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>> i love mexico. >> i love it, too. but i like it when it is safe. >> i lived in mexico at one point in my life, i visited scores of time along with millions of other americans. the border right now is a no go for spring breakers because of the drug related violence that kimberly mentioned that is way out of control. here is is craig. geraldo. its spring break, 2010 here in roserito beach in tee wanna. barely a tourist can be found. beachs are empty as far as the locals hotels are empty, club...

Survey willed take advantage of a short trip south of the border compared to more than half last year. >> last year you had about 3 thousand people here on a saturday. what did you have last night? >> last night we took in around like 2, 300. the mayor hugo torres admits his city was in the midst of the drug war but not any more. >> that was the reason i interthe political race and i got the job. it was to improve security, clean up the police force and give enough security to address visitors...

>> good morning to you, too, alex. it looks like its going to take a while, at least through the afternoon and early evening for us across eastern oklahoma and into portions of arkansas as well. here is our storm system spinning its way through. out ahead of it mild and wet. behind it, though, the colder air in place and thats where we have our snow coming down still in dallas dealing with some of the snow as you mentioned in garland, some of the snow measuring up over 4 inches. snow creeping it...

Florida. got some showers and storms moving on so, spring breakers not looking too great at all with the rain spreading its way into the carolinas, a wet time around atlanta, greenville, spartanburg, it will be pretty wet as well. different story farther north. basking in the glorious sunshine in the warmth in the northeast here. cold front in place for us, and thats going to drop the temperatures just a tad. we were in the 70s in new york city yesterday. today, 60s. to -- so a little bit cooler...

Which in some cases is just three miles away. >> me and my friends were trying to stick in groups. at nighttime, you know, were trying to make sure even though the clubs are far away, were not trying to venture off from the touristy area. >> still, the college students are here. not as many as last year, but an estimated 10,000 spring breakers are expected in acapulco this year. lured in part by mtvs annual spring break bash on the acapulco waterfront. but with those grisly murders and the murde...

Its very much between the people involved in law enforcement or in the gangs themselves. there are innocent people being caught up at some point but its not a serious concern at this point i would say in terms of spring breakers or tourists. >> but there is too much violence and people who live in mexico do -- are very fearful of this. there are many people who have said its taking on the next level of almost terrorism. people slaughtered at the party couldnt figure out what the connection could...

Those killers to justice. all this being said though, certainly underscores how difficult it is right now with those mexican drug cartels expanding their reach and also, expanding their violence even here to the united states, affecting citizens here. also prompted the state department to issue a travel warning to hundreds of thousands of spring breakers who generally like to flock to mexico. basically, stay away. jane: kelly wright at the white house. thanks. jon: new developments to bring but ...

On the scene, that the s.w.a.t. has been called in as well. this is the house were looking at, where there is a possible hostage situation. those details sketchy at this point. were staying on top of it. to breaking news out of orange county, california, long beach. there has been a car that went through a guardrail into the los angeles river, through a bridge here, apparently divers got in, were able to rescue several people. theyre still in, looking to see if there are others below the surfa...

Poker heist during a tv broadcast. they made off yesterday with a jackpot of more than a million dollars. and more than a dozen people remain hospitalized after fridays bus crash near phoenix. six people were killed and 16 others injured. those are your fast five headlines. the unofficial start to the spring break season starts tomorrow and hundreds of thousands will be traveling to several hot spots. beware, the u.s. government has issued a travel warning for spring breakers, one of destina...

This year because the texas department of public safety is issuing whats really an unprecedented warning telling students and their parents to listen up, stay out of any mexican border towns because its just too dangerous. tila is in austin, what kind of problems are we talking about here? pretty significant ones. >> reporter: were seeing increased levels of drug-related border violence in the cities along the texas border. and the amount of the violence that were seeing makes us very concerned ...