Mola Lenghi is a national correspondent for ABC News, based in
Washington, D.C. He reports across all ABC News programs and
platforms, including “Good Morning America” and “World News
Tonight with David Muir.”

Since joining ABC News in 2022, Lenghi has covered top stories,
including the devastating 2025 wildfires in Southern California, the
deadly Lahaina wildfires on Maui in 2023, the Mauna Loa volcano
eruption on the big island in Hawai’i, the attack on former House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, and the “Rust” movie set
shooting and subsequent involuntary manslaughter trial of actor Alec
Baldwin. In 2023, Lenghi spent several weeks in Lebanon in the
aftermath of the Oct. 7 massacre in Israel, providing coverage of the
escalating border tensions between Hezbollah and Israeli Defense
Forces. In 2024, Lenghi traveled to Tehran to report on the 45th
anniversary of the Iranian regime’s Islamic Revolution.

Before joining ABC News, Lenghi was a correspondent at CBS News, where
he covered the initial months of the COVID-19 outbreak in New York
City and around the country; the 2020 George Floyd protests in
Minneapolis, Minnesota; the deadly riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin; the
arrest and prison suicide of Jeffrey Epstein; the assassination of
Haitian President Jovenel Moise; the shooting of Boston Red Sox
baseball player David Ortiz in the Dominican Republic; and the death
of NBA basketball player Kobe Bryant.

Lenghi was also part of the news coverage of the 2018 memorial service
for former Sen. John McCain in Washington. A few months later, he
traveled to Houston to report on the memorial service for former
President George H.W. Bush, followed by the funeral in College
Station, Texas, where Bush was laid to rest.

In Washington, Lenghi covered the first Trump administration at the
White House and on Capitol Hill; the historic 2018 midterm elections
and subsequent government shutdown, which is now the second-longest
shutdown in U.S. history; special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia
investigation; the firing of FBI Director James Comey; and the
contentious Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Justice Brett
Kavanaugh.

In the fall of 2017, Lenghi was part of around-the-clock coverage from
Las Vegas, where he reported on the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival,
the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history.

He also covered Florida’s preparations for and the impact of
hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017. The following year, he reported
from the North Carolina coast as Hurricane Florence made landfall,
drenching the Carolinas and causing historic flooding.

Lenghi was previously part of the news teams at WUSA-TV in Washington
from 2013 to 2017, KXAS-TV in Dallas/Fort Worth from 2010 to 2013, and
WPDE-TV in Myrtle Beach from 2006 to 2010.

Lenghi covered Pope Francis’ historic first state visit to America
and the life and death of Marion Barry, the former Washington, D.C.,
mayor and civil rights icon. While in Texas, he was also part of team
coverage of the 2011 MLB World Series at the Rangers’ Ballpark in
Arlington and the 2013 NCAA March Madness College Basketball
Tournament at Cowboys Stadium.

Lenghi was born to Libyan parents who immigrated to the U.S. in the
1970s to escape Muammar Gaddafi’s dictatorship. In the aftermath of
the 2011 uprising that toppled Gaddafi, he spent several weeks in
Libya producing a series of stories on the country, from the initial
hope of building a free and prosperous nation to its ultimate descent
into chaos.

Lenghi is a graduate of Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South
Carolina. He and his wife, who also works in news, live in the
Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C. — where they both grew
up — with their son and their mini rottweiler, Maisie.
