staying in the room above houston s says she heard two loud booms, and a man s voice about 20 minutes before houston was pronounced dead. it is hard nowhere to start to begin to describe the life of whitney houston. i get so emotional baby every time i think of you both an entertainer and person, she s described as larger than life, born in 1963. gospel singer cissy houston, voice discovered when she was a young girl singing at her church. debut sold 12 million copies in the alone. recorded a string of billboard hits in the 1980s and 90s including saving all my love for you and how will i know. we both know i m not what you need and i will always love you houston went on to star with kevin costner in the body guard, the sound truck one of the top ten biggest selling albums of all time including i a rema remake of i will always love you. she battled drug problems, better known for her high-profile and tumultuous 15-year marriage to bobby brown of new editi
crowd. plus, sarah palin speaks today. will she officially endorse anyone? but there may be more political intrigue in maine, as well. we ll take you there, as well. from cnn s world headquarters, bringing you news and analysis from across the nation and around the globe. live from studio 7, this is cnn saturday morning. and maine is where we ll start this morning. maine s republican voters are heading to the caucus site this morning to choose their candidate for president. it s pretty much a two-man race for the state s 21 delegates. ron paul has a strong ground game white mitt romney is making a last-minute push. shannon, good morning to you. set the scene for us. people very excited up there in maine and the country, as well. you re right. the caucus goers are just getting started. you just had the pledge of allegiance and this is about to get under way. this is no ordinary contest like we ve seen. this is a little different. for one, we re expecting mitt romney and
administration could put out a compromise for catholics today. dan lothian is at the white house. dan, what exactly are you hearing? reporter: that s right, i m hearing that a compromise or an accommodation as they like to call it here, i m hearing this from a senior administration official, will likely be announced today. we re trying to get more details but it will likely be some kind of a balance whereby women do have access to contraceptive coverage but on the other hand you will have these organizations, religious affiliated organizations will not have to directly provide that coverage. it s unclear whether this will be enough to ease the concerns of these religious organizations and others who really were looking for a reversal of this policy. what s clear though is there s been a lot of pressure on this white house over the last couple of weeks, not only from the catholics and other religious groups, but also from lawmakers up on capitol hill. republicans. the republ
opposition group there are 110 deaths in homs, 10 were children. also in this country, six children are alive after these pictures were recorded. a school bus bursting into flames. wow. you are going to see the driver who got those kids out just in time. we re going to talk to her actually. very excited. there s an alzheimer s break-through. scientists stumble on an exciting discovery. a cancer drug that reverses alzheimer s in mice. we ll put a kick in your step as well with tunes and political players and play lists. have you ever thought about the music behind these fabulous productions, the speeches, the applause, the showmanship? there s morep to the music you might not know about. but after today you will. early start starts now. we begin with the slauter in syria. it is escalating by the hour. government tanks now storming homs. 137 more civilians have been killed. among them, there are ten children. this is the fifth straight day images like these have
soldiers in the syrian city of olelepo, according to syrian tv who described it as terrorist attacks. 350 people have been killed vaas syria in an escalating assault by government forces. country ha haest hit by europe s deadly cold snap, but across europe, hundreds are dead, people are snowed in and cars are stranded to the roadsides and even the danyu river is partially frozen, keeping many vessels stuck in port. those are the headlines. i m monita rajpal. world business today starts right now. good morning from cnn london. i m dina dos santos. and good morning from cnn hong kong. you re watching world business today. the top stories this happy friday, the 10th of february. must try harder. eu ministers say greece s bailout deal is not good enough. almost a year after a deadly earthquake, the new zealand city of christchurch now looks to asia to help finance its rebuilding. and in a densely populated city like hong kong, space can be a luxury, but as flats get