ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - March 17, 2025

tonight the horrific images more than 40. people killed in a deadly tornado. outbreak multiple States and the new. storm now coming the tornado sweeping. across 12 States oh my God tonight here. the new images of a devastating ef4. winds up to 190 miles hour hundreds of. homes damaged or destroyed high winds. tonight fueling massive wildfires. tonight red flag warnings across several. States and now this new CrossCountry. storm set to bring damaging winds again. this week Ginger E standing by with the.

forecast tonight the scare at New York's. LaGuardia Airport a Delta jet coming in. for a landing its left wing hitting the. runway before a go-around air traffic. control telling the pilots also breaking. at this hour the hearing late today a. federal judge demanding the Trump. Administration explain why it defied the. judge's order deporting hundreds the. judge ordering two planes already in the. air to turn around the planes landing in. El Salvador anyway the president's. borders are tonight saying I don't care. what the judges think tonight the body.

camera video here for the first time the. moment First Responders rescued that. stepson who they say had been held. captive by his mother from within 20. years you will see what they found. tonight the missing Pittsburgh College. student on spring break and the new. interview with that young man from Iowa. believed to be the last person to see. her alive will he be allowed to leave. the Dominican Republic the high stakes. call Now set between President Trump and. Vladimir Putin over the future of the. war in Ukraine tonight more than a dozen.

bagpipers injured when their bus crashes. into a tractor trailer after a St. Patrick's Day Parade the two astronauts. and their long awaited return home when. their Voyage Home begins in just hours. tonight remembering a well-known singer. you'll know the song Harvard now. offering free tuition to many students. and the Irish soda bread scones you saw. first right here you came to the rescue. and tonight you'll want to see this.

from ABC News world headquarters in New. York this is World News Tonight with. David M good evening and it's great to. start another week with all of you at. home we do begin tonight with the. horrific images after a massive and. deadly tornado outbreak in damaging. storms that swept across this country at. least 40 confirmed tornadoes in 12. States the death toll rising at least 42. people have died two ef4 tornadoes. striking Arkansas this one striking. Jackson County with 190 mph winds the a.

tornado tore through Tylertown. Mississippi ripping off tree branches. filling the air with debris drone videos. showing the devastation after multiple. twisters in the area structures turn to. splinters trees nothing but sticks. tonight in plantersville Alabama two men. right there standing on the roof of a. home that collapsed and in Talladega. County Alabama an ef2 tornado with winds. 120 mph hurling this empty school bus on. top of a high school gym and now new. evacuations in Oklahoma at this hour. where wind driven wildfires have now. killed at least four people and damaged.

hundreds of homes tonight there's now a. new cross country storm barreling East. bringing damaging winds yet again and an. extreme fire danger at this hour Ginger. Z standing by with the forecast and. Victor Kendo in the storm Zone tonight. leading us. off tonight new images of the massive. tornado that devastated Jackson County. Arkansas oh my God the ef4 with 190 M. hour winds oh just one of dozens. reported during a violent tornado out. break across the Heartland oh man.

Southwest of Hattisburg in Tylertown. Mississippi DJ Lane recording this. incredible scene as a tornado destroyed. his neighborhood we watched it with him. today how scary was that moment that was. one of the most scariest moments of my. life right there the devastation from. multiple tornadoes in the area goes on. for Miles this RV Resort leveled in. planners Ville Alabama north of South.

lives turned upside down by an ef3. tornado to be honest you wouldn't think. just a wind and tornadoes would do this. much. Devastation Anita Owens mourning the. loss of her mother Annie she loved. everybody I mean she loved her kids her. grandkids her family her nieces and. nephews high winds from the same system. fueling fires that scorched hundreds of. homes in Oklahoma and tonight new.

evacuations for this brush fire. southeast of Guthrie our Maria Villa. Royale is there the smoke here is thick. and heavy and the winds are blowing at. an unbelievable Pace right now fire. crews are coming from all different. areas to try and put out fires that. continue to spark just like this. wildfires already claiming at least four. lives in the state and David this just. in from the National Weather Service the. tornado that destroyed this RV Resort an. ef4 with winds up to 170 mph on the.

ground for at least 35 Mi these cabins. and trailers tossed around like toys the. owner of the resort telling us that some. people were trapped inside but everyone. survived that is good news on the ground. for more than 30 miles that's just. extraordinary our thanks to you Victor. and Maria let's get right to our chief. meteorologist Ginger Z she's now back. from the storm Zone where she was. reporting all weekend and of course. gingered now millions of Americans on. alert again tonight.

yes we have not even had a chance to. catch our breath David and we've got. alerts all over the map again that low. pressure system is already in the Rocky. Mountains and that's why you see those. winter storm warnings out there but I. want your eye to go to the high wind. warnings New Mexico parts of Texas. there's also blowing dust advisories. there but 50 million Americans have red. flag warnings remember that is fire. danger and so from Kansas City and Iowa. back to Texas and Oklahoma too we're. going to have a couple of days with that. I'll tell you about the winter storm. watches and the blizzard coming on. Wednesday that's on the top end of this.

but look at those gusts 50 to 75 mph you. pair that with relative humidity as low. as 10% and that's where you're going to. get fire problems all the way through. tomorrow unlike most nights you're not. going to see the winds go down tonight. in Oklahoma you'll actually see them go. up and that's why we find a level three. out of the three top level extreme fire. danger tomorrow and the blizzard on. Wednesday will bring gusts upwards of 60. MPH with 3 to 6 in of snow going to make. visibility really hard David all right. Ginger we appreciate your reporting all. weekend long we'll see you first thing. in the morning thanks again speaking of.

the Winds now to the scare at New York's. LaGuardia Airport a Delta passenger jet. coming in for a landing from. Jacksonville Florida it's left wing. striking the runway as Pilots were. lifting back off to go around again Air. Traffic Control telling them the wing. had hit the ground here's. teval tonight a Delta passenger jet. attempting to land at New York's. LaGuardia Airport striking its left wing. on the runway and the two pilots on. board appeared unaware Air Traffic. Control pointing out the incident. somebody saw some Sparks from one of.

your wings um you guys feel anything we. did but we'll check it the Delta. Regional flight arrived from. Jacksonville Florida just after 10. Sunday night 80 passengers and crew on. board conditions were suboptimal but not. extreme winds gusting to 35 mph with. some Mist in the air the plane then. circling for another Landing attempt in. a statement Delta says the crew executed. a goar around then landed safely and. proceeded to its arrival gate adding we.

apologize to our customers for the. experience tonight that aircraft remains. grounded at LaGuardia out of service. there's no immediate indication when it. may return to the air the flight. operated by the same Regional carrier. involved in this dangerous incident last. month a fiery crash landing at Toronto's. Airport hey and David here in New York. there were no reported impacts or. injuries at LaGuardia but the FAA says. it's now investigating David Trevor old. with us here tonight Trevor thank you. now to the developing headline at this.

hour a hearing just a short time ago a. federal judge demanding the Trump. Administration explain why it defied the. judge's order deporting hundreds the. judge had ordered two planes already in. the air to turn around the planes. landing in El Salvador anyway the. president's borders are tonight saying I. don't care what the judges think here's. ABC's senior political correspondent. Rachel Scott. Tonight Tonight questions over whether. the Trump Administration brazenly. violated an order from a federal judge. after he told them not to report 261.

Venezuelan immigrants to El Salvador but. they did it anyway the administration. claims the men are members of criminal. gangs invoking an obscure law the aliens. enemies Act of 1798 which allows the. government to deport people with little. to no do process and was last used to. round up Japanese Americans during World. War II and in an emergency court hearing. on Saturday federal judge James bosberg. asked for more information and put the. deportations on pause saying any plane. maining these folks that is going to.

take off or is in the air needs to be. returned to the United States this is. something that you need to make sure is. complied with immediately but by then. two planes were already in the air and. they did not turn around Administration. officials claiming those planes had. already crossed into international. waters the president of Al salador a. trump Ally posting on X oopsy too late. on Air Force One president Trump asked. if his administration violated the. judge's orders I don't know yet have. speak to the lawers.

of are you planning to do more. deportation I can tell you this these. were bad people that was a bad group of. as I say today the president's borders. are saying quote I don't care what the. judges think we're not stopping I don't. care what the judges think I don't care. what the left thinks we're coming the. White House Press Secretary raising. questions about whether the judge's. orders carry weight because it was. delivered from the bench and not put in. writing there's actually questions about. whether a verbal order carries the same. weight as a legal order as a written.

order but when I asked the architect of. the president's immigration policy. Deputy Chief of Staff Steven Miller. whether they would comply with a verbal. order from the judge he questioned. whether judges have the authority to. rule over the president's policies at. all is it the administration's. understanding that you would comply with. the verbal order no dist Court Judge who. who who presides over just some small. like little geography of the whole. country could possibly presume to have. the authority to direct the expulsion of.

terrorists from our soil who by the way. are also here illegally thank you. everybody and David the administration. was back in court tonight in front of. that same judge he demanded to know why. the administration defied his order when. they tried to make the distinction. between that verbal order and the. written order the judge calling that. quote a heck of a stretch and there is. breaking news here from the White House. just moments ago president Trump. announced that he is ending Secret. Service protection for former President. Joe Biden's two adult children Hunter. and Ashley Biden David it is not unusual.

for the adult children of former. presidents to receive Secret Service. protection for several months after. president's Leep office David Rachel. Scott live at the White House Tonight. Rachel thank you also just in tonight. the newly released body camera video. showing the moment a son was rescued. after authorities say he was held. captive for 20 years by his own. stepmother video showing her outside the. burning home telling a police officer. that her stepson was still inside police. say the son said he set the fire so. authorities would come and save him. here's our chief inv correspondent Aaron.

kki Tonight Tonight the Connecticut. woman who allegedly held her stepson. captive for more than 20 years is seen. on newly released body camera video. moments after the 32-year-old set fire. to their house authorities say so they. would come and save him who else is in. the house who else is in here my stepson. is in here the Stepmom Kimberly Sullivan. had placed a frantic call to 911 please. hurry it's to Blake Street there's a. fire my son was step son's in his room. he needed ambulance when first First. Responders arrived they said they found.

a dirty emaciated man whose hair was. matted and unkempt and his teeth all. appeared to be rotten got one victim. right here he's 5'9 only 68 lb seen here. being carried into an ambulance court. records say the man later 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 but they say when. they asked him if he was hungry he. answered all day every day my entire. life tonight David Kimberly Sullivan is.

free on bail she's charged with assault. kidnapping and unlawful restraint all of. which she denies David Aaron kki with us. tonight Aaron Thank you new developments. here this evening in the case of the. Pittsburgh College student who vanished. on spring break in the Dominican. Republic this evening a new interview. now with the young man from Iowa. believed to be the last person to see. her alive and the question now will he. be allowed to leave the Dominican. Republic ABC's Ariel RF is there again. tonight tonight the Young iow man. authorities believe was the last to see.

missing University of Pittsburgh student. sadika kanaki is asking to return to the. US lawyers for Joshua Reby alleging he's. been questioned for days without charges. held illegally and surveilled by. authorities in his hotel filing a court. motion for Reby to be released after. authorities confiscated his passport. Reby telling our team inana off camera I. just want to go home when asked about. what happened to kanoni he responded no. comment but added it's very sad sources.

confirmed to ABC News rebi walked. officials to the beach outside the hotel. where kanoni vanished 12 days ago all. along the authorities here have said the. 22-year-old is not a suspect authorities. believe kanoni likely drowned police. confirming these images show her cover. up and sandals found on the beach. investigators also reviewing hours of. CCTV footage including this video from a. bar inside the Ryu Hotel appearing to. show the two together David here in the.

Dominican Republic officials are not. allowed to detain anyone for more than. 48 hours without charges ree's attorneys. argue that time is up a judge could rule. on his release by tomorrow David Ariel. Russ again tonight Ariel thanks now to. the high stakes phone call between. President Trump and Vladimir Putin it is. now set for tomorrow Ukraine has already. agreed to that us proposal for a 30-day. ceasefire the question now will Putin. agree to this our chief International. correspondent James Longman is in. Ukraine for us tonight James David this.

will be the first known conversation. between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. since Ukraine agreed to that 30-day. interim ceasefire but there's real. concern here that Vladimir Putin is just. trying to cut Ukraine out of the process. speak directly with Donald Trump and not. agree to the ceasefire Donald Trump has. said that he and Putin will discuss land. power plants and dividing up certain. assets but Ukraine says territorial. concessions are not negotiable and that. it's it's not up to Russia who gets to.

join NATO David James Longman in Ukraine. for us again tonight James thank you. there was yet another developing story. as we're on the air tonight for late. details coming in now here's Juju Chang. David Ward coming in from overseas. Israel declaring the ceasefire is over. launching major air strikes across Gaza. dozens reportedly killed prime minister. Netanyahu ordering the IDF to take. forceful action against Hamas after the. terror group repeatedly refused to. release the hostages Israel vowing to R. up military force against Hamas.

tonight's move comes after president. Trump issued what he called a last. warning to Hamas to release the hostages. once again David that ceasefire is over. Israel now launching a wave of deadly. strikes across Gaza David J do thanks. when we come back here tonight the major. headline of this hour involving those. two astronauts hoping to finally come. home what we know also on this St. Patrick's Day the famous Irish soda. bread scones right here in New York and. what you've done and then the other news. tonight more than a dozen B Pipers. injured when their bus crashes into a.

tractor trailer after a St Patrick's Day. Parade what authorities are saying about. this in a moment. here tonight those two Starliner. astronauts are just hours now away from. beginning their long awaited return home. a SpaceX capsule carrying American. astronauts Butch Wilmore and sunny. Williams set to undock from the. International Space Station just after. 1:00 a.m. eastern they're expected to. splash down off the Florida coast just. before 6:00 p.m. tomorrow night they. were supposed to serve that 8-day. mission in space they've been in space. for nearly 10 months now let's hope this.

all goes as planned more than a dozen. people injured when a bus carrying a. bagpipe group crashed into a truck in. lacana County Pennsylvania the bus. returning from a St Patrick's Day Parade. authorities say the bus driver veered. off the road Landing in the back of the. truck the victims are expected to make. full recoveries when we come back here. tonight remembering a well-known singer. and the song that helped make him. famous to the index of other news. tonight beginning this fall Harvard says. it will offer free tuition for students. from families earning $200,000 or less.

per year the school will be offering. free tuition and housing food and. insurance for students from families. earning less than $100,000 a year we do. have a passing the note tonight Jesse. Colin Young lead singer of The Young. Bloods has. [Music]. died best known for get together he once. said the song was still a thrill to play. his solo career lasting more than 5. decades he was 83. Conan O'Brien will be making an Oscars.

Encore here on ABC after receiving High. marks earlier this month the academy. revealing he'll be back to host next. year let we come back tonight on the St. Patrick's Day the Irish soda bread. scones you first saw right here you came. to the rescue what's happened out of. those scones and of the. baker finally tonight here at barica. strong and on the St Patrick's Day the. Irish soda bread scones and an Irish. blessing you first met Mario howerin. right here the owner of Mario's Irish.

Pub it was 4 years ago at the beginning. of the pandemic and she had to shut down. her husband couldn't get home from the. docks in Alaska because of travel. restrictions and she was home with their. six children with the pub closed she and. the children got to work making meals. for Frontline workers she also started. making Irish soda bread scones to. support the family with her homemade. blackberry jam her mother's recipe from. Ireland thousands lining up customers. sending photos and after an Instagram. post by humans of New York the story.

going. viral Mary offering an Irish blessing. her regulars helping to carry in the. flower 20,000 lb of it you should see it. it's all over the restaurant and 24. hours after our report here Mary told us. she had more than $100,000 in new orders. a new oven arriving to help keep up with. demand World Ed tonight viewers from as. far away as Las Vegas visiting New York. and making sure to stop by to buy her. scones. hi David tonight Mario and her message.

of gratitude I just want to say a huge. thank you to everybody who saw me on. America strong and everybody who um. ordered um the Irish soda bread spes and. tonight here four years after our first. report on Mary she tells us she's now. opened a brand new shop just for her. scones so many new customers helping to. get the word out posting videos of their. taste tests and tonight Mary telling us. she's hard at work baking and and. thankful on this St Patrick's Day a.

fresh spoone out of the oven with butter. and blackberry jam you will love us. there's something about the stes thank. you Davis thank you. DAV well Mary we hope the lines grow. even longer for those scones baked with. a lot of Irish heart Mary O's scones. check them out good. night thank you for making World News. Tonight with David mure America's most. watched newscast.