- 6/19/2025
Mary Bruce and Martha Raddatz have the latest on the conflict in the Middle East as Pres. Trump considers whether the U.S. should strike Iran and Israel intensifies its attacks; Matt Gutman reports after a jury acquitted Karen Read of murdering her Boston police officer boyfriend but convicted her of operating under the influence of liquor; Morgan Norwood has details on the multi-day severe weather outbreak that’s hammering the Heartland, putting more than 115 million on alert, and Lee Goldberg has the forecast; and more on tonight’s broadcast of World News Tonight with David Muir.
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00:00tonight breaking news as we come on the air president trump in the situation room late
00:05today on iran tonight what abc news has now learned what president trump is reportedly now
00:11getting comfortable with involving iran is the u.s getting ready to strike also tonight the
00:16dramatic scene near boston the verdict and the karen reed trial and severe storms moving into
00:21the northeast first tonight the news just coming in president trump in the situation room for the
00:26second straight day tonight a source telling abc news they believe president trump is growing more
00:31comfortable with the idea of the u.s striking iran's key nuclear facility deep under a mountain
00:37so what would this entail will the u.s strike martha raddatz and mary ruth standing by also tonight
00:43here's the verdict in a murder trial watched by the nation and dividing a community near boston
00:48karen reed tonight found not guilty of killing her boston police officer boyfriend the scene tonight
00:54outside that courthouse and what karen reed said right after and you'll hear it tonight the severe
00:59storms with threat moving into washington dc philadelphia new york city and the northeast
01:04and then the extreme heat right behind it lee goldberg has the forecast tonight the supreme
01:09court's major ruling on transgender care for minors for the first time justice is weighing in on a state
01:16law banning treatments for transgender youth what the court decided tonight the major turn with the ban
01:22on tiktok set to go into effect tomorrow from the bear to the boss
01:27a first look tonight at actor jeremy allen white as bruce springsteen
01:35from abc news world headquarters in new york this is world news tonight with david muir
01:46good evening we begin tonight here with the breaking news president trump in the situation room late today
01:51with his national security team for a second day in a row now meeting on iran and tonight a source now
01:56telling abc news the president is getting comfortable with the idea of the u.s striking iran's key nuclear
02:02facility called fordo 300 feet deep under a mountain the president has not given the final okay and of
02:09course it comes as the world watches and wonders will the u.s strike iran now in the oval office today the
02:14president saying he is not looking to fight but that quote iran cannot have a nuclear weapon saying if it's a
02:19choice between fighting and them having a nuclear weapon you have to do what you have to do now if
02:25the president gives the order for the u.s striking iran's key nuclear facility deep in that mountain
02:30fordo what would this entail martha raddatz standing by with what she's learned tonight and abc's chief
02:36white house correspondent mary bruce leading us off she's at the white house tonight president trump
02:41gathering his national security team in the situation room for the second day in a row a source familiar
02:46with the intelligence tells our martha raddatz they think trump is getting comfortable with the idea
02:51of the u.s striking iran's key nuclear facility called fordo buried 300 feet deep under a mountain
02:58separately sources tell abc news that the president told top advisors he approved of attack plans for
03:03iran but has not yet decided whether to put them into effect i may do it i may not do it i mean nobody
03:10knows what i'm going to do i can tell you this that uh iran's got a lot of trouble
03:15it comes as israel intensifies its attacks on iran a massive plume of smoke billowing near tehran
03:24the idf saying it struck at least 60 targets today including nuclear facilities missile manufacturing
03:30sites and military bases trump has demanded iran's unconditional surrender but tonight the country's
03:37supreme leader defiant
03:38surrender to what the ayatollah said the iranian nation cannot be surrendered we will not accept
03:47any kind of submission
03:48and then this warning to the united states the damage america will suffer if it makes a military
03:57intervention in this field will undoubtedly be irreparable the tucker carlson expert on iran
04:03tonight the president's own party torn on what to do a division on full display in this clash between
04:10texas senator ted cruz who supports the strike and tucker carlson who doesn't want america to get
04:16involved how many people living around by the way i don't know the population at all no i don't know
04:21the population you don't know the population of the country you seek to topple how many people
04:28living around 92 million okay yeah how could you not know that i i don't sit around memorizing
04:35population tables well it's kind of relevant because you're calling for the overthrow of the
04:39government the president today asked for his message to americans worried about the u.s getting
04:44involved in another conflict in the middle east after what they witnessed in iraq and afghanistan
04:49well i don't want to get involved either but i've been saying for 20 years maybe longer that iran
04:54cannot have a nuclear weapon i've been saying it for a long time and i think they were a few weeks
04:59away from having one iran can't have a nuclear weapon too much devastation and they'd use it you
05:06know i believe they'd use it others won't use it but i believe they'd use it the big decision
05:11facing trump tonight whether to drop a 30 000 pound bomb the largest in america's arsenal on that
05:17iranian nuclear facility buried 300 feet under that mountain the president who in his last term
05:23ended the nuclear deal with iran that allowed in nuclear inspectors has been urging iran to
05:28negotiate an end to its nuclear program tonight he says he still hasn't made up his mind on whether
05:34the u.s military should enter the conflict i have ideas as to what to do but i haven't made a final i
05:41like to make the final decision one second before it's due you know because things change i mean
05:45especially with war now the president is still holding out hope for negotiations to end iran's
05:51nuclear program but again we've learned that the president has approved of attack plans that have
05:56been presented to him the bottom line tonight david president trump has not made any final decision
06:02on whether the u.s will strike iran david yes appearing to approve the plan but not giving the
06:07order a big distinction here mary bruce leading us off mary thank you let's get right to our chief
06:11global affairs correspondent martha raditz martha this is your reporting late today
06:15president trump growing more comfortable according to your source with the idea of striking iran's key
06:20nuclear facility deep in that mountain fordo you and i have reported from iran what would this entail
06:25how significant would this be with the u.s getting involved potentially at this level well david i'm
06:31told that if that final order is given from president trump this would not be a single strike on the
06:37fordo facility it would be a series of strikes with 30 000 pound penetrator bombs from b2 stealth bombers
06:44this comes as the israelis have discovered additional air defenses in iran they had thought
06:50as of yesterday they had taken them all out but discovered that there are more so that adds an
06:56element of danger president trump has also been briefed on security at u.s bases in the region those
07:0240 000 american troops who would be vulnerable if the u.s carries out the strike on fordo and iran
07:09retaliates david yes significant concern for the tens of thousands of troops in the region
07:14martha raditz with us tonight as well martha thank you in the meantime we turn to the other news
07:18tonight the murder trial watched by the nation tonight a jury finding karen reed not guilty of
07:23killing her boston police officer boyfriend loud cheers as karen reed left the courthouse today
07:28stepping up to a microphone what she had to say with supporters there hundreds of them filling the
07:33streets outside the courthouse look at the images there jubilant at hearing the verdict in a
07:37community divided by this case matt guppin was right there at the courthouse tonight that stunning
07:43verdict not guilty a massachusetts jury finding karen reed not guilty of second degree murder of
07:49manslaughter and of leaving the scene in the death of her boyfriend boston police officer john o'keefe
07:55what say is the defendant at the bar not guilty or guilty not guilty
07:59as word of the verdict reached reed supporters outside the courtroom the cheers were so loud
08:07you could hear it inside the courtroom the former adjunct professor was found guilty of a single
08:15lesser charge of drunk driving and sentenced to a year of probation right now you can hear the cheers
08:22of the crowd right there alan jackson karen reed in that light blue suit emerging from the courthouse
08:29rethinking that throng of supporters in a sea of pink her favorite color i could not be standing here
08:35without these amazing supporters who have supported me and my team financially and more importantly
08:43emotionally for almost four years and the second thing i want to say is no one has fought carter
08:50for justice for john o'keefe than i have than i have and my team prosecutors argued it was a cut and
08:59dried case saying reed had rammed her suv into o'keefe after a night of drinking and left him to die in a
09:05blizzard outside a party that included other law enforcement she was drunk she hit him and she left
09:14him to die and they tried using reed's own words from tv interviews against her when you walked out of
09:20the bar how many drinks had you had i had probably about four but the defense arguing reed's car never
09:29struck o'keefe there was no collision there was no collision there was no collision suggesting a much
09:39more sinister scenario alleging that o'keefe was attacked dragged outside into the blizzard to die
09:44and at some point bitten by the family dog just look at john's arm these are dog bites and scratches
09:51the case dividing the community pitting neighbor against neighbor about that alleged police cover-up
09:57and at the center of the controversy lead investigator state trooper michael proctor who'd sent vulgar text
10:04messages about karen reed just hours after he got the case and was later fired after that first trial
10:10the defense argued the investigation was biased from the start it was corrupted by a lead investigator
10:16whose misconduct infected every single part of this case from the top to the bottom about the case
10:23an allegation proctor vehemently denies in a new exclusive interview with 2020 did you plant evidence
10:29absolutely not and i'm laughing because it's such a ridiculous um accusation it's something i would
10:36have i would never do i've never done you know most people and there's no evidence of it we're talking
10:41about people in your community your neighbors who believe it this is not strangers this is people
10:48in canton why do you think that is that's just the loud minority the the silent majority have we've had
10:55an overwhelming amount of support they're just not out there tweeting david of course karen reed convicted
11:01on that lesser charge of oui basically driving under the influence and sentenced to a year of probation
11:07but she is not out of the legal woods yet the family of john o'keefe filing a wrongful death civil suit
11:13against her and i spoke to them earlier today they say that they are resilient and they'll keep fighting
11:19david matt gutman right there in denim tonight matt thank you and this evening matt will have much more
11:23in a special edition of 2020 karen reed the verdict breaking details new reporting here inside this
11:29case and of course the reaction exclusive interviews that's 8 p.m eastern 7 central a special edition of
11:342020 right here on abc and of course streaming tomorrow on hulu in the meantime we turn next
11:39tonight here to the severe storms moving into the northeast 115 million americans on alert across
11:44multiple states at this hour more than 20 reported tornadoes in the past 24 hours this storm near
11:49arnett oklahoma a reported tornado damaging and destroying homes in northwest arkansas right there
11:55the threat now moving into the northeast and then right behind it the extreme heat so lee goldberg has
12:00the forecast and abc's morgan norwood with the images already coming in tonight
12:04tonight dangerous storms hammering the heartland as they head for the east coast
12:10you hear it west of springfield illinois in jacksonville derrick sturdivant recording as a
12:15massive funnel forms near the fairgrounds right there sending debris into the air this sports
12:21complex nearby heavily damaged another funnel spotted in petersburg our affiliate wrtv tracking
12:28dangerous storms bearing down on indianapolis right during rush hour this is a very very a strong line
12:35of storms that has a lot of wind overnight massive supercells looming over oklahoma city 10 reported
12:41tornadoes across six states along with 80 mile an hour winds and flash flooding in parts of kansas
12:48chicago skyline lit up with a triple lightning strike in northwest arkansas a reported tornado tearing the
12:53roofs off multiple homes and a farm in the town of high phil early this morning and david that system
13:00is now tracking toward the east coast severe storms in the forecast from dc to philadelphia to right here
13:06in new york city tomorrow david tracking it right here in new york morgan thank you let's get right to
13:10chief meteorologist lee goldberg of our new york station wabc tracking it all for us again tonight
13:14highly hi david some of those tornadoes in illinois rain wrapping dangerous make sure those mobile
13:20alerts are on still some rain in chicago and a flood watch but the severe threat runs from detroit
13:25to cincinnati with a severe thunderstorm watch still a tornado watch in louisville there's a tornado
13:29worn storm north of canton ohio more showers in the northeast toward new york city and down toward dc
13:34where there's a flood watch that's in response to higher humidity and more heat that's where we have
13:38storms tomorrow same front from new england new york city philly dc down to raleigh damaging winds
13:43large hail even isolated tornadoes that's late in the afternoon and evening this is the gateway to
13:48the higher heat it's a flip of the pattern in the east it's heat to start summer feel like ratings
13:53over 100 definitely some weather whiplash in the northeast david no question about that has been
13:57raining for weeks and now intense heat moving in lee goldberg thank you we turn next tonight to the
14:02supreme court's major ruling today on transgender care for minors for the first time the justice is
14:07weighing in on a state law banning treatments for transgender youth the court upholding the ban
14:13devin dwyer covers the court for us tonight the supreme court's conservative majority upholding
14:19tennessee's ban on some gender affirming medical care for transgender minors clearing the way for 24
14:26states to continue enforcing similar bans in the six to three decision chief justice john roberts
14:31citing evolving science and profound implications rejecting the argument that denying trans kids
14:37access to puberty blockers and hormone therapy amounts to sex discrimination roberts writing the
14:43issue should be left to the people their elected representatives in the democratic process justice
14:48sonia sotomayor joined by liberal justices kagan and jackson dissented in sadness writing the court's
14:54decision inflicts untold harm to transgender children and the parents and families who love them what they're
15:00saying is that trans people do not fall within the sex discrimination classification that you can
15:08legally discriminate against trans people the sponsor of the tennessee ban praising the court's decision
15:13the court affirmed what we believe and that is the states do have a compelling interest to protect kids
15:19i won't say i'm optimistic lw a trans teen who brought the case and asked us not to show her face
15:25told us last year she'll keep pursuing the treatments in another state because they changed her life i think
15:30really the big difference was when i got on hormones that was incredibly helpful david an estimated 100
15:38000 transgender teens and their families live in states where those treatments are banned but today's
15:44ruling has no impact in other states where gender-affirming care for minors remains legal david all right
15:50abc's devin dwyer who covers the supreme court devin thank you when we come back tonight the lawmaker and her
15:54husband shot and killed authorities say by that suspect wearing a latex mask well tonight here
16:00what's now happened at their home also the major recall involving chicken tonight and then look at
16:05this the dramatic rescue of a woman missing for days she was airlifted from the area where she was found
16:10how they found her and the operation here in a moment
16:17tonight police are investigating a break-in now at the home of murdered minnesota lawmaker melissa
16:21hortman she and her husband mark were shot and killed early saturday morning by that suspect at
16:26a latex mask well now police say someone broke into their boarded up home in brooklyn park minnesota
16:31tonight the family does not believe anything was stolen a woman missing for three days has been
16:36rescued now in sedona arizona airlifted from an area known as the edge of the world authorities say she
16:41was found by someone repelling near the bottom of the canyon dehydrated and suffering minor injuries she is
16:48okay tonight just incredible when we come back your news tonight about the tick tock ban set for
16:52tomorrow in the u.s from the bear to the boss this is something and you've got to see the father of
16:57the bride tonight and one incredible surprise to the index with the tick tock ban in the u.s set to go
17:04into effect tomorrow president trump today extending the deadline again bite dance the chinese owner of
17:09the popular app given another 90 days to find a u.s approved owner tonight the usda recalling some chicken
17:15products sold at walmart and kroger markets the recall for ready-to-eat chicken fettuccine alfredo
17:20because of possible listeria contamination at least three people have died 17 people sickened in 13
17:25states labeled market side at walmart and home chef at kroger they should be thrown away or returned
17:32from the bear to the boss the new bruce springsteen movie starring jeremy allen white
17:35white singing in the movie portraying springsteen in the 80s springsteen deliver me from nowhere set
17:45for october when we come back here tonight the father of the bride who had no idea what they found
17:50from decades ago and you'll see the moment he realizes what's been found abc world news tonight
17:57with david muir sponsored by vivgard hytrulo and vivgard
18:04finally tonight the father of the bride america strong tonight in bowling green kentucky an incredible
18:10surprise a gift from a daughter to her father on her wedding day reagan miller walked down the aisle by
18:16her father dale she would soon marry alex kearns and afterward the father-daughter dance but what her
18:23father did not know is that she had gone through the old family videos they had
18:27bragan how old are you finding home videos of the two of them together when she was a little girl
18:35and then something long forgotten something recorded more than 50 years ago it was an old
18:40country song her family would sing together she saved it for her wedding day knowing she would be
18:46dancing with her father and just listen as she plays the song he had no idea that song was ever recorded
18:56and that voice right there is her great-grandfather noble her father's grandfather singing and then two
19:04more voices his own mother her grandmother lana and then a very young voice her own father as a
19:11toddler when he was three years old he was singing too this has been a family tradition for decades
19:25and right here tonight hello david that proud father of the bride folks will begin to maybe record
19:31those special moments today and realize how special they'll be for years down the road and tonight
19:37joining us too hi david that new bride reagan we certainly feel very blessed uh in the riches of
19:44our family love and we appreciate you spreading the positivity thanks so much well thank you the power
19:50of a song all those years ago i'll see you tomorrow good night thank you for making world news tonight with
19:55david muir america's most watched newscast
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