Wednesday, February 18, 2026 07:00PM ET
ABC News Update
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🗓️ 19 February 2026
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| 0:00.0 | From ABC News, I'm Dave Packer. |
| 0:05.0 | It's now the deadly ski-related avalanche in American history. |
| 0:09.0 | Crews found the bodies of eight backcountry skiers near California's Lake Tahoe and are searching for one more. |
| 0:14.0 | Nevada County Sheriff Shannon Moon. |
| 0:16.0 | It's a very remote, rugged area on the north side of the highway there. |
| 0:20.0 | It is not a groomed area or a ski |
| 0:23.6 | resort area. This is a backcountry area, rugged terrain. Met a CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifying in a |
| 0:28.7 | case that centers on claims at Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and other social media platforms |
| 0:32.6 | are intentionally designed to make kids and teens addicted. ABC News legal contributor, Royal Oaks. |
| 0:38.1 | When a CEO testifies, it personalizes the case. The jury isn't evaluating an abstract corporation |
| 0:43.9 | anymore. They're evaluating a human decision maker. His tone, sincerity, and responsiveness may matter |
| 0:49.9 | as much as the substance of his answers. Progress has been made, but there's no breakthrough yet in U.S. Iran nuclear negotiations, |
| 0:56.6 | that according to the White House and leaders in Tehran, White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt. |
| 1:01.2 | The Iranians are expected to come back to us with some more detail in the next couple of weeks, |
| 1:07.0 | and so the president will continue to watch how this plays out. |
| 1:09.8 | Meanwhile, posturing is ramped up. Iran closing the Strait of Hormuz for military exercises with Russia |
| 1:14.6 | and the U.S. sending a second carrier group to the region. |
| 1:17.6 | The search for Nancy Guthrie crosses the border. |
| 1:20.6 | We know from sources today that they have alerted Mexican authorities of the case here, |
| 1:25.6 | if they didn't already know about it, but that there is |
| 1:27.7 | nothing that is indicating that she or the suspect are in Mexico. But the Mexico border is only |
| 1:33.8 | about an hour south of here, so it would not be out of the realm of possibility that they could |
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