Full Episode: Wednesday, April 22, 2026

World News Tonight with David Muir

ABC News

Daily News, News

3.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2026

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Matt Rivers has the latest on the fast-moving wildfires in the Southeast that have forced evacuations as flames destroy dozens of homes in Georgia and Florida, and Lee Goldberg has more on the multiple red flag warnings in place from Texas to the Dakotas as a new severe weather outbreak begins in the Heartland; Mary Bruce reports on the dramatic video broadcast on Iranian state TV showing masked soldiers boarding a cargo ship and brandishing long guns just 24 hours after Pres. Trump extended the ceasefire; Stephanie Ramos has details on the deadly chemical leak at a plant in West Virginia that left at least two people dead and more than two dozen needing medical treatment; 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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0:38.8	Tonight we do have breaking news. The emergency unfolding right now. The images coming in, the fires, more than 50 homes burned to the ground tonight.
0:46.6	Dozens of fires burning at this hour, families racing to get out. Also breaking the U.S. war in Iran.
0:52.7	Tonight, the dramatic images playing out on Iranian state TV.
0:56.8	Iran seizing multiple cargo ships near the strait of Hormuz, armed massed Iranians boarding this ship,
1:02.6	sweeping through the vessel with guns drawn. It comes just hours after President Trump extended
1:07.8	the ceasefire and what's happening with any second round of talks.
1:12.5	Back in the U.S. tonight, emergency crews on the scene, a deadly chemical leak.
1:16.5	At least two workers killed more than a dozen hospitalized tonight.
1:20.3	The neighborhood rocked by two home explosions just two hours apart.
1:24.9	Multiple people hurt, including a child, authorities on the scene of one explosion
1:28.2	when another home explodes nearby. Tonight, health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. grilled.
1:34.3	He has asked, does President Trump know there's a major measles outbreak and how he answers?
1:40.0	And he's pressed on the move to no longer require the flu vaccine for members of the U.S.
1:44.9	military.
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