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care of a funeral home in jersey. we're following developments on both fronts. cnn's don lemon on the west coast, deborah feyerick back east in newark. hello to you both. deb, let's start with you. what can you tell us about the arrangements? >> reporter: well, michael, whitney houston's 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 grew up. another friend and church member said that at the church, whitney houston also felt safe a...

he was dubbed osama bin laden's right-hand man in europe and had been in jail since 2005. the european court on human rights stopped britain from deporting him to his native jordan because of concerns he would be tortured. a british judge says unless the government manages to deport him in the next three months, the bail conditions may be lifted. whitney houston's body has been flown to new jersey on a private jet for a funeral service later this week. a gold hearst believed to be carrying her body left teterboro airport amid type security. police say she was found under water in h...

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 houston's 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 die. they want to do toxicology reports. and usually they have some sort of idea just from doing t...

that's where they will try to determine the cause of death. a music industry executive stayed in the room just above houston's and says she heard two loud booms and a man's voice around 20 minutes before houston was pronounced dead. ♪ ♪ i get so emotional, baby every time i think of you ♪ >> it is hard to know where to begin or how to describe the life of whitney houston, as both an entertainer and person. she's being described as larger than life. born in 1963 to gospel singer cici houston. her debut album entitled, of course, "whitney houston" sold 12 million copies in the u....

three of the four gop presidential candidates took their turns trying to woo the crowd. plus, sarah palin talks today. will she officially endorse anyone? we'll check on reynolds wolf. an avalanche rescue dog had to dig him out on the slopes. we'll explain. syria is in a state of crisis, a steady stream of new video is coming into cnn as the city of homs is under attack. take a listen. [ gunfire ] the scene is disturbing. just yesterday, 110 people were killed, most of them civilians. we cannot verify the authenticity of these videos, but we have heard from antigovernment activists...