ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - Jan. 29, 2025

tonight breaking news the fireworks on. Capitol Hill involving Robert F Kennedy. Jr the tough questions also tonight the. crash of an F-35 fighter jet all of it. on camera Millions on alert right now. for the dangerous winds here in the East. and then the winter storm moving in. right behind it first tonight president. Trump's pick for health secretary RFK Jr. grilled over his comments against. vaccines saying in a podcast that there. is no vaccine that is safe and effective. tonight RFK Jr grilled over that comment. and others Am pro safety Kennedy while.

railing against vaccines for years. acknowledging today his own children are. vaccinated tonight ABC News given access. to an immigration raid that began Just. Before Dawn our Pierre Thomas witnessing. it unfold from Baltimore to Aurora East. of Denver and tonight the breaking. headline president Trump confirming. plans now to send 30,000 undocumented. migrants to Guantanamo Bay the same base. where terrorists are still being held. you remember we took you there on this. broadcast asked where will the migrants.

be held when they arrive tonight less. than 48 hours after the Trump White. House ordered a freeze on spending for. federal aid programs Medicaid portals. suddenly not working for a Time. questions over programs like Head Start. and Meals on Wheels for seniors tonight. the White House with an about face. resending the freeze tonight the. harrowing video showing the crash of an. F-35 fighter jet the plane plunging to. the ground exploding in Flames the pilot. eject in just moments before Martha rits.

and what she's learned the dangerous. winds in the East Millions under alerts. right now and the winter storm right. behind it Washington DC Philadelphia New. York City all included Lee standing by. to time this out after the Eagles win. the celebration turning tragic in. Philadelphia a fan on a light pole. falling to his death the remarkable. moment tonight don't lose me the body. camera video showing the heroes rescuing. a 100-year-old woman in the California.

wildfires you hear her say don't lose me. and more than a billion people around. the world celebrating the Lunar New Year. the images right here in New York City. tonight from ABC News world headquarters. in New York this is World News Tonight. with David mure good evening and we. begin tonight with those fireworks on. Capitol Hill Robert F Kennedy Jr grilled. by Senators during his confirmation. hearing president Trump's picked to be.

the next secretary of Health and Human. Services RFK Jr challenged about his. many comments against vaccines and his. reversal on abortion rights there were. also questions over the programs he. would lead including Medicaid that. provides health insurance to 72 million. adults and children with limited income. some were not convinced with his answer. on that and tonight after repeatedly. casting doubts on vaccines RFK Jr. telling Senators his own children are. vaccinated and what he said about what. he called the chronic disease epidemic. in this country a ABC senior political.

correspondent Rachel scottt leading us. off she's on the hill again tonight. tonight A contentious hearing for one of. President Donald Trump's most. controversial nominees Robert F Kennedy. Jr facing tough questions in his quest. to become Health secretary from the. outset Kennedy who has spread. misinformation about the safety of. vaccines trying to get ahead of the. issue news reports have claimed that I'm. any vaccine or any industry I am neither. I Am pro safety and I believe.

that my that vaccines play a critical. role in healthcare all of my kids are. vaccinated though his own children are. vaccinated Kennedy has long publicly. questioned the safety of vaccines. Democrats citing this 20123 podcast. there's no vaccine that is you know safe. and effective Senator Ron widen. challenging Kennedy Mr Kennedy you have. spent years pushing conflicting stories. about vaccines.

you say one thing and then you say. another Kennedy insisting I support the. measles vaccine I support the polio. vaccine I will do nothing as HHS. secretary that makes it difficult or. discourages people from taking anybody. who believes that ought to look at the. measles book you wrote saying parents. have been misled into believing that. measles is a deadly disease that's not. true Democrats casting Kennedy as a. political shape shifter not just on.

vaccines but on abortion Mr Kennedy in. 2023 you came to New Hampshire and said. quote I'm pro-choice I don't think the. government has any business telling. people what they can or cannot do with. their body so you said that right yes. yep so Mr Kennedy I'm confused you have. clearly stated in the past that bodily. autonomy is one of your core values. Senator I agree with President Trump. that every abortion is a tragedy though. Republicans were largely supportive Bill. Cassidy of Louisiana who is also a.

doctor pressing Kennedy to outline his. ideas for reforming Medicaid the health. insurance program that covers 72 million. lower income Americans Kennedy appearing. stomped I think that there is are many. many options with tele medicine with AI. right now and you know there's a um and. including um direct Primary Care Systems. we're seeing that movement grow across. the country there's a.

one of the largest provid so so knowing. so going back to Medicaid though and. speaking of these specific advances how. would you what reforms are you proposing. uh with these ideas Visa Medicaid well I. don't have a. broad proposal for dismantling the. program I I'm not say of course not. saying that Kennedy insists he's driven. by a singular Mission president Trump. has asked me to end the chronic disease. epidemic and make America healthy again.

if we don't solve that problem Senator. all of the other disputes we have about. who's paying and whether it's insurance. companies whether it's providers whether. it's hmos whether it's patients or. families all of those are moving deck. chairs around on the Titanic our ship is. sinking and Robert F Kennedy Jr is back. for a second day tomorrow also tomorrow. David we will see confirmation hearings. for Tulsi AB she is President Donald.

Trump's pick for Director of National. Intelligence she is expected to face. some tough questions about her travels. to Syria to meet with Bashar al-assad. also tomorrow cash Patel Trump's nominee. for FBI director will come before. Senators 2 he's expected to be pressed. on his promise to go after Trump's. political enemies David Rachel Scott. leading us off on the hill a very busy. week for you and our whole team there. Rachel thank you now to president. Trump's immigration Crackdown in the. breaking news tonight the president is. now planning to send tens of thousands. of undocumented migrants to guantan Bay.

it comes as our Pierre Thomas witnessed. a raid that began Just Before Dawn this. morning in fact raids from Baltimore to. Aurora Colorado tonight and what our. chief justice correspondent Pierre. Thomas has just learned tonight about. where those undocumented migrants will. be held at Guantanamo Bay we took you to. the prison holding terrorists there. right here on this broadcast tonight. there are still terrorists there and now. undocumented migrants soon on the way. here's Pierre tonight ABC News given. access to an immigration raid then we'll. set they will collapse on played out.

just before Dawn near Baltimore we're. running along with a tactical team led. by Ice officers along with ATF and the. DEA they're on a mission within minutes. we're on stake out so we have uh four. targets so far this morning the first. Target is uh convicted of robbery two. hours go by as agents stalk the first. suspect suddenly it's go time.

police surround the suspect who they say. tried to escape we see him sitting on. the curb handcuffed I need to go get my. car I just got poured over 90 minutes. later ice arresting another suspect in. Baltimore they say a convicted drug. dealer who sold fitel and cocaine he's. among the more than 1,000 ice arrests of. undocumented migrants in the last 24. hours the standpoint of ice is simple. if you've been convicted of those kind.

of crimes you're now leaving the country. but ice acknowledges some undocumented. migrants who don't have convictions are. also being arrested yeah so the worst go. first everyone's on the table so if we. go arrest this dude and there's another. another person next to him who's also. here illegally we're going to start. asking questions and you know if that. person if we determine that person's. illegal they're coming with us arrest. taking place across the country in. Colorado today federal agents say they. detained a respected member of a.

notorious Venezuelan gang and tonight. the breaking headline president Trump. directing the Pentagon and DHS to. prepare to hold up to 30,000. undocumented migrants at Guantanamo Bay. before they are eventually deported back. to their home countries the Pentagon. says they will not be held in the. well-known Detention Facility that David. toured in 2016 where some of the 9911. terrorist have been held we can actually. see the detainees they cannot see us. back through this glass and that moment. from on the roof when the prisoners did.

see us ABC News Tonight 15 detainees are. still there the president today also. signing the bipartisan Lake and Riley. act into law requiring the Detention of. undocumented immigrants charged with. crimes but not yet convicted the law. named after the case that made national. headlines lakan Riley a 22-year-old. nursing student murdered by an. undocumented migrant while jogging in. Georgia today Lincoln's mother Allison. emotional there's no amount of change. that will ever bring back our precious.

lakan Our Hope moving forward is that. her life saves. lives David tonight ice officials are. Unapologetic they say there are. thousands of undocumented migrants who. have been arrested and convicted of. serious felonies and violence they say. they're coming for them David and very. moving words from that mother today. Pierre thank you tonight there's also. breaking news involving president. Trump's move to freeze funding for. federal aid programs affecting millions. of Americans after 48 Hours of confusion.

over programs like Head Start and Meals. on Wheels and the Medicaid portal being. shut down for a time tonight an about. face from the White House resending that. funding freeze here's Mary Bruce after. 48 Hours of chaos and concern that. millions of seniors and children would. lose Aid programs they count on tonight. A stunning about face from the Trump. Administration now resending its. sweeping directive to temporarily freeze. trillions of dollars in federal funding. that could have had major impacts we are. merely looking at parts of the big.

bureaucracy where there has been. tremendous waste and Fraud and Abuse but. the president still hasn't specified. what funding exactly he wants to cut the. freeze designed to follow through on his. executive orders to overhaul government. spending but the move immediately. sparking questions the Medicaid portal. going down for a time in the confusion. though the White House now saying it. wasn't even supposed to be affected by. the freeze leaving Americans wondering. what what comes next monor Alfred leino.

from Catholic Charities in New York one. of the organizations that administers. Head Start worried the most immediate. threat would be in our child care. programs Steve Monroe from Virginia one. of the 2.2 million seniors that relies. on Meals on Wheels says he would be. devastated doing something to to stop or. cut the organization off it's going to. hurtt thousands of people still this. morning the White House was adamant the.

American people should not be confused. about this but just hours later in that. two- sentence memo the administration. resending the Freez and funding the. White House still insists the. president's plan to root out spending. that doesn't align with his agenda like. diversity equity and inclusion programs. climate initiatives and foreign aid will. be rigorously implemented but tonight a. federal judge struggling to decipher. what the White House's intention is. vowing to block any kind of funding. freeze going forward this is more than. two million federal employees have been.

given a stark Choice via mass email. resign and be paid until the end of. September or risk losing their jobs. those interested in the buyout told to. respond with the word resign and hit. send Trump Confidant Elon Musk who used. strikingly similar methods to slash. Twitter's Workforce when he took over. the company calling it very generous and. appearing to laugh at the simple. instructions unions representing federal. workers from forest service firefighters. to VA nurses say this isn't a voluntary.

buyout but a purge they're scared. they're scared that they're not going to. have a job they're scared that they're. they're not going to be able to you know. pay the bills take care of their. families and the union is stressing that. this could have wide- ranging impacts on. everyone from doctors who care for. veterans to Firefighters to civilians. who work at the Department of Defense. and the union isn't confident that the. administration will be obligated to pay. these employees through September if. they do resign their message to federal. workers tonight do not resign David our.

chief White House correspondent Mary. Bruce now at the F35 fighter jet. crashing in an Air Force Base in Alaska. during a training exercise the images. all on camera the pilot ejecting just. moments before here's Martha rits. tonight dramatic video circulating. online showing the military's Premier. fighter jet the F-35 plunging to the. ground and bursting into flames the. pilot seen parachuting to safety after. ejecting from the air craft the plane.

was going straight up I knew there was. something wrong it fell like a rock. towards the ground right by the highway. and just blew up the biggest Fireball. I've ever seen the Air Force said the. pilot had reported a malfunction during. a training Mission at Ison Air Force. Base in Alaska yesterday afternoon the. pilot did declare an inflight emergency. prior to uh what ended up being the. crash look closely you can see that the. landing gear on the jet was down was. almost right on the runway which.

suggests that the pilot was. troubleshooting some kind of problem and. they were in the pattern ready to land. and all of a sudden they had to eject. investigators will be aided not only by. the video that was captured but by the. pilot who survived and whatever can be. recovered from the $80 million aircraft. itself and David the pilot was taken to. the hospital immediately after he. parachuted to the ground but tonight the. Air Force is telling us he has been. released and is in good shape David yeah.

we are glad he's okay Martha thank you. now to the winter storm on the way for. the Northeast and even before tonight. more than 50 million people are under. wind alerts right now from North. Carolina right up into the Northeast. look at this accident's already at I90. near Albany and this new winter storm. now on the way Washington DC. Philadelphia New York City will all be. part of this meteorologist Lee Goldberg. of our station WABC of course tracking. it all for us hey. Lee David bringing these snow squalls 60. MPH gust and crashing temperatures.

that's this arctic front tonight in fact. there's an active snow Sall warning near. the Binghamton area right now thankfully. these wind and winter alerts they'll. come down tonight as we calm down. tomorrow but that's just for one day. before the next storm comes in that. storm was once the Southern California. Soaker now it's soaking Texas to. Kentucky overnight into tomorrow and. then the same areas that got snow last. week they get severe weather tomorrow. from Houston Louisiana maybe damaging. winds an isolated tornado not out of the. question Heavy Rain to the Ohio Valley. then it's heavy rain right here in the.

Northeast DC to New York to Boston. unfortunately in the interior it could. be mixed with some ice it's a messy end. of the month David Lee Goldberg and. channel 7 we thank you both thank you. this evening the once powerful. Democratic senator from New Jersey Bob. Menendez sentenced to 11 years after his. conviction for taking bribes of gold. bars a luxury car and cash authorities. say he acted as an agent of Egypt while. he was chairman of the Senate Foreign. Relations Committee we turn now to the. economy tonight and this evening the. Federal Reserve with its first interest. rate to decision after president Trump.

was inaugurated after three rate Cuts in. a row the Fed chair leaving interest. rates unchanged the FED citing inflation. still above the 2% Target and the. uncertain impact of new Trump policies. including potential tariffs the markets. were down on the news today president. Trump tonight on social media. criticizing the move to hold rates where. they are late today fed chairman Jerome. Powell when asked by ABC news said the. FED will remain independent and not. succumb to political pressure from the. White House when we come back tonight. the horror and Philadelphia after the. Eagles big win the celebration turning.

tragic a fan up on a light pole falling. to his death also tonight the major. recall involving a very popular brand of. potato chips and the remarkable moment. you'll see it right here tonight. deputies rescuing a 100-year-old woman. in the California wildfires and what she. said to them in a. moment tonight the celebration of the. Eagles wind turning tragic in. Philadelphia a fan on a light pole. actually falling to his death images. show a Temple University student on top. of that street sign there he fell to the.

sidewalk hitting his head did not. survive when we come back here tonight. this major recall involving Lays chips. and the 100-year old woman who was saved. and what she said to the heroes and. you'll see. it to the index the FDA upgrading its. recall of certain La chips to its. highest risk level it involves 6,3 ounce. bags of Laz potato chips because they. may contain undisclosed milk in the. ingredients potentially dangerous to. people with severe milk allergies the. bags were sold in Oregon and Washington.

State more than a billion people around. the world celebrating the Lunar New Year. the year of the snake signaling. transformation in Manila dancers. performing The Young dancers also in. Hong Kong and in New York City tonight. an array of dancers right there in. Chinatown when we come back here the. remarkable moment a 100-year-old woman. is saved in those fires and what she. said to her. Rescuers finally tonight The Rescuers. and the 100-year-old woman who told them. don't lose me here's Trevor.

alt this was the moment LA county. sheriff's deputies rescued a. 100-year-old woman from an evacuated. Senior Living facility as the eaten fire. was closing in I've been trying to find. a way out let's get you out of here. let's get you out the body camera video. shows deputies Quinn alonis and Nicholas. Martinez going room to room in that. darkened facility calling out for anyone. still there Sheriff's Department anybody. in inside hello anyone inside oh my gosh.

the smoke and Flames bearing down on the. building when they hear something. hello hello following that sound where. you at where are you they find her oh hi. okay perfect is there anyone else with. you no you can hear her relief she begs. them don't lose me I promise w't lose. you don't worry I like thinking about my. grandma about how I want my a deputy or. an officer treating her if we weren't.

here who knows what would have happened. to. her and officials tell us this woman is. doing just fine tonight and the. sheriff's department is hoping to. reunite her with her rescuer soon David. thank you Trevor and thank you to those. deputies I'll see you right back here. tomorrow night from all of us here have. a good evening good. night thank you for making World News. Tonight with David mure America's most. watched newscast.