ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - May 30, 2025

TONIGHT WE HAVE BREAKING NEWS AS. WE COME ON THIS FRIDAY NIGHT. THE TORNADO WATCH RIGHT NOW IN. THE EAST. WASHINGTON, D.C, RIGHT. UP THROUGH PHILADELPHIA. THE. STORMS THEN MOVING INTO NEW YORK. CITY TONIGHT. 45 MILLION. AMERICANS ON ALERT RIGHT NOW. THE SYSTEM DEADLY ALREADY. NOW, THE DANGEROUS STORMS FROM. FLORIDA TO THE CAROLINAS RIGHT. INTO THE NORTHEAST THIS EVENING, A CONFIRMED EF TWO TORNADO, 115. MILES AN HOUR, KILLING ONE. PERSON, DESTROYING HOMES. >> A TORNADO. >> AND NEAR ATLANTA, A TORNADO. CROSSING I-75, DAMAGING WINDS,

LARGE HAIL AND POSSIBLE TWISTERS. RIGHT UP THE I-95 CORRIDOR. LEE. GOLDBERG IS STANDING BY TO TIME. THIS OUT TONIGHT. ABC NEWS. LEARNING OF A VERY CLOSE CALL. FOR TWO PASSENGER JETS, A UNITED. PLANE AND A SKYWEST PLANE TAKING. OFF ON PARALLEL RUNWAYS. ONE. PASSENGER PLANE SUDDENLY TURNING. INTO THE PATH OF THE OTHER. THEY. WERE JUST SECONDS APART. THE. SEAT IN THE OVAL OFFICE TODAY, PRESIDENT TRUMP'S FAREWELL TO. ELON MUSK. WHAT ELON MUSK. ACKNOWLEDGED TODAY. ALSO MUSK. EXPLAINING HIS BLACK EYE. ALSO.

TONIGHT, THE SUPREME COURT. HANDING THE PRESIDENT A MAJOR. VICTORY ON IMMIGRATION AND WHAT. PRESIDENT TRUMP SAID TODAY WHEN. ASKED IF HE WOULD CONSIDER A. PARDON FOR SEAN DIDDY COMBS. IT. MADE NEWS. MEANTIME, AT THE. COMBS TRIAL TODAY IN NEW YORK, THE SEARING NEW TESTIMONY, THE. DEFENSE AND THEIR. CROSS-EXAMINATION OF THE. ASSISTANT WHO SAYS SEAN COMBS. REPEATEDLY SEXUALLY ATTACKED. HER. TONIGHT, FORMER REALITY. SHOW DAD TODD CHRISLEY SPEAKING. OUT AFTER PRESIDENT TRUMP ISSUED. PARDONS TO HIM AND HIS WIFE. JULIE, AFTER THEIR CONVICTIONS. FOR TAX EVASION AND FRAUD. AND.

WHAT HE SAID IS NOW COMING. TONIGHT, THE MAJOR NEWS HERE. INVOLVING TAYLOR SWIFT, THE. SUPERSTAR EMOTIONAL AFTER SHE. REVEALED WHAT SHE NOW CONTROLS. TONIGHT. THE ALARMING SCENE. BESIDE A CONSTRUCTION SITE. A. MAJOR SINKHOLE SWALLOWING. MULTIPLE CARS THREATENING NEARBY. BUILDINGS AT THIS HOUR TONIGHT. REMEMBERING ACTRESS LORETTA SWIT. FROM MASH. SHE WON MULTIPLE. EMMYS FOR THE ROLE AND THE SCENE. WATCHED BY NEARLY 106 MILLION. AMERICANS. THE TRIBUTES POURING. IN TONIGHT. AMERICA STRONG THIS.

EVENING. COULD YOU SPELL THIS. ECLAIR? C SMALL ECLAIR. >> C SMALL. >> HE WAS THE RUNNER UP LAST. YEAR. HE CAME BACK TO WIN IT ALL. THIS YEAR. YOU HAVE TO SEE THE. MOMENT. >> FROM ABC NEWS WORLD. HEADQUARTERSTERS IN NEW YORK. TS. IS WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID. MUIR. >> GOOD EVENING. AND WE FINALLY. MADE IT TO FRIDAY. BUT IT COULD. BE AN UNSETTLING NIGHT AHEAD. 45. MILLION AMERICANS ON ALERT RIGHT. NOW. IN FACT, HERE IN THE EAST,

A TORNADO WATCH AT THIS HOUR. FROM WASHINGTON, D.C, RIGHT UP. THROUGH PHILADELPHIA, THE SYSTEM. THEN MOVING INTO NEW YORK CITY, THEN UP INTO NEW ENGLAND AT THIS. HOUR, THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT. FOR MILLIONS, THE DANGEROUS. STORMS FROM THE CAROLINAS THERE. RIGHT UP INTO THE NORTHEAST. AND. THIS RIGHT HERE IS THE TORNADO. WATCH D.C. UP THROUGH NEW JERSEY. AND PENNSYLVANIA. THE SYSTEM. THEN MOVES INTO NEW YORK. THESE. STORMS HAVE ALREADY BEEN DEADLY. A CONFIRMED EF TWO TORNADO. SLAMMING KENTUCKY WITH 115 MILE. AN HOUR WINDS, KILLING ONE. PERSON AND DESTROYING HOMES. THERE, WHIPPING RAIN AND. DAMAGING WINDS IN SAINT CLOUD,

FLORIDA. IN GEORGIA, A COUPLE. DRIVING ON I-75 WHEN A TORNADO. CROSSES THE INTERSTATE RIGHT IN. FRONT OF THEM. AND TONIGHT, THE. FATHER AND ACTOR FROM A. WELL-KNOWN SHOW WHO SAYS HE AND. HIS SON WERE SUCKED FROM THEIR. HOME BY A TORNADO OUTSIDE. ATLANTA. THAT SON IN CRITICAL. CONDITION TONIGHT. LEE GOLDBERG. STANDING BY WITH THE FORECAST. AND STEPHANIE RAMOS WITH THE. IMAGES COMING IN TONIGHT. >> TONIGHT, NEARLY 45 MILLION ON. ALERT FOR POWERFUL STORMS. TARGETING THE EAST COAST AFTER A. DEADLY 24 HOURS LEFT A TRAIL OF.

DESTRUCTION IN THE HEARTLAND. SOUTHEAST OF LOUISVILLE. A. CONFIRMED EF TWO TORNADO WITH. 115 MILE AN HOUR WINDS TEARING. UP THIS NEIGHBORHOOD. THIS SUV. FLIPPED ON TOP OF A FLATTENED. HOME. >> THE SMALL AREA WAS HIT, BUT. IT WAS DEVASTATING. >> AUTHORITIES IN WASHINGTON. COUNTY, KENTUCKY, SAY AT LEAST. ONE PERSON WAS KILLED HERE AND. 14 MORE HURT, INCLUDING A THREE. YEAR OLD CHILD OUTSIDE. JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, THURSDAY. MULTIPLE CAMERAS CATCHING A. TORNADO CROSSING SAINT JOHNS. HIGHWAY. >> A TORNADO.

>> WHILE SOUTH OF ATLANTA. >> DON'T MOVE. >> RACHEL PETERS RECORDING IN. THE PASSENGER SEAT AS THEY. NEARLY DRIVE RIGHT INTO A. TORNADO CROSSING INTERSTATE 75. HOMES IN THIS HENRY COUNTY. NEIGHBORHOOD LEVELED FAMILIES. THAT RODE IT OUT, SAY THEY COULD. FEEL THE WALLS SHAKE. >> I RAN FOR THE CLOSET AND TOOK. COVER. I GOT ON MY HANDS AND. KNEES, COVERED MY HEAD AND JUST. STARTED PRAYING. >> I SURVIVED THE TORNADO. MY. SON. HE HE SURVIVED. >> TRAY CHANEY SAYS HE AND HIS. 18 YEAR OLD SON, MALACHI, WERE.

SUCKED OUT OF THEIR HOME. >> THIS SPLIT SECOND. MY HOUSE. IS GONE. I JUST GOT OUT OF THE. HOSPITAL. I GOT THIS BRUISE ON. MY HEAD. >> CHANEY, AN ACTOR WHO ONCE. STARRED ON HBO'S THE WIRE, SAYS. MALACHI HAS BROKEN RIBS AND A. BROKEN BONE IN HIS FACE. AND. DAVID, THERE'S A FLOOD WATCH FOR. MUCH OF THE NORTHEAST AS THOSE. STORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE IN. TONIGHT. >> IT'S GOING TO BE A ROUGH. NIGHT AHEAD, STEPH. THANK YOU. LET'S GET RIGHT TO CHIEF. METEOROLOGIST LEE GOLDBERG OF. OUR NEW YORK STATION WABC. AND. LEE, I KNOW YOU'RE TRACKING. THESE TORNADO WATCHES UP RIGHT. NOW, DAVID. >> HEAVY DOWNPOURS ARE LIFTING.

TOWARD D.C. AS WE SPEAK. THERE'S. A TORNADO WARNING JUST TO THE. WEST ACROSS NORTHERN VIRGINIA. THE TORNADO WATCH GOES FROM. NORTH CAROLINA ALL THE WAY INTO. SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY UNTIL. MIDNIGHT. LET'S TIME THIS. WE. COULD HAVE TORRENTIAL RAINS FROM. PHILLY TO NEW YORK AROUND THE. 10:00 HOUR. PLEASE DON'T DRIVE. THROUGH. STANDING WATER COULD. COME DOWN AT 1 TO 2IN AN HOUR. IT WILL MOVE TOWARD BOSTON THE. PRE-DAWN HOURS, AND THEN INTO. PARTS OF NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND. IT WILL JUST BE SHOWERY. AFTER. THAT. IT WILL NOT BE A WASHOUT. AND IT DRIES OUT ON SUNDAY. NOW. TO THE CANADIAN WILDFIRE SMOKE. IN THE MIDWEST FROM GREEN BAY TO.

CHICAGO TONIGHT. POOR AIR. QUALITY. AND BY THE TIME WE GET. TO SATURDAY, IT'S THE DAKOTAS. AND MINNESOTA AND INTO IOWA. BE. VERY CAREFUL IN THE NORTHEAST. TONIGHT. >> DAVID LEE GOLDBERGER, THANKS. TO YOU AS ALWAYS. WE TURN NEXT. TONIGHT. ABC NEWS LEARNING OF A. VERY CLOSE CALL FOR TWO. PASSENGER JETS, A UNITED PLANE. AND A SKYWEST PLANE TAKING OFF. ON PARALLEL RUNWAYS IN SAN. FRANCISCO. ONE PASSENGER PLANE. SUDDENLY TURNING INTO THE PATH. OF THE OTHER. AUTHORITIES SAY. THEY WERE JUST SECONDS APART. FROM EACH OTHER. HERE'S TREVOR. AULT. >> TONIGHT, FRIGHTENING NEW. DETAILS EMERGING FROM A RECENT. CLOSE CALL AT SAN FRANCISCO.

INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. A PAIR OF. COMMERCIAL JETS, ONE FROM. UNITED, THE OTHER SKYWEST, TAKING OFF AT THE SAME TIME ON. PARALLEL RUNWAYS. EARLIER THIS. MONTH WHEN THE PLANE SUDDENLY. TURNED INTO THE PATH OF THE. SKYWEST PLANE THAT SKYWEST JET, VEERING OUT OF THE WAY TO AVOID. A POTENTIAL DISASTER, >> 7273 WE'RE MOVING TRAFFIC. >> AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL DEMANDING. AN URGENT COURSE CORRECTION. >> 1152 TURN LEFT, HEADING 280.

IMMEDIATELY. 280280 IMMEDIATELY. >> TRACKING DATA FROM. FLIGHTRADAR24 SHOWS THE PLANES. WERE LESS THAN 2000FT APART. LATERALLY AND A MERE 275FT APART. VERTICALLY. >> 1132 HAD YOU WIND UP OVER. THERE. IN A STATEMENT, THE FAA. SAYS THAT UNITED PLANE TURNED. WITHOUT AUTHORIZATION. THE. AGENCY IS INVESTIGATING THE. EVENT. >> VERY, VERY CLOSE. AND WE KNOW. THAT THE REGIONAL JET MANEUVERED. AWAY FROM THE UNITED JET. SO. THEY SAW IT, LOOKED OUT THE. WINDOW AND SAID, OH MY GOSH, WE. GOT TO MOVE. AND THEY TURNED. BEHIND THE UNITED JET. IF THEY.

HADN'T DONE THAT, IT WOULD HAVE. BEEN EVEN CLOSER. >> AND DAVID, THERE WERE MORE. THAN 150 PEOPLE ON BOARD THESE. TWO AIRCRAFT. OF COURSE, THIS IS. THE LATEST IN A STRING OF CLOSE. CALLS THAT WE HAVE SEEN ON U.S. RUNWAYS THIS YEAR. >> DAVID. YEAH, WE KNOW VIEWERS. AT HOME ARE WONDERING WHAT IS. GOING ON HERE. TREVOR AULT. TONIGHT. TREVOR. THANK YOU. NOW. TO THE SCENE IN THE OVAL OFFICE. TODAY, PRESIDENT TRUMP'S. FAREWELL TO ELON MUSK. WHAT ELON. MUSK ACKNOWLEDGED TODAY. MUSK. ALSO EXPLAINING HIS BLACK EYE. ALSO TONIGHT HERE, THE SUPREME. COURT HANDING THE PRESIDENT A. MAJOR VICTORY ON IMMIGRATION AND. WHAT PRESIDENT TRUMP SAID WHEN.

HE WAS ASKED IF HE WOULD. CONSIDER A PARDON FOR SEAN DIDDY. COMBS. HERE'S RACHEL SCOTT. >> TONIGHT, PRESIDENT TRUMP. GIVING AN OVAL OFFICE FAREWELL. FOR ELON MUSK, THE WORLD'S. RICHEST MAN, NOW STEPPING AWAY. FROM HIS ROLE AS A SPECIAL. GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE, SLASHING. FEDERAL AGENCIES AND FIRING. THOUSANDS OF GOVERNMENT WORKERS. >> ELON GAVE AN INCREDIBLE. SERVICE. NOBODY LIKED HIM AND HE. HAD TO GO THROUGH THE SLINGS AND. THE ARROWS, WHICH IS A SHAME. BECAUSE HE'S AN INCREDIBLE.

PATRIOT. >> MUSK SAYS HE WILL CONTINUE TO. SERVE AS AN UNOFFICIAL ADVISER. TO THE PRESIDENT. MUSK, NOW. ACKNOWLEDGING HIS JOB WAS AN. UPHILL BATTLE AND IN THE END, NOT COMING CLOSE TO THE $2. TRILLION IN SAVINGS HE. ORIGINALLY PROMISED. >> SO I THINK THE TEAM IS DOING. AN INCREDIBLE JOB. THEY'RE GOING. TO CONTINUE TO DOING AN. INCREDIBLE JOB. >> HIS DEPARTURE COMES AFTER HE. BROKE WITH THE PRESIDENT OVER. HIS BUDGET BILL AND THE LEVEL OF. SPENDING IN IT. SOME ESTIMATE IT. COULD ADD $3.8 TRILLION TO THE. DEFICIT OVER THE NEXT TEN YEARS,

WITH CUTS TO MEDICAID AND FOOD. ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS. THIS IS. WHAT MUSK SAID ABOUT THE. PRESIDENT'S ONE BIG, BEAUTIFUL. BILL. >> I WAS LIKE, DISAPPOINTED TO. SEE THE MASSIVE SPENDING BILL, FRANKLY, WHICH INCREASES THE. BUDGET DEFICIT, NOT JUST. DECREASE IT AND UNDERMINES THE. WORK THAT THE DOGE TEAM IS. DOING. >> AT A TOWN HALL IN IOWA, REPUBLICAN SENATOR JONI ERNST, THE LATEST LAWMAKER TO FACE. OUTRAGE OVER THE CUTS, SHE WAS. ASKED ABOUT MEDICAID, SOME IN. THE CROWD SAYING PEOPLE WILL. DIE. HER RESPONSE? MAKING NEWS. >> PEOPLE ARE NOT WELL. WE ALL.

ARE GOING TO DIE. SO THE LIVING. THINGS. >> ON IMMIGRATION TONIGHT, THE. SUPREME COURT GIVING THE. PRESIDENT A WIN TODAY, RULING. THE ADMINISTRATION CAN END. PROTECTIONS FOR MORE THAN. 500,000 IMMIGRANTS FROM CUBA, HAITI, NICARAGUA AND VENEZUELA, AT LEAST FOR NOW. >> AND JUST TODAY, WE HAD JUST A. COUPLE OF HOURS AGO, WE HAD A. GREAT DECISION FROM THE SUPREME. COURT. THANK GOODNESS. THAT WAS. VERY IMPORTANT.

>> IN A SCATHING DISSENT, JOINED. BY JUSTICE SONIA SOTOMAYOR, JUSTICE KETANJI BROWN JACKSON. WARNED THE DEVASTATING. CONSEQUENCES OF ALLOWING THE. GOVERNMENT TO PRECIPITOUSLY. UPEND THE LIVES AND LIVELIHOODS. OF NEARLY HALF A MILLION. NON-CITIZENS. AND TONIGHT, AFTER. A STRING OF CONTROVERSIAL. PARDONS, PRESIDENT TRUMP WAS. ASKED WHETHER HE WOULD CONSIDER. A PARDON FOR SEAN DIDDY COMBS, NOW ON TRIAL FOR SEX TRAFFICKING. AND RACKETEERING. >> I HAVEN'T SPOKEN TO HIM IN. YEARS. HE USED TO REALLY LIKE ME. A LOT, BUT I THINK WHEN I RAN. FOR POLITICS, HE SORT OF THAT.

RELATIONSHIP BUSTED UP FROM WHAT. I READ. I WOULD CERTAINLY LOOK. AT THE FACTS IF I THINK SOMEBODY. WAS MISTREATED, WHETHER THEY. LIKE ME OR DON'T LIKE ME, IT. WOULDN'T HAVE ANY IMPACT ON ME. >> AND DAVID, THE PRESIDENT HERE. IN PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA, TONIGHT TOUTING A NEW. PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN U.S. STEEL. AND THE JAPANESE COMPANY NIPPON. AND JUST MOMENTS AGO, HE. ANNOUNCED THAT HE IS NOW. DOUBLING TARIFFS ON STEEL, RAISING THEM FROM 25 TO 50%. AND. DAVID, WE WANT TO GO BACK TO THE.

OVAL OFFICE BECAUSE THERE WAS. THAT MOMENT IN THE ROOM TODAY. WHEN ELON MUSK WAS ASKED ABOUT. HIS BLACK EYE. HE SAID THAT HE. WAS HORSING AROUND WITH HIS FIVE. YEAR OLD SON AND TOLD HIM TO GO. AHEAD AND PUNCH HIM IN THE FACE. AND SO HIS SON DID. DAVID. >> RACHEL SCOTT LIVE THERE FROM. PENNSYLVANIA. RACHEL. THANK YOU. AND YOU HEARD THE PRESIDENT WAS. ASKED THERE ABOUT SEAN COMBS. TODAY AT THE COMBS TRIAL IN NEW. YORK CITY. TODAY, THE HEARING, NEW TESTIMONY, THE DEFENSE AND. THEIR CROSS-EXAMINATION OF THE. ASSISTANT WHO CLAIMS SEAN COMBS. REPEATEDLY SEXUALLY ASSAULTED. HER. AARON KATERSKY AT THE. COURTHOUSE.

>> AFTER HIS ONETIME ASSISTANT. TESTIFIED SEAN COMBS SEXUALLY. ASSAULTED HER. THE DEFENSE TODAY. CONFRONTING THE WOMAN KNOWN BY. THE PSEUDONYM MIA WITH DOZENS OF. HER EMPHATIC INSTAGRAM POSTS. CALLING COMBS A LEGEND, HER. MENTOR AND AN INSPIRATION. THAT'S THE PERSON WHO WAS. TRAUMATIZED YOU, DEFENSE. ATTORNEY BRIAN STEEL ASKED. WHY. WOULD YOU PROMOTE THE PERSON WHO. HAS STOLEN YOUR HAPPINESS? IT. WAS A VERY CONFUSING CYCLE OF. UPS AND DOWNS, MIA TESTIFIED. I. WAS YOUNG AND MANIPULATED AND. EAGER TO SURVIVE. COMBS DENIES. SEXUALLY ASSAULTING ANYONE, BUT.

MIA TESTIFIED IT HAPPENED MORE. THAN ONCE. FEDERAL PROSECUTORS. SAY COMBS SUBJECTED TO FORCED. LABOR, INCLUDING SEX, AS PART OF. THE CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE. THEY. ACCUSE HIM OF RUNNING, WHICH HE. ALSO DENIES. MIA CALLED FOR. COMBS CHAOTIC, TOXIC AND. TERRIFYING. BUT THE JURY TODAY. SAW A TEXT SHE WROTE AFTER. LOSING HER JOB. I'M GOING TO. KILL MYSELF. MY LIFE IS OVER. THE DEFENSE ASKED, ISN'T THIS. GREAT? YOU'RE AWAY FROM YOUR. ABUSER. IN HINDSIGHT, FANTASTIC. BUT AT THE TIME, THE WORST THING. EVER, MIA ANSWERED. THIS WAS THE.

ONLY WORLD I KNEW FOR 24 HOURS A. DAY. FOR EIGHT YEARS. SEAN COMBS. WAS SEATED IN COURT HERE. DAVID, WHEN PRESIDENT TRUMP SPOKE TODAY. ABOUT POTENTIALLY PARDONING HIM, WE ASKED FOR REACTION. HIS. REPRESENTATIVE HAD NO RESPONSE. DAVID. >> ALL RIGHT. AARON KATERSKY AT. THE COURTHOUSE ALL WEEK. AARON. THANK YOU. TONIGHT, THE REALITY. TV STAR WHO PROSECUTORS CALLED A. CAREER SWINDLER NOW SPEAKING OUT. AFTER BEING FREED BY PRESIDENT. TRUMP. TODD CHRISLEY THANKING. THE TRUMP WHITE HOUSE FOR HIS. NEWFOUND FREEDOM. ON TUESDAY, PRESIDENT TRUMP ISSUING TODD AND. JULIE CHRISLEY A FULL PARDON.

AFTER THEY SERVED TWO AND A HALF. YEARS IN FEDERAL PRISON. AUTHORITIES SAY THEY STOLE. MILLIONS IN A BANKING SCHEME AND. FAILED TO PAY THEIR TAXES. >> EVEN THOUGH THIS PARDON HAS. HAPPENED, I STILL WAS CONVICTED. OF SOMETHING THAT I DID NOT DO. >> TODD CHRISLEY SAYS HE NOW. PLANS TO ADVOCATE FOR PRISON. REFORM, AND SAYS THERE COULD BE. A RETURN TO REALITY TV. TONIGHT. HERE WE REMEMBER ACTRESS LORETTA. SWIT FROM MASH. SHE WON MULTIPLE. EMMYS FOR HER ROLE. AND THIS. EVENING WE LOOK BACK, INCLUDING. THE SCENE WATCHED BY NEARLY 106. MILLION AMERICANS AS THE.

TRIBUTES NOW POUR IN. >> SHE WAS THE QUICK WITTED. MAJOR MARGARET. >> HOULIHAN IN ONE. >> OF TV'S BIGGEST HITS. >> THOSE TWO? THEY'RE RUINING. THIS WAR FOR ALL OF US. >> LORETTA SWIT, COMMANDING THE. SCREEN ON MASH FOR MORE THAN A. DECADE. >> FROM NOW ON. I'M NUMBER ONE. ME, MARGARET HOULIHAN. AND. BELIEVE ME, SOLDIER, I DESERVE. BETTER THAN YOU. >> THE TOUGH BY THE BOOK. MAJOR. HOULIHAN WAS THE HEAD NURSE OF. THEIR MOBILE ARMY SURGICAL. HOSPITAL DURING THE KOREAN WAR,

INVOLVING IN HER ROLE TO A. LEADER FIGHTING FOR RESPECT IN A. MAN'S WORLD. >> WE ACTUALLY SURVIVE WITHOUT. YOU. WE LIVE, WE BREATHE. WE. DREAM. WE DO OUR WORK. WE EARN. OUR PAY. SOMETIMES WE EVEN HAVE. OUR LITTLE FAILURES. AND THEN WE. PULL OURSELVES TOGETHER. >> SWIT INFUSING HUMANITY INTO. MAJOR HOULIHAN TWO. SHOWING A. VULNERABILITY. THAT FAMOUS. SCENE. MAJOR HOULIHAN BREAKING. DOWN IN FRONT OF THE OTHER. NURSES. >> DID YOU EVER, ONCE EVER OFFER. ME A LOUSY CUP OF COFFEE?

>> WE DIDN'T THINK YOU'D ACCEPT. >> WELL, YOU WERE WRONG. >> SWIT WOULD STAR IN 240 OF. MASH'S 251 EPISODES, EARNING TWO. EMMY AWARDS ALONG THE WAY. >> SICKENING. >> ALONG ALAN ALDA'S CAPTAIN. HAWKEYE PIERCE, ONE OF ONLY TWO. ACTORS THERE FOR BOTH THE PILOT. BACK IN 1972. >> SO LISTEN. >> YEAH. >> AND THE SERIES FINALE IN. 1983, THEIR 35 SECOND KISS WAS.

SEEN BY NEARLY 106 MILLION. VIEWERS. STILL, THE MOST WATCHED. SINGLE EPISODE OF ANY TELEVISION. SERIES IN U.S. HISTORY. LORETTA. SWIT WAS BORN ON NOVEMBER 4TH, 1937, IN PASSAIC, NEW JERSEY, PERFORMING ON STAGE FOR THE. FIRST TIME AT THE AGE OF SEVEN. SHE WAS BEST KNOWN FOR THAT ROLE. ON MASH, BUT HER CAREER WAS BOTH. ON SCREEN AND IN THE THEATER. LORETTA SWIT, PASSING AWAY AT. THE AGE OF 87 TONIGHT HERE, IN. HER OWN WORDS. >> I WOULD HOPE TO BE REMEMBERED. AS AN ARTIST WHO TRIED TO USE.

PARTS OF HER PROFESSION TO. FURTHER OTHER ARENAS THAT WERE. POSITIVE. IT'S VERY SATISFYING. FOR ME TO HAVE NURSES TELL ME. THAT THEY BECAME NURSES BECAUSE. OF WATCHING ME, AND THAT'S. THAT'S VERY, VERY GREAT. COMPLIMENT AND A VERY WONDERFUL. THING TO HAVE DONE WHILE I WAS. HAVING SO MUCH FUN WITHIN MY. PROFESSION AND WITH.

>> THE IMPACT SHE HAD ON SO. MANY, SO MANY PEOPLE TUNED IN. EVERY WEEK, 106 MILLION WATCHING. THAT FINAL KISS. REMEMBERING. LORETTA SWIT HERE TONIGHT. WHEN. WE COME BACK ON THIS FRIDAY. EVENING, THE NEWS FOR PARENTS. WHEN IT COMES TO COVID SHOTS FOR. THEIR CHILDREN. AND IS THIS. DIFFERENT FROM WHAT RFK JR SAID. JUST THIS WEEK? ALSO, THE MAJOR. REVEAL TONIGHT FROM TAYLOR. SWIFT, IT BROUGHT HER TO TEARS. THE ACCUSATIONS TONIGHT AGAINST. NBA STAR ZION WILLIAMSON. AND. THEN TAKE A LOOK AT THIS A SCARE. RIGHT BESIDE A CONSTRUCTION. SITE. THIS IS INCREDIBLE. A MASSIVE SINKHOLE SWALLOWING. MULTIPLE VEHICLES AND THEY ARE.

CONCERNED TONIGHT THAT THIS. COULD GROW. WE'LL HAVE MORE IN. A MOMENT HERE. >> David: TONIGHT, THE CDC. MASSIVE SINKHOLE SWALLOWING. APPEARS TO BE BREAKING WITH. HEALTH SECRETARY ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. IN HIS RECENT. ANNOUNCEMENT FOR COVID VACCINES. FOR CHILDREN. THE AGENCY TODAY RELEASING ITS. LATEST IMMUNIZATION SCHEDULE, AND IT DOES RECOMMEND THE SHOT. FOR HEALTHY CHILDREN. THE GUIDANCE ADDING A SHARED. DECISION-MAKING MODEL THAT. SUGGESTS PARENTS SHOULD DECIDE. IF THE CHILD SHOULD GET THE SHOT. ALONGSIDE THEIR DOCTOR. THE CDC POLICY COUNTERS. KENNEDY'S ANNOUNCEMENT THAT THE. SHOTS WOULD BE REMOVED FROM THE. IMMUNIZATION SCHEDULE FOR.

HEALTHY CHILDREN. >>> A SINKHOLE OPENING UP NEXT. TO A CONSTRUCTION SITE IN. CALIFORNIA, CAUSING REAL CONCERN. TONIGHT. THESE ARE THE IMAGES SHOWING THE. SINKHOLE SWALLOWING CARS AND. THREATENING NEARBY BUILDINGS IN. VENTURA. CITY LEADERS SAYING THE. CONSTRUCTION PROJECT APPEARS TO. BE AT FAULT, SITE CITING A. SHORING FAILURE AS TO WHY THE. GROUND CAVED IN. CREWS RIGHT NOW TRYING TO FIGURE. OUT HOW TO PREVENT ANY FURTHER. DAMAGE. >>> WHEN WE COME BACK HERE. TONIGHT, NBA SUPERSTAR ZION. WILLIAMSON HIT WITH MAJOR. ACCUSATIONS TONIGHT. HIS LEGAL TEAM IS FIRING BACK. >>> AND TAYLOR SWIFT CRYING. TEARS OF JOY AFTER HER BIG.

REVEAL TONIGHT. >> David: TO THE INDEX OF OTHER. NEWS ON A FRIDAY NIGHT. A BOMBSHELL LAWSUIT ACCUSING NBA. STAR ZION WILLIAMSON OF RAPE. A WOMAN IDENTIFIED AS JANE DOE. FILING THE SUIT IN LOS ANGELES. AGAINST THE PELICANS FORWARD. THE WOMAN CLAIMING BETWEEN 2018. AND 2023, WILLIAMSON ALLEGEDLY. RAPED HER AND SUBJECTED HER TO. ABUSE. WILLIAMSON'S LEGAL TEAM. DENYING ALL ALLEGATIONS AND. CALLING THIS AN EXPLOITATION. ATTEMPT. >>> TAYLOR SWIFT TAKING CONTROL.

OF ALL HER MUSIC NOW. THE SINGER REVEALING IN AN. EMOTIONAL ANNOUNCEMENT SHE. BOUGHT BACK THE RIGHTS TO HER. FIRST SIX ALBUMS, NOW OWNING HER. ENTIRE CATALOG. THE DEAL MARKING THE END OF A. YEARS-LONG BATTLE TO GET CONTROL. OVER HER OWN WORK. SWIFT TELLING HER FANS SHE BURST. INTO TEARS UPON REALIZING HER. DREAM WAS COMING TRUE. WHAT A LONG FIGHT THAT WAS. >>> WHEN WE COME BACK HERE, HOW. DO YOU SPELL ECLAIRCISSEMENT? I'M NOT EVEN SURE I SAID THAT. CORRECTLY, BUT YOU GOT TO SEE THE MOMENT ---. >> David: FINALLY TONIGHT HERE, OUR PERSON OF THE WEEK. HE WAS RUNNER-UP LAST YEAR, AND.

HE VOWED TO RETURN TO WIN IT. ALL. THE SCRIPPS NATIONAL SPELLING. BEE TURNING 100 YEARS OLD, AND. TONIGHT, A NEW CHAMPION. 13-YEAR-OLD FAIZAN ZAKI FROM. ALLEN, TEXAS. HE ACTUALLY MADE TO IT THE. FINALS LAST YEAR, FINISHING. SECOND AFTER A RAPID-FIRE. TIEBREAKER. AND HE CAME BACK THIS YEAR. DETERMINED TO WIN. FAIZAN WITH A CHANCE TO WIN IT. ALL WITH THIS WORD. >> ECLAIRCISSEMENT. >> ECLAIRCISSEMENT.

E-C-L-A-I-R-C-I-S-S-. E-M-E-N-T. ECLAIRCISSEMENT. >> THAT IS CORRECT. >> Reporter: ECLAIRCISSEMENT, MEANING THE CLEANING-UP OF. SOMETHING OBSCURE. IT'S OBSCURE, ALL RIGHT, AND HE. GOT IT. FAIZAN IS ONLY THE FIFTH. CONTESTANT EVER TO WIN THE YEAR. AFTER FINISHING IN SECOND PLACE, NOT SEEN IN MORE THAN 20 YEARS. >> PLEASED, REALLY PLEASED TO. PRESENT YOU WITH THE SCRIPPS. CUP. >> David: ON "GMA" THIS MORNING,

HE DID ADMIT THIS. >> I ENJOY DOING IT. I AM GLAD IT'S OVER NOW, THOUGH. >> David: GLAD IT'S OVER, BUT. ALREADY PREPARING FOR WHAT COULD. COME NEXT. >> I REALLY ENJOY MATH, SO MAYBE. I CAN TRY, LIKE, GETTING INTO, LIKE, THE INTERNATIONAL MATH. OLYMPIAD. >> David: PERHAPS THE MATH. OLYMPIAD IS NEXT, BUT TONIGHT, SAVORING HIS WIN. AND SO WE CHOOSE FAIZAN ZAKI, THE MATH OLYMPIAD IS NEXT. THE REST OF US MIGHT JUST GET TO. THE WEEKEND AND HAVE A DRINK. I'M DAVID MUIR. I'LL SEE YOU ON MONDAY. GOOD NIGHT.

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