Full Episode: Tuesday, October 28, 2025

World News Tonight with David Muir

ABC News

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3.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Ike Ejiochi is on the on the ground in Jamaica, where Hurricane Melissa, the strongest storm ever recorded to hit the island made landfall as a Category 5 storm with winds up to 185 mph, Ginger Zee tracks the powerful system as it makes its way towards Cuba; Mary Bruce reports on the U.S. military strike in the Pacific on four suspected drug boats killing at least 14 people; Mola Lenghi has details from authorities on their urgent search for six ‘aggressive’ research monkeys that escaped from a crashed truck in Mississippi; and more on tonight’s broadcast of World News Tonight with David Muir. Clarification: Tulane University says the missing monkeys are not carrying infectious diseases as previously reported. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.6	Tonight, the breaking news, the monster hurricane slamming Jamaica right now.
0:34.7	The Category 5 hurricane, the strongest to ever hit the island. Devastating
0:38.7	images coming in at this hour winds up to 185 miles per hour. Authorities calling it a life-threatening
0:44.6	situation. A hospital severely damaged. The hurricane expected to make a second landfall in the coming
0:50.3	hours. Ginger Zee standing by with the latest track. Also tonight tonight the U.S. military striking four vessels in the Pacific.
0:57.9	Authorities tonight say 14 people were killed, reports of one survivor, what we've learned.
1:03.2	The government shut down day 28, more than 40 million Americans set to lose food benefits
1:08.8	in just days.
1:10.1	The Department of Agriculture posting a message
1:12.2	saying, quote, the well has run dry. The states tonight now suing the Trump administration saying
1:17.7	this is cruelty. Tonight, President Trump, while addressing American troops in Japan, hinting at deploying
1:23.5	U.S. troops to American cities. And while traveling overseas, the president
1:28.7	on a third term. And tonight, House Speaker Mike Johnson on what he says he told the president
1:33.8	about this idea of a third term in the White House. The American economy and jobs, Amazon,
1:39.9	cutting 14,000 jobs, pointing to artificial intelligence. Economists say doing more with fewer people.
1:47.3	And UPS tonight saying it will lay off 48,000 workers. Tonight, the truck carrying research
1:53.1	monkeys possibly infected from hepatitis to COVID crashing on an American interstate, the
1:58.9	urgent effort tonight to get to the monkeys.
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