straight from beyonce to her fans. >> this is how she rolls because as launching an album, people anticipated and wait for it, it is just as exciting when she brings it out through social media and everybody is talking about it anyway. >> 800,000 copies sold in just three days. her biggest album debut yet and itunes worldwide record. the stunning move just more proof that beyonce is in control of her own destiny. into the tunnel. >> we knew him as "fast & furious", the california surfer. >> i remember him, sandy beach hair, in surf trunks, paddling

out into the water. >> he had the blue eyes, blonde hair, prototypical california heartthrob. >> turned megawatt movie star. >> i feel like this young guy is so full of light. he really can act. >> but so much of paul walker's passion was played off screen. >> he always said he was kind of one foot in, one foot out with the whole hollywood game. >> making the scramble to port-au-prince. >> he was a philanthropist. >> bus load of people came in and needs had help. >> he was very cool to see somebody on the screen who pour are trays this hero and to work with him and go, whoa, you're as big of a hero in real life. >> he was a father and friend. >> he just is such a loveable man. >> and then the tragic crash that took his life. >> we all lost a friend in this. >> i can't really believe it. just not fair. >> tonight, in the "cnn spotlight: paul walker."

>> it might blow up. >> i can't tell if there is someone in there. >> cell phone video captures the horror. >> if he is, he's dead. >> there's nothing. we tried. we went through fire extinguishers. >> a day that ended in tragedy, started with charity. movie star paul walker at an annual event for his foundation reach out worldwide. >> we were collecting toys and donations so we can distribute them around. >> jd dorffman runs operations for the charity walker co-founded. >> he just came out to show his support. thank everybody. he wasn't there for the pictures. just normal paul. >> just normal paul, pursuing two of his great passions. helping others, and showing off fast cars, including this rare porsche worth nearly half a million dollars. >> it only brought about 600 of

them into the u.s., back around 2004 to 2006. >> there is nothing ordinary about it. a top speed of more than 200 miles per hour. the engine in the middle of the car, and oil changes costing $900. >> it is a really finely tuned superhigh performance supercar. driving one really reminds me a lot of driving a race car. has that kind of quick razor sharp reflexes. >> but having razor sharp reflexes leaves a razor thin margin for error on the road. >> i love the power. you feel it right in the chest. push you back when you push down the gas. the car like the carrera gt needs to be driven with great respect because it has so much power and capability. >> this photo was possibly the last ever taken of walker. and there is the porsche, a temptation that would lure him and a close friend roger rodas away from the charity event.

not surprising, two men who were racing competitors, and co-owners of a car customization shop. it was speed, after all, that drove walker's fame. "fast & furious," a cinematic fix for adrenaline junkies. rob cohen launched the franchise and pitched it to walker. >> it was over at dinner i said to him, you know, i'm developing a movie, we just got going on the script, but i'm developing a movie about this, you know, underground street racing world. >> paul walker, obsessed with amateur racing from an early age, didn't skip a beat. >> he said, i get the girl, i get the gun, i get the car and you're directing. i don't have to wait for the script. i'm in. >> explosions. stunts and speed was a dream come true for walker. >> i really don't see how i could have more fun or making a

movie could be more of a thrill than it was making this one. >> one film would turn into seven, with box office receipts topping $2 billion. theaters filled with moviegoers drawn into the action. into the lead actor, for more than a decade. >> he's just such a loveable man. there is something in that spirit of life and lightness that just kept coming through. and people are just very attracted to that. >> "fast & furious" would become a cultural phenomenon, a lucrative global franchise of sequels, video games, and merchandise. >> feels good to be appreciated. especially when you're talking about ten years, ten years plus of your life. >> one of the worst phone calls i've ever gotten. shock, speechless. i didn't believe it was real.

before he raced to fame as a hero cop on the big screen, paul walker played adorable on tv. >> they want a little boy. and i'm a little boy.

and me and scottie are special. >> yeah, you're special. >> his mom had him doing a few child modeling little gigs here and there. he was never super passionate about acting as a young guy. but it is something he just kind of fell into very naturally. >> the son of a model and sewer contractor, walker was the oldest of four kids in a working class mormon home in sunland, california. >> they were your typical family, very loving, very close ni knit. >> amber leah was a childhood friend of walker's. >> most friends called him a pollying woul ing woulwog. he had a contagious spirit. he was always smiling. just effervescent personality was electric. >> at 13 years old that landed him a string of roles in shows like "who's the boss" and "charles in charge."

but for this quintessential california kid, acting took a back seat. >> paul walker grew up in san fernando valley. he loved surfing from a young age. always fascinated by the ocean. later he was into brazilian jujit jujitsu. he loved the outdoors. >> how could out in love surfing looking like what he looked like. >> i think for a lot of people he became a prototypical california heartthrob. >> a california heartthrob with a thing for cars. >> i remember when i got a jetta, a volkswagen jetta my senior year. he saw my car and said, oh, i'm not one who swears, he said, that car -- which kind of could the khcaught me off guard.

>> walker played junior varsity football at village christian high school. dean la goss was his coach. >> i remember playing his junior year because we weren't particularly good that particular year. but he was playing safety. and looking back, i coached a lot of games, but i'll tell you, he had one of the two best hits i've ever seen in a jv football game. we got clock in the game, beat like 40-0. but he wasn't quitting. >> off the field, kept his classmates entertained. >> i would say he would be closer to class clown than laid back. >> really? >> yeah. had a great sense of humor. and he had the smile. and so it was -- i think people appreciated his sense of humor. >> by the time he graduated from high school, walker's good looks and charm landed him a role on "the young and the restless". >> i'm telling you, you better back off and leave the kid alone. >> talk about the paul walker of his teenage years.

he said, i panhandled and lived the transient life, didn't know where i was going or what i was doing. >> i might have liked couch surfing here and there or traveling and going to surf for a few days and driving out into the wilderness. spent 16 years living out of a suitcase. >> had money got tight, walker went back to acting on tv's "touched by an angel." >> that's it. that's great. >> and on the big screen, in "pleasantville". >> what is all the commotion? >> he played skip martin, this all american cheeseburger and cherry cok loving basketball jock. and he was squeaky clean and super funny role in this morality sat tire. he's the buy corrupted or enlightened by reese witherspoon. made a big impression in that movie. >> the movie was a hit. and finally a decent payday for walker. that same year, some news he wasn't expecting. >> when paul found out that his

girlfriend at the time was pregnant, i think it rocked him. he went to a christian school, and he didn't like the idea of having a child out of wedlock and it scared him and he also knew that he was a wild guy. he said, i was sleeping with her friends at the time and it did not seem like a good idea to be married. >> with walker focused on his pla playboy lifestyle, his daughter meadow lived full time with his mother in hawaii. having a daughter, walker said, was a life changer. he buckled down and got serious. >> i had a dream we were beating the bengals 14-3. >> i think everyone started paying attention to him when he was in "varsity blues". >> he was a supporting character that you really remembered. he played a football quarterback who is sidelined by a knee injury and it was a role that had a lot of heart and a kind of goofy movie. >> walker craved a media role.

he auditioned for the thriller "the skulls". >> paul came in, and, you know, at first he was like a surfer dude. >> rob cohen was directing. >> the first reading it was more like he was, hey, man, i got tubed and it was narr are gnarl. i said, look, just say the lines, finish the endings on the sentence -- the words and just do it like a guy with an education. because this kid would have gone to prep school and all that stuff. so paul did it again, and he nailed it. he was, like, really could do it. and i thought, this young guy is so full of light, you know. just came out of his eyes. >> they know everything we do. they know every place we go. >> when we got to work on "the skulls," i saw he really can act. he's not just a presence.

he was pushing emotions out and playing conflict. >> that performance convinced cohen to develop a movie for walker. he had paul at hello. >> i said you're an undercover cop who goes underground to bust up this world. >> walker was in. and cohen never looked back. >> we shook hands that night. and no matter what other forces tried to dislodge that agreement, i stuck to my guns and paul game brian owe coner. >> that guy is fast. >> coming up, walker becomes a bona fide movie star. but proves to be much more. >> the fruits of our labor yesterday, making the scramble to port-au-prince. the timing is impeccable. in pursuit of all things awesome, amazing,

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it's been 12 years since paul walker got the role of a lifetime. going from stud wingman to leading man. aging gracefully on screen as an action movie star, paul walker was also maturing off screen. most of us know paul walker as brian o'connor from fa"fast and the furious," that gorgeous, ruggedly handsome, speed demon action star. you write he was much more than that. >> people don't realize he had a full vibrant life off the screen. he said he was one foot in, one foot out with the whole hollywood game. >> outside of the hollywood game, walker was deeply involved in the world of fast cars. and even raced with the hollywood club. >> what's up? paul walker at the red light

dock. >> he was a total auto head. he actually owned always evolving, a performance shop, that appealed to the car junkie that paul walker was. >> but paul was much more than a car junkie. he was also deeply committed to humanitarian relief. in 2010, walker took a team to haiti, helping in the aftermath of the major earthquake that devastated the small nation. >> asked a bunch of people what they thought we should bring. and -- >> he knew he had to do something. no one knew what to expect. but all he knew is he was bringing medical equipment, water filtration and would do what he could. when they got there, they did so much for their first time, they were able to set up a hospital in an orphanage and the experience he came home with after that was i have the opportunity to do something very special. >> and walker wasn't afraid to

get his hands dirty. you talked about the fact he went to alabama to help with victims of tornadoes. lots of people talk about things they care about. he actually did something. >> he cared about other people. and he went and helped them. >> we were helping clear a house, 100 degrees. humidity was through of roof and working with chain shaws. sweating, working hard. >> but then the homeowner realized that a hollywood star was among those helping out. >> and the emotion that they expressed, and this was someone who just lost everything, that someone with the name notoriety of paul would just be there, working, to make their life a little better without, you know, no camera crew, no nothing. it blew their mind. >> it is interesting because he was very private. he almost remained like a mystery to all of his fans other than what they saw on screen.

>> yeah, paul walker didn't go after a lot of press. he didn't necessarily want to be photographed. you didn't see him coming up in magazines. >> saleswoman irene king recalls awe day paul walker was in her jewelry store, as an iraq veteran and his fiancee were shopping for rings. >> she saw something they liked and she was look at it and trying them on but they couldn't afford them. >> but paul walker could afford a $10,000 ring. >> he wanted to help them out. so he just out and out bought it for them. he went to the manager and he was very specific about having it anonymous. he didn't want the couple to know that he was buying the ring for them. >> walker's father paul sr. says the generosity wasn't only extended to strangers. >> he was always doing stuff for us.

always big gestures. he just -- his heart was so big. you would go and have a family gathering and say, all the kids, nieces and nephews and it is was always don't worry about college, i'll take care of college, study hard. >> walker never finished college himself. but even as his movie career took off, his father knew junior was ready to slow down. to become a more present father for his daughter. >> he was looking so forward to -- wanted to take hiatus and, he said, she's 15, i ain't got much more time to be with her. >> walker's words proved to be eerily prophetic, leaving behind those who loved him most searching to make sense of his sudden death. >> action. >> friend and director rob cohen was devastated by the news. >> he called me his movie dad. i feel like i lost my son. i can't really believe it.

just not fair. that's what i kept thinking, it is just not fair. >> walker's death had a similar effect on his fast and furious co-stars, like vin diesel, dwayne "the rock" johnson and tyrese gibson. >> thank you for coming down here and showing how much you appreciate him. >> johnson took to instagram, simply posting love you, brother. and tyrese gibson with whom he was particularly close -- >> we have seen him grieve on social media and at the crash site. and it is indicative of the fact that they were very, very tight. he had a good relationship, a very good relationship with his "fast & furious" castmates. >> days later, the castmates released this tribute. >> most important thing in life will always be the people in

this room. >> after his funeral, and a time of grieving, production of "fast & furious 7" resumed earlier this year. the film's producers released details with this note on facebook. we have resumed shooting and now welcome paul's brothers caleb and cody into our fast family. caleb and cody are helping us complete some remaining action for their brother and fill in small gaps left in production. having them on set has made us all feel that paul is with us too. the film is scheduled to be released in april of 2015. in the end, walker left a lasting impression. in life, and death. >> you forgot he was an actor. forgot he was a name. he was a friend. we all lost a friend in this. >> focus. it is right here. it is what's important. it is what's of the heart, family, friends.

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