ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast – Oct. 24, 2025

Tonight, breaking news as we come on the air, striking their target. The new images coming in, the 10th military strike on a suspected drug boat in the Caribbean. At least six people killed. And tonight, President Trump now sending an aircraft carrier strike group to the waters of Central and South America. We’ll go live to Martha Ratitz. Tonight, day 24 of the government shutdown. Hundreds of thousands of workers now going without their paychecks. Congress is still getting paid. President Trump cutting off trade talks with Canada over an ad featuring former President Ronald Reagan. And the new inflation report tonight showing inflation here in this country climbing at its fastest rate since January. Beef prices for one soaring. Tropical Storm Melissa gaining strength in the Atlantic. A hurricane by tomorrow, expected to be a major category 4 by Sunday. The new models just in tonight. The potential track of this storm. The alarming scene outside a Coast Guard base. Police opening fire during a protest. A U-Haul truck backing up into the gate. It comes after jarring images showing a minister hit in the face by a flashbang. A National Guard plane coming down across a highway, hitting power lines and crashing. A Delta passenger jet forced to abort takeoff. Flames shooting from the right engine. The systemwide outage cancelling hundreds of flights. Travelers stranded for hours. What Alaska Airlines is now saying tonight. New York Attorney General Leticia James pleading not guilty. Tonight, accusing the Justice Department of being quote used as a tool of revenge. Here in New York City, the heated race for mayor one day after Andrew Cuomo laughed after a radio host said Zon Mandani would cheer if there was another 9/11. Tonight, Mamani before the cameras responding. His personal and at times emotional message for voters here. Tonight in Boston, there’s been a deadly crane collapse. At least two people have been killed this evening. The recall, the popular wipes now being recalled because of a possible risk of serious infection. And tonight, you’ll see it. The extraordinary rescue. The mom who jumped in to help save nearly two dozen children. Just moments later, the bus engulfed in flames. Her bravery. Our person of the week. From ABC News World Headquarters in New York. This is World News Tonight with David Mure. Good evening. We begin tonight with the breaking news. The Trump administration ramping up its military crackdown on suspected drug boats heading into the US. A huge escalation in this operation. The Pentagon now deploying an entire aircraft carrier strike group to the waters off Central and South America. The move coming hours after Secretary Pete Hgse posted new video showing the latest strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean. At least six people killed. The boat was off of Venezuela. It’s the third such attack this week, the 10th since the operation began last month. Now, the US military is sending the USS Gerald Ford carrier group to the region. Thousands of US troops on board. ABC’s Martha Ratitz leading us off tonight. Tonight, a US aircraft carrier and multiple warships now steaming towards the Caribbean. A dramatic escalation in what President Trump calls his war on drug cartels. this as a deadly new air strike obliterated a suspected drug boat. Secretary Pete Hegsath posting video of that overnight attack. The boat taking a direct hit, exploding in flames. Hegsathth saying at least six people were killed, claiming without evidence the boat was being operated by Trend de Aragua, a designated terrorist organization. It’s the 10th known military attack on alleged drug boats, including two in the eastern Pacific Ocean of Central America. And tonight, the orders for that new ferocious show of force. The USS Ford carrier strike group heading to the region. That carrier bristling with firepower, including F-18 fighter jets, missile launchers, and attack submarines, adding some 5,000 American forces to the 10,000 already in the region. President Trump, who has said land attacks could be next, pressed if he will seek a declaration of war. I don’t think we’re going to necessarily ask for a declaration of war. I think we’re just going to kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. While the vast majority of Republican lawmakers support the president’s actions against cartels, concern is growing. You can’t randomly just blow up the enemy without identifying them and accusing them of crime unless you’re at war. David, we have seen these air strikes again and again on these boats the administration says are carrying drugs. But President Trump is now threatening land strikes on drug cartels, which those fighter jets on the carrier are fully capable of carrying out. David Martha Ratit leading us off on a Friday night. Martha, thank you. Tonight, day 24 of this government shutdown. Hundreds of thousands of workers now going without their paychecks. And tonight, the new inflation report showing inflation in this country rising at its fastest pace since last January, up 3% last month compared to a year ago. Prices rising, beef prices soaring. Economists say the tariffs are partly to blame. And tonight, President Trump cutting off trade talks with Canada over an ad featuring Ronald Reagan. What he says in the ad. Here’s Elizabeth Schelsey tonight. Thank you. Tonight, President Trump abruptly launching a new trade war with Canada, declaring all trade negotiations with Canada are hereby terminated. The president infuriated by this ad produced by the province of Ontario, which uses the words of former President Ronald Reagan. High tariffs inevitably lead to retaliation by foreign countries and the triggering of fierce trade wars. Trump posting accusing Canada of trying to illegally influence the United States Supreme Court, which is set to hear arguments in two weeks on whether the president’s sweeping tariffs are constitutional. Canada’s prime minister sounding resigned. We can’t control the trade policy of the United States. Trump’s tariffs are now beginning to affect the prices we pay for everything from furniture to clothes to groceries. A new government report shows inflation is picking up, prices increasing 3% from last year. The typical American household is now spending an extra $28 per month. Trina Duda, a mother of a second grader, says she’s feeling it. This gallon of milk is $2 more than it was than it was like a month ago. Yeah. At the grocery store, tariffs are hitting imported foods. Coffee prices surging 41% in the past year. Lettuce up 21%. Sirloin steak up 20%. How much did you pay for your groceries today? $55. more or less than last month. Maybe five or 10% more. That’s a pretty big difference. Yeah, I’m not happy with it. It comes as the government shutdown drags into day 24 with no end in sight. Today, more than half a million workers miss their first full paycheck. Many of them employees at the Pentagon, HHS, and the VA. Another 700,000 plus people will miss their first full paycheck next week. At this food bank in Alexandria, Virginia, a furled worker at the Department of Defense telling us that she feels like a pawn in the game. This distribution is happening every Friday as long as the government shutdown happens. Furious that lawmakers are getting their paychecks, but she’s not. They need to go without a paycheck. They need to get low on food so they can understand what we’re dealing with. It’s not fair. It’s just not fair. David, again, this is day 24 of the government shutdown, and right now, Republicans and Democrats don’t even seem to be talking to each other. President Trump leaves tonight for a summit in Asia, David. And as you point out, these American workers fully aware Congress is still getting paid. Elizabeth, thank you. Tonight, we’re keeping a close watch on Tropical Storm Melissa, gaining strength in the Atlantic, set to become a hurricane by tomorrow, and a major category 4 hurricane by Sunday night. Jamaica bracing for flooding, mudslides, power outages. The storm already deadly tonight. Heavy rain and flooding in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. And tonight, the new models are in here. The potential path from there. Let’s get right to chief meteorologist Lee Goldberg from WABC with us again tonight. Hi, Lee. David, a sobering update from the hurricane center tonight because the new forecast track is really a worst case scenario for Jamaica. Melissa’s been strengthening today, a 65 mph storm. You can see thunderstorms tightening around the center, a sign of strengthening. But now it’s going to become a hurricane tomorrow. likely rapidly intensify on Sunday in a major hurricane and a track that goes near or right over Jamaica Monday into Tuesday. Devastating impact and then over to Cuba after that. It’s moving so slowly that it’ll dump fire hoses of rain over parts of Hispanol and Jamaica. Catastrophic flooding, landslides, and destructive winds. We could be measuring the rain in feet in parts of Haiti and Jamaica into Wednesday and Thursday of next week. Finally, the storm goes over Cuba, into the Bahamas, and then out in the Atlantic. We’re covering it all weekend long. David, monster of a storm. Lee Goldberg, thank you. Tonight, the alarming scene outside a Coast Guard base. Federal agents opening fire during a protest. A U-Haul truck backing up into the gate in Alama, California. Here’s Ka Whipworth with the pictures tonight. This is the Coast Guard. This is the moment federal agents opened fire on a U-Haul, backing up toward them before speeding away from this Coast Guard base near San Francisco. Is anyone injured? Anybody? The Coast Guard says officers opened fire after the driver ignored verbal commands to stop. That driver wounded according to Homeland Security who says a protester was also struck by a fragment. That shooting coming after a day of clashes. Protesters tried to block border patrol vehicles arriving at the base as agents used flashbangs to disperse the crowd. Back it up right now. DHS says protesters attacked and were given a warning to clear the street but refused to move. A pastor seen here standing with a sign when an agent fires a flashbang from just a few feet away. That minister helped by others at the scene. I obviously was shocked with whatever that border patrol had directly from his face in that case and saying we’re here in peace and he didn’t care. Yesterday, President Trump called off a planned surge of agents to San Francisco at least for now. But this week, clashes escalating in cities like New York and Chicago, where Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino was seen allegedly hurling a tear gas canister. A judge ordering him to appear in court over the use of force. Today, the Department of Homeland Security defending his action, saying the chief had been hit in the head by protesters launching commercial fireworks. And David, while authorities tell us the incident at the California Coast Guard base is isolated, they say it also highlights an increase in claims of vehicle ramming attacks against federal agents. And the suspect in this case has now been released from the hospital and is in custody. David Ka Whitworth with us. Ka, thank you. Tonight, New York Attorney General Leticia James pleading not guilty to federal charges. One of President Trump’s top targets. And tonight, what she’s now saying, accusing the president of using the Justice Department as a tool of revenge. Here’s Pierre Thomas now. Tonight, a defiant New York Attorney General Leticia James pleading not guilty to federal charges after President Trump urged his justice department to go after her. So there’s no fear today. All right. No fear. No fear. No fear. No fear. No fear. No fear. No fear. Because I believe that justice will rain down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream. James had targeted the president ever since she brought a half billion dollar civil fraud case against Trump and his family. Trump publicly urged Attorney General Pam Bondi to prosecute her. Looks to me like she’s very guilty of something, but I really don’t know. The veteran prosecutor investigating James determined there was not enough evidence to bring charges. So Trump forced him out quickly installing his own former personal attorney, Lindseay Halligan, an insurance attorney who has never prosecuted a case. Halagan convinced the grand jury to indict James on two counts related to alleged mortgage fraud. She’s accused of obtaining a favorable mortgage on a house in Virginia by allegedly telling the bank she planned to use it as a secondary residence. Prosecutors claim she actually used it as a rental property. James says his case is about only one thing, retribution. This is about all of us and about a justice system which has been weaponized. A a justice system which has been a to been used as a tool of revenge. James is the third nemesis of Trump to be indicted in less than a month along with former FBI director James Comey and former national security adviser John Bolton. And David, there are more names on that list and more investigations underway. Pierre Thomas with us tonight. Pierre, thank you. This evening, dramatic images of a National Guard plane coming down in Oklahoma City. The pilot and civilian contractor on board were on a training mission. The plane coming down across a highway there in front of those cars crashing into a field. The plane hitting power lines, sparking a brush fire. The two people on board were not hurt. A Delta passenger jet was forced to abort takeoff. It happened at the Minneapolis St. Paul airport. Flames shooting from the right engine. The plane speeding down the runway. Flames coming from under the wing. Emergency crews racing to the aircraft. No one was hurt. And tonight, Alaska Airlines working to get back on schedule now following a systemwide IT outage cancelling more than 400 flights across the US. The sudden ground stop stranding thousands of passengers for hours. The airline says it’s working to get passengers to their destinations as quickly as possible. In New York City tonight, the heated race for mayor turning personal. One day after Andrew Cuomo laughed after a radio host said Zoron Mandani would cheer if there was another 9/11. Tonight, Mani coming before the cameras to respond. His personal and at times emotional message for the voters. Here’s Trevor Alt. Tonight, in an emotional speech, Assemblyman Zoron Mandani, the frontr runner in the race for New York City mayor, declaring that despite recent attacks from his opponents, he will not run from his Muslim faith, pointing out 1 million Muslims live in this city, and they are New Yorkers like everyone else. Will we remain in the shadows or will we together step into the light? Amdani responding to this moment. his rival, former Governor Andrew Cuomo, laughing when a radio host said Manny would likely cheer on another 911 attack. God forbid another 9/11. Can you imagine Mandami in the seat? Yeah, I could. He He’d be cheering. Another problem. Uh, but can you imagine that today? Mom Donnie calling out those comments. Yesterday, Andrew Cuomo laughed and agreed when a radio host said that I would cheer another 9/11, saying New York Muslims had been forced to live in the shadows. The dream of every Muslim is simply be treated the same as any other New Yorker. And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that and to be satisfied with whatever little we receive. No more. Hours later, Cuomo firing back, accusing Mom Donnie of dividing people, calling him an actor and citing his outspoken views on the war between Israel and Hamas. He is not the victim. He is the offender. Mandani insisting he will stay true to himself. There are 12 days remaining until election day. I will be a Muslim man in New York City each of those 12 days and every day that follows after that. I will not change who I am, how I eat, or the faith that I am proud to call my own. And David, after months of waiting today, House Minority Leader Hakee Jeff, who’s from New York, endorsed Zoron Mandani. The elections now less than two weeks away. David, Trevor on the mayoral race. Trevor, thanks. Tonight, amid that new inflation report showing prices rising at the fastest pace since last January. The stock market finishing the week at an all-time high. The Dow gaining 472 points, closing above 47,000 for the first time ever. A new record for the Nasdaq as well, up 263 points, closing at 23,24. The S&P 500 adding 53 points, closing at a record 6791. When we come back on a Friday night, the images coming in. There’s been a deadly crane collapse. The crane coming down near Boston, at least two dead tonight. What we know so far. Also ahead, the extraordinary rescue. a mom who jumped in to get 22 children off a school bus when she saw it was on fire. The bus then engulfed in flames. In a moment here tonight, there’s been a deadly crane collapse outside Boston. The pictures here, the massive crane coming down at a dockyard in Everett this afternoon. Aerial pictures show the crane across the dock there, partially leaning right into the water. Authorities say two workers were killed. There’s no word yet tonight on what caused this collapse. When we come back here, the recall tonight. Some popular wipes being recalled now because of risk of possible infection. And that bus engulfed in flames moments after a mom helped get 22 children off the bus. And you’ll see it in a moment. To the index of other news. Neutrogena tonight recalling makeup remover wipes due to an infection risk. Neutrogena recalling its ultra soft cleansing towelettes in packs of 25 and 50. The FDA tonight saying the wipes may be contaminated with a bacteria that could cause serious infections including sepsis. The recall affects 1300 cases of these wipes shipped to Texas, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. When we come back tonight, the school bus on fire, the mom who jumped in to help get 22 children off. And what happened just moments later. Finally tonight here, we already know moms are brave, but this was quite something. Our person of the week tonight in East Bethl, Minnesota, just outside Minneapolis, an entire community grateful for a mother who saw something was wrong and immediately acted. Mom Carrie Thorp walking out her front door as the school bus was pulling up. Her six-year-old daughter, Oakland, coming home from kindergarten. The bus packed with children, 22 and all. Immediately, that mom notices a fire under the front right tire. the family’s doorbell cam, capturing the entire thing. As her daughter steps off the bus, that mom alerts the bus driver, pointing to the fire. She then runs to the bus door to help get the rest of the children off that bus, telling them all to run up the driveway to her front porch. The children, of course, frightened with their backpacks still on, huddling on the front porch. Smoke now billowing from the front of the bus. The mom and the bus driver then moving them even further away. And then a minute later, the front of the bus engulfed in flames and then an explosion. Firefighters racing to the neighborhood, putting out the flames, melting the bus, the tires, all of the children. Okay. The school, East Bethl Elementary, later gathering the children and thanking that mom and the bus driver. And right here tonight, good evening, David. That brave mother, Carrie Thorp, from her front porch. the mom who saw something and acted. It’s a constant reminder to stay aware of what is happening around you, to always look up, to always have your eyes forward. It is truly about the community we have here that came together to help these children out who were frightened, scared, and we just wanted to keep them safe. And you did. So, we choose that mom, Carrie Thorp. Incredible. I’ll see you Monday. 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 row.

Martha Raddatz reports on the dramatic escalation in what Pres. Trump calls his war on drug cartels after the Pentagon deployed an aircraft carrier strike group to the waters off Central and South America; Kayna Whitworth has the latest on the U-Haul truck that backed up toward the gate of a Coast Guard base near San Francisco, prompting federal agents to open fire injuring suspect and a bystander; David Muir shares the story of the brave mother who jumped into action and helped a bus driver save 22 children from a school bus that caught fire; and more on tonight’s broadcast of World News Tonight with David Muir.

00:00 Intro
02:23 U.S. deploys aircraft carrier strike group in the Caribbean, marking major escalation in Trump’s war on drug cartels
04:46 Trump ends trade talks with Canada over Ontario’s anti-tariff ad featuring clips of Ronald Reagan
07:47 Tropical Storm Melissa in the Caribbean expected to strengthen to a category 4 Hurricane this weekend
08:56 Hail of bullets outside U.S. Coast Guard base U-Haul truck reverses toward gate
10:54 New York AG Letitia James pleads not guilty to mortgage fraud charges
12:57 National Guard plane crashes in Oklahoma City after hitting power lines
13:13 Delta flight aborts takeoff after flames seen shooting out of right engine
13:26 Alaska Airlines IT outage forces cancellation of hundreds of flights
13:42 NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani defends Muslim faith in emotional speech
16:22 Stock market finishes week at all-time high after inflation report
16:53 Deadly crane collapse outside Boston under investigation
17:23 Neutrogena recalls Ultra-Soft Cleansing Towelettes over potential bacteria contamination
17:56 Person of the Week: Mom saves 22 children from bus engulfed in flames

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42 comments

  2. They are murdering fishermen while destroying any evidence. We are vulnerable to attack while the twits play games with our Navy.

  3. Where is the order? Where is the the gavel? Is there no boundaries is there? No gravel is there no judicial system is there no legislative or a truly a legitimate executive order ! History will show your colors, Mr. Trump

  4. History will show you what you really are 100 years from now 1000 years from now 1 million years from now the world will still be going on it's science

  5. What kind of evidence was retrieved from this
    “ drug boat” …….Trump is not only acting out of reckless disregard but appears to want to provoke a war…..the international waters have become a crime scene 🎬

  6. This is a shame just pitiful Trump should have never been voted in not ever the chaos will never stop it's going to get worse smdh just pathetic 😢🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

  7. Amen 🙏🏾 and Amen 🙏🏾 Save The Babies Bless The LORD JESUS Thank You 🙏🏾 Mom And Bus Driver

  8. Crazy that the uneducated, rascist, maybe poor, maga cult outnumbered the humane, intelligent, kind people of your country, who have a vision, to have put this orange useless & dangerous vessel of skin in power. He is putting the world at risk. Can you put a clip together of everytine tRump said he doesn't need your vote, thinks people are stupid etc w place & date? Time to wake up maga. Sometimes I cry when I see what ICE is doing & worry about everyone's well being. Your executive branch, supreme Court & congress are amoral, spineless cowards. Get them out. Anything is possible 💙 let it be good 💙 Xox hugs 🇨🇦

  9. It's not fair? When has it ever been fair for black people? The white supremacist is evil and he/she can dish it out but they can't take it! They are long overdue for punishment for their evil deeds against people that they consider "inferior" to them. Do they think that God is not watching? Do they think that God is not going to punish them? They have to repent and there is no other way. Don't get mad at me for telling the truth – it is in the Bible and I didn't write the Bible!

  10. What the hell is wrong with you yanks ?…. Your president is sanctioning murder … no matter how you dress 👗 it up … killing people with out trial is MURDER! … it seems to all your allies you are shitting on all of what America great once upon a time… I’m saddened sickened and disgusted that our flag has flown along side the American 🇺🇸…. Do the right and decent deed by cleaning house… Trump has to go NOW!

  11. Well i guess we will have to kill jared micheal filion and not the fake one that indeed we need the one that owned all the news stations and radio stations and Google and broke into a club and was on his own news station and is owner of llbean and owned all departments

  18. All departments for life including president of United States and treasury and c.e.o d.o.d Army FBI talent all libraries aviation registry air traffic patrole stolen and not paid for bugs out

  19. Cmon Trump. Do something! I vote for you. Get off your lazy butt! Get the White House open and use your the apprentice brain!

  20. What's the reason😢 why no show is uploaded on YOUTUBE any given night?
    Where can I find the schedule of the uploading of ABC WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR…..

  23. Thank God He Gave Us President Trump at a Time such as this! May God Bless him and keep him. God bless our troops our Ice Agents and Home land security officers. I believe Mamdomi is a communist and he will destroy New York he will try an turn it into Birmingham or London England safe haven for terrorist mark my words! The next strike will happen on his watch if he is elected

  33. You know I'm 66 I remember the sixties Why aren't their millions and millions of people protesting and demanding Trump to step down . He's going to get us into a hell of war . If it gets bad enough we could get even bogged down in the Jungles of Central America they'll have to bring back the draft . Do we want young men and woman being drafted ? Look at the economy it's a mess . I'm 66 add disabled what's going to happen to me young people have to fight get millions to March on Washington.

  35. Cao, jianjun used the court in China, manipulated the proceeding
    For his own nastiest twisted , psychopathic, animal revenge !
    Put the legal system and people life in hell, suffered for life for many

  38. Leticia James, her BIG MOUTH DRAGGED HER DOWN. NOBODY SHOULD BE HIGHER THAN ANYONE, her slick mortgage fraud and lying, hopefully will be more exposed. What would happen if us, regular Americans would lie/ fraud mortgage application??? Ugh??

  39. Put a frog in a pot of boiling water, and it will jump out. Tepid water and slowly increase the heat, it'll sit till its too late. Keep sitting America.

  41. ABC – a proven dishonest demoncratic propaganda agency, misgendered as a news organization. David Muir is a head misinformation talking head.

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