ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast – Dec. 16, 2025

ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast – Dec. 16, 2025

David Mure, 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, now on Disney Plus every night. Tonight, breaking news. As we come on the air here late today, the Los Angeles County DA revealing Rob Reiner’s son, Nick Reiner, will be charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the stabbing deaths of his parents, Rob and Michelle Reiner. For the first time here, images showing the moment Nick Reiner is arrested and what we’ve now learned tonight about what played out in the hours before the murders. Also breaking just in tonight, new surveillance of the person of interest, considered armed and dangerous and still on the run tonight after the mass shooting at Brown University. What the FBI wants you to focus on here. Tonight, an MIT professor who taught nuclear science, shot multiple times, found in his Boston area home, dying at the hospital. The search underway right now. Tonight, the explosive interview from inside President Trump’s inner circle. His chief of staff, Susie Wilds, who prefers staying in the background, gives nearly a dozen on thereord interviews to Vanity Fair, revealing she was the child of an alcoholic and saying President Trump has quote an alcoholic’s personality. What she says about Vice President JD Vance, what she says about Jeffrey Epstein and the attorney general’s handling of the case. Tonight, President Trump responding to Susie Wild’s comments about him quote, “Having an alcoholic’s personality.” Dramatic new images tonight emerging of that horrific massacre on the first night of Hanukkah. Dash cam video now showing that heroic couple in their 60s and what they try to do. You’ll see it going after the gunman. Here in the US tonight, the flood emergency now turning deadly. And a major change coming for much of the country. Ginger Z is here. Police chasing a stolen car. for the driver losing control, crashing and the explosion. The disappointing news tonight coming in on the Rolling Stones. We have it and 9 days left until Christmas. Our great Made in America Christmas on the hunt. Opening doors, shaking hands. Tonight, your new ideas. From the chocolates to the secret sauce to the wooden board game, celebrating your favorite team. It’s a home run. >> Made in America. From ABC News World Headquarters in New York, this is World News Tonight with David Mure. >> Good evening. We begin tonight here with the breaking news. Late today, the Los Angeles County District Attorney revealing Rob Reiner’s son, Nick Reiner, will face first-degree murder charges in the deaths of his parents, Rob and Michelle Reiner. And for the first time tonight, we’re now seeing images showing police arresting Nick Reiner near USC hours after the murders were first reported. Nick Reiner accused of fatally stabbing his parents with a knife. He is currently being held without bail. Sources telling ABC News tonight the bodies of Rob and Michelle Reiner were discovered by their daughter in their home in Brentwood. And we’re learning more tonight about the final hours leading up to those horrific murders. Sources say Rob Reiner and his son Nick got into an argument at a holiday party Saturday night where some say Nick Reiner was seen acting strangely. For years, Nick Reiner has spoken openly about his battle with addiction. in one interview saying, quote, “I’m lucky I have parents that care about me.” ABC’s Trevor Al leading us off from Los Angeles tonight. >> Tonight, for the first time, we’re seeing the moment Nick Reiner, the son of Star Director Rob Reiner, was taken into custody late Sunday, handcuffed, surrounded by LAPD and US Marshalss, just hours after his parents were found stabbed to death. Late today, the LA district attorney announcing the charges. Two counts of first-degree murder. Rob Reiner was a brilliant actor and director, an iconic force in our entertainment industry for decades. His wife, Michelle Singer Reiner, was an equally uh iconic photographer and producer. Their their loss is beyond tragic. Uh and we have uh we will commit ourselves to bringing their murderer to justice. The DA says Nick Reiner stabbed his parents to death with a knife. He’s now awaiting medical clearance before his arraignment. The 32-year-old has hired high-profile criminal defense attorney Alan Jackson, who most recently defended Karen Reed as she was acquitted of murder. >> Every single inmate goes through a medical clearance before they can be transported to court. Every one of them. Okay? >> And that’s a process. It’s just a procedural issue and he has not yet been medically cleared. So, we will be here hopefully tomorrow. And we’re learning more details about the hours leading up to those gruesome murders. Sources say Saturday night, Rob Reiner and his son got into an argument at Conan O’Brien’s holiday party and that Nick was seen acting strangely. The next afternoon, sources say Reiner’s daughter found her parents’ bodies inside their Brentwood home. >> This case is heartbreaking and deeply personal, not only for the Riner family and their loved ones, but for our entire city. A former security guard tells ABC Nick Reiner had been staying on the Riner’s property. Nick has been open about struggling with drug addiction since he was a teenager. In a 2018 podcast, he described how he once destroyed his parents’ guest house while high on meth. >> I was up for days on end and uh I started punching out different things in my guest house. I think I started with the TV and then I went over to the lamp and then progressive I just everything in the guest house got wrecked. They told me I had to go. >> A decade before the murders when Nick and his father were promoting their film inspired by Nick’s struggles. He said he was grateful for his parents’ patience. But I think I’m lucky in the sense that I have parents that care about me and because of that when I would go out and do, you know, things like drugs and and stuff like that, I’d feel a tremendous amount of guilt. >> As the son of comedy legend Carl Reiner, Rob Reiner said he understood the pressures his own son faced growing up in a famous family. >> They don’t know what he’s gone through. They don’t know why he’s done what he does. and that, you know, and it’s pretty dumb, pretty ignorant of people to say just because you’re, you know, you’re born and you have money and that that doesn’t mean anything. >> And overnight, former first lady Michelle Obama revealing to Jimmy Kimmel that she and the former president had plans to see the Riners the night they were found dead. >> We’ve known them for many, many years, and we were supposed to be seeing them that night um last night. Um, and we got the news. >> And after President Trump made the jarring claim that Rob Reiner was killed because he was anti-Trump, Michelle Obama passionately defended her friend. >> Unlike some people, uh, Rob and Michelle Reiner are some of the most decent, courageous people you ever want to know. >> And tonight, the Riners are being remembered. Jane Fonda saying, “I saw them night before last looking healthy and happy. I am reeling with grief.” All in the family co-star Sally Strut saying there are no words. This is beyond devastating. And Jamie Lee Curtis saying our only focus in care right now is for their children and immediate families. And David, the DA did not reveal what potential sentence they would wish to pursue. But if convicted of these first-degree murder charges, Nick Reiner could possibly face life in prison without parole or potentially even the death penalty. David, just an awful tragedy. Trevor leading us off again tonight. Trevor, thank you. And tonight, the ABC News special right here. The Rob Reiner story, a Hollywood tragedy. It’s 10 p.m. Eastern on ABC tonight, then streaming on Disney Plus and Hulu. Also just in tonight here, the FBI and Providence police late today releasing new surveillance of the person of interest, considered armed and dangerous, and still on the run tonight after that deadly mass shooting at Brown University. Here’s Whit Johnson with the images tonight. Tonight, authorities releasing a trove of new images in the intense manhunt to locate the shooter who killed two students and injured others at Brown University. And for the first time, police saying a person of interest may have been near the scene at 10:30 that morning. >> We believe that he was actually casing out this area to commit the crime. >> The latest enhanced surveillance video showing that person of interest wearing a mask, dark clothing, and a two-toned coat idling on a street corner. This video capturing him from the front. In some clips, the man has a small bag slung across his chest and others that bag nowhere in sight. You want to focus on the body movements, the way the person move their arms, the body posture, the way they carry the weight. I think those are important movement patterns that may help you identify this individual. >> The FBI describing him as a male, approximately 5’8 with a stocky build. Investigators piecing together a timeline of his movements before and after the shooting. Nearly two hours before the attack, at 2:18 p.m., the man seen walking past this home, then minutes later, running down the street and turning the corner. At 2:53 p.m., the man crossing the street with a distinctive walk. Authorities say the shooting occurred shortly after 400 p.m. Soon after, the man appearing to walk away from the building as a police car pulls up. at 4:06 PM. The man seen not far from the location of the attack. >> And David, police are again asking the public to take a close look at these new surveillance images, hoping someone will recognize this person of interest. And tonight, we’re also learning that seven of the nine students injured remain in the hospital. One is still in critical condition. David >> Whit Johnson with us again tonight with Thank you. We turn now to the explosive interview from inside President Trump’s inner circle. his chief of staff, Susie Wilds, who has preferred to stay in the background, giving nearly a dozen on there interviews to Vanity Fair, revealing she was the child of an alcoholic and saying President Trump has quote an alcoholic’s personality. Tonight, President Trump responding to Susie Wilds comments. As for Wilds, she says the story is a hit piece. Mary Bruce at the White House. >> She is President Trump’s most powerful and trusted aid, more comfortable behind the scenes than in the spotlight. Susie likes to stay sort of in the back. Let me tell you, the ice baby. We call her the ice baby. >> But tonight, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wilds pulling back the curtain in an extraordinary series of interviews with Vanity Fair. Wilds, who says her father was an alcoholic, describes her boss, the president, as having an alcoholic’s personality, noting that Trump, who does not drink, operates with the view that there’s nothing he can’t do. Nothing. Zero. Nothing. Wilds also has choice words for Vice President JD Vance, discussing the push to release the FBI files into sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Wilds says Vance has been a conspiracy theorist for a decade. Vance today responding, >> “Sometimes I am a conspiracy theorist, but I only believe in the conspiracy theories that are true.” Yeah. >> Wilds also points a finger at Attorney General Pam Bondi, saying Bondi completely whiffed her handling of demands to release the files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. >> The DOJ may be releasing the list of Jeffrey Epstein’s clients. Will that really happen? >> It’s sitting on my desk right now to review. >> Wilds telling Vanity Fair there is no client list and it sure as hell wasn’t on Bondie’s desk. She does acknowledge the president himself is in the Epstein files, but not doing anything awful. She says the two men were sort of young single playboys together. Trump has fought efforts to release the Epstein files, instead ordering Bondi to investigate Epstein’s relationship with Democrats like former President Bill Clinton. But Wilds tells Vanity Fair the files include no incriminating evidence about Clinton, saying the president was wrong about that. She also says this claim about Clinton is not true. >> I never went to the island and Bill Clinton went there supposedly uh 28 times. >> Wilds telling Vanity Fair there is no evidence Clinton ever visited Epstein’s private island. The president tonight standing behind Wilds telling the New York Post she’s fantastic. As for his chief of staff’s claim he has an alcoholic’s personality. Trump saying I don’t drink alcohol so everybody knows that. But I’ve often said that if I did, I’d have a very good chance of being an alcoholic. I’ve said that many times about myself. I do. It’s a very possessive personality. And David Wilds also acknowledges that the president has sought retribution against some of his enemies, saying, quote, “When there’s an opportunity, he will go for it.” Tonight, Wilds calls the article a disingenuously framed hit piece. Though she doesn’t deny saying these things, David, >> Mary Bruce live at the White House. Mary, thank you. Overseas tonight, dramatic new images emerging of the horrific massacre on Bondai Beach, Australia. Dash cam video showing a heroic couple in their 60s trying to stop one of the gunmen by grabbing his rifle, hitting him with the weapon. Boris and Sophia German were the first two people killed in the assault. He then opened fire on them. Authorities say the father and son who carried out that terror attack had an ISIS flag on their car and that they visited the southern part of the Philippines just last month where ISIS is very active. Back in the US tonight, the flood emergency has turned deadly now in Washington state. Authorities say the driver of a car on a flooded roadway sinking in about 6 feet of water. That driver did not survive. Multiple levies breaking over the last 24 hours. Hundreds of residents in several communities now forced to evacuate. And for the rest of the country tonight, a major change coming as well. So, let’s get right to chief meteorologist Ginger Z back with us tonight. And Jinger, what is seen unfolding in the Northwest? >> It’s awful, David. And the heaviest rain hasn’t even fallen yet. It will tonight and again on Thursday. You can see right there on all of the alerts. This is also a very windy storm. So you’ve got in the Olympics and in the Cascades blizzard warnings, but those high wind warnings for gusts up to 90 through the northern Rockies like Montana into the plains south of North Dakota, too. Let’s time it out. It’s tonight with the just Eureka all the way up through the Cascades that is just heavy, heavy rain, 2 to four inches widespread. And then you get another surge of it after the break tomorrow. The totals look like that. Four to six inches in total by the end of the week. And real quick, David, I have to note that we are looking much warmer for Christmas week for almost the entire nation. >> Ginger Z back with us tonight. We’ll see you first thing in the morning on GMA. Thank you, Ginger. There was yet another developing story as we’re on the air here. Here’s Melissa Adon. >> David, we have breaking news to report out of the White House. A dramatic escalation of President Trump’s actions towards Venezuela. The president announcing a blockade of all oil tankers going into and out of Venezuela. designating the Maduro regime a foreign terrorist organization. It comes as the administration has launched a barrage of deadly attacks on alleged drug boats from Venezuela. The president has warned of land strikes to come. David >> Melissa, thanks. When we come back tonight, disappointing news coming in on the Rolling Stones, what we’ve learned. Also tonight, an MIT professor who taught nuclear science has been shot multiple times, found in his Boston area home, dying at the hospital. There is a search right now. what we’ve learned. Also, police chasing a stolen car. The driver losing control right here. The crash and the explosion. And later tonight, 9 days left. Our Made in America Christmas on the hunt. Opening doors, shaking all those hands. Small businesses across the country. Tonight, your new ideas. Chocolates. The secret sauce you told us about. And the wooden game board celebrating your favorite team. >> We love those three words. Stay tuned here. Tonight outside Boston, police are investigating the deadly shooting of an MIT professor found in his home in Brooklyn. Authorities say Nuno Lorero, who taught nuclear science, was found shot multiple times at his home. He was rushed to the hospital, dying hours later. No word tonight on a motive or any possible suspects. Tonight, dramatic images here. The suspect of a stolen Ferrari crashing into a utility pole in Miami. A police cruiser trying to stop that Ferrari, then the crash causing explosion, knocking out power in the area. That suspect attempted to flee on foot, now under arrest. When we come back tonight, that news coming in on the Rolling Stones here and our Made in America Christmas, your new ideas tonight. Three really good ones with nine days left. Next of other news tonight, a new addition to the endangered orca population in Washington State’s Puet Sound. A newborn calf about a week old spotted swimming with a group of adult whales. Tonight, researchers cautiously optimistic for the calf in the endangered pod. This is their first calf there in three years. Tonight, the Rolling Stones calling off plans for a 2026 stadium tour of the UK and Europe, according to Variety. Keith Richards, who will be 82 on Thursday, didn’t want to make a four-month commitment, but happy birthday, Keith. When we come back tonight, a little more than a week left until Christmas. Three great ideas you sent our way. Delicious, smart, and the game meant to get you back around the kitchen table in a moment. Finally tonight here, our great Made It America Christmas. Celebrating small businesses across this country, hoping to create some American jobs with what you put under the tree. Tonight, our great Made It America Christmas. Nine days to go. >> Hi, David. >> World News Tonight viewer David Nef from Philadelphia telling us about Ashers Chocolate Company. >> My favorite gift for this holiday season is the Ashers assortment of white and dark chocolate. The snow on the ground outside their shop in Sardin, Pennsylvania, just north of Philly. >> Hello. >> The chocolate inside. >> All right. Thank you much for your help. >> Customers lining up. >> Hi, David. This is the best chocolate in America. >> Behind the counter. >> Hi, David. >> Mel Ruskowski with Ashers for 43 years. >> Please check out some of our chocolates in our candy case. >> Familyowned since 1892. >> Hi, David. Chester Asher is fifth generation, celebrating his family’s sweet history. >> All of our products are made right here in the United States, including our pretzels, which are made right here in Pennsylvania. 150 workers to chocolate factories. From chocolatecovered pretzels, almond bark to dark chocolate caramel marshmallows. The list goes on and on. Wrapping the chocolate, adding their label. In Buoie, Maryland tonight outside Washington DC, the company Capital City and their signature mumbo sauce. >> Hey, David. >> Co-founder and CEO Arsha Jones. >> Welcome to our warehouse. >> Since 2011, their secret sauce, they say, perfect on just about anything. Sweet, tangy, tomatobased, 100,000 bottles a month. They’re hiring. >> For us, made in America isn’t just a label. It means supporting local jobs. Made in America. >> And in St. Louis, Missouri tonight. The family-owned handcrafted wooden games company across the board. >> Hi, David. >> Owner Kim McDaniel. And just listen to who they’re teaming up with. >> We’re honored to be officially licensed by MLB, PGA Tour, NHL, Kentucky Derby, NCAA, just to name a few. >> The Colorado Rockies baseball field, the Houston Astros, the finishing touches on the Atlanta Braves field. Your team is next. 25 workers in all. They’ve now made more than 1 million games. Kim and her late husband Ryan started this with one goal in mind. >> To get families back around the kitchen table and away from their screens. >> We think their idea is a home run in time for Christmas. >> Made in America. >> We love those three words. Made in America. We’ll keep it going. And a reminder, the Rob Briner special tonight, 10 p.m. Eastern, right here on ABC. I’m David Mure. I’ll see you right back here tomorrow night. 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.

Trevor Ault reports on officials announcing Nick Reiner – the son of director Rob Reiner – will be charged with the murders of his parents, who were found stabbed to death; Whit Johnson has the latest on the urgent manhunt underway for the gunman wanted in the mass shooting at Brown University as investigators piece together a timeline of a suspect’s movements before and after the attack; Mary Bruce has details on WH Chief of Staff Susie Wiles telling Vanity Fair that Pres. Trump has “an alcoholic’s personality” and sharing her thoughts on the Epstein files; and more on tonight’s broadcast of World News Tonight with David Muir.

00:00 Intro
02:30 Rob Reiner’s son Nick Reiner will be charged with the murders of his parents
07:43 Urgent manhunt intensifies for gunman in deadly mass shooting at Brown University
09:43 WH Chief of Staff tells Vanity Fair Trump has “an alcoholic’s personality
12:50 Dash camera video shows heroic couple attempting to stop a gunman at Bondi Beach
13:18 Flood emergency in Pacific Northwest turns deadly
14:29 Trump announces complete blockade of sanctioned oil tankers to Venezuela
15:43 Officials: MIT professor fatally shot at home in Boston suburbs
15:54 Video shows moment stolen Ferrari crashes into utility pole in Miami
16:20 Adorable baby orca spotted in Washington State’s Puget Sound
16:36 Report: Rolling Stones cancel 2026 UK and Europe tour
17:00 Made in America: Chocolate, secret sauce, and wood crafted beds and board games

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