Full Episode: Wednesday, August 27, 2025

World News Tonight with David Muir

ABC News

Daily News, News

3.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Alex Perez reports from Minneapolis, where a gunman outside a Catholic school church's stained glass windows opened fire on students attending mass – killing an 8-year-old and 10-year-old and injuring dozens more – and Pierre Thomas has the latest on the disturbing details investigators have now learned about the shooter; Rachel Scott has details on the newly installed director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Susan Monarez, who has been ousted just weeks after being confirmed by the Senate. 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.
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1:02.6	Tonight, the breaking news that deadly shooting school children on their second day of school saying their morning prayers in church.
1:08.9	The alarming image is right here tonight. Two
1:11.1	children shot and killed several other children among those shot and rushed to the hospital.
1:16.0	Authorities say the shooter firing through stained glass windows right into the pews, moments
1:21.2	after the children began praying during Mass in Minneapolis. Tonight you will hear from a 10-year-old
1:26.2	boy describing how his friend jumped on top
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