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World News Tonight with David Muir

Full Episode: Sunday, March 1, 2026

World News Tonight with David Muir

ABC News

News, Daily News

3.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2026

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Ian Pannell reports on the first American casualties during the joint U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran, with at least three service members killed in action and five more “seriously wounded”; James Longman has the latest on the shockwaves reverberating across the Middle East; Pierre Thomas has details on the shooting outside an Austin nightclub that left at least two people dead and the FBI investigation into a possible terror link; 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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0:00.0

David Muir, ABC's World News Tonight, America's Most Watched Newscast, now streaming same day with all the breaking news of the day on Disney Plus, most watched, most trusted. Now on Disney Plus every night.

0:15.6

Tonight, the breaking news this Sunday night, the attack on Iran, the U.S. now confirming three American service

0:21.8

members have been killed. Late today, President Trump speaking for the first time about the

0:26.4

Americans killed and wounded during an Iranian attack on Kuwait. The president tonight

0:31.1

bowing to avenge their deaths, warning quote, sadly there will likely be more before it ends.

0:36.6

The new images coming in tonight showing new U.S. and Israeli attacks targeting Iran's

0:41.4

Revolutionary Guard and Defense Systems.

0:43.9

Iran retaliating, targeting U.S. bases, Israel, and multiple Arab nations.

0:48.9

At least nine people killed in a strike outside Jerusalem.

0:52.4

Iranian officials confirming the death of the Supreme

0:54.8

Leader as well and more than 40 Iranian leaders have been killed. A source telling ABC News

1:00.4

the CIA had been tracking the Supreme Leader for months and that the U.S. moved up the timing

1:05.2

of the attack based on what they were seeing. Ian Panel standing by live from the region.

1:10.4

Also tonight the shock waves

1:11.8

across the Middle East at this hour, Iranian missiles and drones, targeting at least nine countries,

1:17.4

including Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, countries with American bases. The airport tonight in Dubai on

1:23.9

lockdown targeted multiple times. Americans across the region stranded, unable to fly out,

1:30.3

multiple U.S. embassies on high alert, James Longman in Turkey for us.

1:34.3

Tonight inside Iran, the death of the Supreme Leader prompting large anti-American protests,

1:40.3

a massive crowd of mourners in Tehran and across the country, many shouting death to America,

1:46.6

while others in Iran quietly celebrate, hoping for a new future.

1:51.3

Here in the U.S., President Trump a short time ago and his message on this attack on Iran,

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