we have breaking news just as we come on, the horror on the highways, the massive pileups tonight. The image is coming in now blinding snow and dangerous winds from Michigan to
0:55.4	Ohio to New York State. The dangerous driving conditions, multi-vehicle pile-ups across several
1:00.9	states. At least 36 vehicles in a chain reaction crash on Interstate 81 south of Syracuse. Buses
1:08.2	helping to pick up the victims. Elsewhere, the deadly school bus crash.
1:12.6	Passenger planes taking off in low visibility. Lee Goldberg standing by with the forecast tonight.
1:17.6	Also breaking chaos erupting on the streets of Minneapolis, another shooting there, a federal
1:22.6	officer opening fire, wounding a man who DHS says fled from authorities.
1:27.6	The clash then with protesters.
1:29.7	Tonight President Trump now threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act what this would
1:33.8	allow him to do.
1:35.3	And tonight here, the woman seen pulled from her car.
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