and 247 years of independence. tonight, the largest fireworks show on television, with dazzling displays in cities from coast-to-coast, and amazing music to get the party going, including these talented performers. post malone, demi lovato, ludacris, shania twain, darius rucker, zac brown band, leon bridges, the all-american rejects. smashmouth, alanis morissette. clean white t s, duran duran and the united states air force band. now a cnn special event the fourth in america. what a way to kick things off. the united states air force band performing the stirring first of blue march live on cnn. welcome to washington, d.c., on this glorious independence day. crowds are gathering on the national mall and all across the nation s capital. we ll see the lincoln memorial and other monuments light up very soon in one of the biggest fireworks shows in the country. happy fourth of july, i m dana bash with morris sanchez. i m thrilled to be with you and also our viewers on this w
we are just getting the details of what caused whitney houston s death. as you know, she was found last month in the bathtub of her hotel room in beverly hills. let s 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. that s right. there was cocaine in whitney houston s system at the time she was found submerged in a bathtub at the beverly hilton hotel back in february the day before the grammy s. the toxicology report also showed while cocaine and other met tab beau lights were found in her system and contributed to her death, what s interesting, marijuana, xanax, the drug fl flexeril and benadryl, they were also found but we are told those weren t contributing factors. there was no trauma or foul play suspected. it us anticipated we could get a more detailed report regarding those toxicology findings in the next coup