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World News Tonight with David Muir

Full Episode: Wednesday, April 1, 2026

World News Tonight with David Muir

ABC News

Daily News, News

3.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2026

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

NOTE: This evening's broadcast of ABC's World News Tonight aired prior to President Donald Trump's address to the nation on the war with Iran. Gio Benitez reports from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where the crew of Artemis II successfully blasted off in the first mission to the moon in more than half a century, with NASA teams cheering and crowds watching in awe as the astronauts embarked on their voyage; with all eyes on President Trump’s first primetime address to the nation since the war began, Matt Rivers has details on the U.S. unleashing new attacks across Iran, as a source tells ABC News Pres. Trump was recently briefed on ground options, including the seizure of Iran's enriched uranium; Aaron Katersky has the latest on the New York man charged with using weapons of mass destruction after federal agents say they found more than two dozen homemade pipe bombs in his home; 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, now streaming same day with all the breaking news of the day on Disney Plus,

0:50.3

most watched, most trusted.

0:52.5

Now on Disney Plus every night.

0:55.1

Tonight, we are tracking the historic American mission to the moon.

0:59.0

Booster ignition and lift off.

1:02.0

Just moments ago, the giant Artemis II rocket 322 feet high,

1:07.0

blasting off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

1:10.0

Taking four astronauts on a 10-day mission to the moon and back.

1:13.4

The first such journey in more than 50 years and the first giant step in a return to the moon's surface.

1:19.5

On board a historic crew, the first African American, first woman, and first Canadian to head to the moon,

1:25.7

what they did in the hours before the launch,

1:27.8

playing cards for luck, leaving through the same doors as the Apollo astronauts generations ago,

1:33.4

meeting with their families and saying their thank yous to the ground team.

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