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ABC News Update

Wednesday, March 11, 2026 08:00PM ET

ABC News Update

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🗓️ 12 March 2026

⏱️ 5 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 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.

0:41.6

Music Listen now to Bridge of Lies, wherever you get your podcasts. From ABC News, I'm Dave Packard. President Trump says we've, quote, won the war with Iran while Iran warns of continuous strikes.

0:50.7

It comes as Iran launched new attacks today on cargo ships in a critical waterway,

0:55.0

and we've just learned that a foreign oil tanker was targeted in the port of Umpassar near Basra in southern Iraq.

1:03.0

A source said that that tanker sustained significant damage in the vicinity of the port and caught fire.

1:07.0

Three vessels attacked in the critical strait of Hormuz, one of those ships

1:11.7

in flames, claiming the captains ignored their warnings not to come through. Iranian drones also

1:18.1

striking Oman's largest oil facility, setting off massive explosions in videos circulating online.

1:26.8

All of this adding to huge global volatility in oil markets

1:30.5

and gas prices back in the U.S. The Department of Energy here at home announcing today that

1:35.2

it has been authorizing the release of 172 million barrels from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve

1:42.1

in an effort to lower gas and oil prices.

1:48.7

Meanwhile, in Lebanon, explosions from the latest round of strikes, President Trump says the U.S. is working hard to get rid of Hezbollah as Israel steps up its offense.

1:52.9

We've got to get rid of the Hezbollah. It's been a disaster for many years.

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