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Good Morning America

Saturday, April 18

Good Morning America

ABC News

Politics, Entertainment News, Daily News, News

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2026

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Myki Meeks talks winning 'RuPaul's Drag Race'; Tornadoes rip across the Heartland; Victoria Beckham speaks out: 'We’ve always tried to be the best parents' 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.

0:10.0

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 pitched as a movie, plays out in real life.

0:29.0

I'm Jiu Chang from 2020 and ABC Audio.

0:33.4

Listen now to Bridge of Lies, wherever you get your podcasts.

0:41.0

Live. Listen now to Bridge of Lies, wherever you get your podcasts. Live from ABC News headquarters in New York City, this is Good Morning America.

0:46.2

We begin with that overnight tornado outbreak that ravaged the nation's heartland.

0:50.3

We're talking at least two dozen twisters reported.

0:52.9

Our weather team, of course, is standing by right now with the forecast, but we do begin our coverage with ABC's Mola Langie, leading us off from hard hit Lina, Illinois.

1:01.1

Good morning to you, Mola.

1:03.3

Well, good morning, Morgan.

1:04.4

Yeah, at least two dozen tornadoes throughout the region from Oklahoma up to Minnesota Minnesota to here in Lena Illinois, a small

1:12.1

town that got hit in just such a big way, destroying homes like this one behind me here.

1:16.6

As you can see, the roof ripped off, debris scent everywhere, just barely anything left, and

1:21.6

damaging so many others throughout the Midwest.

1:26.1

Man, that is ridiculously close.

1:28.3

Overnight, life-threatening tornadoes ripping through the Heartland.

1:32.3

The latest outbreak in a week that's seen at least 35 tornadoes from California to Vermont.

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