police handcuffed those guy asks then they came across the fake script and realizing it was not real. students were free and clear and next time they will make a video that is less intense. you think? a mask and a gun, brilliant. are we about to lose the key stone pipeline deal to china. canada said if the united states doesn t get the act together soon they will ship the oil to someone else. our alley to the north is urge the approval of a new deal. our secretary of state told them no rush to the key stone pipe line project. we ll have more. wall mart parking lot was a demolition alley with a driver setting off commotion and violence. the vehicle was a high rate of speed and you can so here walking and she disappears off
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
north korea. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. the showdown over the payroll tax cut lasted for weeks, but the stalemate ended in a matter of minutes today after house republican leaders bowed to overwhelming pressure and gave into the democrats. today, the house approved the bill that got almost 90% of support in the senate. president obama signed it into law and the threat of a new year s day tax hire for 160 working americans is over. let s go straight to dana bash who s watching this on capitol hill. must be pretty empty. it was exciting for a few minutes today. a few minutes, underline the word minutes. look, there is a lot of relief that this battle that consumed congress in these final days is over. especially for house republicans. the house will be in order. it was john boehner s decision to back down and he backed it up by presiding over passage of a short-term tax cut that many call a gimmick. hr 3765. a bill to extend the payroll tax holida
he wasn t going to get the deal he wanted without giving up ground on the keystone pipeline. what the white house view is that all that the payroll deal about the pipeline, running from canada to texas, the republicans say it will create jobs. the democrats are skeptical of that. bottom line is that this bill says the president has only two months, 60 days to give a yea or nay. it doesn t mandate he approve or rubber stamp it. he can decide. the white house believes that gives him the idea, the signal i m getting is he will probably kill the pipeline deal. but how much political fall-out will there be with the republicans and a growing number of democrats saying it s a good deal and it will create jobs. will it backfire on president in election year? heather: with the election looming all about political fall-out. ed henry reporting live for us. thank you. gregg: it s just over two weeks until the iowa caucuses. another 10-1/2 months until the general election.
the president made it clear that any attempt to tie the pipeline deal to the payroll tax, any attempt to merge the two, that bill will never fly. here s what john boehner said about this today. the project will create tens of thousands of jobs immediately and has bipartisan support in the house and senate. it s clear that the president decided to push this decision off for a year conveniently until after his next election. is that the speaker putting his thumb in the president s eyes and what are the implications for ordinary americans if congress cannot reach an agreement before deadline? it s ridiculous. john boehner needs to take his political cap off and put it down and get this done. i think the president is right. this is not time to play politics. they want to put all kinds of