elizabeth taylor, macaulay culkin and other celebrities have joined the jackson family to say good-bye. you're looking at tape from earlier this evening, a procession of some 26 cars with family members, drove up. they were about an hour and 30 minutes late, getting under way. we're joined outside forest lawn by carlos diaz, correspondent for "extra." you've been there much of the day. i was there earlier. was extremely hot. any idea why it got off to such a late start? >> well, i mean, it's the exact same thing that happened a few months ago at staples center when that was supposed to start promptly at a certain time before noon and it started at about an hour and a half late and went a lot longer than people expected. this was supposed to -- this funeral service was supposed to last about an hour. it's already lasting longer than that. it got under way an hour late. but when you have so much to coordinate, you have 26 cars coming from across town in a very busy los angeles street. it's not your normal funeral. obviously, a lot more to this than your normal funeral and a lot more cars

it was some guest list, liz taylor, al sharpton, cory feldman, macaulay culkin.s is the family as they arrived. of course, a few elephant friends of michael's. monkeys and walking bears. another one of the mourners was former baseball player barry bond whose past steroid use came in handy for a change. he was able to do all the pal -- to do the pall bearing all by himself. appantly, the jackson family decided to buy 12 burial plots ongside him for themselves. how that is going to work and who is going to be buried where was not make clear until joe jackson was on cnn detailing his plans. >> we've got a few reasons for the cemetery. number one, clambake. we dig up the ground and put a hunk of clams inside and set them on fire and then throw them away because i don't like no damn clams. number two, i'm using one of the holes to store my beanie baby collection. and number 14, hey, guys gotta go to the bathroom somewhere. and buy my new record. and okay, time is up. now to you and you and you. >> well, he looks a little bit like a pumpkin. singer chris brown is follo