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David Muir, ABC's World News Tonight, America's most-watched newscast, now streaming same day with all the breaking news of the day on Disney+.

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Tonight breaking news as we come on the air in the West: the chaos at America's airports with lawmakers on Capitol Hill set to leave on their two-week break tomorrow with TSA workers still not getting paid.

President Trump, just a short time ago, saying he will step in.

Steve Osinsami standing by with late news coming in now.

Also breaking tonight, just days after that deadly crash at LaGuardia, that passenger jet and a fire truck, tonight there's news just coming in now that there's now been a harrowing close call, this time a packed United flight and a military Blackhawk in its path.

The air traffic controller can be heard saying, "This is not good." The war in Iran tonight, and

just in this evening, dramatic new video appearing to show the moment a missile comes dangerously close to shooting down an American F-18 fighter jet over Iran.

Also breaking, President Trump has just revealed he is now giving Iran 10 more days to open the Strait of Hormuz with his threat to bomb Iranian power plants.

His five-day deadline was set to end tomorrow.

Tonight here, the interview with Savannah Guthrie, what she says her brother, a retired military pilot, immediately knew about their mother's case.

And for the first time, the guilt Savannah says she feels if her mother was targeted because of her high-profile job.

And what Savannah now says about two of the ransom notes.

There are tornado watches as we come on the air tonight.

The severe storm threatened multiple states right now, the Midwest, then moving east, New York City to Boston tomorrow.

The dramatic images tonight, the Daring Cliff rescue, a woman stuck right there on the rocks, waves crashing below.

The driver tonight accused of crashing through an airport gate right onto the airfield, trying to get into a plane while it was taxiing.

Tonight, the race against time to save a humpback whale, and you'll see it.

America's strong and opening day for Major League Baseball, a 109-year-old veteran, and a dream come true tonight.

And we remember a famous singer tonight, so many hits, including "Summer Breeze." From ABC News World Headquarters in New York, this is World News Tonight with David Muir.

We begin tonight here with several breaking stories.

This major close call, a United passenger flight and a military Blackhawk helicopter, the air traffic controller can be heard saying, "This is not good." But first, we do have breaking news tonight involving the TSA workers who have gone weeks now without pay.

Tonight, with lawmakers set to leave on their two-week break tomorrow and no deal in sight, President Trump, just a short time ago, saying he will step in.

Steve Osinsami leading us off with the breaking news.

The lawmakers who could end this chaos tonight at America's airports are set to leave for two weeks' spring break tomorrow.

Meanwhile, the four-hour lines through security are back tonight at Houston's largest airport.

The lines in Houston are so long that they're asking TSA workers in Dallas to travel across the state to help out.

Between basketball games and major conventions, it's busier than it has been here at Bush Intercontinental Airport.

The line stretches outside before passengers are ushered inside, past several ICE agents who are helping direct traffic.

And once you get to this point, you have about two hours to go.

The back-and-forth in Washington continues, with Republicans offering what they're calling a last and final offer to Democrats, who are demanding sweeping policy reforms for ICE agents, including taking off those masks.

The president tonight is adding pressure.

They need to end the shutdown immediately or we'll have to take some very drastic measures.

Atlanta, around 4 out of every 10 TSA officers without paychecks aren't coming to work.

The New York City airports, Baltimore, and Philadelphia aren't that far behind.

Some of the ICE agents sent by the president to help, seen walking around, have now received training and are checking IDs at checkpoints and helping with baggage flow.

And their leaders in Washington tonight are celebrating one ICE agent at New York's JFK Airport, seen here on a security camera rushing to save the life of a 1-year-old child who was choking.

But the financial realities of TSA workers are hard.

With starting salaries around $35,000 a year, many are relying on food banks and donating blood to make ends meet.

So let's bring in Steve Osinsami with us live tonight.

Steve, I understand, even as we just came on the air tonight, there's breaking news on this.

The president putting out a message on social media saying he will sign an executive order involving TSA pay.

In the president's message, which just crossed just a short while ago, he says that, "I'm going to sign an order instructing the Secretary of Homeland Security to immediately pay our TSA agents in order to address this emergency situation." If this doesn't happen tomorrow, these TSA workers will miss yet another paycheck, knowing full well that the ICE agents who've been sent to the airport and the members of Congress about to leave for vacation are all still getting paid.

Steve Osinsami on the breaking news tonight.

There is another breaking headline at this hour.

We have just learned of a harrowing close call, just days after that deadly crash at LaGuardia, the passenger jet and a fire truck.

There's news just coming in tonight of a packed United flight this time and a military Blackhawk in its path.

The air traffic controller can be heard saying, "This is not good." Here's Trevor Alt now.

Just days after that horrific and deadly crash at LaGuardia Airport, that passenger jet slamming into a fire truck on the runway, tonight there's news of a dangerous close call in Southern California, a military Blackhawk helicopter crossing in front of a packed passenger plane as it attempted to land.

Listen to the concern of air traffic controllers when they realized what happened.

We're going to be addressing that because that was not good.

Authorities say United Airlines' flight with 168 passengers and crew on board was on final approach, just moments from landing at John Wayne Airport near Los Angeles when the two aircraft came so close it triggered the plane's anti-collision alert system.

The alarm that the United jet got in its cockpit was the most serious alarm possible.

So it told that United jet, "You need to level off right now or you're going to hit that helicopter." United says the jet pilots saw the chopper immediately leveling the aircraft to avoid it after the alert.

Air traffic control had warned the pilots beforehand to watch out for traffic,

but afterward asked those pilots what happened.

United Flight 89, just want to clarify here.

Did you get just a traffic call reference to a helicopter, or did they restrict your altitude or anything?

This close call comes just over a year after a Blackhawk military helicopter collided with an American Airlines flight over the Potomac, killing 67 people.

And just days after that collision at LaGuardia's runway, where an early report is raising concerns about air traffic controller staffing, new NTSB video shows the mangled wreckage, investigators combing through metal and wires,

and they're also noting that fire trucks' lack of transponders, that in this case would have allowed the controllers to know where it was before the disaster.

And David, as for this most recent close call here in Southern California, the NTSB says they are aware of this incident and the FAA is investigating.

There are breaking developments in the war in Iran.

Just in tonight, dramatic new video appearing to show the moment a missile comes dangerously close to an American F-18 fighter jet over Iran.

Matt Rivers from the region with these images tonight.

Tonight, dramatic new video appears to show the moment a missile came dangerously close to shooting an American F-18 fighter jet out of the skies over Iran.

Central Command tonight saying no fighter jets have been shot down by Iran.

But one source, while not confirming the authenticity of the video, tells ABC News that an F-18 in the area did narrowly dodge an Iranian surface-to-air missile over Southern Iran in recent days.

It comes as Iran launching new attacks across the region, firing nearly a dozen missiles at Israel today alone, debris smashing into this neighborhood near Tel Aviv, sending that car flying into the air.

And tonight, Israel claiming it killed the commander of Iran's navy, Alireza Tansiri, saying he led the effort to shut down the Strait of Hormuz, choking the global oil supply, the Pentagon saying he had organized attacks against shipping for eight years.

David, sources telling ABC News tonight Israel racing to strike as many targets inside of Iran as it can ahead of any potential cease-fire.

Developing right now, President Trump revealing late today he is now giving Iran 10 more days to open the Strait of Hormuz with his threat to bomb Iranian power plants.

Tonight, President Trump announcing he's extending the deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz by 10 days, until just after Easter.

If Iran doesn't comply, the president says he'll bomb their crucial power plants.

The reason they want to make a deal is they have been just beat to.

but acknowledges trading messages with the U.S., using Pakistan as a go-between.