- 6/22/2025
With more than 100 million Americans from Arizona to Massachusetts under heat alerts and a heatwave for most of the Eastern U.S. beginning early next week, Lee Goldberg has the forecast; Ian Pannell has the latest on the Israel-Iran conflict as both countries exchange fierce new strikes and European leaders meet with Iranian diplomats in Geneva; Aaron Katersky has details on Columbia University graduate and green card holder Mahmoud Khalil being granted release from a Louisiana immigration jail more than 3 months after his arrest; and more on tonight’s broadcast of World News Tonight with David Muir.
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00:00Tonight, several developing stories as we come on the air.
00:03The life-threatening heat moving in.
00:04It could feel like 106 in New York City.
00:08Across the U.S., temperatures in the triple digits.
00:11Also tonight, President Trump, his new message on Iran,
00:14and what the president is now saying about his own director of national intelligence,
00:18saying late today, she's wrong.
00:20And the mother who disappeared on Mother's Day and the stunning turn tonight, the charges.
00:25First tonight, the life-threatening heat moving in.
00:27Temperatures across the country soaring past 100.
00:30And the severe storm stretching from Michigan to New York tomorrow.
00:34Lee Goldberg standing by with the forecast.
00:36Also tonight, President Trump pushing back against his own director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard,
00:42after she recently said there's no evidence Iran is building a nuclear weapon right now.
00:47The president late today saying she's wrong.
00:50Tonight, the arrest that made national headlines,
00:52the student activist arrested during the Trump administration's crackdown
00:55on pro-Palestinian demonstrators on campus.
00:58Tonight, a judge ruling he must be freed.
01:02This evening, a suspect now charged with the attempted kidnapping of a mayor.
01:06Police say they have recovered a taser, rope, and duct tape,
01:09climbing over an 8- to 10-foot wall to get to the mayor's home.
01:12It comes after those horrific shootings of lawmakers in Minnesota.
01:16Tonight, five years after she disappeared on Mother's Day,
01:19authorities have her husband under arrest tonight.
01:21He'd been released years earlier in what he told ABC News at the time.
01:26Tonight, authorities on this sudden new turn and what led to his arrest.
01:30Tonight, we hear from the jurors now in the Karen Reed murder trial in Boston.
01:34Why they acquitted her, their reasoning.
01:37Outside New York City in the Hamptons, a reality TV star killed in an apparent hit and run.
01:42Police finding her unconscious along Montauk Highway.
01:45The disturbing scene at the ballpark.
01:48A Pirates pitcher taking a swing at a fan.
01:50What led to this moment?
01:52And it was 50 years ago tonight, Jaws became the summer blockbuster.
01:56You're going to need a bigger boat.
01:57Tonight, Ginger Z takes us to Martha's Vineyard.
02:00Steven Spielberg on what was really happening with that mechanical shark.
02:04And the child actor in the water there,
02:06revealing what was really going on during this scene.
02:08From ABC News World Headquarters in New York,
02:16this is World News Tonight with David Muir.
02:20Good evening.
02:20We've made it to Friday, but it comes with extreme heat now moving in across much of this country.
02:24Thanks for being here tonight.
02:26More than 100 million Americans bracing now for life-threatening heat.
02:29Heat alerts stretching from Arizona all the way east to New York and up into New England.
02:33Temperatures in the 90s and 100s right through next Tuesday.
02:37The feel-like temperatures, when you factor in humidity as well,
02:40it could feel like 106 this weekend in New York City.
02:43More than 20 million Americans already under extreme heat warnings in the heartland.
02:47Chicago officials tonight urging residents to check on their neighbors.
02:51Severe storms also on the move from the Midwest to New York,
02:53bringing down trees and power lines in Philadelphia and all along the I-95 corridor.
02:58Chief Meteorologist Lee Goldberg of our New York station WABC is with us back to hear tonight.
03:03And after weeks of rain, Lee, now the very intense heat.
03:07And that's what makes it high impact, David.
03:10We're coming off a cool end of spring.
03:12It's going to be a shock to the system.
03:13We have heat alerts from the Gulf Coast to the Great Lakes into the northeast.
03:17The heat's going to peak in the Midwest tomorrow.
03:19We're seeing potential record highs in Minneapolis, St. Louis.
03:22By Sunday, it's in Chicago.
03:24And then that heat gets into the northeast.
03:26Look at D.C. and New York and Boston.
03:28By the time we get into Sunday and Monday, it feels like 108 in D.C., 107 in New York.
03:34We haven't hit 100 degrees in New York since 2012.
03:37It's going to be close.
03:38And then broiling in Boston, 103 on Tuesday.
03:41Please take care of yourself.
03:42Severe storms tonight from Bismarck to Duluth.
03:44David, those storms won't be in the northeast until Wednesday or Thursday of next week to break the heat.
03:49We'll have to prepare for it all weekend.
03:51David?
03:51Lee Goldberg with us here at a Friday night.
03:52Lee, thank you.
03:53Now to President Trump on Iran tonight.
03:55His new words lay today.
03:57And tonight, the president now pushing back against his own director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard.
04:02She recently said the intelligence community has no evidence that Iran is building a nuclear weapon right now.
04:07The president tonight saying she's wrong.
04:10ABC's Rachel Scott at the White House tonight.
04:13Tonight, as President Trump decides whether the U.S. will take direct action on Iran,
04:18the president clearly showing today he does not agree with his director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard,
04:23who said in recent weeks the intelligence community has no evidence Iran is building a nuclear weapon at this point.
04:29What intelligence do you have that Iran is building a nuclear weapon?
04:32Your intelligence community has said they have no evidence that they are at this point.
04:36Well, then my intelligence community is wrong.
04:39Who in the intelligence community said that?
04:41Your director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard.
04:44She's wrong.
04:44In the days leading up to Israel's first strikes on Iran,
04:48the president's director of national intelligence, in a very rare move,
04:51posted a video of her own, appearing to warn against any escalation.
04:55As we stand here today, closer to the brink of nuclear annihilation than ever before,
05:02political elite and warmongers are carelessly fomenting fear and tensions between nuclear powers.
05:08Perhaps it's because they are confident that they will have access to nuclear shelters for themselves
05:14and for their families that regular people won't have access to.
05:19So it's up to us, the people, to speak up and demand an end to this madness.
05:26We must reject this path to nuclear war.
05:29Sources tell ABC News the president scolded Gabbard and wish she used better judgment.
05:34We're told she has still participated in intelligence briefings in the Oval Office
05:38and is part of the president's national security team in the Situation Room.
05:42A source familiar saying in the room,
05:44Gabbard argued that Tehran is not close to building a bomb,
05:47reaffirming her Capitol Hill testimony just months ago.
05:50IC continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon.
05:54The president in recent days clearly frustrated that his director of national intelligence
05:58has not appeared to be in lockstep with him.
06:00I don't care what you said.
06:02I think they were very close to him.
06:03Tonight, President Trump doubling down his two-week deadline for Iran
06:07before he decides on U.S. military action.
06:10Meanwhile, European leaders meeting today with Iran's foreign minister in Geneva,
06:15trying to come up with some sort of diplomatic solution.
06:18Our Tom Sufi Burge is there.
06:19The talks here wrapping up.
06:21No major breakthroughs, but the Europeans pressing Iran to return to negotiations with the U.S.
06:27The president tonight appearing to brush off the efforts by European leaders.
06:31Iran doesn't want to speak to Europe.
06:33They want to speak to us.
06:35Europe is not going to be able to help in this.
06:37And the president saying if the U.S. does take direct action,
06:41it will not include U.S. boots on the ground.
06:43But I'm not going to talk about ground forces.
06:46The last thing you want to do is ground force.
06:49David, the White House tonight telling us the president has full confidence in his national security team,
06:54calling Gabbard an important part of that.
06:56And David Tulsi Gabbard responding herself tonight,
06:58suggesting there is no daylight between her and the president.
07:01David, Rachel Scott there at the White House.
07:03Rachel, thank you.
07:04And with those talks underway in Geneva and President Trump giving Iran two weeks,
07:07tonight here the images coming in, Iranian missiles slamming Israel.
07:11Ian Pannell in Tel Aviv for us.
07:13Tonight, Israel and Iran exchanging fierce new blows.
07:20Videos circulating online showing an Iranian missile slamming into Israel's port city of Haifa.
07:27First responders rushing to the scene.
07:29More than 30 people injured.
07:31And in the southern city of Beersheba, a missile blowing out a building lobby,
07:36causing destruction.
07:37A nearby daycare taking heavy damage.
07:40And Israel pounding Iran, hitting missile sites.
07:44A military official telling ABC News they've taken out about half of Iran's missile launchers.
07:50And Israel still bombing Iran's nuclear facilities.
07:53New satellite imagery showing a reactor in Iraq destroyed.
07:57At least 230 killed across Iran, according to the government,
08:03with little prospect of an early end to the strikes.
08:06David, the American military now assisting some U.S. diplomats and families leave Israel.
08:12Meanwhile, the State Department apparently tracking unconfirmed reports
08:15that some Americans trying to leave Iran are being detained.
08:19David?
08:20Ian Pannell will continue to follow that part of the story for sure.
08:23Back here in the U.S. tonight, the suspect is now charged
08:26in that attempted kidnapping of the mayor of Memphis.
08:29They say he climbed over an 8- to 10-foot wall to get to the mayor's front door.
08:33They've recovered a taser, rope, and duct tape.
08:35And it comes after those horrific shootings of lawmakers in Minnesota
08:38with that suspected killer showing up at their front doors.
08:42Here's Pierre Thomas tonight.
08:44Tonight, prosecutors in Tennessee charging this 25-year-old man
08:48with trying to kidnap the mayor of Memphis, Paul Young.
08:51The latest in what authorities say is a surge in targeted attacks on politicians.
08:57You may not contact Paul Young, the alleged victim in this case.
08:59You may not contact him directly, indirectly, or be anywhere he's likely to be.
09:03Police claim that Trenton Abston climbed over the 8- to 10-foot wall
09:06in Mayor Young's neighborhood Sunday night
09:08and went directly to the mayor's home, knocking on the door.
09:12The mayor not answering after he looked at the Ring doorbell video
09:15and observed an unknown male.
09:18Prosecutors claimed that Abston had a taser in his pocket
09:21and planned to confront Paul Young about crime in the city.
09:24And authorities say they later found that taser, rope, and duct tape in the suspect's vehicle.
09:30Mayor Young posting,
09:31In today's climate, especially after the tragic events in Minnesota
09:35and the threats my wife and I often receive online,
09:38none of us can be too careful.
09:40And U.S. Congressman Max Miller from Ohio says
09:43he too was targeted this week while driving on a highway.
09:46Some unhinged, deranged man decided to lay on his horn
09:50and run me off the road when he couldn't get my attention
09:53to show me a Palestinian flag.
09:56Not to mention death to Israel,
09:59death to me that he wanted to kill me and my family.
10:02Tonight, police arresting 36-year-old Ferris Hamden
10:05for allegedly threatening Miller and his family,
10:08saying he made anti-Semitic slurs against Miller, who is Jewish.
10:12These incidents on the heels of those horrific shootings in Minnesota
10:15that left former State House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, dead.
10:20Authorities say the alleged killer disguising himself as police,
10:23wearing a hyper-realistic latex mask.
10:26Senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvette ambushed at their front door,
10:30trying to protect his family.
10:32They say the senator lunged at the gunman.
10:34Each of them shot at least eight times.
10:36Their daughter, Hope, then rushed to shut the door and called 911.
10:40But Hoffman's saying, quote,
10:42without Hope, we wouldn't be here right now.
10:46David, the Hoffman family grateful that Hope saved their lives.
10:50And in response to this toxic and increasingly dangerous political environment,
10:54congressional leaders holding urgent meetings this week
10:56to discuss ways to improve security.
10:59David?
10:59And to try to bring the temperature down across this country.
11:02Pierre Thomas, thank you, Pierre.
11:04There's breaking news tonight after that arrest of a demonstrator,
11:06the Columbia graduate student arrested in front of his pregnant wife
11:09as the Trump administration cracked down on pro-Palestinian demonstrators on campus.
11:14Well, tonight, a judge now ruling that he must be released months after his arrest.
11:19Here's Aaron Kaczorski.
11:21It was the arrest at Columbia University in front of his pregnant wife
11:25that made national headlines.
11:27He's not resisting.
11:29And tonight, after more than three months in federal custody,
11:32Columbia graduate and green card holder Mahmoud Khalil
11:34walking out of an immigration jail in Louisiana.
11:37My priority now is to get to my beautiful wife and precious son.
11:43Although justice prevailed, but it's long, very long overdue.
11:47And this shouldn't have taken three months.
11:50A federal judge granting Khalil's release on bail,
11:53ruling the Trump administration was punishing him over his pro-Palestinian speech.
11:57Of course, the judge said that would be unconstitutional.
12:00The judge also rejecting the government's argument that Khalil represented a flight risk.
12:05The administration accused Khalil of fomenting anti-Semitism
12:08during demonstrations on the Columbia campus last year, which his lawyers denied.
12:12Tonight, Noor Abdullah, who gave birth to a son, Dean, in April,
12:16saying we can finally breathe a sigh of relief and know that Mahmoud is on his way home.
12:21Khalil's ordeal is not over, David.
12:23The government is still determined to kick him out of the country,
12:26something he can now try to fight while home with his wife and son after 105 days in detention.
12:33David.
12:33Aaron Katursky on this tonight. Aaron, thank you.
12:36Tonight, here, the new turn.
12:37Five years after a Colorado mother disappeared on Mother's Day,
12:40authorities have arrested her husband.
12:42He'd been released years earlier in what he told ABC News at the time.
12:46Tonight, authorities on this sudden new turn and what's led to the arrest this time.
12:50Here's Mola Lenghi.
12:51Five years after Colorado mother Suzanne Morphew vanished during a bike ride near her home on Mother's Day.
12:58Tonight, the stunning arrest.
12:59A grand jury indicting her husband, Barry, on charges of murder.
13:03When Suzanne first went missing, her husband pleaded for her return in this video.
13:07No questions asked.
13:08However much they want, I will do whatever it takes to get you back.
13:13Honey, I love you.
13:15I want you back.
13:16So, God.
13:16A year later, Barry Morphew was arrested and charged with her murder.
13:20But just days before trial, the charges were dropped.
13:24Morphew's daughters, Macy and Mallory, standing by their father through it all,
13:28sitting down for an interview with ABC News.
13:30We just know our dad better than anyone else.
13:33And we know he was not involved in our mom's disappearance.
13:37And Barry later asked if he was involved.
13:39Absolutely not.
13:41It's very hurtful to lose your reputation and your integrity.
13:45Suzanne Morphew's remains were found in a shallow grave.
13:48Police say an autopsy found traces of sedatives and tranquilizers.
13:53According to the new indictment, police found a dart or tranquilizer rifle,
13:57along with a needle cap in the dryer in the home.
14:00Investigators say at the time of the murder,
14:02Suzanne had been having a secret affair
14:04and discussed plans to divorce Barry Morphew with her close friend.
14:08Well, David, Barry Morphew maintaining his innocence.
14:10Tonight, he's in custody in Arizona, where he was arrested on the murder charge.
14:13Prosecutors now seeking his extradition back here to Colorado, David.
14:17Mola Lenghiar, thanks to you.
14:19We are also hearing tonight from the jurors who acquitted Karen Reed of murdering her Boston police officer boyfriend.
14:24Why they found her not guilty.
14:26Their reasoning right here tonight.
14:28Here's Stephanie Ramos.
14:30Defendant, not guilty or guilty?
14:32Not guilty.
14:32Tonight, after Karen Reed was acquitted in the killing of her police officer boyfriend, John O'Keefe,
14:38jurors describing how they reached that decision.
14:41I just realized there was too many holes that we couldn't fill.
14:45And there's nothing that put her on the scene, in our opinion, besides just drop John O'Keefe off.
14:50Our affiliate WCVB speaking to juror number 11, Paula Prado, a lawyer from Brazil,
14:56who says she initially thought Reed may be guilty of manslaughter, but changed her mind over the course of the trial.
15:02Prosecutors in Massachusetts accused Reed of hitting O'Keefe with her vehicle after a night of drinking,
15:07leaving him for dead during a snowstorm in 2022.
15:11Another juror telling ABC News she does not believe Reed ever struck her boyfriend with the car,
15:17pointing to perceived issues with law enforcement's investigation.
15:20A collision did not occur.
15:22I can't assess the motive to the sloppy police investigation.
15:25And while that Brazilian attorney says she stands by the jury's decision,
15:29she felt badly for the officer's family when the verdict was read in court.
15:33Great for Karen Reed, but horrible for the family.
15:35He seemed to be a very nice guy, so I feel bad for them.
15:39And I really want them to get justice for John O'Keefe for real.
15:42While Reed was acquitted of those second-degree murder and manslaughter charges,
15:46she was found guilty of operating a vehicle under the influence.
15:50And sentenced to one-year probation.
15:52David.
15:53Stephanie Ramos with us tonight.
15:54Steph, thank you.
15:55When we come back here, the breaking headline.
15:56There's been an outage at this hour involving air traffic controllers now apparently on backup systems,
16:02where this is playing out at the moment.
16:04And outside New York City in the Hamptons,
16:05a reality TV star from a popular real estate show killed in an apparent hit-and-run found unconscious along Montauk Highway.
16:12What police are saying in a moment here.
16:15Tonight, the FAA is reporting a telecommunications outage affecting the Air Traffic Control Center in Jacksonville, Florida.
16:21The FAA says the facility lost radar, frequencies, and automation equipment when a fiber optic line was cut.
16:28Backup systems have now kicked in.
16:30The outage did not cause any disruptions to Jacksonville Airport.
16:33The center is now operating on what's called alert status.
16:36Tonight, police on New York's Long Island are searching for a suspected hit-and-run driver wanted at the death of a reality TV star in the Hamptons.
16:43Authorities say Sarah Burak was found unconscious near a restaurant along Montauk Highway.
16:48She later died at the hospital.
16:49A prominent real estate agent, she appeared in the popular streaming series Million Dollar Beach House.
16:54When we come back here tonight, the Major League pitcher taking a swing at a fan.
16:58The alarming moment, and you'll see it.
17:00And what led to it, and what came out 50 years ago tonight, and what we never knew about that mechanical shark.
17:07To the index, a disturbing scene at the ballpark.
17:10Pirates pitcher Dennis Santana pointed out a fan heckling him in the bullpen during a game against the Tigers.
17:15Police officer at his side there, Santana then taking a swing at the fan.
17:18His teammates pulling him away.
17:20The fan was ejected, and tonight we've learned the pitcher has now been suspended for four games.
17:25When we come back here, it was 50 years ago tonight.
17:27Jaws came out.
17:28Ginger Z takes us to Martha's Vineyard tonight.
17:30What Steven Spielberg has revealed all these years later.
17:34Finally tonight, it was 50 years ago tonight, Jaws premiered.
17:37That's director Steven Spielberg.
17:39What he reveals tonight about that mechanical shark.
17:42Ginger Z on Martha's Vineyard.
17:44Where are we going?
17:45Swimming!
17:46With two notes.
17:49And one shark.
17:52Steven Spielberg's Jaws changed movies forever.
17:55The film released 50 years ago, becoming an instant blockbuster.
18:00But the making of the movie was over budget and 100 days behind schedule.
18:05I was terrified I was going to be fired.
18:08Nat Geo's new documentary, Jaws at 50, takes a deep dive into the production, plagued by issues with that mechanical shark.
18:16There was nothing fun about making Jaws.
18:19It was a very, very hard thing to go out on the real ocean, be knocked around by the waves, by the currents.
18:26One more time.
18:27And then on top of all that, 80% of the time, the shark didn't work.
18:32You're going to need a bigger boat.
18:34Shark!
18:35The shark!
18:37Jaws was shot right here on Martha's Vineyard between May and October of 1974.
18:42And this is the Jaws Bridge, one of the most famous spots from the film.
18:46People still come to visit today.
18:47The cast and crew of Jaws was right here in picturesque Edgar Town as they transformed it into the beachside resort town of Amity.
18:56Many of the actors in the movie, islanders, lifelong residents of Martha's Vineyard, like Jeffrey Voorhees, whose character, Alex Kinter, was one of the shark's victims.
19:06When you see me go up and down, that's two guys lifting me in and out of the water to pull you on and give you air.
19:14And Jonathan Searle, who appeared alongside his brother in this memorable moment.
19:20You made me do it. You don't even do it.
19:23So in the film, you are pulling a hoax, or your character is, but now you in real life are the chief of police.
19:29Can you believe that?
19:30I'm still amazed at the following that the movie has produced, and that 50 years later, people are still so interested.
19:38Who knew when I was sitting with a 26-year-old gentleman, that would be Steven Spielberg.
19:44Documentary Jaws at 50 next month on Nat Geo and Disney+.
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