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

 

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00:00 Intro

 

Tonight, breaking news, 2026 brings in with extreme weather from coast to coast.

 

Snow and bitter cold from the Great Lakes to the Northeast. Millions waking up to frigid temperatures. A heavy snow squall ripping through Pennsylvania into upstate New York.

 

squall [skwɔl] n.暴风，飑

 

While in the West, millions of Americans are under a flood threat as another round of heavy rain and mountain snow hits California. The Rose Parade, a near washout. Our weather team standing by what's in store for the coming week.

 

washout [ˋwɑʃ͵aʊt] n.【俚】大败；失望

in store 即将发生; going to happen soon

 

The deadly New Year's Day tragedy in the Swiss Alps. Dozens killed in a fire at a bar just after midnight. The frantic scene, flames quickly spreading.

 

frantic [ˋfræntɪk] adj.（因喜悦，愤怒等）发狂似的

 

People running for their lives. The Swiss president calling it one of the worst tragedies the country has ever experienced. Tom Sufi Burrage from the scene.

 

A new year and a new reality. Health care costs soar for more than 20 million Americans ahead of the looming political fight over affordability. And the dramatic reversal.

 

reversal [rɪˋvɝs!] n. 翻转；逆转

 

President Trump abandons efforts to deploy the National Guard to three major cities. Selena Wang reporting from South Florida. Zoran Mamdani makes history.

 

Officially becoming mayor of the country's largest city. The enormous challenges ahead and his message to New York and the world. Aaron Katursky reporting.

 

The new boat strikes. The Pentagon releasing video of one attack. Officials say killed five alleged drug smugglers and another deadly strike on a convoy of three boats. Survivors spotted in the water. Now the race to find them.

 

The urgent manhunt after a dentist and his wife are found dead. Their two small children located unharmed inside the home.

 

A dog dumped in a trash compactor comes up really lucky. How she found her forever home.

 

trash compactor 垃圾压缩机

 

And parents, this one's for you. The annual tradition still going strong after 50 years. The list of words that wore out their welcome in 2025.

 

wear out one’s welcome 待得太久而不受欢迎(用得太多而不受欢迎)

 

From ABC News World Headquarters in New York. This is World News Tonight with David Muir.

 

02:21 Extreme weather slamming millions on both coasts

 

Good evening and thank you for starting the new year with us.

 

I'm Mary Bruce in for David. We begin with the dangerous weather from coast to coast. Bitter cold and snow in the northeast.

 

And another round of flooding and mudslides threatening Southern California. This time lapse video capturing the snow accumulating over Pittsburgh's Neville Island Bridge. That wider area also getting hit by snow and lightning.

 

Buffalo, New York could see more scenes like these near whiteout conditions. Out west, millions of Americans are now under a flood watch due to heavy rains in Southern California. In Pasadena, rain poured down on the annual Rose Parade for the first time in decades.

 

Parade goers there forced to brave the elements without umbrellas. Our weather team is standing by with the forecast. But first, ABC's Rena Roy leads us off.

 

the elements 大自然的力量

 

Tonight, the new year kicking off with extreme weather on both coasts. Along the Great Lakes, new winter storm warnings in effect. People all over Syracuse shoveling and scraping.

 

Some areas could get at least three feet of more snow through this weekend. Happy New Year! Just hours after the ball came down in Times Square, powerful snow squalls moved into the northeast, dumping nearly half a foot of snow outside Pittsburgh, along with lightning and thunder. In the waterlogged west, more rain.

 

Thousands of families in Southern California bracing for the threat of more mudslides. And in Pasadena this morning, it literally rained on the 137th Rose Parade for the first time in 20 years. With no umbrellas allowed, parade goers braving the weather in ponchos.

 

poncho [ˋpɑntʃo] n. 南美人的披风式外套；雨披

 

Performers getting soaked along the route. Crews sweeping water off the field at the Rose Bowl, ahead of the big game between Alabama and Indiana.

 

And Mary, back here in the northeast, we are dealing with wind chills in the teens from New York City to Boston.

 

And tomorrow morning, not looking much better. Mary.

 

Okay, Rena, thank you.

 

So the big question now, when will the East Coast see some relief from this brutal Arctic air? So let's bring in meteorologist Brittany Bell from our New York station WABC. Brittany.

 

Mary, we have to wait until later next week to get some relief from these very cold temperatures.

 

I want to get right to those frigid wind chills early tomorrow morning across the northeast. It could feel like 11 degrees in New York City, also 15 below across portions of Maine. This Arctic blast also bringing in lake effect snow, and that continues tonight through tomorrow.

 

There's a winter storm warning out for Erie and Buffalo. They could see up to a foot of snow, one to two feet possible in between Watertown and Syracuse. Now, as we head into next week, the eastern half of the country will likely see warmer than normal temperatures and near normal out west.

 

And the last thing they need out west is more rainfall. They will get that Friday lasting throughout the weekend. A widespread one to two inches of rain is possible with up to two to four feet of snow in the mountains. Mary.

 

Some wild weather to start the year, Brittany. Thank you.

 

05:16 Dozens killed, 100+ hurt in Swiss New Year's Day bar fire

 

And overseas now to a New Year's celebration turning deadly as flames ripped through a bar in a Swiss ski resort town. Tonight, a memorial honoring the victims. About 40 people were killed, dozens more injured.

 

And identifying the victims could take days. ABC's Tom Sufi-Burge is on the scene tonight in Switzerland.

 

Tonight, the deadly bar inferno at a New Year's celebration in a Swiss ski resort.

 

inferno [ɪnˋfɝno] n. 熊熊烈火

 

The death toll now standing at around 40 people with more than 100 injured. This video showing flames spreading on the ceiling in that crowded venue as music players. Wish.

 

Another video capturing the desperate effort to get out.

 

People was walking on everybody, you know, trying to escape. And people, a lot of people was screaming.

 

Switzerland's president calling the blaze at the Cranz Montana resort in the Swiss Alps one of the worst tragedies our country has ever experienced.

 

An investigation is now underway to determine the cause which authorities believe to be an accident. Victoria was in the bar when the fire started.

 

And says she saw waiters carrying giant sparklers with bottles of champagne too close to the ceiling. Around the same time it caught fire.

 

sparkler [ˋspɑrklɚ] n. 闪闪发光之物；烟火; 烟花棒

 

Sparklers that were a light were right next to the ceiling.

 

Exactly. And so it took a fire. And I realized like me and my friends, we were the first one to realize that it was fire.

 

Authorities now racing to identify the victims who are from multiple countries as desperate families now wait for word.

 

desperate [ˋdɛspərɪt] adj. 绝望的

 

Nanay Gasparian and her friends telling me they know people who were either killed or injured.

 

I can't believe that all this happened. It's very terrifying.

 

Now leaving flowers at a growing memorial. Mary officials say the investigation has just begun and identifying the victims could take days. Mary.

 

And we are thinking of all their families tonight, Tom. Thank you.

 

07:08 Costs spike for over 20 million Americans as health subsidies expire

 

Now tonight with Affordable Care Act subsidies now expired, health care costs for more than 20 million Americans are spiking. Some may simply not be able to afford insurance at all. ABC senior White House correspondent Selena Wang has the details.

 

Tonight after months of Washington inaction, more than 20 million Americans hit with soaring health care costs. As those affordable health care subsidies have now expired. Premium skyrocketing 114% on average.

 

inaction [ɪnˋækʃən] n. 无行动; 无为；怠惰

premium [ˋprimɪəm] n. 保险费

 

According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, it's a massive financial blow for Americans like Dawn Wheeler in Kansas City.

 

She's undergoing treatment for breast cancer that has spread to her liver and bones. She says her monthly premiums are now jumping from 69 to $272 and her deductible from zero to $6,000.

 

deductible [dɪˋdʌktəb!] n. (病人)自付额;（保险）免赔额

 

Just the chemo drugs alone are thousands, tens of thousands of dollars.

 

Are you able to afford that pretty significant monthly increase?

 

Not without dipping into savings.

 

dip into 动用，花费（部分积蓄）

 

Dawn says she can't work because of her treatment.

 

Her husband taking on more jobs to make ends meet.

 

I'm really kind of scared going into this year.

 

The subsidies were created in 2021 to lower insurance costs during the pandemic.

 

Since then, enrollment in the Affordable Care Act has nearly doubled. For months, Democrats fought to extend the tax credits. They were at the heart of the fight on Capitol Hill that led to the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.

 

But that effort failed. Republicans still haven't agreed on a health care plan and Trump has not released one either. During the campaign, he said he had concepts of a plan.

 

I'd like to see the money that is going to the insurance companies by the hundreds of billions of dollars. I want that money to go to the people directly and let the people buy their own health care.

 

Trump hasn't explained how it would work and what it would mean for health care premiums, especially for the millions now scrambling to figure out how to afford or even keep their insurance.

 

And also tonight, Mary, President Trump is announcing that the National Guard is leaving Portland, Los Angeles and Chicago, but warns, quote, we will come back if crime begins to soar again.

 

But Mary, the president is keeping the National Guard troops on the ground in Memphis, New Orleans and Washington, D.C.

 

09:25 Zohran Mamdani takes oath of office, makes history as NYC mayor

 

OK, Selena, thank you. And now to a new era in New York City as Zoran Mamdani is sworn in as mayor.

 

The 34 year old is the first Muslim and first person of South Asian descent to lead the nation's largest city. Here's ABC's Aaron Katersky.

 

Tonight, a new era in the nation's largest city.

 

I, Zoran Mamdani, do solemnly swear. Do solemnly swear.

 

34 year old Zoran Mamdani, propelled to office by immigrants, transplants, young people and minority groups, publicly sworn in as New York's first Muslim mayor before a freezing crowd ushering in generational, religious and ideological change.

 

transplant [ˋtræns͵plænt] n. 外来移居者

 

I was elected as a Democratic socialist and I will govern as a Democratic socialist.

 

Mamdani also extending a hand to skeptics of his ambitious plans to make one of the world's most expensive cities more affordable. If you are a New Yorker, I am your mayor.

 

Mamdani's rise from political obscurity stunned the city and the country, and he's out to prove it was no fluke.

 

obscurity [əbˋskjʊrətɪ] n. 无名的人；卑微者

fluke [fluk] n.【口】侥幸

 

So standing together with the wind of purpose at our backs, we will do something that New Yorkers do better than anyone else. We will set an example for the world.

 

Mamdani has already confounded expectations, as you well know, Mary, when he was charming President Trump there at the Oval Office back in November.

 

confound [kənˋfaʊnd] v. 【古】挫败；毁坏

 

Tonight, he's on the street talking affordable housing. Mary?

 

A lot of work ahead, Aaron. Thank you.

 

11:00 Pentagon: At least 8 killed in last 2 days in deadly new boat strikes

 

And now to the deadly new strikes on alleged drug boats. The U.S. military targeting five more vessels this week.

 

At least eight people killed over two days. But the U.S. military is providing few details. Here's ABC's Mola Langhi.

 

Tonight, new deadly U.S. military strikes at sea. At least eight killed in separate incidents in just two days, according to the Pentagon, who released this new video overnight of two vessels being hit, saying the vessels were transiting along known narco-trafficking routes and engaging in narco-trafficking.

 

narco-trafficking 毒品交易

 

But providing few details and no location, the Pentagon says five alleged drug smugglers were killed.

 

No U.S. military forces were harmed. This comes after the U.S. military targeted what it says was a convoy of three boats in the eastern Pacific Tuesday, the initial strike killing three people, at least six others surviving, but have not been located. Tonight, the Coast Guard says search and rescue is still underway.

 

At least 115 people have been killed in at least 35 strikes in the Pentagon's escalating campaign against alleged drug traffickers in the Pacific and the Caribbean Sea.

 

But the Trump administration has yet to release evidence of the alleged crimes. The first known strike on September 2nd reportedly killed two survivors in a follow-up blast, prompting allegations of a possible war crime, with lawmakers demanding answers from the mission commander.

 

The Trump administration claims strikes like this week's target drug flow into the U.S., but White House officials have also indicated they may be part of a larger pressure campaign to oust Venezuela's authoritarian leader, Nicolas Maduro, who the Trump administration accuses of supporting the drug trade, which he denies.

 

Well, Mary, the president's pressure campaign has sparked condemnation and concern from members of both sides of the aisle, who argue these strikes amount to extrajudicial killings, possibly even war crimes, Mary.

 

extrajudicial [͵ɛkstrədʒuˋdɪʃəl] adj. 司法程序以外的；（正常）法律以外的

 

12:50 Manhunt after Ohio dentist, wife found shot in home

 

Mola, thank you. Now to the manhunt after a chilling discovery in Columbus, Ohio. A dentist and his wife found shot to death inside their home. Their young children were also inside, but safe. Here's ABC's Aika Jochi.

 

Tonight, police cars and crime scene tape surrounding a Columbus, Ohio home in Wineland Park, a historic close-knit neighborhood now gripped by fear.

 

close-knit [ˋklosˋnɪt] adj. 关系密切的

 

Inside, officers say 37-year-old dentist Spencer Tepe and his 39-year-old wife Monique, parents of two young children, were found shot to death Tuesday after multiple 911 calls from friends and coworkers, this one asking for a welfare check when he didn't show up for work.

 

welfare check 安危检查; 安全探视

 

He is always on time, and he would contact us if there was any issues whatsoever, and we can't get in touch with his wife, which is probably the more concerning thing.

 

Investigators say there were no obvious signs of forced entry and no gun recovered at the scene, and they do not believe this was a murder-suicide. Two small children were found inside the home unharmed.

 

Tonight, a small memorial of sunflowers and roses just steps from their front door. Mary, police are still searching for answers, and they're asking anyone with information to contact them immediately. Mary?

 

Thanks, Ike. We know you'll stay on this.

 

14:04 New state laws take effect in 2026

 

And across the country tonight, the new year brings new laws impacting how we work, live, and play. Minimum wage increases from coast to coast in nearly 20 states, impacting more than 8 million workers.

 

Washington state now has the highest minimum wage at $17.13. And new paid family and medical leave programs taking effect in Minnesota, Maine, and Delaware, where eligible employees can now take up to 12 weeks per year.

 

And when we come back, the list of words that overstayed their welcome in 2025. Parents, this one is for you.

 

And an historic landmark is devastated by fire just after midnight on New Year's Day. Two planes clip wings on the tarmac in North Carolina, and the pup who landed on her feet after a harrowing ordeal.

 

clip wings 机翼末端发生了轻微擦撞

tarmac [ˋtɑr͵mæk] n. 铺有柏油碎石的飞机跑道

pup [pʌp] n. 小狗，幼犬

land on one’s feet（尤指在一段时间的失意或霉运之后）获得成功，好运连连

 

14:49 Planes clip wings on tarmac at Raleigh-Durham airport

 

Next tonight, a mishap at Raleigh-Durham International Airport.

 

Two planes clipping wings on the tarmac. Authorities say an Avelo aircraft that was being towed clipped a parked Southwest plane. No one was on either plane, and airport operations were not interrupted.

 

clip [klɪp] v. informal to strike with a sharp, often slanting, blow

tow [to] v. 拖，拉

 

15:05 Inferno ravages historic Amsterdam church

 

And overseas now to a historic Dutch church devastated by a fire on New Year's Day. The flames triggered evacuations and caused extensive damage to the 150-year-old Amsterdam cultural landmark. No word tonight on the cause.

 

And when we come back, the terrified pup who caught a really lucky break. And the words that some say got too much use in 2025. To the Index now.

 

15:27 List of overused words, phrases in 2025 released by Michigan University

 

A university in Michigan is out with its annual list of words that they say wore out their welcome in 2025. Topping the list, you guessed it, 6-7. A catchphrase for kids, 6-7 is followed by demure, cooked, massive.

 

catchphrase [ˋkætʃ͵frez] n. 流行语;（尤指电视演艺名人等的）名言

demure [dɪˋmjʊr] adj. 装作一本正经的；佯作害羞的；端庄的；娴静的

 

And rounding out the top five, incentivize.

 

round out 补充; 凑齐; 完成; 结束; 使更完美

incentivize [ɪnˈsentəvaɪz] v. 激励

 

15:45 Dog in Southern California rescued after being discovered in trash compactor

 

And a happy ending for a Southern California pup who almost didn't make it. The one-year-old terrier mix, now known as Flan, was discovered inside a trash compactor by a Gardena police officer who heard her whimpering on Christmas Eve.

 

terrier [ˋtɛrɪɚ] n. 㹴犬; 一种敏捷的小狗（最初用于狩猎和将猎物赶进或赶出洞穴）

whimper [ˋhwɪmpɚ] v. 啜泣，抽噎；呜咽；（狗等）低吠

 

That same officer and his family adopting Flan, giving her a fur ever home. And when we come back, ringing in the New Year around the globe.

 

16:08 Celebrating the New Year around the world

 

And finally tonight, the world celebrating a new year and a new beginning.

 

There was excitement around the globe last night as billions gathered to ring in 2026. Happy New Year! From Taiwan. To Egypt.

 

And Rio de Janeiro, where crowds packed more than two and a half miles along Copacabana Beach to watch a 12-minute fireworks display. Thousands of revelers gathered in Mexico City. In Berlin, a spectacular fireworks display over the Brandenburg Gate.

 

reveller [ˋrɛvəlɚ] n. 纵酒狂欢者；寻欢作乐的人

 

And lighting up the sky over the pyramids in Giza, too. In China, the New Year welcomed with a spectacular light show at the Great Wall. In Madrid, a jubilant crowd of roughly 15,000 packed elbow to elbow in anticipation.

 

jubilant [ˋdʒub!ənt] adj. 欢腾的，喜气洋洋的；令人喜悦的

elbow to elbow: in close proximity, side by side

 

In Paris, the city of lights living up to its name, the Champs-Elysees, sparkling. From every corner of the world, people coming together, sharing a countdown and a common experience. Filled with hope for a fresh start.

 

sparkle [ˋspɑrk!] v. 发火花；闪耀

 

And a very happy new year from David and all of the team. I'm Mary Bruce. Thank you for watching.

 

Good night.

 

David Muir, 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 row.