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[David Muir]
I think we all recognize, on this team,

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that this broadcast is a living,
breathing thing.

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When I come in here every day,

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I know that where we start
at the beginning of the day,

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will not be where we end up
at 6:30 at night.

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[woman] Minute and a half.

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And in this moment, in this country,
my responsibility is to remain steady...

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-[woman] Ten.
-...and calm.

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[woman] Five.

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Here we go.

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Good evening, and it's great to have you
with us here on a very busy Friday night.

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From the moment people wake up
in the morning,

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there is so much noise
that at the end of the day,

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if people are gonna take a moment to
sit down and watch a half-hour newscast,

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then it's our job to, sort of,
break through that noise

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and to really, really help them,
sort of, navigate what matters.

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And it's not my job to, sort of, weigh in.

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It's my job to deliver on that at the end
of the day.

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And do we use any of that stuff where

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-she's practicing at the hospital to--
-That stuff...

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You know,
when I think back to my childhood,

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I was the kid who'd be outdoors
playing with the rest of the kids,

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and I would excuse myself
when it was time for the evening news,

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and I'd go inside
and I'd watch Peter Jennings.

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And that became, sort of,
my own little ritual.

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I was a nerd back then.

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I'm still a nerd today.
It sort of worked out, I hope.

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But it was something that I wanted to do
from a very early age,

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and I don't think at the time
I could've put words to it.

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I wanted to get outside my world,

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and for a kid that just meant
getting out in the community.

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I mean, I wrote to the local news
when I was 13 years old.

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Started interning at 14,

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carrying all the camera equipment
on all the shoots.

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And I was happy. I thought I was,
you know, seeing the world.

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I was just heading to, you know,
thunderstorms in the next county

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or the New York State Fair,

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and all these years later
to be in this role, it's an honor.

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Those moments when you actually get out
into the field,

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not only give you perspective
as a journalist,

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but they fuel me to keep doing
what I do every night sitting here.

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I do love this part of it too,
but I'm really a reporter at heart.

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And the more I can get out,
the happier I am.

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And taking people along on that journey

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is part of the reason why
we're connecting at night.

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Our first report is from ABC's David Muir.

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David Muir near the front lines.

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ABC's David Muir leads our coverage
once again tonight.

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Do you think that Iran
and America will get along?

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You can hear the gunfire
just around this wall

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as they try to move these extremists...

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One of my earliest assignments
for ABC News was Hurricane Katrina.

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As you can see, we're wading through water
almost up to our waists...

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I will never forget after the hurricane
and after the levees broke

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and people were told
to go to the convention center

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because that's where you'll get food
and medicine and help.

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And they listened, and they went there,
and there was no help.

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I remember being in the seat of the car,

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and we were driving past these families
outside the convention center,

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and they were screaming, "We need help!"

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And I remember in that moment wanting to,
sort of, slide down in my seat

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because I felt it was such an invasion
of their suffering.

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But it was a bit of a turning point for me
as a reporter

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because I also realized
that we were giving them a voice.

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I don't wanna die like this.

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[Muir] This woman said she's been...

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And that's your role in that moment.

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And we all saw, you know,
the help that eventually did arrive.

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And I'm certain in looking back
that it was that body of work

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from so many of us who were there
reporting on Katrina that, you know,

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sent out these very loud signals
that there were people suffering.

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"She's currently undergoing chemotherapy."

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At the end of the day,
just before the news,

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you'll find me, sort of,
putting those endnotes in my voice.

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"Tonight she has a message
for that hospital."

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I'm certain in looking back that despite
everything that we deal with,

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to find some way to communicate
that we're all in this together.

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That's the piece we do at the end
of the broadcast.

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Whether it's the America Strong
or Made in America or Person of the Week

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which I watched, you know,
Peter do all those years ago,

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and I take great pride in that.

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And I know that the team does here
in putting the broadcast together.

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And making sure at the end
there's that connection.

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Gimme a hug!

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-Looks good.
-Thanks!

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I think I'm still every bit the kid
who dreamed of doing this,

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when I come up here every night.

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And I still remember my first night
saying, "Good evening."

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The heartbeat was louder
than the actual words.

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We'd have to go back to the archive
to see what I actually said that night.

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Final few minutes before
I come on the air,

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when I come racing around the corner
from the newsroom and up those stairs...

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I know that Peter went up those stairs
and Charlie and Diane,

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and it's not lost on me.

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And now it's our responsibility
to not only deliver the news at night,

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but also to prepare the next generation

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because there'll be somebody else
who sits in this chair next

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who is dreaming about it right now.

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And to make sure that when
they get here...

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Three.

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...the responsibility, the privilege,

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the honor that comes with this
is all still fully intact.

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[man] Here we go.

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Good evening,
as we come on the air tonight,

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we'll get to those headlines
in just a moment,

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but there was yet another breaking story.