they had good hot chocolate. reporter: that cocoa led to a wedding in 1937. virgil worked for anderson county for a few years and then took a job in houston with the railroad. the long-distance relationship worked because they always had a free ride. sometimes i had to put us in a box car to get us settled down. no, we were all first class. reporter: did leila think about divorce? she said no. but murder, a lot of times. if you keep looking all your life for something, you re not going to find what you want, perfection. reporter: they still have misunderstandings. last week virgil said i m so proud of you, and she replied, i m tired of you too. that was the love of my life, and she still is. we hold hands every once in a while. that s to keep her from hitting me. reporter: they both say laughter and the lord have made a powerful bond for them. that is awesome. i m a huge believer in the power of laughter. i think that can keep people together. tired of you
but then again, so is marriage. that s what makes one texas couple so amazing. yesterday they celebrated 3/4 of a century together. and they can still laugh about it. here is jamie william of kltv in tyler, texas. reporter: leila and virgil harris have passed silver, gold, and diamond and hit the diamond gold anniversary. so many years they ran out of precious stones and metals and had to combine them. oh, i ve got to stop. reporter: he s 97 and still gets around just fine. she s 96 and still has plenty to say. they met at a service station where virgil worked. her sister came down and bought some gasoline. two gallons for a quarter. so we met. i thought he was the cutest thing. my daddy cried when he saw him. but he is a good-looking man. reporter: so dad approved of a first date. we went out to the old mill inn, which is the place everybody went.
in washington a deadline for occupy protesters to leave two camp sites has come and gone. instead of packing up yesterday afternoon, demonstrators put up a huge blue tarp at one park. police said they were enforcing a camping ban but only by reminding the occupiers that it s illegal to sleep at the encampments. there were no arrests. so really what was the point of that? a fair enough question. also a lot of questions on this story as well. the florida highway patrol is under fire this morning for its decision to reopen an interstate near gainesville just before that deadly series of crashes. as the governor now orders an investigation into that decision, we are learning some new details about that fatal pileup. with more on, this here s abc s matt gutman. reporter: the very moment of impact, in these just-released 911 tapes you can hear the apocalyptic scene unfold. one witness estimates cars were going as fast as 80 miles an hour straight into the wreckage. oh, [ bl