ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast – Sept. 5, 2025

ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast – Sept. 5, 2025

Tonight we have breaking news as we come on the air. Millions in the east are on alert for severe weather. A line of storms targeting major cities. Philadelphia, New York City, up into New England. Damaging wind gusts, heavy downpours, and lightning expected. We’re also tracking tropical threats to both the East Coast and the West. Lee Goldberg standing by. Also breaking tonight, President Trump late today is asked about the economy amid the disappointing new jobs numbers. The labor market slowdown. Just 22,000 jobs created in August. Much worse than expected. Tonight, the major immigration crackdown. Hundreds of workers detained at a massive auto plant outside Savannah, Georgia. Authorities say many of them South Korean nationals. It comes after a raid at a food manufacturing plant outside Syracuse. The head of that plant and what he’s now saying about the workers who’ve been hired there. Tonight, the dangerous mission by Seal Team 6 that reportedly failed. The New York Times first reporting the elite unit that killed Osama bin Laden going behind enemy lines in North Korea using night vision goggles what they were reportedly hoping to plant there before spotting a boat in the water. Flashlights aiming toward them. The SEALs reportedly opening fire on that boat. When this played out and President Trump late today is asked about the mission and what he said. Tonight’s Martha Ratitz reporting live from inside Ukraine where she just interviewed President Zilinski. 3 weeks since the Trump Putin summit in Alaska and no meeting between Russia and Ukraine. Martha asking President Zilinski about Putin’s new invitation for Zilinski to come to Moscow. How he responds. Back in the US, a deadly plane crash outside Denver. At least two killed. The explosion rocking a business park. What we’ve learned overseas inside Gaza. The moment Israeli strikes level a high-rise building in Gaza City. And the new warning tonight from the Israelis. In the US, the dramatic moment in court. The Florida grandmother found guilty of conspiring to kill her own former son-in-law. What then played out in court is guilty of firstdegree murder. Tonight, the apology the Eagles Jaylen Carter apologizes for spitting on Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott. Tonight, the major news involving WNBA superstar Caitlyn Clark and the Powerball jackpot soaring even higher. big dreams for this weekend. From ABC News World Headquarters in New York, this is World News Tonight with David Mure. Good evening. It is great to have you with us here on a Friday night. And we begin tonight with the severe line of storms moving in. More than 30 million Americans from Tennessee all the way up through the Northeast are on alert for severe weather. A line of storms targeting major cities, Philadelphia up into New York City, and into New England. Powerful wind gusts, heavy downpours expected. An intense thunderstorm sweeping through Knoxville, Tennessee, damaging several hangers at Sky Ranch Airport. Philadelphia now bracing for new storms after heavy rain slammed the city last night, delaying the big NFL game, halting the game for a time between the Eagles and the Cowboys. Now, this new round on the way. So, let’s get right to chief meteorologist Lee Goldberg from our New York station WABC. Lee David, strong to severe storms already breaking out south of Nashville and Bowling Green. And they’ll only get more intense with 60 mph winds and even some 1-in hail. They’ll make a move toward the I95 quarter. And it’s this time tomorrow night those storms could be close to New York City with strong winds and even an isolated tornado over northern New Jersey and the Hudson Valley. We’ll be tracking it to the tropics. The disturbance in the Atlantic is getting chugged off by dry air right now. It still could develop into a tropical depression over the weekend. Maybe Gabrielle a threat toward the Lester and Tilly’s midweek, but it is looking a little weaker. Not looking weaker, it’s Kiko back to a category 4 major hurricane, but still overall we’ll start to weaken. It’ll be near or north of the Hawaiian Islands into early next week. High surf, strong winds, and some rain as well. But again, the big threat close to home will be some storms severe here in New York tomorrow night. David Lee Goldberg with us here tonight. Lee, thanks as always. The other major story this Friday night, the labor market slowdown raising concerns about the health of the US economy. President Trump was asked about the disappointing numbers late today. The president downplaying the numbers and promising quote, “We’re going to have tremendous job growth.” The US added just 22,000 jobs and the unemployment rate rose to 4.3% in August, a nearly 4-year high. Barry Bruce at the White House tonight. Tonight, a dramatic slowdown in the American job market. Employers adding just 22,000 jobs in August, less than a third of what economists expected. Unemployment rising to 4.3%, nearly a four-year high, and revised numbers for June showing employment actually fell by 13,000 jobs. The first loss in almost 5 years. The labor market is starting to show a real chill. Not only are workers who have a job frozen in place, unable to hop to a higher paying job elsewhere, but those who want a job are frozen out. 31-year-old Kyle Clark has worked for years as a technical editor, but he’s been unable to find a job since April. At the end of the day, like despite how good or bad the economy is, I still need a job. I still need to pay rent. I still need to pay my bills. I like I like to eat. I like to, you know, be able to afford groceries. The president has acknowledged he won the election in large part because he promised to grow the economy and lower prices. Today, he downplayed the latest numbers. we’re going to have tremendous job growth. He insists the economy is booming and is adamant his tariffs will spark a renaissance in American manufacturing. But the data shows the opposite. Four straight months of manufacturing job losses. When these factories start to open up that are being built all over the country, you’re going to see things happen in this country that nobody expects. We’ve lost 78,000 manufacturing jobs since the start of the year. That’s the exact opposite of what the administration was hoping for. But some of those job losses are in fact due to the higher input costs that we’re seeing. While the Federal Reserve has resisted Trump’s pressure to lower interest rates, this week jobs report making it all but certain they will cut rates to try and encourage hiring when the Fed meets in two weeks. Sir, let’s bring in Mary Bruce live at the White House tonight because Mary, while the president was taking questions on the economy, the president also signing an executive order late today uh to rename the defense department the department of war. And David, tonight they’re already replacing and changing the signs over at the Pentagon. It’s been the Department of Defense since 1949, but today the president rebranding it the Department of War, saying it sends a message of victory and strength. Now, a formal name change would likely require congressional approval. But today, the president glossing over that, saying, quote, “We’re going with it. We’re going with it very strongly.” David Mary Bruce with us tonight. Mary, thank you. Next this evening, the major immigration crackdown. Hundreds of workers detained at a massive auto plant in Georgia. Authorities say many of them South Korean nationals. It comes after a raid at a food manufacturing plant outside Syracuse. And tonight, we hear from the man who runs that plant, what he says about the workers he hired. Here’s our chief justice correspondent, Pierre Thomas. Tonight, hundreds of South Korean nationals detained during a raid on a Georgia Hyundai plant. The latest sign of an ever escalating and massive deportation effort by the Trump administration. This, in fact, was the largest single site enforcement operation in the history of Homeland Security Investigations. Video of the raid was posted by a local activist showing events unfolding inside the construction site of Hyundai’s 3000 acre electric vehicle plant in Elabel, Georgia. Our homeland security. We have a search warrant for the whole site. We need construction to cease immediately. The show of force involving scores of state and federal agencies including the FBI. 475 people taken into custody, most of them South Koreans. Hyundai says those detained did not work directly for the company, but for a network of subcontractors that the plant used in another raid this week hundreds of miles away outside of Syracuse, New York, federal agents converging on this food manufacturing plant in Ko, New York. Co-owner Lenny Schmidt telling WSYR he believes all 69 workers detained were legally authorized to work in the US and some have already returned to work. I just think it was unfortunate the way it was conducted. I think it could have been done conducted a lot easier um and uh you know more proper. The raids come as Chicago is bracing for an influx of federal immigration officials as soon as this weekend. ABC News has learned that the Great Lakes Naval Station outside Chicago will be used as DHS’s base of operations with hundreds of DHS officials involved. David, as you know, South Korea recently pledged to invest billions in the US. President Trump was just asked in the Oval Office whether the Georgia raid could signal a clash between his immigration agenda and his economic goals. He said if those workers were here illegally, they need to be removed. David Pierre Thomas live in Washington. Pierre, thank you. We turn now to the dangerous mission by Seal Team 6 that reportedly failed. The New York Times reporting the elite unit that killed Osama bin Laden went behind enemy lines in North Korea using night vision goggles and what they were reportedly hoping to plant there before spotting a boat in the water. Flashlights aiming toward US submarines. The SEALs reportedly opening fire on that boat. So when all of this played out and President Trump was asked late today about the mission and here’s Martha Ratitz tonight, the extraordinarily dangerous top secret Navy Seal mission inside North Korea. The New York Times reporting Seal Team 6, the same elite unit that killed Osama bin Laden, sneaked onto the shores of North Korea from a US nuclear armed submarine back in 2019, right in the middle of highstakes nuclear negotiations between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. The SEAL’s mission, plant a listening device on North Korean soil, a nuclear armed adversary to intercept communications from Kim, hoping to gain an edge in the talks. A mission so risky, said the Times, President Trump had to personally sign off on it. After months of practice, the Times reports that the US ballistic missile submarine carrying the SEALs steamed through frigid North Korean waters in darkness. As the sub moved closer to land, the SEALs transferred to many submarines and headed for the shore. The elite commandos wearing black wet suits and night vision goggles to detect heat signatures had no communications devices in order to remain undetectable. According to the Times, they expected an empty beach, but in the distance, a North Korean boat appeared out of the dark. Flashlights from its bow swept over the water. Fearing that they had been spotted, the seals opened fire. The mission was aborted. The SEALs then covering their tracks, swimming to the North Korean boat to make sure everyone was dead. And according to the Times, the SEALs then punctured the boat crews lungs with knives to make sure their bodies would sink. It turned out to be a fishing boat carrying unarmed civilians. The Times saying officials told them it is not clear if North Korea ever found out about this classified mission. President Trump asked about the reported mission late today. But I know nothing about it. Can you confirm that it happened? I don’t know anything about it. You I’m hearing it now for the first time. North Korea’s president met with President Trump just weeks after failed Seal Team 6 mission face to face in Vietnam. Again, likely not knowing the US tried to plant a listening device on North Korean soil. And David, in the years that have followed, Kim Jong-un has only increased his arsenal of nuclear weapons. And again, as you heard, President Trump says he knows nothing about the SEAL team 6 mission. David. All right, Martha Ratitz on this New York Times reporting tonight. Martha, thank you. And of course, while we have you, you’re reporting in live from Ukraine tonight. You just interviewed Ukrainian President Zalinski. It’s now 3 weeks since the Trump Putin summit in Alaska. Still no meeting between Putin and Zalinski. And I know you asked him about Putin’s new invitation for Zilinski to come to Moscow. Let’s listen. When you think about where we are right now, three weeks after the summit in Alaska, still no meeting between you and Putin, he said he will meet if you come to Moscow. He can come to Kev. You know if if a person doesn’t want to meet during the war of course he can propose something which can’t be acceptable by me or by by by other but it’s understandable and David at least seven other countries have said they would host a bilateral meeting. Zalinsky said he would agree to that but not Vladimir Putin. So a bilateral meeting seems dead for now. David Martha Ratis reporting live tonight from Western Ukraine. Martha, thank you. And for much more of Martha’s interview with President Silinsky, tuned in to This Week on Sunday Morning. Martha, thank you. We’ll be watching. Back to the news here at home this Friday night. A deadly plane crash outside Denver. The small plane bursting into flames, killing two people on board near Centennial Airport. Here’s Trevor Alt. Tonight, a deadly plane crash outside Denver. Two people on board killed. The explosion rocking a business park. We did find a single engine aircraft fully involved with uh a structure that was threatened. Officials say the Beachcraft plane crash landed onto a data center this morning half a mile southeast of Centennial Airport. First responders racing to extinguish the flames as they threatened a nearby bank of generators. These generators were very large and it was a a concern. Witnesses heard the explosive sound of the crash. We just heard a loud boom. We thought it was a generator at first. Video shows the aircraft appearing to perform loops, practicing takeoffs and landings. And moments before impact, air traffic controllers trying desperately to contact the pilot. There’s a 43 tango tower. How do you hear? But the pilot never responded. Another aircraft telling air traffic control the plane had crashed. Tower, there’s smoke off the left side. Looks like he went down. David, investigators are now looking into the cause of this crash. There is some evidence this may have been a student or new pilot flying the plane. David, Trevor Al with us. Trevor, thank you. Overseas tonight now to Israeli forces striking a high-rise building in Gaza City. Dramatic images of children running for safety as plumes of smoke fill the air and the building collapsing. The IDF says the high-rise was used by Hamas for surveillance and planned ambushes. It’s not immediately clear tonight if anyone was wounded or killed in the strike. Residents were told to evacuate ahead of the attack. It comes as Israel steps up operations to seize control of that famine ravaged city. Back here in the US tonight, the dramatic moment a Florida grandmother is convicted in a murder for higher plot. The defendant is guilty of firstdegree murder. 75-year-old Donna Adlesen when jurors return guilty verdicts in a Tallahassee courtroom. Adlesen stood accused of orchestrating a plan to kill her former son-in-law Dan Markell in 2014. And Adlesen is the fifth person convicted in Markell’s murder. When we come back here tonight, an NFL player showing remorse tonight. What he’s now saying about the spitting incident during the big game last night on the field and the Powerball jackpot soaring even higher tonight. Many of you probably have big dreams this weekend. We’re back in a moment. Next tonight here, remorse from Eagles defensive tackle Jaylen Carter. Refs ejected Carter from last night’s game after he was seen spinning on Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott. A flag thrown on the field just six seconds into the season opener. Carter apologizing after the game. You know, it was a mistake that happened on my my side and, you know, just won’t happen again. So, I feel bad for just my teammates and the fans out there. No word yet if the NFL will hand down any further discipline. The WNBA season is officially over for Caitlyn Clark, the Indiana Fever Guard, revealing on social media that she will not be able to suit up for the rest of the year. Clark sidelineed since mid July due to quad and groin injuries. Clark saying in a statement, quote, “Disappointed isn’t a big enough word to describe how I’m feeling. We wish her well and a speedy recovery. When we come back here tonight, the Powerball jackpot, the big drawing now Saturday, the history being made tonight, where the number now stands, and a passing to note tonight, a trailblazing figure in the civil rights movement. To the index of other news tonight and a passing to note, a trailblazer in the civil rights movement, Joseph McNeel, has died. McNeel was one of the college students who held a sitin at a Woolworth’s lunch counter that served to whites only in North Carolina back in 1960. The act inspired dozens of peaceful protests across the US and the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. No word on McNeel’s cause of death. He was 83 years old. It could be a really great Saturday night for someone out there. The Powerball jackpot now the second largest ever. The prize jumped to 1.8 billion now. No winners yet. The winner who matches all six numbers would take home a lump sum of a mere 826 million. Not bad. Someone’s not going to show up to work on Monday. When we come back tonight, our person of the week, the power of music, a husband and what he did every year for his wife on their anniversary and how he pulled it off this year. Finally tonight here, the husband determined to get his voice back for his wife. Our person of the week. Tonight in Houston, Texas, Jerome and Agnes married 66 years. They met through music at a college production of Oklahoma. Two children, two grandchildren, four great-grandchildren. Jerome served in the army and would go on to work as a school superintendent for decades. But singing was always his true passion and of course always singing to his wife Agnes. Now in their 90s, music keeping them connected as Agnes battles dementia, struggling with memory. So when Jerome was diagnosed with vocal cord atrophy and feared losing his voice, he was determined to restore it so he could sing to Agnes. Going to therapy at Tier Memorial Herman for months. And this was the moment. It must have been cold there in my shadow. Jerome singing to Agnes again, the wind beneath my wings on their 66th anniversary. The same song he has sung to her for years. Did you ever know that you’re my hero? Jerome holding back tears to overcome to continue. I can’t I can’t. And right here tonight. Hi David. I’m Jerome and this is my wife Agnes. Hi Jerome and Agnes. I couldn’t get through it emotionally because she has been the the the wind beneath my wings all my life. And tonight the couple I’ll be loving you always singing right here too. Not for an hour, not just a day. Not for just a year. But and so we choose J to Roman Agnes and their music. Good night. David Mure, the most watched newscast in America. And now ABC’s World News Tonight has won the Emmy for best live news program for the third year in a

Mary Bruce has the latest on the weak jobs reports, with U.S. employers adding just 22,000 jobs in August as unemployment rises; Pierre Thomas has reports on DHS detaining hundreds of South Korean nationals during a raid on a Georgia Hyundai plant, marking the latest in the Trump administration’s deportation efforts; Martha Raddatz has details on The New York Times reporting that during nuclear negotiations between Pres. Trump and Kim Jong Un in 2019, SEAL Team 6 snuck onto North Korea’s shores to spy on the world leader – but the mission failed and unarmed civilians were reportedly killed; and more on tonight’s broadcast of World News Tonight with David Muir.

00:00 Intro
02:27 Severe weather puts 30 million on alert from Tennessee to Northeast
03:53 Weak jobs report raises concerns as unemployment rises
06:42 DHS: Hundreds of South Korean nationals detained in immigration operation at Georgia Hyundai plant
08:57 NYT: Top secret 2019 SEAL mission in North Korea to plant surveillance device failed
13:10 Investigation underway after small plane crash outside of Denver kills 2 people
14:28 Israel levels Gaza high-rise tower near Palestinian civilian encampment
14:54 Florida grandma convicted in murder-for-hire plot targeting former son-in-law who was FSU law professor
15:32 Philadelphia Eagles’ Jalen Carter expresses remorse following ejection for spitting on Dallas Cowboys’ Dak Prescott
15:59 Caitlin Clark out for remainder of WNBA season
16:28 Civil Rights Movement trailblazer Joseph McNeil dead at age 83
16:52 Powerball jackpot reaches $1.8 million ahead of Saturday night drawing
17:20 America Strong: At 91, husband determined to restore his voice to sing for wife on 66th anniversary