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CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Good evening, I'm Cynthia McFadden, and thank you for joining us. Fresh off the Thanksgiving holiday, you might already be thinking about your next vacation, maybe a road trip with the family, maybe a ski trip. We were shocked to discover that a growing number of Americans are planning far less wholesome vacations. They travel so that they can buy underaged girls cheap. Tonight, we're taking another look at a six-month investigation, halfway around the globe, where Americans are not only buying but also selling underaged sex. "Nightline" producer Alex Waterfield and ABC's Alex Marquardt went undercover in the Philippines with the authorities planning a high stakes raid. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Adolescents are traded like currency every day in developing countries, where the sex tourism business is booming and we're with the international authorities closing in on the American man with a bar in the Philippines where activists say underage girls cost little more than a few cocktails. Here again, ABC's Alex Marquardt. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) And now, a "World News" investigation. Very young girls, from good families, lured into the sex trade. And if we ask you to name a city that's become the hot bed of sex trafficking, chances are you would never have guessed Portland, Oregon, but Sharyn Alfonsi traveled there, and she's here tonight. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ROBIN ROBERTS (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) But first, more now on the man who's confessed to killing six-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]