Wednesday, March 18, 2026
NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas
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🗓️ 19 March 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight, the price of oil, now the highest in years after new attacks on energy sites across the Middle East, with top intelligence leaders under fire on Capitol Hill. |
| 0:10.9 | A devastating strike setting an Iranian oil field on fire as the U.S. launches a new wave of attacks on Iran. |
| 0:18.1 | President Trump telling our reporter Iran is going down as they launch |
| 0:22.5 | new strikes on Saudi Arabia. Our correspondent is there. Look at that as that capital is hit. |
| 0:28.2 | Plus, the nation's intelligence leaders, peppered by senators, was Iran an imminent threat to the U.S.? |
| 0:34.7 | The controversial answers. Airport breaking point, passengers waiting hours, |
| 0:40.0 | lines weaving around baggage carousals, and the urgent warning tonight, could some airports |
| 0:45.3 | be forced to shut down? The unprecedented heat wave out west, dramatic rescues on hiking trails, |
| 0:51.2 | as temperatures soar to triple digits in March. Explosive new reporting on civil |
| 0:56.8 | rights icon Caesar Chavez, disturbing allegations of abuse against women and girls after decades |
| 1:02.5 | of silence. One accuser, a 95-year-old activist who says he secretly fathered two children |
| 1:08.5 | with her. The deadly crash in the Alps, terrifying video of a gondola |
| 1:12.5 | in free fall down the mountain. You see it there. What went wrong? Train car pile up, the accident in |
| 1:18.7 | Texas, dozens of cars off the rails, hazmat teams now called in. A family's desperate search, |
| 1:25.2 | an American college student, vanishing after a night out in Spain. |
| 1:29.0 | So how did his phone end up at the police station while he's still missing? |
| 1:33.3 | The threat to the world's most famous hippo, Moudang, the viral sensations standoff with someone who broke into her enclosure. |
| 1:41.7 | And there's good news tonight. A bride to be turns to her students for |
| 1:46.2 | marriage advice. The hilarious and surprisingly wise secrets to a happy life from a room full of |
| 1:52.4 | second graders. Nightly News starts right now. This is NBC Nightly News with Tom Yamas. |
| 2:02.8 | Good evening. I'm Halley Jackson in for Tom, and we begin tonight with escalations in the Iran war, |
| 2:07.7 | pushing oil and gas prices even higher. |
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