“They told him to be careful—but he kept going” — David Muir moves viewers to tears as HEARTBREAKING SCENE unfolds before his eyes during live Texas flood coverage, sparking fears for his safety and powerful reactions across the nation

As the deadly Texas flood swallowed entire neighborhoods, David Muir didn’t just report the story—he stepped straight into it. During a live segment on ABC World News Tonight, Muir’s voice cracked while describing a mother searching desperately for her missing daughter. Viewers flooded social media with one urgent message: “Be careful, David.” But the anchor wouldn’t back away. What happened next shocked even seasoned producers.

Watch the moment that changed everything—and find out why America is still talking about what David did next.

David Muir’s latest segment on ABC World News Tonight had viewers worried as they warned him to “be careful”.

After a shock departure and a chaotic period leaving him “in denial,” the 51-year-old host is back in the face of havoc and has been reporting from the thick of the catastrophe that was the Texas floods.

Over the weekend, millions of Texas residents feared for their lives as deadly floods ran through the state, killing over a 100 people, including 27 teens at an all-girls camp called Camp Mystic.

Giving viewers an up close look at the tragedy, David flew down to Kerrville, Texas – the town the show has branded as “the epicenter of one of the deadliest U.S. floods in decades”.

While showing the devastating grounds, he also interviewed victims of the flood, like Scott and Juliet Weldon, whose house got torn apart in the midst of the catastrophe.

ABC viewers warn David Muir to “be careful” as they praise heart breaking segment (Image: ABC World News Tonight)

During the segment, his viewers took to X to praise his efforts with one saying, “My heart breaks watching David Muir on the World News interviewing the man looking for his parents. So many others looking for the missing. And then those precious young hearts and the camp instructors… Unimaginable sorrow the families are feeling. Prayers.”

Another wrote, “ABC World News-David Muir, that is so good of you to be reporting from Texas. Be careful.”

“David Muir offering more consolation to the people of Texas than the president of the United States,” a third added.

One of the interviews that moved fans the most was the chat he had with Coast Guard rescue swimmer Scott Ruskan, who helped save 165 people from the flooding, including the young girls at Camp Mystic.

At least 110 people have died during the Texas floods (Image: Getty)
After his troop had arrived at the scene, they had all decided for Scott to stay on the ground with the campers, in efforts to get more children in one helicopter ride at a time.

He explained, “Yea, we assumed, based on weight, that we could probably take two more kids every trip.”

During his time on site, he witnessed children still in their pajamas still soaked and covered in mud from the rising waters. He specifically recalled the two girls who had been left without shoes.

“At one point, you were carrying two girls with one arm?” David asked.

“Yea, yea. It was one in each arm,” he clarified. “But yea, it was just two little kids like 7 years old. Didn’t have shoes on. I was like ‘Dude, I’m not gonna make you guys walk through this mud while you’re trying to get to a helicopter.’”

Scott had told David he will “never forget” the night he saved those children from Camp Mystic.