ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - April 21, 2025

TONIGHT, THE BREAKING NEWS. THE. DEATH OF POPE FRANCIS. AND LATE. TODAY, THE VATICAN NOW RELEASING. THE CAUSE OF DEATH. DYING JUST. HOURS AFTER APPEARING ON THE. BALCONY ON EASTER SUNDAY IN. SAINT PETER'S SQUARE. AND. TONIGHT, THEY HAVE NOW REVEALED. THE POPE'S WILL, HIS FINAL. WISHES. WHAT POPE FRANCIS. WANTED. THIS EVENING, POPE. FRANCIS, HIS HUMILITY, HIS. HUMOR, HIS TOLERANCE. THE LEADER. OF MORE THAN 1.3 BILLION. CATHOLICS AROUND THE GLOBE. TONIGHT, THE VATICAN, NOW. REVEALING HOW HE DIED JUST HOURS. AFTER CELEBRATING EASTER BEFORE. TENS OF THOUSANDS WHO HAD. GATHERED IN SAINT PETER'S. SQUARE. THIS EVENING, WHAT WE.

KNOW ABOUT THE FUNERAL AND ABOUT. THE CONCLAVE THAT COMES. AFTERWARD. HOW THEY WILL CHOOSE. THE NEXT POPE. POPE FRANCIS WAS. AN UNORTHODOX CHOICE. THE FIRST. JESUIT, THE FIRST POPE FROM. LATIN AMERICA. AND TONIGHT, WHAT. WE KNOW ABOUT THE BALANCE OF. CARDINALS, ABOUT THE CONCLAVE. ALREADY. AND POPE FRANCIS WAS. THE FIRST POPE TO EVER AGREE TO. A TOWN HALL WITH AMERICAN. TELEVISION. TONIGHT, THE MOMENT. WE WAITED AT THAT DOOR INSIDE. THE VATICAN WALLS. AND THEN OUR. WALK ACROSS THE COURTYARD, THE. BEHIND THE SCENES MOMENTS FROM. OUR HISTORIC ABC NEWS TOWN HALL. WITH THE POPE. AND TONIGHT YOU.

WILL HEAR FROM THE GIRL WHO THE. POPE ASKED TO SING IN FRONT OF. MILLIONS DURING OUR TOWN HALL. WHAT'S HAPPENED TO HER LIFE. SINCE THE OTHER NEWS THIS MONDAY. NIGHT? THE FLAMES SHOOTING FROM. A DELTA ENGINE, NEARLY 300. PASSENGERS RACING TO GET OFF THE. PLANE ON SLIDES. TONIGHT, THE. DOW LOSING NEARLY 1000 POINTS. AMID PRESIDENT TRUMP'S TARIFFS. THE PRESIDENT NOW TAKING AIM AT. THE FEDERAL RESERVE CHAIRMAN. WHAT THE PRESIDENT IS DEMANDING. NOW. TONIGHT ABC NEWS CONFIRMING. A BRAZEN ROBBERY INVOLVING. HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY. KRISTI NOEM. A MASKED THIEF.

STEALING HER BAG WITH HER. PASSPORT. AND THE DEPARTMENT OF. HOMELAND SECURITY ACCESS CARD. INSIDE. AND AS THE WORLD MOURNS. POPE FRANCIS. SOON ALL EYES WILL. BE ON THE CONCLAVE. AND WHAT WE. KNOW HOW LONG IT COULD TAKE TO. CHOOSE THE NEXT POPE. >> FROM ABC NEWS WORLD. HEADQUARTERS IN NEW YORK. THIS. IS WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID. MUIR. >> GOOD EVENING, AND IT'S GREAT. TO HAVE YOU WITH US HERE ON A. MONDAY NIGHT. AND WE DO BEGIN. TONIGHT WITH THE DEATH OF POPE.

FRANCIS, THE LEADER OF 1.3. BILLION CATHOLICS AROUND THE. WORLD AND A SPIRITUAL FIGURE. WHOSE HUMILITY AND TOLERANCE WAS. FELT WELL BEYOND THE CHURCH. TONIGHT, THE VATICAN REVEALING. THE POPE DIED OF A STROKE AND. HEART FAILURE, SLIPPING INTO A. COMA JUST HOURS AFTER HIS LAST. APPEARANCE FROM THE BALCONY IN. SAINT PETER'S SQUARE TO. CELEBRATE EASTER SUNDAY. DURING. HIS 12 YEARS AS PONTIFF, POPE. FRANCIS PROVED HIMSELF TO BE THE. PEOPLE'S POPE, REACHING OUT TO. THE POOR, THE FORGOTTEN, THE. PEOPLE AT THE MARGINS. FROM THE. MOMENT THE FORMER CARDINAL FROM. ARGENTINA WAS INTRODUCED AS POPE. FRANCIS, HE SET THE CHURCH ON A. NEW COURSE. THE FIRST POPE FROM.

LATIN AMERICA, THE FIRST JESUIT, THE FIRST TO ELEVATE WOMEN TO. POSITIONS OF CHURCH AUTHORITY, THE FIRST TO ALLOW PRIESTS TO. BLESS SAME SEX COUPLES ASKING. EARLY ON AS A POPE, WHO AM I TO. JUDGE? AND ANOTHER FIRST, POPE. FRANCIS, AGREEING TO THE FIRST. EVER TOWN HALL WITH AMERICAN. TELEVISION TONIGHT. THAT MOMENT. WE WAITED AT THE DOOR INSIDE THE. VATICAN WALLS. AND THEN OUR WALK. RIGHT THERE ACROSS THE COURTYARD. WITH POPE FRANCIS. MILLIONS. WOULD WATCH AS THE POPE TOOK. QUESTIONS FROM AMERICANS BACK. HERE IN THE U.S, BUT IT HAS BEEN. A REMARKABLE 24 HOURS. THE POPE, WHO HAD BEEN IN FAILING HEALTH,

HIS BATTLE WITH PNEUMONIA IN THE. HOSPITAL AND THEN OUT AND THEN. APPEARING ON EASTER SUNDAY. THERE WAS SO MUCH HOPE. HE WAS. GETTING BETTER. BUT THEN THE. WORLD LEARNING. HE DIED JUST. HOURS LATER. TONIGHT HERE, THE. POPE'S WILL NOW REVEAL HIS FINAL. WISHES. ABC'S CHIEF. INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT. JAMES LONGMAN AT THE VATICAN. TONIGHT, LEADING US OFF. >> FRANCIS KEPT PEOPLE AT THE. HEART OF HIS PAPACY. AND. TONIGHT, THOUSANDS FLOCKED TO. THE VATICAN TO REMEMBER HIM AND. HIS MESSAGE OF HUMILITY. HIS. SUDDEN DEATH A SHOCK. JUST HOURS.

AFTER GREETING THE FAITHFUL FOR. EASTER. TONIGHT, THE VATICAN. SAYS THE 88 YEAR OLD SUFFERED A. CEREBRAL STROKE, FELL INTO A. COMA AND HAD IRREVERSIBLE HEART. FAILURE. HE DIED AT 735 THIS. MORNING, LOCAL TIME. >> COME TO. >> THE VATICAN WITH THIS. ANNOUNCEMENT SAYING FRANCIS. DEDICATED HIS ENTIRE LIFE TO HIS. CHURCH, TEACHING UNIVERSAL LOVE, ESPECIALLY TOWARD THE POOREST. AND MOST MARGINALIZED. THE FIRST. LATIN AMERICAN POPE DYING AT THE. HOLIEST TIME OF THE YEAR FOR. CATHOLICS. FAIRLY SUBDUED.

ATMOSPHERE HERE ON THE SQUARE. I. MEAN, YESTERDAY THERE WERE. THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE HERE ALL. CHEERING ON POPE FRANCIS. LOOK, PEOPLE KNEW HE WAS SICK, BUT I. THINK THEY HOPED THAT HE WAS. GETTING BETTER. AND NOW HE'S. GONE. I THINK IT'S JUST SHOCK. THIS WAS THE EXTRAORDINARY SCENE. ON EASTER SUNDAY IN SAINT. PETER'S SQUARE. FRANCIS GREETING. THOUSANDS FROM THE POPEMOBILE, APPEARING FRAIL BUT WAVING, BLESSING CHILDREN IN THE CROWD. THAT APPEARANCE CAME SHORTLY. AFTER THE TRADITIONAL EASTER. SUNDAY MASS, WHERE CROWDS HEARD. WHAT WOULD BE THE POPE'S FINAL.

MESSAGE AND RECEIVED HIS LAST. BLESSING. >> AND SERENITY. BUONA PASQUA. >> HIS VOICE JUST A WHISPER, WISHING THE CROWD A HAPPY. EASTER. HIS LAST MESSAGE TO THE. WORLD, THE SAME ONE HE SPENT HIS. LIFE PREACHING. UNITY, SERVICE. AND COMPASSION FOR SOCIETY'S. MOST VULNERABLE. POPE FRANCIS. SPENT WEEKS IN THE HOSPITAL. BATTLING PNEUMONIA IN BOTH. LUNGS, SUFFERING TWO EMERGENCIES. THAT NEARLY KILLED HIM BUT.

SEEMING TO RECOVER. HE EVEN MADE. SOME APPEARANCES. >> HELLO. SO GOOD TO SEE YOU. >> SEEN HERE WITH VICE PRESIDENT. VANCE ON EASTER SUNDAY, ONE OF. HIS LAST MEETINGS WITH THE WORLD. LEADER. >> I KNOW YOU'VE NOT BEEN. FEELING GREAT, BUT IT'S GOOD TO. SEE YOU IN BETTER HEALTH. >> TODAY, THE VICE PRESIDENT. REFLECTED ON THAT MEETING, WRITING, I WAS HAPPY TO SEE HIM. YESTERDAY, THOUGH HE WAS. OBVIOUSLY VERY ILL. MAY GOD REST. HIS SOUL. PRESIDENT TRUMP AT THE. WHITE HOUSE TODAY. >> HE'S A VERY GOOD MAN WHO. LOVED, LOVED THE WORLD. AND HE. ESPECIALLY LOVED PEOPLE THAT. WERE HAVING A HARD TIME. AND.

THAT'S GOOD WITH ME. >> FORMER PRESIDENT OBAMA AND. FIRST LADY MICHELLE, WHO MET. WITH THE POPE AT THE WHITE HOUSE. IN 2015, ISSUED A JOINT. STATEMENT SAYING POPE FRANCIS. WAS THE RARE LEADER WHO MADE US. WANT TO BE BETTER PEOPLE. TONIGHT, CARDINALS ARE TRAVELING. TO THE VATICAN FROM AROUND THE. WORLD, SEALING OFF THE OFFICIAL. PAPAL APARTMENT, PART OF A. CENTURIES OLD TRADITION. PREPARING FOR THE POPE'S. FUNERAL. AND TONIGHT, WE'VE. LEARNED POPE FRANCIS FINAL. WISHES. THE VATICAN RELEASING. HIS WILL LATE TODAY, SAYING HE. WANTED TO BE BURIED AT SAINT. MARY MAJOR BASILICA. FRANCIS.

SAYING THE TOMB MUST BE IN THE. EARTH, SIMPLE, WITHOUT. PARTICULAR DECORATION, AND WITH. THE ONLY INSCRIPTION FRANCISCUS. AND IN SAINT PETER'S SQUARE. TODAY WE MET SCOTT AND BETTY. FROM NEBRASKA. >> THERE WAS A LOT OF. ADMIRATION. YEAH, RESPECT. I. THINK IT WAS ONE OF THE MORE. PROGRESSIVE POPES THAT WE'VE HAD. AND OPEN TO EVERYBODY IN NEW. THOUGHTS AND NEW IDEAS, AND NOT. AFRAID TO SPEAK TO POWER. AND SO. VERY. >> POSITIVE INFLUENCE. >> YEAH. AN INFLUENCE FELT WELL. BEYOND THE CHURCH. FRANCIS DIES.

TRULY A GLOBAL SYMBOL OF. HUMILITY AND KINDNESS IN A WORLD. OF DEEP DIVISION. HE ASKED. INSTEAD, WHO AM I TO JUDGE? >> WELL PUT, JAMES. LET'S GET. RIGHT TO JAMES LONGMAN. HE'S. LIVE OUTSIDE THE VATICAN. TONIGHT. AND OF COURSE, JAMES. THE POPE'S DEATH JUST HOURS. AFTER HE APPEARED ON EASTER. SUNDAY THERE IN ROME, AT THE. VATICAN, IN FRONT OF THE WORLD. IT SEEMS THE POPE WAS DETERMINED. REALLY TO BE THE PEOPLE'S POPE. RIGHT UNTIL THE END. DESPITE. GUIDANCE FROM THE DOCTORS. >> YEAH, THAT'S ABSOLUTELY. RIGHT, DAVID. HE REALLY WANTED. TO BE THERE FOR HIS PEOPLE. HE.

SPENT HIS LAST DAY PUTTING THE. FAITHFUL FIRST. AND THAT REALLY. DOES SUM UP POPE FRANCIS'S. PAPACY. OFTEN HE WANTED TO WORK. AGAINST HIS DOCTOR'S ORDERS. NOW, OF COURSE, THE CHURCH IS. BRACING TO SEE WHO COMES NEXT. >> DAVID. JAMES LONGMAN LIVE IN. VATICAN CITY TONIGHT. JAMES, OUR. THANKS TO YOU. AND OF COURSE, WE. WILL NEVER FORGET OUR TIME WITH. THE POPE. THAT HISTORIC ABC NEWS. TOWN HALL WITH POPE FRANCIS, THE. FIRST EVER. HIS HUMILITY, HIS. HUMOR, HIS TOLERANCE. AND THERE. WAS A MOMENT, IF YOU REMEMBER, THAT HE ASKED A SADDENED LITTLE.

GIRL DURING OUR TOWN HALL TO. SING IN FRONT OF MILLIONS. WATCHING. AND WHAT'S HAPPENED TO. HER SINCE? POPE FRANCIS WAS. KNOWN AS THE PEOPLE'S POPE. A. WINDOW INTO HIS HUMILITY, EVIDENT FROM THE MOMENT THE. WORLD MET HIM ON THAT BALCONY. WEARING WHITE A SIMPLE CASSOCK. BY CHOICE. POPE FRANCIS GREETING. THE WORLD WITH A SIMPLE BUENOS. AIRES. >> GOOD EVENING. >> THEN A HUMBLE BOW TO THE. FAITHFUL GATHERED IN SAINT. PETER'S SQUARE. AND WITH A.

LIMOUSINE WAITING, HE INSTEAD. CHOSE TO RIDE IN A VAN WITH SOME. OF THE VERY CARDINALS WHO HAD. JUST NAMED HIM POPE. HE RETURNED. TO THE HOTEL TO PAY THE BILL. HIMSELF. HE WOULD SOMETIMES RIDE. IN A FORD FOCUS, TELLING PRIESTS. AND NUNS TO DRIVE HUMBLE CARS. POPE FRANCIS, IN THAT OPEN AIR. POPEMOBILE, FAMOUSLY ASKING FOR. IT NOT TO BE COVERED, TO BE ABLE. TO REACH OUT TO THE FAITHFUL. HE. WAS THE FIRST JESUIT POPE AND. THE FIRST POPE FROM LATIN. AMERICA. HE WAS BORN JORGE MARIO. BERGOGLIO, THE SON OF ITALIAN.

IMMIGRANTS. HE GREW UP IN BUENOS. AIRES, ARGENTINA. DESPITE THAT. EARLY SETBACK AS A TEENAGER, THE. INFECTION THAT CLAIMED PART OF. HIS LUNG. THIS WAS A YOUNG MAN. FULL OF LIFE AND A PASSION FOR. PHILOSOPHY DANCING. HE WAS A. SOCCER FAN IN ARGENTINA. HE. WOULD STUDY TO BECOME A CHEMIST. BEFORE ANSWERING THE CALL TO. SERVE, BECOMING A PRIEST AT 32. HE WOULD LEAD BY EXAMPLE AS A. CARDINAL. HE SOLD OFF THE CHURCH. MANSION, COOKED HIS OWN MEALS, AND RODE THE SUBWAY WHILE. HELPING THE POOR. SO IT ONLY.

SEEMED FITTING THAT THE NEW POPE. WOULD TAKE HIS NAME FROM SAINT. FRANCIS OF ASSISI, WHO DEDICATED. HIS LIFE TO CARING FOR THE POOR. THE FIRST POPE TO TAKE THAT. NAME, POPE FRANCIS, WOULD TRY TO. MODERNIZE THE CHURCH, FOCUSED ON. PEOPLE ON THE PERIPHERY AND. THROUGH TOLERANCE, HOPING TO. WELCOME MORE INTO THE CATHOLIC. CHURCH. >> AND BEFORE CREATING THE. WORLD. GOD LOVED. >> PORQUE ES AMOR.

>> BECAUSE GOD IS LOVE. >> INSTEAD OF WASHING THE FEET. OF FELLOW PRIESTS ON HOLY. THURSDAY, AN ANCIENT RITUAL. POPE FRANCIS CHOSE PRISONERS, INCLUDING YOUNG PEOPLE, WOMEN. AND MUSLIMS. WHEN CATHOLICS FROM. AROUND THE WORLD WROTE HIM. LETTERS ABOUT THEIR TROUBLES, HE. WAS KNOWN TO CALL SOME OF THEM. ON THE PHONE AND OFFER PRAYER. AND GUIDANCE. HIS DEEP PERSONAL. CONNECTION TO THE FAITHFUL, THE. SICK ON FULL DISPLAY THROUGH THE. YEARS. AND HE WAS ACCESSIBLE, OFTEN WILLING TO STOP FOR A.

SELFIE. HIS REACH WAS. EXTRAORDINARY. TRAVELING TO MORE. THAN 60 COUNTRIES. IN RIO, MILLIONS FLOCKING TO MASS ON. COPACABANA BEACH. 3 MILLION. WORSHIPERS WOULD COME SEE HIM. HE WOULD WORK TOWARD A MORE. INCLUSIVE CHURCH. FRANCIS CALLED. FOR A LARGER ROLE FOR WOMEN WITH. A SERIES OF FIRSTS, GIVING A. WOMAN A VOTE IN THE SENATE OF. BISHOPS, APPOINTING A WOMAN TO. OVERSEE THE VATICAN CITY STATE. HE WOULD ROOT OUT CORRUPTION AT. THE VATICAN BANK. AND HE WOULD. EXPRESS COMPASSION FOR THE LGBTQ.

COMMUNITY. FROM THE VERY. BEGINNING, WHEN ASKED ABOUT GAY. PRIESTS DURING HIS FIRST. IN-FLIGHT PRESS CONFERENCE. HE. ANSWERED, WHO AM I TO JUDGE? AND. HE WOULD PERMIT PRIESTS TO BLESS. SAME SEX COUPLES. A SEISMIC. CHANGE IN VATICAN POLICY. WE ARE. ALL CHILDREN OF GOD, HE SAID. AT. THE VATICAN. HE MET PRIVATELY. WITH VICTIMS OF SEX ABUSE BY THE. CLERGY. AND HE WOULD SPEAK. OPENLY THROUGH THE YEARS ABOUT. CLIMATE CHANGE. IN 2015, HIS.

VISIT TO THE UNITED STATES, THE. FIRST POPE TO ADDRESS A JOINT. MEETING OF CONGRESS. >> I AM MOST GRATEFUL FOR YOUR. INVITATION TO ADDRESS THIS JOINT. SESSION OF CONGRESS IN THE LAND. OF THE FREE AND THE HOME OF THE. BRAVE. >> AND IT WAS ON THE EVE OF THAT. US VISIT. POPE FRANCIS WAS THE. FIRST POPE TO EVER AGREE TO A.

TOWN HALL WITH AMERICAN. TELEVISION. WE WILL NEVER FORGET. QUIETLY WAITING OUTSIDE THIS. DOOR, INSIDE THE CLOSED WALLS OF. THE VATICAN. WE WERE NOT FAR. FROM THE POPE'S RESIDENCE, FAMOUSLY CHOOSING TO FORGO THE. GRAND PAPAL APARTMENT. WE'RE. TOLD IN A MOMENT THE DOORS WOULD. OPEN THAT THE POPE WOULD EMERGE. INSTEAD, THE DOOR OPENED AND. THEY WAVED ME INSIDE. THE POPE. ASKING FOR A MOMENT TO MEET WITH. ME BEFORE THE CAMERAS BEGAN TO. ROLL. AND THEN OUR WALK TO OUR. HISTORIC ABC NEWS TOWN HALL WITH. POPE FRANCIS. I HAD AGREED TO.

CONDUCT THE TOWN HALL IN. SPANISH. AND AS WE HEAD INTO THE. ROOM, A SMILE FROM POPE FRANCIS. HE WAS SURPRISED AT THE SCOPE OF. THE CREW. AND HE KNEW OUR. CAMERAS WERE ALSO IN THREE. CITIES, FROM CHICAGO TO LOS. ANGELES TO MCALLEN, TEXAS. WE. BEGAN THE TOWN HALL. >> UN GRAN ANNUAL. >> FAMILIES AND YOUNG PEOPLE. GATHERED AT LOCATIONS ACROSS THE. COUNTRY. POPE FRANCIS TAKING. THEIR QUESTIONS. AND THEY SHARED. THEIR PAIN, THEIR STRUGGLES. THERE WAS VALERIE HERRERA, 17 AT. THE TIME FROM CHICAGO, WHO.

STRUGGLED WITH A RARE SKIN. DISORDER HER ENTIRE LIFE. SHE. TOLD THE POPE SHE TURNED TO. MUSIC TO SURVIVE THE BULLYING. AND AFTER HER TEARS IN FRONT OF. THE POPE, AN UNEXPECTED REQUEST. FROM POPE FRANCIS. AND HE. DELIVERED HIS REQUEST IN. ENGLISH. >> I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE YOU. SINGING. MAY I ASK OF YOU TO. SING A SONG FOR ME?

>> SURE. >> WHATEVER. >> YOU SAY. I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S. ON. >> GO ON, GO ON. >> OKAY. >> BE COURAGEOUS. >> THIS SONG IS IN SPANISH, SO. I. ME SAYING IS I DECIDE AS. THE.

PASTOR. >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH. IT'S. VERY KIND OF YOU. >> AFTER THAT MOMENT, I TURNED. TO POPE FRANCIS, SAYING A SONG. FOR THE POPE IN FRONT OF THE. WORLD. THAT'S DIFFICULT. AND. TONIGHT, RIGHT HERE, VALERIE, WHO IS NOW 26, AND A NURSE. OUTSIDE CHICAGO, TELLING US WHAT.

THAT MOMENT WITH THE POPE DID. FOR HER. >> WHEN HE ASKED ME TO SING FOR. HIM, HIS VERY WARM AND WELCOMING. SMILE. WHENEVER I THINK ABOUT. POPE FRANCIS, THE FACE THAT I. I. HAVE IN MY FACE, IN MY HEAD, THAT IS THE FACE THAT I WILL. ALWAYS REMEMBER. >> AND I REMEMBER IN THAT FINAL. MOMENT WITH THE POPE ASKING HIM. IF HE HAD A MESSAGE FOR. AMERICANS BACK HOME WATCHING. >> DO YOU HAVE A MESSAGE FOR. AMERICA BEFORE YOUR VISIT? A.

PARTING MESSAGE. >> THE POPE SAYING, I'M PRAYING. FOR ALL OF YOU, THE PEOPLE OF. THE UNITED STATES. AND I ASK YOU. TO PRAY FOR ME. AN EXTRAORDINARY. MOMENT FOR ALL OF US HERE AT ABC. NEWS, TO EXPERIENCE THAT WITH. POPE FRANCIS, AND HOW POWERFUL. TO HEAR FROM VALERIE ALL THESE. YEARS LATER. NOW. TOMORROW NIGHT. IN PRIME TIME. AN ABC NEWS. SPECIAL. FRANCIS, THE PEOPLE'S. POPE AT 10 P.M. EASTERN TOMORROW. NIGHT AND THEN STREAMING ON HULU. AND DISNEY PLUS. AND LATER THIS. WEEK, I'LL BE TRAVELING TO ROME. FOR THE FUNERAL. ONCE WE KNOW. WHEN THE FUNERAL WILL BE HELD.

AND THEN WILL BE THERE, OF. COURSE, FOR THE CONCLAVE AS. WELL. SO WE HOPE YOU'LL STAY. WITH ABC NEWS. IN THE MEANTIME, WE ARE GOING TO TURN TO THE. OTHER NEWS THIS MONDAY NIGHT, FRIGHTENING IMAGES ON BOARD A. DELTA FLIGHT JUST BEFORE TAKEOFF. FROM THE ORLANDO AIRPORT. FLAMES. SEEN SHOOTING FROM THE ENGINE. PASSENGERS RACING TO GET OUT ON. SLIDES. HERE'S GIO BENITEZ. >> TONIGHT. TERRIFYING MOMENTS. ON BOARD THIS DELTA FLIGHT. >> PLEASE SIT DOWN. STAY SEATED. STAY CALM. >> YOU CAN HEAR THE PANIC AMONG. THE NEARLY 300 PASSENGERS. FLAMES VISIBLE OUTSIDE THE. WINDOWS SHOOTING FROM AN ENGINE.

TAILPIPE AT ORLANDO. INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. JUST. AFTER THE ATLANTA BOUND PLANE. PUSHED BACK FROM THE GATE. PASSENGER YOGENDRA SAID PEOPLE. WERE YELLING FIRE! >> KIDS ARE HAVING PANIC. ATTACKS. YOU KNOW, MOMS AND DADS. ARE WORRIED ABOUT THE KIDS. GRABBING ON TO THE KIDS. >> COME THIS WAY. >> AS FIREFIGHTERS HOSED DOWN. THE WING, PASSENGERS WERE. EVACUATED DOWN SLIDES AND. STAIRS. >> COMING OUT, THEY'RE SLIDING. DOWN. >> INSIDE THE TERMINAL. A CROWD. WATCHING IT ALL. AND, DAVID, TONIGHT, INVESTIGATORS ARE STILL. TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW THAT.

FIRE STARTED. THE GOOD NEWS, THOUGH, NOBODY WAS INJURED. DAVID. >> GIO BENITEZ WITH US TONIGHT. GIO THANK YOU. WE TURN NOW TO. THE ECONOMY. THE DOW DROPPING. NEARLY 1000 POINTS TODAY AMID. PRESIDENT TRUMP'S TARIFFS. AND. NOW THE PRESIDENT IS TAKING AIM. TONIGHT AT FED CHAIRMAN JEROME. POWELL PLACING BLAME ON HIM. HERE'S MARY BRUCE. >> TONIGHT THE DOW PLUNGING. NEARLY 1000 POINTS AS PRESIDENT. TRUMP RAMPS UP HIS PRESSURE. CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE CHAIRMAN OF. THE FEDERAL RESERVE, ATTACKING. JEROME POWELL AS A MAJOR LOSER, SAYING THE ECONOMY WILL SLOW. DOWN UNLESS POWELL LOWERS.

INTEREST RATES. NOW INVESTORS. WORRY TRUMP WILL TRY TO FORCE. OUT THE FED CHIEF HE APPOINTED. HIMSELF. BUT WHO IS SUPPOSED TO. BE INDEPENDENT? THEY'RE ALREADY. REELING FROM THE UNCERTAINTY. CAUSED BY TRUMP'S TRADE WARS. >> THERE'S A LITTLE TRANSITION. AND THAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN. BUT. ULTIMATELY, WE'RE GOING TO BE. THE STRONGEST THAT WE'VE EVER. BEEN AS A NATION. >> THE PRESIDENT INSISTS HIS. TARIFFS WILL FORCE COUNTRIES TO. NEGOTIATE BETTER TRADE DEALS, BUT NOTHING YET. AND MANY. ECONOMISTS FEEL THE REASON THE.

FED CHAIR IS HESITANT TO LOWER. RATES IS BECAUSE TARIFFS ARE. ALREADY CAUSING PRICES TO RISE, AND LOWERING INTEREST RATES. COULD SEND INFLATION HIGHER. DAVID. >> MARY BRUCE, LIVE AT THE WHITE. HOUSE. MARY. THANK YOU. THE. OTHER MAJOR HEADLINE TONIGHT. DEFENSE SECRETARY PETE HEGSETH. IS DISMISSING NEW REPORTS THAT. HE SHARED HIGHLY SENSITIVE U.S. MILITARY ATTACK PLANS WITH HIS. WIFE AND OTHERS IN A SECOND. GROUP CHAT USING THE SIGNAL APP. SOURCES TELLING ABC NEWS THE. INFORMATION HEGSETH SENT TO THE. GROUP IS ESSENTIALLY THE SAME. SENSITIVE MATERIAL, HE SHARED IN. A SEPARATE SIGNAL CHAT WITH TOP. ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS. THAT.

FIRST GROUP CHAT MISTAKENLY. INCLUDED A JOURNALIST FROM THE. ATLANTIC. PRESIDENT TRUMP. TONIGHT IS STANDING BY HEGSETH. WHEN WE COME BACK HERE, THE NEWS. COMING IN. ABC NEWS NOW. CONFIRMING A BRAZEN ROBBERY. INVOLVING HOMELAND SECURITY. SECRETARY KRISTI NOEM, HER. PASSPORT AND HER DEPARTMENT OF. HOMELAND SECURITY ACCESS CARD. STOLEN. AND WHAT WE'VE LEARNED. HERE. AND THE IMAGES TONIGHT, A. MASSIVE TRUCK FIRE CLOSING A. MAJOR INTERSTATE. >>> TONIGHT,ARTS OF INTERSTATE. 65 IN INDIANA REMAIN SHUT DOWN. BY A MASSIVE TRUCK FIRE.

THE SEMITRUCK EXPLODING ON THE. HIGHWAY. POLICE SAY THE TRUCK WAS HAULING. FLAMMABLE MATERIAL. THE TRUCK DRIVER WAS NOT HURT. TRAFFIC WAS HALTED FOR A TIME. >>> WHEN WE COME BACK HERE. TONIGHT, ABC NEWS LEARNING A. MASKED THIEF STEALING HOMELAND. SECURITY CHIEF KRISTI NOEM'S BAD. WITH HER PASSPORT AND HER. >>> TONIGHT, THE SECRET SERVICE. IS NOW INV A ROBBERY. INVOLVING HOMELAND SECURITY. SECRETARY KRISTI NOEM. A MASKED MAN STOLE HER BAG FROM. A RESTAURANT IN WASHINGTON, D.C., RUNNING AWAY.

IT HAD $3,000 INSIDE, HER. PASSPORT AND HER HOMELAND. SECURITY ACCESS PASS. >>> WHEN WE COME BACK HERE. TONIGHT, JAMES LONGMAN IS. STANDING BY AT THE VATICAN. THERE ARE ALREADY SO MANY. QUESTIONS, OF COURSE, ABOUT. CHOOSING THE NEXT POPE. SO, WHAT WE KNOW ALREADY ABOUT. >> THE SECRET CONCLAVE, IN. JUST A MOMENT HERE. >> AS THE WORLD REMEMBERS, POPE. FRANCIS ALREADY QUESTIONS ABOUT. WHO THE NEXT POPE COULD BE. LET'S GO BACK TO JAMES LONGMAN. >> DAVID, YOU'RE RIGHT. THERE IS. SADNESS. THERE IS REFLECTION.

BUT THERE'S ALSO A LOT OF. MYSTERY SURROUNDING THESE NEXT. COUPLE OF WEEKS. AT THE VATICAN. TOMORROW, CARDINALS FROM ALL. OVER THE WORLD WILL MEET TO. DECIDE A DATE FOR FRANCIS'S. FUNERAL. AND, OF COURSE, THE ALL. IMPORTANT, SECRETIVE CONCLAVE TO. ELECT A NEW POPE. YOU'LL. REMEMBER IT TOOK FIVE BALLOTS. FOR THE WORLD TO LEARN FRANCIS. HAD BEEN ELECTED. THERE IS A LOT. OF ANTICIPATING WAITING FOR THAT. SIGNAL. THE FAMOUS WHITE SMOKE. AND HE WAS A SURPRISE. THE FIRST. JESUIT, THE FIRST LATIN. AMERICAN. AND FROM THE START, HE. WAS TO BE A POPE FOR THE POOR. AND THOSE ON THE MARGINS. SO WHO. WILL BE THE NEXT POPE? FRANCIS.

APPOINTED SOME 80% OF THE. CARDINALS WHO WILL VOTE THIS. TIME, AND IT WILL BE THE MOST. DIVERSE GROUP ON RECORD. BUT. THAT DOESN'T NECESSARILY MEAN. THE NEXT POPE WILL BE IN. FRANCIS'S IMAGE. REMEMBER, HE. WAS AN UNORTHODOX CHOICE AT THE. TIME. HIS HUMBLE, TOLERANT, MODEST WAY WAS SOMETHING NEW, AND THE CHURCH STILL HAS DEEP. DIVISIONS, WITH THE CONSERVATIVE. WING VERY OUTSPOKEN AGAINST. FRANCIS DURING HIS PAPACY, THEY. WILL STILL HAVE A STRONG VOICE. IN THAT CONCLAVE. IT WILL HAPPEN. IN THE SISTINE CHAPEL, WHERE THE. CARDINALS WILL BE SEQUESTERED. THAT'S NO CONTACT WITH THE. OUTSIDE WORLD. THEY'LL VOTE FOUR.

TIMES A DAY. IF THEY CAN'T GET. TO A TWO THIRDS MAJORITY, YOU'LL. SEE BLACK SMOKE EMERGE FROM THAT. CHIMNEY. THE SMOKE WILL TURN. WHITE ONCE A NEW POPE IS. ELECTED. THE LONGEST IT'S TAKEN. IN MODERN TIMES IS FIVE DAYS. WILL BE HERE. AND I KNOW, DAVID. YOU WILL BE TOO. >> THAT'S FOR SURE. JAMES. LONGMAN, OUR THANKS TO YOU. I'LL. BE JOINING JAMES FROM THE. VATICAN. AND OF COURSE THE. CONCLAVE, AND RIGHT BACK HERE. TOMORROW. GOOD NIGHT.