Host Marco Werman has an update on a story we told on Monday. Brazilian singer Seu Jorge and his partner Karina Barbieri had been told they could not name their new boy, “Samba.” Officials at the registry in Sao Paolo has since changed their minds. A couple with a baby has now been given the green light to name their boy “Samba.”
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