Full Episode: Wednesday, February 4, 2026
World News Tonight with David Muir
ABC News
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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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. |
| 0:52.0 | 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. |
| 0:54.6 | Now on Disney Plus every night. Tonight there is breaking news just as we come on the air, most trusted. Now on Disney Plus every night. |
| 1:13.4 | Tonight there is breaking news just as we come on the air. The scene playing out right now outside Savannah Guthrie's mother's home. FBI and state authorities on the scene at this hour, and we have new reporting tonight in the urgent search for 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie. The FBI significantly increasing its presence in this case. |
| 1:18.4 | Authorities investigating potential ransom letters now sent to multiple TV stations. |
| 1:24.1 | We need to know, without a doubt, that she is alive. To determine if they have any real connection to Nancy Guthrie's disappearance. |
| 1:29.4 | And news on Nancy Guthrie's pacemaker and how it could provide clues, |
| 1:33.8 | more than 72 hours now, into this urgent search. |
| 1:37.3 | Tonight, the dispatch audio, the emergency call, and you'll hear it, what we've learned right here. |
| 1:42.7 | Also tonight, breaking news in Minneapolis, the major turn Borders'ar Tom Holman sent in by President Trump |
| 1:48.5 | and what he has now announced there. |
| 1:51.3 | Tonight billionaire Bill Gates breaking his silence over his name appearing in the Jeffrey Epstein files, |
| 1:56.6 | saying, I regret every minute I spent together and Bill Gates' ex-wife tonight, Belinda French |
| 2:01.5 | Gates, with choice words about who she says should be answering the questions now, and the new |
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