Full Episode: Wednesday, February 18, 2026
World News Tonight with David Muir
ABC News
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | David Muir, ABC's World News Tonight, America's Most Watched Newscast, now streaming same day with all the breaking news of the day on Disney Plus, most watched, most trusted. |
| 0:12.7 | Now on Disney Plus every night. |
| 0:15.6 | Tonight, the breaking news, at least eight skiers, bury alive. |
| 0:19.9 | Authorities calling it the deadliest skiing avalanche in U.S. history. |
| 0:23.6 | Eight skiers killed, one still missing at this hour, presumed dead. Five skiers and a guide rescued forced to leave the bodies on the mountain. |
| 0:31.6 | One of the rescuers is married to one of the victims buried in the snow. Also breaking tonight the images coming in, |
| 0:38.2 | the fire emergency large fires burning across multiple states, dramatic video showing home after |
| 0:43.7 | home in flames, thousands forced to evacuate and in the northeast tonight bracing for another |
| 0:49.4 | potential snowstorm that could hit, Lee Goldberg tracking three storms slamming this country. |
| 0:55.0 | Tonight there are also breaking developments in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the FBI now exploring whether she might have been taken across the border into Mexico, what we've learned. |
| 1:05.0 | Also tonight what Walmart is now doing after that video of that man at Nancy Guthrie's front door. The alarming moments |
| 1:12.6 | tonight on board a Delta flight in mid-air, the passenger who began attacking other passengers |
| 1:17.1 | on the flight. Tonight, META accused of making Instagram addictive to children and teens, |
| 1:22.9 | the landmark trial, CEO Mark Zuckerberg, whose company owns Facebook and Instagram on the stand today. |
| 1:29.3 | In New York City, the social media stunt gone wrong, a teenager falling about 50 feet up the |
| 1:35.3 | Queensboro Bridge dangling as they rescued him. |
| 1:38.3 | The massive sinkholes in the Northeast once swallowing a dump truck, carrying asphalt to fill sinkholes, and there |
| 1:45.7 | are evacuations underway. |
| 1:47.7 | Tonight for the first time a shark recorded in waters where sharks have never been seen |
| 1:52.3 | before. |
| 1:53.4 | And Team USA making history tonight, Bikaela Schiffrin's emotional victory, her first |
| 1:58.2 | gold after losing her father. |
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