neighborhood where work was getting harder and harder to find. relatives say ariel was raised by his mother and didn t get along with his father. he dropped out of school in the tenth grade. ariel taught himself to play bass, and he joined a band, playing salsa and merengue in clubs around town. he was popular with band mates. that s where bianca cruz met him as a child. i remember going to concerts and spending time with the band backstage. friends saw two very different ariel castros, the one who came alive on stage, and the other shy and caring offstage. it was always him playing with my hair, him being super nice to me. you wouldn t picture, you wouldn t imagine he d do something like this. reporter: but he could be incredibly violent. in 2005, castro was accused of savagely beating his wife, breaking her ribs, her nose, dislocating her shoulders, and triggering a blood clot on the brain, all the while threatening to kill her and her daughter.
i wish i could grow a beard like conan does. maybe someday. not such a good look. you don t like the beard i? think the beard s kind of cool. not so much. wow. tough crowd. isha, thanks very much. for tonight s shot pretty much the reason i think the internet was invented. after a heavy night nothing like a dog in a dress dancing the merengue. on youtube. where else would we find it? the dog s name is carrie. let s watch and enjoy. oh! hey. gets lonely out on the farm. no one to dance with. there we go. sewed the dress himself. i don t know. i made that up. troubling. troubling. it is troubling. and you know, i like the whole thing about it. if the dog had been doing
at lunesta.com discover a restful lunesta night. world news now delivers your morning papers. all right, it is time for the papers. and we have a whopper today. this thing has gone viral so we had no choice. we had to put it out there today. who doesn t like a dog that knows how to get down, you know what i mean? you ve never seen anything like this. what dance this is? this is the merengue. the merengue dance. look at that. this dog and its owner actually made some headlines with a similar dance back in november, and it s nice to see they are back at it. as a matter of fact, they are a late add for dancing with the stars. we just did not confirm that. but they should be, right? look at that. i missed a dip. dipped the dog? dipping the dog.