finally in the late 1930's, a guy named thomas hull said he's going to build a hotel. it was on the road that linked los angeles to las vegas. there is a really interesting story about this. so supposedly, it's apocryphal, he was driving to las vegas and his car broke down and he sat on the side of the road. he sent his friend to go into town and get help, which is why i think it's apocryphal, because it is not much of a friend, at least he wouldn't be after walking three miles and the desert. he counts the cars going past and says you know what? this is where i should build my hotel, not downtown where i am competing with everybody. train people, do i really need them? i want to get the automobile people. after world war ii, this was a boom in the car culture auto via -- autopia, the interstate highway system. so he built the rancho vegas out on highway 91. if you look at this, this gives you an idea. you can see that sex was always part of the package even then in a very sedate way. if you look at this, this does not look like an urban gambling hall. this is somewher

enclosed lifeboats being allowed to sail with just the open hull, like whaling lifeboats, and expecting people to survive in that? >> pelley: tinisha thomasked the company a question-- why did they allow the ship to continue to go into the storm? >> pelley: they didn't have to go into the hurricane? >> thomas: they did not have to go into the hurricane. >> pelley: september 29, "el faro" left jacksonville, florida, for puerto rico. captain michael davidson, who had a long career, intended to steer 65 miles south of the storm's predicted path. even in a hurricane, the ship could likely survive by using its turbine engine to keep the bow pointed directly into the waves, a ship's most survivable angle. but in 18 hours, joaquin spun into a category three and slid southwest toward "el faro". at 7:00 a.m., october 1, davidson made an emergency call to the ship's owner, tote maritime. what do we know from the captain's last report? >> roth-roffy: we know that they had lost propulsion, that the engineers were unable to restart the main engine. we know that the vessel was listing about 15 degrees, and that one of the hatches had popped or had come