don t swim around piers. don t swim when people are fishing. reporter: several of the recent attacks have occurred close to piers. and now there are calls to ban shark fishing from north carolina s beaches, a move that has already been taken by many other vacation spots along the east coast. mary bruce, abc news, rockaway beach, new york. some frightening times in the waters out there. that s right. when we come back, it s skinny time. what a night at the b.e.t. awards. what a tribute to janet jackson and diddy and a stagecraft malfunction. the skinny up next. announcer: world news now
announcer: from abc news, this is world news now. you know it was a very very long show for the b.e.t. awards. it kept going and going and going. patti labelle came on stage near the end. it was beautiful. but it was great seeing janet and the tribute to janet jackson by ciara was amazing. okay. i look forward to seeing the highlights later this half hour. to see diddy take a tumble, what more could you ask for? oh! look forward to seeing everything. we re going to get started on a serious note this morning with that dangerous escaped killer who is now being treated at an albany, new york, hospital this morning. this was the scene just moments after david sweat was taken into custody in upstate new york. his capture ends a three-week manhunt which involved hundreds of law enforcement officers. abc s linzie janis reports from the small town where the search for sweat ended. reporter: it s all over. [ cheering ] the search party cheering the capture of david sweat. th
official actually telling me they knew that the polls were changing in favor of this, that this was an issue that the country had changed their opinion on. absolutely. but you can t even imagine now. it says now 61% actually oppose allowing individual states to prohibit same-sex marriage. but the tide has really turned in public opinion. it really has. and you ve seen that on display throughout the country over the weekend, where you had niagara falls, the white house, the london eye all bathed in the rainbow colors, so facebook. and facebook, exactly, changed your profile. a lot of republican candidates haven t come out, and you know, haven t supported this. it sure takes the issue off the table for a lot of the them to have to worry about where to stand. they don t have to address it. we ll see, come next year. coming up, airport baggage bandits. the undercover video showing how easy it is for thieves to make off with your luggage. and ahead in our next half hour,