Hurricane Lala now a Category One: ABC World News Tonight with David Muir – Aug. 15, 2026

Melissa Adan is in Hawaii tonight as Lala has strengthened into a Category One Hurricane in what could be a historic landfall;
Leslie Lopez has the forecast and also the deadly flooding disaster in the Midwest after days of rain have caused flash flooding that has killed at least six;
And Ginger Zee is reporting from Disney’s D23 Celebration and has the details on the next stage of Disney Entertainment; and more on tonight’s broadcast of World News Tonight with David Muir.

00:00 Intro
02:16 Hurricane Lala strengthens into a Category One Hurricane
04:33 Deadly flooding kills at least six this week in the Midwest
07:14 Rising death toll in Indonesia after powerful back-to-back earthquakes
09:05 Growing concern over conditions on the U.S.S. Lincoln amid reports of food shortages
11:18 Five people shot outside residence halls at Virginia State University
12:32 Vietnam Airlines flight overshoots runway at German airport
13:40 Police: Random shootings after gunman fires on passing cars in Texas
14:18 Police chase pit maneuver ends with multiple bystanders injured
14:33 Hate crime charges for man accused of disrupting service at New York synagogue
15:01 NFL suspends four players for violating league policy
15:33 Trump efforts to prevent illegal border crossing in Texas draws protests
15:58 Endangered sea turtle returns home
16:24 St. Louis Cardinals rookie’s historic MLB debut
17:01 Celebration at Disney’s D23

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Bobby Kogan, the senior director of federal budget policy at the Center for American Progress, a left-leaning think tank, shares why this new milestone is so significant.

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Anthropic said its artificial intelligence models hacked into three other organizations during testing, just days after ChatGPT maker OpenAI raised concerns over AI controls after it disclosed its rogue models hacked another company.

“Claude compromised the impacted organizations’ infrastructure using basic techniques,” Anthropic said, such as exploiting weak passwords.

OpenAI said Tuesday that its artificial intelligence system hacked into another AI company on its own in what the company called an “unprecedented cyber incident.”

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