Full Episode: Wednesday, August 20, 2025

World News Tonight with David Muir

ABC News

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3.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Victor Oquendo is on the scene in North Carolina's Outer Banks, where waves are expected to swell up to 20 feet high as Hurricane Erin churns closer to shore, and Brittany Bell has the system's latest track and forecast; Ike Ejiochi reports on the home explosion near Charlottesville, Virginia that injured at least one person and injured another; Mireya Villarreal has details on the emotional testimony from the parents of the Camp Mystic flood victims; 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?
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0:57.9	wherever you get your podcasts. Tonight, breaking news as we come on the air. Hurricane
1:05.9	Aaron growing in size, coming dangerously close to the East Coast, the state of emergency right now.
1:13.0	Also developing a Navy fighter jet crashing off the coast of Virginia, the pilot ejecting
1:17.9	just in time.
1:18.9	First, that monster hurricane pummeling the East Coast with massive waves, life-threatening
1:24.8	rip currents.
1:26.4	Mandatory evacuations underway.
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