911, where is the emergency?

It's the middle of the night in a small town on the Jersey shore.

Someone reports an abandoned car on a bridge.

A search gets underway for the missing driver, 19-year-old Sarah Stern.

Is it a missing person? Is it a suicide?

At this point, nobody knows.

Old friendships, buried cash, and a sinister plot that was once pitched as a movie, plays out in real life.

I'm Jiu Chang. From 2020 and ABC Audio, listen to Bridge of Lies, coming March 10th, wherever you listen to podcasts.

It's Wednesday, March 4th.

They're being told to get to safety.

Well, it's a little late for that.

We start here.

As embassies who are attacked around the Middle East, Americans are trying to flee.

Was there a plan in place to evacuate Americans before the attack?

That's the plan we're trying to carry out.

This is not just an Iran war, it's a Middle East war, which is just the way Iran wants it.

Meanwhile, the U.S. Army identifies its first fatalities of this conflict. The American military, they don't have unlimited ammunition.

We'll walk through where Americans are most vulnerable.

And there's one cabinet member that some Republicans still aren't sold on.

Those are bad decisions made in the heat of the moment.

Why Republicans are attacking Homeland Security Secretary Christy Knoem.

From ABC News, this is Start Here.

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