this was an nbc news friday night special called "daytona beach: where the boys went." 1962, which appears to be the night, by the way, when nbc news discovered something called "spring break" in daytona beach, florida. >> tonight, daytona beach, where the boys went presented by listerine listerine. the '62 ram berrerblerambler. increasingly in recent years college students spend their easter vacations at beach resorts. our crew, after spending two weeks for them, found they drank beer and danced the twist day and night. neither of these appeals to older eyes as an aesthetic activity but neither is especially shocking. it almost seems as though the students arrive doing the twist, and they dance here at the side of a pool behind ail motel for as much as ten hours a day. they rarely touch and the most they do is suggest. the twist is much too strenuous to be as wicked as it looks. >> the college kids you see here are now 70. they were born while world war ii was under way and many went to vietnam and not all of them came home. the whole world was about to change beginnin

. >> this is the fantasy shop in in daytona beach, mrr. and you see this man here, he was wearing a gray sweatshirt and check out some adult movies. and he's thinking, i want to get this one. notice, there's a close-up of his face so we can all see what he looks like. the store clerk comes up and, look, he's reaching into his pocket and he pulls a knife. he pulled a knife on this woman. >> she's told him, look, i've called the police. so he ran out this door with the knife, the movie and the store's phone. >> was he trying to attack her? was he trying to steal money or just the movie? >> he wanted money and the movie, apparently. >> does he know how much free movies are on the internet? i've been told, mae. >> everybody knows there's plenty of adult entertainment/porn on the internet. >> for free. >> yeah. but now he's going to be in trouble when he gets caught. for threatening the store person with a knife and he stole a porn movie. >> they didn't say what the title was. >> money for nothing i think. >> after the incident, they found the

from atlanta to daytona beach, the 411 miles would cost them $121 to drive. but at the very least, it's $1,600 for the four tickets they'd need to fly. if you fly, you'll get the best fares if you travel on odd days. a tuesday, wednesday or saturday. and spring breakers should plan flights after april 9th, if they can, when seats start to empty and prices come down. steve osunsami, abc news, atlanta. >>> and that cracking sound you hear tonight, another 50 temperature records being shattered today. so far this month, almost 1,000 records crashing in the winter heat wave. no sign of letting up. in minnesota, they said this is the earliest they can remember ever opening the golf courses. at the university of wisconsin, it looks more like summer vacation than midterm. the flowers are blooming everywhere. that's not a flower. that's a flower. >>> and five years later, a jury finally weighs in on that horrific shooting at virginia tech. the jury found the school negligent for delaying any warnings to students about a gunman on campus. the shooting left 33 students

♪ >>> hey, if you're looking for a party, head to daytona beach.and spring breakers are sharing the beach and road. bike week kicks off today. an expected 500,000 motorcyclists expect to come to count. add the college kids, and it's one packed, drunk house. at lure is also higher this year because florida vacation prices are more affordable. >>> and it is sure to feel like florida come this next week or so. >> spring break. hardly need to leave here to get spring weather. zipping around during the course of the week, looking at the cherry trees, and i have to tell you, these things will come out a little sooner than expected. they will be -- if we don't get colder weather to slow them down, they might charge straight ahead into blossom season. cold start outside early this morning. this ought to help slow them down a smidgeon and tomorrow morning, back down to the low 30s. might slow them down temporarily, but wait until you see the seven-day forecast. holy cow! going to feel like april or may around here before you know it. outside we go then. sun

he was kite surfing at a beach just south of daytona beach, when it happened. shark left 22 individual teeth marks in his legs. worrell had to get stitches. he's expected to be okay. check in with eyewitness news at 6:00 for all new stories coming up. denise has a preview for us. >>> young life cut short. a 13-year-old baltimore girl shot to death. new at 6:00, the latest on who police had just charged. >>> and indicted. anne arundel county's executive under fire. who is calling for him to step down? check in for these stories and all the day's breaking news, coming up at 6:00. now, back to kai and mary. >>> still ahead on eyewitness news at 6:00. the play about proposition 8. >>> soma-list actors take the stage. stay with us. ,,,,,,,,,, [ click ] it's truck month! no. it's truck month! no. it's truck month! no. it's truck month! no. it's chevy truck month! definitely that one, boss. solid. let's try the other one again. ♪ chevy truck month ♪ no. it's truck month! ♪ truck month ♪ no. truck month! no. it's chevy truck month. yeah. >>> big stars put on a real- li

documentary from 1962 about a new and exploding trend, something the kids called spring break in daytona beachd when we aired it on "rock center" we asked viewers to let us know if they recognized themselves or anyone else, and they did. and next week you'll hear from them. here's a hint, they include a woman whose mom was shocked to see her daughter doing the limbo on national television. next week you've just got to see what we found out about where they are now. >>> also coming up on next week's broadcast, josh will put one of law enforcement's most powerful tools to the test, the photo lineup. after witnessing a staged crime, can he then correctly identify the man who should be arrested for it? and how many of us could? >> so i blew it. i blew the lineup. i could have sent the wrong guy to prison. >> you could have, there's no doubt about it. >> we've taken josh off the hook. this is just some of the reporting we'll have for you next week on "rock center." that's next wednesday night, 10:00 eastern, 9:00 central. for all of the people who worked so hard to bring you this broadcast, t >> li

>> i visited the nation's oldest and largest aeronautical university in daytona beach, florida, to seeomorrow's pilots are being prepared for their own gut-check moments. students here are constantly drilled in just about every type of emergency that could, but rarely does, come up. >> so that when something does happen, it's sort of like muscle memory. they go back to a mental process that they've already done before. if the engine does quit on a small airplane, they've already done it 15 times in the simulator and in an airplane as well. >> coming up on 3,000. >> both of the engines are going back. >> i feel like we're losing thrust. you're losing thrust. >> although i'm not a licensed pilot, i've had plenty of instruction. i had a chance to land my own plane in the hudson river, in one of the university's flight simulators. i can tell you one thing, even in a training exercise, it's nerve-racking. >> okay. >> big shaker. drop the nose? >> yes, drop the nose. you will head to 230 knots. >> i can see the hudson river. >> start leveling off. you are about 400 feet. good. now, back pres

it lost power in both engines and crashed in daytona beach.eanwhile government investigators today obtained the jetblue cockpit voice recorder. we know from the federal complaint that he was ranting incoherently and said the plane would not be going to las vegas. his actions are raising major questions about mental health screenings for pilots. we've been talking about for for the last few days and lizzie o'leary has been digging deep into this issue. i want to ask you first about what we're finding out from the cockpit voice recorders. my understanding is we only got two hours handed over to investigators today, so how much more do we need and what will they find out from that? >> well, they'll be able to look at those last two hours, erin. right now the ntsb has them. they're downloading the data. they'll give that to the fbi who's leading that investigation. so they may not get the full picture of what happened, say, shortly after takeoff, but they'll sort of be able to back time from the emergency landing about two hours back into it. so t

from atlanta to daytona beach the 411 miles would cost them $121 to drive.he four tickets they'd need to fly. if you fly you'll get the best fares if you travel on odd days. a tuesday, wednesday, or saturday. and spring breakers should plan flights after april 9th if they can, when seats start to empty and prices come down. steve osunsami, abc news, atlanta. >> if you want to get away, though, april's too late. >> well, you know, not if you're planning maybe for a memorial day weekend or something like that. but i thought it was interesting. tuesdays, wednesdays, or saturdays the best days to fly because they're the least popular days to fly. >> for sure. >> some good advice. >> so food for thought for all of you out there. >> are you going anywhere? >> not anytime soon. i just started. >> okay. >> i think i'm locked down for like another year before i can go anywhere. >> that's interesting. >> speaking of that, here's your thursday forecast. the pacific northwest and northern california. my vacation is right here next to you, t.j. and everyone at abc. well,

project, but for this infamous train we have wanted to have built here basically from tampa to daytona beachthey have a train in place that goes from palm beach county to miami international airport. this is a necessity. the interstate corridor is congested. there are accidents like the joan lowy mentioned. one of the things that would alleviate is the traffic problem on interstate four. one creative way to do it is to use internal funding from casinos, dog tracks, and also the horse racing situation. host: we will leave it there, peter, in sarasota. could you talk about funding, state and federal? guest: sherer. states relied a great deal on the federal government for support for highway and bridge projects and for transit. most of this is paid for by user fees. historically there has been a philosophy and a policy that goes back to the eisenhower era when we started the highway system that the user pays. when you talk about going to gambling money to pay for this, you are going away from the philosophy, the policy that has been there for so long. there has been a lot of discussion about th

father and a friend were headed to the bahamas in 1995 when their plane lost power and crashed in daytona beachwith flight crew instructions. it could mean 20 years behind bars. >> meanwhile, check out this incredible video from nasza. -- nasa. this is a massive solar tornado twisting across the surface of the sun. and by massive, we mean it is five times wider than planet earth. is that the sound from it? it packs winds of 330 miles an hour. there could be sound, we can't hear it. real quickly, let's take a look at the map and find out we've got a lot of shower activity. some heavy thunderstorms moving through portions of the great lakes down through the ohio valley. as you can see, central plain states, southern plains. dixie dixieland, rainy, same thing out west. up to the pacific northwest. current temperatures in memphis right now, 65. same with kansas city. out in denver, 53 and currently in raleigh, you've got 49 but raleigh later on today, look at that. beautiful! 78 degrees. 70's throughout dixieland, 80's in through texas today and dallas/ft. worth, it's going to be 84. i talked to my

the entire police force of flagler beach, a town some 20 miles north of daytona, is working parade dutyhe's turning right on 14th again. he's coming back out to a1a. >> sam, why don't you go downstairs. guy, pod up sammy. >> but later that evening, most of those same officers are working one of the biggest investigations they've ever tackled. the police are hiding in a garage behind our latest undercover house waiting to arrest the man who is about to walk inside. >> come inside. it's cold out here. >> 34-year-old mohammed abdullah works in real estate. he's married and has an 8-year-old daughter. >> hi, how are you? >> how you doing? >> good, how was your drive? >> good. do you want me to leave it open? >> yeah, you can leave it open, it's fine. >> long before he got to the house, abdullah used the screen names blondy91972 and midas1972 to chat with someone who was a 13-year-old girl. but he was really talking to a decoy for the online watchdog group perverted justice, a group we hired because of its experience pretending to be teens online who are curious about sex. in his chat, abdul