ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - Jan. 17, 2025

tonight there is breaking news involving. the inauguration for the first time. since Ronald Reagan the brutal cold. temperatures forcing President elect. Trump's inauguration indoors now where. the swearing in will now take place and. how the day will unfold you can watch it. live all day ABC on Monday Rachel Scott. is live on the hill tonight with late. reporting how this will work and what. the president's elect is saying about. this tonight also that dangerous cold. sweeping through not just Washington DC. but much of the country the coldest air. in years for the eastern half of the.

nation what to expect from Minnesota all. the way to New York next week Lee. Goldberg standing by with the forecast. tonight by unanimous decision the. Supreme Court upholding The Tick Tock. ban passed by Republicans and Democrats. in the House and Senate the new law set. to take effect Sunday amid concerns. China could have access to millions of. Americans and their personal information. tonight many American users now turning. to another chinese-owned app is there. anything president-elect Trump can do. what he's signaling this evening tonight.

there is breaking news involving the. midi ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. the Israeli government this final vote. Just moment ago the families of 33. hostages including Americans waiting for. this vote back in the us tonight. firefighters racing to use this window a. break in the winds to contain two major. fires in Southern California with. dangerous Santa Ana winds now in the. forecast tonight thousands returning to. their neighborhoods for the first time. mat Gman showing us what they return two.

the expanse of the fire zone is so large. that it takes 15 minutes to go from one. end to the other by car and the. investigation tonight into the cause of. the fires this is the moment the. explosion of spacex's Starship rocket. not long after its test flight took off. airline pilots in the air at the time. reporting debris streaking across the. sky what we've learned tonight and this. evening here we have a major. announcement just moments away from GMA. to World News Tonight Americans from.

across the country and what you can do. right here at a moment and what's been. done already this is extraordinary So. Cal. strong from ABC News world headquarters. in New York this is World News Tonight. with David M good evening and we begin. tonight here with the breaking news. involving president-elect Trump's. inauguration the carefully orchestrated. plans for the inauguration now shifting. tonight just 3 days before he takes the. oath of office Dangerously cold weather.

forcing the ceremony indoors this is the. first time since Ronald Reagan in 1985. the forecast calling for potentially the. coldest inauguration day in 40 years 23. degrees the windchill making it feel. like 7 degrees for much of the day Flags. seats and the staging area of course had. been already set up for Monday's. ceremony Crews have been working around. the clock on this for months they are. now racing to prepare the capital runda. for what will be a much smaller event. but a warmer one so what does this mean. for the vast majority of ticketed guests.

president-elect Trump saying quote. tonight this will be a very beautiful. experience for all and especially for. the large TV audience of course we'll. carry it all live right here on ABC on. Monday but how will this now work we. begin tonight with ABC's senior. political correspondent Rachel Scott. leading us off tonight citing an Arctic. blast sweeping the country. president-elect Donald Trump announcing. he's moving Monday's inauguration. indoors I don't want to see people hurt. or injured in any way Trump writing on. true social therefore I have ordered the.

inauguration address in addition to. prayers and other speeches to be. delivered in the United States capital. retunda workers now already hard at work. building the new stage the last indoor. inauguration 40 years ago in 1985 so. help me gu congratulations. sir the temperature then just 7° as. Ronald Reagan was sworn into his second. term in the Rotunda congratulations Mr. Pres the coldest inauguration since then.

2009 when Barack Obama sit outside to. take the oath in 28 degree weather. Monday's forecast high for Washington is. 23° tonight a rush to reimagine the. day's festivities while the massive. outdoor platform could seat more than a. thousand the Rotunda will only be able. to hold several hundred guests tonight. The Joint Congressional nogal committee. acknowledging the vast majority of. ticketed guests will not be able to. attend the ceremonies in person person.

among those who will be allowed in. people with tickets for the presidential. platform and members of Congress another. major change there will no longer be an. inaugural parade down Pennsylvania. Avenue instead after it swearing in. Trump will travel to the nearby Capital. 1 Arena to hold a celebration event. there this will be a very beautiful. experience for all promises the. president elect everyone will be safe. everyone will be happy so David a lot of. changes to inauguration day but one. tradition will return president-elect.

Donald Trump plans to meet with. President Biden at the White House for. tea before he's officially sworn into. office the two met just right after the. election just weeks ago in the Oval. Office of course president-elect Donald. Trump did not attend President Biden's. inauguration but Biden does plan to be. there when Donald Trump takes the O. David all right we'll carry it all live. right here on ABC on Monday Rachel. you'll be here for that but before we. let you go tonight we wanted to. congratulate you on your promotion now. ABC's senior political correspondent. reporting on the White House and.

Congress and I have a feeling you're. going to be very busy Rachel thank you. David I'm looking forward to it well. you've never shied from the work and you. are a fantastic reporter and fantastic. person so congratulations couldn't. happen to a better person we're going to. move on to the other news tonight the. brutal cold that Rachel just spoke of in. Washington on Monday it's not just DC. it's sweeping across much of the country. the coldest air in two years for the. eastern half of the country let's get. right to Chief meterologist Lee Goldberg. from our station here in New York WABC. all right Lee take us through. it so sorry to bring the mood down David.

yeah vicious chill far-reaching has some. staying power too it's coming into the. Northern Plains now cold weather alerts. from the Midwest all the way to. Pennsylvania in early next week that. translates to windchills 20 to 40 below. from Minneapolis to Chicago that's frost. bite with exposure of 30 minutes or less. Sub-Zero wind chills all the way into. the Northeast early next week the cold. air in the East is Unleashed by an I95. snowstorm that starts on Sunday morning. and midday from DC to New York late day. in Boston looking at a WID spread 2 to 6.

in of snow locally 8 in it's going. nowhere with all this cold it drives. freezing temperatures all the way down. to the Gulf Coast we can see snow in New. Orleans next week David so brutally cold. temperatures and now a snowstorm right. up the I95 quarter a lot to watch Lee. thank you tonight the Supreme Court. upholding The Tick Tock ban passed by. Republicans and Democrats in the House. and Senate signed by President Biden. amid concerns that China could have. access to millions of Americans and. their personal information this new law. Now set to take effect on Sunday but. president elect Trump is now signaling.

tonight and what if anything can he do. we asked Terry Moran at the Supreme. Court in what could be a final blow to. Tik Tock the Supreme Court unanimously. upheld a law passed by Congress with. bipartisan support that bans the app. starting Sunday night unless it severs. ties with its china-based owner the. ruling devastating to many of the 170. million people Tik Tock says use the app. in the US I think it's kind of crazy. that our government would even jump to. these extremes dreams but the court.

based its ruling on congress's concerns. about China's collection through Tik Tok. of vast amounts of Americans personal. data in an unsigned ruling the justi has. declared that the law forcing a sale of. Tik Tok is constitutional because. Congress based it on well supported. National Security concerns regarding Tik. tok's data collection practices and. relationship with a foreign adversary. millions of American businesses use Tik. Tok Tik Tok is the only platform that. Tru pays creators of all sizes a living.

wage the ban goes into effect on the eve. of Donald Trump's inauguration and Trump. has changed his tune after trying to ban. Tik Tok in his first Administration he. now says he wants to save it because it. helped him win this time you know I have. a warm spot in my heart for Tik Tok. because I won youth by 34 points the. president-elect saying today he. discussed Tik Tok with Chinese president. xiin ping posting my decision on Tik Tok. will be made in the too distant future.

but I must have time to review the. situation stay tuned hello Tik Tok. refugees from the US welcome to redot. some panicked Tik Tok users are now. turning to Alternative Chinese owned. apps like rednote I don't think there's. much you can do to stop this movement. outside of banning every single app. because everybody's on red note it's. unclear what president Trump can do. after he's inaugurated here president. have some leeway on whether or not to. enforce a law but the only sure thing is. if Trump can broker a deal to sell TI TI. talk to a new buyer there are.

negotiations going on but any deal would. have to be approved by China David Terry. Moran live at the court Terry will see. you Monday for the inauguration can't. wait for that and your coverage we'll. see then there is breaking news tonight. the midi ceasefire between Israel and. Hamas the Israel government and the. final vote just moments ago the families. of 33 hostages including Americans have. been waiting for this Ian panwood late. reporting. now tonight a major breakthrough in the. war in Gaza the Israeli government. voting in favor of a temporary peace.

deal part one we'll see a ceasefire the. withdrawal of Israeli troops from. populated areas and the gradual release. of 33 hostages over a 6-e period. including Americans Sagi Deen and Keith. seal in exchange for hundreds of. Palestinian prisoners starting Sunday. but while the talk is of Peace the. bombing and dying in Gaza hasn't. stopped more than 100 people killed. since the ceasefire was first announced. according to the Hamas run Health.

Ministry scenes of desperation and. suffering in Gaza today as people clamor. for a little food while just across the. border trucks loaded with Aid sit idle. waiting for this ceasefire to. begin David finally some good news for. some of the families of the hostages an. end to their long nightmare but in the. words of the brother of one American. hostage until he holds his brothers in. his arms it isn't over David that is. very understandable Ian panel thank you. back here in the US tonight the dramatic.

images the midair explosion of spacex's. massive Starship rocket you'll see it. here tonight and now the investigation. here's Trevor. alt tonight these spectacular images of. debris Ablaze in the sky above the. Caribbean the SpaceX Starship breaking. apart and crashing back down to earth. the FAA now requiring SpaceX launch an. investigation into the mid-flight. failure space vehicle mishap a debris. response area has been activated the. incident forced flight delays and. diversions around Florida some Pilots.

concerned midair he got a major streak. going from at least 60 mil all these. different colors just curious it looked. like it was coming towards us this was. the seventh test launch of the rocket. the reusable booster successfully hauled. in by the so-called Chopsticks of. mechazilla mechazilla has caught the. booster SpaceX lost Communications with. the ship just minutes later wa company. saying they believe a fire caused it to. break apart SpaceX is asking anyone who.

finds debris to report it to them and. the Starship will be grounded until. SpaceX and the FAA completes this. investigation David all right Trevor all. tonight Trevor thank you tonight. firefighters in California are using. this very rare window a break in the. winds to try to contain two major fires. before dangerous winds are set to return. next week and tonight thousands are just. now seeing what's left of their. neighborhoods Matt Gman again. tonight tonight with a brief break from. a series of red flag warnings Southern.

California now shifting Focus to. Restoration and. repopulation streams of utility trucks. and National Guards grid loocking. streets in those fire zones and late. today thousands of families finally. being allowed to see what if anything is. left of their neighborhoods but many now. returning to this painful reality what. you're seeing down there was the home. that belonged to the Bailey family for. three generations and Beyond house after. house block after block was the.

neighborhood that they lost in fact the. expanse of the fire zone is so large. that it takes 15 minutes to go from one. end to the other by car relief. operations reaching critical mass all. three La sports stadiums now running. donation drives in Altadena behind the. free everything sign we met a one-woman. relief operation Marcel manuelos do you. want toilet paper or paper towels or. anything these mounds of clothes are. basically gone by the end of the day.

basically like half are usually gone by. the end of the day she's running this. donation center 14 hours a day partly. because her apartment burned too oh my. God along with the homes of 10 of her. family members and her community that's. why I'm here to keep my mind busy and. not really think about. it and David a short time ago LA's mayor. Karen bass announcing an independent. investigation into the response to these. fires David all right M up and our. thanks to you again t tonight and we. hope you'll stay with us here because in.

just a moment here a major announcement. tonight what viewers at home watching. this evening can do right here this. evening a major reveal on what's being. done we can't wait for that also ahead. here tonight in New York City a bus. dangling from an overpass and there is. news coming in tonight on a legendary. broadcaster in a. moment tonight here the imagees a bus in. New York City hanging off an overpass in. Riverdale the front of the bus going off. the side a union official saying the. driver lost control trying to maneuver. around a parked car no passengers on.

board no one was hurt quite something. when we come back here tonight news. coming in this evening on dick vitel and. we have a major announcement right here. tonight after so much. Devastation to the index legendary. sports caster dick Vel is returning to. work following his battle with cancer. ESPN tonight reporting he will call. January 25th's men's college basketball. game between Duke and Wake Forest back. after nearly two years welcome back dick. byel and when we come back here tonight. a major announcement right here. and what you can.

do finally tonight here America strong. So Cal strong from Good Morning America. to World News Tonight and across our ABC. owned stations KABC included the power. of that QR code right in the corner of. your screen tonight you might want to. capture it with your phone it was just. one week ago that first flight calfire. giving us the first look at the. devastation the Pacific Coast Highway. the homes in Malibu gone you can see it. right over the shoulder here home after.

home just completely gone moments later. we were over Pacific Palisades in ashes. neighborhood after neighborhood erased. by the fire and with a break in the. winds the fight we witnessed from the. air that helicopter just dropped water. from the. air 3 days into this disaster they are. still fighting fires here and they have. a tool now at their disposal which is. water in the air tonight one week later. amid so much loss it's the strength of. the firefighters and of the families.

here that is part of the story too we. won't forget 21-year-old yakob Brown who. we met he then documented his first trip. back hey David I'm sure you saw the. entire town is gone Our lives our homes. our friends everyone has lost everything. I don't understand how you can attempt. to rebuild an entire Community without. schools and Roads and homes it's it's. Devastation beyond the.

rable The Haunting moment ringing the. doorbell of a friend's home it still. rings but behind it there was nothing. hey David this is Galloway Street. tonight he sent us this message The Hope. even amid the devastation paladian are. damn resilient and they're going to come. back better than before we're going to. build back better and the strong as hell. best believe and from Pacific Palisades. to Altadena the strength of the people. here I It restaurant owner Sandra Cordo. part of world Central kitchen's Chef. Corp she's now offering up her kitchen.

to cook for families in need we got in. the restaurant this morning at cooked up. a th000 meals that we're about to hand. out here more than 50 Los Angeles. restaurants are working with world's. Central Kitchen nearly 17,000 meals now. delivered to families and to Crews. helping in these communities Lun it. feels good to be able to nourish people. in these really difficult times and from. across the country tonight from. Waterford Michigan nonprofit disaster.

relief at work sending a truckload. buckets full of supplies for families hi. David executive director Greg Barton one. of the buckets that we sent out to. California was our family bathroom. bucket it's got bathroom supplies for an. entire family of four that's been. displaced we got bath towels we also. have soap and shampoo toothpaste and. toothbrush brush here and deodorant sick. in some baby wipes hopefully this allows. people to get all their stuff at once. rather than having to go get one thing. at a time more than 500 buckets on the. way but I know that millions of.

Americans are ready to walk this walk. with you because there are going to be. better days ahead we're going to get. through this together from Portsmith. Virginia hey David my name is Molly. McDonald with Mercy chefs Mercy chefs. bringing in volunteers from across the. country to La handing out 10,000 meals. and Counting right now our volunteers. they've come from all over they're. putting love into every single one of. these plates going all over the area uh. for victims and First Responders and. this evening to help from so many.

Americans who've been watching here. Ginger Z at the LA Regional Food Bank. distribution center 600,000 lbs of food. packed just today the most they've done. in more than 50 years I'm here at the LA. Regional distribution site for food. banks all over the Los Angeles region. obviously there's going to be so much. more need they have said that as of. today they are needing more than they've. ever needed in their 51y year existence. and tonight there is hope of across. Southern California that Americans from.

all over will be inspired to help in. part because of the firefighters. fighting the fires and in Altadena it's. the firefighters finding the Hope too we. met the mother and wife searching for. her treasured wedding ring and suddenly. it was a firefighter who called out he'd. found something in the ash it was the. wedding ring she was so hoping to find. hi David Victoria Des santis grateful to. that firefighter and great ful to. Everyday Americans tonight who' watched.

and who've helped So Cal strong I know. we're going to rebuild and it's going to. be amazing and I can't wait to have all. my neighbors in our backyard again. toasting to the next. chapter the strength of the people The. Bravery of the firefighters and we want. to reveal that since our special SoCal. strong kicked off on GMA ABC viewers. already raising nearly $7 million you. can go to abcnews.com or simply capture. that QR code right there in the corner.

of your screen to help I'm David mure. thank you good night David M ABC's World. News Tonight the most watched newscast. in America and honored with the Emmy. Award winner for outstanding live news. program.