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00:00Tonight, the U.S. stunned by Israel's attack, targeting Hamas leaders inside Qatar.
00:07Qatar, a key U.S. ally, why wasn't that country, warned until 10 minutes later.
00:12Also tonight, the image is the disaster at American port, massive cargo containers falling
00:17into the ocean, and you'll see it.
00:18And in New York City, the couple found burned to death inside their home, what they were
00:22asked for at their door.
00:24First tonight, Israel launching an assault, targeting Hamas leaders inside Qatar, where
00:28talks are taking place.
00:30A huge plume of fire and smoke.
00:32Qatar accusing Israel tonight of sabotaging the talks.
00:35And late today, Qatar saying it wasn't warned by the U.S. until 10 minutes after the attack,
00:41what President Trump is now saying tonight.
00:44Also tonight, the birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein, what the president and White House
00:47are now saying about the letter allegedly written by Trump to Epstein, and what the White House
00:52now says it's open to.
00:54Tonight, the image is just coming in, the disaster at a U.S. port shipping containers into the water.
01:00Tonight, the famous musician and the disturbing discovery found inside his Tesla.
01:05Human remains inside a bag in the front trunk.
01:09In New York City, the chilling deaths of that couple set on fire in their own home.
01:14There is an urgent manhunt right now.
01:15Police say the suspect asked to charge his phone.
01:18Tonight, inside the immigration crackdown underway in Chicago at this hour.
01:22Pierre Thomas witnessing it firsthand, who they're after.
01:26And Pierre tonight asking about the critics, who want to know why agents across the country
01:30in these crackdowns are masked.
01:33Tonight, look at this, the newly released video showing a mystery in the sky.
01:37A U.S. Reaper drone shooting a Hellfire missile at this glowing object.
01:42It appears to speed away undamaged where this happened and what we know so far.
01:47Tonight, the school bus carrying a young team, flipping several times.
01:50Several players and a coach in critical condition tonight.
01:54This evening, Apple unveiling the new iPhone.
01:56What it says is the thinnest iPhone ever.
01:59The Eagles' Jalen Carter learning his punishment tonight after spitting on his opponent.
02:03And the major Ford recall this evening.
02:05Nearly one and a half million vehicles, 50 different models.
02:09And we'll tell you why.
02:12From ABC News World Headquarters in New York, this is World News Tonight with David Muir.
02:21Good evening, and we begin tonight here with the U.S. stunned by an Israeli attack targeting
02:25Hamas leaders inside Qatar, a key U.S. ally.
02:29Israel tonight saying it was justified.
02:31Qatar saying Israel is sabotaging the talks to end the war.
02:34And late today, Qatar saying the warning they got from the U.S. was 10 minutes after the attack.
02:39Here's our chief foreign correspondent, Ian Pannell, leading us off tonight.
02:43Tonight, the image is sending shockwaves throughout the Middle East.
02:47Israeli missiles slamming into the Hamas office in Qatar.
02:52The blast seen in videos circulating online.
02:55People fleeing for cover.
02:57Oh my God.
02:58Targeting the leadership of Hamas responsible for negotiating an end to the conflict.
03:03A plume of smoke rising above the capital, Doha.
03:07Israel says the deadly strike was entirely justified.
03:11But tonight, Hamas saying the attack didn't kill a single leader, that it was a failure.
03:18Instead, killing three Hamas security guards, the son of one of the leaders, along with a worker and a Qatari guard.
03:24Tonight, the White House acknowledging it knew about the attack just a short time before,
03:30but suggesting it didn't know soon enough to warn Qatar, a key U.S. ally.
03:36Late today, the Qatari government laying out how the call from the U.S. didn't come until 10 minutes after the attack.
03:43The attack happened at 3.46.
03:46The first call we had from an American official was at 3.56, which is 10 minutes after the attack.
03:52Tonight, President Trump saying the attack doesn't help Israeli or American goals.
03:58Qatar accusing Israel of sabotaging ceasefire talks.
04:01I was very unhappy about it.
04:03Very unhappy about every aspect.
04:05President Trump traveling to Qatar earlier this year.
04:08And just days ago, Trump urging Hamas to accept a new ceasefire proposal,
04:14issuing a final warning to accept a U.S.-backed deal or face consequences.
04:19Tonight, any deal to end the conflict now in serious doubt.
04:24David, a U.S. official telling ABC News that Israel did give the U.S. advance warning that it planned to strike Hamas,
04:31but not where or when.
04:32The official insisting it wasn't sufficient enough to adequately warn regional partners.
04:37But tonight, Qatar accusing Israel of state terrorism.
04:41David.
04:42Ian, panel on the breaking news tonight.
04:43Ian, thank you.
04:44Now to the push to release the Jeffrey Epstein files and this birthday letter,
04:48allegedly written by Donald Trump to Epstein.
04:50What the president and the White House are now saying tonight, and what the White House says it's now open to.
04:56Here's Mary Bruce.
04:57Tonight, President Trump insisting the signed birthday message bearing his name included in Jeffrey Epstein's birthday book is a forgery.
05:06It's not my signature, and it's not the way I speak.
05:09And anybody that's covered me for a long time, no, that's not my language.
05:13It's nonsense.
05:13The letter, one of a series of messages compiled for Epstein's 50th birthday, featured a crudely drawn outline of a woman's body.
05:21Around lines including, we have certain things in common, Jeffrey.
05:25Enigmas never age.
05:27Have you noticed that?
05:28And at the bottom, this.
05:30A pal is a wonderful thing.
05:32Happy birthday.
05:33And may every day be another wonderful secret.
05:36Underneath, written in a distinctive scrawl and thick marker, Donald.
05:40He did not sign those documents.
05:42He maintains that position, and that position will be argued in court by his lawyers.
05:46The White House says they're open to having a professional handwriting expert examine the document to prove their case.
05:52Sure, we would support that.
05:54The birthday book was handed over by the Epstein estate after a subpoena from the Republican-led House Oversight Committee.
06:00It was compiled by Epstein's accomplice, Glenn Maxwell, who in a note to Epstein described it as a collection of stories and old photographs to jog your memory about places, people, and different events.
06:12Trump, who had a 10-year relationship with Epstein, was listed as a friend.
06:17Maxwell is currently serving 20 years in prison for sex trafficking.
06:21In an interview, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who used to be Trump's personal lawyer, asked her about the book.
06:28Do you remember President Trump submitting a letter or a card or a note?
06:34I didn't.
06:35Tonight, House Republicans, including the chairman of the Oversight Committee, falling in line behind the president.
06:41The president says he did not sign it, so I take the president at his word.
06:44While Democrats say the president, who initially claimed the letter didn't exist at all, has played himself.
06:50I have yet to meet a single person on Capitol Hill who privately says that that was not Donald Trump's signature.
06:58Mary, thank you.
06:59We are also following images just coming in tonight.
07:01The disaster at a U.S. port.
07:03Dozens of shipping containers falling off a cargo ship and right into the water.
07:07Where those containers were from and how this happened.
07:10Trevor Alt is on the scene in Los Angeles.
07:13Oh, it's going on the stacks.
07:15This is the moment dozens of cargo containers went tumbling off a ship at California's Port of Long Beach.
07:22It looks like dominoes.
07:23It looks like once one portion started to fall, then more fell.
07:28The Mississippi had just arrived from China early this morning, loaded with hundreds of containers.
07:33Look at how they're cheating right on the edge there.
07:35This is the backside of the ship.
07:36Officials say no one was injured, but cargo operations were suspended while workers rushed to secure the containers.
07:43You see the fireboat, Long Beach fireboat there, I think that's their fireboat, using the water pressure to try and push some of those containers back to the corner where they want to keep them before they may sink.
07:54Shoes and clothing seen scattered in the water, some containers falling directly onto a smaller boat alongside the ship.
08:01If someone would have been on that boat when those containers fell, they would have been killed.
08:05And David, investigators are working to determine what caused this incident.
08:11But some of these containers are still moving, and this is a major disruption at a crucial port.
08:1630 percent of U.S. container imports come through Long Beach and Los Angeles.
08:20David.
08:21Trevor Old on the scene for us.
08:22Trevor, thank you.
08:23Tonight, the disturbing discovery in the trunk of a car involving a famous musician and his Tesla.
08:27That Tesla had been towed away, and authorities later finding human remains inside a bag in the front trunk of that Tesla.
08:35Here's Matt Guppin tonight.
08:36Tonight, the Los Angeles Police Department is investigating a gruesome discovery at an impound lot.
08:42Human remains found inside a Tesla, that vehicle belonging to a chart-topping musician.
08:48On Monday afternoon, officers responding to this Hollywood tow yard after reports of a foul odor coming from one of the vehicles.
08:55The car had been at the lot for two days after it was found abandoned on a street, according to law enforcement sources.
09:02And inside that front trunk compartment, extremely decomposed human remains in a bag.
09:08The medical examiner now working to identify the remains and determine a cause of death.
09:13The car is registered to 20-year-old David Anthony Burke, known professionally as David.
09:18He first went viral on TikTok, known for hits such as Here With Me and Feel It.
09:29His music, a mix of indie pop and R&B, reaching 33 million monthly listeners on Spotify.
09:36The singer is currently on tour and set to perform tonight in Minneapolis.
09:40David, law enforcement sources tell me that until the coroner's office can make a determination about those human remains,
09:47and that could take a couple of days, they will continue to treat this as a homicide investigation.
09:52And no comment yet from the artist.
09:54David.
09:55Matt Guppin in Los Angeles.
09:56Matt, thank you.
09:57Here in New York City tonight, the urgent manhunt underway right now after the chilling deaths of a couple set on fire inside their own home.
10:04Police say the suspect asked to charge his phone.
10:08Here's Aaron Katursky.
10:09Tonight, an urgent search in New York City for this man, who police say randomly murdered and set fire to an elderly couple
10:16who let him into their queen's home to charge his cell phone.
10:19The nicest neighbors you can ever ask for.
10:22Surveillance video showing the suspect in the neighborhood Monday after going door-to-door, police say, asking to charge his phone.
10:28Very chilling. It's scary.
10:30Some random guy walking down the street setting fire to older people.
10:34Anybody for that matter.
10:35Once inside, police say the suspect terrorized the couple for five hours, stabbing 76-year-old Frank Olton, tying him to a pole in the basement with a bungee cord, and setting him on fire.
10:46The body of Olton's 77-year-old wife Maureen found severely burned in a separate part of the house.
10:52Investigators combing the charred home for clues, blackened chairs and debris littering the lawn.
10:57And tonight, police say the suspect is Jamel McGriff, an armed and dangerous career criminal out on parole for robbery.
11:05For the public, the message is clear.
11:08Do not allow anyone you don't know or who you are not expecting into your home.
11:14This comes as the Justice Department today charged another suspect with a long criminal record in the fatal stabbing of 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Irina Zaruska on a train in Charlotte,
11:25to Carlos Brown Jr., now facing a federal charge that could lead to the death penalty.
11:30And back here in New York, David, the man suspected of killing the elderly couple is also wanted for multiple violent robberies.
11:36Police say he has a criminal record that stretches back 30 years.
11:39Both just horrific cases, Aaron. Thank you.
11:42Tonight, ABC News witnessing firsthand the immigration crackdown now underway in Chicago.
11:47Pierre Thomas is there, who federal agents are after, and Pierre asking about the critics,
11:52who want to know why agents across the country in these crackdowns are wearing masks.
11:57Today, we're going after a very violent TDA gang member.
12:01Tonight, exclusive evidence that Chicago's Operation Midway Blitz has begun.
12:05ABC News was given access to one of the first operations, ATF and ICE working together.
12:11You see dozens of heavily armed agents meeting at an undisclosed location
12:15to track suspected members of Trendyiragra's gang accused of selling guns.
12:20A lot of these firearms came back to very violent shootings in Chicago.
12:26Homicides, carjackings, aggravated batteries.
12:28We suit up and head out with Marcos Charles of ICE's Enforcement Removal Unit.
12:33Agents conduct surveillance of a suspected gun trafficking location.
12:38And after about 90 minutes, ATF targets a vehicle that flees,
12:42arresting two men they believe are suspected gang members.
12:46Minutes later, we arrive at another location.
12:49There's been another arrest.
12:51Federal agents removing a baby girl from the home.
12:53ICE says the three men in handcuffs and shackles have been identified as undocumented
12:57and are being investigated for ties to the Trendyiragra gang and for potential gun trafficking.
13:02The officers in the operation have asked us to blur their faces because many of them work undercover.
13:08But some have criticized ICE officers for wearing masks during these operations.
13:13I asked them to respond to critics that say their identities should be known,
13:17that their faces should not be concealed.
13:19There's a lot of people out there that are doxing them and sending it out to organizations
13:24that truly have the capability of causing harm to our officers.
13:29While the focus today was arresting alleged violent criminals, Illinois' governor is warning
13:34that the operation is striking fear in the hearts of many law-abiding immigrants,
13:39even those who are U.S. citizens.
13:41They're afraid to go shopping.
13:42They're afraid to take their own children to school because they have mixed status households.
13:48David, the ICE agents we spoke to today said their focus is on the so-called worst of the worst criminals.
13:54But, David, they also emphasize if you're undocumented and at one of these scenes,
13:58they will detain you too.
14:00David?
14:01Pierre Thomas in Chicago for us.
14:03Thank you, Pierre.
14:03Now to the mystery in the sky, the newly released video tonight.
14:06Take a look at this.
14:07This is a U.S. Reaper drone shooting a Hellfire missile at this glowing object.
14:11But then the object appears to speed away, undamaged.
14:14Where this happened and what we now know about this,
14:16Gio Benitez with the testimony on Capitol Hill tonight.
14:20Tonight, new never-before-seen video off the coast of Yemen showing a U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drone
14:25tracking a glowing orb as it flies over the water.
14:29Now watch closely as a different U.S. drone drops a Hellfire missile on that fast-moving orb,
14:35the missile appearing to bounce off the object, doing very little damage.
14:39The orb then zipping away, unfazed.
14:42The video from October 2024 shown during a congressional hearing today on unexplained anomalous phenomena.
14:49That's the official name for UFOs.
14:51Do you solemnly swear?
14:52Several service members giving their own eyewitness accounts and reacting to that new video.
14:57Does this video scare you guys?
15:00Yes or no?
15:02Yes.
15:03Wiggins?
15:03Yes.
15:04Yes.
15:05And, David, there are big questions tonight.
15:06Why was the missile fired?
15:08Did that object pose any risk, or is there any other explanation out there?
15:13David?
15:13Yeah, more to come on this for sure, Gio.
15:15Thanks.
15:15Tonight, the new government report showing the U.S. create far fewer jobs than previously thought over the last year.
15:21The Bureau of Labor Statistics annual jobs revisions finding the U.S. created 911,000 fewer jobs in the last year,
15:28covering time under both Presidents Biden and Trump.
15:30It's the largest revision ever, and tonight the White House says the report is proof the agency needs to be reformed,
15:36that comes up with these numbers.
15:37It also comes after two months in a row now of concerning job numbers, the U.S. adding just 22,000 jobs last month.
15:44Tonight, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. releasing his new childhood health report.
15:49The 20-page study commissioned by the White House on chronic childhood illnesses.
15:53It cites poor diet, lack of physical activity, stress, and over-medicalization.
15:58Critics tonight saying the report offers few actual solutions.
16:01The study calls for creating a new vaccine injury research program.
16:06When we come back here tonight, the major forward recall.
16:08This is sweeping tonight.
16:09Nearly 1.5 million vehicles, 50 different models, and the reason why.
16:13Also just in tonight, the Eagles' Jalen Carter learns his punishment for spitting on his opponent that moment in the big game.
16:20And the school bus tonight carrying a young team, flipping several times.
16:23Several players and a coach are now in critical condition.
16:26We'll have more in a moment here.
16:32Tonight, investigators are on the scene of a school bus tragedy outside Oklahoma City.
16:36The bus carrying members of a school softball team crashing and rolling over several times.
16:40There are reports the driver swerved to avoid a deer.
16:43At least six people are in critical condition, including the driver, who is the coach, and several players.
16:48Tonight, Eagles defensive tackle Jalen Carter has been fined by the NFL for spitting on quarterback Dak Prescott of the Cowboys.
16:54Carter says he will not appeal the $57,000 fine.
16:57He will not face a suspension.
16:59Carter was ejected just six seconds into last Thursday's game, as you remember.
17:03When we come back here tonight, there's been a major forward recall.
17:05Nearly 1.5 million vehicles, 50 different models,
17:08and the important reason why.
17:11Also, your first look tonight at the new iPhone.
17:13They're saying this is the thinnest iPhone ever.
17:16Check it out in a moment here.
17:20To the index of major forward recall tonight,
17:221.5 million cars and trucks, 50 different models, including the Edge, Expedition, and Mustang.
17:27Because of a problem with the rear-view camera,
17:29they're saying bring it in, they'll replace it.
17:31We have much more on our website.
17:33Apple tonight unveiling its newest iPhone, the iPhone 17.
17:35Apple saying the longest battery life yet.
17:38The starting price, $799.
17:40The new models include the new iPhone Air.
17:42They say the thinnest iPhone ever made.
17:45When we come back tonight, imagine a family with only baby boys for 100 years now.
17:50Well, you have to see this tonight.
17:54Finally tonight here, America Strong.
17:55For 100 years, they've been saying it's a boy.
17:58Tonight in Montgomery County, Texas, one family saying enough with the boys.
18:04For the first time in 108 years, after generations of baby boys,
18:09the Sherman family is finally welcoming a baby girl.
18:12Meet Montgomery County firefighter Lieutenant Michael Sherman, his wife,
18:15Jakia, and their five-year-old son, Makia.
18:18And this is the rest of the Sherman family.
18:20Look at this.
18:21For years now, every time a new baby is coming, they all gather,
18:25all wondering if this will be the one.
18:27Will there finally be a baby girl?
18:29And so this time, a cake with a question mark on top, blue or pink on the inside,
18:34and this was the moment they found out they're breaking a century-old streak.
18:38What color is the cake?
18:41That firefighter dad overjoyed.
18:44We're the one bringing a baby girl into the world, finally, after over 100 years.
18:50It's amazing.
18:51Hugs from the family.
18:52So many Shermans happy.
18:54They love the boys.
18:55But, boy, were they ready for a girl?
18:58I have three boys.
18:59My dad had two boys.
19:01His brother had two boys.
19:03So it's never been nothing but boys, boys, boys.
19:05The last girl to carry the Sherman name was Ora Bell Sherman,
19:08Michael's great-great-aunt, born in 1917.
19:11She dealt with the civil rights during the civil rights time.
19:14She was doing this.
19:15She met a lot of civil rights leaders, and she made an impact.
19:18Tonight, the fire station cheering, saying we can't wait to welcome this precious girl
19:22into the Montgomery Fire Department family.
19:24And words of advice, you will soon see how being a girl dad will be your most important job.
19:30Tonight, mom's cousin, Mercedes.
19:32Hey, David.
19:33Telling us the baby is due in March.
19:35She's already a history-making baby.
19:38We're so ready to rally around the baby and rally around Mike and Jaquia.
19:44So thank you, David, for going on this journey with us.
19:48Finally, a baby girl, and she's going to be popular in that family.
19:51I'll see you tomorrow.
19:52Good night.
19:55David Muir, the most-watched newscast in America.
20:00And now, ABC's World News Tonight has won the Emmy for Best Live News Program
20:05for the third year in a row.
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