Full Episode: Thursday March 19, 2026

World News Tonight with David Muir

ABC News

News, Daily News

3.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2026

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

James Longman has the latest on an Air Force F-35 stealth fighter jet believed to be struck by enemy fire while flying a combat mission over Iran, sources tell ABC News, and Mary Bruce reports on the Pentagon seeking $200 billion from Congress to fund the war; Whit Johnson has details on the alarming close call at Newark Airport when an Alaska Airlines passenger jet and FedEx cargo plane came within 325 feet of each other as both were coming in to land; Maggie Rulli reports on police in Spain recovering the body of University of Alabama student James Gracey near where he was last seen in Barcelona after going missing two days ago; 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	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.
1:02.1	Tonight, breaking news, an American F-35 stealth fighter believed hit by enemy fire. The war in Iran in tonight's sources telling ABC News that U.S. Air Force F-35 was on a combat mission over
1:07.1	Iran when it was hit, potentially by hostile fire. The emergency landing, the pilot's condition tonight.
1:13.6	It comes as Iran escalates attacks targeting oil and gas facilities across the Middle East.
1:18.6	Gas prices in the U.S. now up 97 cents a gallon.
1:21.6	Amid the global oil shot, Israel hitting Iran, the largest gas field in the world.
1:26.6	Tonight, President Trump now saying he didn't know Israel was going to do that.
1:30.8	We'll go live to James Longman.
1:32.6	Also tonight, the Pentagon now preparing to ask Congress for $200 billion more to keep funding the war in Iran.
1:39.9	Already saying the first week cost $11 billion alone, more than a billion a day.
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