ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - Oct. 24, 2025

Tonight, breaking news as we come on the. air, striking their target. The new. images coming in, the 10th military. strike on a suspected drug boat in the. Caribbean. At least six people killed. And tonight, President Trump now sending. an aircraft carrier strike group [music]. to the waters of Central and South. America. We'll go live to Martha Ratitz. Tonight, day 24 of the government. [music] shutdown. Hundreds of thousands. of workers now going without their. paychecks. Congress is still getting. paid. President Trump cutting off trade. talks with Canada over an ad featuring.

former President Ronald [music] Reagan. And the new inflation report tonight. showing inflation here in this country. climbing at its fastest [music] rate. since January. Beef prices for one. soaring. Tropical [music] Storm Melissa. gaining strength in the Atlantic. A. hurricane by tomorrow, expected to be a. major category 4 by Sunday. The new. models just in tonight. The potential. track of this storm. The alarming scene. outside a Coast Guard base. Police. opening fire during a protest. A U-Haul. truck backing up into the gate. It comes.

after jarring images showing a minister. hit in the face by a flashbang. A. National [music] Guard plane coming down. across a highway, hitting power lines. and crashing. A Delta passenger jet. forced to [music] abort takeoff. Flames. shooting from the right engine. The. systemwide outage cancelling hundreds of. flights. Travelers stranded for hours. What Alaska Airlines is now saying. tonight. New York Attorney General. Leticia James pleading [music] not. guilty. Tonight, accusing the Justice. Department of being quote used as a tool.

of revenge. Here in New York City, the. heated race for mayor one day after. Andrew Cuomo laughed after a radio host. said Zon Mandani would cheer if there. was another 9/11. Tonight, Mamani before. the cameras responding. His [music]. personal and at times emotional message. for voters here. Tonight in Boston, there's been a deadly crane collapse. At. [music] least two people have been. killed this evening. The recall, the. popular wipes now being recalled because. of a possible risk of serious infection.

And tonight, you'll see it. The. extraordinary rescue. The mom who jumped. in to help save nearly two dozen. children. Just moments later, the bus. engulfed in flames. Her bravery. Our. person of the week. From ABC News World Headquarters [music]. in New York. This is World News Tonight. with David Mure. >> Good evening. We begin tonight with the. breaking news. The Trump administration. ramping up its military crackdown on. suspected drug boats heading into the.

US. A huge escalation in this operation. The Pentagon now deploying an entire. aircraft carrier strike group to the. waters off Central and South America. The move coming hours after Secretary. Pete Hgse posted new video showing the. latest strike on an alleged drug boat in. the Caribbean. At least six people. killed. The boat was off of Venezuela. It's the third such attack this week, the 10th since the operation began last. month. Now, the US military is sending. the USS Gerald Ford carrier group to the. region. Thousands of US troops on board. ABC's Martha Ratitz leading us off.

tonight. Tonight, a US aircraft carrier and. multiple warships now steaming towards. the Caribbean. A dramatic escalation in. what President Trump calls his war on. drug cartels. this as a deadly new air. strike obliterated a suspected drug. boat. Secretary Pete Hegsath posting. video of that overnight attack. The boat. taking a direct hit, exploding in. flames. Hegsathth saying at least six.

people were killed, claiming without. evidence the boat was being operated by. Trend de Aragua, a designated terrorist. organization. It's the 10th known. military attack on alleged drug boats, including two in the eastern Pacific. Ocean of Central America. And tonight, the orders for that new ferocious show. of force. The USS Ford carrier strike. group heading to the region. That. carrier bristling with firepower, including F-18 fighter jets, missile.

launchers, and attack submarines, adding. some 5,000 American forces to the 10,000. already in the region. President Trump, who has said land attacks could be next, pressed if he will seek a declaration of. war. >> I don't think we're going to necessarily. ask for a declaration of war. I think. we're just going to kill people that are. bringing drugs into our country. While. the vast majority of Republican. lawmakers support the president's. actions against cartels, concern is.

growing. >> You can't randomly just blow up the. enemy without identifying them and. accusing them of crime unless you're at. war. >> David, we have seen these air strikes. again and again on these boats the. administration says are carrying drugs. But President Trump is now threatening. land strikes on drug cartels, which. those fighter jets on the carrier are. fully capable of carrying out. David. >> Martha Ratit leading us off on a Friday. night. Martha, thank you. Tonight, day. 24 of this government shutdown. Hundreds. of thousands of workers now going.

without their paychecks. And tonight, the new inflation report showing. inflation in this country rising at its. fastest pace since last January, up 3%. last month compared to a year ago. Prices rising, beef prices soaring. Economists say the tariffs are partly to. blame. And tonight, President Trump. cutting off trade talks with Canada over. an ad featuring Ronald Reagan. What he. says in the ad. Here's Elizabeth. Schelsey tonight. >> Thank you. >> Tonight, President Trump abruptly. launching a new trade war with Canada, declaring all trade negotiations with.

Canada are hereby terminated. The. president infuriated by this ad produced. by the province of Ontario, which uses. the words of former President Ronald. Reagan. >> High tariffs inevitably lead to. retaliation [music] by foreign countries. and the triggering of fierce trade wars. Trump posting accusing Canada of trying. to illegally influence the United States. Supreme Court, which is set to hear. arguments in two weeks on whether the. president's sweeping tariffs are. constitutional. Canada's prime minister.

sounding resigned. >> We can't control the trade policy of the. United States. >> Trump's tariffs are now beginning to. affect the prices we pay for everything. from furniture to clothes to groceries. A new government report shows inflation. is picking up, prices increasing 3% from. last year. The typical American. household is now spending an extra $28. per month. Trina Duda, a mother of a. second grader, says she's feeling it. >> This gallon of milk is $2 more than it. was. >> than it was like a month ago. Yeah. >> At the grocery store, tariffs are.

hitting imported foods. Coffee prices. surging 41% in the past year. Lettuce up. 21%. Sirloin steak up 20%. >> How much did you pay for your groceries. today? >> $55. more or less than last month. >> Maybe five or 10% more. >> That's a pretty big difference. >> Yeah, I'm not happy with it. >> It comes as the government shutdown. drags into day 24 with no end in sight. Today, more than half a million workers. miss their first full paycheck. Many of.

them employees at the Pentagon, HHS, and. the VA. Another 700,000 plus people will. miss their first full paycheck next. week. At this food bank in Alexandria, Virginia, a furled worker at the. Department of Defense telling us that. she feels like a pawn in the game. >> This distribution is happening every. Friday as long as the government. shutdown happens. >> Furious that lawmakers are getting their. paychecks, but she's not. >> They need to go without a paycheck. They. need to get low on food so they can. understand what we're dealing with. It's.

not fair. It's just not fair. David, again, this is day 24 of the. government shutdown, and right now, Republicans and Democrats don't even. seem to be talking to each other. President Trump leaves tonight for a. summit in Asia, David. >> And as you point out, these American. workers fully aware Congress is still. getting paid. Elizabeth, thank you. Tonight, we're keeping a close watch on. Tropical Storm Melissa, gaining strength. in the Atlantic, set to become a. hurricane by tomorrow, and a major. category 4 hurricane by Sunday night. Jamaica bracing for flooding, mudslides, power outages. The storm already deadly.

tonight. Heavy rain and flooding in. Haiti and the Dominican Republic. And. tonight, the new models are in here. The. potential path from there. Let's get. right to chief meteorologist Lee. Goldberg from WABC with us again. tonight. Hi, Lee. David, a sobering update from the. hurricane center tonight because the new. forecast track is really a worst case. scenario for Jamaica. Melissa's been. strengthening today, a 65 mph storm. You. can see thunderstorms tightening around. the center, a sign of strengthening. But. now it's going to become a hurricane. tomorrow. likely rapidly intensify on. Sunday in a major hurricane and a track.

that goes near or right over Jamaica. Monday into Tuesday. Devastating impact. and then over to Cuba after that. It's. moving so slowly that it'll dump fire. hoses of rain over parts of Hispanol and. Jamaica. Catastrophic flooding, landslides, and destructive winds. We. could be measuring the rain in feet in. parts of Haiti and Jamaica into. Wednesday and Thursday of next week. Finally, the storm goes over Cuba, into. the Bahamas, and then out in the. Atlantic. We're covering it all weekend. long. David, >> monster of a storm. Lee Goldberg, thank. you. Tonight, the alarming scene outside. a Coast Guard base. Federal agents.

opening fire during a protest. A U-Haul. truck backing up into the gate in Alama, California. Here's Ka Whipworth with the. pictures tonight. >> This is the Coast Guard. >> This is the moment federal agents opened. fire on a U-Haul, backing up toward them. before speeding away from this Coast. Guard base near San Francisco. >> Is anyone injured? >> Anybody? >> The Coast Guard says officers opened. fire after the driver ignored verbal. commands to stop. That driver wounded. according to Homeland Security who says. a protester was also struck by a.

fragment. That shooting coming after a day of. clashes. Protesters tried to block. border patrol vehicles arriving at the. base as agents used flashbangs to. disperse the crowd. Back. it up right now. >> DHS says protesters attacked and were. given a warning to clear the street but. refused to move. A pastor seen here. standing with a sign when an agent fires. a flashbang from just a few feet away.

>> That minister helped by others at the. scene. >> I obviously was shocked with whatever. that border patrol had directly from his. face in that case and saying we're here. in peace and he didn't care. >> Yesterday, President Trump called off a. planned surge of agents to San Francisco. at least for now. But this week, clashes. escalating in cities like New York and. Chicago, where Border Patrol Chief Greg. Bovino was seen allegedly hurling a tear. gas canister. A judge ordering him to. appear in court over the use of force. Today, the Department of Homeland.

Security defending his action, saying. the chief had been hit in the head by. protesters launching commercial. fireworks. And David, while authorities. tell us the incident at the California. Coast Guard base is isolated, they say. it also highlights an increase in claims. of vehicle ramming attacks against. federal agents. And the suspect in this. case has now been released from the. hospital and is in custody. David. >> Ka Whitworth with us. Ka, thank you. Tonight, New York Attorney General. Leticia James pleading not guilty to. federal charges. One of President. Trump's top targets. And tonight, what.

she's now saying, accusing the president. of using the Justice Department as a. tool of revenge. Here's Pierre Thomas. now. [cheering]. >> Tonight, a defiant New York Attorney. General [music] Leticia James pleading. not guilty to federal charges after. President Trump urged his justice. department to go after her. >> So there's no fear today. >> All right. >> No fear. >> No fear. >> No fear. >> No fear. >> No fear. >> No fear. >> No fear. Because I believe that justice.

will rain down like water. >> and righteousness like a mighty stream. >> James had targeted the president ever. since she brought a half billion dollar. civil fraud case against Trump and his. family. Trump publicly urged Attorney. General Pam Bondi to prosecute her. >> Looks to me like she's very guilty of. something, but I really don't know. The. veteran prosecutor investigating James. determined there was not enough evidence. to bring charges. So Trump forced him. out quickly installing his own former.

personal attorney, Lindseay Halligan, an. insurance attorney who has never. prosecuted a case. Halagan convinced the. grand jury to indict James on two counts. related to alleged mortgage fraud. She's. accused of obtaining a favorable. mortgage on a house in Virginia by. allegedly telling the bank she planned. to use it as a secondary residence. Prosecutors claim she actually used it. as a rental property. James says his. case is about only one thing, retribution. >> This is about all of us.

>> and about a justice system which has. been weaponized. >> A a justice system which has been a to. been used as a tool of revenge. James is the third nemesis of Trump to. be indicted in less than a month along. with former FBI director James Comey and. former national security adviser John. Bolton. And David, there are more names. on that list and more investigations. underway. >> Pierre Thomas with us tonight. Pierre, thank you. This evening, dramatic images. of a National Guard plane coming down in.

Oklahoma City. The pilot and civilian. contractor on board were on a training. mission. The plane coming down across a. highway there in front of those cars. crashing into a field. The plane hitting. power lines, sparking a brush fire. The. two people on board were not hurt. A. Delta passenger jet was forced to abort. takeoff. It happened at the Minneapolis. St. Paul airport. Flames shooting from. the right engine. The plane speeding. down the runway. Flames coming from. under the wing. Emergency crews racing. to the aircraft. No one was hurt. And. tonight, Alaska Airlines working to get.

back on schedule now following a. systemwide IT outage cancelling more. than 400 flights across the US. The. sudden ground stop stranding thousands. of passengers for hours. The airline. says it's working to get passengers to. their destinations as quickly as. possible. In New York City tonight, the. heated race for mayor turning personal. One day after Andrew Cuomo laughed after. a radio host said Zoron Mandani would. cheer if there was another 9/11. Tonight, Mani coming before the cameras. to respond. His personal and at times. emotional message for the voters. Here's.

Trevor Alt. Tonight, in an emotional. speech, Assemblyman Zoron Mandani, the. frontr runner in the race for New York. City mayor, declaring that despite. recent attacks from his opponents, he. will not run from his Muslim faith, pointing out 1 million Muslims live in. this city, and they are New Yorkers like. everyone else. >> Will we remain in the shadows or will we. together step into the light? >> Amdani responding to this moment. his. rival, former Governor Andrew Cuomo,

laughing when a radio host said Manny. would likely cheer on another 911. attack. >> God forbid another 9/11. Can you imagine. Mandami in the seat? >> Yeah, I could. He He'd be cheering. [laughter]. >> Another problem. Uh, but can you imagine. that. >> today? Mom Donnie calling out those. comments. Yesterday, Andrew Cuomo laughed and agreed when a.

radio host said that I would cheer. another 9/11, >> saying New York Muslims had been forced. to live in the shadows. >> The dream of every Muslim is simply be. treated the same as any other New. Yorker. And yet, for too long, we have been told. to ask for less than that and to be. satisfied with whatever little we. receive. No more. Hours later, Cuomo firing back, accusing Mom Donnie of dividing people, calling him an actor and citing his.

outspoken views on the war between. Israel and Hamas. >> He is not the victim. He is the. offender. >> Mandani insisting he will stay true to. himself. >> There are 12 days remaining until. election day. I will be a Muslim man in. New York City each of those 12 days and. every day that follows after that. I will not change who I am, how I eat, or the faith that I am proud to call my.

own. >> And David, after months of waiting. today, House Minority Leader Hakee Jeff, who's from New York, endorsed Zoron. Mandani. The elections now less than two. weeks away. David, Trevor on the mayoral. race. Trevor, thanks. Tonight, amid that. new inflation report showing prices. rising at the fastest pace since last. January. The stock market finishing the. week at an all-time high. The Dow. gaining 472 points, closing above 47,000. for the first time ever. A new record. for the Nasdaq as well, up 263 points, closing at 23,24. The S&P 500 adding 53 points, closing at.

a record 6791. When we come back on a Friday night, the. images coming in. There's been a deadly. crane collapse. The crane coming down. near Boston, at least two dead tonight. What we know so far. Also ahead, the. extraordinary rescue. a mom who jumped. in to get 22 children off a school bus. when she saw it was on fire. The bus. then engulfed in flames. In a moment. here. tonight, there's been a deadly crane. collapse outside Boston. The pictures. here, the massive crane coming down at a.

dockyard in Everett this afternoon. Aerial pictures show the crane across. the dock there, partially leaning right. into the water. Authorities say two. workers were killed. There's no word yet. tonight on what caused this collapse. When we come back here, the recall. tonight. Some popular wipes being. recalled now because of risk of possible. infection. And that bus engulfed in. flames moments after a mom helped get 22. children off the bus. And you'll see it. in a moment. To the index of other news. Neutrogena. tonight recalling makeup remover wipes. due to an infection risk. Neutrogena.

recalling its ultra soft cleansing. towelettes in packs of 25 and 50. The. FDA tonight saying the wipes may be. contaminated with a bacteria that could. cause serious infections including. sepsis. The recall affects 1300 cases of. these wipes shipped to Texas, South. Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. When we. come back tonight, the school bus on. fire, the mom who jumped in to help get. 22 children off. And what happened just. moments later. Finally tonight here, we already know. moms are brave, but this was quite.

something. Our person of the week. tonight in East Bethl, Minnesota, just. outside Minneapolis, an entire community. grateful for a mother who saw something. was wrong and immediately acted. Mom. Carrie Thorp walking out her front door. as the school bus was pulling up. Her. six-year-old daughter, Oakland, coming. home from kindergarten. The bus packed. with children, 22 and all. Immediately, that mom notices a fire under the front. right tire. the family's [music]. doorbell cam, capturing the entire. thing. As her daughter steps off the.

bus, that mom alerts the bus driver, pointing to the fire. She then runs to. the bus door to help get the rest of the. children off that bus, telling them all. to run up the driveway to her front. porch. The children, of course, frightened with their backpacks still. on, huddling on the front porch. Smoke. now billowing from the front of the bus. The mom and the bus driver then moving. them even further away. And then a. minute later, the front of the bus. engulfed in flames. and then an explosion.

Firefighters racing to the neighborhood, putting out the [music] flames, melting. the bus, the tires, all of the children. Okay. The school, East Bethl Elementary, later gathering the children and. thanking that mom and the bus driver. And right here tonight, >> good evening, David. >> That brave [music] mother, Carrie Thorp, from her front porch. the mom who saw. something and acted. >> It's a constant reminder to stay aware. of what is happening around you, to. always look up, to always have your eyes.

forward. It is truly about the community. we have here that came together to help. these children out who were frightened, scared, and we just wanted to keep them. safe. >> And you did. So, we choose that mom, Carrie Thorp. Incredible. I'll see you. Monday. 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 a.

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