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World News Tonight with David Muir

Full Episode: Tuesday, August 26, 2025

World News Tonight with David Muir

ABC News

Daily News, News

3.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Trevor Ault reports on the massive, blinding dust storm – also known as a haboob – that swallowed Phoenix, knocking out power to thousands and even grounding flights, as monsoon rains swept in; Matt Gutman has details on pop star Taylor Swift and NFL star Travis Kelce announcing their engagement after dating for two years; Diane Sawyer sits down with Bruce Willis' wife, Emma Heming Willis, who opens up about her husband's deeply personal battle faced by so many families across the country, when a loved one faces down dementia – and the challenges they are overcoming together in the ABC special “Emma & Bruce Willis: The Unexpected Journey”; 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.

0:57.1

Listen now wherever you get your podcasts.

1:02.4

Tonight, the stunning images, the blinding storm.

1:05.1

Drivers unable to see passenger planes in the air, air traffic controllers forced to leave the tower.

1:10.4

The image is right here,

1:11.8

this massive dust storm sweeping across several cities, planes grounded. Those air traffic controllers

1:17.2

evacuated a football stadium suddenly shrouded in darkness. Also, floodwatch is now in effect

1:23.2

for several states and in the northeast. The major change coming with Labor Day just about here.

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