ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - Sept. 1, 2026

David Muir, ABC's World News Tonight, America's. most watched newscast. Now streaming same day with all the breaking news of. the day on Disney plus. Most watched, most trusted now on Disney plus every night. Tonight, the breaking news, a tropical storm. slams into the U.S. and a severe thunderstorm watch up in New York. City, Philadelphia, and much of the. Northeast tonight. Tropical Storm Edouard slamming into the Gulf Coast, Damaging winds tonight up to 60 miles per hour. The major flood threat now, our team in the middle of it all.

Also this severe thunderstorm watch up right now in the. northeast, Ginger Zee standing by. Also the images coming in tonight, dramatic video showing. a man struck by lightning in front of his home in New. York City and surviving. The chilling new video tonight of that knife attack in New. York's Times Square, the suspect waving knives in both hands. And tonight, the victim who died, a young woman, a bank. executive, newly married. Tonight, the breaking headline outside Boston, the jury. in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial, sending a message.

to the judge, deadlocked. And what the judge then told them. Tonight, the U.S. launching airstrikes on Iran as the war. now enters its seventh month. Tonight, the unarmed college student killed after. knocking on the wrong door. And this evening, the police officer now charged with. voluntary manslaughter. The horrific new images just now emerging of. the horror in Nepal. Seventy-five Americans still missing. Searchers now fear they could be trapped in air. pockets deep inside the mud.

Just in tonight, the jet off the runway, multiple. people on board escaping. We have new video showing the stunning moment a small. plane slams into the ocean. Tonight, former NFL star Tony Romo now breaking his silence. What he's now saying about his drunk driving arrest. There's also news coming in right now involving Tiger Woods. and the Halloween candy recall in multiple states. And after more than 30 years, we celebrate a beloved. member of our ABC family. The whole city knows her by her first name, and we loved.

it when she was right here with us. From ABC News World Headquarters in New York, this is World. News Tonight with David Muir. Good evening and it's great to have you with us here on. a very busy Tuesday night. We begin tonight with breaking news. Tropical Storm Edouard making landfall, slamming into the. Gulf Coast a short time ago. And in New York City tonight, we're tracking a. severe thunderstorm watch up right now for New York, Philadelphia and much of the Northeast. They're not ruling out tornadoes and.

damaging winds. First, the tropical storm tonight, making landfall on the border between Louisiana and. Texas images of the storm hitting Port Arthur, Texas, heavy rain and winds gusting up to 60 MPH. There is a major flash flood. threat up to nine inches of rain expected in some. areas. Flood warnings in effect, rough surf battering. the coastline, a possible storm surge several ft. Tonight we're tracking those severe storms moving into. the northeast, heavy rain delaying the U. S. Open the real potential for. damaging winds, flight delays at JFK Airport.

So Ginger Zee is here tonight. and abc's Melissa Don in the path of this. tropical storm tonight. This intense and slow-moving tropical system is. packing a punch along the Gulf Coast tonight. Just before making landfall near the Texas-Louisiana. state line, Edouard gaining strength, roaring. ashore, winds topping 60 miles per hour. Power lines snapped. This camera at the Port of Sabine Pass capturing. the moment it tore through this vital shipping.

hub in the Gulf. It's always worse along the coast. Officials asking people to be on alert for life. threatening flooding. Residents could see storm surge up to three ft in. some places. We're near the Texas Louisiana state line. We feel those incredibly heavy rain bands as. tropicals from Edward moved inland. in the east. Residents racing for scenes like this. Air traffic ahead of the busy travel holiday backed. up, rolling ground stops.

At one point, flights out of New York's JFK delayed for nearly. two hours due to thunderstorms. Nearby at the U.S. Open, waves of heavy rain. halting play for hours. But out west, relief after rounds of flash flooding. It's a burping! Oh my gosh! Drenching rain pummeling Zion National Park. And in the Grand Canyon, days after creeks turned. into raging rivers, destroying trails. and foot bridges, officials now say they've.

located the bodies of two hikers that were killed. Investigators telling our Trevor Ault crews are now using dogs, drones, and Bluetooth scanners, David's team is helping to. locate the one person still missing. We do have multiple teams on the ground, four. teams on the ground from Border Patrol. We also have two drone teams and with lots of. technology down there trying to find any clues we can. David, we're feeling the effects of. this powerful tropical system with this heavy wind and rain. coming through. Parts of this area have been under flash flood.

warnings all day with some areas seeing up to four inches. of rain falling per hour, which is why officials are telling. people to be on alert. David. Alright, get back into it. Stay safe, Melissa and our team. Thank you. Let's get right to ABC chief meteorologist. Ginger Zee tracking it all for us tonight. Hi, Ginger. Hi David, Edward is moving northwest at 7 mph. It will crawl and creep over southeast Texas, which is why. you see all that green on the map with the flood alerts. that go back to Bryan and Houston, all the way up to Ash. Lufkin not only has that, but also wind advisories that will.

take wind gusts up to 40 mph. So through tonight into the early morning hours of. Wednesday, we'll be dealing with Edward. Behind it will come six to even now 12 inches of rain between. West Livingston and Lufkin. Let's go to the Northeast. You already heard we've had a rough start to the day and. now there are several severe thunderstorm warnings. blowing through parts of Eastern Pennsylvania. We keep seeing tornado warnings pop on these too. So from the Hudson Valley through New York City. and Long Island to Philadelphia and eventually.

Dover down to Rehoboth Beach, we have a severe thunderstorm. watch till midnight tomorrow And even Friday, Washington, D.C. will have a chance at these severe storms, too. David. Ginger Zee back with us tonight. We'll see you first thing in the morning. Thank you, Ginger. Meantime, here in New York City tonight, dramatic videos showing. a man surviving a lightning strike in front of his. home on Staten Island. A doorbell camera capturing Thomas Fahmy walking to his car, the lightning bolt knocking him to the ground. A neighbor calling 911, Fahmy spending the night in the. hospital, but remarkably, he did not suffer any burns or.

injuries. Tonight, there's chilling new video of. the deadly knife attack in New York's Times Square. The suspect you'll see surrounded by police waving. knives in both hands and tonight the victim who. died a young woman, a bank executive newly. married. Here's Matt Rivers. tonight, chilling new video of that horrifying. random stabbing attack in the heart of New York. City. Police surrounding the suspect armed with two. And tonight, ABC News has learned the second victim is. 32-year-old Aaron Piacenza, who was shot in the head. with a knife in Times Square. Moments after, authorities say she stabbed two. people, including a young Bank of America executive.

That suspect appearing to threaten police. Officers deploying tasers and opening fire, shooting her. That suspect later died at the hospital. Police say the suspect stabbed two people within 20 seconds. A 68-year-old man was wounded. What happened? Someone stabbed her. And tonight, ABC News has learned the second. victim is 32-year-old Erin Piacenti, a vice. president at Bank of America. The victim had recently celebrated her second. wedding anniversary.

This was an extraordinarily dangerous situation unfolding in. the heart of Times Square, the. David in a statement, Bank of America saying it is shocked. and deeply saddened over the death of Erin Piacenti, adding. she was a valued teammate who will be greatly missed. David, Matt Rivers back with us tonight. Matt, thank you. Outside Boston tonight, the jury in the Lindsay. Clancy murder trial sending a message to the judge. saying they are deadlocked. Lindsay Clancy charged with strangling her three young. children, what the judge then told the jury.

Aaron Katersky at the courthouse again tonight. Tonight the jury deciding whether Massachusetts. mother, Lindsay Clancy, should be held criminally. responsible for killing her three young children is stuck. Members of the jury, I've got your question and the. question is, after many hours of deliberation, we are unable to come to a unanimous decision. The judge ordering the nine women and three. men to keep trying. I know that this was a long trial. All right.

I know there were over 80 witnesses. There were over 300 exhibits. And but because of that, I'm going to ask you to go back out. The jury deliberated another few hours before. leaving for the night. I don't know what they're thinking, what they're. doing, what they're talking. I just know that they are working very hard. -The jury must climb inside Clancy's mind. during a 20-minute period in January 2023. when she sent her husband to run errands, strangled 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 8-month-old Callan, then tried to kill herself,

jumping from a two-story window, leaving herself. partially paralyzed. -On the day of the killing, I would label that a postpartum. psychosis in the sense that it was a postpartum onset. and she was clearly psychotic on that day. The prosecution's expert disputed the depths of. Clancy's mental illness. She retained an awareness of the illegality of killing others, including killing her children.

Her moral awareness of the wrongfulness of this killing. was influenced by her strong desire to die and, if she. were dead, not to leave her children behind. And for the jury, David, this may not be so simple. There are five possible verdicts, anything from murder. to manslaughter to not guilty by reason of insanity. The jury is deliberated about 22 hours over four days. They'll be back for a fifth day tomorrow morning. Eric Katersky, outside Boston tonight. Aaron, thank you.

Tonight, the U.S. launching airstrikes on Iran as the war. now enters its seventh month. And Vladimir Putin tonight with a major show of. support, meeting with Iran. Here's Mary Bruce. Tonight, a sharp escalation in the war, the U.S. and Iran trading intense attacks as President. Trump issues a familiar threat. If things keep going in this direction, Iran. will be, quote, "totally wiped out" as a country. The president had been trying to downplay the scope of the war. This is a relatively little war for us.

This is not a big war. But the U.S. now launching a new round of attacks after. Iran struck two tankers in the Strait of Hormuz. Trump saying the Pentagon is also targeting. Iran's radar systems. Iran claims the U.S. is striking civilian areas, including a wedding. The Pentagon responding, "We're aware of the reports. The U.S. military never targets civilians. Iran now firing missiles and drones at U.S. allies, including Jordan. Today in a striking show of support, Russia's.

Vladimir Putin sitting down with Iran's president. Putin pledging, quote, "In this difficult period, we're. trying to provide you with the necessary support. We're supplying you with goods that you need. And David, the Trump administration is trying. to turn up the economic pressure on Iran. Treasury Secretary Scott Besant saying they are going. to, quote, economically asphyxiate Iran and force. them to the bargaining table. But David, so far, no signs Iran is giving in. Mary Bruce at the White House tonight.

Mary, thank you. Tonight, the unarmed college student in Pennsylvania. killed by police after knocking on the wrong door. This evening, a police officer now charged with voluntary. manslaughter in this case. Here's Pierre Thomas now. Tonight, this image from police body camera footage. shows the moment just before Upper Pottsville Police. Corporal Sean Farrow fired the two shots that killed 22. year old Glenwood Pysher. Tonight, Corporal Farrow has been charged with voluntary. manslaughter for shooting an unarmed young man in a.

heartbreaking story about being in the wrong place at the. The FBI is investigating a man who was in the home for a long. time. He had no weapon. He did not charge the officer or. act aggressively in any way. He was not a threat to the homeowners who were inside their. residence. Authorities say just after midnight on August. 23rd, Pysher had been drinking and was confused about where he. was showing up at this house, prompting those inside to call. police. He was knocking on the back door saying, Hey, let.

me in, thinking it was his friend's house, but it wasn't. Authorities say Corporal Farrell arrived a short time. later and claimed a young man began yelling at him. and refusing to comply. But today prosecutors say the officer's own body camera. footage tells a different story. The body-worn camera video does not depict charging, yelling. or screaming prior to the shooting. Peicher was a rising senior in college. He was set to go back to campus days before he was shot.

David. Pierre Thomas with us tonight. Pierre, thank you. Overseas tonight, the horrific new images just now emerging. of the horror in Nepal. Tonight, 75 Americans are still missing and searchers now. fear that some could be trapped in air pockets buried. deep inside the mud. ABC's Britt Klennett in Kathmandu tonight. Tonight, new and horrifying images of the flooding that. destroyed villages in Nepal and Tibet.

Home and businesses buried in several feet of mud. More than a thousand people have been. There are monsoon rains here, but we've just seen them carry. out bodies, families have been taken on board this. rescue helicopter and they're about to take off. A crew searching for more than 600 hydropower workers who may. still be trapped in air pockets It's deep inside these. mud-filled tunnels. Rescuers using drones equipped with thermal cameras. searching for signs of life. Saroj Shrestha from Scranton, Pennsylvania, says his brother,

Niraj, was working at one of those sites inside an. office when the flood hit. I do believe in miracle and the past of thoughts. The missing man's son holding out hope. We still think that he's trapped out there and. we want our government to proceed more faster. because due to the lack of oxygen, he might die as well. An urgent search for the workers trapped in those tunnels, David, they're using thermal drones to get a closer look. Still no sign of life yet, while families of those 75.

Americans desperate for answers. David, that thermal drone video is really something. Let's hope they find them. for it, thank you. Back here in the U.S. tonight, the dramatic scene, a small jet. plane overshooting the runway. While landing in Porterville, California, this is north of. Bakersfield. Six people on board, including two pilots. and four doctors, on their way to perform surgery. We're told everyone escaped the plane. Tonight, nearly 30 years after the murder of Tupac Shakur near. the Las Vegas Strip, that guilty verdict overnight, Dwayne Davis.

convicted for orchestrating the shooting on September 7th, 1996. The D.A. telling ABC News, Davis' own words came back to. haunt him. For years, he said, He was in the car. during the shooting. After nearly three decades, the jury deliberating. less than three hours. Davis now facing life in prison when we come back here tonight, saying goodbye to a beloved member of our ABC family. We loved it when she was here. Also, there is news coming in tonight right. now on Tiger Woods. We'll have more on that in a moment. And former NFL star Tony Romo now breaking his silence. What he's now saying about his drunk driving arrest.

will be right back here. Tonight, former NFL quarterback Tony Romo breaking his silence. after pleading no contest to driving while impaired. Romo taking responsibility after his arrest in Milwaukee. in July, saying injuries from his playing career led to a. dependence on pain medication and an over-reliance on alcohol. Romo saying he's now working on his health and his. return as an analyst for CBS. Tonight, Tiger Woods set for a change of plea. hearing on his DUI arrest. Woods pleaded not guilty in March after a rollover. crashed near his Florida home.

His court appearance originally set for next week, but a. change of plea hearing now set for tomorrow. It's still unclear tonight how Woods may change his plea or if. he's reached a plea deal with prosecutors. Now to the dramatic video tonight of a small banner plane. crashing right into the ocean. This is right off Florida's New Smyrna Beach. The video is showing the plane losing altitude, hitting the water, flipping over right there. The pilot radioing he had engine failure. Witnesses ran to help the pilot, the only person on board. suffering only minor injuries. The FAA is investigating.

When we come back here tonight, the Halloween candy recall. in multiple states tonight and celebrating a beloved. member of our ABC family. A whole city knows her by her first name. and you'll know her too. To the index of other news tonight, some Halloween candy is now being recalled. because of a life-threatening allergy risk. The recall involving five different packages. of Little Temptations chocolatey eyeballs, they're called, because they may contain milk that was not listed. on the wrapper. The candy sold at TJ Maxx, Marshall's, Home Goods, and Sierra stores in 13 states.

No illnesses reported to date, but we have much more. on our website for you. Tonight, a beloved member of the ABC family. signing off and giving her final forecast in Philadelphia. Chief meteorologist, Cecily Tynan, arrived at our Philly station WPVI Action News in 1995, Reporting of course in good weather and bad. for nearly 31 years, establishing a true. connection with viewers, becoming a household name in. the city of brotherly love. Everyone knows Cecily. From time to time, we had the honor of. having Cecily right here on World News Tonight and. on Good Morning America. Cecily, of course, a mom, a wife, a champion for animals,

an accomplished athlete, and beloved in Philly. After her final broadcast, her colleagues raised a glass. to celebrate her last night, and we were definitely. right there in spirit. I'll be looking for your water skis, Cecily. When we come back here tonight, the baby boom at the LA Zoo, and they're giving us the first look right here tonight. at a major milestone. You've gotta see this. Finally tonight here at the LA Zoo, celebrating a major milestone this evening. after quite a baby boom. Tonight here, the images shared with us by the LA Zoo,

the rare great ape baby boom. Five great apes born in just four months, endangered species, and look at them now. those newborns now toddlers reaching a new milestone. their first birthday. It started last August, 36. year old Yoshi giving birth to a female chimpanzee, the first. chimpanzee born at the LA Zoo in more than a decade. A month later, 19 year old Vindy welcoming. another female chimpanzee. And then a third baby, mom Zoe, giving birth to a male.

The zoo welcoming little Bintang too, the critically endangered Bornean orangutan, the first one born there in nearly 15 years. Mom teaching him how to climb, now Bintang trying. to do it on his own. His name means star, and the zoo says he's living up to it. And that's not all. A Western lowland gorilla also born at the zoo. Mom and Gia holding him. That's Dad Kelly right behind them. All five now walking on their own, eating solid foods, exploring.

And right here tonight. Hi, David. Candace and Megan at the L.A. Zoo on this rare and new milestone, all. of them turning one. It's a rare treat to have an infant from each of the. three eight species here. We're pretty blessed and fortunate that it. worked out this way. And it's a real testament to the teamwork out here. It's been so exciting to watch them grow up over this last year. and bond with their moms and other members of the. group and even members.

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