ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - June 1st 2025

Tonight breaking news an attack at a pedestrian. mall in Boulder, Colorado, possibly with multiple. victims. The FBI director is calling it a targeted attack. The details are just coming in. Officers responding to the Pearl Street. mall in Boulder. Top FBI officials describe this as. an act of terror and targeted violence. Several blocks near the mall have been. evacuated. Also tonight, the smoke from Canadian wildfires. burning out of control, triggering air quality alerts in. the upper Midwest, where the smoke is heading and when.

Plus, it relentlessly storms in the southern plains and the. central U.S. right in the bull's eye for more severe weather. in the next 48 hours. Our weather team times it all out. A massive drone strike by Ukraine blowing. up dozens of Russian warplanes, how they managed. to sneak drones over the border. New video shows that drones emerging from shipping. containers and then destroying many of Russia's. long-range bombers. Moscow launched its own massive drone attack, and President. Trump said to be frustrated with both sides. The war in Gaza takes another deadly turn.

Dozens of Palestinians killed near an aid distribution site. What the Israeli military is saying about the shooting? The chaotic scene in North Carolina police say at least. 80 shots were fired at a house party packed with high school. students, one killed at least 11 others injured what we're. learning about the investigation. The spending battle heats up in Washington, this old called. one big beautiful bill barely passed the house and it faces an. uncertain future in the Senate. Nonpartisan analysts say it could add trillions.

to the national debt. House Speaker Mike Johnson denies it and the Republican. Senator who was jeered over what she said about Medicaid cuts. Outrage tonight after Iced attains a high school student. who was on his way to volleyball practice, how a two-year-old. wound up on a luggage conveyor belt at Newark Airport and. how the child was rescued. Why a powerful storm on the Sun could lead to a brilliant. sky show in some unexpected places on Earth. And America's strong tonight after a devastating accident, doctors weren't sure if he'd ever walk again,

but his determination proved otherwise. ♪ ♪. - From ABC News, World Headquarters in New York, this is World News Tonight. - Good evening, everyone. Thanks so much for joining us on this Sunday. I'm Lindsey Davis. We do begin tonight with breaking news. Police are responding to what the FBI is calling. a targeted terror attack at an outdoor pedestrian. mall in Boulder, Colorado. Local law enforcement and FBI agents are on the scene.

Several injuries have been reported and authorities say. some may have been set on fire. The governor of Colorado released a statement. saying he is closely monitoring what he described. as a heinous act of terror. police have evacuated several blocks in and around. the mall and are asking people to avoid the area a. suspect is in police custody This happening during a. pro-Israel demonstration ABC's Moa Langey leads us off tonight. Boulder police responding to calls of people being. set on fire during a peaceful demonstration in.

support of Israeli hostages There's multiple makes. reports about if people are fired out, we're getting. lots of time on one call. The group meets regularly and is affiliated. with the organization, "Run for their lives.". One of their leaders says a man was waiting for. them and began throwing a box of bottles at them, saying several people were set on fire, one an elderly woman. "The yelled expletives about the Jewish people, about Zionist, free Palestine and whatnot. It reminded me of what happened in Washington, D.C. a couple weeks ago.

These images of a man holding what appears to be two Molotov. cocktails before being tackled by police. Authorities say they have a suspect in custody, FBI personnel assisting local police on the. scene. Director Cash Patel says. the agency is investigating the incident as an act. of terror and targeted violence. But local police are not going that far, saying it's too. early to characterize what kind of attack it is. Olinzi, how speaker Mike Johnson condemning the attack. tonight calling it heartbreaking and deeply disturbing.

And we're told President Trump has been briefed. about the incident. Moly, thank you. Now to the air quality alerts as the wildfire smoked from. Canada blanket skies across the upper Midwest. A state of emergency in Canada thousands are forced. to evacuate their homes. Firefighters are battling more than 170 wildfires. that smoke is casting a haze over the skies and places like. Milwaukee, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota and Michigan. are under air quality alerts. And the southern plains and central US are bracing. for yet another round of dangerous storms.

Here's ABC's Christiane Cordero. Tonight more than 170 active wildfires across Canada forming. dense smoke visible from space as it drifts deep into the US. air quality considered un parts of the upper midw. smoke continuing to be an. Monday hazy skies over mil deluth to Des Moines for. Dakota and Minnesota, a to keep windows closed o. smoke from getting indoors.

run central air conditioning so it's pretty bad. The m massive wildfires burning. hundreds of thousands of acres, prompting the U.S. to deploy more than 150 firefighters and airtangers. to help battled flames. The smoke now making its way into the south just days after. tornadoes ripped through. An EF-2 touched down in Kentucky according to the National. Weather Service, killing one person and injuring at least 14. And another tornado in Henry County, Georgia, injuring two.

Officials there now changing the county's severe. weather alert system. After several residents said they didn't hear the outdoor. sirens or get warnings on their phones until after. the tornado hit. Neighboring states getting heavy rain and wind now. bracing for hurricane season officially starting today. Lindsay Noah predicts a more active than usual hurricane. season and some scientists are concerned staffing cuts by.

the Trump administration could impact the agency's ability. to forecast and prepare for future storms. Lindsay. - Christian, thank you. Let's get right to meet around this Danny Beckstrom from our. New York station, W-A-B-C. Hi, Danny, tell us where this smoke is heading. - Lindsay, the Upper Midwest has been stuck. under the smokey haze for several days now, and it hangs around into the start of the work week. Today, the worst of the smoke stretching from Fargo. across the state of Minnesota, where an air quality. alert is still in effect. Tomorrow, it shifts east across the Great Lakes.

down into Illinois, but a new system. taking shape in the central U.S. could finally help push that smoke back north while. also fueling severe storms. Tonight, that threat focused in parts of Texas with damaging. wind and large hail possible from Houston up to Dallas on. Monday targeting the planes, then shifting east from Texas to. Wisconsin on Tuesday. East of the storm, a big warm-up is the weather. story that East Coast turned up the heat by midweek. Lindsey? "About to feel a lot like. summer, Danny. Thank you. overseas now to Ukraine launching a massive drone. strike on Russian airfields.

The attack allegedly destroyed more than 40 Russian planes. It took more than a year to execute and was. personally supervised by Ukrainian President. Zelensky. This is a new round of. ceasefire talks are set to start on Monday in Turkey. Here's ABC's Marcus Moore. Tonight Ukraine landing a punishing blow against Russia. with a surprise drone attack. dubbed Operation Spider-Web, targeting key. airfields and strategic nuclear capable bombers. deep inside Russia.

More than 40 aircraft ablaze after the highly sophisticated. operation was launched Sunday. Ukrainian sources giving ABC News details of the attack. that was a year and a half in the planning. The drones were transported to Russia inside what. looked to be shipping containers, with retractable. roofs that could be opened remotely. The drones seen here flying out on their mission. The Ukrainians did not inform the US ahead of time. The high-tech planes worth billions of dollars now in ruins. and will take years to replace.

It looks like around 30 percent or higher of their strategic. bombers were destroyed. Some of these drones were as low as $500 taking out. million dollar aircraft. It was a blow tactically, it was a blow strategically, and. it was a blow, politically. Elsewhere in Russia, official said explosions from an alleged. terror attack caused two bridges to collapse, one causing. a trained arreument. Russian officials said at least seven people were killed.

and more than 60 injured. Earlier, Russia launching strikes of. its own across Ukraine. The largest air assault since the war began. at least 12 people killed and dozens hurt. The apparent escalation in this war. comes as President Trump has criticized Putin's attacks. on civilians and grown increasingly impatient. with both sides, threatening to walk away. from peace talks scheduled to resume in Turkey tomorrow. - Lindsay, a quick word on Ukraine's surprise strike. Russia calling it a terrorist attack.

And tonight, President Zelensky claimed. that the "office" for this operation. was right next door to one of the headquarters. for Russia's security service. Lindsay. All this on the eve of renewed. peace talks, Marcus, thank you. Dozens were killed and hundreds injured near an. A-distribution center in Gaza. Health officials and witnesses say Israeli forces. opened fire on the crowds. Let's bring an ABC's chief foreign correspondent. Ian Panell in Tel Aviv. Ian, what are you learning tonight? Yeah, Lindsay. I mean, lots of confusion about who carried out this attack.

It happened near a US-run food distribution. site in southern Gaza. Now, aid agencies calling it a massacre, but as I say, unclear, who pulled the trigger? Hamas and eyewitnesses from the scene, accusing Israeli. troops of shooting at people. The US aid company that actually runs this site, denying that. there was an incident at all, but hospitals in the area. overrun with patients with gunshot wounds. Israel conducting an investigation, a provisional. investigation, later saying that its troops. didn't fire at civilians in or near this site.

But at the same time, and Israeli military. official telling ABC News, its troops did fire. warning shots towards what it calls several suspects in the. vicinity, which also, while also insisting, that there's. no connection between the two. a senior Israeli source, so blaming her mass for the attack. Lindsay. And thank you back here in. the US, the urgent search for answers after a deadly mass. shooting at a house party in North Carolina. One person is dead and 11 others injured.

Authorities say nearly 100 people. had gathered mostly teens just moments ago. Police said at least 80. shots were fired and there may be. more than one shooter. Here's ABC's Morgan, Norwood tonight. Investigators swarming a North with Carolina neighborhood. after a deadly mass shooting. One dead after a house party full of high. schoolers turned fatal. 11 others injured and today investigators revealing they're. looking for multiple suspects. Our investigation indicates more than one year was. involved in the incident. We are so working to determine when they arrived,

how they arrived and what the reasoning was. police today identifying the man who was killed as. 58 year old John Patrick Hood. One official telling ABC News police responded. earlier to a noise complaint shots fired after. a dispute. The call coming in just before 1 a.m. from a home in Hickory just northwest of Charlotte. Two patients have been shot of the way up the. board. I'm pushing here. This is shot and the chest. Um, and fast EMS finding victim after victim. emergency crews desperately calling for backup.

We're overwhelmed out here. I will need both aircraft outside, frantic parents scrambling to find their children. I thought probably about 10 to 10 cars, harmful up here. Uh, asking for tears as mostly parents, looking for children. Authorities say as many as 100 people mostly teens were inside. when those shots rang out. It appears to us that both pistols and. rifles were involved. Police say at least 80 shots fired during the chaos. of the injured remain in critical condition. And Lindsey authorities don't have anyone in custody just.

yet, but they say they believe the suspects were targeting. someone inside that house party tonight, the FBI, joining. that investigation. Lindsey Morgan, thank you. Now to politics and the battle over President Trump, so called. big, beautiful bill, Republicans are squabbling over whether. it will boost the economy or add trillions to the nation's. debt. here's ABC senior White House. correspondent Selena Wang. Tonight President Trump's allies defending a so-called. one big beautiful bill against opposition from. fellow Republicans. The one big beautiful bill is a big first step to provide.

relief for the American people. Speaker Johnson now urging his Senate colleagues. to get on board after the bill narrowly passed. the House by just one vote, but they're pushing back. Well, the math doesn't really add up. Budget Hawk Senator Rand Paul says there are enough. unconvinced Republicans to block its passage. I think there are four of us at this point and I would. be very surprised if the bill at least is not modified. in a good direction. At issue, the nonpartisan congressional budget.

office predicting the bill could add $3.8. trillion to the federal deficit over eight years. But Johnson flat out rejecting that. It's not going to add to the dead. The bill would extend Trump's 2017 tax cuts and federal. taxes on tips and over time pay spend nearly $50 billion. to resume construction of a border wall and slash. funding for Medicaid. They're cutting Medicaid throwing 15 million people. off their health care in order to fund a tax. cut for the super wealthy and for corporations.

That is just fundamentally immoral. Republican Senator Joni Ernst facing backlash. after she dismissed those concerns at a town hall in Iowa. People are not where we all are going to die. So I'm ever since. Ernst then giving a sarcastic apology on social media. So I apologize. and I'm really, really glad that I did not have. to bring up the subject of the tooth fairy as well.

In Lindsay, the CBO estimates these Medicaid cuts could leave. more than 8 million Americans without health insurance, but the White House insists no one is losing their coverage. Despite all this pushback, Republicans are aiming to. get this bill to President Trump's desk by July 4. Lindsay. from the White House. Thank you. Outrage tonight after Massachusetts. High School student was detained by ICE agents on. his way to volleyball practice. And tonight the governor of Massachusetts is. demanding answers.

Here's ABC's Ike Jotchi. Tonight, shock and sadness in Millford, Massachusetts, an 18-year-old high school student, now in ICE detention, according to school officials. Friends of the team telling ABC affiliate WCVB, agents arrested him early Saturday morning. as he was driving the volleyball practice with. teammates. He is not a criminal. He's a member of his community and he's never. done anything wrong.

His coach describing the junior as exceptional. Our athlete who was detained, it may be the friendliest. person in the school. every day no matter how he felt, he always had a. smile on his face. - Friends and family telling our affiliate, Milford is the only home the detained student. has ever known after moving there at six years old. Milford's superintendent writing in a statement, we are all distraught by this news. and that the school district plays no part. in immigration enforcement and supports all students,

including those who are immigrants to the United States. Wilford's local police chief also saying his department was. not involved in the arrest. Today, the community gathering for a peaceful protest. Now, on graduation day for the school, the Massachusetts. governor demanding that ICE provide immediate information. about why he was arrested, where he is, and how his due. process is being protected. And writing the Trump administration continues. to create fear in our communities, and it's.

making us all less safe. Lindsey, this arrest comes as the Trump administration is. aggressively expanding its immigration enforcement powers. across the country. On Friday, the Supreme Court temporary allowing the. administration to end protections for over 500,000. immigrants enrolled in the Biden River program. Lindsey. Ike, thank you. Now to a police are calling the suspicious deaths of two. high school campers in Arizona. Their bodies were discovered in a remote area of the. Phoenix area earlier this A. B. C.

Zareen Shaw with the new details coming in. tonight. Tonight an urgent investigation into. two high school students found shot dead in an. Arizona National Forest. Maricopa County Sheriff's Office now launching a. homicide investigation, saying the circumstances. surrounding their deaths are being treated as suspicious. He was just a really nice guy. The bodies of 18 year old Pandora. Jules Rude and her 17 year old friend. were found early Tuesday by sheriff. deputies near Mount Ord, a remote area. northeast of Phoenix known for camping.

Their community in shock, grieving and demanding answers, leaving flowers, candles and messages. at a mountain vista they say was special to the teens. I'm really sad. It's like it doesn't really feel real. Pandora's mom sharing this image of her hiking, calling her. a bright light in this world, who lived life in a big way. Officials are asking anyone with any information. to come forward. Crisis counselors and psychologists are also being.

made available at the school. Lindsey. Zareen, thank you. Still much more head on world news tonight this Sunday, including a dangerous incident at a major airport. how a toddler ended up on a luggage conveyor belt. And what's black and white and running wild. on the interstate? How a zebra brought traffic to a standstill. Next tonight, a toddler was rescued. from a dangerous situation at Newark Airport in New Jersey, thanks to some quick thinking by two officers. The two-year-old had stepped on to a baggage conveyor belt.

Wednesday as the child's mother was booking a flight. The officers then jumped onto the conveyor belt themselves. and found the toddler just ahead of the bag of Jaxway machine, the child was not harmed. When we come back, the Urgent Search for an Escaping. All Covered in Stripes. To the index, tonight the Southern U.S. may be in for a rare treat. Scientists say it could be possible to see the green pink. and purple northern lights as far south as. Oklahoma or Alabama. That's due to a geomagnetic storm that causes.

charged particles from the sun to interact. with the Earth's magnetic field. And in Rutherford County, Tennessee, the sheriff's office put out an alert. for a zebra. Yes, a zebra. It was apparently someone's pet and broke free on Saturday. Deputy's closed down I-24 for a short time. The zebra disappeared into some woods. and at last word has not yet been found. When we come back, America's strong. A young graduate takes the most important steps. of his life.

Finally, tonight America's strong. Four months ago, 18-year-old Will Whitton suffered. a serious spinal cord injury in an accident. while driving your Shreveport, Louisiana. Resolved to walk by graduation date, Will. began intensive rehab, and it led to this magical. moment at the hot and high school commencement. Will steps were priceless, leading him no doubt. to a brighter future. GMA First thing, the morning, David, and you're right. back here tomorrow night. I'm Lyndsey Davis in New York. have a great evening.

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