they are here to pay their respects to the late author edgar allan poe. died here in baltimore at age 40, only seven people showed up to his funeral. that's why fans are paying tribute to him starting today with a viewing in his home complete with a poe-inspired mannequin in a casket. just days before his death poe, who lived in many different cities had gone missing for five whole days. wound up back here in baltimore and was last seen drunk and delirious in a bar. he apparently had been robbed and was wearing someone else's dirty torn clothes that inspired many fans to come up with their own theories of what happened including a practice known as cooping. >> roughans or thugs would gather up people off the street and they would take them to these places called coops and would coop them up and either drug them or get them plied with liquor and then use them -- take them to various polling places and use them as what they call repeaters which they would go in this drunken delirious state, take unwitting people and have them vote over and over again for the

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the guests who lined up overnight to say farewell 160 years later to edgar allan poe. >>> 5:24.et's look at the next seven days because we're going to have a little roller coaster ride here. temperatures back up to 71 today. we're expecting to have a bit of a breeze and skies actually going from mostly sunny to partly cloudy. the clouds really thicken up overnight and tomorrow, the leading edge of warm air, showers in the morning, maybe a thunderstorm in the afternoon, we'll get to a high of 79. even the possibility of pushing 80 in some spots. we'll hang near 70 on saturday with the morning shower but improving in the afternoon, 65 as we head through sunday with more rain possible. >>> 5:25. back to you. >> we'll send it back to jeremy hubbard in new york with the latest in "tech bytes" today. good morning. in today's "tech bytes" a new way to watch tv on the go. the flow tv personal television is about the size of an average touchscreen phone with three and a half-inch display, built-in stereo speakers and about five-hour battery life. it gets 15 channels including espn mobile