ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - April 21, 2026

David Muir, 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, there is breaking news right now. involving the US and Iran. Tonight, what's now happened to these talks? Vice President J.D. Vance had been ready to leave Washington today for Pakistan. Tonight, he hasn't left. Iran now refusing to commit. President Trump tonight, after making threats, now saying.

he will extend the ceasefire. It all comes tonight as dramatic new images show U.S. troops boarding a tanker believed. to be linked to Iran. Also tonight, the alarming new images. Tourists running for their lives, including many Americans, when a gunman opens fire, taunting tourists at. that ancient pyramid outside Mexico City. Tonight what we have just learned, what they found on the. gunman, the images involving In Philadelphia tonight, a driver smashing through the front doors.

of police headquarters. Multiple people in the lobby hit. Tonight at JFK Airport, news of yet another alarming close call. Two passenger planes. You will hear air traffic control tonight telling one. plane you're in the flight path of the other. What happens next? Meantime, the dramatic images tonight. The plane coming down, crashing into power lines. Tonight, two heated showdowns unfolding on the Hill. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. grilled about his handling of. the measles outbreak. And President Trump's nominee to be the next Fed chair is asked.

if he promised the president he would cut rates. Just in tonight, FBI Director Kash Patel now. speaking out about that report in The Atlantic. alleging Patel's drinking has led to multiple unexplained. absences and concern across the government, what Patel just. said. The image igniting global outrage at Israeli. soldiers seen destroying a statue of Jesus. And what's now happened tonight. back in the U. S. Tonight, men with assault rifles. surrounding an armored car, how much they got.

away with and the urgent manhunt right now, the. electric wheelchair exploding into flames. tonight here, the Yankees pitcher who says he's. received death threats before playing the Red Sox in. his hometown. And tonight here we remember a key. member of the Osmond and family. From ABC News World Headquarters in New York, this is World. News Tonight with David Muir. Good evening. We begin tonight with the breaking news involving. the U.S.

and Iran and major questions now. about what's happened to this second round of talks. Vice President J.D. Vance had been ready to leave. Washington today for Pakistan. Tonight he hasn't left. Iran refusing to commit. President Trump tonight, after making multiple threats, now says he will extend the ceasefire. All of this comes amid dramatic new images. showing US troops boarding a tanker. believed to be linked to Iran. US helicopters dropping troops onto the deck of the ship. This is the second ship seized by the US Navy. in a matter of days, Iran demanding tonight. that the US lift its blockade of Iranian ports.

And the new poll just in on the war in Iran, Just 26% of Americans say it's been worth the cost. Mary Bruce leading us off. 24 hours after President Trump said it was "highly unlikely". he would extend the ceasefire with Iran, tonight he. is doing just that. Calling the Iranian leadership "seriously fractured," Trump. announcing he will "extend the ceasefire until such time. as their proposal is submitted and discussions are concluded,

One way or the other. The president did not provide. a concrete timeline for how long the new ceasefire. would last. Trump's reversal comes after Iran refused to. resume negotiations until the U.S. ends its blockade of Iranian ports. The U.S. military has turned away 28 ships from Iran and seized an. Iranian cargo ship, opening fire on the vessel, Marines. rappelling down to the deck. Overnight, American troops filing onto helicopters.

and flying out to board an oil tanker. believed to be part of Iran's dark fleet. of illicit shipping vessels. Today, Iran's foreign minister calling the blockade. an act of war and thus a violation of the ceasefire, adding Iran knows how to resist bullying. The White House has been eager to jumpstart negotiations. Vice President J.D. Vance was preparing to fly to Islamabad today. This morning, Trump sounding confident Iran would. send its own negotiators. They'll be sending them. They have no choice but to send them.

Even threatening to resume attacks if there was not real. headway on a deal by the end of tomorrow. Well, I expect to be bombing because I think that's a. better attitude to go in with. But we're ready to go. I mean, the military is raring to go. But Iran refused to budge, insisting Trump lift the naval. blockade, saying only then will the next round of. negotiations be held. Tonight, the president still not ready to do that, saying. he has directed our military to continue the blockade.

and in all other respects remain ready and able. Here at home, the war deeply unpopular. A new Reuters/Ipsos poll shows just 26% of Americans say. U.S. military action in Iran has been worth its costs. And a record 62% disapprove of the job. President Trump is doing. David, Vice President Vance was ready to fly to Islamabad for. negotiations today, but tonight he remains here in Washington. There are no talks on the books. And after threatening for days to resume attacks on Iran,

President Trump has now extended They did the ceasefire. with no end in sight. Mary Bruce on the breaking developments tonight. Mary, thank you. Also developing now, these new and terrifying images coming. in tonight after those tourists came under attack by a gunman. Many running for their lives, including many. Americans when that gunman opened fire, taunting. them at an ancient pyramid outside Mexico City. And tonight, what we have just learned, what authorities now. say they found on the gunman, images involving Columbine. Again tonight, Matt Rivers.

Tonight, harrowing new video of that deadly shooting rampage. at the ancient Teotihuacan pyramids outside Mexico City. Tourists, including children, taking cover, trapped high. up on that pyramid as a lone gunman opened fire. That shooter heard taunting his victims as he shot seven people. The Canadian tourist killed six Americans among. the 13 people injured. Many running for their lives down the stone steps. American Greg Magadini visiting with friends. There was only three real options that anyone could do.

Stairs, jump off the side ledge, or lay down. and see what happens. And tonight, Mexican authorities revealing. the shooter, identified as a 27-year-old Mexican. national, was carrying images and handwritten notes tied to. the Columbine school shooting And there's a man in a black. suit. He's been shot in the shooting as a copycat attack. 27 years to the day of the Columbine massacre. Investigators now looking at this image showing the suspects. revolver, a knife and dozens of rounds of ammunition, saying he.

took his own life. David authorities say the shooter. planned this attack in detail, visiting the pyramids multiple. times before the shooting. David, 27 years after Columbine. Matt Rivers, thank you to Philadelphia tonight. and to the alarming scene of drivers smashing. through police headquarters. Multiple people in the lobby struck. Here's Rhiannon Alley. Tonight video obtained by our Philadelphia station WPVI shows. the moment a driver crashed through the front of. police headquarters.

Police say the driver did it on purpose. Based on what we see, it is clearly an. absolute deliberate act. It happened around 1.40 this afternoon at the. Philadelphia Police 2nd District Headquarters. "There are three more units. I just had a car crash through the front window.". The suspect was known to police, who had responded to a domestic. dispute involving the suspect and his father earlier in the. day, about two hours before they say he slammed his car through. those doors. I don't know what could have caused that other.

than somebody who's in a different state of mind. Five people inside the lobby were hit after the. crash. Witnesses say the driver tried to flee. but was tackled and arrested. We don't know what his intent was but we. saw the actions of what he did. David, the five people who were inside at that time were. all rushed to the hospital but Thankfully, all of them. are expected to be okay. David? Riannon Alley reporting. Thank you. Tonight at JFK Airport, news of yet another alarming close call. Two passenger planes, and you're going to hear air.

traffic control tonight, telling one of those. planes you're in the flight path of the other, and what both pilots suddenly have to do. Gio Benitez covers aviation. Tonight, the FAA is now investigating why a regional. American Airlines passenger jet deviated off course and. directly into the path of a regional Air Canada plane. coming in for landing at New York's JFK Airport. Rick, you're at 44, do you fly through the approach. course or run a 3-1 left? Correct, I'm into the other traffic, I'm in. the vicinity of you, you're at 3 o'clock. high, 2,000 feet. You can hear the anti-collision alarms blaring in the cockpit,

pilots of both planes executing evasive maneuvers. The traffic off your left is overshooting the parallel. You can't tell right? Yeah, that guy overshot the final jet 554. According to officials, the American Airlines crew did not. stay on their correct route. That action, putting them too close to that Air Canada jet, cleared to land on a parallel runway, both jets forced. to abort their landing. The two planes on a collision course, coming just over. half a mile from each other.

There were alarms both in the control tower and in the. aircraft themselves, telling the. The incident in one of the busiest flying corridors. comes less than 48 hours after pilots on two Southwest. planes in Nashville, both packed with passengers, were. also on a direct collision course. The jets narrowly missing each other, separated. by roughly 500 feet, passing right on top of one another.

That will be a key part of this investigation. - Gio Bonet is again tonight, thank you. Next tonight, two heated showdowns unfolding on the Hill. President Trump's nominee to be the next Fed Chair. is asked if he promised the president he would cut rates. And the answer, one senator sarcastically called, "Quite adorable.". And Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. grilled about his handling. of the measles outbreak. Here's Elizabeth Schultz. - Two tense showdowns on Capitol Hill today.

Lawmakers grilling Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Kevin Warsh, President. Trump's nominee to lead the Federal Reserve. Warsh denying he ever promised the president. he would cut interest rates if he's confirmed. The president never once asked me to commit to any particular. interest rate decision, period, and nor would I. ever agree to do so if he had, but he never did. Hours earlier, Trump said he would be disappointed if Warsh. didn't cut rates right away. But Warsh insisted he would not do the president's bidding.

Are you going to be the president's human sock puppet? Senator, absolutely not. Democrats asked Warsh if he disagreed with the. president on anything. Just one little place where you disagree with Donald Trump. Well, I do have a disagreement, actually, Senator, with the president. I think even this morning he said that he thought I. was out of central casting. I think central casting, I'd look older, grayer, maybe show. up here with a cigar of sorts.

Quite adorable. Across the Capitol, Health Secretary Kennedy defended his. handling of the nation's worst measles outbreak in decades. Measles epidemic started in January 2025 before. I came into office. This is not unique to the United States. But measles have soared in the US to 1,700 cases this year. The longtime vaccine skeptic denying he's anti-vax, but lawmakers pushing back. The American people are not dumb. You and I both know what is going on here.

You have absolutely not had a change of heart. This is real life, Mr. Secretary, and you have blood on your hands. But today, Kennedy refused to support. traditional vaccine guidance that the president's. CDC nominee, Dr. Erica Schwartz, appears to. endorse. Mr. Secretary, if Dr. Schwartz. is confirmed, will you commit on the record today to implement. whatever vaccine guidance she issues without interference? I'm not going to make that kind of commitment. David, Kennedy fired the last CDC director after less.

than a month on the job. The CDC has now been without a permanent. director since last summer. David. Elizabeth Schultz, live in Washington. Thank you. Just in tonight, FBI Director Kash Patel now. speaking out about that report in the Atlantic alleging. Patel's drinking has led to multiple absences and to. concern across the government. What Kash Patel just said. And here's Aaron Kaczorski. Tonight, FBI Director Kash Patel in front of the cameras, lashing out at allegations of excessive drinking. and concerns about his job performance.

I've never been intoxicated on the job, and that is why we. filed a $250 million defamation lawsuit and anyone. of you that wants to participate, bring it on. I'll see you in court. Patel is suing The Atlantic for $250 million alleging defamation. after it published a story.

The Atlantic is standing by its story tonight, David, and. calling Cash Patel's death a The US has not yet released a. statement on the investigation. Lawsuit meritless. David. Aaron Kaczorski on this news. conference just moments ago. Thank you. There is news tonight about two US officials killed. in a car crash in Mexico. Sources now telling ABC News the two were working for the CIA. and returning from a counter narcotics operation with Mexican.

authorities. Their deaths are now under investigation tonight. Mexican President Claudia Scheinbaum saying she was not. aware of the operation which was set up by the local government. She said joint operations are not allowed in Mexico. The CIA has not commented tonight. Overseas tonight what's new? What just now happened after that image. igniting global outrage. The Israeli military now says two soldiers have been. sentenced to 30 days in military jail for destroying a statue. of Jesus in southern Lebanon. Both the soldiers seen swinging what appears. to be a sledgehammer and the soldier who took.

the picture have been pulled from combat duty. Six other soldiers who failed to stop them also. face possible punishment. When we come back here tonight, the dramatic video, the plane. plunging from the sky, crashing right there and where this. played out. Also the heist in broad daylight. Two suspects armed with assault. rifles. How much they got away with the Brinks. truck. There's an urgent manhunt right now. The electric wheelchair, the. concerning noises and what the family did. It's a good thing. Look at this exploding into a fireball. in the driveway tonight.

Why millions were moved by. this moment right here. America strong. We've got a lot more news ahead. We'll be right back. tonight. Dramatic video now emerging of a small plane. going down in Pacoima, California. The plane hitting a high voltage. utility pole landing upside down in a store parking. lot. The pilot injured, taken to the hospital in. critical condition. Nearby businesses evacuated. The cause of the crash is. Tonight, here at the brazen theft, 1.8 million stolen from. a Brinks truck in Philadelphia by suspects with assault rifles.

Police say the truck was serving the client in the. city's Tacone neighborhood. An image tonight that's part of the investigation shows. two mass suspects armed with those assault rifles. Police quickly finding the getaway car abandoned. under an I-95 overpass. ongoing tonight. The FBI. Tonight, florida Congress. McCormick resigning from vote to potentially expel. She's accused of stealing. in FEMA and COVID relief the money to finance her.

expenses. She denies any the third member of Congr. week. When we come back h pitcher saying he's recei. before playing the Red Sox at his hometown at Fenway. And tonight here we remember a key member of the Osmond family. In a moment. To the Index of Other News tonight, New York Yankees pitcher Cam Schlittler saying. he and his family have received death threats. ahead of his appearance as starting pitcher. against the Red Sox in Boston on Thursday.

He grew up in Walpole, Massachusetts as a Red Sox fan, and he says he's still excited, though, to be making his debut at Fenway Park as a. member of the Yankees. by a woman in Hollywood, Florida, averting catastrophe. Look at this, she rolled her secondhand electric wheelchair. into her driveway because it was making clicking noises. after she plugged it into recharge. The lithium ion battery pack suddenly exploding, turning into a fireball, her action preventing her. When we come back here tonight, you have to see this. The Boston Marathon runner struggling to finish,

not one, but two runners, all three of them strangers, and what they pulled off together in a moment here. Finally tonight here, I always love covering. the Boston Marathon as a reporter, so much heart. But this year, this moment is really quite something. Tonight, the incredible moment at the Boston Marathon, now seen by millions. Right near the finish line, that's 21-year-old. runner AJ Haradasi, struggling to finish. His first time running the Boston Marathon. He's from Massachusetts, and he's been dreaming of running.

the marathon since he was a boy. AJ crouching down, then standing, taking a step, and. then falling back down, with the crowd encouraging him. Falling four times on his back, when suddenly he sees another. runner coming toward him, reaching out his hand. That runner, Aaron Beggs, helping AJ to his feet. The crowd cheering. And then watch this as AJ starts to fall again. Now another runner comes to help. Robson, Oliveira, both men now holding AJ up.

All three running arm in arm to the finish line. Watch the left side there. All three men, strangers until this moment, crossing the finish line together. Right here tonight. - Hey David. AJ telling us he's doing well. He's grateful for those two men who saw him in need. and helped him across the finish line. - Aaron reached his arms out. Robson supported me on the other side. and two strangers helped me up when they had no. reason to do that.

And I'm just truly grateful for all of it. - And joining us too. - Hi, Devin. - That first runner, Aaron, who stopped to help, celebrating the marathon victory for all three men, Celebrating with his wife Ruth and young son Thomas, who's. holding on to dad's medal. We're all on a journey together. We want to get to the finish line. We support each other. We all need help and it's nice to be nice. You never know when it's going to be yourself. So true. Boston strong, America strong. Three strangers and their bond now for sure. Don't you love the Boston Marathon?

I'll see you tomorrow. Good night. David Muir, the most trusted anchor in America, the most. watched anchor in America. Thank you for making World News Tonight with David Muir, the. number one newscast in America.