ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - Jan. 2, 2026

David Mure, ABC's [music]. World News Tonight. America's most. watched newscast. Now streaming [music]. same day with all the breaking news of. the day on Disney Plus. Most watched, [music]. most trusted, now on Disney Plus every. night. >> Tonight, blinding snow, major flooding, and brutal cold as millions head home. from the holidays. The lake effect snow. machine cranking in the Northeast. tonight. Some areas buried under several. feet with more on the way. When to. expect relief from the bone chilling.

cold [music] and the images coming in. from the west, significant flooding with. a parade of storms taking aim. Thousands. of flights delayed. Chilling new video. of that deadly inferno at a ski resort. [music] in the Swiss Alps. The New. Year's celebration turning to horror. At. least [music] 40 people killed. What. investigators now believe may have. ignited the flames. And the agonizing. [music]. wait for families still searching for. loved ones. Also developing, the. potential New Year's Eve terror plot.

[music] thwarted. The FBI saying the. wouldbe attacker planned a mass stabbing. and was inspired by ISIS. What we are. learning about the teenage suspect. [music] The dramatic new video coming. in. Buildings shaking after a powerful. earthquake rocked [music] southern. Mexico, interrupting the first press. briefing of the year for Mexico's. president. Also breaking, word just. coming in of a helicopter crash in. Arizona with several people on board. A. heartstoppping moment caught on camera. A parachutist survives a terrifying fall.

after getting caught in a net at a Texas. bowl game. Thousands of football fans. stunned. Tonight, President Trump's. [music] new warning to Iran as protests. spread and turn deadly. The president. says the US is locked and loaded. And. the viral video circulating online. A. lone [music] protester boldly defying. armed police. New details tonight after. an Ohio dentist and his wife were found. shot [music] to death. The new plea from. police as the victim's family speaks.

out. President Trump defending his. health tonight after a revealing. interview. What [music] we've learned. about a recent medical exam and what he. says about those bruises on his hand. And America strong tonight. Acts of. kindness bringing smiles and joy as we. close out the holidays. From ABC News World Headquarters in New. York, this is World News Tonight [music]. with David Mure. Good evening, I'm Mary Bruce in for.

David. We're following breaking news of. those bone chilling temperatures. blasting the Northeast Corridor. The. bitter cold making it feel like single. digits in some areas in the first. weekend of the new year. Right now, lake. effect snow continues to hammer parts of. western New York. The snow piling up, creating treacherous conditions from. backyards to back roads. In the west, dramatic new images of flooding. inundating the Bay Area. Cars submerged. in murky water. Other areas in. California under threat of heavy rain.

and even mudslides. WABC meteorologist. Britney Bell is monitoring the. conditions tonight. But first, ABC's. Morgan Norwood leads us off from New. York. Tonight, singledigit wind chills fueling. a lake effect snow machine that shows no. signs of letting up. Outside Syracuse, vehicles stranded in an absolute white. out in Fulton, New York. Overnight, towns south of Buffalo. absolutely engulfed. That yard stick. reading 27 in of fresh powder.

Multiple vehicles stranded on Interstate. 196 near Grand Rapids. Others struggling. to stay on the road. In the west, extremely high tides from San Francisco. Bay, inundating neighborhoods north of. the city. [music] This after a month's. worth of rain fell on the first day of. the year in San Diego. In San Bernardino County, first. responders plucking this toddler and. guiding several others to safety from. washed out vehicles. >> Grab it. I can. >> And back on the frigid East Coast.

New body camera video showing officers. on Long Island springing into action to. save a boy who fell through the ice on. Christmas Day, sliding across the ice to. save him. [screaming] 8-year-old Tavon. telling everyone today he learned his. lesson. >> Do not walk on the ice. >> And Mary, even here in New York, you can. see a few flurries falling tonight. But. across the Northeast, temperatures will. feel like the teens in single digits as. we head into the weekend from Philly to.

New York all the way up to Boston. Mary, >> just brutal cold. Morgan, thank you. We're tracking new storm threats and. that bitter cold. So, let's get right. over to meteorologist Britney Bell from. our New York station. Britney, >> Mary, this stubborn cold is not going. anywhere this weekend. And just to put. things in perspective, these. temperatures across the Northeast are. running well below normal for this time. of the year. Check out these wake up. wind chills on Saturday. It could feel. like 6° in Boston and portions of Maine, 10 to 20° below zero. And that lake. effect snow machine continues heading.

into Saturday. But there is some relief. right around the corner. We just have to. wait until later next week. The outlook. showing that spots east of the Rockies. will likely have warmer than normal. temperatures. Even New York, we could. get close to 50°. Across the West, looking at cooler than normal. temperatures. Speaking of west, they're. getting more rain on already saturated. ground. That storm ramping up. There is. many alerts, including a wind alert, also a wintertorm warning for one to two. inches of rain and up to one to two feet. of snow in the mountains. Mary, >> the wacky weather continues. Britney, thank you. Tonight, officials now.

believe sparklers likely touched off. that deadly fire that killed dozens of. people at a bar in Switzerland. Investigators looking at video of the. New Year's tragedy that shows the. alarming moments as the flames quickly. spread and a party took a terrifying. turn. Here's ABC's foreign correspondent. Tom Sufi Buridge. >> Tonight, new video capturing the. harrowing moment. Flames start engulfing. the ceiling inside a bar in the Swiss. Alps early New Year's morning. The video. shot by a boy who was severely injured. in the fire shows a celebration quickly.

turning into horror. Look closely and you can see multiple. celebratory sparklers and the orange. glow above them where part of the. ceiling appears to have just caught on. fire. Swiss officials say they now. believe the deadly inferno that killed. at least 40 people and injured nearly. 120 more was likely caused by those. sparklers. The investigation is ongoing. with authorities pouring over video from. that night. At one point, a man tries to. extinguish the flames with what appears.

to be a piece of clothing. People. desperately racing to get away from the. scene as fire consumes the bar. Leticia's 16-year-old son named Arthur. was at the bar to celebrate the new year. and is now missing. >> "All I want is to find my child," she. says. And Gregory telling us his best. friend, Thailand, is also missing. "Maybe he's dying in the fire. Maybe. he's alive.". >> And there were so many people. >> Victoria, a survivor, telling me in The.

Crush, many people couldn't escape the. underground bar. It. >> was like a horror movie. They people on. fire were breaking windows and falling. out of windows. >> Late today, the owner of the bar telling. Swiss media everything was done. according to the standards. Authorities. are now painstakingly working to. identify the dead and the injured. They. say many of those injured are fighting. for their lives. And tonight, the. memorial growing in this ski resort. town. Mary, the local prosecutor says.

the two owners of the bar have been. cooperating with the investigation which. will now look at the fire safety. conditions at the venue on that fateful. night. Mary. >> Tom Sufi Burge there on the scene. tonight. Tom, thank you. And tonight, the FBI says it foiled a potential. terror plot. Agents reportedly thwarting. an ISIS style attack on New Year's Eve. The FBI saying the suspect, a teenager, they've been keeping tabs on for years. Here's ABC's senior investigative. correspondent Aaron Kurski.

>> The FBI says these are the chilling. handwritten plans of an 18-year-old who. wanted to carry out an ISIS inspired New. Year's Eve attack in Charlotte with a. goal of stabbing 20 to 21 victims. He. was preparing for jihad and innocent. people were going to die and we're very. very fortunate they did not. Federal. prosecutors said the teen Christian. Sturdivan plotted to target a grocery. store or a Burger King with these. hammers and knives that the FBI said. were found Monday under his bed. Investigators said they found this page,

the New Year's attack 2026 in a garbage. can and a second handwritten page. entitled Manifesto of Jihad in the. kitchen trash. This investigation. highlights the very real threat posed by. people who self-radicalize online. Sturdivant has been under investigation. since he was 14 when the FBI said he was. in social media contact with an ISIS. member who directed him to dress all in. black, knock on people's doors, and. attack them with a hammer. Last month, investigators said Sturdivan reached out.

to someone he thought was an Islamic. State operative who's actually an. undercover counterterrorism officer with. the NYPD, showing this image of weapons. and pledging, "I will do jihad soon.". Tonight, Mary, the US Attorney General. says this sting operation saved lives. The teen is being held on a terrorism. charge could put him away for 20 years. Mary, >> a horrifying revelation. Aaron, thank. you. Now, breaking news coming in a. helicopter crash in Arizona. Four people. on board when the private chopper went.

down. Their conditions are not known. This happened in a remote area east of. Phoenix. No word on what led up to the. crash. The FAA and National. Transportation Safety Board are now. investigating. And now to that powerful. earthquake rocking Mexico, jolting. millions, including American tourists. The shaking disrupting the first press. event of the year for Mexico's. president, sending staffers running for. cover. Here's ABC's Trevor Alt. Tonight, dramatic video showing.

buildings swaying after a powerful. earthquake rocked southern Mexico, injuring at least a dozen people. Oh. yeah. >> The 6.5 magnitude quake striking the. state of Guerrero this morning just. north of the popular resort city of. Aapulco. Tourists fleeing to the. streets. Shaking felt nearly 200 m north. in Mexico City. Chunks of debris seen. falling off the side of this building. raining down onto the street below. Joshua Applebee was visiting with his. family from Texas. They all evacuated.

>> We made it out of the building after the. the earthquake. And don't. >> the tremors disrupting President Claudia. Shinebomb's first [music] news. conference of the new year. Authorities. say no deaths or major damage has been. reported. And Mary, now there's the threat of. incoming aftershocks in the coming days. and weeks, and there's already been. several reported across the region. Mary. >> Okay, Trevor. Thank you. Tonight, President Trump issuing a stern new. warning to Iran, saying the US is quote.

locked and loaded, vowing to step in if. Iran kills peaceful protesters. His. remarks coming amid widespread. anti-government demonstrations in. Iranian cities. Here's ABC's Maggie. Roelly. >> Tonight, an ominous warning from. President Trump to Iran, saying the US. is locked and loaded and ready to go if. the Iranian regime uses lethal force. against protesters. Trump posting, "If. Iran violently kills peaceful. protesters, the United States will come.

to their rescue, but providing no. additional details." Trump's message. coming just hours after reports that at. least six people were killed in Iran as. nearly a week of protests sparked by the. economic crisis and currency collapse. escalate. This moving image, one lone. protester sitting before armed security. forces as seen circulating online. Trump. has shown a willingness to confront Iran. directly. The US striking its nuclear. facilities in June. Just days ago, Trump. meeting with Israeli Prime Minister. Benjamin Netanyahu at Mara Lago,

promising the US will back Israeli. strikes on Iran if Tran continues with. its nuclear weapon program. In response. to President Trump's latest threat, Iran's Supreme National Security Council. posted to Xin intervention by the US and. the domestic problem corresponds to. chaos in the entire region and the. destruction of US interests. But Mary, these protests appear to be growing. beyond just the economy with university. students heard shouting death to the. dictator. Mary Maggie Roelly, thank you.

Tonight, President Trump is pushing back. against growing scrutiny over his. health. The president giving a candid. interview to the Wall Street Journal, making new revelations about his recent. medical tests, the visible bruises on. his hand, and defending his overall. health. Here's ABC's senior White House. correspondent Selena Wang. Tonight, President Trump pushing back. against growing scrutiny about his. health, insisting in a post that the. White House doctors have just reported. that I am in perfect health. It comes. after an interview with the Wall Street.

Journal where the president revealed new. details about screening he received. during an October visit to Walter Reed. National Medical Center. For months, the. president said he had gotten an MRI. >> I got an MRI. It was perfect. Now, Trump. and the White House physicians say it. was a CT scan to definitively rule out. any cardiovascular issues and was. perfectly normal. Trump now says he. regrets taking the test because of all. the attention it's received. The. 79year-old president, the oldest man to.

assume the office, has faced increased. scrutiny about his health. Images of. bruising on his hands raising concern. The White House saying it's because of. constant handshaking. But Trump telling. the Wall Street Journal he bruises. easily from taking too much aspirin, ignoring his doctor's recommendation to. take a lower dose. His doctor says Trump. takes 325 milligrams a day, a dose he's. taken for 25 years. I'm a little. superstitious, Trump told the Journal. They say aspirin is good for thinning.

out the blood. I don't want thick blood. pouring through my heart. I want nice. thin blood pouring through my heart. In. July, the president was diagnosed with. chronic venus insufficiency, a common. condition in older adults that often. leads to swelling in the legs. Trump. told the Journal he tried compression. socks, but didn't like them. And Mary, the president is also denying that he's. fallen asleep during White House events, saying the camera simply caught him. blinking or resting his eyes. Mary,

>> thanks, Selena. A family tonight. speaking out and demanding justice after. a dentist and his wife were gunned down. in their home in Ohio. Their two. children found alive and uninjured. Tonight, we're hearing the desperate. calls to 911 that led police to make the. grizzly discovery. Here's ABC's Iikachi. >> Tonight, police in Columbus, Ohio are. asking the community for any camera. footage that might have captured the. gunman who killed a popular dentist and. his wife inside their home. >> We cannot get a hold of him or his.

family. We're now hearing more of the. desperate 911 call from worried friends. who went to check on Dr. Spencer Tepe. when he didn't show up for work. >> I can hear kids inside and I swear I. think I heard one yell, but we can't get. in. >> Their two young children could be heard. crying inside. Later, that friend was. able to see Spencer's body. >> Uh, there's a body. There's a body. >> She's laying next to his bed, off of his. bed in there. Once on scene, police say. Spencer had suffered multiple gunshot. wounds and his wife Mo'Nique was shot in.

the chest. The couple were just a month. away from their fifth wedding. anniversary. Their family tonight. saying, "We are heartbroken beyond. words. Our family is committed to seeing. this tragedy fully and fairly brought to. justice and to honoring Spencer and. Mo'Nique by protecting the future of. their children they loved so deeply.". Mary, authorities say there is a police. camera nearby close to their home, but. haven't confirmed whether it caught. images of the killer who pulled the. trigger with two small children just. steps away. Mary,

>> still so many questions. Ike, thank you. And when we come back, the. heartstoppping video. A parachutist. falls at a bowl game. The crowd there. shocked. Plus, a deadly mountain lion. attack. The urgent search for the wild. cat in Colorado after a hiker is killed. Next here tonight, a parachutist falls. in front of an entire crowd at the Armed. Forces Bowl. Take a look at this. hearttoppping video. The parachutist. there coming in for a landing at the. stadium in Fort Worth. Then the. parachute appears to snag, followed by a.

big drop. Fortunately, bowl officials. told our local affiliate that he walked. off on his own power. And when we come. back, the urgent search for a mountain. lion after a hiker is killed and the. critical NFL matchups set for tomorrow. to the index now in the search for a. third lion following a suspected deadly. attack in Colorado. A hiker killed on a. trail on New Year's Day. Authorities. shooting one lion on the scene, then. euthanizing a second one later. It's. unclear whether one or multiple lions.

were involved in the attack. One. resident sharing her trail camera video, saying she's seen an increase in. mountain lion activity over the last few. years. And to football now and the big. finale for the regular season. We will. see some incredible matchups this. weekend. First, the Carolina Panthers. and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers battle for. the NFC South and possibly the final. playoff spot in the conference. And for. the NFC West, it's the Seattle Seahawks. versus San Francisco 49ers for the. Division Championship. Both games. tomorrow on both ESPN and ABC. Coverage.

starts at 4:15 p.m. Eastern. And when we. come back, acts of kindness across. America to start the year. And finally tonight, America strong. What better way to head into this final. holiday weekend than with acts of. kindness across the country. In Newark, New Jersey, just days ago, part of the. Associated Humane Society's animal. shelter collapsed after a snowstorm. Dozens of dogs needed foster homes. And. fast, the community pouncing into.

action, finding all the dogs foster. homes. Tonight, the shelter sending us. this photo of Peanut, happy and safe in. his new home, just in time for the new. year. In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a. sweet start to the year. The Baldwin. Whiteall School District hosting their. annual holiday cookie extravaganza. These high school students baking. thousands of cookies for grandparents. and seniors from across their community. In Santa Barbara, California, a. mysterious [music]. gift. Nearly a decade ago, a Christmas.

blanket was accidentally delivered to. the Santa Barbara District Attorney's. Office. For years, the office would. include it in their [music] office gift. exchange. This year, they finally. tracked down who the blanket belonged. to. It turns out dad Casey Clover has. been struggling all year with a cancer. diagnosis. After [music] making the. discovery, the office workers making a. large donation towards the Clover. family's GoFundMe page [music] and. returning the blanket. The Clovers. overwhelmed sending back a photo of them. all now holding that blanket. And in.

Twin Falls, Idaho and Norwich, New York, their local holiday parades. It's a. tradition they look forward to and rely. on. For years now, in both communities, a local business helping put them on. while donating food. Chabani makes. yogurt in these communities, employing. [music] thousands of workers and. supporting local dairy farmers. This. year alone, Chabbani donating more than. 2.5 million pounds of food [music] to. combat food insecurity in towns across. central New York and Idaho's Magic. Valley.

>> We love the community we live in and we. love to take care of them. So, this is. just one of the small things that we do. for him to show how much we truly show. up for our community. >> A little extra kindness to start the. year. Thank you for watching. I'm Mary. Bruce. 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 [music] a row.