ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - December 2, 2025

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, the nor'easter slamming much of the east at this hour. The image is coming in roads and highways. covered in snow and ice. Harrowing video tonight showing a daring rescue, a truck. driver trapped in his cab, dangling off the. side of this bridge. Another truck losing control, dangerous driving.

along the I-95 corridor. Washington, D.C. to Philadelphia, New York to Boston. Hundreds of accidents tonight from the Midwest. to the Northeast. And behind this brutal, dangerous cold on the way, temperatures below zero. Ginger Z is standing by. Also tonight, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. under intense pressure, and what he's now saying tonight. about that second deadly military strike on a suspected. drug boat killing survivors. Hegseth now saying he only saw the first strike.

Tonight, the war in Ukraine, the high stakes meeting a. short time ago in Moscow. President Trump's top envoy, Steve Whitkoff, and. son-in-law Jared Kushner in the room with Vladimir Putin. The panel standing by on how this played out. In New York City, CEO murder suspect Luigi Mangione coming. face to face in court with the police officer. who arrested him in Pennsylvania, who Mangione. allegedly claimed he was. Tonight an extraordinary cash gift for millions. of American children. The family behind Dell computers donating more than $6.

billion directly to 25 million children. How this will work. Tonight, the chilling police shoot out a police sergeant. now in critical condition. A mother had called 911. The sergeant shot in the face. Tonight, there's an urgent manhunt underway. to find an escaped prisoner. Police believe he's armed and dangerous. and that he escaped in hospital pants. The new study tonight about a particular vaccine, could it help slow dementia? The Giants kicker everyone's talking about.

in that missed field goal, what he's now saying. tonight about completely missing the ball. And our Made in America Christmas, your ideas pouring in tonight, one very sweet idea. Come along for the taste test. They'll ship it right to your front door. (upbeat music). From ABC News World Headquarters in New York, this is World News Tonight with David Muir. Good evening. We begin tonight here with a Nor'easter. slamming much of the East, hundreds of accidents, snow,

ice and rain from Kentucky right up into New York and. New England. 20 million Americans under winter weather. alerts at this hour, up to a foot of snow in some. areas, the system pushing up the I-95 corridor. right there, Washington D. C. To Philadelphia, New York City to Boston, right up to Maine. Dangerous driving on the highways, harrowing video showing the rescue of this truck. driver trapped in his cab dangling from the side of an. icy bridge. This is U. S. 35 in West Virginia in. West Hartford, Connecticut. Another truck seen losing control. This is on I 84.

The image is coming in hundreds of multi car. pilots and accidents reported from Indiana to the. Northeast. Car struggling on snowy and icy highways. near Scranton, Pennsylvania and right behind this. nor'easter dangerous cold actual temperatures. plunging below zero in multiple states. So Jinger Z is here with the forecast. and Janay Norman leading us off tonight. She's in Pittsburgh tonight. Treacherous driving conditions as a powerful nor'easter dumps. up to a foot of snow in spots and wreaks havoc on the roads.

on Interstate 84 north of Hartford, Connecticut. Watch that blue semi on the right, losing control. as it rounds the curve, jackknifing and flipping. over the guardrail. Here's what it looked like afterward. And on US 35 outside Charleston, West Virginia. The cab of this tractor trailer hanging off an icy bridge. a hundred feet off the ground, rescue crews using ropes.

to extricate the driver and hoist him to safety. the highway shut down. With millions under weather alert, it's both hands on the. wheel from Kentucky to upstate New York. A lot of cars are driving in ditches pretty much. They don't know how to drive. They forget what it's like to drive in the snow. Around Harrisburg, wheels spinning, drivers. struggling and crashing. These planes in Rochester getting de-iced. Thousands of flights delayed due to the conditions.

Closer to the coast, it's all rain but still dangerous. Like this crash on I-95 northeast of Baltimore. That tractor-trailer mangled on the median. And David, behind this snow is an Arctic blast. The coldest air of the season. It'll make roads slick tonight here in Pittsburgh. and could break records by the end of the week, David. Beautiful Pittsburgh skyline right there behind you, Janay. Thank you. Let's get right to chief meteorologist. Ginger Zee back with us tonight. Hi, Ginger. Hi, David.

So the waves have been crashing. here on the Hudson. The winds are kicking as the. storm pulls off into New England. So you look at the radar, you see where. that snow is. The heaviest fell just about an hour. or so southwest of Albany in the Catskill. Mountains. But now it's kind of wrapping up in parts. of western Massachusetts up to down east Maine. And that's where we've got an additional 3 to. 6 inches possible. Most of this is going to happen. when we time it out in the next couple of hours. until about 4 a.m. Then we will get rid of this. system and then we've got to talk about the big lobe. of polar air that really settles in by Thursday.

morning. Look at those numbers are actual air. temperatures 10 below for Des Moines or Sioux Falls. Those are daily records. Chicago to Baltimore. David on friday could break records as well. Ginger will see you first thing. in the morning on G. M. A. Thank you now to defense secretary Pete Hegseth. tonight and what he's now saying about that second deadly. military strike on a suspected drug boat killing survivors. Hegseth now saying he only saw the first strike. Here's Martha Raddatz. Tonight, under mounting pressure, Defense Secretary.

Pete Hegseth insisting the decision to launch a second. strike against a suspected drug boat in September was not. his call but that of the mission's commander. Admiral Mitch Bradley. Sunk the boat and eliminated the threat and he was the. right call we have his back. The Washington Post reports that at the outset of the operation. Hegseth had given orders to kill everyone on. board which is why the Post said Bradley fired a. second missile targeting two survivors clinging to the.

wreckage. International law prohibits killing enemy. combatants who no longer pose a threat. The day after the attack Hegseth said he. had watched in real time. I watched it live. We knew exactly who was in that. boat. We knew exactly what. But today, Hegseth said he left before the second strike. I watched that first strike live. As you can imagine, at the Department of War, we've. got a lot of things to do.

So I didn't stick around for the hour and two hours, whatever, where all the sensitive site exploitation digitally occurs. So I moved on to my next meeting. Hegseth was asked if he saw survivors. I did not personally see survivors, but I stand. because the thing was on fire. It was exploded and fire and smoke. You can't see anything. You got digital. This is called the fog of war. The secretary claims he didn't hear about the second strike. until an hour or so later. Over the weekend, President Trump said he hadn't known.

about the second strike and wouldn't have wanted it. We'll look into it, but no, I wouldn't have wanted that. Not a second strike. The first strike was very lethal. It was fine. And if there were two people around, but Pete. said that didn't happen. And today, sitting next to his secretary, the president. said he was still somewhat in the dark. I still haven't gotten a lot of information. because I rely on Pete. But to me, it was an attack. It wasn't one strike, two strikes, three strikes.

Somebody asked me a question about the second strike. I didn't know about the second strike. I didn't know anything about people. I wasn't involved in it. I knew they took out a vote. -So, tonight, David, Secretary Hegseth is saying. he didn't see the second strike, and the president says he. had not been aware of it. Members of Congress are wondering. who holds final responsibility up the chain of command. This week, they could get some answers with Admiral Bradley. heading to the Hill to meet with lawmakers behind closed doors. David? -Martha Raddatz on this again tonight.

We turn now to a chilling police shootout in. Port St. Lucie, Florida. Officers coming under fire, responding to a call from. a mother about her son. Authorities say one police sergeant was shot in the face. with an assault-style rifle, in critical condition. tonight. Here's Will Reeve. Tonight, new body camera footage capturing the barrage. of gunfire in South Florida, after police say a suspect armed. with an assault rifle opened fire on officers responding to. a 911 call.

Where is he? A shootout erupted almost immediately as officers. arrived to the home Monday evening in Port. St. Lucie. Authorities say the suspect's mother had. called police, claiming he was armed and under the. influence. The suspect allegedly shooting. twice from the garage, then stepping outside. officers trying to take cover behind a patrol car. "PUT THE F***ING GUN DOWN! PUT THE GUN DOWN!". Police say that suspect, 32-year-old Frankie Riccio, is. seen here aiming at officers "Sergeant, are you okay?".

right before he allegedly struck 27-year veteran Sergeant Eric. Lavasseur in the face twice. Tonight, that officer in critical condition. after undergoing surgery. Police say the suspect was shot and killed at the scene. Officers kicking what appears to be an assault rifle away. from the suspect's body. It's the notification that you just dread every day. David, police say six officers responded to. that home, including two officers in training. No one else was injured in the shootout and the shooting.

is under investigation. David. Will Reeve reporting. tonight, Will. Thanks. In New York City, CEO murder suspect Luigi Mangione. face to face in court today with the police officer. who arrested him and who Banjioni allegedly claimed. he was when he was arrested. Here's Aaron Kaczorski. Today, Luigi Mangione coming face to face in the courtroom. with the Pennsylvania police officer who arrested him after. suspecting he was the gunman wanted in New York for the. murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Officer Joseph Detweiler testified that when he responded.

last December to a tip about a male who looks like. the NYC shooter at this Altoona McDonald's, he was so skeptical he didn't even turn on. his police siren. But as soon as the man pulled down his mask, the. officer said, "I knew it was him immediately.". Mangione today tilted his head toward a courtroom. screen, watching body camera footage from. his arrest, as his lawyers fight to get key evidence tossed. out, including the alleged murder weapon, and writings that. said the target is insurance. It checks every box. The officer said Mangione gave him a fake name and ID for.

a Marc Rosario and claimed, "I'm homeless.". But the officer didn't buy it. He's heard telling a supervisor, "I'm 100% sure it's him,". adding, "He's nervous as hell. I saw his fingers shaking.". Just remarkable, David, to see 45 minutes of footage of. Mangione's arrest from nearly one year ago. He's seen finishing his breakfast before he's. handcuffed and searched, all while Christmas. music is heard playing in the background, David. Aaron Katursky again tonight.

Thanks Aaron. This evening the remarkable cash gift for. 25 million American children, the family behind Dell Computers. donating more than $6 billion. So how this will work? Here's Mary Bruce. Let me have a little of that luck rugball. Tonight an extraordinary gift. The family behind Dell Computers donating a massive $6.25. billion directly to 25 million American children. It really gives them a shot at the American dream.

The Dell donation will build on what's being. called Trump accounts, which will give $1,000 in. federal money to every baby born between January 1st, 2025 and the end of 2028. The money will be invested until the child can access. it when they turn 18. The gift from Michael and Susan Dell will expand that. program to cover older children by depositing $250. in individual investment accounts for kids ages 10 and. under who live in areas where the median household income.

is less than $150,000 a year. We all understand the incredible impact that a gift like. this can have on the lives of young Americans. A remarkable gift from the Dell family. Let's bring in Mary Bruce because Mary, I. know there's another breaking headline tonight. from the White House. President Trump lashing out at immigrants from Somalia. saying, "I don't want them in our country.". I wanted to get you to report back on this. Here's what the president said first. We're going to go the wrong way if we keep taking in.

garbage into our country. Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage. These aren't people that work. These aren't people that say, "Let's go. Come on. Let's make this place great.". These are people that do nothing but complain. They complain. And from where they came from, they. got nothing. You know, they came from paradise and. they said this isn't paradise. But when they come from hell and they complain and do.

nothing but bitch, we don't want them in our country. And Mary, you've learned tonight that this comes as. ICE prepares to target Somali immigrants in Minneapolis? Yeah, David, the president is increasingly going. after Somali immigrants. And now sources tell us that ICE is preparing for a surge. operation in Minneapolis, which has a large Somali population. But tonight, the mayor of Minneapolis says President. Trump is wrong and that these immigrants have only greatly. improved their community. David. Mary Bruce, live at the. White House tonight.

Mary, thank you. We turn now to the war in Ukraine, this high stakes. meeting tonight in Moscow. President Trump's top envoy, Steve Whitkoff, and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, in the. room with Vladimir Putin. Let's go live to Ian Pannel in Ukraine tonight. Ian, what do we know so far about this meeting? Yeah, David, remarkable scenes. I think the big question, would the Russians. make any concessions to the U.S.-backed plan? And after nearly five hours of talks, the Kremlin came out. and said, while some American proposals were acceptable, others were criticized. It doesn't appear anything substantial was.

agreed with no compromise plan for Ukraine. And for beleaguered Ukrainians, it means the. war, the suffering goes on. David. Ian Pano live in Ukraine for. us following this meeting. Ian, we appreciate it. When we come back tonight, the. urgent manhunt right now for an escaped inmate, believed to be. armed and dangerous. They say he escaped in hospital pants. where this played out. Also, everyone's talking about. who missed that field goal and what he's now saying. tonight about completely missing the ball. You have to stay tuned for that. And our made in America Christmas is back. We're on the hunt tonight.

Your ideas pouring in. Come with us for one incredible taste. test. They'll ship this right to your front. door in a moment here. Tonight, we're tracking this urgent manhunt for. an escaped inmate believed to be armed and dangerous. in the Atlanta area. Authorities say Timothy Shane escaped from the hospital. while there to be examined. They say he ordered an Uber and then. stole several cars. He was being held on drugs and. weapons charges. When we come back here tonight, the new study, could a particular vaccine actually. help slow dementia? Also, the Giants kicker who.

missed that field goal, what he's saying now, and looking. for a made in America dessert, they'll deliver it. to you for Christmas. To the index, the Giants kicker missing the field. goal, missing the football Giants young way coup. stubbing his toes, missing the ball, telling reporters. later the ball had slipped and was moving the. Giants losing the Patriots 33 15. I guess you gotta come up with something. to say. A study offering some hope in the fight. against dementia. Researchers finding an older version of the shingles. vaccine may slow the progression of dementia, even.

in people who already have it. More study, they say, is needed. When we come back tonight, our Made in America Christmas, tonight come along for one very sweet taste test. They'll deliver to you by Christmas in a moment. Finally tonight here, our Made in America. Christmas, tonight one very sweet idea. So of course we had to go find it. This is a very tough job. Tonight we've been at this so long 14 years and. counting and we still love it on the hunt for our. great made in America Christmas. You're one thing made in America.

You could even help put an American. job under the tree celebrating small businesses. across this country. I asked for your ideas and. they're pouring in tonight. Hey david, hi david. So tonight we go to find one. very sweet idea. Ice cream made in America relying. on farmers from coast to coast in New York City Van. Lewen ice cream and they ship all over the country. Hey guys, the magic behind the ice cream. Welcome. Co-founders Laura O'Neill. and brothers Ben and Pete Van Lewen.

Since 2008 they've been at this and listen. to this. They started by buying an old postal truck. and selling ice cream through the window they made. You literally bought the trucks off of eBay? Yep, we did. 17 years later, they have more than 100 Van Leeuwen ice cream. shops all over this country. New York, LA, Houston, DC, Philly, Nashville, Charlotte. I love it. All over America.

And the ingredients? How important is it those three words, "Made in America"? For us, very important. From all over. For example, our Totem strawberries, they. come from Oregon and I don't know, I've never. tasted a better strawberry than those. Those are the ones we get to use in our strawberry ice cream. Everyone in Totem right now is saying, "Alright, he mentioned Totem.". The flavors, made in America, but they're out of this world. Did you need someone to try that? Absolutely. The mango sticky rice. That's pretty amazing. And then I think what would follow nicely.

is the Earl Grey tea. So rich custard base, cream, eggs cooked with milk, sugar, a little bit of sea salt. You see why I love Made in America? Blended into that Earl Grey tea. That's nice. This is our cookies and cream. Okay. Wow. I've got the mint chip. You get the idea here. The things I do for my job. This is hazelnut right here from Oregon? Yes, from Oregon. Alright. And they were willing. to give me their secret. Their secret's simple. It's used a lot of cream, it's used a lot of eggs, and.

it's fine-grained ingredients. You heard it here. And we noticed something else in their shop. The ice cream scoops. So Ben, you've got the scoop. I've got the Zeril scoop. I mean, you've got a lot of them. Yeah, it's all we use. I mean, this is quintessential Made in America, too. A marvel of industrial design. So we went to find the Zeril ice cream scoop. Made in Avondale, Pennsylvania, outside Philadelphia, founded in 1935, more than 50 workers, Steve. Moore, CEO of the Legacy Companies. Anytime you see it being used at places where you know lots of.

people are enjoying it, you're proud that it's a. quality product. Steve Lasker, VP of Business Operations. Anything that we can make in America is something. we're really proud of. And Terry Hall, senior mechanical engineer, on. the line here for 34 years. You actually fill it with an oil so that when you put. your hand on it, it actually warms down through the scoops. Made in America! [Cheering]. While back in New York City at Van Leeuwen Ice Cream, those Made in America scoops. Sabrina ordering the mango sticky rice.

Look at how beautiful that looks. Scooped by Ben. You don't want to see what it. looks like when I do it. This one is her favorite. It's just hits the spot every time we. wondered what about the rest? You want to try the cookies and cream? Yes, please. We were there for a very long time. This was a thorough taste test from. Van Leeuwen ice cream tonight to Zeril scoops American gifts with. three words in mind. Made in America. It's a very tough job, but somebody's gotta do it.

Will stay at this right through Christmas. I'll see you tomorrow. Good night. David Muir, the most watched newscast in America. And now, EBC's World News Tonight has won the Emmy for. Best Live News Program for the third year in a row. [MUSIC PLAYING].