made specifically for "gma" viewers, all julie brown. >> twirl. >> look at sam.itting in is $25, a kid's version that is 20 bucks. >> you can't see it because i'm sitting in it. >> the towel is $16. the bag is 29 so our friends put together this whole julie brown collection for us when you go online. you'll save 70%. 70% and so i hope you'll buy all this and my book and come and see me on tour. i hope that -- all of those things. >> i love how you say passion, purpose, profit. >> when you align that passion and purpose you're going to get the profit. i'll show you how. >> wonderful. thank you for the great gifts. kj is going to love it. >> everyone is waiting. >> go to goodmorningamerica.com on yahoo! for full details and small business success. the name of the book is -- >> "spark & hustle." you got a lot of spark and hustle. >> so does sam. >> every bit of information has gone out of my head. what's the name of the young lady that makes the chairs. >> julie brown. >> she makes a very comfortable beach chair. genius with the beach chair. >> reversible. >> revers

>> julie brown. >> it turns out she makes a very comfortable beach chair.eversible. so i could change my swimsuit right now and match. let's get to the boards -- no. let's get to the boards. one or two things going on this morning we want to tell you about. i can't move from this chair so we're going to do it from right here. twitter pictures. look at this from michigan. how many times have you tried to catch the lightning -- oh, all right, we're reversing it. wait, no, josh. you don't understand. it's going to take an hour to get up out of the chair and the rushing river in carlton, minnesota. josh is reversing the chair right now. quick look at the boards, and this is where the thundersto >> all of that weather was brought to you by ocean spray sparkling juice. now that memorial day marks the unofficial start of summer, it's a good time to remember how important it is to take care of your skin outside. did you know that one in five americans will develop skin cancer and some of you went through where we did my skin cancer surgery on the air on "good morni

they gave us downtown julie brown. >> love her. >> and the other julie brown that lived in midtown or something. lovely girl. but this is like absolute bottom of the barrel stuff. the questions were great. i was thinking about how you would answer them. the answers are the same. why haven't you done this before? it is because i am horribly unattractive. are you planing on doing this with your girlfriend? i don't have a girlfriend. i am writing to mtv so they can watch me fail. and then the last great question was do people make fun of you? yes so therefore i am going on mtv and say i am a huge virgin. >> that's an interesting point, bill. we are in this age of anti-bullying. this is almost setting up kids for being bullied, right? >> it is cool. i am sitting at the table with a bunch of communists. as the lone capitalist i will say there is nothing more awkward and depressing than losing somebody's virginity, i have read. and this is a case where one can at least make money off of it. i'm sure probably a lot of money because it is going to be that hard to live with after it airs. i do

. >> julie brown -- i mean julie wright. >> i'm listening to chuck brown in my ear. >> i use to haverly perm when i started on the show. >> oh, wow. >> they said right attitude, wrong look, girl. >> i had chuck brown on my mind. i'm sorry. >> don't we all. absolutely, will. on the roads today, we'll start off showing you the commute along 270. no problems to report continuing down towards the truck scales. building in volume but no incidents to report. lanes are open on the top stretch of the beltway leaving college park headed around towards georgia avenue. eastbound along 66, no problems reported leaving fair oaks. volume increasing on the of manassas. again, still an easy ride headed through centreville and northbound i-95 looks good in the main line and express lanes as you head north towards the occoquan. that's a check of your fox 5 on-time traffic. will, back to you. >> thank you, julie wright. >>> chuck brown on the minds of a lot of people today. thousands of fans, in fact, are expected to say good-bye to the d.c. music legend chuck brown. >> today, brown's family is holing

on the opposite side of the street, julie brown also waits patiently in her white toyota.ay, both women make their move. brown prevails, but andrews is not leaving without a fight. she can be seen pulling her car up to brown's white toyota and revving her engine in an attempt to push brown's car out of the parking space. from inside their vehicle, brown and her son watch in amazement as smoke billows from the spinning tires. when the toyota doesn't budge, andrews throws it in reverse. >> as she was repositioning, i thought that she was going, so we got out of the car to get a ticket. that's when she managed to actually move the car completely out of the space. >> brown's 12-year-old son tries to push his mother's white toyota back into the parking space, but in a match between man and machine, he quickly throws in the towel. an eyewitness describes the scene. >> you could smell burned rubber for ages afterwards. she shunted this car all the way out of the space, left the white car abandoned there, got out, went, i think she went and got a parking ticket. >> a nearby traffi

here is a look at chuck brown, in northwest where he was scheduled to play in april, but had to rescued july due to illness. -- reschedule due to illness. >> even if he was 95 there would be a loss of a family member for folk who is are fans of his music because of the way he was. just a humble guy, so he is a guy you could approach. >>> funeral arrangements are still being worked out. tony over to you. >>> thank you very much. chuck brown of course worked

brown memory. i took a picture with him on july 2 of last year. he was such a sweet man. and a favorite memory.n 2010, we did s story -- a story. you can watch the report on our website, wjla.com. >> we will miss him. also breaking news from the district where a police chase ended with a vehicle being pursued at a crash into several other vehicles. this chase ended in the 3400 block of north dakota ave. officers pursued the vehicle for an armed robbery. the suspect it turns out may be wanted for other crimes as well. also drivers out there beware. the police in the district plan to more than double the number of speed cameras and red light cameras. we have more on why that is only part of the story. >> that is right. city leaders insist adding more traffic enforcement cameras like the one behind me, they think it will improve safety for everyone. we also know that it will make this city a lot more money. travers' better beware when rolling through the nation's capital. city officials plan on adding 88 more red light and speed cameras throughout the district. >> that is almost on every street. >

regents next week to raise tuition starting in july the system faces budget deficit of 139 million dollars next year. that amount could grow when governor brown we leases his updated budget monday >>> -- right now gas leak is affecting muni service. pg&e says a third party crew hacked a line before 10:00 this morning. there have been no evacuation however the n judah line is stopped there temporarily. pg&e hopes to have that line fixed by 11:30 this morning. >>> san mateo county supervisors want to find out why a group of men was refining gold in the middle of the night at an industrial park in menlo park. deputies cordoned off the area after they smelled chemicals. they discovered the men using chromatic acid to melt gold in the back of a pick-up truck. the area opened a few hours later. >>> volunteers and divers are in action again this morning continuing their search for missing sierra lamar. their efforts are fueled by new optimism after potentially important evidence was recovered. >> reporter: you have to put yourself in the minds of volunteer searchers turning out for the past seven weeks. you can see some down there. very little new i

regents next week to raise tuition starting in july the system faces budget deficit of 139 million dollars next year. that amount could grow when governor brown we leases his updated budget monday >>> -- right now gas leak is affecting muni service. pg&e says a third party crew hacked a line before 10:00 this morning. there have been no evacuation however the n judah line is stopped there temporarily. pg&e hopes to have that line fixed by 11:30 this morning. >>> san mateo county supervisors want to find out why a group of men was refining gold in the middle of the night at an industrial park in menlo park. deputies cordoned off the area after they smelled chemicals. they discovered the men using chromatic acid to melt gold in the back of a pick-up truck. the area opened a few hours later. >>> volunteers and divers are in action again this morning continuing their search for missing sierra lamar. their efforts are fueled by new optimism after potentially important evidence was recovered. >> reporter: you have to put yourself in the minds of volunteer searchers turning out for the past seven weeks. you can see some down there. very little new i

they will vote in july and there could be more painful cuts if they approve governor brown's tax plans. >>> muni for san francisco's youth is getting more support. a committee with the transportation authority voted to recommend $400,000 for by the lot program. the board had to approve the recommendation. a pilot program is expected to cost $900 million. the metropolitan transportation commission will take a vote next month on a $5 million funding request. >> sal is back with the traffic, well it is doll well so far and we are hoping for things that will not happen. 880 on the mcarthur maze, it is getting busier and there are no major problems from chp between vallejo and berkeley. as i look at the list we don't have a lot and we have reported injuries on the bay bridge westbound and this is before treasure island so metering lights may go on early at the toll plaza. it is afford and hopefully they will get up there and move along quickly. highway 4 is slow in antioch and also there is an injury crash which may be causing some slow traffic. we are looking at 880 westbound and that also

. >>> in a few hours governor brown will reveal where he will make deeper cuts than expected for the state budget that takes effect july 1st. over the weekend he posted this video on youtube warning the state deficit has soared to 16 billion dollars, nearly bubble the -- nearly dub the figure expected. some spending cuts were rewrecked -- were rejected. days will be unveiled this morning. >>> bay air school districts will lay-off fewer teachers than expected. the state requires school districts to issue preliminary notices by march 15th and final notice may 15th, even though they may not know their revenue until late summer. san jose warned 142 staff members they may not have jobs, all those notices have been rescinded. santa clara is reducing lay-offs from 37 positions to three. the lay-offs in the west contra costa district is going down from 52 to 29 positions. >>> and friends of an oakland murder victim are -- vowing to continue to draw attention to her violent death. the victim was a transgender woman. a group organized a vigil last night. the speakers called for police to do more to find the killer of brandy mart

. >> they would say julie can you smile, we can't see you. it is just all brown. the wet pavement and we have delays along southbound 270 as you work your way in from hyattstown. no problems to report leaving the scales headed in towards clarksburg actually lot of road spray kicking up on the roadways. more slow traffic waiting for you at fair oaks. crash on the beltway reported near 29 colesville road in the left lane with the backup leaving georgia avenue and now northbound i-95, crash here in quantico still in play trying up the right side of the road. big delays coming out of stafford headed north. that's a check of your fox 5 on-timetraffic. -timetraffic. >>> new this morning, a d.c. police officer solved in a deadly shooting. fox 5's melanie alnwick is live at the scene for us this morning in southeast this morning. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. sixth street southeast here is still shut down for several blocks and kind of unusual that it would be still blocked off for such a wide area at this hour. we are here at sixth and darrington streets. it i

july. >> what? >> yeah. they were still skiing. look at the web cam here. let's take that full and look at the brown that you see here.even see any snow in many of these areas. and we have got a couple of statistics that we want to share with you. there you can see what the snow pack looks like so far this year, not a lot on the map. let's advance that, and show you what the snow pack looked like last year. wow. what an incredible difference. so as a whole, colorado, the may snow pack was 135% of average last season. this season, only 20% of average, one week off from the all time record earliest closing for a basin. this really is very significant. another statistic for you, that maybe you're not a skier but you care and interested in what is going on in denver. the average snowfall for the month of march and april is usually 20 inches. this year, only an inch. so that's a huge difference here. the problem is there is just basically no snow. that's the bottom line, fredricka. we had a latina type pattern and that kept the snow away. >> oh, gosh, all right. maybe next year. for those that like to ski until july. all r

brown didn't have any specifics about the higher budget deficit. we should find out more on monday when he releases the revised spending plan that starts in july. >> carolyn: this morning, santa rosa gearing up for the first stage of one of the largest cycling races in america. amgen tour kicks off just before 11:00 this morning. tomorrow cyclists will wind their way from san francisco to santa cruz county. tuesday, the start in is in san jose the tuesday starts in livermore. the tour is nothing new including a climb up mount diablo. more than 2 million people are expected to line the route and cheer on the racers statewide this year. 8-day tour will finish in southern california on may 20th. >> that you this morning a cycling website reports that federal agents have met with lances armstrong's former director. today's "mercury news" says cycling manager was served a subpoena as soon as he arrived in the u.s. for that amgen tour. he was armstrong's team manager during his record seven tour de france victories. floyd landis accused him of paying a systematic role in a drug program. he did not appear at the news conference for the tour. >> you proba

july. four-o'clock 42 on this thursday, 54 degrees. more on a disturbing case in fairfax county. the latest on the search for a man wjho >> the man convicted of killing maryland state trooper wesley brown nearly two years ago will be sentenced today. cyril williams faces up to life in prison without parole for killing ground outside enforced bill applebee's restaurant for. another man pleaded guilty in connection with the murder and got five years. president obama made history yesterday by becoming the first u.s. president to come out in favor of same-sex marriage. the declared his support in an interview with abc news. exemptive republican opponent mitt romney simply opposes gay marriage. the capitals kept the stanley cup dreams alive by beating the rangers last night 2-1 and verizon center. this victory forces a deciding game 7 that. will be saturday night at madison square garden in new york. >> there are conflicting reports about how the recent dollar, a plot to bring down a plane was nearly foiled. cnn says the man was not a cia double agent but in fact works undercover for a saudi intelligence. saudis were upset that details of the case leaked because it could compromise a networ

july 29th. if it's denied, huguely will be sentenced in august. >>> still to come on 9news plans are finalized to say good- bye to the late great chuck brown. we'll tell you what you need to know in order to pay your final respects in person. >> but first space history is made as the first private spacecraft docks with the international space station. >>> with no nasa shuttles in operation anymore, it was a privately owned spacecraft that docked with the international space station today. yes, that is a first. the unmanned cargo ship is called the dragon built in california by a firm called spacex. this morning it hooked up with the space station to deliver supplies after years of work and anticipation spacex having reason to celebrate. >> i don't have words enough to express the level of excitement and elation that we feel here at spacex. there's so much that could have gone wrong and it went right. >> for now spacex is only in the supply delivery business, but one day they may carry passengers up there. engineers are working on plans to allow the spacecraft to carry seven people into orbit. >>> the memorial day weekend is off to a great s

here is a look at chuck brown, in northwest where he was scheduled to play in april, but had to rescued july due to illness. -- reschedule due to illness. >> even if he was 95 there would be a loss of a family member for folk who is are fans of his music because of the way he was. just a humble guy, so he is a guy you could approach. >>> funeral arrangements are still being worked out. tony over to you. >>> thank you very much. chuck brown of course worked with a number of artists many many, including chianti who played on one of his most recent albums, thanks for coming in good to have you here. >> yes. >> sorry about the circumstances. you had the opportunity to work with him on one of his final releases as it turns out. tell me what it was like working with chuck. >> working with chuck it was really intense but laid back at the same time, very professional when he comes into the studio. he is about his work and everything with him was in process. he was constantly teaching, even when he wasn't teaching he was teaching. >> right. >> so it was really cool just being in studio with him. just

july. >>> sentencing is tomorrow for a man convicted of murdering an off-duty maryland state trooper. williams is to you facing up to life in prison. the victim, trooper wesley brownrity for an applebee's in 2010. turns out he threw williams out of the store for being drunk and disorderly. williams got a gun, came back, and shot brown to death. tonight prince william county paid tributes to officers what have made that ultimate sacrifice. the citizen police academy alumni association held a memorial service for fallen law enforcement officers who lived or served in prince william county. >> very important for coworkers, for family members, for all of us would knew officers killed in the line of duty. >> tonight's service honored troopers and officers killed in the line of duty. >>> metropolitan police chief cathy lanier will get to keep her job for the next five years. in a statement mayor vince gray says crime is down. sources say la near's salary will remain at the rate of $250,000 a year. >>> a man accused of killing a mother and daughter so he could abduct her sisters was in court today. the bodies of joanne bane and a 4-year-old were found outside tons. >>> t

july they are looking at how governor's budget will impact the university system. katie marzullo will have more in a live report in the next half hour. >>> governor brown is backtracking on his plan to phase out the state's youth prison system in january the budget included plans to close the state's youth prisons next year and shift young inmates to county facilities. in the revision the governor calls for tabling his previous plan. the change came after protests from corrections officials they argued counties are already struggling with more adult prisoners shifted to their jails cannot handle additional juvenile inmates. >>> efforts resume to locate and free a whale. first spotted in pacific grove sunday by a whale watching boat. you can see the netting in the north bay a mammal center rescue team freed a whale monday that whale was first spotted last friday entangled in a crab pot line. >>> mayor lee is making a full court press to bring the golden state warriors back to san francisco. the chronicle reports warriors' owners met with lee yesterday to discuss moving the team across the bay to a new waterfront arena built at piers 30 and 32. the warriors are making m

julie scardina from si world. you brought some friends along. >> these have been a restaur rescued. they cannot be returned to the wild so they're wonderful ambassadors. this is panama. he is a browncan. at one point they were very endangered because upholof the dtp thing. because of protections for both of these animals protection, outlawing the pesticide and making sure we protected the appetithabitat and animal, we of great success stories. the shows when we really do pay attention and take precautions as far as what we should be doing, it really cannot bring the species back. >> it has been really amazing having them here with all of the traffic. >> stopping traffic as a matter of fact. people rarely get a chance to see these animals up close. that is what is special about places like sea world where you can see these animals but oftentimes you never get the opportunity to. in the next segment we will bring in penguins. people and the netted states certainly might see a pelican if you are really paying attention and looking for them, but the penguins will be a great ambassador you will be excited to see. >> it is impressive to see the bird up close. he has quite the wing span,

brown was working part-time as a security officer when williams shot and killed him after being thrown out of the restaurant earlier that night. >> meanwhile, julie -- jury deliberations continue in the rubble calling trial. -- the rowboat calling trial. i-team lead investigative reporter jane miller has an update. -- jane miller has an update. >> the jury in this case just went home without reaching a decision today. they deliberated a total of about eight hours today. the only people we heard was a question asked just before lunchtime when they requested a copy of instructions on all the charges. usually lawyers say that if they sign some jurors are holding out. it is all about the robo call in the elections. and since codefendant, paul schurick, was convicted in december on similar charges. the jury in that case took about four hours to reach a decision. in this case, the jury has been added for a full day, part of yesterday, and will come back tomorrow morning. >> special detectives in anne arundel counties say prostitution business working out of the b.w.i. third marshall business -- airport hotel district, three women are facing charges for

brown did not have any specifics about the higher budget deficit. we should find out more on monday when he releases his revised spending plan for the fiscal year that starts in july. in the newsroom. abc-7 news. >> ama: trouble at the north berkeley b.a.r.t. station. no power. b.a.r.t. o b.a.r.t. officials say the juice wend off at 9:45 and claimed it's a pg&e issue. trains are still going to the station. they're just not stopping. no word when the lights will on. back on. >> alan: occupy the farm protesters are not giving up, even though today they dismantled the encampment. lisa amin gulezian has the details. >> food justice and equity for this meetings' focus is the future of the farm, al known as guild tract, uk berkeley owned land used by the conclude of natural resources. >> we're here because we want this land preserved as ag land. >> cal insisted that is what it is used for. but demonstrators don't believe it. they moved in, put up tents and started farming three weeks ago, and to make access easier, they built a ladder and slide as police and security stood by. yesterday, occupiers got an it ultimatum. leave the farm and secure two seats at a uc led meet

. >> brown: the kennedy center's online what's going on now project will continue to be updated with new works through the end of julyto ours. also on our web site, you'll find my extended interview with singer john legend about this project and much more. >> woodruff: again, the major developments of the day: the labor department reported employers added 115,000 jobs in april. and u.s. and chinese officials confirmed a chinese activist will be allowed to travel to the u.s. and before we go, a correction-- last night, we reported that twitter, the micro-blogging web site, has 24 million active users. twitter says it has more than 140 million active users. and to hari sreenivasan for what's on the newshour online. hari. >> sreenivasan: on "art beat," jeff looks at the winning designs from a competition to restore three areas on the national mall. plus, tonight's edition of "need to know" features "the view from main street," how a small town in washington state is dealing with the tough economy. find a link on our web site to theirs. all that and more is at newshour.pbs.org. judy. >> woodruff: and that's the newshour

brown: an therefore we need more regulation. >> well, we don't need more regulation because actually the dodd frank statute which was sign mood huh in july of 2010, if it is ever allowed to go into effect and the banks have been very tough in keeping it from going into effect, would have six ways from sunday to stop this kind of trading. and there is legislation pouring through the o house right now to undo dodd frank. presidential candidate to be mr. romney, one of his pledges is to repeal dodd frank. and so he's asking the american public to go back to a situation where the po profits that are made on these, and they can only be called bets in my book, are kept by the bet. the losses if they are extreme, must be made up by the tax -- >> what do you see, does this suggest the need for dodd frank. >> able with, i think the real issue here is, with regard to the so-called vocal rule in dodd frank. dodd frank is a very complex piece of legislation. so we, it seems important to focus in on what is at issue here. and as the volcker rule which is intended to o provide a basis for more closely regulating the derivatives activity and other trad

brown did not have any specifics about the higher budget deficit. we should find out more on monday when he releases his revised spending plan for the fiscal year that starts in july n the newsroom, abc7 news. >> carolyn: this morning santa rosa is gearing up for the first stage of one of the largest cycling races in america. the amgen tour of california kicks off at 10:50 in santa rosa. tomorrow cyclists will wind their way from san francisco to santa cruz county. on tuesday racers start in san jose and go through central contra costa county, finishing in livermore. the tour is nothing new to the bay area but there are some new challenges this year, including a climb up mt. diablo. more than 2 million people are expected to line the route statewide this year. the eight-day tour will finish in southern california on may 20th. >>> new this morning a cycling website reports federal agents have met with lance armstrong's former team director in an ongoing doping investigation. today vellonation.com said the cycling manager was served a subpoena as soon as he arrived in the u.s. for the amgen tour. he was armstrong's team manager during his record seven tour de france

brown did not have any specifics about the higher budget deficit. we should find out more on monday when he releases his revised spending plan for the physical year that starts in july n the newsroom, abc7 news. >> carolyn: this morning santa rosa rows is grier up for the first stage of one of the largest cycling race necessary america. the amgen tour of california kicks off at 10:50 in santa rosa. tomorrow cyclists will wind their way from san francisco to santa cruz county. on tuesday racers start in san jose and go through central couldn't draw costa county, finishing in livermore. the tour is nothing new to the bay area but there are some new challenges this year, including a cream up mt. diablo. more than 2 million people are expected to line the route statewide this year. the eight-day tour will finish in southern california on may 20th. >>> new this morning a seekling website show federal agents have met with lance armstrong's former team director in an ongoing doping investigation. today's vellonation.com said the cycling major was served a subpoena as soon as i he arrived in the u.s. for the amgen tour. he was armstrong's team manager during his record seve

july 1. but i know the senator from ohio has some comments. mr. brown: thank you. i appreciate that explanation. this is a tax loophole that almost anybody that's fair-minded about this sees as a giveaway to some -- they've called it the newt gingrich, john edwards, to be bipartisan, tax loophole that each of them benefited tens of thousands of dollars. again, they didn't cheat. they didn't break the law. they just took advantage of a tax loophole that i would think everybody here would want to close. most people play it straight. they run -- their income is their income. they pay the medicare tax on it. this is the case where they don't. and we, i thought, believed in some fairness in taxation. but back to the individual people who will benefit from this, and that's why senator reid is involved. that's why the presiding officer, senator sanders, i know cares about this. let me just share in closing one last letter. this came from courtney in gallon way, ohio. i always had a student savings account. i put money in it every year. i assumed it would pay my way throug

brown will now present a new budget proposal today for the fiscal year at that starts in july but californiathe planned facebook ipo. revenue from faebz stock options held by people living in california could reach around $2 billion. but that raises a ton of question. $16 billion worth of deficit. i was just trying to figure out what greece and the budget deficit there stands at. $16 billion is a big number. >> you know the ranking for business friendliness is 50th. they're going to raise the sales tax and raise the income tax 3 points on people that make too much money, over 200 or over 250. we'll see how many more people decide to leave the state after that. at this point you can't go below 50 unless we include puerto rico and some of the territories. so what's jerry brown got to lose at this point? just go ahead, tax it. don't cut anything, tax everything. $16 billion. take a good look. that is your future. >> that is my future? >> that is your future. >> comments on anything you see here on "squawk," e-mail us. you can follow us on twitter. @squawk is the handle. and we'll have author be

break more of chuck brown's music we have a live lookout side, we will get the latest on our weather which looks spectacular and our traffic not so spectacular from tucker and julieing up next. 7:12 a.m. 7:12 a.m.  >>> welcome back. a homicide investigation is making head leans. a man was found shot in his car in fairfax county late last night. crime scene investigators are still on the scene this morning in the mount vernon area off route 1. the man was sitting in his car with gunshot wounds to his upper body he died at hospital and has not yet been identified. >>> budget deal struck in maryland's special session, in the state capital, raises income taxes on 300,000 tax payers. house of delegates passed it by a vote of 77-60. single filers who earn more than $100,000 a year and those who file jointly making more than $150,000 will pay more in taxes. >>> nationals are back in first place in nl east they beat the pirates last night, 7-4. bryce harper hit his first major league triple and came around to score the first run. gonzalez pitched 7 solid innings striking out season high of 10 batters and adam has 3 hits including a solo home run. sa

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julie in just a little bit and tell you what is going on on the roads. >> thousands of fans are expected to gather, to say goodbye to a dc music legend. our chuck brownng a public viewing at the howard theatre where melanie alnwick is live with details what to expect from the tribute. good morning. >> reporter: good morning tony. you know, i think this is the moment for fans and family of chuck brown, this all becomes real. we've got fans lined up outside the howard theatre here. not to get inside for one of his legendary performances but to file past his casket, and say thanks for the good times. the hearse arrived 6:00 a.m. this morning, and just like a seasoned performer chuck brown's casket slipped in the side door before his final appearance on stage, brown was scheduled to play a sold out show at the howard on april 21st but fell ill days before that. fans have been leaving tokens of appreciation on chuck brown way, a street not far from here where he shined shoes as a kid. now fans will have the opportunity to pay quiet respect to the young man whose dreams actually came true. >> he was the face of a sound, of music, that you know took hold pr

julie mason from sirius xm podis channel. great to see you again. >> great to be back on the show. >> how about that scott brown? here he is? obama care. >> health care reform as it's commonly known. >> right. and voted to repeal it, voted against it and now what's happening with scott brown. >> my goodness his daughter is benefitting from the law. you know one of the more popular provisions was you can keep your kids on your own health insurance until they are about 26. so one of scott brown's lovely daughters is 23 years old and he ensures her on his congressional health plan -- >> thanks to president obama. >> thanks to president obama. >> he votes against it and then he takes advantage of it. >> i don't see any inconsistent see here. scott brown is handsome. >> so that's what people are supposed to think. he is a movie star. he can get away with anything. >> he said that his objections to the health care law are not inconsistent with using it to insure husband daughter because similar requirements could be mandated at state level. i don't even understand that. i don't understand. >> what a weenie. you can't blame him fo

july 1st. oh, no, they wouldn't even let us go to the bill. and i just say, despite the protestations of senator brown of massachusetts, this has got to stop. he cited three or four times we worked together. i say good author -- good for that, i'm happy for that. that does not in any way change the fact that we face filibuster after filibuster. 48 times just in this congress so far. now, i hope every college student in this country who has an opportunity is watching this chamber. this chamber should have been bustling today with people talking and working together, offering amendments so that we could cut these interest rates on student loans. and the college students and the high school students who want to go to college and their parents and their grandparents and their aunts and uncles ought to understand that this floor is not filled today passing this legislation because of a republican filibuster. what we do here matters. we could save students thousands of dollars on the life of their loan. these are student loans for the middle class. more than 75% of the borrowers in the program come from fam