ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - March 13, 2025

tonight breaking news as we come on the. air the stock market plunges again. president Trump's new 200% tariff threat. sending one key market now into. correction territory also tonight the. new poll showing Americans are concerned. by what they're seeing also tonight the. major storm moving across the country. the Midwest and Northeast next and the. mother arrested tonight accused of. keeping her stepson captive in their. home for more than 20 years since he was. a boy he said fire to the home so. authorities would come save him first.

tonight president Trump defiant. escalating his trade war with America's. allies the Dow falling another 537. points today the S&P 500 slipping into. correction territory tonight the. president insisting he's not backing. down at the new poll tonight what. Americans are saying about President. Trump's handling of the economy and. about his tariffs also tonight will the. government shut down Senate Republicans. and Democrats locked in a standoff. Democrats furious with President Trump. and Elon musk's SW sweeping firings.

thousands of American workers fired and. they're angry over the tariffs but do. Democrats want to be responsible for. shutting down the government Rachel. Scott and what she just learned tonight. the powerful CrossCountry. storm a confirmed tornado tonight severe. storms and possible tornadoes moving. into the Midwest then the system hits. the Northeast Lee Goldberg has the. forecast that horrific case a mother. accused of holding her stepson captive. for more than 20 years the stepson son.

now 32 weighing just 68 lb setting fire. to the home hoping firefighters would. come save him and when asked if he was. hungry he said all day every day my. entire life the major headline tonight. in the search for that missing. Pittsburgh College student on spring. break in the Dominican Republic tonight. the international police agency Interpol. now involved in this case overseas. tonight Vladimir Putin and what he's now. signaling about the us back ceasefire. for Ukraine and Russia Putin now saying.

he wants to talk to president Trump. James Longman in Ukraine back in the US. the chilling 43 second video tonight. emerging in that case of the two girls. murdered while on a trail being followed. by the suspect and now in the video you. can hear what the girls say about the. man who was following them the alarming. scene green Flames seen shooting from. manhole students evacuated an entire. campus shut down and America strong. tonight you'll remember the 13-year-old. girl who famous ly struggled with the.

national anthem forgetting the. [Music]. lyrics the man who stepped into help. tonight 22 years later she returns and. you have to see how it goes this. time from ABC News world headquarters in. New York this is World News Tonight with. David M good evening and it's great to. have you with us here in a very busy. Thursday night we have a lot to get to. and we begin here with the stock market.

plunging again as president Trump. escalates his trade war with America's. allies the Dow closing down more than. 500 points today the S&P 500 now in. correction territory tonight all of this. today after the president announced a. 200% tariff on all wine champagne and. alcohol from France and other European. countries his retaliation for the. European tariffs on American Goods that. were a response to president Trump's. tariffs in the first place the Dow. tonight closing down 537 points closing. at 4,813.

president Trump today with NATO's. Secretary General visiting defending his. tariff saying I'm not going to bend at. all and tonight here the new poll just. in showing Americans are growing very. concerned weighing in on the president's. handling of the economy so far and on. his tariffs on our neighbors Canada and. Mexico ABC's chief White House. correspondent Mary Bruce leading us off. tonight tonight an ominous news sign the. president's escalating trade war is. taking a real toll on the American. economy the Dow plunging more than 500. points and for the the first time in 2.

years the S&P 500 closing down 10% from. its recent Peak going into what's known. as correction territory an alarm Bell. for investors that the current roller. coaster ride is far from over still. president Trump insisting he's not. backing down from his sweeping tariffs. you are not going to change your mind no. I'm not look we've been ripped off for. years and we're not going to be ripped. off anymore no I'm not going to bend at. all in fact today Trump vowing to go. even further threatening a 200% tariff. on all wine champagne and alcohol coming.

out of France in the European Union. saying it's in response to the quote. nasty 50% tariff on us whiskey that the. EU announced in retaliation to Trump's. tariffs on steel and aluminum economists. warn American businesses will foot the. bill for Trump's tariffs and pass the. costs along to Consumers by raising. prices and Tyler Armstrong who owns a. wine shop in Greenport New York worries. that's exactly what he'll have to do 70%. of the wine he sells comes from Europe I. would hope that I wouldn't be paying I.

wouldn't be paying $60 a bottle for for. a wine that I pay $20 a bottle for now. because then a $30 bottle of wine could. cost $90 for the consumer Trump. acknowledges Americans may take a hit. but argues it's worth it that our. trading partners like Europe Mexico and. Canada need us more than we need them. now there'll be a little disruption but. it won't be very. long but they need us we really don't. need them Canadian leaders say that's. not true we're your largest customer. there's no one that buys more Products.

off the United States then we do you're. going to be paying a lot more for. everything right across the board. because you can't get aluminum anywhere. else you only produce 16% of your. aluminum we ship in over 60% so anything. that has aluminum uh you're going to pay. more a new quinet Pak poll shows most. Americans are unhappy with Trump's trade. war with America's neighbors 58%. disapprove of how he's handling trade. with Canada while only 36% approve and. 56% disapprove of how he's handling. trade with Mexico with 37% approving.

overall 54% of Americans disapprove of. how Trump is handling the economy 41%. approve today I pressed the president. many American small business owners say. they are concerned that these tariffs. are going to hurt them what's your. message to them uh they're going to be. so much richer than they are right now. and we have many yesterday General. Motors was and they want to invest $60. billion uh the people from Facebook were. in yesterday they're going to invest 60.

billion by the end of the year but those. are huge companies small business owners. like Jeremy Peterson who runs a pet food. company in Windsor Colorado doesn't have. the time or the money to wait out a. trade War so we need to take these. tariffs off the table so that we can get. certainty and move forward um just. trying to create a living for us and our. family and everyone involved with our. business and again David those Wall. Street Jitters about this trade War are. only getting worse but the president has. said he's not concerned meanwhile.

tonight news about the administration's. effort to carry out those Mass firings a. federal judge ordering the thousands of. employees recently fired must be rehired. calling the process a quote sham the. White House Tonight is blasting the. ruling and vowing to appeal it David. Mary Bruce leading us off at the White. House Tonight Mary thank you we turn now. to the looming deadline at this hour and. this potential government shutdown. Senate Republicans and Democrats are. locked in a standoff tonight with this. possible shutdown set to happen just. more than 24 hours from now now.

Democrats furious with President Trump. and Elon Musk for firing thousands and. angry over tariffs and the markets but. unsure what to do and whether they want. to shut down blamed on them let's get. right to Rachel Scott she's live on the. hill tonight Rachel what have you. learned well David Senate Democrats are. making this last ditch effort to try to. block a republican proposal to keep the. government open all in protests to. president Trump Elon Musk and those. sweeping cuts across the federal. Workforce but late today Democrats. privately acknowledge they do not have. the votes and just moments ago Senate.

minority leader Chuck Schumer said he. will be voting to keep the government. open look the reality here is that even. though Democrats are furious at. president Trump's tariffs and those Mass. firings across the federal Workforce. they do not want to be responsible for. shutting the government down so tonight. it does appear that Democrats will be. helping Republicans avert this shutdown. with just over 24 hours to go David and. you'll be there Rachel Scott live on the. hill for us Rachel thank you in the. meantime did this powerful cross country. storm Millions on alert at this sour the.

storms headed to the Midwest and the. Northeast next severe storms and. possible tornadoes storms already. battering California blizzard conditions. in the San Bernardino Mountains a. tornado ripping through P Rivera. California around 3:00 a.m. bringing. down trees First Responders at San Juan. kep rescuing a driver from a vehicle. that was washed right into a rushing. Creek this storm on the move at this. hour chief meteorologist Lee Goldberg. from our station WABC right here in New. York timing it all out again tonight for. us hey. Lee hey David the storm could be a real.

Wrecking Ball as it moves across the. country now right now it's rain and. Mountain snow confined to the west but. out ahead of the storm way out ahead of. it a surge of wind and unseasonable. warmth and that's elevating the fire. danger so you have red flag alerts. across a dozen states now these places. will get rain by the time we get to. tomorrow night we're starting a. multi-day severe weather outbreak you. see that the storm's going to have. damaging wind hail and tornadoes all the. way from Cedar Rapids to Jackson but St. Louis and the crosshairs level four out. of five for severe weather that's the. second High risk and that'll go through.

tomorrow night then that shifts to the. Gulf Coast New Orleans to Birmingham on. Saturday even some severe storms up to. the Ohio Valley a weaker version to the. east coast by the time we get into the. weekend but still some damaging winds. from Jacksonville all the way to DC and. Philly David leberg back with us tonight. Lee we appreciate it we turn out of that. horrific case a Connecticut mother. accused of holding her stepson captive. for more than 20 years that stepson who. is now 32 weighing just 68 lbs setting. fire to the home he was was hoping. firefighters would come save him and.

when asked if he was hungry when he was. saved he said all day every day my. entire life here's Whit. Johnson tonight the house fire that led. to a shocking Discovery in Waterbury. Connecticut a 32-year-old man who police. say had been held captive for more than. 20 years his stepmother Kimberly. Sullivan arrested it's truly a um. horrifying and it's beyond comprehension. what occurred here authorities. responding to reports of an active fire. at the home last month saying they.

observed a man who was extremely. emaciated his hair was matted and. unkempt he was very dirty and his teeth. all appeared to be rotten 5'9 and only. 68 lb according to court documents he. told officers he intentionally started. the fire in his room on the second floor. using a lighter hand sanitizer and paper. because he wanted his freedom this is. the worst uh treatment of humanity that. I've ever witnessed police say when. asked if he was hungry he stated all day. every day my entire life he recalled.

drinking water from the toilet because. he claimed he was only getting about two. cups of water per day the man said he'd. been pulled out of school at the age of. 11 after the Department of Children and. Families was called to their home court. documents stating that he would steal. others food at school later spending. years mostly locked in his room that. room did have exterior locks on it in a. number of different styles of exterior. locks the 56-year-old stepmother. appearing in court today facing multip. charges including assault kidnapping and.

unlawful restraint her attorney saying. she denies all allegations appearing to. place some blame on the accuser's. biological father who died last year. he's the one that dictated how his son. would be raised she's not the villain. she's being made out to be and David. Sullivan was released on. $300,000 Bond the police chief saying. they are working to support the. 32-year-old man as he recovers from what. doctors described as a life-threatening. condition David just a horrific case.

with Johnson tonight with thank you we. turn this evening to a new Global alert. tonight the international police agency. interpole is now involved in the case of. that 20-year-old college student from. Pittsburgh who vanished while on spring. break in the Dominican Republic Ariel. rashev is there again. tonight tonight the global alert. interpole now involved in the case of. missing 20-year-old University of. Pittsburgh student sadik Shak Kanani the. global missing person alert called a. yellow notice was issued at the request. of the Lowden County Virginia Sheriff.

where kanan's family lives officials in. the Dominican Republic say kanoni was. last seen on this surveillance video. walking to the beach with 24-year-old. Joshua reeby around 4: a.m. according to. authorities Reby captured on Hotel. cameras returning to his room that. morning around 9:00 a.m. alone kanan's. clothes and shoes found on the beach. Laden County authorities calling Reby a. person of interest but Dominican. authorities tell ABC News Reby is. cooperating and is a witness not a.

suspect telling them that the two were. hit by a large wave they also say he. gave them three different versions of. what happened that night because he was. too drunk to clearly remember Laurel. Shri has known Reby since he was 8 years. old Josh would never hurt a girl I don't. know what happened but there's no way he. would have intentionally been any part. of any scheme to do something to her. David detectives from Lowden County are. here in the Dominican Republic searching. for Clues and tonight the prosecutor.

here says that they are exploring all. possibilities both accidental and. intentional David Ariel Russia Ariel. thank you again tonight overseas this. evening Vladimir Putin and what he's now. signaling about the us-backed ceasefire. for Ukraine and Russia Putin now saying. he wants to talk to president trump our. chief International correspondent James. Longman in Ukraine. Tonight Tonight Vladimir Putin in his. first public response to the us back. 30-day ceasefire plan with Ukraine says. he broadly supports the idea for a. temporary ceasefire but only with.

conditions and that is not what the US. demanded Putin starting with a rare. thank you to president Trump but then. saying there are issues that we must. discuss with our American colleagues. saying he wants to call President Trump. those issues include taking back. territory seized by Ukraine in Russia's. Cur region and Putin demanding that in. any pause Ukraine not rearm train or. mobilize troops at the White House today. with NATO Secretary General Mark rter. Trump said he'd love to meet or talk. with Putin calling the Russian leaders.

comments very promising Trump says he. told his special Envoy Steve wickoff to. discuss Ukrainian territory during his. talks with Putin in Moscow tonight we've. been discussing with Ukraine land and uh. pieces of land that would be kept and. lost and all of the other elements of a. final agreement David both Trump and. Putin said today they want to speak to. each other about this deal Vladimir. Putin may have done just enough to keep. the White House happy for now but he has. made no commitment to stop his invasion.

David James Longman again tonight James. thank you back in the US meanwhile the. chilling 43 second video emerging. tonight in the case of those two girls. murdered while on a trail being followed. by the man who was later convicted. here's Alex. Perez tonight eight years after the. murders of 13-year-old Abby Williams and. 14-year-old Libby German in Deli Indiana. were now seeing the chilling video. recorded by Libby of the final moments. with their killer key evidence police. say helped them capture and convict. Richard Allen until now the public had.

only seen this snippet and heard the. murderer's. voice but this 43 second clip played at. trial and just released on a website. that supports Allen reveals the growing. Panic as Abby asks her best friend if. the man following them is still. there you can hear nervous. Whispering as Libby steps off the trail. see this is the.

pass be Abby is seen rushing past. Libby um there's no path going there so. we have to go down here you hear heavy. breathing and then footsteps before the. voice of their killer. Guys. Hill Abby and Libby were ordered down. that Hill Police say at gunpoint and. killed and David defense attorneys for. Richard Allen say they did not release. released that video Allan has been.

sentenced to 130 years and is appealing. that conviction David all right Alex. Perez thank you when we come back. tonight the extraordinary sight in the. Skies over the us tonight also the. 13-year-old girl who tried to sing the. national anthem but forgot the words. returning 22 years later you have to see. this and next tonight the alarming scene. green flames shooting from manhole. students evacuated a campus shut down. more on this in a. moment tonight the alarming manhole. explosion shutting down Texas Tech. University green Flames bursting from.

manholes on campus reports of a gas odor. parts of the school evacuated more than. 40,000 students were sent home early for. spring break there's no word on the. cause tonight when we come back the. spectacular site over the us tonight. what you'll see and the 13-year-old the. national anthem and what's now happened. 22 years. later to the index the spectacular sight. in the skies tonight millions of. Americans will see the blood moon total. lunar eclipse just before midnight in. the East totality occurring at about.

2:25 eastern time when we come back. tonight she was 13 singing the National. Anthem and forgot the words you might. remember this 22 years later the. comeback in a. moment ABC World News Tonight with David. mure sponsored by Pacific Life creating. Financial Security for nearly 160. years finally tonight here the. 13-year-old the national anthem and her. nerves 22 years later The Comeback it.

was the moment seen by millions more. than two decades ago oh say can you. see in 2003 a young singer Natalie. Gilbert Just 13 singing the national. anthem on the Portland Trailblazers. basketball. [Music]. court. start starting off strong then the. nerves suddenly forgetting some of the.

lyrics all right come on come on the. team's coach Maurice Cheeks quickly. stepping to her side to help her that. basketball coach soon coaching. her singing with her and then. encouraging the crowd to sing. [Music]. [Applause]. to natal would go on to finish the. anthem to Cheers she and the coach would. never forget that moment and now 22.

years later she walked back on to that. Court last night invited back by the. team and who was there that proud coach. ready to cheer her on again and just. listen oh say can. you tonight Natalie telling us she hopes. everyone knows it's okay to make. mistakes it's all about how you recover. and become stronger.

a lesson for us all in that. congratulations Natalie I'll see you. tomorrow good. night thank you for making World News. Tonight with David mure America's most. watched newscast.