Full Episode: Tuesday, March 3, 2025

World News Tonight with David Muir

ABC News

Daily News, News

3.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2026

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

With U.S. embassies and consulates under attack from Iran, Ian Pannell reports on on the Americans currently stranded in 14 countries while the State Department says it’s working to get them out of the region on military and charter aircraft; Elizabeth Schulze has the latest on the growing fears of a prolonged war as the stock market tumbles and oil prices surge; Steve Osunsami has details after a jury in Georgia found the father of a suspected school shooter guilty of murder and involuntary manslaughter; 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	911, 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.
0:10.0	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 to
0:34.2	Bridge of Lies. Coming March 10th, wherever you listen to podcasts.
0:41.9	David Muir, ABC's World News Tonight, America's Most Watched Newscast, now streaming same
0:48.8	day with all the breaking news of the day on Disney Plus, most watched, most trusted. Now on Disney Plus every night.
0:57.0	Tonight, the breaking news here, U.S. embassies and consulates under attack. Americans stranded
1:03.0	tonight. The attack on Iran and the retaliation now widening U.S. embassies and consulates targeted.
1:09.0	A drone coming down near the U.S. consulate in Dubai, exploding into flames. Two drones hitting the U.S. embassies and consulates targeted. A drone coming down near the U.S. consulate in Dubai,
1:12.2	exploding into flames. Two drones hitting the U.S. embassy in Saudi Arabia.
1:16.8	Tonight, the American stranded Secretary of State Marco Rubio saying they're preparing charter flights,
1:22.1	military flights, land routes to get to other countries to try to get Americans out.
1:27.3	The president has asked today, was there not a plan to get Americans out?
1:31.3	And after that Iranian strike on a U.S. tactical operation center in Kuwait,
1:36.3	ABC News tonight learning U.S. service members did not have adequate defenses.
1:40.3	Six U.S. service members dead.
1:43.3	And after three American F-15 fighter jets were shot down
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