ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - March 21, 2026

David Muir, ABC's [music] World News. Tonight, America's most watched. newscast, now streaming same day with. [music] all the breaking news of the day. on Disney Plus. Most watched, most. trusted, now on Disney Plus every. [music] night. Tonight, the war intensifies with Iran. reportedly attempting to strike an. American base thousands of miles away. A. major airline now canceling flights over. soaring fuel prices and President Trump. threatening to send ICE agents to fix. airport [music] security delays. First,

the war with Iran entering its fourth. week. US and Israeli forces battering. multiple targets. >> [music]. >> including a nuclear site. Iran answering. back striking near one of Israel's. nuclear facilities [music]. and reportedly launching ballistic. missiles toward a joint US UK base. [music] in the Indian Ocean. More US. Marines on their way to the region as. two American soldiers killed in Kuwait. are remembered back home in Iowa. Also. tonight, the war sending fuel prices. soaring. Gas averaging close to $4 a.

gallon. >> [music]. >> New warnings against price gouging and. the airline now cutting flights as its. fuel costs go up. The ongoing fallout of. the partial government shutdown. Security lines snaking through airports. Delays lasting hours as more unpaid TSA. officers [music] call out. Senators. still at odds over funding for Homeland. Security. And now President [music]. Trump threatening to send ICE agents to. airports to straighten out the delays. Catastrophic flooding in Hawaii, the. worst in decades. Rising waters lifting.

homes and cars. Thousands of evacuated. Hundreds rescued. The governor. activating the National Guard. Plus the. record heat in the West and wildfire. dangers in the Rockies and Plains. Remembering [music] Robert Mueller who. rebuilt the FBI after 9/11 and who later. investigated [music] President Trump and. Russian interference in the 2016. election. The president reacting with. harsh words. What he posted after. learning of Mueller's death. The newly. released video of Justin Timberlake. showing the pop star stopped by police.

and the field sobriety test [music]. before being booked for that 2024 DWI. A. record-breaking crowd as K-pop sensation. BTS returns to the stage. >> [music]. >> And America's strong tonight, the dog. nobody wanted finds a home with the men. and women in blue. From ABC [music] News world headquarters. in New York. This is World News Tonight. [music] Good evening. It's great to have. you with us on this Saturday. I'm Whit. Johnson. We begin tonight with the war.

with Iran now entering its fourth week. Iran reportedly firing two ballistic. missiles at a remote military base. shared by the US and the UK more than. 2,000 miles from Tehran, demonstrating a. capability it had previously denied. Iran is claiming that one of its nuclear. facilities was damaged by Israeli air. strikes, but there was no radiation. leakage, and then swiftly striking back. hitting a southern Israeli neighborhood. near a nuclear facility. Dozens injured, emergency workers combing through the.

wreckage. The Pentagon releasing this. video of strikes destroying Iran's. military vehicles and aircraft. Here in. the US, a somber occasion in Iowa as. funeral services are held for two Army. reservists, Major Jeffrey O'Brien and. Sergeant Declan Cody. ABC's Patrick. Reville leads us off tonight from Doha, Qatar. Tonight, Iran and Israel targeting each. other's nuclear facilities. An Iranian ballistic missile seen here.

smashing into a residential neighborhood. in the southern city of Dimona, home to. Israel's nuclear research center and. linked with the country's undeclared. atomic weapons program. The. International Atomic Energy Agency. saying it's received no reports of. damage to the center, but calling for. restraint from both sides. Israeli. authorities reporting over 60 civilians. wounded, the strikes hitting apartments. Iran saying it was responding to a fresh. wave of US and Israeli air strikes. against its nuclear facilities,

including the Natanz nuclear enrichment. site. Natanz was already bombed at the. start of the war. This satellite image. showing damage from then. Iran also. reportedly fired two ballistic missiles. at the key US-UK base in Diego Garcia, located in the middle of the Indian. Ocean, more than 2,000 miles away. The. Wall Street Journal reporting one. missile shot down, the other failing. But the launches meant to demonstrate. Iran has far longer range missiles than.

previously believed. A threatening signal perhaps to Europe. CENTCOM today painting a much different. picture of Iran's remaining. capabilities. Iran has lost significant. combat capability over the last 3 weeks. Iran is still managing to launch dozens. of missiles and drones a day and. maintaining its stranglehold on the. Strait of Hormuz. The US is now sending thousands more. troops to the Gulf. A second Marine. Expeditionary Group seen departing this.

week. As speculation grows President. Trump might use ground troops to reopen. the strait or even seize Iran's Kharg. Island. And if the Marines can get. there, I think seizing it would be relatively. easy. The problem is getting there. because any Marine unit would have to. transit the straits and then I'll go up. the uh Persian Gulf with the um Iranians. shooting at them the whole time. It. could also risk more US casualties. At.

least 13 Americans have been killed. The. Pentagon says 232 have been wounded. >> [music]. >> Back in the US, funeral services today. for two Iowa soldiers killed in the. attack on an American base in Kuwait at. the start of the war. 20-year-old. Sergeant Declan Cody and 45-year-old. Major Jeffrey O'Brien. The first 2,500 Marines should arrive. sometime this week, but the second. expeditionary unit won't be here for at. least two more weeks. So, any operation.

could still be weeks away and obviously. every day the global economic damage. continues to grow with. All right, Patrick Revo for us tonight. The war. with Iran is also causing pain at the. gas pump and growing problems for. flyers. United Airlines is canceling. flights and bracing for oil to soar to. $175. a barrel. Let's go to ABC's Jacqueline. Lee in Los Angeles and Jacqueline, some. dire warnings about just how high prices. could go. Well, that's right. Gas prices have. soared since the war with Iran began.

The national average is $3.93 a gallon. according to AAA. And here in. California, it is a whopping $5.70. Now, gas and oil prices could stay high. if key energy infrastructures in the. Middle East incur long-term damage. according to a report by Goldman Sachs. Officials in New York and California. monitoring for potential price gouging. Now, turning to airlines, the CEO of. United announcing the company is. canceling about 5% of flights and. bracing for oil up to $175.

a barrel. Warning current fuel prices. will cost the company an additional $11. a year. And with the price of jet fuel. jumping 82% since the start of the war, experts warning air travelers to buy. tickets now. With All right, Jacqueline. Lee, we appreciate it. President Trump. meantime is now threatening to send ICE. agents to the nation's airports. The. president saying that's unless Democrats. agree to fund the Department of Homeland. Security and end the partial government. shutdown. Security delays causing long.

lines. Here's ABC's senior White House. correspondent Selena Wang. Tonight, President Trump threatening to. deploy ICE agents at the airports. starting on Monday unless Democrats. agree to fund the Department of Homeland. Security. Trump posting he will move ICE. agents to airports where they will do. security like no one has ever seen. before, including the immediate arrest. of all illegal immigrants who have come. into our country. It comes on day 36 of. the partial government shutdown, long.

security lines snaking through airports. and reaching the parking lot. TSA. workers who haven't seen a paycheck in 3. weeks calling out sick. Negotiate with. Republicans, but at the same time don't. inflict pain on the American people. Democrats holding firm saying any deal. needs reforms to Trump's immigration. enforcement policy. Is this shutdown. worth so many federal workers going. unpaid and the travel chaos we're. seeing? What Americans have seen.

from ICE in breaking down doors, dragging people out of cars, shooting. them, killing them, denying them medical aid, detaining them. illegally, US citizens, I think has not. only appalled them, but angered. Senators working through the weekend, but no signs of a breakthrough yet. At. some point the Democrats are going to. have to take yes for an answer. Democrats say they're willing to fund. other DHS agencies including TSA as. negotiations play out. It is. unacceptable for workers and travelers.

and entire airports to get taken hostage. in political games. And wait tonight the president is. raising the stakes, but the Democrats I. spoke with today say that only hardens. their resolve for immigration. enforcement reform insisting that the. American people are on their side. Whit? Selena Wang at the White House tonight. and tune into this week tomorrow. morning. Jonathan Karl speaks with. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. about the mounting delays at America's. airports. Now to that catastrophic.

flooding in Hawaii, muddy floodwaters. swallowed homes and vehicles and. triggered evacuation orders for. thousands. And now officials are warning. about the possible failure of a. 120-year-old dam. This is some of the. worst flooding in that state in decades. Here's WABC Meteorologist Danny. Beckstrom. Tonight, Hawaii under catastrophic. flooding for more than a week of. relentless rain. Thousands forced to evacuate. >> Careful. Entire neighborhoods submerged. More than 200 people rescued from.

fast-moving floodwaters. The governor. activating the National Guard. This is. the largest flood that we've had in. Hawaii in 20 years. Muddy floodwaters. swamping Oahu's North Shore, the. world-famous surfing destination. Raging. currents lifting homes and cars, forcing. 5,500 people north of Honolulu to. evacuate. This video showing residents. in this Oahu neighborhood in waist-high. floodwaters. Fish seen swimming in the. flooded parking lot of the North Shore. Marketplace. Officials now monitoring. the aging 120-year-old Wahiawa Dam. Rising water levels raising fears of an.

imminent breach. It could happen. We. want people to be aware of it. So, let's get to Meteorologist Danny. Beckstrom joining me now. So, Danny, you. have the timing of these threats and. also when Hawaii could possibly get some. relief. >> Looks like middle early to middle of the. week, but it goes from west to east in. terms of the islands. Let's look at the. watches, flood watches for all eight. Hawaiian islands through tomorrow. We've. seen these warnings in and out as well, and we expect that to continue because. the ground is already saturated, and we. have a general two to four additional. inches of rain with up to six inches of.

additional rain through tomorrow. The. summits of the Big Island 6 to 10 inches. of snow. Now, this is all connected to. that heat dome over the western US, the. atmospheric river over the Hawaiian. islands up to the northern US, and it's. allowing this unprecedented March heat. Dozens of all-time March records have. fallen, and although the heat has. peaked, we're still looking at daily. high temperatures. records falling as we move into the. start of the week. This is also helping. to dry out fuels, which is leading to. that critical fire danger for the. Rockies into the plains as we close out.

the weekend. >> Okay, we'll keep an eye on it, Danny. Thank you. Now to the death of Robert Mueller, a. career prosecutor and lifelong public. servant who led the FBI after the 9/11. terror attacks and was later named. special counsel in the investigation. into Russian interference in the 2016. presidential election. ABC's Olivia. Rubin tonight with more on Mueller's. life and legacy and how President Trump. is reacting. Tonight, the nation's long-time law. enforcement leader, former FBI director. and special counsel Robert Mueller the.

third has died at age 81. His family. saying in a statement, "With deep. sadness, we are sharing the news that. Bob passed away last night." Mueller led. the FBI for 12 years and repeatedly. found himself at the crossroads of. history, including the politically. charged investigation into Russia's. interference in the 2016 elections and. its links to President Trump's 2016. campaign. He most recently spent two. years investigating the case and.

possible obstruction of justice by. President Trump himself. The Mueller-led. probe ultimately charged more than a. dozen Russian operatives and several top. Trump associates. But Mueller did not. determine whether Trump broke the law. The president denies any wrongdoing. >> If we had had con- confidence that the. president clearly did not commit a. crime, we would have said so. We did not, however, make a. determination as to whether the. president did commit a crime. Mueller's team coming under constant. attack by President Trump. And tonight,

the president saying, "Robert Mueller. just died. Good. I'm glad he's dead. He. can no longer hurt innocent people.". Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. condemning the remark. >> This is a person who served this country. and uh and deserves more respect than. that. I join. many Americans. um mourning the loss of Robert Mueller. Mueller, a career civil servant serving. multiple presidents in both parties. Born in 1944 in New York City, Mueller.

grew up in suburban Philadelphia, graduating from Princeton University in. 1966, and receiving a master's degree from. NYU. Enlisting in the Marine Corps, Mueller was deployed to South Vietnam. Serving on active duty for 3 years, Mueller was decorated for valor with a. Bronze Star after rescuing a wounded. Marine under fire. And a year later, he. would earn a Purple Heart after being. shot in a firefight. In 2001, President. George W. Bush nominated Mueller to lead.

the FBI as its sixth director. Sworn in. as FBI director just a week before the. September 11th attacks. And with tonight, former FBI director. James Comey weighing in, saying his. example should inspire all of us. Whit? Olivia Rubin, our thanks to you tonight. Now to the newly released video of pop. star Justin Timberlake's DWI arrest in. Long Island, New York. Timberlake's. attorney sued to block the release of. the body camera footage from 2024,

calling it an invasion of privacy, but. later agreeing to release a redacted. version. Here's ABC's Andrew Dimburg. Tonight, newly released video showing. the moment pop superstar Justin. Timberlake is arrested on suspicion of. driving while intoxicated in June of. 2024. Based off of his observations, you are intoxicated. Okay. So, you are. under arrest for DWI. Okay? Timberlake's gray BMW captured on. surveillance video driving down a street.

in the Hamptons shortly before his. arrest. I observed you failed to pull. over stop at the stop sign, and then. while you were driving, you failed to. keep right on numerous occasions. So, you're very. >> Wait, wait, start over. Sorry. So, >> time. Following Timberlake's arrest, Sag. Harbor police officers taking him to a. cell. Am I being held all night? Uh it. might not be this one, you might be over. the other one, and they actually have. blankets for him. You guys are wild, man. Before he was taken into custody, body camera video showing Timberlake. undergoing a series of field sobriety.

tests. >> You have to put this. The then. 43-year-old visibly struggling. 4,000. 5,000 All right, that's all good. All right. All right. By the way, these are like. These are like really hard tests. Officers then asking Timberlake to use a. breathalyzer, which he appears to. refuse. >> You want to blow in it? No. Yeah. Okay. All right. The Grammy. Award-winning artist was later charged. with misdemeanor DWI and released.

without bail. With uh Timberlake pleaded guilty to a. lesser charge to resolve this DWI case. He also sued to block the release of. this video, but reached a settlement. agreeing to release a redacted version. Whit? Okay, Andrew Dunbar, thanks so. much. There's much more ahead on World. News Tonight this Saturday. A toddler. seen wandering into traffic, how a. quick-thinking driver may have saved his. life. Next tonight, the spring break crackdown. in Florida. Daytona Beach declaring a.

state of emergency after dozens of. arrests, rowdy parties, and chaos. There's also a curfew for minors now. Authorities also targeting the promoters. they say are throwing unsanctioned. Daytona Beach takeover events. Chicago police say they're questioning a. person of interest in the deadly. shooting of a college student. 18-year-old Sheridan Gorman was killed. early Thursday morning. She'd been. walking with friends on a lakefront pier. not far from Loyola University, where. she was a freshman. Police say they.

don't believe she was the intended. target. Turning now to Breonna Taylor's. mother speaking out against a move by. the Department of Justice to drop. charges against two Louisville, Kentucky. officers. They are accused of falsifying. the affidavit used to obtain a no-knock. search warrant for Taylor's apartment. Taylor was shot and killed by officers. in a botched police raid in 2020. Her. mother, Tamika Palmer, says the move. reflects a quote long-standing lack of. accountability. When we come back, a record-breaking.

reunion years in the making. To the index now, in a heart-stopping. moment for a rideshare driver in Texas, Michelle Goegeous was driving in San. Antonio when she spotted a toddler alone. in traffic. She stopped her car, jumped. out, and rescued the little boy. Goegeous drove him to a nearby apartment. complex and called 911. Soon after, police arrived, as did the child's. guardians, and he was taken home safe. And the reunion that millions of fans.

were waiting for, all seven members of. the K-pop supergroup BTS back on stage. for a free concert in Seoul. They were. on hiatus for 4 years while members. completed their military service. Organizers called it the biggest concert. ever in South Korea with more than a. quarter of a million people watching it. on giant screens. When we come back, America's strong from. underdog to part of the family. Finally tonight, the dog wandering in.

the cold and the officers going above. and beyond. In the middle of the night last month, with temperatures below zero, police. officers in Milford, Michigan answered a. call from a resident about a lost dog. Hi, pup. The moment captured on body. camera video. Hi. With no tag or. microchip, the concerned homeowner who. found him on her deck called police. I. know. I know. We'll get you warm. The. responding officers carefully lifting. him out of that bitter cold, placing him. in the back of a patrol car, and taking.

him to safety at the station. Good boy. Good job. We put him on our department social. media when the officers got back. We had. comments, but no one claimed ownership. He was turned over to Oakland County. Animal Control, but after 2 weeks nobody. showed up to claim him. So, the Milford. Police Department stepped up again and. adopted him, naming him Lil Craig and. giving him his own Instagram and. Facebook accounts. He warmed some. hearts. Today, he's a cherished member. of the police department, happily.

roaming the halls. While he's believed. to be about 9 years old, hard of. hearing, and missing some teeth, these. officers are determined to give Lil. Craig the loving forever home he. deserves. Aw, Lil Craig. I'm Whit Johnson in New. York. Have a great night. David Muir, the most trusted anchor in. America, the most watched anchor in. America. Thank you for [music] making. World News Tonight with David Muir the. number one newscast in America.