ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - June 20, 2025

Tonight, several developing stories as. we come on the air. The life-threatening. heat moving in. It could feel like 106. in New York City. Across the US, temperatures in the triple digits. Also. tonight, President Trump, his new. message on Iran. And what the president. is now saying about his own director of. national intelligence, saying late. today, she's wrong. And the mother who. disappeared on Mother's Day. And the. stunning turn tonight. The charges. First tonight, the life-threatening heat. moving in. Temperatures across the. country soaring past 100 and the severe.

storm stretching from Michigan to New. York tomorrow. Lee Goldberg standing by. with the forecast. Also tonight, President Trump pushing back against his. own director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, after she recently said. there's no evidence Iran is building a. nuclear weapon right now. The president. late today saying she's wrong. Tonight, the arrest that made national headlines. The student activist arrested during the. Trump administration's crackdown on pro. Palestinian demonstrators on campus. Tonight, a judge ruling he must be.

freed. This evening, a suspect now. charged with the attempted kidnapping of. a mayor. Police say they have recovered. a taser, rope, and duct tape, climbing. over an 8 to 10 ft wall to get to the. mayor's home. It comes after those. horrific shootings of lawmakers in. Minnesota. Tonight, 5 years after she. disappeared on Mother's Day, authorities. have her husband under arrest tonight. He'd been released years earlier and. what he told ABC News at the time. Tonight, authorities on this sudden new. turn and what led to his arrest.

Tonight, we hear from the jurors now in. the Karen Reed murder trial in Boston. Why they acquitted her, their reasoning. outside New York City in the Hamptons, a. reality TV star killed in an apparent. hit and run. Police finding her. unconscious along Montalk Highway. The. disturbing scene at the ballpark. A. Pirates pitcher taking a swing at a fan. What led to this moment? And it was 50. years ago tonight Jaws became the summer. blockbuster. You're going to need a. bigger boat. Tonight, Ginger Z takes us. to Martha's Vineyard. Steven Spielberg.

on what was really happening with that. mechanical shark and the child actor in. the water there revealing what was. really going on during this scene. From ABC News World Headquarters in New. York, this is World News Tonight with. David Mure. Good evening. We've made it. to Friday, but it comes with extreme. heat now moving in across much of this. country. Thanks for being here tonight. More than a 100 million Americans. bracing now for life-threatening heat. Heat alerts stretching from Arizona all.

the way east to New York and up into New. England. Temperatures in the 90s and. 100s right through next Tuesday. The. feel-like temperatures when you factor. in humidity as well. It could feel like. 106 this weekend in New York City. More. than 20 million Americans already under. extreme heat warnings in the heartland. Chicago officials tonight urging. residents to check on their neighbors. Severe storms also on the move from the. Midwest to New York, bringing down trees. and power lines in Philadelphia and all. along the I95 corridor. Chief. Meteorologist Lee Goldberg of our New.

York station WABC is with us back here. tonight. And after weeks of rain, Lee, now the very intense heat. and that's what makes it high impact, David. We're coming off a cool end of. spring. It's going to be a shock to the. system. We have heat alerts from the. Gulf Coast to the Great Lakes into the. Northeast. The heat's going to peak in. the Midwest tomorrow. We're seeing. potential record highs in Minneapolis, St. Louis. By Sunday, it's in Chicago. And then that heat gets into the. Northeast. Look at DC and New York and. Boston. By the time we get into Sunday.

and Monday feels like 108 in DC, 107 in. New York. We haven't hit 100° in New. York since 2012. It's going to be close. And then broiling in Boston, 103 on. Tuesday. Please take care of yourself. Severe storms tonight from Bismar to. Duth. David, those storms won't be in. the northeast till Wednesday or Thursday. of next week to break the heat. We'll. have to prepare for it all weekend. David Lee Goldberg with us here on a. Friday night. Lee, thank you. Now to. President Trump on Iran tonight. His new. words late today. And tonight, the. president now pushing back against his. own director of national intelligence,

Tulsi Gabbard. She recently said the. intelligence community has no evidence. that Iran is building a nuclear weapon. right now. The president tonight saying. she's wrong. ABC's Rachel Scott at the. White House tonight. Tonight, as President Trump decides. whether the US will take direct action. on Iran, the president clearly showing. today he does not agree with his. director of national intelligence, Tulsi. Gabbard, who said in recent weeks the. intelligence community has no evidence. Iran is building a nuclear weapon at. this point. What intelligence do you.

have that Iran is building a nuclear. weapon? Your intelligence community has. said they have no evidence that they are. at this point. Well, then my. intelligence community is wrong. Who in. the intelligence community said that? Your director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard. She's wrong. In the days. leading up to Israel's first strikes on. Iran, the president's director of. national intelligence, in a very rare. move, posted a video of her own, appearing to warn against any. escalation. We stand here today closer. to the brink of nuclear annihilation.

than ever before. Political elite and wararmongers are. carelessly fermenting fear and tensions. between nuclear powers. Perhaps it's because they are confident. that they will have access to nuclear. shelters for themselves and for their. families that regular people won't have. access to. So, it's up to us, the people, to speak. up and demand an end to this madness. We must reject this path to nuclear war. Sources tell ABC News the president.

scolded Gabbard and wish she used better. judgment. We're told she has still. participated in intelligence briefings. in the Oval Office and is part of the. president's national security team in. the situation room. A source familiar. saying in the room, "Gabbard argued that. Tyrron is not close to building a bomb, reaffirming her Capitol Hill testimony. just months ago. IC continues to assess. that Iran is not building a nuclear. weapon. The president in recent days. clearly frustrated that his director of. national intelligence has not appeared. to be in lock step with him. I don't.

care what she said. I think they were. very close to happen. Tonight, President. Trump doubling down his two-week. deadline for Iran before he decides on. US military action. Meanwhile, European. leaders meeting today with Iran's. foreign minister in Geneva, trying to. come up with some sort of diplomatic. solution. Our Tom Sufi Burge is there. The talks here wrapping up. No major. breakthroughs, but the Europeans. pressing Iran to return to negotiations. with the US. The president tonight. appearing to brush off the efforts by.

European leaders. Iran doesn't want to. speak to Europe. They want they want to. speak to us. Europe is not going to be. able to help in this. And the president. saying if the US does take direct. action, it will not include US boots on. the ground. Well, I'm not going to talk. about ground forces. The last thing you. want to do is ground force. David, the White House tonight telling. us the president has full confidence in. his national security team, calling. Gabbard an important part of that. And. David Tulsi Gabbard responding herself. tonight suggesting there is no daylight.

between her and the president. David. Rachel Scott there at the White House. Rachel, thank you. And with those talks. underway in Geneva and President Trump. giving Iran two weeks tonight here the. images coming in. Iranian missiles. slamming Israel. Ian panel in Tel Aviv. for us tonight. Israel and Iran. exchanging fierce new blows. Video circulating online showing an. Iranian missile slamming into Israel's. port city of Hifur. First responders rushing to the scene. More than 30 people injured. And in the.

southern city of Behava, a missile. blowing out a building lobby, causing. destruction. A nearby daycare taking. heavy damage. And Israel pounding Iran, hitting missile sites. A military. official telling ABC News they've taken. out about half of Iran's missile. launchers and Israel still bombing. Iran's nuclear facilities. New satellite. imagery showing a reactor in Iraq. destroyed. At least 230 killed across Iran,

according to the government, with little. prospect of an early end to the strikes. David, the American military now. assisting some US diplomats and families. leave Israel. Meanwhile, the State. Department apparently tracking. unconfirmed reports that some Americans. trying to leave Iran are being detained. David Ian panel will continue to follow. that part of the story for sure. Thank. you. Back here in the US tonight, the. suspect is now charged in that attempted. kidnapping of the mayor of Memphis. They. say he climbed over an 8 to 10 foot wall.

to get to the mayor's front door. They've recovered a taser, rope, and. duct tape. And it comes after those. horrific shootings of lawmakers in. Minnesota with that suspected killer. showing up at their front doors. Here's. Pier Thomas tonight. Tonight, prosecutors in Tennessee. charging this 25year-old man with trying. to kidnap the mayor of Memphis, Paul. Young. The latest in what authorities. say is a surge in targeted attacks on. politicians. You may not contact Paul. Young, the alleged victim in this case. You may not contact him directly,

indirectly, or be anywhere he's likely. to be. Police claimed that Trenton. Abston climbed over the 8 to 10 foot. wall in Mayor Young's neighborhood. Sunday night and went directly to the. mayor's home, knocking on the door. The. mayor not answering after he looked at. the Ring doorbell video and observed an. unknown male. Prosecutors claimed an. absson had a taser in his pocket and. planned to confront Paul Young about. crime in the city. And authorities say. they later found that taser, rope, and. duct tape in the suspect's vehicle. Mayor Young posting. In today's climate,

especially after the tragic events in. Minnesota and the threats my wife and I. often receive online, none of us can be. too careful. And US Congressman Max. Miller from Ohio says he too was. targeted this week while driving on a. highway. Some unhinged, deranged man. decided to lay on his horn and run me. off the road when he couldn't get my. attention to show me a Palestinian flag. Not to mention death to Israel, death to. me that he wanted to kill me and my.

family. Tonight, police arresting. 36-year-old Ferris Hamn for allegedly. threatening Miller and his family, saying he made anti-Semitic slurs. against Miller, who is Jewish. These. incidents on the heels of those horrific. shootings in Minnesota that left former. state house speaker Melissa Hortman and. her husband Mark, dead. Authorities say. the alleged killer disguising himself as. police wearing a hyperrealistic latex. mask. Senator John Hoffman and his wife. Uvette ambushed at their front door.

trying to protect his family. They say. the senator lunged at the gunman. Each. of them shot at least eight times. Their. daughter Hope then rushed to shut the. door and called 911. The Hoffman saying. quote without Hope we wouldn't be here. right now. David, the Hoffman family. grateful that hope saved their lives. And in response to this toxic and. increasingly dangerous political. environment, congressional leaders. holding urgent meetings this week to. discuss ways to improve security. David,

and to try to bring the temperature down. across this country. Pierre Thomas, thank you, Pierre. There's breaking news. tonight after that arrest of a. demonstrator. The Colombia graduate. student arrested in front of his. pregnant wife as the Trump. administration cracked down on pro. Palestinian demonstrators on campus. Well, tonight, a judge now ruling that. he must be released months after his. arrest. Here's Aaron Kurski. Okay, let's It was the arrest at. Columbia University in front of his. pregnant wife that made national. headlines and he's not resisting. And. tonight, after more than three months in.

federal custody, Columbia graduate and. green card holder Mahmud Khalil walking. out of an immigration jail in Louisiana. My priority now is to get to my. beautiful, beautiful wife and precious. son. Although justice prevailed, but. it's it's it's long, very long overdue, and this shouldn't have taken three. months. A federal judge granting. Khalil's release on bail, ruling the. Trump administration was punishing him. over his pro Palestinian speech. Of. course, the judge said that would be. unconstitutional. The judge also.

rejecting the government's argument that. Khalil represented a flight risk. The. administration accused Khalil of. fermenting anti-semitism during. demonstrations on the Colombia campus. last year which his lawyers denied. Tonight nor Abdullah who gave birth to a. son Dean in April saying we can finally. breathe a sigh of relief and know that. Mahmood is on his way home. Khalil's. ordeal is not over David. The government. is still determined to kick him out of. the country. Something he can now try to. fight while home with his wife and son.

after 105 days in detention. David, Aaron Kurski on this tonight. Aaron, thank you. Tonight here, the new turn. five years after a Colorado mother. disappeared on Mother's Day, authorities. have arrested her husband. He'd been. released years earlier and what he told. ABC News at the time. Tonight, authorities on this sudden new turn and. what's led to the arrest this time. Here's Mola Leni. 5 years after Colorado. mother Suzanne Morphw vanished during a. bike ride near her home on Mother's Day. Tonight, the stunning arrest. A grand.

jury indicting her husband, Barry, on. charges of murder. When Suzanne first. went missing, her husband pleaded for. her return in this video. No questions. asked. However much they want, I will do. whatever it takes to get you back. Honey, I love you and I want you back. soon. A year later, Barry Morphw was. arrested and charged with her murder. But just days before trial, the charges. were dropped. Morphw's daughters, Macy. and Mallerie, standing by their father. through it all, sitting down for an. interview with ABC News. We just know.

our dad better than anyone else, and we. know he was not involved in our mom's. disappearance. And Barry later asked if. he was involved. Absolutely not. It's. very hurtful to lose your reputation and. your integrity. Suzanne Morphw's remains. were found in a shallow grave. Police. say an autopsy found traces of sedatives. and tranquilizers. According to the new. indictment, police found a dart or. tranquilizer rifle along with a needle. cap in the dryer in the home. Investigators say at the time of the.

murder, Suzanne had been having a secret. affair and discussed plans to divorce. Barry Morphw with her close friend. Well, David, Barry Morphw maintaining. his innocence. Tonight, he's in custody. in Arizona where he was arrested on the. murder charge. Prosecutors now seeking. his extradition back here to Colorado. David Mola Langi, our thanks to you. We. are also hearing tonight from the jurors. who acquitted Karen Reed of murdering. her Boston police officer boyfriend. Why. they found her not guilty. Their. reasoning right here tonight. Here's. Stephanie Ramos.

Defendant not guilty or guilty. Tonight after Karen Reed was acquitted. in the killing of her police officer. boyfriend John O'Keefe. Jurors. describing how they reached that. decision. I just realized there was too. many holes that we couldn't fill and. there's nothing that put her on the. scene in our opinion besides just drop. John Lee off. Our affiliate WCVB. speaking to juror number 11, Paula. Praau, a lawyer from Brazil, who says. she initially thought Reed may be guilty. of manslaughter, but changed her mind.

over the course of the trial. Prosecutors in Massachusetts accused. Reed of hitting O'Keefe with her vehicle. after a night of drinking, leaving him. for dead during a snowstorm in 2022. Another juror telling ABC News she does. not believe Reed ever struck her. boyfriend with the car, pointing to. perceived issues with law enforcement's. investigation. A collision did not. occur. I can't assess the motive to. sloppy police investigation. And while. that Brazilian attorney says she stands. by the jury's decision, she felt badly.

for the officer's family when the. verdict was read in court. Great for. Karen Reed, but horrible for the family. He seemed to be a very nice guy. So, I. feel bad for them, and I really wanted. them to get justice for Jon for real. While Reed was acquitted of those. seconddegree murder and manslaughter. charges, she was found guilty of. operating a vehicle under the influence. and sentenced to one-year probation. David, Stephanie Ramos with us tonight. Steph, thank you. When we come back, here the breaking headline. There's been. an outage at this hour involving air. traffic controllers now apparently on.

backup systems. Where this is playing. out at a moment. And outside New York. City in the Hamptons, a reality TV star. from a popular real estate show killed. in an apparent hit and run found. unconscious along Montalk Highway. What. police are saying in a moment here. Tonight, the FAA is reporting a. telecommunications outage affecting the. air traffic control center in. Jacksonville, Florida. The FAA says the. facility lost radar frequencies and. automation equipment when a fiber optic. line was cut. Backup systems have now. kicked in. The outage did not cause any.

disruptions to Jacksonville Airport. The. center is now operating on what's called. alert status. Tonight, police on New. York's Long Island are searching for a. suspected hit-and- run driver wanted in. the death of a reality TV star in the. Hamptons. Authorities say Sarah Burack. was found unconscious near a restaurant. along Montalk Highway. She later died at. the hospital. a prominent real estate. agent. She appeared in the popular. streaming series Million-Dollar Beach. House. When we come back here tonight, the major league pitcher taking a swing. at a fan. The alarming moment and you'll. see it and what led to it and what came.

out 50 years ago tonight. And what we. never knew about that mechanical shark. to the index. A disturbing scene at the. ballpark. Pirates pitcher Dennis Santana. pointed out a fan heckling him in the. bullpen during a game against the. Tigers. Police officer side there. Santana then taking a swing at the fan. and his teammates pulling him away. The. fan was ejected and tonight we've. learned the pitcher has now been. suspended for four games. When we come. back here, it was 50 years ago tonight. Jaws came out. Ginger Z takes us to. Martha's Vineyard tonight. What Steven.

Spielberg has revealed all these years. later. Finally tonight, it was 50 years ago. tonight Jaws premiered. That's director. Steven Spielberg. What he reveals. tonight about that mechanical shark. Ginger Z on Martha's Vineyard. Where are. we going? Swimming with two notes. and one shark. Steven Spielberg's Jaws. changed movies forever. The film. released 50 years ago, becoming an. instant blockbuster. But the making of.

the movie was over budget and 100 days. behind schedule. I was terrified I was. going to be fired. Nat Gio's new. documentary, Jaws at 50, takes a deep. dive into the production, plagued by. issues with that mechanical shark. There was nothing fun about making Jaws. It was a very, very hard thing to go out. on the real ocean, be knocked around by. the waves, by the currents. One more. time. And then on top of all that, 80%. of the time, the shark didn't work.

You're going to need a bigger boat. Shark. The shark. Jaws was shot right here on. Martha's Vineyard between May and. October of 1974. And this is the Jaws. Bridge, one of the most famous spots. from the film. People still come to. visit today. The cast and crew of Jaws. was right here in picturesque Edgartown. as they transformed it into the. beachside resort town of Amity. Many of. the actors in the movie islanders, lifelong residents of Martha's Vineyard,

like Jeffrey Vorhees, whose character. Alex Ker was one of the sharks victims. When you see me go up and down, that's. two guys lifting me in and out of the. water, then pull you on and give you. air. and Jonathan Surl who appeared alongside. his brother in this memorable moment. He. made me do it. He told me to do it. So. in the film you are pulling a hoax or. your character is but now you in real. life are the chief of police. Can you.

believe that? I'm still amazed at the. following that the movie has produced. and that 50 years later people are still. so interested. Who knew when I was. sitting with a 26-year-old gentleman. that would be Steven's Spielberg? The. documentary Jaws at 50 next month on Nap. Gio and Disney Plus. Good night. ABC's. David Mure, the most watched newscast in. America. More Americans watch world news. tonight with David Mure than any other. newscast.