Full Episode: Wednesday, October 1, 2025

World News Tonight with David Muir

ABC News

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3.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Rachel Scott has the latest on the government shutdown as federal workers face the prospect of missed paychecks and the White House says that mass layoffs are “imminent;” Matt Rivers has details on the partial collapse of a 20-story building in New York City that blanketed a Bronx neighborhood with debris but remarkably, caused no injuries; David Muir looks back at the life and legacy of groundbreaking researcher and conservationist Jane Goodall, who died at the age of 91; 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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0:58.1	wherever you get your podcasts.
1:02.2	Tonight, the breaking news as we come on, the government shutdown now in full effect. The impacts
1:06.9	already. And in New York City, part of an apartment building comes crashing down and you'll see it.
1:12.0	First millions of government workers from some two million U.S. troops to the TSA agents, keeping
1:17.4	airports and travelers safe. Now they face missing their paychecks. Tonight, sources telling ABC News,
1:23.0	the White House has told House Republicans with this government shutdown, mass layoffs are now imminent,
1:28.3	possibly as early as tomorrow.
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