it mimics the work of the famous poet and author edgar allen poe, who focused on mystery and the macabe they actually seek out edgar allen poe, played by john cusack and help him solve the murder mystery. the movie itself, completely overdramatic, didn't like the acting. luke evans was terrible. alice eve was terrible. >> what about cusack? >> he was fun, but the movie had such an inconsistent tone. one moment, it felt like a parody. one moment, felt like a suspense movie. i found myself laughing. >> i get the sense there's a bad rating coming up. >> 2 out of 5. skip it, skip it, skip "the raven." >>> let's talk about these photos. you're a huge fan of samuel jackson. take it away. >> one of my favorite movies of all time, "pulp fiction." one of the greatest scenes, when sam jackson pulls his wallet out in the diner. >> can't show it. >> i have this wallet, i've had it for five years, i wanted to meet him and want him to hold the wallet with me in the picture at the avenge yourself junkett, and there he is! there's another one, like he actually took the wallet and said the famous lines

. >>> also debuting and expected to fight tore 10 million "the raven" staring john cusack as edgar allen poe. >>> jason statham's latest effort, "safe." >>> this comes to us from boston, in cambridge a piano played the last note ending the life with a bang. mit students launched it off the roof of their dorm. yikes, watch it go. it crashed right on top of another piano six stories below. this is part of a tradition 40 years, the last day students can drop classes without having them show up on transcripts. don't feel bad for the instruments, only broken pianos are used for the big send off, but makes me feel uncomfortable i don't care if they are broken. >> wasn't as good as i thought it would be. i was hoping it would splinter and keys flying. >> a baby grand, parts. >> expect more from mit. >>> i'm veronica de la cruz, this is "early today" just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. >>> the washington redskins select robert griffin iii. >> we all knew it was coming, but that is not dampening the excitement among redskins fans this morning now that rg3 is d.c. bound. all rig

. >> reporter: the story of the writer who uses edgar allen poe's writing as inspiration. the battle of police corruption, and finding he's also facing -- >> you want to tell me why the men arrested you? >> reporter: a 12-year-old girl who needs his help. >> what a cute little flower girl you will be. >> reporter: to recap, romance, comedy, action, thrills, scares, and pirates with him. there's something for everybody this week at the movies. in new york city, ashley devorkin, fox news. >> our movie guy, giving us his take on the 6:00 hour. >> there's plenty ahead this morningat

. >>> the movie the rain premiered in -- raven premiered in la based loosely on edgar allen poe. descent into madness and copycat murder plot. but a shoney black raven showed off his wings for the camera even posed with cusack so it opens in theaters everywhere on friday. >>> if your legal name is don draper you get a free one night stay at a howard johnson's hotel. the chain is doing a special promotion after it was featured in the episode of madmen. don draper takes his wife to a hotel for a weekend get away and anyone with the name don draper can book a free night until may 8th. so the offer is good through august 31st. all you have to do is show your don draper id when you check in. >> you like that show? >> i love that show. >> my dad is a huge fan. but i am behind right now so i can't -- >> you have a long way to go. you are a season behind. >>> the president touring college to talk about student loans. >> but he tried a different approach in getting that message across when he visited scrimy fallon. video you have to -- jimmy callon. video tough see. >> information to know

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this story is straight out of edgar allen poe. christine jarrett disappeared in 1991 and police suspected her husband robert jarrett had something to do with it but no evidence. so they couldn't serve the -- search the property until wednesday night when investigators search a shed behind the home and they found her body under a concrete slap. -- slab. >>> las august there was a earthquake this hit maryland and much of the eastern seaboard. many of us were unfamiliar with earthquake survival. why would we be? towson university is hosting a mock earthquake exercise educating their students and the public. sherrie johnson is live this morning with the preview and they are going all out for this. we have got makeup and volunteers and the whole thing. >> reporter: you are exactly right, charley. this is operation stat. they are going all out. this is amazing. they will have hundreds of volunteers here. they are fully made up. it looks like real blood and the injuries here this is all in an effort to educate people on earthquake prepar

. >>> another case a crack in a cold case straight out of the pages of edgar allen poe. the body of a woman whose husband said she was miss 2-g 1 years ago has been found and he is charged with the death. christine jarrett disappeared in 1991 and neighbors say they suspected her husband robert jayet had something to do with hit -- jarrett had something to do with it. police did too but they didn't have ough evidence to search the property until wednesday when they searched the shed and found the body in concrete. >> it's a little part of me that wished she stayed alive and having fun but i would go back to immediately no, she would never left her boys. >> robert jarrett is charged with first and second degree murder. he is held at the howard county detention center without bond. >>> and police are searching for suspects who were tied to an -- tied a essex family and robbed them. a week ago two masked men forced the dad and two girls into the home. they were tied with up duct tape and shoved in closet. a neighbor called police saying they saw men loading ?awf gold sedan.

. >> an author that used edgar allen poe's work for murder. that review next. >> the insta-weather plu i >> morning, still a nice dry morning this morning. but these clouds will eventually bring us something. down across western county. western montgomery con to the district of columbia. that's either sprinkles or all up in the clouds. the radar seeing it, but it is not making it to the ground. it reaches up toward detroit and chicago. here's the view from ocean city. two people walking along the boardwalk there. 51 at the inner harbor. humidity down. barometer up. the winds are calm. temperature-wise, all the temperature this month, so far yesterday, 65.6. still 2.5 degrees above normal. this number has gone down a little bit, but we are still on the month above normal. about an inch below what we would normally see in prilt. 51 on the boardwalk. still in the 40's in far western maryland. the entire state has some kind of cloud over it. more significant rains in west virginia, ohio. just cleared shig 0. -- chicago. headed toward detroit, what

and john cusack becomes edgar allen poe in "the raven". >> this is super funny the situations i'm put in. i think it's a real exploration of a relationship. >> and for more movies go to otrc.com. >> he took issue with the way his son was punished for cheating. >> also a capitol hill showdown on student loans. republicans give the president what he wanted and democrats didn't like how they did it. >> he sued his son's school, now a father is getting hit with a boreage of angry phone calls. the father filed suit after his son was thrown out of a honors class for cheating. abc 7 news joins frus redwood city's sequoia high school with more. >> consequences of cheating can be a harsh lesson to learn. yet a student here admits he did cheat, now, his father is giving dozens of harshly worded e mails. >> you're a dirt bag. i can't believe you, an attorney would promote and encourage cheating. >> messages are negative. blasting the attorney after filing a lawsuit against the sequoia union high school district. >> this is giving attorneys and parents a bad name. school districts don't have the

john cusack plays edgar allen poe. >> that is why when you look at kurt cobain or some of the guys so tormented and expressive, we love them because we recognize ourselves in them. >> and just in time for friday's release of "the raven" cusack received a star on the walk of fame today. and russell brand testified before british parliament about drug use saying drugs should be legalized and love and compassion are the key to helping addicts not jail time. we've got entertainment news over on otrc.com. >> there is the governor of new jersey saying he's not shedding tears over the departure of the new jersey nets. fans gathered in newark last night for the final home game. they're heading to new york to become the brooklyn nets. as for governor chris chift chifty -- christie, let's say he's not sentimental about the move. >> you don't want to stay we don't want you. i'm not going to be in the business of begging people to stay here in one of the most beautiful arenas in meshlg. the country's most vibrant city. they want to leave here and go to brooklyn? good riddance, see you later. >> g

. >>> new plans for the edgar allen poe house. it could soon become part of the b & o railroad museum. our partner says he is proposing that. merchandise would also be sold in the museum's gift shop. first the mayor must sign off on the proposal. >>> the orioles are hoping to avoid a series sweep tonight when they play the yankees after an extra inning thriller at camden yards last night. the 0s would take a lead. the people in pinstripes would battle back to tie up. he would put the yankees on top with a double. the orioles fall by a score of 5-4. the same two teams downtown tonight. game time 6:30. >> let's take a look at radar. there could be showers. i have drawn a line there. that is what will happen -- >> -- sure -- >> -- yet more red flag advisories. take a look at our graphic. they remain under a red flag advisory. look, i don't want to paint too rosy of a picture here. 56 degrees the high. we will start out -- sunrise here then we get cloudy and we will see how it goes. tomorrow the sun comes out and stays out. details sh

it won't be able to meet customer demand, meaning apple demand, then you put the -- not unlike edgar allen poe, you start thinking apple itself may not be able to sell as many phones as it would like or perhaps it might have to delay the iphone, which means quarters two, three, and four of this year might be light? you augment that with the demand that no customer or supplier is allowed to speak about apple? so you've got that aura of mystery that allows you to fret about how many iphones verizon sold because they're not going to give you the number when they reported today? when you add in a stock that's up almost 75% year-over-year as apple is, you start to go, nothing can go wrong with this one no matter what happens, it is going to get just slashed mercilessly when it reports tuesday night. then you start thinking, i don't want to be greedy, you know what i'll do? i'll ring the register. and that's how apple falls 20 points today. here's the bottom line, many things matter when you're investing. we always have to worry about europe at jim cramer on twitter someone says, i'm worried about e

something something edgar allen poe in the day said. any... any crypto gram that a man can invent i can break. so when they made one and he couldn't break it and someone else eventually did but, you know, with security it's not a question of, like, the strongest barriers but the policies and the expectations you've set around the data. around the interaction. and the interaction that it's always evolving. >> great to see you here. >> great seeing you. >> rose: jack dorsy from square and twitter. thank you for joining us. see you next time. captioning sponsored by rose communications captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

. >>> also opening this weekend, "the raven" starring john cusack as author edgar allen poe. the 19th century writer teams one police to find a serial killer. "the raven" is rated r. and actor hugh grant lends his voice to the lead character in "the pirates: band of misfits." the animated feature follows a dashing pirate captain in his quest for the most coveted treasure of all, the pirate of the year award. and it's rated pg. >>> celebrities are flocking to the nation's capital to attend one of the biggest d.c. social events of the year. the white house correspondents dinner takes place tomorrow night. and for more on the posh affair, let's check in with amy argasinger of the "washington post" reliable source column. we haven't seen you in a while, amy. >> i know. it's good to see you, pat. >> i know. well, listen, late-night comic jimmy kimmel is the headline speaker of the dinner this year. how do you think he's going to be different from seth myers of "snl" who hosted last year? >> i think that's going to be a challenge simply because seth myers is really good. for someth

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