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and we begin with breaking news tonight. cnn just received the coroners final report with new details about the death of singer, whitney houston. cnns entertainment reporter, kareen wynter, is at the los angeles county coroners office. what are we learning about the sequence of events that led to whitney houstons death? >> well, gloria, i can tell you we know a whole lot more about what happened that day back in february the day before the grammys when whitney houston was found dead in...

-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com an historic and stunning showdown is under way right now between the obama administration and federal judges. a three-member appeals panel all republican appointees has taken issue with the presidents jawboning of the u.s. supreme court over the health care reform law. now an unusual demand from those judges is putting a lot of heat from the justice department in washington. brian todd is following this battle for us. brian, whats going on? >> re...

Hearingings in which obamas cae where the constitutionality of the law was utterly demolished to the point where the liberal observer called it a strain wreck. its perfectly natural for majority of the court to side with the side that actually won the argument intellectually. thats not part of the logic. what is partisanship is when the four liberal justices are in such lock step with the administration that they end up supporting the case that has been utterly destroyed in an open argument and ...

Megyn: now theres a real question about whether the president accurately defines judicial activism there. it can come down to politics. but gregg jarrett did some digging on the history of the high court and big rulings when it comes to congress and the laws that congress passes. gregg? >> reporter: you know, hes not right about this, and, in fact, here are 44 pages, megyn, filled with cases in which the supreme court struck down laws passed by congress that violate the constitutional rights of ...

killers who had worked as servants in the governors mansion. those killers were already free when the states attorney general moved to block the pardons. but five other serious felons were still in prison. from left to right, a drug dealer, a woman convicted of serious assault, a rapist, not shown here, an accessory to murder, and a convicted killer. theyre about to hit the street. now, the court ruling in a 6-3 vote that pardons may not be set aside by the judicial branch and that the...

>> hello everyone, it is 1:00 on the east coast. lets get straight to the news. your paycheck and benefits may be cut and your taxes may go up all because congress cant agree on another very important issue, that is payroll tax cuts. congress is in a political standoff right now. the senate passed a two-month extension a moment ago. house republicans rejected that in a procedural vote and are pushing a one year extension. keep in mind payroll tax cuts and extended unemployment benefi...

hauled before congress and impeached. newt gingrich outlines his solution to so-called activists and ignites a huge controversy. im wolf blitzer, youre in the situation room. its a rogue isolated nation on earth. now the state is in transition now with the death of their leader, kim jong il. a tearful woman announced the news on state television saying kim jong il died suddenly of heart attack at age 69. >> north korea is built on a cult of personality surrounding the kim dynasty and...

Over and hes most remembered in minnesota for the i-35w bridge collapse because he cut highway funds on transportation. so tim pawlenty has problems. romney has problems because his health care plan mirrors the national democratic plan on health care and other than those two candidates, i dont know who else has a chance to the republican field. >> it was proven that bridge collapse was because of a design flaw. it had nothing to do with -- >> thank you, steve. >> chuck, well give you the final w...

Approach that defies the whole reason why people have to want the right to negotiate for their wages. its really connected to a profound democratic right of giving workers the process of negotiations. bill: but you understand whats going on in your home state. $8 billion is the hole thats deeper since the creation of the state in 1803! and now weve got to figure a way to climb out of it and kasichs point, the governor, he says that what collective bargaining has done at the local level, this is ...

Defective engines that cause them to stall while in motion. we have a report today about a school thats making a difference. the students there are walking the walk when it comes to the environment. nbcs peter alexander has more. >> reporter: boston, latin schools americas oldest public school, educating students for 375 years. among its famed alumni founding fathers john hancock and samuel adams and benjamin franklin. today the school is creating teenagers who view the way we view the environ...