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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...

tonight. to new jersey where memorial services may will held. her family may be considering a wake on thursday and funeral friday at newark's 28,000 seat prudential center. showing whitney houston 10 years ago envisioning a happy ending to her story instead of the one we're watching now. >> 10 years from now, give me the perfect life for whitney houston. >> retired. sitting, looking at my daughter grow up, become a great woman of god. grandchildren. >> a perfect day is like on a sunday or something like that, when we like, like sit and, you know, we either watch tv or like listen to ...

in charlotte. you're still a very, very active performer. what type of toll does it take on a legend like you are, and like whitney houston was, not only the actual tour dates, but also having the paparazzi and people watching your every move? >> well, i think for the more experienced artist, one is pretty much used to that. but for a young artist, perhaps of whitney's age, it may have been very disconcerning to her. i don't don't know. >> you will be perform iing tomorrow night. will you be doing some sort of tribute to whitney? >> yes. there will be a moment of silence and tribute ...

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...

they did tell us some very important things. they told us that there was no foul play involved. so this is not a murder case. and no signs of trauma. no physical injuries associated with her death. so we do know that she was found in the bathtub of her hotel room in los angeles. we also know that the paramedics on the scene tried to revive her with cpr but were unable to do that. so right now we are waiting for those tests to give us the all-important answers, and for the coroners to come forward with their official cause of death and tell us what happened here. > >> and, david, appa...