ABC shows Honolulu woman's escape from daytime kidnapping attempt
Trevor Ault reports on surveillance footage and a kidnapping charge in David Muir's wide-ranging evening broadcast.
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ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - Oct. 28, 2026
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- 2:24Marcus Moore reports on Spain's fatal train collision and the investigation into why a train entered an occupied track.
- 5:07Mary Bruce covers campaigning and a reported effort to confuse Alaska voters with two candidates named Dan Sullivan.
- 8:56Trevor Ault presents surveillance footage of the Honolulu kidnapping attempt and reports that a kidnapping charge has been filed.
- 11:02Coastal reports show king-tide flooding from California to Florida, followed by Lee Goldberg's forecast.
- 18:55ABC remembers Barbara Barrie, concluding with her reflections on stripping unnecessary elements from an acting performance.
Surveillance footage of a woman escaping an attempted kidnapping in broad daylight in Honolulu is among the reports in ABC News's October 28 edition of World News Tonight with David Muir.
Trevor Ault presents the footage and reports a development in the case: "We have now learned he's just been charged with kidnapping, David." The segment begins about nine minutes into the broadcast, after coverage of Spain's fatal high-speed train collision and the closing days of U.S. midterm campaigning.
In the election report, Mary Bruce cites The New York Times's account that Democrat Mary Peltola's campaign recruited an Alaska candidate with the same name as Republican Senator Dan Sullivan in an effort to confuse voters. That account is presented as the newspaper's reporting, alongside Donald Trump's criticism of the tactic.
The broadcast closes with a different kind of recorded testimony: archival footage of actress Barbara Barrie, whose death ABC reports. Reflecting on acting, Barrie describes stripping away unnecessary elements to concentrate on the person she is playing.
An Alaska Democrat who represented the state’s at-large district in the U.S. House from 2022 to 2025. She is also a former tribal judge and Alaska state legislator.
More on Wikipedia ›A Republican U.S. senator from Alaska who has held the seat since 2015. He previously served as Alaska’s attorney general and natural resources commissioner.
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