the same ship floats away from its mooring with 800 onboard. google gives him $300 million to spend every year, and he wants to give it to you. as long as you've got a great idea. tonight, we meet the millionaire maker. and juicy, round and made of buffalo chicken wings? it's not your grandma's recipe. the meatball guy serves up new spins on the old school classic. >> keep it right here, america. "nightline" is back in just 60 seconds.

>> from new york city, this is "nightline" with terry moran. >> hello, everyone. and thanks for joining us today. more trouble aboard the carnival cruiseship called "triumph of" a vessel that two months ago left thousands stranded at sea and living in squalor for days after an engine failure resulted in

widespread power outages. this afternoon, that same ship was blown away from its alabama mooring by high winds while it carried 800 people aboard. abc's matt gutman has the latest on the cruiseship with the course as wayward as its luck. for the second time in as many months, all aboard the triumph of were left adrift. storms with 70-mile-an-hour winds. 800 crew and contractors were on the kol las sus as it bounced off of other boats while it was undergoing months of repair. >> due to high winds, the carnival triumph of broke its morings. it had a small collision with an army corps of engineer boat and a deck barge. during that collision, it took a few scrapes and scratches. >> reporter: and an eyewitness described the slow motion chaos

as the ship drifted in the bay. >> someone said oh, my good, look at the carnival. we turned and look, and you could see the carnival coming sideways. there was a tug boat trying to keep it in center of the river, but it just bashed completely sgoo the banking and pinned the tug boat against the bank. the result? this giant gash. tug boats had to lassie the triumph of and slowly ease it back into its dock. it's been a rough ride for carnival the past two months. adrift for five days in february in the gulf of mexico. after an engine final, it was finally home in plo beel and the 4,200 aboard came pouring off. >> worst experience we ever had. we thought we were going to die for a little while. >> and in some cases kissing terra firma for the first time in eight days. >> you can talk to us, come on over.

>> finally back in america and on land. >> some angry. >> the doctor on the staff can, excuse my french, kiss my [ bleep ]. >> reporter: others, relieved. >> i'm just happy to be alive and glad we're here. >> reporter: equipped with every amenity and the 4,000 aboard could only communicate in snipets of text messages. 36 hours into the crisis, no hot food, no hot water, no ac and the ship was listing. >> when we were leaning one way, it was kind of nerve wracking. >> reporter: worst of all, backed up toilets. sewage everywhere. >> one flush, in five days. >> reporter: for toilets, the ship handed out these red bags. >> people were using the restroom in little plastic bags and throwing them out into the hallway. >> we were shocked. i not using a red bag. >> just don't eat.

control the colon. just don't eat. >> we met a couple that we were talking to sna that said her husband was laying in bed and just the ceiling fell down on him full of -- >> urine, feces, all of that. >> yeah. >> reporter: it drove people to camp out on decks. they built tent cities and inventions. >> ship wrecked for, i guess, three days now. >> reporter: abc news was the first to fly out over the crippled cruise. >> you can tell how powerful the wind is, gusting at 25 miles an hour. those conditions bringing out the worst in some people. >> they open ed the bar one evening and gave away three drinks. that was a bad idea. people were throwing things over the side of the ship and acting unruly. >> reporter: the passengers did receive updates, but rob thinks

that was another mistake. >> they were using power to supply printers instead of toilets. >> you had to stand in line for three hours to get a meal. and the first couple of days, it was the onion sandwiches. >> reporter: but at least they were steadily, if slowly, being tugged back to the u.s. that's when mike padilla finally got through to his wife on the phone anxiously awaiting her return. >> they think the tug line might have broken. >> reporter: this is the late nest a string of incidents involving cruise smips last year the costa concordia capsized in italy, killing 32 passengers. and in 2010, another carnival shep, the splendor, was stranded for days after another engine fire. i know you can't talk to me, but is there anybody who can?

it was days before a carnival member talked to the press. but then the executives avoided follow-up questions. i'm sorry, matt gutman from abc news. thank you for taking the time today. i wonder if you could take a few more questions. do you really? you're running away. we've been trying to talk down anybody from carnival. and the company's chief marketing officer also retreated. but one thing that did go right in the end for carnival is bringing that ship in darkness. and after seven weeks, it went adrift yet again. i'm matt gutman for "nightline" in miami. a star crossed ship for sure. thanks to matt for that. next up, he's helped companies like facebook and twitter get off the ground. and google gives him $300

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it seems like every day a new 20-something becomes tech royalty for creating an app that will change our lives. but the world is full of smart people and good ideas. to reach millions of eyes and fingertips, hopeful inventors

need millions of dollars. that and a meeting with kevin rose. here's abc's neal karlinsky. >> you're very greedy and you're way overvalued. >> and "american idol." >> are you all laughing at me? >> reporter: a reality that's even more exciting. no sing and dancing here. just a guy in tennis shoes, plucking companies out of obscurity and handing them millions. this is kevin rose and you've never met anyone with a job like his. what do you do for a living? what is your job? >> investment start-ups. find the next big thing. meet with sberp neuentrepreneur out. >> reporter: hang out at a hip coffee place. then do push-up with an ipad fitness program at a tech start-up. >> that's awesome.

>> reporter: then a trendy tea house. glances at that ever present iphone. >> so sometimes i'm leaning in, offering a lot of product advice. other companies, it's about making connections. >> at 36, he's already made millions founding companies like dig, a sort of crowd source news site. and backing early on the likes of twitter and facebook. today, he's a partner at google ventures where his job is to identify hot new companies, give them money and advice and hopefully turn them into hits. >> we're looking to place big bets and build big companies. i mean, we have a $300 million fund every single year that is google acting as our investor, giving us that money to deploy that cash. >> reporter: wait, $300 million to spend each year? >> correct. >> reporter: we watched young entrepreneurs pitch what they hope will be some of the hottest new ideas. this one is a photo sharing app

in a work called cluster. >> doesn't it seem weird that you would charge for something, the data seems right there. >> do you think he has a shot at a multimillion dollar business? >> do you have it on your phone? >> yeah, yeah. >> what are you hoping to get out of this? money? advice? both? >> you're looking for the next meeting. some of my ideas right now? i'm a big fan of turning the cell phone into a kind of remote control. the ability to summon different types of services. >> reporter: rose has the power to give a struggling new company a chance most can only dream of. >> when you're having a meeting with kevin, are you nervous? >> it's like a first date. you want to give your best impression possible. you don't want to overdo it. but you don't want to blow it. >> reporter: a glance at the companiies rose has founded, bought, backed or supported in some way is a look at what many of us have on our phones. pop culture's favorites. for now. but figuring out the next big

thing isn't so eeasy. rose had a shot at pinterest when they were only three employees old. he missed out on a multimillion dollar hit. >> i don't want a clone of something else. i want original thinking. i'm not going to go do 100 deals per year. i'm going to do one every four to six weeks and provide enough space in my life to help these companies out. >> reporter: for the young and ambitious lucky enough to get a meeting, rose is a rock star. >> i actually wish rather than talking about myself, we could have talked about kevin and his experience, you know, at other start-ups. >> reporter: in the start-up world is he kind of a hero? >> he's definitely to be -- yeah, kevin is one of the heroes of the start-up world.

>> a one click sink at low res would be awesome. for three. >> reporter: the opportunities he says are endless. not just for good ideas, but people who know how to execute them. what happens when you start to be not so hip and you start to be the older guy? >> you have to keep yourself in the mix. looking for the next big thing. >> reporter: looking for the next big thing. an idea that could change the way you live your life with google's money to burn in his pocket. i'm neal karlinsky in "nightline" in san francisco. >> get your ideas in gear and get them to kevin rose. next up, some spicy pork to buffalo chicken. mouth watering recipes from the chef out to prove meatballs ant just about beef. took on honda and toyota. this is a lot of fun to drive. that's the ecoboost. i feel the power behind the escape.

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>> some people like them on spaghetti, others wedged inside a bun. no matter what the meatball vehicle, everyone believes they have the secret recipe for perfecti perfection. but there's one place where the humble meatball has become high ark. we met chef daniel holtsman at the meat shop here in brooklyn, new york, to see for ourselves. tonight, a classic "nightline" plate list.

>> every single culture celebrates meatball. everyone has a meatball from their childhood. whether you're from southeast asia or italy or northern europe or africa, you have meatballs in your culture and you've had meatballs in your past. so that's exciting. you say meatballs and people smile. it's incredible. you're smiling right now. >> we're here at the meatball shop. welcome. we've got ground chicken, preferably chicken thighs. cellry. we're trying to get all the flavors of a classic buffalo chicken wing into meatball form. i have a frying pan and a little bit of heat. i'm just going to throw about a quarter of a stick of a butter with about a quarter cup of spice. a pound of ground chicken, two stocks of celery.

going to crack one egg, which will help it all hold together. a healthy teaspoon of salt. about half a cup of bread crumbs. and then frank's red hot right over the top. going to give it a mix with my hands. and we're going to go ahead and roll them and roast them. roll them up, line them up, and pop them in the oven. i also felt like there was something rude about how much people were charging for food. there was really great food for a lot of money. and not a lot of really great food at an affordable price. really simple blue cheese dressing at the restaurant. one part sour cream, one part mayonnaise, one part blue cheese. two tablespoons of milk, salt and red wine vinegar to taste. going to whisk it and bring it together. we have our meatballs ready from the oven. i like to add a little extra hot sauce just over the top.

there you have our buffalo chicken wing minimeatballs. if i heard of a restaurant called meatball shop, i wouldn't think of much. i feel like when you come here, you get a little bit more. you get your bill at the end of the meal and it's a lotless than you would have paid. so you feel like wow, that was awesome. we're here for our second plate, which is our spicy pork meatballs. it is the simplest recipe we make in the restaurant. about two pounds of ground pork. and we have five ingredients. so for this recipe, we use some fresh bread diced up. about a quarter cup of bread crumbs, two teaspoons of salt. we use hot pickled cherry peppers. not terribly spicy, but they give it a really grate briny flavor. two eggs. i'm going to go ahead and give them a mix. and i'm going to pop them in the oven for about 17 minutes at 375

degrees. i'm extremely proud of the fact that i am able to keep it simple. i think that's the hardest thing to do. some of the greatest things in life are the simple things. and you can be best in class whether you're a meatball or, you know, whatever you want to make. our meatballs are ready. the spicy meat sauce, which is my favorite pairing to spicy cooked meatballs with a healthy grading of pardon me -- parmesan cheese. >> mama mia, that's a spicy meatball. now it's time for tonight's "closing arguments." today, rutgers university announced that it has fired men's basketball coach mike rice after a public release of video footage where rice is seen pushing, berating and yelling really vicious slurs at players. rutgers administrators first learned of the tape back in november, suspended him for three games and fined him

$75,000 at that time. so what do you think. did coach rice step over the line? or was he showing the kind of tough love many college coaches are famous for? you can weigh in on the "nightline" facebook page or tweet us @nightline or or @terrymoran. tomorrow we'll have the latest on a west virginia sheriff's tragic execution. the most recent in an alarming string of killings, targeting law enforcement officials in america. and as always, we're always online at abc news.com. we will see you here tomorrow.