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we are just getting the details of what caused whitney houstons death. as you know, she was found last month in the bathtub of her hotel room in beverly hills. lets go to kareen wynter who joins us live from los angeles. what can you tell us? >> hi, candy. what i can tell you, the final cause of death has been determined to be drowning from heart disease as well as cocaine. thats right. there was cocaine in whitney houstons system at the time she was found submerged in a bathtub at the...

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the doctors who wrote the prescriptions for those pills could be subpoenaed. in syria, artillery and machine gun fire echo aross crosse the city of homs while a thick smoke from a pipeline explosion hangs overhead e opposition activists say government forces are set on planting every neighborhood that might hold disdent. our arwa damon is in the besieged city. >> reporter: around 7:30 in the morning began the sustained bombardment, various sounds of artillery being fired, impacting h...

showing whitney houston 10 years ago envisioning a happy ending to her story instead of the one were watching now. >> 10 years from now, give me the perfect life for whitney houston. >> retired. sitting, looking at my daughter grow up, become a great woman of god. grandchildren. >> a perfect day is like on a sunday or something like that, when we like, like sit and, you know, we either watch tv or like listen to gospel music or have breakfast together. >> that was whitney houston and h...

care of a funeral home in jersey. were following developments on both fronts. cnns don lemon on the west coast, deborah feyerick back east in newark. hello to you both. deb, lets start with you. what can you tell us about the arrangements? >> reporter: well, michael, whitney houstons mom, cissy houston, a gospel legend, is making all the funeral arrangements. and they decided to make it an intimate, invitation-only event, at the hope baptist church, the church where whitney houston gre...

tonight. to new jersey where memorial services may will held. her family may be considering a wake on thursday and funeral friday at newarks 28,000 seat prudential center. showing whitney houston 10 years ago envisioning a happy ending to her story instead of the one were watching now. >> 10 years from now, give me the perfect life for whitney houston. >> retired. sitting, looking at my daughter grow up, become a great woman of god. grandchildren. >> a perfect day is like on a sunday o...

in charlotte. youre still a very, very active performer. what type of toll does it take on a legend like you are, and like whitney houston was, not only the actual tour dates, but also having the paparazzi and people watching your every move? >> well, i think for the more experienced artist, one is pretty much used to that. but for a young artist, perhaps of whitneys age, it may have been very disconcerning to her. i dont dont know. >> you will be perform iing tomorrow night. will you ...

an hour before her death by someone in the very hotel room where she died, according to ed winter, the assistant coroner here. the person left the room and then came back about an hour later and found whitney houstons body inside the bathtub. and then ed winter said her body was removed from the bathtub. they tried to revive her. they coop revive her. of course, at 3:55 a.m. pacific time she was pronounced dead. as you know, you had been covering these beats when stars die, when people...

they did tell us some very important things. they told us that there was no foul play involved. so this is not a murder case. and no signs of trauma. no physical injuries associated with her death. so we do know that she was found in the bathtub of her hotel room in los angeles. we also know that the paramedics on the scene tried to revive her with cpr but were unable to do that. so right now we are waiting for those tests to give us the all-important answers, and for the coroners to c...