Video taking off 35x its usual first day

Brooklyn's rubble and Arlington's sentinel share Muir's Veterans Day newscast

The November 11 World News Tonight opened on the Flatbush collapse, then closed backstage with The Resilient, a rock band of wounded soldiers.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 1,182,286 views a day, 35 times a normal first day on this channel (33,706).

Deadly building collapse in New York City: ABC World News Tonight with David Muir - Nov. 11, 2026

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2:30A three-story Brooklyn building collapses into an excavation site next door; Matt Rivers reports from the rescue.
5:46Elizabeth Schulze reports that Nvidia's board is considering removing Jensen Huang as CEO.
6:51A sentinel reprimands Hegseth's group at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier; Trump promotes a memorial arch.
9:03A Frontier flight diverts after a lavatory sink leak floods the cabin; a United flight diverts over an unruly passenger.
14:24Bob Woodruff's Stand Up for Heroes turns 20, with music from The Resilient, a band of wounded veterans.

The broadcast starts with rescue crews. Matt Rivers stands near the Flatbush site, where a three-story building fell into the excavation next door, and Mayor Zohran Mamdani tells New Yorkers: "I am heartbroken to share that at this time, at least two New Yorkers have passed away."

That figure did not hold. By the next evening's World News Tonight, ABC was reporting at least eight dead, two of them children, and a report that the building had shown cracks before it came down. A home security video posted since shows the moment it collapsed.

A full evening newscast usually draws a few tens of thousands of views on its first day. This one passed a million.

The collapse leads the broadcast, but the comments are mostly about Arlington. They came in nearly twenty times faster than usual, and most of them concern the Army sentinel who ordered Pete Hegseth's group to keep silent at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Rachel Scott's report sets that moment beside Donald Trump's Veterans Day speech promoting a "magnificent triumphal arch," a plan opposed by members of the Kennedy family. Commenters thank veterans, praise the guard and question the arch. ABC's short clips of the reprimand also drew far bigger audiences than its Shorts usually do. So did a follow-up: Hegseth summoned the sentinel to the Pentagon the next day and awarded him a medal.

Between those stories come a Frontier flight whose pilot radioed that a lavatory sink was "flooding the cabin area," a nor'easter forecast and Scott Colom's projected Senate win in Mississippi.

The last few minutes belong to Bob Woodruff's Stand Up for Heroes, which marks its 20th year, and to The Resilient, a band of soldiers wounded in combat. Bruce Springsteen appears in the segment. Band member Tim Donley says what the music has given them: "the ability to connect again."

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