talk to rebecca hop kinson who wrote a book called "go-go live: the musical life and death of chocolate city." we were talking about what go- go means to d.c. and it literally rose from the ashes from the riots that really affected u street. tell me about that. >> actually i interviewed chuck about that on that day. he said it was a very depressing day. he told some kids to go home. but as i wrote in a piece, he didn't just tell them to go hope. he taught them how to play music. in this whole corridor including places like the howard theatre and the lincoln theatre and all down u street, that was really reduced to rubble. it was filth. it was brought back to life with go-go music that chuck brown created. >> reporter: we've seen u street and we talked about this, too. we've seen u street change over the years. and so that i guess is what you're alluding to when you talk about the musical life and death of chocolate city. but what do you see as a future of go-go moving forward? >> i see go-go is strong. it's nowhere near dead. chuck built a really solid foundation. there are so many bands. th

she wrote "go-go live: the musical life and death of a chocolate city."d about brown's impact on the music scene, not just in d.c. but around the country and world. >> brown was the creator of go-go. with a lot of different music forums, it's difficult to pinpoint a single person that created it. but that is chuck brown's -- it was his soul and heartbeats that he shared with everyone. and people sort of followed this man since the 1970s. if he's -- so he's a huge, huge figure in washington. it's an enormous loss. >> reporter: there are going to be street closures. in fact, there are already some in place right now. t street in front of the theater is closed now. at 9:30, the closure becomes larger, going from 9th street to florida. also at 9:30, 7th and 8th streets will be closed between florida and s street. the public viewing gets underway at 11:00 a.m. this morning. and it will continue until 10:00 tonight. reporting live from the howard theater, megan mcgrath, news4. >> thank you. >>> and chuck brown's funeral is set for thursday at the washington con

may no longer be chocolate city.ta out from the census bureau shows the black population of the district is below 50%. it's the first time that's happened in over half a century. the numbers are from july of last year. 49.2% of city residents identified as black. 35.3% identified as white. and that's the highest percentage sense the 1960s. the census reports -- reports 40,000 black residents have left the district over the last 12 years. >>> d.c. police are investigating a burglary at the georgetown home of supreme court justice steven breyer. they will only say it was a break-in that happened two weeks ago. a spoke man says no court related documents were taken in this. his housekeeper discovered the burglary. in early february, breyer and his wife and a guest were also robbed at their vacation home in the caribbean. jess? >>> thank you mike. i am watching your money and also watching the facebook ipo this morning. shares will trade on the nasdaq for the first time today. they are expected to pop. but not everybody

. >> also known b as the chocolate city sun. obama of skate boarding d.c. >> reporter: unlike some clubs he's still playing in the district. in fact, this skate park under the freeway serves as home field. and these days he's doing his fair share of winning. >> i'm destined for success. i'm taking it each day at a time. following my dream. >> reporter: when he's not on the board, he's made mentoring the district's youth. harper was the poster child. >> lately through skate boarding i've been trying to show kids they have a different option. everybody don't have to travel that common road that's known in the neighborhood. >> reporter: but harper wasn't always a role model. like a lot of other young people who become a product of their environment by his early teen years he was knee deep in the game of fast money and drugs. >> we're headed to my old neighborhood where i grew up. where i first found that skate board at. >> reporter: harper's story begins with the 1980s and crack. growing up in one of the district's toughest neighbo

city. whether it is chocolates, fashion, accessories, things that we can sell. the more that we can manufacture in the city, we have lost blue- collar, we do not have that anymore, but there are other things that we can manufacture, including technology that has a chance for international markets. the other thing i am trying to do is make sure that our city appreciates the international status that we have. so that the more tourists who come here and take up the different events, be it the america's cup, or the fisherman's wharf, we have a chance to sell technology overseas and make that much more money. we are also thinking about how our economy can be better stabilized if we reorganized our whole payroll tax and make sure we are not punishing job creation in that we are creating the ability to have our own revenue stream even more sustained. so, these are just some of the ideas we are thinking about in terms of revenue generation. having said that, a big thank you to all of you coming out. i know that we will resonate much of the richness in the testimony tonig

chocolate. hershey's air delight. >>> here's a look at the forecast in some cities around the country. d.c., partly sunny, 86.cloudy, 90 in atlanta. partly sunny, st. louis, 80. partly cloudy, 74 in denver. partly cloudy and 67 in seattle. >>> computers in the middle east and especially iran are under attack from a newly discovered cyber virus. like another virus set loose on the internet a few years ago, the main target of this one called flame appears to be iran's nuclear program. david martin has more. >> reporter: remember stuxnet, the computer virus which made the centrifuges iran uses to enrich uranium spin out of control? now there's flame. another virus apparently targeted at iran. according to a cyber security company, which first discovered the virus, it dwarfs stux net. >> flame is 20 times the size of stuxnet, which again shows the kind of man power, man hours that have been put into this project. >> reporter: flame essentially turns a person's computer into spy, stealing everything that comes in contact with. >> flame can any get information it wants really from logging key strokes to taking scre

chocolate. and cookies n creme. pure hershey's. >>> here's a look at today's forecast in some cities around the country. washington, d.c., 74.nny, 78. st. louis, 78. denver, 54. seattle, 67. >>> in health news, a skin cancer expert says a sunburn you get at 18 can lead to skin cancer when you're 40, but such warnings aren't getting through. a recent study asks adults under age 30 if they've had a sunburn in the last year. half said yes. just about the same percentage as ten years earlier. >>> if you're worried that the end of the world is this december, take heart. recently discovered mayan ruins tell a different story. national geographic experts examined murals in in guatemala. some claim the world end on december 22, 2012 but the murals show the date marks the start of a new rotation and an endless cycle of time. >>> a design change to one world trade center is raising questions about whether it will still be the tallest building in the u.s. developers rejected an enclosure that had been planned around a tall needle that will sit atop the building because it would be hard to maintain. without the enclosure, the needle cou

chocolate. new york city planning to purge candy and chips from jails.. some corrections say it could lead to angry prisoners and possibly more violence. really? >> brian: prisoners seem so even tempered. up until the candy situation issue i think it would be very calm in prison. >> clayton: you want them on a sugar high? >> gretchen: not if i'm a guard. you would think that that might be the first place that they would start this attack on taking sweets out. >> clayton: right. the prison. >> gretchen: let's talk a little about something that might get you hot under the collar today. remember gsa? they were having those lavish trips? >> brian: do you have footage? >> gretchen: i know you love the smoking clown and the mind read er. why are we playing this music? paperly the western federal judges in this great country of ours were going to have some sort of a conference, just a little one, a million bucks, just a small conference in hawaii and they were going to sport fish and surf and yoga and do a little -- i didn't say anything about going to a luau.

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chocolate. ♪ hmm twix. also available in peanut butter. >>> time now for "sara in the city."ores every nook and cranny in the big apple. >> she just snorted! this time around she took a trip to a dark club that specializes in some serious paddle play. >> spin new york combines the underground chic with the nightclub and the feel good sport of ping-pong. with 17 tables, a deejay and fully stocked bar, spin new york has put its spin on the city's night life for the past three years. what is spin? >> it is a ping-pong social club which is an invented concept. i like to imagine maybe we'll evolve into a modern country club for urban people. it was a different sensibility than a country club. it was more inclusive and frivolous and yet fun. >> jonathan teamed one three partners, including actress susan sarandon to bring table tennis to manhattan's hip night life. >> the dorkiness of it, which is undeniable, actually works for it. >> it is more interactive than bowling it for sure and it is just a little more exciting than billiards. it's just better than the two like leading socia

atlantic city concert she told her audience how since giving birth she ran a treadmill, ate lettuce and eventually lost 60 pounds. she finished off promising tonight i'm going to get chocolate wasted. that sounds like a good plan. >> chocolate-covered lettuce? >> chocolate milkshake, chocolate bar, anything once you've been 60 pounds. good for her. this comes to us from khnl, hawaii news in honolulu where a moving tribute to a ship that went down in 1941 at pearl harbor has reached a milestone. this memorial day weekend marked the 50th anniversary of the uss arizona memorial. it took years to raise the money to build the memorial erected above her hull. it claimed over 1100 officers and crewmen. criticized at first by some today it attracts 2 million visitors. i'm lynn berry and this is "early today." just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. >> live, local, late-breaking, this is wbal-tv 11 news today. >> we have another warmest start to the day. this continues from the holiday weekend. temperatures across the state -- these are basically at low temperatures for the morning. 77 downtown at the inner harbor. the dew point temperature it tells all. upper 60'

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