Full Episode for Monday September 21, 2026
World News Tonight with David Muir

Full Episode for Monday September 21, 2026

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 22, 202624 min
  • News bulletin
  • Politics

Gio Benitez reports on the massive outage for air traffic control caused by a blown circuit and cut fiber lines that paralyzed some of the nation's largest airports in the Northeast; Pierre Thomas has details on the ICE shooting of a Venezuelan DoorDash driver following a traffic stop in Austin, Texas, igniting protests; As the president travels to New York City to address world leaders at the UN General Assembly Mary Bruce has the latest on the three news outlets now suing the Trump administration after he banned them from the White House; Matt Rivers has the latest on...

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The breaking news, the massive outage flight chaos across the east coast. Major airports paralyzed in the northeast for a time. of flights grounded, airspace over parts of the Northeast temporarily shut down. So, is it ground stuff due to equipment outage? Do you have any information for us?

1:02

Yeah, man, nothing works. Philadelphia, Newark, New York's JFK and LaGuardia, right up to Boston's Logan Airport. And what we just learned moments ago. Also breaking tonight, the ICE shooting of a DoorDash driver, shot and wounded by an ICE agent,

1:16

following a traffic stop and now the protests. What ICE is saying tonight and what the driver is now saying, his own version of the story, saying he still has a bullet in his body. Tonight, the president in New York City standing next to the mayor, who invited all reporters

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