Full Episode: Monday, March 16, 2026

World News Tonight with David Muir

ABC News

News, Daily News

3.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Reporting from North Carolina, Ginger Zee tracks the violent storm system that’s bringing severe weather and the potential for widespread destructive winds and tornadoes from Florida to the Northeast, and blizzard conditions to the upper Midwest; James Longman has details on Pres. Trump blasting some U.S. allies for refusing to answer his new call for help in reopening the critical Strait of Hormuz; Steve Osunsami has the latest on a federal judge temporarily blocking HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr's changes to the childhood vaccine policies, which would have reduced the number of recommended childhood vaccines from 17 to 11; and more on tonight’s broadcast of World News Tonight with David Muir. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:46.1	Tonight, the breaking news, severe storms slamming the east, tornado concerns from Florida all the way up to Philadelphia.
0:52.4	Watch is stretching 1,000 miles from Florida to the
0:55.0	northeast. Blizzard warnings elsewhere, drivers facing white out conditions in multiple states.
1:00.0	Cars off highways, winds gusting 60 miles per hour. Thousands of flights canceled. Ginger Zee is here.
1:07.0	The chaos at America's airports, these severe storms, and TSA staffing shortages worsening.
1:13.0	Now weeks into this partial government shutdown, nearly 60,000 TSA workers going without their paychecks.
1:20.2	The major airlines tonight begging lawmakers to pay these workers.
1:24.5	The war in Iran tonight in Iranian drone hitting a hotel, flames shooting out the
1:28.7	windows. And tonight, President Trump now blasting America's NATO allies, demanding that they now
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