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and we begin with breaking news tonight. cnn just received the coroner's final report with new details about the death of singer, whitney houston. cnn's entertainment reporter, kareen wynter, is at the los angeles county coroner's office. what are we learning about the sequence of events that led to whitney houston's 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 grammy's when whitney houston was found dead in her hotel room in beverly hills. not just that but the detailed toxicology report just release...

-- 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 president's 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, what's going on? >> reporter: one seasoned court analyst says federal judges almost never do this kind of thing. whether...

Hearingings in which obama's cae where the constitutionality of the law was utterly demolished to the point where the liberal observer called it a strain wreck. it's perfectly natural for majority of the court to side with the side that actually won the argument intellectually. that's 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 humiliated. second, the president talks about the deal as unprecedented. what is he talking about...

Megyn: now there's 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, he's 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 americans, indeed, contrary to what the president said yesterday. that's the primary duty of the h...

killers who had worked as servants in the governor's mansion. those killers were already free when the state's 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. they're 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 final decision on pardons rested entirely with the governor. but it's primarily the governor's j...