ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast – Oct. 23, 2025

ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast – Oct. 23, 2025

>> David: TONIGHT, BREAKING NEWS AS WE COME ON THE AIR, DOZENS ARRESTED, INCLUDING A FORMER NBA STAR, AN NBA HEAD COACH, WHO WAS COACHING THE GAME JUST LAST NIGHT. THE FBI SWEEPING IN, THEY SAY BUSTING A MAJOR GAMBLING SCANDAL, ARRESTING MORE THAN 30 CURRENT AND FORMER PLAYERS, COACHES AND ALLEGED MOBSTERS FROM FOUR MAFIA FAMILIES. USING HIGH TECH DEVICES INCLUDING AN X-RAY POKER TABLE THAT COULD READ THE CARDS FACE DOWN. TONIGHT, AUTHORITIES SAY STEALING MILLIONS. ALSO BREAKING TONIGHT, THE GROWING OUTRAGE OVER THE DEMOLITION AT THE WHITE HOUSE. TONIGHT, THE BEFORE AND AFTER IMAGES HERE SHOWING THE EAST WING OF THE WHITE HOUSE THEN AND NOW COMPLETELY GONE. THE PRESIDENT HAD SAID HIS $300 MILLION BALLROOM WOULD NOT AFFECT THE INTEGRITY OF THE WHITE HOUSE. TONIGHT, THE WHITE HOUSE IS ASKED WHY WERE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE NOT TOLD THE ENTIRE EAST WING WAS BEING DEMOLISHED. AND ALL OF THIS AMID THE GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN DAY 23 TONIGHT. MORE THAN 500,000 FEDERAL WORKERS ABOUT TO MISS THEIR FIRST FULL PAYCHECK. ALSO, PRESIDENT TRUMP’S NEWEST PARDON TONIGHT, THIS TIME THE FOUNDER OF BINANCE, THE LARGEST CRYPTOCURRENCY EXCHANGE IN THE WORLD. AND A SUPPORTER OF THE TRUMP FAMILY’S CRYPTO BUSINESS. THE PRESIDENT WAS PRESSED LATE TODAY IF CONNECTIONS TO HIS OWN FAMILY’S CRYPTO BUSINESS PLAYED INTO THIS PARDON. AND HOW HE RESPONDED. AND AMERICA STRONG, MISTY COPELAND’S SWAN SONG WITH THE AMERICAN BALLET THEATER, AFTER MAKING HISTORY CELEBRATING THE TRAILBLAZER TONIGHT AND WHAT SHE TOLD ME A DECADE AGO RIGHT HERE ON THIS BROADCAST ABOUT HER DREAMS OF BEING A BALLERINA, WHAT SHE HAD BEEN TOLD AS A LITTLE GIRL, AND SHE PROVED OF THEM WRONG. >> Announcer: FROM ABC NEWS WORLD HEADQUARTERS IN NEW YORK, THIS IS “WORLD NEWS TONIGHT” WITH DAVID MUIR. >> David: WE BEGIN WITH BREAKING NEWS, THE FBI SWEEPING IN, MAKING MORE THAN 30 ARRESTS TONIGHT INCLUDING AN NBA STAR AND NBA COACH WHO WAS COACHING A BIG GAME JUST LAST NIGHT. AUTHORITIES SAY ALL PART OF A MASSIVE NBA AND MAFIA GAMBLING SCANDAL. INVESTIGATORS SAY THEY RIGGED POKER GAMES USING HIGH TECH DEVICES, INCLUDING AN X-RAY TABLE THAT COULD READ CARDS FACE DOWN. DOZENS HAVE BEEN ARRESTED TONIGHT INCLUDING A HALL OF FAMER, MILLIONS OF DOLLARS ALLEGEDLY STOLEN. HALL OF FAME PLAYER AND HEAD COACH OF THE PORTLAND TRAIL ARRESTED, ACCUSED OF LURING VICTIMS INTO POKER GAMES THAT WERE FIXED, ALLEGEDLY RUN BY THE MAFIA. THE SUSPECTS ALLEGEDLY USING HIGH TECH DEVICES, PLAYERS ARE NO IDEA THEIR CARDS WERE BEING READ AND TERRY ROZIER ACCUSED OF WHAT THE FBI IS CALLING INSIDER TRADING FOR THE NBA, HE ALLEGEDLY TOLD GAMBLERS TO BET AGAINST HIM, ALLEGEDLY TELLING THOSE GAMBLERS HE WOULD FAKE AN INJURY, BE OUT OF THE GAME EARLY, SO HIS SCORING POINTS WOULD BE LOW. DAMON JONES, A FORMER TEAMMATE OF LeBRON JAMES, INDICTED TONIGHT, ACCUSED OF TELLING GAMBLERS WHEN LeBRON JAMES WAS INJURED AND NOT PLAYING SO THEY CAN MAKE BETS ACCORDINGLY. ABC’S CHIEF INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT AARON KATERSKY LEADING US OFF. >> Reporter: TONIGHT, AN NBA COACH AND STAR PLAYER AMONG MORE THAN 30 PEOPLE INDICTED IN A PAIR OF ILLEGAL GAMBLING CASES THAT PROSECUTORS SAY PUT PRO BASKETBALL WITH THE MOB. >> YOUR WINNING STREAK HAS ENDED, YOUR LUCK HAS RUN OUT. PROPOSITION AND YOU CAN BET ON THAT. >> Reporter: FEDERAL PROSECUTORS SAY THE MAFIA PAID PORTLAND TRAIL BLAZERS HEAD COACH CHAUNCEY BILLUPS AND FORMER CLEVELAND CAVALIERS PLAYER DAMON JONES TO LURE UNSUSPECTING VICTIMS TO HIGH STAKES POKER GAMES IN THE HAMPTONS, LAS VEGAS, MIAMI AND MANHATTAN. THE MOBSTERS CALLED THE CELEBRITY ATHLETES FACE CARDS AND THE VICTIMS FISH. >> WHAT THE VICTIMS, THE FISH, DIDN’T KNOW IS THAT EVERYBODY ELSE AT THE POKER GAME FROM THE DEALER TO THE PLAYERS, INCLUDING THE FACE CARDS, WERE IN ON THE SCAM. >> Reporter: PROSECUTORS SHOWING OFF TECHNOLOGY THEY SAY THE MAFIA USED TO RIG THE GAMES INCLUDING AN ALTERED CARD SHUFFLING MACHINE AND X-RAY POKER TABLE THAT COULD READ CARDS FACEDOWN, ALLEGEDLY CHEATING VICTIMS OUT OF MORE THAN $7 MILLION. THEY WERE REAL VICTIMS. >> CORRECT, ABSOLUTELY. >> Reporter: LURED TO THE POKER TABLES BY CHAUNCEY BILLUPS? >> AND OTHERS. AND OTHERS, EXACTLY. >> Reporter: BILLUPS, WHO COACHED THE BLAZERS SEASON OPENER LAST NIGHT, PLACED ON IMMEDIATE LEAVE. SO WAS MIAMI HEAT GUARD TERRY ROZIER, CHARGED IN A SEPARATE INDICTMENT INVOLVING ILLEGAL SPORTS BETTING. >> TERRY ROZIER, GREAT FOOT DISCOMFORT, DOUBTFUL TO RETURN. >> Reporter: PROSECUTORS SAY DURING THIS GAME IN MARCH 2023, ROZIER WITH THE CHARLOTTE HORNETS, TIPPED OFF BETTERS HE WOULD FAKE AN INJURY AND COME OUT OF THE GAME TO ENABLE THEM TO PLACE FRAUDULENT WAGERS ON HIM UNDERPERFORMING. THE WINNINGS TOTALLING MORE THAN $200,000. >> THE PROCEEDS WERE DELIVERED TO HIS HOME WHERE THE GROUP COUNTED THEIR CASH. AS THE NBA SEASON TIPS OFF, HIS CAREER IS ALREADY BENCHED, NOT FOR INJURY, BUT FOR INTEGRITY. >> Reporter: PROSECUTORS ARE ALLEGING THEN COACH DAMON JONES KNEW LeBRON JAMES WOULD MISS A LAKERS GAME AGAINST THE MILWAUKEE BUCKS WITH AN INJURY AND SOLD THAT INFORMATION TO BETTERS, TEXTING, GET A BIG BET ON MILWAUKEE TONIGHT BEFORE THE INFORMATION IS OUT. >> THAT’S NOT, YOU KNOW, MINCE WORDS. THIS IS THE INSIDER TRADING SAGA FOR THE NBA. THAT’S WHAT THIS IS. >> Reporter: THESE CASES, DAVID, AND THE ASSOCIATION WITH CAST A PALL OVER THE NBA’S OPENING WEEK. TONIGHT, THE LEAGUE SAYS IT IS COOPERATING FULLY. DAVID? >> AARON KATERSKY LEADING US OFF TONIGHT. AARON, THANK YOU. >> David: NOW TO THE GROWING OUTRAGE OVER THE DEMOLITION AT THE WHITE HOUSE. TONIGHT, THE BEFORE AND AFTER IMAGES HERE. SATELLITE IMAGES SHOWING THE EAST WING OF THE WHITE HOUSE WEEKS AGO. THIS IS WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE NOW. THE EAST WING COMPLETELY GONE TONIGHT. THE PRESIDENT HAD SAID HIS $300 MILLION BALLROOM WOULD NOT AFFECT THE INTEGRITY OF THE WHITE HOUSE. MARY BRUCE ASKING THE WHITE HOUSE WHY THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WEREN’T TOLD THE ENTIRE EAST WING WOULD BE GONE AND ALL OF THIS AMID THE GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN NOW DAY 23. HERE’S MARY BRUCE. >> Reporter: TONIGHT, THE STARK IMAGES WHERE THE EAST WING OF THE WHITE HOUSE ONCE STOOD, NOW JUST A PILE OF RUBBLE, DEMOLISHED TO MAKE WAY FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP’S BALLROOM, WHICH TRUMP ONCE SAID WOULD COST $250 MILLION. AND NOW SAYS WILL RUN SOME $300 MILLION. SATELLITE IMAGES SHOW THE DRAMATIC TRANSFORMATION, THIS WAS THE WHITE HOUSE COMPLEX LESS THAN A MONTH AGO. AND HERE IT IS TODAY. PRESIDENT TRUMP ONCE CLAIMED THE BALLROOM WOULDN’T INTERFERE WITH THE WHITE HOUSE ITSELF. >> DIDN’T WANT IT TO INTERFERE WITH THE CURRENT BUILDING. IT WON’T BE. IT WILL BE NEAR IT, BUT NOT TOUCHING IT. AND PAYS TOTAL RESPECT TO THE EXISTING BUILDING, WHICH I’M THE BIGGEST FAN OF. >> Reporter: I ASKED WHY ONCE THEY REALIZED THE ENTIRE EAST WING WOULD HAVE TO GO, THEY DIDN’T TELL THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. THIS IS THE PEOPLE’S HOUSE. WHY NOT INFORM THE PUBLIC OF THAT CHANGE AND WHEN IT WAS DECIDED THAT THE EAST WING WOULD HAVE TO BE DEMOLISHED? >> LOOK, AGAIN, WITH ANY CONSTRUCTION PROJECT, CHANGES COME. IF YOU LOOK AT THE RENDERINGS, IT IS VERY CLEAR THAT THE EAST WING WAS GOING TO BE MODERNIZED. >> MODERNIZED AND TEARING DOWN ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS. >> THE PRESIDENT, THE PLANS CHANGE WHEN THE PRESIDENT HEARD COUNCIL FROM THE ARCHITECTS AND THE CONSTRUCTION COMPANIES. >> Reporter: THE WHITE HOUSE STILL HAS NOT SUBMITTED PLANS TO THE NATIONAL CAPITAL PLANNING COMMISSION AND THE NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION SAYS THEY’RE DEEPLY CONCERNED THAT THE PLANNED 90,000 SQUARE FOOT BALLROOM WILL OVERWHELM. THIS WAS HOW IT LOOKED EARLIER THIS WEEK. AND HERE’S A RENDERING OF WHAT IT WILL BE, THE BALLROOM DWARFING THE OTHER BUILDINGS. THE PRESIDENT SAYS IT WILL BE WHOLLY PAID FOR WITH PRIVATE DONATIONS AND HIS OWN MONEY. >> HOW MUCH SPECIFICALLY ARE YOU DONATING TO IT PERSONALLY? >> HOW MUCH AM I DONATING? I WON’T BE ABLE TO TELL YOU UNTIL I FINISH, BUT I’LL DONATE WHATEVER IS NEEDED, I’LL TELL YOU THAT. >> Reporter: ALL OF THIS PLAYING OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN, NOW DAY 23. TOMORROW MORE THAN 500,000 FEDERAL WORKERS ARE SET TO MISS THEIR FIRST FULL PAYCHECK. FOOD BANKS ACROSS THE COUNTRY FROM NEW ORLEANS TO SALT LAKE CITY ALREADY SEEING LONGER LINES. AS OVER 40 MILLION AMERICANS RELY ON THE FEDERAL FOOD ASSISTANCE PROGRAM, SNAP, MANY OF THEM IN RED STATES, COULD LOSE THEIR BENEFITS IN JUST DAYS. THE PRESIDENT STILL REFUSING TO NEGOTIATE WITH DEMOCRATS, WHO WANT TO REPEAL MEDICAID CUTS AND EXTEND OBAMACARE SUBSIDIES TO PREVENT SOME 20 MILLION AMERICANS FROM SOON SEEING THEIR HEALTH INSURANCE PREMIUMS SKYROCKET. THE PRESIDENT IS NOW PLOWING AHEAD WITH HIS $300 MILLION BALLROOM. IT COMES AFTER HE ALREADY MADE CHANGES TO THE ROSE GARDEN, PAVING OVER THE GRASS THERE TO CREATE A PATIO, AND THE WHITE HOUSE TONIGHT ISN’T RULING OUT THAT THERE COULD BE EVEN MORE CHANGES TO COME HERE. DAVID? >> David: MARY BRUCE, THANKS TO YOU AGAIN TONIGHT. THIS EVENING PRESIDENT TRUMP FACING QUESTIONS OVER HIS NEWEST PARDON TONIGHT, THE FOUNDER OF BINANCE, THE LARGEST CRYPTOCURRENCY EXCHANGE IN THE WORLD AND A SUPPORTER OF THE TRUMP FAMILY’S CRYPTO BUSINESS. THE PRESIDENT WAS PRESSED LATE TODAY OF CONNECTIONS TO HIS OWN FAMILY’S CRYPTO BUSINESS, PLAYING INTO THIS PARDON. AND HERE’S RACHEL SCOTT ON THAT. >> Reporter: TONIGHT, PRESIDENT TRUMP FACING NEW QUESTIONS ABOUT HIS LATEST PARDON, CRYPTO BILLIONAIRE CHANGPENG ZHAO, A SUPPORTER OF THE TRUMP FAMILY’S CRYPTO BUSINESS, WHO PLEADED GUILTY TO MONEY LAUNDERING IN 2023. ZHAO, KNOWN AS ZZ, CREATED BINANCE, THE WORLD’S LARGEST CRYPTOCURRENCY EXCHANGE. BINANCE PAID A $4 BILLION FINE, AFTER SERVING FOUR MONTHS IN PRISON LAST YEAR, ZHAO HELPED STRIKE A DEAL IN MAY WITH THE TRUMP FAMILY’S CRYPTO VENTURE. WORLD LIBERTY FINANCIAL. TODAY THE PRESIDENT WAS PRESSED ABOUT WHY HE ISSUED THE PARDON. >> TODAY YOU PARDONED THE FOUNDER OF BINANCE. CAN YOU EXPLAIN WHY YOU CHOSE TO PARDON HIM AND DID IT HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH HIS INVOLVEMENT IN YOUR FAMILY’S — >> WHO IS IT THAT? >> THE FOUNDER OF BINANCE. >> THE RECENT ONE, YES, I BELIEVE WE’RE TALKING ABOUT THE — I DO PARDON A LOT OF PEOPLE. I DON’T KNOW. HE WAS RECOMMENDED BY A LOT OF PEOPLE. A LOT OF PEOPLE SAY THAT — ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT THE CRYPTO PERSON? >> YES. >> A LOT OF PEOPLE SAY THAT HE WASN’T GUILTY OF ANYTHING, HE SERVED FOUR MONTHS IN JAIL AND THEY SAY THAT HE WAS NOT GUILTY OF ANYTHING. THAT WHAT HE DID — YOU DON’T KNOW MUCH ABOUT CRYPTO. YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT — YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT NOTHING, YOU’RE FAKE NEWS, BUT LET ME JUST TELL YOU THAT HE WAS SOMEBODY THAT AS I WAS TOLD, I DON’T KNOW, I DON’T BELIEVE I’VE BUT I’VE BEEN TOLD BY A LOT OF SUPPORT, HE HAD A LOT OF SUPPORT AND THEY SAID THAT WHAT HE DID IS NOT EVEN A CRIME. >> Reporter: TONIGHT PRESIDENT TRUMP CONTINUING TO FACE QUESTIONS ABOUT ZHAO AND HIS TIES TO THE TRUMP FAMILY’S CRYPTO VENTURES. TONIGHT, THE WHITE HOUSE IS DEFENDING THIS MOVE, PRESS SECRETARY KAROLINE LEAVITT SAYING THE PRESIDENT IS WITHIN HIS CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY. >> David: RACHEL SCOTT AT THE WHITE HOUSE, THANK YOU. >>> TONIGHT, THE TRUCK DRIVER CHARGED IN A DEADLY CHAIN REACTION CRASH IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, AT THE CENTER OF OVER A NEW BATTLE OVER ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IN THE U.S. THE DRIVER IS ACCUSED OF DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE. AUTHORITIES SAY HE WAS IN THIS COUNTRY ILLEGALLY. HERE’S MATT GUTMAN. >> Reporter: TONIGHT THIS DASH CAM VIDEO OF A CHAIN REACTION CRASH THAT LEFT THREE PEOPLE DEAD ON THE CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY, NOW AT THE CENTER OF AN INVESTIGATION AND THE DEBATE OVER IMMIGRATION. THE DRIVER BEHIND THE WHEEL OF A TRACTOR TRAILER FACING CHARGES OF VEHICULAR MANSLAUGHTER WHILE INTOXICATED FOR CAUSING THAT HORRIFIC CRASH ON THE 10 FREEWAY EAST OF LOS ANGELES. 21-YEAR-OLD JASHANPREET SINGH WAS DRIVING WITH A VALID CALIFORNIA COMMERCIAL LICENSE, BUT THEY SAY HE WAS IN THE COUNTRY ILLEGALLY. IT COMES AFTER ANOTHER DEADLY CRASH IN FLORIDA. THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY SAYS THIS DRIVER ALSO WITH THE CALIFORNIA COMMERCIAL DRIVER’S LICENSE AND IN THE COUNTRY ILLEGALLY ALLEGEDLY MADE A RECKLESS U-TURN ON THE FLORIDA TURNPIKE, CAUSING A CRASH THAT ALSO KILLED THREE PEOPLE. CALIFORNIA OFFICIALS SAY THAT DRIVER IN FLORIDA HAD A WORK PERMIT AT THE TIME HE WAS ISSUED A LICENSE. TONIGHT THIS LATEST CRASH IN CALIFORNIA IS UNDER FEDERAL INVESTIGATION AND AMONG THE VICTIMS KILLED, A HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL COACH AND HIS WIFE. TONIGHT, THE WHITE HOUSE WEIGHING IN. >> THESE TRAGEDIES ARE FOLLOWING A DISTURBING PATTERN OF THESE CRIMINAL ILLEGAL ALIENS BEING ISSUED COMMERCIAL VEHICLE LICENSES AND SO, YES, THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION IS ABSOLUTELY CRACKING DOWN ON THAT. >> Reporter: FLORIDA’S ATTORNEY GENERAL NOW ASKING THE SUPREME COURT TO PREVENT STATES LIKE CALIFORNIA FROM ISSUING COMMERCIAL DRIVER’S LICENSES TO PEOPLE IN THE COUNTRY ILLEGALLY. THEY’RE SAYING IT IS A MATTER OF DAVID? >> David: MATT GUTMAN REPORTING TONIGHT. MATT, THANK YOU. NOW TO TROPICAL STORM MELISSA GAINING STRENGTH IN THE CARIBBEAN AT THIS HOUR, EXPECTED TO BECOME A MAJOR HURRICANE WITHIN DAYS. THE NEW MODELS JUST IN TONIGHT, THE POTENTIAL TRACKS OF THIS STORM. LET’S GET TO CHIEF METEOROLOGIST LEE GOLDBERG FROM WABC IN NEW YORK. HI, LEE. >> MELISSA BARELY MOVING, POISED TO JUST WAIT PATIENTLY FOR ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS TO GET BETTER FOR IT TO INTENSIFY. THAT HAPPENS OVER THE WEEKEND. GOES TO A CAT 1 AND THEN RAPIDLY INTENSIFIES TO A CAT 4 AND PARALLELS THE SOUTH COAST OF JAMAICA AND BATTERS THE ISLAND FOR DAYS. PARTS OF HAITI AND OVER TO JAMAICA, A MULTIDAY EVENT WITH FLOODING RAINS, MUDSLIDE POSSIBLE AND DESTRUCTIVE WINDS AND THEN MOVES OVER CUBA AND OUT IN THE ATLANTIC MIDWEEK NEXT WEEK. THE TREND CLOSER TO THE U.S. COAST HAS STOPPED. DAVID? >> LEE GOLDBERG BACK WITH US, THANKS, LEE. >> David: IN NEW YORK CITY TONIGHT, THE HEATED RACE FOR MAYOR, OUTGOING MAYOR ERIC ADAMS ENDORSING ANDREW CUOMO TONIGHT AND THE FIERY DEBATE OPENS EXPERIENCE. HERE’S MATT RIVERS ON THAT TONIGHT. >> Reporter: NEW YORK MAYOR ERIC ADAM WHOSE POPULARITY PLUNGED WHEN HE SOUGHT AND RECEIVED A PARDON FROM PRESIDENT TRUMP TODAY ENDORSING FORMER GOVERNOR ANDREW CUOMO TO TAKE HIS PLACE. >> THE MAYOR PUT HIS OWN AMBITION ASIDE BECAUSE HE CARES MORE ABOUT NEW YORK CITY. >> Reporter: OVERNIGHT, CUOMO DECIDEDLY AN UNDERDOG, CLASHING ON THE DEBATE STAGE WITH DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE ZOHRAN MAMDANI, ASSEMBLYMAN AND SELF-DESCRIBED DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST. >> YOU HAVE NEVER HAD A JOB, YOU’VE NEVER ACCOMPLISHED ANYTHING. THERE IS NO REASON TO BELIEVE YOU HAVE ANY MERIT OR QUALIFICATION FOR EIGHT AND A HALF MILLION LIVES. >> THE ISSUE IS THAT WE HAVE ALL EXPERIENCED YOUR EXPERIENCE. WE JUST HAD A FORMER GOVERNOR SAY IN HIS OWN WORDS THAT THE CITY HAS BEEN GETTING SCREWED BY THE STATE. WHO WAS LEADING THE STATE? IT WAS YOU! EXPERIENCE HIS DEFINING ISSUE. >> THIS IS NOT A JOB FOR A FIRST-TIMER. ANY DAY YOU CAN HAVE A HURRICANE, GOD FORBID A 9/11, A HEALTH PANDEMIC. >> AND IF WE HAVE A HEALTH PANDEMIC, WHY WOULD NEW YORKERS TURN BACK TO THE GOVERNOR WHO SENT SENIORS TO THEIR DEATHS IN NURSING HOMES. >> Reporter: AFTER LAST NIGHT’S DEBATE, CUOMO RACED TO JOIN MAYOR ADAMS COURT SIDE AT THE KNICKS. THEY WEREN’T ALWAYS SO CHUMMY. >> ANDREW CUOMO IS A SNAKE AND A LIAR. >> Reporter: BUT NOW — >> BROTHERS FIGHT. >> Reporter: CUOMO AND ADAMS SEIZING ON MAMDANI’S VIEWS ON THE ISRAEL AND HAMAS WAR TO PAINT HIM AS AN EXTREMIST. IF ELECTED, HE WOULD BE NEW YORK’S FIRST MUSLIM MAYOR. >> NEW YORK CAN’T BE EUROPE, FOLKS. I DON’T KNOW WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE. YOU SEE WHAT’S PLAYING OUT IN OTHER COUNTRIES BECAUSE OF ISLAMIC EXTREMISM. >> Reporter: MAMDANI CASTING CUOMO AND ADAMS AS PUPPETS OF DONALD TRUMP. >> WE HAVE A PRESIDENT OF THIS COUNTRY WHO HAS SPOKEN PUBLICLY OF HIS DESIRE OF ERIC ADAMS TO DROP OUT, ERIC ADAMS DROPPED OUT. CANDIDATES TO CONSOLIDATE BEHIND ANDREW CUOMO. TODAY, ERIC ADAMS IS ENDORSING ANDREW CUOMO. >> Reporter: TODAY, CUOMO ASKED — >> DID YOU OFFER ADAMS ANYTHING IN RETURN — >> Reporter: ELECTION DAY, NOVEMBER 4th, NOW LESS THAN TWO WEEKS AWAY, MOST POLLS SHOWING MAMDANI WITH A COMFORTABLE LEAD. IT IS UNCLEAR IF MAYOR ADAM’S SUPPORT WILL HELP ANDREW CUOMO MAKE UP SOME GROUND. DAVID? >> David: MATT RIVERS ON THE RACE FOR MAYOR, THANK YOU. OVERSEAS, FRENCH INVESTIGATORS REVIEWING NEW VIDEO SHOWING TWO SUSPECTS AT THE HEIST AT THE LOUVRE IN PARIS, TAKE A LOOK, THE TWO WHOSE FACES ARE ON SECURED BY A BIKE HELMET SEEN USING A CHERRY PICKER TO DESCEND FROM THE GALLERY, DRESSED AS CONSTRUCTION WORKERS INSIDE ACCORDING TO AUTHORITIES. THE VIDEO TAKEN BY THE LOUVRE SECURITY, THE MANHUNT FOR THE SUSPECTS INTENSIFYING. INVESTIGATORS SAY THEY HAVE RECOVERED DNA ON A HELMET AND GLOVES LEFT AT THE SCENE OF THE $102 MILLION HEIST. WHEN WE COME BACK, HISTORY MADE AT THE VATICAN THIS EVENING, KING CHARLES AND POPE LEO PRAYING TOGETHER. ALSO AHEAD, KIM KARDASHIAN REVEALING HER DIAGNOSIS. SHE SAID DOCTORS TOLD HER SHE HAS A BRAIN ANEURYSM AND WHAT THEY’RE SAYING. AND WE’RE LEARNING MORE AFTER THAT PLANE CRASH ON TO A NEIGHBORHOOD SOCCER FIELD, A WOMAN ON THE GROUND HIT. AND TONIGHT NEWS ON HER CONDITION. A LOT MORE AHEAD HERE. >> David: TONIGHT, HISTORY AT THE VATICAN. FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 500 YEARS, A POPE AND A BRITISH MONARCH PRAYING TOGETHER. KING CHARLES AND QUEEN CAMILLA WELCOMED TO THE VATICAN BY THE TONIGHT, NEWS AFTER THE PLANE CRASH ON TO A SOCCER FIELD HITTING A PEDESTRIAN IN CALIFORNIA, HAPPENED AT A CROWDED PARK IN LONG BEACH. THE PILOT WAS ALSO HURT, THE WOMAN’S SISTER NOW TELLING OUR STATION KABC THAT THE WOMAN IS DEAF AND DID NOT HEAR THAT PLANE APPROACHING WHILE SHE WALKED HER DOG. BOTH THE WOMAN AND THE PILOT ARE EXPECTED TO RECOVER. WHEN WE COME BACK TONIGHT, KIM KARDASHIAN REVEALING SHE HAS A BRAIN ANEURYSM AND WHAT HER DOCTORS ARE SAYING TONIGHT. >> David: TO THE INDEX, KIM KARDASHIAN REVEALING TONIGHT SHE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH A BRAIN ANEURYSM AND HAS BEEN UNDERGOING TREATMENT, SAYING DOCTORS TOLD HER STRESS WAS THE CAUSE. ANEURYSMS ARE OFTEN ASYMPTOMATIC BUT CAN CAUSE SYMPTOMS LIKE HEADACHES, BLURRY VISION, NAUSEA OR VOMITING. WHEN WE COME BACK, YOU MET HER RIGHT HERE, A DECADE AGO, WHAT SHE TOLD ME THEN ABOUT BEING A LITTLE GIRL WITH A DREAM, BUT LAST NIGHT HER EXTRAORDINARY FINAL BOW, SHE PROVED SO MANY WRONG. >> David: FINALLY TONIGHT, HERE, AMERICA STRONG, MISTY COPELAND’S FINAL BOW. THE TRAILBLAZER AND WHAT SHE TOLD ME A DECADE AGO. LAST NIGHT, MISTY COPELAND’S FINAL BOW AT THE AMERICAN BALLET THEATER. THE BALLERINA WHO MADE HISTORY AND DEFIED THE ODDS. WE FIRST INTERVIEWED MISTY AT THE LINCOLN CENTER MORE THAN A DECADE AGO. SHE REMEMBERED BEING THAT GIRL WITH A DREAM. LONG WAY FROM KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI. >> THAT’S FOR SURE. >> David: RAISED BY A SINGLE MOTHER WHO WAS DETERMINED TO LIFT HER CHILD UP. YOU WERE ONE OF SIX, HAD A SINGLE MOM. >> ONE OF THOSE STORIES YOU THINK IS A LIFETIME MOVIE IS GOING TO COME OF IT AND — >> David: IT IS RIGHT NOW. >> IT IS. >> David: IN THAT MOMENT WITH US, SHE HAD NO IDEA THE HISTORY SHE WAS ABOUT TO MAKE. TRAINING AS A CHILD, SHE STARTED TO DANCE LATE AT 13. THERE WERE COACHES WHO SAW SOMETHING. YOU BEGAN ON A BASKETBALL COURT. >> A BASKETBALL COURT IN MY SOCKS AND MY GYM CLOTHES. >> David: WITHIN TWO YEARS, WINNING DANCE COMPETITIONS. WITHIN FIVE YEARS, A SPOT WITH ONE OF THE MOST PRESTIGIOUS BALLET COMPANIES IN THE WORLD. MANY CALLING HER A PRODIGY, BUT SHE REMEMBERS BEING TOLD SHE DIDN’T HAVE A BALLERINA’S BODY. WHAT DID YOU HEAR? >> I’M BLACK, WE DON’T EXIST IN THE BALLET WORLD. I’M TOO MUSCULAR. I’M TOO SHORT. MY BUST IS TOO BIG. >> David: BUT MISTY WOULD PROVE THEM WRONG. WITHIN A YEAR OF OUR INTERVIEW, SHE BECAME THE FIRST BLACK FEMALE PRINCIPLE DANCER IN THE COMPANY’S 75-YEAR HISTORY. AND LAST NIGHT, THEY CELEBRATED THE TRAILBLAZER, RETIRING FROM THE COMPANY, NOW WITH HER 3-YEAR-OLD SON JACKSON IN HER ARMS. A DECADE AGO. THERE ARE LITTLE CHILDREN DREAMING, OF DOING WHAT YOU’RE DOING, AND PROOF THAT THE DREAM CAN COME TRUE NOW. >> I AM PROOF OF THAT. >> David: MISTY COPELAND, HER FINAL BOW AT THE AMERICAN BALLET THEATER, AMERICA STRONG. INSPIRING SO MANY LITTLE GIRLS ALONG THE WAY AND INSPIRING US TOO. I’LL SEE YOU TOMORROW. GOOD NIGHT.

Aaron Katersky has the latest on the FBI’s arrest of more than 30 current and former NBA players, coaches and suspected mobsters for alleged illegal sports betting and rigged poker games; Mary Bruce has details on the renovation of the White House’s East Wing as new satellite images show the dramatic transformation making way for Pres. Trump’s $300 million ballroom; Matt Gutman reports on the truck driver charged in a deadly chain reaction crash on a California highway now at the center of an investigation and the debate over immigration; and more on tonight’s broadcast of World News Tonight with David Muir.

00:00 Intro
01:51 FBI: NBA gambling scandal linked to mafia; millions in rigged games allegedly stolen
05:31 East Wing demolition raises new questions as ballroom estimate increases to $300 million
08:40 Trump pardons billionaire Binance founder Changpeng Zhao
10:45 DHS: Deadly crashes in California, Florida by drivers in U.S. illegally
12:46 Tropical Storm Melissa continues to slowly churn in the Caribbean
13:12 New York City Mayor Eric Adams endorses Andrew Cuomo in heated mayoral race
15:47 New video appears to show thieves escaping Louvre as investigation continues
16:36 Pope Leo and King Charles pray together at the Vatican
16:49 Southern California woman hit by small plane recovering
17:13 Kim Kardashian says she was diagnosed with an aneurysm
17:43 America Strong: Misty Copeland takes final bow at American Ballet Theatre

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