Full Episode: Sunday, March 15, 2026

World News Tonight with David Muir

ABC News

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3.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2026

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Dani Beckstrom reports from New York on the powerful cross-country storm — slamming the Midwest and now barreling toward the East Coast. More than 100 million Americans on alert for severe weather — Dani has the latest forecast; Faith Abubey at Atlanta’s Hartsfield Airport, where crews are struggling to keep up with cancellations and delays — from the weather and the partial government shutdown; James Longman in Iraq as the war with Iran enters week three — the Pentagon now saying U.S. strikes have reduced Iran’s missile capacity by 90 percent. All of that and more tonight on World News Tonight with David Muir. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	9-1-1, where is the emergency?
0:02.7	It's the middle of the night in a small town on the Jersey shore.
0:06.7	Someone reports an abandoned car on a bridge.
0:09.9	A search gets underway for the missing driver, 19-year-old Sarah Stern.
0:14.9	Is it a missing person? Is it a suicide?
0:17.6	At this point, nobody knows.
0:19.6	Old friendships, buried cash, and a sinister plot that was once
0:24.9	pitched as a movie, plays out in real life. I'm Jiu Chang from 2020 and ABC Audio. Listen now to
0:34.4	Bridge of Lies, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:45.0	David Muir, ABC's World News Tonight, America's Most Watched Newscast,
0:49.9	now streaming same day with all the breaking news of the day on Disney Plus,
0:52.0	most watched, most trusted.
0:54.6	Now on Disney Plus every night.
1:00.6	Tonight, we're following several developing stories as we come on the air. The severe weather stretching from the Great Lakes to the Gulf. President Trump calling on allies to help reopen
1:05.6	a key waterway for oil shipments. And we are on the red carpet for the 98th Academy Awards.
1:11.9	We begin with that wild winter storm.
1:14.2	Hundreds of millions of Americans impacted over the next few days.
1:17.9	Blizzard warnings in the upper Midwest.
1:20.0	More than 100 accidents in Minnesota.
1:22.7	Wildfires turning deadly in Nebraska.
1:25.3	Flash floods in Hawaii cutting off neighborhoods. Our weather
1:28.5	team tracking it all. Plus trouble in the skies. More than 2,000 flights canceled ahead of
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