headlines. a cruise ship turned into a floating toilet. it was the cruise from hell. dennis rodman found a kindred spirit in north korea. he was a great guy. celebrity chef paula deen found herself out of a job. i is what i is and i m not changing. miley cyrus brought twerking from the strip clubs to the american mainstream and we put her on morning tv. was wrong with you t.j.? good morning, everyone. got kids watching the show. they are getting ready for school. the big gulp came close to extinction. it s just pop with low cal ice cubes in it. we learned the ugly truth about the delicious mcrib. you know all those meat balls you ve been buying at ikea. they might have been horse meat.
lords rule. and nightline anchor dan harris is learning, it doesn t look to be changing anytime soon. reporter: just minutes from iconic beaches with names like copacabana, there are massive shantytowns, most of which are effectively ruled by violent drug gangs. this is an open-air market. this is the best seller. 5 american dollars of cocaine. they say it is the best seller. complete with piles of color-coded drugs. it blows the mind to be in this place where everybody s selling drugs. no police. nobody s batting an eye. just business as usual. and this just keeps going and going is what is known as a crack land. amazing there s no fear of the police. smoking right out in public. reporter: in another crack land, this one the length of an entire city block. got kids here. we found this 16-year-old crack addict.
lords rule. and nightline anchor dan harris is learning, it doesn t look to be changing anytime soon. reporter: just minutes from iconic beaches with names like copacabana, there are massive shantytowns. most of which are effectively ruled by violent drug gangs. this is an open-air market. this is the best seller. 5 american dollars of cocaine. they say it is the best seller. complete with piles of color-coded drugs. it blows the mind to be in this place where everybody s selling drugs. no police. nobody s batting an eye. just business as usual. and this just keeps going and going is what is known as a crack land. amazing there s no fear of the police. smoking right out in public. reporter: in another crack land, this one the length of an entire city block. got kids here. we found this 16-year-old crack
what happened in benghazi a few months ago, what does this mean to the country? i think there is a dark, mysterious hand that doesn t like this country to prosper. they see a system, an organization as a big enemy to them. these are slowly getting diminished. it s a matter of time before we can get rid of them. how hard do you think that is going to be? not hard at all. we got rid of gadhafi. nothing else is hard. i like your attitude. got kids. this is supposed to be the biggest, fanciest, new hotel development in town. like a lot of newer structures, they pretty much stopped when they started to pull down the government. there are a lot of cranes building nothing at the moment. a lot is sort of frozen as everybody figures out what happens next, let s wait and
dreams, hopes, wishes. it was just something in the sky. something i look at every night. when i hit that point and got in to misrata and stood on gadhafi s body, any dream will come true. what s the situation now? it s fluid. it can swing any direction. well, look, what happened in benghazi a few months ago, i mean, what does this mean to the country? i think there is a dark, mysterious hand that doesn t like this country to prosper. they see system and organization as a big enemy to them. these concerns are slowly getting diminished. a matter of time before we can get rid of them. how hard do you think that s going to be? not at all. we got rid of gadhafi. nothing else is hard. i like your attitude. got kids.